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WAVES

by MAT McHUGH

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George Halligan
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George Halligan Such a brilliant album! Really relaxing and the song writing is fantastic.. Really well done Matt! Can't wait for more
Nathan Weber
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Nathan Weber A spectacular follow up to Love Come Save Me. Has so much musical breadth through the album it is difficult to characterise. Truly the output of an artist at their creative peak, let's all hope Mat stays there for a long time to come! High Up is my pick for the wonderful layers built through the track and the velvety vocals pulling them together. Polished to shine as gold. Favorite track: HIGH UP.
Shawna Alpdemir
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Shawna Alpdemir I am such a sucker for acoustic love songs with beautiful lyrics, especially when the song is about love overcoming all obstacles. Mat McHugh's Love You Right is a gem. "But we're alive and I still love you with all that I have." Favorite track: LOVE YOU RIGHT.
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1.
GOOD 02:34
2.
AVALANCHES 02:57
we head forward , no choice in it no other way through the salt tastes like poison it's been cutting me in two it gets cold come night the darkness , black like the valley floor the ocean like avalanches and each wave keeps breaking like never before what damn use is all this sky ? it must be miles straight down the sea stings like loves that i've lost was long ago i drowned but, good lord, we sang like lightning bet they could hear us now the ocean like avalanches and nothing feels like heaven i see no way out i see no way out
3.
yeah on the day that i was born there was a black rainbow then all the way that i have come it's followed me back home there's all the miles that i have spent under the blank sunshine there's all the times that i have stared ahead, buried alive so i kept running threw my hands to the wind lost but hoping that someday you could hold me again that the clouds would open up lift away from my sights that the rain would cover us and we'd fall get lost in the light be my control be my demise be my one true love left be my resolve be my disguise be my whole use, confessed please loneliness feels like i'm close like you're a ghost sometimes fluorescent mess what i miss most is what i won't survive so i kept running bent my plans to the sun felt the ground came into focus saw who i'd become spun a thousand points of luck in the starkness of night there's the break in all of us where the darkness comes for the light ...
4.
i had a dream the other night there was something right in front of me i couldn't touch it but i heard it say something then, when i woke up there were millions of them clawing me i started screaming but nobody there heard me thought for a minute then i headed straight for the door could feel them breathing on my neck turned the key too slow reached for the handle but somebody grabbed me, took hold i tried to leave they wouldn't let me go 45 or a minute couldn't tell for a minute couldn't be for sure been running all my life just hoping to hit something now maybe no disguise could make us disappear we stumble through the lights like every moment comes in carrying the weight of all that brought us here baby, we'll be waves breaking in a chorus blood burning our veins lit like fireworks someday we could escape before they even saw us caught us and that's all i ever wanted i ever wanted went for a walk to clear my head but i was spotted by a gang of ghosts i've seen them all my life i never run from them one pointed at me told me that my light was always close and that i shouldn't ever be afraid again i felt my skin it didn't feel a lot like before could hear the breeze yell at my back calling me to go the neon twisted up in knots as we all collide i set my heart down in the falling tide 45 or a minute couldn't tell for a minute couldn't be for sure been running all my life just hoping to hit something now maybe no disguise could make us disappear we stumble through the lights like every moment comes in carrying the weight of all that brought us here baby, we'll be waves breaking in a chorus blood burning our veins lit like fireworks someday we could escape before they even saw us caught us and that's all i ever wanted i ever wanted ...
5.
SIDEWAYS 03:40
oh, let the night take me hold me under the lights i don't wanna be lonely no more maybe we'll see something and that would be enough then we could become nothing no score tell me, where is my mind ? 'no surrender' you said 'we forget so we can find' then hold on so i let it console my soul i remember you then say they'd never let me go be no-one we could be something else we could be free we could be ... i see you dancing you say we're running yes and i love you like i have always we stay romancing they'll say we're coming down lost in these feelings knocking me sideways i felt my heart beat slow stood there looking at you like some life i'd never know frozen lay my defenses down heard them calling my name from the darkness all around stolen panic then lose my head i was falling away then i fell to you instead was so gone spoke but no words came out so we tried holding on through the loneliness and doubt for so long we could be something else we could be free we could be ... i see you dancing you say we're running yes and i love you like i have always we stay romancing they'll say we're coming down lost in these feelings knocking me sideways
6.
be still, my fading confidence it's all design then consequence when all i do is make no sense there's you get born into this world to break could borderline be your mistake or i could be the chance you take, come true if you see my heart oh my heart would you take it, hold me tonight, turn me loose ? if you see my heart oh my heart don't you break it on me don't try to console me there just ain't no use lost all my faith, no self control ran for escape to break the hold lonely, could never wait to be set down if stalling is all that it is i'd lead the race, no bandages could cover up the traces we'd be found if you see my heart oh my heart would you take it, hold me tonight, turn me loose ? if you see my heart oh my heart don't you break it on me don't try to console me there just ain't no use well i never felt no love before like my heart was fallen, on the floor like i waited but it's on the line it's on the line and it's funny, never worked it out ain't nobody ever had no doubts that we're stars and shine 'til we burn out and time is time if you see my heart oh my heart would you take it, hold me tonight, turn me loose ? if you see my heart oh my heart don't you break it on me don't try to console me there just ain't no use
7.
i keep on counting all the ways that i could turn to walk away, then run but i keep running into you despite that all that i could do, i've done there could be no denying we both turned cold on trying it wasn't enough guess we'll never know who's taking who in this game we're playing playing too rough so tell me is this love or total destruction ? so tell me is this love or total control ? i keep on drowning in your words it's their return that i keep dying from don't say it's no co-incidence that we should lose all our defence be done don't know my own self beside you but tell me, what else should i do when all that i know is how to see you, surrender all i've tried to remember to not let show ? so tell me is this love or total destruction ? so tell me is this love or total control ?
8.
HIGH UP 03:31
once, all that i could feel in my heart was the darkness was all that i could do just to keep myself from falling in took all that it could steal from me i was nothingness but then i found my mind saw enough not to notice anything so we get high up 'til the ceiling falls under us it's like we only go up we never come down slowly all of my life i've been waiting here for something to begin design it colourful so it can better show through this heart of mine, it's intact i never hide it from you all of my life i've been stumbling 'round trying to say something once, i never noticed my own self i was see through was empty like a dream never had any place that i fit in stood underneath the stars saw them fall it was silent but when i thought it through i was sure there was more to everything .. so we get high up 'til the ceiling falls under us it's like we only go up we never come down slowly all of my life i've been waiting here for something to begin design it colourful so it can better show through this heart of mine, it's intact i never hide it from you all of my life i've been stumbling 'round trying to say something
9.
MAGIC 03:59
i used to feel, all along, having plans was important got used to feeling the weight coming down on me, folding on my chest never believed i would find there'd be love 'til i saw it in the stars, in the sky, on the night you laid bare all my defence now all i see is the magic everywhere i look, you'll be now all i see is the magic let it fall, uncover me if we could stay would you find me ? we could get lost up in the light no more running running home ... once, i was caught up in words that i thought would define me once, i was emptiness lost but surrounded was held there endlessly never could lie to myself like they did to me, mostly when all i needed was proof love would come for me find me where i'd be now all i see is the magic everywhere i look, you'll be now all i see is the magic let it fall, uncover me if we could stay would you find me ? we could get lost up in the light no more running running home ... tonight
10.
11.
once, all that i could feel in my heart was the darkness was all that i could do just to keep myself from falling in took all that it could steal from me i was nothingness but then i found my mind saw enough not to notice anything so we get high up 'til the ceiling falls under us it's like we only go up we never come down slowly all of my life i've been waiting here for something to begin design it colourful so it can better show through this heart of mine, it's intact i never hide it from you all of my life i've been stumbling 'round trying to say something once, i never noticed my own self i was see through was empty like a dream never had any place that i fit in stood underneath the stars saw them fall it was silent but when i thought it through i was sure there was more to everything .. so we get high up 'til the ceiling falls under us it's like we only go up we never come down slowly all of my life i've been waiting here for something to begin design it colourful so it can better show through this heart of mine, it's intact i never hide it from you all of my life i've been stumbling 'round trying to say something
12.
oh, let the night take me hold me under the lights i don't wanna be lonely no more maybe we'll see something and that would be enough then we could become nothing no score tell me, where is my mind ? 'no surrender' you said 'we forget so we can find' then hold on so i let it console my soul i remember you then say they'd never let me go be no-one we could be something else we could be free we could be ... i see you dancing you say we're running yes and i love you like i have always we stay romancing they'll say we're coming down lost in these feelings knocking me sideways i felt my heart beat slow stood there looking at you like some life i'd never know frozen lay my defenses down heard them calling my name from the darkness all around stolen panic then lose my head i was falling away then i fell to you instead was so gone spoke but no words came out so we tried holding on through the loneliness and doubt for so long we could be something else we could be free we could be ... i see you dancing you say we're running yes and i love you like i have always we stay romancing they'll say we're coming down lost in these feelings knocking me sideways
13.
written, performed and produced by Mat McHugh recorded @ the Bakehouse mixed by Ras Mateo @ Real Love mastered by Matthew Gray @ Matthew Gray Mastering

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WAVES is the brand new studio album from MAT McHUGH
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released October 1, 2015

all songs written, produced and performed by Mat McHugh
mixed by Ian Pritchett @ Noisegate & Ras Mateo @ Real Love
mastered by Matthew Gray @ Matthew Gray Mastering

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