Obsession Never Sleeps EP, by Scott Matthews

Obsession Never Sleeps EP

by Scott Matthews

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1.	Obsession Never Sleeps (Radio Edit) 03:57	lyrics	buy track
Driving anywhere, just anywhere to get there Asleep at the wheel with one eye wide awake The moon’s well into its dream As I ride inside a fuelled blood stream Anywhere at anytime it thrives on Filling my empty side Unable to rest Unwilling to stay behind Insisting you take it everywhere Like a cancerous cry I adore you. It’s you that I idolize I’ll live and die for you As we strive for the morning’s high Obsession never sleeps You wake with it caressing your cheek Just how can you ignore The one thing you would die for? You’re my enemy, my saviour And my ever ruling dictator That summons my thoughts towards My infatuation But a fatal fate awaits the greedy hand Who’s bullied alone night and day By their own demands I adore you. It’s you that I idolize I’ll live and die for you And kill for the evening’s high But it will never be the happiness you once had
2.	The Man Who Had Everything (Acoustic Version) 04:27	lyrics	buy track
Long and cold breathe the nights This sacred bin is our TV for the night The flames swallow all that we discard Thrown amongst the burnable Are the stories many tell to warm the eyes And hearts of the starved The new fish on the line reels in And wants to know about the man who Had everything in the palm of his hand But then lost it all Cause the whirlwind of his greed Swept away the only love he had The cold exposed my battle scars The nights unfolded feeding hearts Of strangers who were eager to believe But I can never find a way Of shedding light on the darkest days So I’ll just sit here waiting for you I’ll just sit here hungry for you As the glowing embers shield the frost And the bitterness hits our silhouettes My mouth is the only thing that thaws From the heated angry sorry tales That resonate this hollow empty jail Never finding the door cause Somebody stole the light from me And I couldn’t see There was no end in sight for me To escape this criminal embrace So now I melt in the arms of a fire that’s dying The cold exposed my battle scars The nights unfolded feeding hearts Of strangers who were eager to believe But I can never find a way Of shedding light on the darkest days So I’ll just sit here waiting for you I’ll just sit here hungry for you
3.	Walking Home In The Rain (Acoustic Version) 04:38	lyrics	buy track
Walking home in the rain These sullen city lights ingrained In my rooted heart that always jump-starts It’s barely beating She pierced like the rising sun As my dead end feelings became overrun Like a wild flame’s undying blaze Arousing my brain I remembered This could be the night That shines a flashlight into my grave She works her way inside As the search for life ups the game As the explosion of emotion Blows the notion that I’m dead inside I retaliate against the life That hid the key and locked me up inside Pining eyes greet the daylight scared I dreamt of nothing as my hunger for you wept Don’t starve the morning of last night’s memory Cause the greed overwhelms for her Can I be your endless thought somehow? Cause I’ve traded all of mine for yours now This is our beginning from an ending paralysed That’s growing under sullen city lights You have me solely I’ll suffocate this city Just so we can breathe in all the life In the explosion of emotion I’m the drug To take away your pain But I never want to be the overdose That becomes way too much to take As we’re walking home in the rain I’ll love you until the end and beyond…

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Three Track ep featuring the radio edit of 'Obsession Never Sleeps' and acoustic versions of 'The Man Who Had Everything' and 'Walking Home In The Rain', taken from the third studio album 'What The Night Delivers...'

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released August 25, 2011

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Scott Matthews UK

Scott's ground-breaking debut album, Passing Stranger earned serious critical acclaim, with his first single ‘Elusive’ winning the Ivor Novello for ‘Best Song Musically and Lyrically’.

His eighth studio release, Restless Lullabies due for release in April 2023 is of the purist acoustic delicacy, cementing Matthews’ undeniable mastery as one of our greatest songsmiths. ... more

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Paradhis Festival

Cornwall, UK

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