Hillsburn - Truths You Outrun (Live)

Hillsburn perform a live version of ‘Truths You Outrun,’ from their EP, Stories.

Listen to the studio version of ‘Truths You Outrun’ here:
https://bfan.link/truths-you-outrun

Video shot by Jeff Miller and Charlie Benoit

Video edited, and audio mixed, by Paul Aarntzen
http://shoutco.ca/

Audio recorded by Lil Thomas at The Sonic Temple in Halifax, Nova Scotia

Band:
Rosanna Burrill - Vocals
Clayton Burrill - Guitar, keyboards, vocals
Jackson Fairfax-Perry - Keyboards
Clare Macdonald - Drums, vocals
Greg Moffat - Trumpet
Ally Fiola - Tenor sax
Jill Stella - Trombone
Chris Mitchell - Baritone sax

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This project is funded in part by FACTOR, the Government of Canada and Canada’s private radio broadcasters.
Ce projet est financé en partie par FACTOR, le gouvernement du Canada et les radio diffuseurs privés du Canada.

// Lyrics //

I spent a winter there
Trying to mute my fear
But when the water opened
It was everywhere

Nowhere to shelter
No way to disappear
Too late to change the unwinding of the years
All the damage is done

Ooh, ah
Ooh, ah
You can leave your sorrow in the city
But when your eyes close
You're going to feel it burn

My birthday passed
I lit a single match
Stuck it in a muffin
And had a little laugh

No celebration
No song out in the cold
No conversation about time and getting old
Just the truths you outrun

Ooh, ah
Ooh, ah
All the bright lights dancing in the night
Ooh, ah
Ooh, ah
And the trees waiting, taciturn
Ooh, ah
Ooh, ah
Tried to leave my sorrow in the city
But when my eyes close
I always feel it burn

I heard a sound behind me
She was standing by the shed
Saying, ‘Swept the riverbed to find you,
Parsed every word you’d said.
God, I can't believe it, I don't understand.'

I can't break the ties that bind me
You should have left me to my dread
To the shackles that confine me
To the jackals in my head
‘Cause I can't think and I can't focus
I stay high so I won’t notice
I can't sleep and I can’t feel my hands

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