Biography:
Streetlight Manifesto is a third wave ska punk band from New Brunswick, New Jersey, under the creative leadership of singer/guitarist Tomas Kalnoky. Since forming in 2002, the band has released four full-length albums.
Several of Streetlight's members were already well known among the New Jersey ska community for their roles in past ska bands from that area, most notably Catch 22's Tomas Kalnoky, James Egan, Mike Soprano, and Josh Ansley, as well as One Cool Guy's Stuart Karmatz, Pete Sibilia, Dan Ross, and Chris Paszik.
Read more on Last.fm
Other songs:
- 1234, 1234
- 9mm And A Three Piece Suit
- A Better Place A Better Time
- A Better Place, A Better Time
- A Moment Of Silence
- As The Footsteps Die Out Forever
- Dear Sergio
- Here's To Life
- Heres To Life
- Keasbey Nights
- Kristina She Don't Know I Exist
- Oh Me Oh My
- Point/counterpoint
- Sick And Sad
- Somewhere In The Between
- Streetlight Medley
- Such Great Heights
- We Are The Few
- With Any Sort Of Certainty
- 1234 1234
- Birds Flying Away
- Day In Day Out
- Down Down Down To Mephistos Cafe
- Forty Days
- Hell
- If Only For Memories
- Just
- Kristina She Dont Know I Exist
- Linoleum
- On And On And On
- One Foot On The Gas One Foot In The Grave
- Point Counterpoint
- Punk Rock Girl
- Red Rubber Ball
- Skyscraper
- Supernothing
- Thatll Be The Day
- The Big Sleep
- The Blonde Lead The Blind
- The Hands That Thieve
- The Littlest Things
- The Saddest Song
- The Three Of Us
- The Troubadour
- They Provide The Paint
- This One Goes Out To
- Toe To Toe
- Walking Away
- Watch It Crash
- We Will Fall Together
- What A Wicked Gang Are We
- Who Hides The Night Oh Me
- Would You Be Impressed
- Your Day Will Come
Four years of hard work!This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!
[Intro]
Bm F# G F# G F#
(base horm melody goes with those chords)
[Verse 1]
Bm
I once knew a guy, obsessed with the afterlife
F# G F# G F#
Oh what a terrible day that was, he realized he'd wasted all his
Bm
Time was ticking by, and he'd been left behind
F# G F# G F#
And as the clock tick-tocked his heart did stop and everything he had was fucked
[Pre-chorus/Chorus]
G F# Bm A G F# G
And we know not what we do (Can you hear them call?)
F#
Will we ever make it through?
Bm C# D Bm
As they watch us
G A
fall from the sky to the ground to the sea
D F#
Woe is me, woe is me, no one will save you now
G A F# Bm A G F#
We can only look away (away!), away-way-way-way-way
G A D F#
We'll not be victims there'll be no victims of to speak
G A Bm
And only then will we be free
G A Bm
And up will rise the meek
D A G
And when we fall we will fall together
Bm D A G
No one will catch us so we'll catch ourselves
Bm D A G
And where we roam we will roam forever
Bm D F#
No one will understand what we meant
[Instrumental]
Bm F# G F# G F#
[Verse 2]
Bm
The beaten and the bruised, forsaken, the abused
F# G F# G F#
Oh what a glorious day we'll have rising up and claiming all our dues
Bm
The day will come as sure as the ever-setting sun
F# G F# G F#
All of those that self-imposed will find themselves so indisposed
[Pre-chorus/Chorus]
G F# Bm A G F# G
And we know not what we do (Can you hear them call?)
F#
Will we ever make it through?
Bm C# D Bm
As they watch us
G A
fall from the sky to the ground to the sea
D F#
Woe is me, woe is me, no one will save you now
G A F# Bm A G F#
We can only look away (away!), away-way-way-way-way
G A D F#
We'll not be victims there'll be no victims of to speak
G A Bm
And only then will we be free
G A Bm
And up will rise the meek
D A G
And when we fall we will fall together
Bm D A G
No one will catch us so we'll catch ourselves
Bm D A G
And where we roam we will roam forever
Bm D F#
No one will understand what we meant
(In place of those brass solo's i suggest to do the intro again,
i highly doubt you own any brass instruments)
[Instrumental]
Bm F# G F# G F#
[Verse 3]
Bm D Em F#
Now! with the line drawn in the
Bm D G F#
Wet Sand You need to tell us where you stand
Bm D
Sitting, waiting, watching, rotting,
Em F# Bm D G
everything they warned us of is true
F#
Now tell me what we're all supposed to do
G A
They're coming after all of us with everything they've got
G A
With the fury of a soldier who will answer to his God
G A F#
So how will we fight? When all we have is logic and love on our side
[Chorus]
Bm D A G
And when we fall we will fall together
Bm D A G
No one will catch us so we'll catch ourselves
Bm D A G
And where we roam we will roam forever
Bm D F# Bm
No one will understand what we meant
Bm F# G F# G F#
(base horm melody goes with those chords)
[Verse 1]
Bm
I once knew a guy, obsessed with the afterlife
F# G F# G F#
Oh what a terrible day that was, he realized he'd wasted all his
Bm
Time was ticking by, and he'd been left behind
F# G F# G F#
And as the clock tick-tocked his heart did stop and everything he had was fucked
[Pre-chorus/Chorus]
G F# Bm A G F# G
And we know not what we do (Can you hear them call?)
F#
Will we ever make it through?
Bm C# D Bm
As they watch us
G A
fall from the sky to the ground to the sea
D F#
Woe is me, woe is me, no one will save you now
G A F# Bm A G F#
We can only look away (away!), away-way-way-way-way
G A D F#
We'll not be victims there'll be no victims of to speak
G A Bm
And only then will we be free
G A Bm
And up will rise the meek
D A G
And when we fall we will fall together
Bm D A G
No one will catch us so we'll catch ourselves
Bm D A G
And where we roam we will roam forever
Bm D F#
No one will understand what we meant
[Instrumental]
Bm F# G F# G F#
[Verse 2]
Bm
The beaten and the bruised, forsaken, the abused
F# G F# G F#
Oh what a glorious day we'll have rising up and claiming all our dues
Bm
The day will come as sure as the ever-setting sun
F# G F# G F#
All of those that self-imposed will find themselves so indisposed
[Pre-chorus/Chorus]
G F# Bm A G F# G
And we know not what we do (Can you hear them call?)
F#
Will we ever make it through?
Bm C# D Bm
As they watch us
G A
fall from the sky to the ground to the sea
D F#
Woe is me, woe is me, no one will save you now
G A F# Bm A G F#
We can only look away (away!), away-way-way-way-way
G A D F#
We'll not be victims there'll be no victims of to speak
G A Bm
And only then will we be free
G A Bm
And up will rise the meek
D A G
And when we fall we will fall together
Bm D A G
No one will catch us so we'll catch ourselves
Bm D A G
And where we roam we will roam forever
Bm D F#
No one will understand what we meant
(In place of those brass solo's i suggest to do the intro again,
i highly doubt you own any brass instruments)
[Instrumental]
Bm F# G F# G F#
[Verse 3]
Bm D Em F#
Now! with the line drawn in the
Bm D G F#
Wet Sand You need to tell us where you stand
Bm D
Sitting, waiting, watching, rotting,
Em F# Bm D G
everything they warned us of is true
F#
Now tell me what we're all supposed to do
G A
They're coming after all of us with everything they've got
G A
With the fury of a soldier who will answer to his God
G A F#
So how will we fight? When all we have is logic and love on our side
[Chorus]
Bm D A G
And when we fall we will fall together
Bm D A G
No one will catch us so we'll catch ourselves
Bm D A G
And where we roam we will roam forever
Bm D F# Bm
No one will understand what we meant
Stronghold
Strung Out
Stu Larsen
Stuart K. Hine
Stuart Townend