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Augustana - Ash and Ember

Augustana - Ash and Ember Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Life Imitating Life
Released: 2014

Ash and Ember Lyrics

Am I seeing double, am I withdrawn
Depositing lyrics into a love song
Spider weaving webs for a catch that won't come
Am I pulling roses from a dead bush
A soldier running late for the ambush
Ready in the depth for a stone that's long gone

Is it too late?
It's never ending but nevertheless
I'm the first one to second my guess
And the fire in my heart came from Ash and Ember

And every I step I take, got the devil to repay
I'll never make it out alive, but I won't surrender
Had to take it day by day, had to learn the hard way
Like a phoenix rising up from ash and ember
Ash and ember

Am I reaching out for something that I can't grab
Something infinitely splitting into two halves
Is there something I forgot that I can't remember
Am I swimming in a river that was manmade
Demolishing a road that was just paved
It's like trying to catch a junebug in late December

Is it too late?
It's never ending but nevertheless
I'm the first one to second my guess
And the fire in my heart came from ash and ember

And every I step I take, got the devil to repay
I'll never make it out alive, but I won't surrender
Had to take it day by day, had to learn the hard way
Like a phoenix rising up from ash and ember
Ash and ember
Ash and ember

Have I climbed the ladder to the last rung
Am I simply gonna finish where I started from
Is the future just the past that I'll never outrun

And every I step I take, got the devil to repay
I'll never make it out alive, but I won't surrender
Had to take it day by day, had to feel the heartbreak
Like a phoenix I was born from ash and ember
Ash and ember
Ash and ember

Am I stealing something I could borrow
Is yesterday just waiting for tomorrow

Writer/s: LAYUS, DANIEL ROBIN / MARVIN, ROBERT / SHEARER, KYLE
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., IMAGEM U.S. LLC
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Ash and Ember

This was released as the first single from Life Imitating Life. "Ash and Ember came from a very pure and honest part of me," Augustana frontman Dan Layus told USA Today. "It was one of the most satisfying experiences I've ever had writing a song. I really wanted to both push myself into a more challenging place lyrically and melodically while keeping myself in a place that felt natural and sincere."

Augustana - Alive

Augustana - Alive Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Life Imitating Life
Released: 2014

Alive Lyrics

Well this is not a lesson
And this is not a cry for help
And this is not a test
And this is not for someone else

Yeah, this one's for you and everything you do
For every time I said this one's forever
And this one's for me, I'm starting to believe
You and I were born to be together

And I can feel it right now, just where I want to be
I reach out, you're right in front of me
We are unstoppable, we are unbreakable, we are invincible together
And I feel Alive with you
And I feel alive with you

Well this is not a battle
And this is not a field of blood
And this is not as easy,
Not as easy as it ever was

Yeah, this one's for you and everything you do
For every time I said this one's forever
And this one's for me, I'm starting to believe
You and I were born to be together

And I can feel it right now, just where I want to be
I reach out, you're right in front of me
We are unstoppable, we are unbreakable, we are invincible together
And I feel alive with you
And I feel alive with you

This is not a devil
And this is not a child of god
And this is not a message
And this is not a double shot
Hell, I'm just loving you, babe, with everything I got

And I can feel it right now, just where I want to be
I reach out, you're right in front of me
We are unstoppable, we are unbreakable, we are invincible together
And I feel alive with you
And I feel alive with you

Writer/s: LAYUS, DANIEL ROBIN / SCHNEIDER, CURT
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Alive

Augustana mainman Dan Layus told AbsolutePunk the story of this song: "That was a really important song, not only for a refreshing direction of Augustana as a songwriter, but just as a human, as a person," he said. "I was just in desperate need of writing something that felt good. That was at a time where I had turned a lot of things around. I've been sober for nearly three years now, not quite but we're getting there. At that time I was freshly on the wagon there, getting my life together and figuring out how to live my life in a really positive way. I needed to write and perform something every night that felt great and that wasn't so blue and wasn't so down. That song is what came out."

"It flowers from being sober, I think," Layus continued. "It felt good to feel nervous at shows again. It felt good to feel butterflies and actually not be numb to everything around me all day and night, to actually be scared or excited or nervous, all those feelings that come back that I had sort of stuffed away and numbed for a lot of years. That's kind of what that's saying, and then it's also saying in the verses that this isn't a message and this isn't a lesson for anybody else. It's my experience. This isn't saying that this is going to work for everyone, it's just saying this is me and this is my experience. This is what I've been through, and now it feels so good to feel alive again. I know that road has been walked before, and that alludes to Life Imitating Life as well. It all ties together."