Ashes ...

... is the next Embrace single, which will be released Monday, November 15. It's a great song, much better than the first single. And I thought some of the lyrics were oddly appropriate this week (if not completely coherent):

I've waited, and given the chance again,
I'd do it all the same, but either way
I'm always outplayed, up on your down days.
I left it the right way, to start again.

Now watch me rise up and leave all the ashes you made out of me.
When you said that we were wrong, life goes on, just look how long I've agreed.

Out of place, like a gem on a coalface,
Lost on the right way, it's all the same,
'Cause I've had my hopes raised, riding the wrong waves,
Scared when you feel safe to start again.

Now watch me rise up and leave all the ashes you made out of me.
When you said that we were wrong, life goes on, just look how long I've agreed.
I sink like a stone, I lost my control.


And as long as I'm at it, here's the chorus to the song I'm currently listening too, "Wonder" from Embrace's previous album:

But if everyone has their shot and moves on,
And you can't get out the way,
And it's all for the best and it's all a lie
That everyone has their day --
'Cause if everyone has their shot and moves
And you just get in the way --
Well, it's you wonder will save.

Don't let them make you feel small,
With their hands like guns at your head.
They'll claw, but they'll never win if you let wonder in.