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The Defiant Ones

by Charge of the Light Brigade

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    Package includes a ticket to the Sick Kids Fundraiser show at Lee's Palace in Toronto, featuring performances by Charge of the Light Brigade, Alter Kakers, Little Creatures and Angela Saini, and the entire Charge album The Defiant Ones, all thirteen tracks. $5 from every ticket goes to support Sick Kids. It's a great cause with a bunch of great bands, and we'd love for you to join us there!

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1.
Last Door Down 04:25
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Deck chairs, rearrange 'em 'range 'em String band, keep on playing playing There's ice up ahead All engines full-steam ahead I feel like dancing dancing On your worldwide grave Where's the party at in this old town? Black tuxedo, blood-red wedding gown Zombie gameshow always bringing me down Where's the party at? Oooo it's the last door down Last call, no one's listenin' listenin' Don't stop, I've got the vision within The night is still young We might not make it till dawn I feel like dancing dancing On your worldwide grave Where's the party at in this old town? Black tuxedo, blood-red wedding gown Zombie gameshow always bringing me down Where's the party at? Oooo it's the last door down Auf wieder-zehn My friends hit the street Like Calamity Jane Nothing new to do No modern Champlain Drunk-dial your ex We'll get cold tea and Chinese Where's the party at in this old town? Black tuxedo, blood-red wedding gown Zombie gameshow always bringing me down Where's the party at? Oooo it's the last door down Where's the party at? Oooo it's the last door down I feel like dancing dancing I feel like dancing dancing I feel like dancing dancing On your worldwide grave
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All You Are To Me 04:41
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Got a rip-chord heart Stratosphere or crash out Love that sweet grenade Throw me clear We'll both blow sky Trip on your live wire You can turn me out Make my head a whirlwind Your little hands on fire Take me there Your heartbeat beacon The sound I'm seekin' One in a million Takes you over I turn you on The way we're falling under I could be near you All the rest of my days An absolution The hand of fate, a state of grace This is all you are to me Your television eyes X-ray spy libido Seven ways to die Seal my lips your kisses bleed me Voracious feeling One in a million Takes you over I turn you on The way we're falling under I could be near you All the rest of my days An absolution The hand of fate, a state of grace This is all you are to me You can turn the night to day Make me whole Nothing lasts forever so I'm told I don't care what they say We make our own fate Baby tell me what do you say? Are you with me tonight Tonight One in a million Takes you over I turn you on The way we're falling under I could be near you All the rest of my days An absolution The hand of fate, a state of grace This is all you are All you are to me, to me
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Young Love 04:18
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What you do to my head Ooooh you're so young Burning and bright, bursting with life All I crave Takes a second to say Babe let's run away Fast as the wind, right out of your skin Do you feel the same? They say we don't understand But I know We've got to hold on Hey young love Hey young love Feel I'm coming alove Heartbeat phoenix fire Holding your hips, your jubilee lips I just can't let go You say you're full of the night I'll drink you and spill the wine So much to say, don't care anyway Let's go to bed They say love will tear us down A cold fire Well I'm burning for more Hey young love Hey young love Hey young love Hey young love I don't know how to say goodbye We'd both break down and die You know I want you There's a riot in my head tonight Violence, dread and suicide When I'm with you you make me quiet So quiet They say we don't understand But I know We've got to hold on They say love will tear us down A cold fire Well I'm burning for more Hey young love Hey young love Hey young love Hey young love
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Fastest of the Losers 05:21
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Take my hand, we're both better forgotten As summer slinks past stranger eyes Win, place or show, it's the people you know Give up so easy We only surrender to ourselves You and I the fastest of the losers So ahead of our time You and I the fastest of the losers We're flying blind tonight Feather trees lift me up to your window Motionless like a golden sun It's easy to give what you can't hold on with Until it's over The delicious speed of the night You and I the fastest of the losers So ahead of our time You and I the fastest of the losers We're flying blind tonight Close your eyes but don't lose sight Don't turn off your light tonight I need to see you hold you one more time Don't turn off your light tonight I need to see you hold you one more time I lost the plot, the page is turned, the chapter over I do my jacket up and run A cat on a roof walking silent aloof Calls come on over Is there emptiness never done? You and I the fastest of the losers So ahead of our time You and I the fastest of the losers We're flying blind tonight Close your eyes but don't lose sight
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Temptation Lies 04:00
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Temptation lies between us A picture book thrown open On your bed in summer time I hear the kids down on the street They're playing shinny in July The radio, the hall-clock ticking Indelible your breath so close to mine A wave collapsing In slow motion That's can't be real Strange attraction, superstrings Space and time don't mean a thing Inside you A bolt of blue Our worlds colliding Falling in, into you Yes it's true I'm a dreamer Most at home in my own mind You take me on and make me shiver I'd do anything my senses stretched and wild A new constellation You above me Closing in Strange attraction, superstrings Space and time don't mean a thing Inside you A bolt of blue Our worlds colliding Falling in, into you Touch the earth, the cold blue sky So far below us, a diamond eye Through your window cars go Clouds blow by We pay no mind We're travellers trapped in our own time Strange attraction, superstrings Space and time don't mean a thing Strange attraction, superstrings Space and time don't mean a thing Inside you A bolt of blue Our worlds colliding Falling in, into you
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Wheels Come Off 06:46
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Ten long years making a master plan Each detail sheer perfection No way I'd fail Call you from the station The stars are all aligned Blind chance and circumstances The past a pointless crime It's a call We give it all tonight Fall down here In my bed so weary We'll hold back the night I can't let go Or lose control But you break me apart Like a trail derailed in the dark The wheels come off I built this heart-shaped shield To draw your fire to me Highlight the target takedown Or prove I can't be found But you tear Through each barrier I lay in your way Fall down here In my bed so weary We'll hold back the night I can't let go Or lose control But you break me apart Like a train derailed in the dark The wheels come off Pretend this is a game But you and I don't play the same way Wrestle with the shame But nothing matters when we're together On this mattress our world torn and tattered But I don't care I'll testify and proclaim The way, the way you are Fall down here In my bed so weary We'll hold back the night I can't let go or lose control But you break me apart Like a train derailed in the dark The wheels come off The wheels come off The best laid plans of such a foolish man
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Desdemona 03:52
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Take me out on a razor blade In your eyes a knife-edge flashing, so betrayed You oughtta know love comes and goes Like a river flows and dies Is this endless or just today? Desdemona, you know you broke my heart Desdemona, or did I start the war? Desdemona, it's only love that brings us down There was a girl in the falling rain There was a boy without a name They found each other and swore it all would change And now we know it's all for show As the stage-lights fade we're standing stock-still So afraid We could end this, or start again, again Desdemona, you know you broke my heart Desdemona, or did I start the war? Desdemona, it's only love that brings us down Just one chance, just one chance Just one chance, just one chance Is this endless? Desdemona, you know you broke my heart Desdemona, or did I start the war? Desdemona, it's only love that brings us down
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The Visible Man 04:55
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I can see you You can't see me at all You think you know me That's just make-believe I'm crawling 'round your door To grab a little more Weak with hunger I'll eat you alive I'm visible, tension physical, a live wire You're insatiable, fierce and dazed with desire A little love is just enough tonight I got your number I see you got mine too Watch us circle Like tigers in a zoo Don't know why I have to try it's a flame I didn't catch your name The chase is cut as we strut face to face I'm visible, tension physical, a live wire You're insatiable, fierce and dazed with desire A little love is just enough tonight A thousand faces take their place on the floor Babe yeah the music's divine All the girls and boys wrapped up like Christmas toys I'll open you up and take you home Let me take you home We can really see what we're meant to be What's underneath all this urgency Who we really are I'm visible, tension physical, a live wire You're insatiable, fierce and dazed with desire A little love is never enough But I'll take what I can get tonight Oh baby can't you see My visibility is a lie
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Charge!! 02:34
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We are the golden ones We are the chosen sons Make your kingdom come Die fast, live long Every day gonna sing my song I don't care no more It's never been fair or pure Played, betrayed and cast away Wasted and deranged for sixty-seven days We are the golden ones We are the chosen sons Oh baby get your gun Die fast, live long Every day gonna sing my song Every dog has its day Every part of this great and faceless machine Crippled by the weight of an unjust fate As the riverbanks rise I just wanna get laid We are the golden ones We are the chosen sons Make your kingdom come So defiant, self-reliant We are the golden ones We are the chosen sons The revolution won Take a picture This work of fiction Celebrate all you underdogs
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The Real Heart 04:26
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I'm searching for the real heart Hiding in the heart of the world I'm never gonna rest now It calls my name I know you came for the action I know you came to forget yourself A simple act of oblivion Well maybe we can disappear Maybe we can disappear I'm searching for the real heart The one that beats in time with the sun The face that covers the moon yeah Knows everyone There's crisis in the air tonight Phantom fear and deceit The horsemen ride 'cross a blood-red sky I think I can smell the beast Don't you want to kill the beast I'm searching for the real heart There's no division in me Got down on my knees and prayed yeah And now I see No Buddha came laughing answers No Jesus bled for my pain Now I look God in those deathless eyes Now I see we're all the same Now I see we're all the same I'm searching for the real heart The blood that flows between us in space So much love can surround you Just call my name Just call my name Just call my name
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I Will Not Be Saved 04:21
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You can buy me You can sell me You will never know who I am Call my actions Inane distraction What remains cannot be changed Makes me human Go ahead send your prayer To whistle 'round the tower The hours can all be braved The power will one day fade And I will not be saved I fight my demons I keep them breathing I like to bleed to see the proof I'm alive I might fall down I might be hauled down But the choice is mine to climb back up again Go ahead send your prayer To whistle 'round the tower The hours can all be braved The power will one day fade And I will not I will not be saved Your my witness My accomplice We have done this so many times before We walk the darkness It's in our heart's bliss Seeking shadow lanes To claim a crown of thorns Go ahead send your prayer To whistle 'round the tower The hours can all be braved The power will one day fade Don't cower or be afraid If truth is what we crave It's will that makes us brave And I will not I will not I will not be saved
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The Defiant Ones 05:09
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No way home The crossroads they came And they showed me the way They faded before I could see Once we were whole But it feels like a dream That fades with the rain Chill morning that beats on the glass A face from the past Turn your back Just leave me alone With the blood on the floor My footsteps will stain every door Through which I pass I've paid for my crimes And served a lifetime I can't forget all I've done I've laid at your feet And I've prayed for relief But nothing can change what I feel The cold steel of love We've made our bed Now let's sleep for all time Drown our sorrows with wine Forget there was even a word Forget I've paid for my crimes And served a lifetime Can't change the man I've become I've laid at your feet And I've prayed for relief There's no breaking these bonds No release From the cold steel of love
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Atlantic City 04:38
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They blew up the chicken man in Philly last night Blew up his house too Down on the boardwalk they're getting ready for a fight Gonna see what them racket boys can do There's trouble bussing in from out of state And the D.A. can't get no relief Gonna be a rumble out on the promenade The gambling commissioner's hanging By the skin of his teeth Everything dies baby that's a fact And everything that dies some day comes back Put your makeup on, your hair up pretty Meet me tonight in Atlantic City Well I got a job and put my money away Got debts that no honest man can pay So I took what I had from the central trust Got us two tickets on that coast city bus Everything dies baby that's a fact And everything that dies some day comes back Put your makeup on, your hair up pretty Meet me tonight in Atlantic City Luck may have died, love may be gone With you forever I will stay We're going where the sand's turning to gold So put on your stockings baby The night is getting cold Your so beautiful And I just feel old Well I'm looking for a job They're hard to find Just winners and losers Don't get caught on the wrong side of that line Tired of coming out on a losing end Last night I met a guy And I'm gonna do a favour for him A favour for him Everything dies baby that's a fact And everything that dies some day comes back Put your makeup on, your hair up pretty Meet me tonight in Atlantic City

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released February 11, 2011

Produced by Marc Koecher at mk soundworks, Toronto, Canada. Mastered by Tim Branton at Joao Carvalho Mastering, Toronto, Canada.

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Charge of the Light Brigade Toronto, Ontario

Melodic, expansive and driving, Charge is Luke Sneyd, Jason Eagan, Owen Tennyson and Marc Koecher. We've been getting great notices at home and abroad. Like "Canada's next indie rock sensation" says Lithium Magazine. Our eclectic powerpop has been featured by Consequence of Sound, ExploreMusic and more. Also, we're really bad at chess. ... more

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