Track Listing

1. 1. UnbalancedListen
   Music: Bill Givens/Dennis Thompson
   Lyrics: Bill Givens
   Lead Break: Bill

   It’s a vicious cycle
   I fell into the hole again - no warning
   I don’t know where to begin
   In the blink of an eye
   I’m discouraged by this passing of time
   And I see no end in sight-no matter what I contend
   
   Break down the barriers for me
   Opened my eyes now I can see
   Like a reservoir of hope it brings me
   With new piece of mind
   I’m encouraged by this generous kind
   And there seems no end in sight
   Until it happens again
   
   Holding me down but you bring me
   Back to the shallows for a moment
   With a voice inside my head
   Whispering to me….
   
   “ It’s easier to let it go”
   Denounce this trivial fear that’s locked inside me
   
   Yet it seems to have control
   Everchanging as it flows through me
   Misconstruing
   I struggle for balance
   
   Sometimes-I feel alone inside
   And this self-destructive path just seems to lead
   To a darker side
   I lie awake in search of light
   A simple utopia that binds all that matters
   Reality shatters this
   
   Holding me down but you bring me
   Back to the shallows for a moment
   With a voice inside my head
   Whispering to me….
   
   “ It’s easier to let it go - renounce this trivial fear
   That’s locked inside me”
   
   
    

2. 2. UnifiedListen
   Music: Bill Givens/Dennis Thompson
   Words: Bill Givens
   Lead Break 1: Bill
   Lead Break 2: Dennis

   Words- they fall like rain
   And then they wash away the stains
   And we’re unified once and again
   Do you feel the same?
   
   In a crowded rush of urgency
   To express the thoughts and feelings
   Can we diversify yet tread on common ground?
   Unilateral appeal
   
   All that I am-impossible to conceive
   That in the past I’ve been mistaken
   And all the things that I’d forsaken
   Had all slipped away
   Drifting farther
   
   Desperate to alleviate
   Consecrate this temple
   Desolate place-far from grace
   Discord and deviated
   I see through
   Finding my way to you
   
   All that we are-impossible to concede
   In the wake of resurrection
   We are attempting to preserve this dying breed
   
   Lost-nullified by our hands
   Never tried to comprehend
   As we focus
   Remembering the whole is greater than the sum
   
   I justify my action reiterating my intentions
   Relinquishing my fears
   To find that through the years
   We’ve never made but one connection
   
   Knee-jerk reactions control
   Misdirected anger seizing
   Dismiss these notions and share in this moment we found
   
   Unified by our hands
   As we try to comprehend and we focus
   Remembering the whole is greater than the sum
   
   Lost-in a rage
   Unjustified-crumbling, fallen
   Hope-we won’t subside
   Strengthening-as we stand unified
   
   In the wake of resurrection
   We are attempting to preserve this dying breed
   Drifting farther
   Far away
   We’ll never be the same
   
   Lost-nullified by our hands
   Never tried to comprehend
   As we focus
   Remembering the whole is greater than the sum
   
   
   
    

3. 3. Evidence
   Music: Bill Givens/Jeff Story
   Words: Jeff Story
   Lead Break: Bill

   Yes-sign me up by choice, by request
   Take the whole ship down
   One in a million so ready and willing
   It’s too good, too good, too good, too good….
   Too good to pass
   I’m fillin’ up on your trash
   Don’t mind the smoke it’s the ash that’s chokin’ me
   It’s all too free
   But I can’t stop myself, stop myself
   
   You wanna take it all
   I’m not in control
   I’d love to turn it off but I can’t see
   I can’t protect my self
   I can’t defend myself
   I’m livin’ for your wealth
   Go on and take it
   
   Treading lightly
   Don’t dare to wake the gravedigger
   I’m not in control, I’m not in control….
   
   Ignorance has laid me on the fence
   And I can make no sense of my crime
   Your arrogance has led my self-defense
   To warrant evidence, evidence
   Not a shred
   
   Yes-sign me up by choice by my mess
   Take the whole ship down
   You say your love is guaranteed
   And I’m so much in need of a
   Good thing, good thing, good thing
   My god I’m slippin’ in too deep
   I believe
   I’m seduced around your noose
   I see
   And I believe
   
   Ignorance has laid me on the fence
   And I can make no sense of my crime
   Your arrogance has led my self-defense
   To warrant evidence, evidence
   Not a shred
   
   You wanna take it all
   I’m not in control
   This shit is in control
   And it’s too good, too good
   Too good to pass
   I’m fillin’ up on your trash
   Don’t mind the smoke it’s the ash that’s chokin’ me
   It’s all too free
   But I can’t stop myself, stop myself
   
   Ignorance has laid me on the fence
   And I can make no sense of my crime
   Your arrogance has led my self-defense
   To warrant evidence, evidence
   Not a shred
   
    

4. 4. Prelude
   Music: Dennis Thompson
   Lead Break: Bill

   instrumental 

5. 5. Immaculate Rhapsody
   Music: Dennis Thompson/Bill Givens
   Lyrics: Bill Givens
   Lead Break: Dennis

   Confine me
   To this prison cell
   Conform me to your liking
   This box that you’ve created
   Stifles thoughts disintegrated
   No breathing space

   Discombobulated
   No ventilation

   
   A lack of inspiration formulating
   Static, redundancy
   Focus to transcend as
   Deeper aspirations elevate
   Impassioned by a spiritual connection
   Immaculate this rhapsody
   Disastrous the consequence hereafter
   Of formulaic mediocrity
   
   Artistic freedom has fallen prey
   To the clowns that masquerade
   And prostitute this institution, speak of revolution, how?
   It’s all by design with no time to explore
   In due time we define what will be furthermore
   
   A lack of inspiration formulating
   Static, redundancy
   Focus to transcend as
   Deeper aspirations elevate
   Impassioned by a spiritual connection
   Immaculate this rhapsody
   Disastrous the consequence hereafter
   Of formulaic mediocrity
   
   Deeper aspirations elevate
   impassioned by a spiritual connection
   Immaculate this rhapsody
   Disastrous the consequence hereafter
   Of formulaic mediocrity
    

6. 6. Everchanging World
   Music & Lyrics: Bill Givens

   Well I guess I can’t complain about the way things are
   I should be farther up that hill by now and raised the bar
   But a mind that can’t be changed
   Is a mind that’s lost and can’t be saved
   And it happens to be that I’m set in my own ways
   
   Still I wonder, as I’m getting older
   Am I losing touch with this ever-changing world?
   
   Have you seen it on the news today?
   I saw our children die on the enemy lines
   And there’s a price to pay
   For a world that’s hard to change
   It’s a world that’s lost an can’t be saved
   And it seems to me that we’ve yet to find our way…
   
   Still I wonder, as I’m getting older
   Am I losing touch with this ever-changing world?
   Demons cluttering
   The past still burdening
   I must break free and face an ever-changing world
   
   Help me to believe
   Help me to proceed without caution
   I’m flying the way of the wind
   I’ll help you not to fall
   And if I can’t walk I’ll crawl to the surface
   And carry you back
   (Carry you back)
   (Carry you back)
   
   We’ll carry on
   And stay the same
   And clear the path for a brand new day
   We must be strong
   And grow with change
   Adapting to an ever changing world
   An ever-changing world
   An ever-changing world
    

7. 7. Humankind
   Music & Lyrics: Bill Givens/Jeff Story
   Lead Break 1: Bill & Dennis in unison
   Lead Break 2: Dennis

   I remember sipping cherub tea
   Drowning in the taste
   The clouds began to swim
   Then the laughter died
   The smile fell from his face
   Kiente closed his eyes and sang the ancient hymn
   
   Up the ladder to the east
   Through the fire and the rain
   Where the witches sit to feast
   And the angels had been slain
   There he took my hand
   And we headed for the shore
   Kiente said to me
   “You’re the one they’re looking for”
   
   It’s not too late for the flesh to be confined
   Memories try to fade the last of human kind
   
   I remember hiding in the trees
   As the battle raged across the open hill
   The burning northwind towers
   A harrowing escape
   Striking the final blow bathing us in acid rain
   
   As I stood against my fate
   Kiente fell unto his knees
   And I never questioned faith
   As death surrounded me
   And into the light I prepared to face the end
   But Kiente’s smile revealed to me
   That I’d be taken back again
   
   But it’s much to late for the flesh to be confined
   Memories try to fade the last of human kind
   Like the mist I burn away
   I speak in tongues to focus on the faith
   I know if life and death are fused to one
   I will surely be the chosen one
    

8. 8. Liberation
   Music: Bill Givens/Dennis Thompson
   Words: Bill Givens
   Lead Break 1: Dennis
   Lead Break 2: Bill

   Eradicate the fascist
   Step into the light
   Free yourselves from the shackles that bind you
   The time has come to decide….
   I won’t let it bring me down
   I won’t give in and wear the crown
   Those thorns channeling the ever constant hate
   
   That so called “ monkey on my back”
   Is just a wrench you threw my way
   Falling further through the cracks
   Becoming yesterday
   
   Transcend this place, make me whole
   Euphoric feelings crashing like waves that cleanse my soul
   Forever changing me
   
   Elevate the masses
   Bring them to the light
   We are free from the shackles that bind us
   The time has come to unite….
   We won’t let it bring us down
   We won’t give in and wear the crown
   Those thorns crumbling to pieces
   
   As we start into a brand new day
   The sun begins to shine
   Here, right here
   Staring into the eyes of uncertain fears
   We rise as one to defy the throne
   For a pathway to the light
   
   Transcend this place, make me whole
   Euphoric feelings crashing like waves that cleanse my soul
   Forever changing
   Open lines exchanging providential mediation
   Open minds creating controversial adaptations
   That in time will enrapture me
   Transcend this place, make me whole
   Crashing like waves that cleanse my soul
   
   The time has come to overthrow
   Take back what remains and regain control
   (instrumental section)
   Transcend this place, make me whole
   Euphoric feelings crashing like waves that cleanse my soul
    

Reviews

• The Laser's Edge
  I can't tell you how many customers and contacts tell me about their own band or recording project in the hopes that we will pick up their disc for distribution. Frankly the majority that flow through here are uneven - it's rare that we pick up a title. Drummer David Charlesworth has been whispering in my ear for some time about his band Dead Air Radio. Eventually the disc arrived at my doorstep and I gave it a spin. I was floored...
  
  Dead Air Radio is a trio based out of Tennessee - not exactly the stronghold for progresive music. In addition to Charlesworth, the band consists of vocalist, guitarist and bassist Bill Givens, and lead guitarist Dennis Thompson. First off the musicianship is impeccable - these guys have eaten their Wheaties. I'm talking mega-tight. The band is obviously influenced by Rush and Dream Theater with some elements of Tool and modern rock trickling in as well. The clean production makes everything sound fresh without a retro sheen. Dead Air Radio is a band that has successfully created an album with plenty of crossover appeal for fans of progressive rock and metal. Take chops-from-hell, add well developed songwriting, great production and you have a winner every time. Highly recommended.