Shukriyas & Lyrics

This page is for everything we wanted to put in the liner notes for our EPs but couldn’t fit into the sleek, contemporary designs. Enjoy!

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Lyrics

Your Moment Answers If I Fell for You Kings and Birds Sea in G (pt.1) Sea in G (pt.2)

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1. Your Moment
Music and lyrics by Nayan Bhula
I took a jump
A leap of faith
Trying to learn
What it would take
To live forever
Is a burden to some
I understand the sound of the pendulum
And the fortune teller says
And the fortune teller says
Oh you’ll have your moment soon
You’ll have your moment soon
You’ll have your moment soon
You’ll have your moment soon
I pretend to know
The who the why the where
What I miss I see with a wide-eyed stare
In the grips
Waiting for today
Wonderin’ about tomorrow
Forgetting yesterday
And the fortune teller says
And the fortune teller says
Oh you’ll have your moment soon
You’ll have your moment soon
You’ll have your moment soon
You’ll have your moment soon
Oh you’ll have your moment soon
You’ll have your moment soon
You’ll have your moment soon
You’ll have your moment soon
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Answers
Music and Lyrics by Nayan Bhula

Oh I don’t know what I’m doin
With myself
I don’t know what I’m doin’
With all this time
Is this anything I should
Share with you
Is this anything I should
Be showin’ you
I am what I should be, wanderin’ through my dreams
I am what I should be
I can’t find any answers, in the books that I read
I can’t find any answers
Oh what’s the point of all this?
It all feels like a mess
What’s the point of all this?
It’s anyone’s guess
These things I know, they’re important
Only to me
These things I know, they’re important
Even though they shouldn’t be
I am what I should be, wanderin’ through my dreams
I am what I should be
I can’t find any answers, in the books that I read
I can’t find any answers
I never cared ‘til I grew older
(I’m waitin’ for the end to come)
I never cared ‘til I saw these
(I’m waitin for the end)
Things that seem so important
(I’m waitin’ for the end to come)
I’m waitin, I’m waitin for the end to come
(I’m waitin, waitin for the end to come)

I am what I should be, wanderin’ through my dreams
I am what I should be
I can’t find any answers, in the books that I read
I can’t find any answers
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3. If I Fell For You
Music and lyrics by Audrey White

Careful with those hands
They’re playing with my helpless heart
Leavin me to blame
There is something in your eyes
You don’t need to explain
Words can break a heavy heart
I might ease the pain
I can’t tell you what I’d do if I fell for you
I can’t tell you what I’d do if I fell for you
If we chose to dance tonight
Would you take my hand
If I chose to leave you dry
Would you understand?
I can’t tell you what I’d do if I fell for you
I can’t tell you what I’d do if I fell for you
How do you know what I have not revealed?
And what will you do with the words and the love that you steal?
Will my heavy heart still feel the same?
Or is it all in vain?
I can’t tell you what I’d do if I fell for you
I can’t tell you what I’d do if I fell for you
I can’t tell you what I’d do if I fell for you
I can’t tell you what I’d do if I fell for you
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4. Kings and Birds
Music and Lyrics by Gabriel Fry

Lay down my friend
And cool your words
This life is not flush with
Second chances
Stretch out your legs
Over this hillside
The marble steps of cities and
The rock of mountains
Under stars made for us
We are kings and birds in flight
Pierced with cries and shouts
Their joy is ours as well tonight
Write to me of roads where the clouds touch the ground
Sing of oceans
Sing of days of sun
We will fill the hours, just you wait
Our hearts will swell and ache
Under stars made for us
We are kings and birds in flight
Pierced with cries and shouts
Their joy is ours as well tonight
Push the tables and chairs
Out into the street
We will drink our feet
Into the air
Let the sky fall outside the door tonight
We are full and warm and safe here inside
Under stars made for us
We are kings and birds in flight
Pierced with cries and shouts
Their joy is ours as well tonight
Under stars made for us
We are kings and birds in flight
Pierced with cries and shouts
Their joy is ours as well tonight
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5. Sea in G (pt. 1)
Music by Nayan Bhula and Nistha Raj
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Sea in G (pt. 2)
Music by Nayan Bhula and Jesse Burgman, lyrics by Nayan Bhula

Oh say can you see
The deep blue sea
Rising up and
Crashing in on me
Oh say can you see
My heart at the bottom of the sea
Collected along with
All the other debris
Oh say can you see
All the land and all the sea
Washing away
The very thought of me
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Shukriyas

Nayan thanks his two biggest inspirations and supporters Urvi and Siddharth; GIST; Gabe, Jesse, Auds, Mel, and Shawn for making this music come to life; and all the NRIs out there who are doing something creative.

Jesse thanks friends and family who supported me through my less inspired moments of creative apprenticeship, especially Kate. You mean more to me than gravity.

Gabe thanks his wife and his band, and also his other bands.

Shawn thanks Grandma for letting me set up my drums in your basement years ago, fostering my love for the instrument and for music, and opening your house to my friends so we could become the musicians we are today.

Melanie thanks Pat, Kate, Mom, and especially Dad. You know who you are: thanks for the rides.

Audrey thanks marvelous friends and family for coming out to see us; everyone in the band for being outstanding and hip.

The NRIs thank Mario D’Ambrosio, Josef Kardell, Tracy Epperson, Audrey Ahmed, Nels Booher, Charlie Pilzer at Airshow Mastering, B2R, IOTA Club and Café, The Galaxy Hut, and The Black Cat.

Lyrics

Music City Fairwell Gone Heavy Drinker Texas

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1. Music City
Music and Lyrics by Nayan Bhula
There’s a pattern in the music here
Guitars come to this Mecca
Off buses, planes, cars into bars
Come see me sing, I’m the next big thing

Come see me sing, I’m the next big thing

An aging musician, living in her car
Puts a quarter in the meter and takes out her guitar
You can smell hope on her musky perfume
Too much make-up, caked up and big wavy hair

Come see me sing, I’m the next big thing

Many more young up-starts are coming into town
Ready to sing, grin and win
So many stars are clouding up the night
And they’re still looking for their 15 minutes, which is still in sight

Come see me sing, I’m the next big thing

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2. Fairwell (dedicated to Siddharth N. Bhula)
Music and Lyrics by Nayan Bhula

So farewell to my younger days
Farewell – they’ll be sunny days with you
With you, I will fair so well, I will fair well

It’s 8:46pm, It’s 8:42am and
We welcome you, we welcome you
Our guiding light you shine so bright

So farewell to my younger days
Farewell – they’ll be sunny days with you
With you, I will fair so well, I will fair well

One piece of advice, I will say to you
Is to always try and do some good
‘Cause you give meaning to our lives

So farewell to my younger days
Farewell – they’ll be sunny days with you
With you, I will fair so well, I will fair well

I will fair so well
Our miracle
We’ll always miss you, when we are apart
‘Cause you’re a piece of our heart
Our little sweetheart, our little work of art

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3. Gone
Music by Nayan Bhula
Lyrics by Gabriel Fry

Baby we’re in for blood tonight
Baby we’re in for blood
I could be yours, you could be mine

Baby it’s all been done
Yes it’s all been done
We’re just reading over the same old lines

Do you remember the day we got married?
Everything was green and full of life
But it’s gone, it’s gone
Sure as day turns to night

Baby we’re out for blood tonight
Baby we’re out for blood
I could spill yours and you could spill mine

But it’s all been done
Yes it’s all been done
It won’t be different, different this time

Do you remember the day we got married?
Everything was green and full of life
But it’s gone, it’s gone
Sure as day turns to night

I could be yours, you could be mine

Do you remember the day we got married?
Everything was green and full of life
But it’s gone, it’s gone
Sure as day turns to night

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4. Heavy Drinker
Music and Lyrics by Nayan Bhula

1-2-3-4-5 shots, line ‘em up
Bartender you know I’m just warming up
And I know in the end it’s never enough

1-2-3-4-5 beers, line ‘em up
There’s nothing wrong with slurring your words
They’re all overrated anyway

Hey, hey, Mr. Taxi-Man can you take me home?
Hey, hey, pretty stranger, can you take me home?
Hey, hey, my good friend, can you take me home?
Hey, hey, little darling, can you take me home?

D.W.I, count me in
Everyone in here is guilty of that
That’s Drinking While Intoxicated

1-2-3-4-5 o’clock, it’s closing time
When the world spins it spins like a globe
We all manage to stay up, when we’re falling down

Hey, hey, Mr. Taxi-Man can you take me home?
Hey, hey, pretty stranger, can you take me home?
Hey, hey, my good friend, can you take me home?
Hey, hey, little darling, can you take me me home?

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5. Texas
Music and Lyrics by Gabriel Fry

If I could stand seein’ you lonely, I’d be gone
If I could stand seein’ you hatin’ me, I’d be gone
‘Cause there’s nothin’ like leavin’ to fix what’s wrong
There’s no threats or excuses make any difference to us now
There’s no threats or excuses have any bearing on us now
‘Cause there’s not much of us left, anymore, anyhow

And I could be halfway to Texas by now
By now

Drivin’ down the highway, starin’ into the sun
Drivin’ west through the cottonfields, starin’ into the sun
Got a beer between my knees, and it’s not the first one

And I could be halfway to Texas by now
And I could be halfway to Texas by now
By now

And I could be halfway to Texas by now
And I could be halfway to Texas by now
And I could be halfway to Texas by now

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