The Crooked Fold (2018)

Released TBA

Sixteen years since he first took the stage, and seven years since the release of his first studio album, Edd Coates' latest The Crooked Fold is an introspective collection of tracks following his fears, struggles and victories through adulthood. With a darker, more mature edge to his previous work, "The Crooked Fold" delves into the depths of depression and anxiety, with a focus on the strength that comes from defeating it.

Edd's second studio album is currently in production.

Tracklisting (soon)

Lost in Transit (2010)

Lost in Transit released September 2010

Lost in Transit is Edd's first studio album, written over the course of six years, and produced in three.

On the title, "Lost in Transit sums up the way i've felt about my life over the past seven years, pushing through the insistent education system. I've always had this constant urge to move onwards and upwards to better, more exciting things... yet at the end of the day, i'm still clueless as to what they are! These songs have documented my feelings over these years, as I experience some key moments on my road to - alleged - maturity."

Tracklisting

Broken sunlight over dusty plain
dried up bones before the english rain
people sleeping, as they take a ride
towards the place, they wonder, deep inside

Streetmarks summing up the way we live our lives
coins and potions in the sand we can't revive
strangers from the great beyond despise our dreams
now we're tearing at the seams

Open meadows flash before our eyes
people running as they pass me by
tired of reason, they all try to feel
a kind of place that keeps it real

Streetmarks summing up the way we live our lives
coins and potions in the sand we can't revive
strangers from the great beyond despise our dreams
now we're tearing at the seams

INSTRUMENTAL

In transit, I feel like I become someone
in transit, I feel like i'm the only one up here
strangers from the great beyond despise our dreams
now we're tearing at the seams
now we're tearing at the seams
now we're tearing at the seams
Tracey girl, I got the urge for a little company
jog down to the watering hole, where the trash is made free
The lamplight beckons travellers to toss in half a buck
but when they're flat out on their asses, they're running out of luck
Quit stirring trouble or you won't break free
my head is not a toy for you to bone
All words encrypted by my drunken paw
so just leave me the hell alone

Warchibeser, oh man i'm going blind
Can't feel my fingers, i'm losing my mind

The road is long, my mind is gone, i've lost my sanity
you're smoking like a chimney, and its okay with me
The pavement's gone all crooked now, the sky has turned pale green
a lifetime without reason, a sight not to be seen
Do I have a mission or monogamy?
No, cause i'm just drifting to the start
can't hold a bottle or a glass or three
just a man with a broken heart

Warchibeser, oh man i'm going blind
Can't feel my fingers, i'm losing my mind
Warchibeser, I just can't see
what's wrong with the world and what's wrong with me

Would you believe, these things that i've seen?
Would you believe, these things that i've said?
If I came home next morning and lied, lied, lied
If I came home next morning with an aching head

Mind your own damn business dear
my thoughts are mine and mine alone
They were all muddled but now they're clear
so where's my tainted soul?
so where's my tainted soul?

Warchibeser, oh man i'm going blind
Can't feel my fingers, i'm losing my mind
Warchibeser, I just can't see
what's wrong with the world and what's wrong with me

Warchibeser, oh man i'm going blind
Can't feel my fingers, i'm losing my mind
Warchibeser, I just can't see
what's wrong with the world and what's wrong with me
Night is passing, through the steps that we take
no one watching, as our covers break
worlds apart, our voices both the same
Skies above me, fit for the debris
and i'm smiling with you right next to me
through it all, the promise and the pain
Shadows from the glass window couldn't turn my head
knowing what the sun brings in its stead

Bounds of simplciity, sparks of electricity
brought us both to life
Tear down your inner wall, open up and bare it all
then that will make us right

I've been waiting, cause I don't understand
the ways you're thinking, the life you have planned
you try so hard to fit that special mould
And all at once my faith disappears
bestow my heart, it's riddled with fear
we may squirm, but fate will take it's hold
This could be our last midnight
how'd we get so far knowing well the end would tear us apart?

Bounds of simplicity, sparks of electricity
brought us both to life
the kind of love you sought eluded me
and then you taught me how to say goodbye
Bring all your gasoline, spark it up and make a scene
frozen by your side
Tear down your inner wall, open up and bare it all
then that will make us right
then that will make us right
yeah that will make us right
Shift those sands of time
let them flow like the rivers beside
Me and you, now we're doing fine
so let me take you for this ride
The sun casts its reflections below
like fractured mirror on the darkened lane
All my thoughts, they're roaming wild
from winter rain

Take these icy hands
throw them out, into the light
Step into the warmness that you see
'cause you know it feels right
On this night, its dark and cold
here's a chance, just take it by the mane
Never find yourself short sold
Come inside, its winter rain
Come inside, its winter rain

Icy crystal lake
frozen over by the threads of time
See that I dont make the mistake
of standing on that line
My past is dull and grey
so now I have everything to gain
Look out for me night and day
Open up, its winter rain
Open up, its winter rain

The sun dont burn so brightly in the rain
So light a flame, and warm my soul again

Take a slip on the sliding dust
take a fall on that mound of clay
Try to get your head around the walls now
and live another day
For all my past is dull and cold
and the ice has settled in the rain
I belong behind the face of winter rain

See those frozen smiles
grinning out to the passing day
Holding on to deaf ears between
the grim and passing grey
So i've taught everything that i've known
my efforts dont go down the drain
I can see now my head is clear
It aint filled with winter rain
It aint filled with winter rain
It aint filled with winter rain
Tied to my bed as the dawn rears it's head
the colour cascades over me
A break in the fall of a dark summers call
as fragments of light touch the sea,
Braving the night all alone, my colours have shown
why i'm just the showman
Faulting the presence around, til something is found
down here, falling from fear
blood on the line
resting my bones, biding my time
painting the clear blue light

Blinded alive by the grey morning tide
seasons abound by the sun
I'm shooting my heel as I stumble to feel
the beat of the day just begun
I spent a long time down below, asleep in the snow
just live for the moment
Follow the bright light of day, til nothing can sway
way down here, fallen from fear
blood on the line
tired old bones, precious old time
painting the clear blue light

Cast out the lies of the world, they've done us no good
just wait for a while
Dance to the beat of the day, I knew I would stay
down here, sheltered from fear
Blood on the line
counting my bones, coals on the fire
flash in the head, mist over ice
painting the clear blue light
drums with a beating sight
painting the clear blue light
Small helpless patter, shaking at the sky
nothing much to live for when life is but a lie
The wind blows in our faces and the tears fall from our eyes
when you live without the comfort of the flame that never dies
That storm in a teacup blows and blows
where its heading, nobody knows
Say it like you mean it, say it how you speak it
Don't lose that childhood flame

We roll our heads in sadness to the drumming of the rain
'cant recreate that feeling cause nothing feels the same
Thoughts are spun around me as i'm wonderstruck with awe
then I long for that blind innocence that I see no more
See those faces in the rain
living lives without such pain
Say it like you mean it, say it how you speak it
Don't lose that childhood flame
Say it like you mean it, say it how you speak it
Don't lose that childhood flame

Breathless and wounded, it takes a child to understand
through some observation that flame aint in your hand
That counter werent so clever, as I need to settle down
stop crying over hard times, what's lost will soon be found
Lack of warmth, lack of light
and this feeling don't feel right
See those faces in the rain
living lives without such pain
Say it like you mean it, say it how you speak it
Don't lose that childhood flame
Say it like you mean it, say it how you speak it
Don't lose that childhood flame
Say it like you mean it, say it how you speak it
Don't lose that childhood flame
See them crooked streets by the avenue
croaking under strangers feet
All the people there, they rest to eat
but they just dont see, they just dont sleep

See the ghost of past by the avenue
scratchings on the wall
All there people there, they try to see
but they face all doubt, they know it all

All the hustlin all the bustlin inside, they dont know where to go
Just a flock of stranded souls inside their little hole
It's a popular strategy how they sink into the ground
On the underground
On the underground, the skies cannot be found

Corruption spreads through the avenue
beggars falling free
The marble arch is calling out
for a little help, a little sympathy

All the hustlin all the bustlin inside, they dont know where to go
Just a flock of stranded souls inside their little hole
It's a popular strategy how they sink into the ground
On the underground
On the underground, the skies cannot be found

INSTRUMENTAL

All the hustlin all the bustlin inside, they dont know where to go
Just a flock of stranded souls inside their little hole
It's a popular strategy how they sink into the ground
On the underground
On the underground, the skies cannot be found
Don't know what to say but i'm thinking all the time
Don't know where you've gone but i'm coming down the mountainside
There's a place where I must go
where my thought's are not so loud
The truth is hard to find, but there's a time

Everybody's praying for me to settle down
Everybody tells me i'm sad and theres no doubt
There's a past that I cant see
where my thoughts are not so dreary
and the truth is hard to find, but there's a time

My heart is breaking, nothing left needs taking
the path is long, but whose to know?
The crime of life has told, the crimson light grows old
Confusion reaps inside my soul

Don't know what to say all the times I think of you
Nothing change my mind, nor can change my point of view
There's a vast and flowing shore
that elludes me more and more
and the truth is hard to find, but there's a time

My heart is breaking, nothing left needs taking
the path is long, but whose to know?
The crime of life has told, the crimson light grows old
Confusion reaps inside my soul

My heart is breaking, nothing left needs taking
the path is long, but whose to know?
The crime of life has told, the crimson light grows old
Confusion reaps inside my soul
Weighing the order, the rise overhead
chains of devotion and dread will assign
these students of death to spare you their breath of the night

The city's gone to town
the city's gone to town
Strangers bide their time
they're trying but they can't find the light

Hundreds of people all counting their days
waiting for someone to praise or deny
These capsules of grief, stood patient beneath the sky

The city's gone to town
the city's gone to town
Our eyes are open wide
we're trying but we can't find the light

(Instrumental)

Pavements all crooked and coated with dust
fellows arise to the gust and the sea
these downtrodden times lure men into blind decree

The city's gone to town
the city's gone to town
Our thoughts betray our minds
we're trying but we can't find the time

The city's gone to town
the city's gone to town
Our thoughts betray our minds
we're trying, but we can't find the light
we can't find the light
What's a man to do, stuck here in his cage
with a tongue prepared for battle and a belly full of rage
He can't control his destiny or realize his dreams
Just a sweet surrender, and nothings as it seems
So he looked into his cupboard and he saw
the faces he found many times before
His head felt oh, so weary
the devil, wouldnt he be glad to bring that firelight and more

What's a man to do, living with his pain
hiding from his circumstance, hiding from the rain
He only wanted sympathy from people who could see
this man was dead and lonely, he needed to be free
So he wandered out but always wanted more
embracing all the faces that he thought were gone for sure
His genius was shattered
broken, bruised and battered
so he looked inside and found a bloody war

Firelight, you saw into my second soul
shadow's gone, life's the same
Firelight, my dreams are burning brighter now
I just wanna call your name
I wanna call your name
I wanna call your name

What's a man to do, left without a page
a place to leave his worries, a place to leave his rage
He never tried to understand the problems he could see
with blooded knives and stolen wives, his body couldnt sleep
So he cried into the middle of the night
but the faces wouldnt listen to his plight
The stories he had told
were pitiful and old
so he went to sleep beneath the firelight

Firelight, you saw into my second soul
shadow's gone, life's the same
Firelight, my dreams are burning brighter now
I just wanna call your name
I wanna call you
Firelight, you saw into my second soul
shadow's gone, and life's the same
Firelight, my dreams are burning brighter now
I just wanna shout your name
I wanna shout your name
Anguish in your eyes,
all the stars in all the skies are lost on you
Laid up round the town
crashing all the dreams you found into the blue
Falling out of control
Tired before you grow old
Wasting all your thoughts, all you ever knew

Tell me your story, what's running through your head?
you needn't face the raging world alone
Blood on the pavement, quarrels in your bed
placing blame on all you've ever known

Midnight stunk of rage
passion pumping through your veins, your time is due
Blazing roundabout
with your lights bestow me now, these gutters grew
Shapes and colour surround
Moonstruck, sorrow in sound
Tearing down the line, wasting all my time
I can't hold you
Eyes slammed down in rage, crazy fools on stage
all your time is through

Sweet southern angel, the call has come for you
it needn't be all gloom, or so i'm told
Perched on the stable, conquered by the way
waiting for the night, the night to fold

Christ, I feel feeble, i'm running out of words
you're gonna end up worse, too worse for wear
Beauty is something you just don't understand
you've lost and now you are
you've come and gone so far
you've lost and now you are a fallen man

Unreleased Material - Pre 2010

These songs were cut from Lost in Transit, but are still frequently played live.

  • Troglodyte
  • So Few Souls
  • For A Lifetime
  • Miles Away
  • Take Me Home
  • Provenance
  • Hopeless On My Own

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