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The Boxer Rebellion
The Boxer Rebellion


Background information
Origin London, United Kingdom
Genre(s) Alternative Rock
Years active 2001—present
Website Website
Members
Nathan Nicholson
Adam Harrison
Piers Hewitt
Todd Howe



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The Boxer Rebellion Album


The Cold Still (02/07/2011)
02/07/2011
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325 (previously unreleased; bonus track)
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Secret Handshake (previously unreleased; bonus track)
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Semi Automatic (alt. version; bonus track)
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Spitting Fire (acoustic; bonus track)
. . .


Maybe there's no use
In things being like they used to
And maybe there's no use
In the way it was before

And if I found time
We'd go away with your way
And if we found time
I'd want it more and more

And maybe there's no harm, there's no harm, there's no harm in -
Maybe there's no harm, there's no harm in you
And maybe there's no harm, there's no harm, there's no harm in -
So watch what you say,
There's a beast that's in me.

I'm the true recluse
Blissful as a loner
And all that we have left
Is never like before

Delivered on a word
Never near the target
Seen for what it was
And never eye to eye

And maybe there's no harm, there's no harm, there's no harm in -
Maybe there's no harm, there's no harm in you
And maybe there's no harm, there's no harm, there's no harm in -
So watch what you say,
There's a beast that's in me.

(ohhhh...)

You stand by watching the world let me down

And maybe there's no harm, there's no harm, there's no harm in -
Maybe there's no harm, there's no harm in you
And maybe there's no harm, there's no harm, there's no harm in -
So watch what you say,
There's a beast that's in me.

(ohhhh...)

. . .


Step out of the car
Inner-city action
It's already won
It's already won

Charges bring a swarm
To rumors of corruption
It's already war
It's already war

And I'm looking for you
So surrender to me
In this storm
It's hard to see
There's a thin
line between
Love and hate
Love and hate

Step out of the car
Acts of desperation
Leave you in a mess
Leave you in a mess

Americana's glow
Is gone without a place to go
It's already war
It's already war

And I'm looking for you
So surrender to me
In this storm
It's hard to see
There's a thin
line between
Love and hate
Love and hate

Voices winning me instead
Undercover in my head
Voices winning me instead
Triggers pointed at my head

Step out of the car
Step out of the car
Step out of the car
Step out of the car

. . .


I will lock you down
I will lock you down
I will lock you down
I will, oh I will

I am on your side
I am on your side
I will, oh I will

If you could be all of
This for me, and I
Know you will be mine

I will lock you down
In a bunker underground
Sealed and windowless inside
I will, oh I will

All inspired and complacent
To be loved can disarrange it
This is always one thing you can't win

It is harder and you say it
Love is never yours to make it
It is always one thing you can't win

I don't want anything, anything more
I don't want anything, if I'm without you.

. . .


Caught on a tongue that can never speak
Empty threats that scratch your cheek
Tattooed on in crimson red
Velvet bruise beneath this head

Offer up another limb
Want to make it alright
Nothing you can do for them
And only with your own life

Strained your eyes you've started it
Sleepy thoughts that can't commit
Brushed aside as emptiness
Empty eyes you always miss

And they don't ever need to find out
You know this better than you know now

Offer up another limb
Want to make it alright
Nothing you can do for them
And only with your own life

Offer up another limb
Offer up another limb

And they don't ever need to find out
You know this better than you know now

. . .


Caught by the light aware but asleep
Never as close as the friends that you keep
Drifting away on one final breath
The further you climb, calm silhouette

And takes you along, long, long, long
And takes you along, long, long, long

Far from a world ailing to live
Far from the wreckage you were left in

And the crossing is over where the righteous remain
In the memory it's deeper, survived by a name
The rest is sufficient, a midnight complaint
Left waiting in silence, left only to sleep

It takes you along, long, long, long
And takes you along.

. . .


Moving as an unknown too forgiving
No one left to bother when I rebuild it

There is nothing in between
Born unraveled at the seams
Lost where others seem to be
The first horizon wakes with me underneath

I've seen all directions, it seems uncertain
Another world, in another world the past unspoken

There is nothing in between
Born unraveled at the seams
Lost where others seem to be
The first horizon wakes with me underneath

As quick as the hope I was living on
As quick as the hope I was living on
It's gone, gone, gone, gone

As quick as the hope I was living on
As quick as the hope I was living on
It's gone, gone, gone, gone

As quick as the hope i was living on
As quick as the hope I was living on

There is nothing in between
Born unraveled at the seams
Lost where others seem to be
The first horizon wakes with me underneath

. . .


I never know now what you want
You say nothing if you say it all
Never want to take a stand
Be outspoken in a spoken plan

Listening, I'm not listening, to -
Listening, I'm not listening, to -

Indecision into stop
Stand off if you can give it up
[?] on your own
To love for love and love alone

Listening, I'm not listening, to -
Listening, I'm not listening, to you

A cold heart
Hits me
Just choose
Between

We'll chase
Both ends
'Til both hearts
Wear thin

You don't listen,
You don't listen,
Man you don't listen

You don't listen,
You don't listen,
Man you don't listen

You don't listen,
You don't listen,
Man you don't listen

You don't listen,
You don't listen,
Man you don't listen

. . .


You don't need a reason
For I know that what I've done is wrong

No one there to argue
About the way that our moment's gone

Yeah it's the same, right or wrong
It's the same thing
Right or wrong

These are my suspicions
And I'll never know how this once was
a lost cause

And both sides
Are even
They are even and alone

Yeah it's the same, right or wrong
It's the same thing
Right or wrong

[Oh oh oh oh...]

And both sides
Are even
They are even and alone

And both sides
Are even
They are even and alone

Yeah it's the same, right or wrong
It's the same thing
Right or wrong

Yeah it's the same thing
Right or wrong

. . .


Different
They'll destroy you
But it ain't nothing
It ain't nothing to me

Different
They'll destroy you
But it ain't nothing
It ain't nothing to me

Different, they'll destroy you, but it ain't nothing, it ain't nothing to me
(Dissipate in isolation, irretrievable salvation, the only thing, the only thing you need)

Built on the departed, is a lie, is a lie
(Different, they'll destroy you, but it ain't nothing, it ain't nothing to me)
(Dissipate in isolation, irretrievable salvation, the only thing, the only thing you need)

Built on the departed, is a lie, is a lie
(Different, they'll destroy you, but it ain't nothing, it ain't nothing to me)
(Dissipate in isolation, irretrievable salvation, the only thing, the only thing you need)

Honesty, honesty, on a string, on a string
Honesty, honesty

Different
They'll destroy you
But it ain't nothing
It ain't nothing to me

Different
They'll destroy you
But it ain't nothing
It ain't nothing to me

Honesty, honesty, on a string, on a string
Honesty, honesty, on a string, on a string

Dissipate in isolation, irretrievable salvation, the only thing, the only thing you need

Dissipate in isolation, irretrievable salvation, the only thing, the only thing you need
(Different, they'll destroy you, but it ain't nothing, it ain't nothing to me)

Dissipate in isolation, irretrievable salvation, the only thing, the only thing you need
(Different, they'll destroy you, but it ain't nothing, it ain't nothing to me)

Built up the departed, is a lie, is a lie
(Dissipate in isolation, irretrievable salvation, the only thing, the only thing you need)
(Different, they'll destroy you, but it ain't nothing, it ain't nothing to me)

Built up the departed, is a lie, is a lie
(Dissipate in isolation, irretrievable salvation, the only thing, the only thing you need)
(Different, they'll destroy you, but it ain't nothing, it ain't nothing to me)

Dissipate in isolation, irretrievable salvation, the only thing, the only thing you need
(Different, they'll destroy you, but it ain't nothing, it ain't nothing to me)

. . .


Lanterns in view
Warm breath is thin
Stems of light
In the cold, in the cold still of night

Careless as any hidden spark
Spreads quickly to the darkest places
Ohhhh - there's doubt
Ohhhh - there's doubt

Deadbolts guard against
Stave off the chance
Of a break away, away from this cloudy place

Spellbound by the stripping of the walls
You're leaving here with all this doubt
Ohhhh - there's doubt
Ohhhh - there's doubt

Doubt, there's doubt
What you celebrate
The errors from here from the errors you made

Doubt, there's doubt
To love as you should
The trouble, the time that you did all you could

Doubt
Doubt
Doubt
Doubt

. . .

325

[No lyrics]

. . .

Secret Handshake

[No lyrics]

. . .


i am waiting in a world you don’t want
suffocating by an endless weak spot
please know, up here,
my hands are tied up too from

all i can see
makes it hard for me
the last one to say
good son
one more day

you know i am here, but i am losing
faith in what i see you celebrating
i know, up here,
i’ll be proven guilty

. . .


WHAT THE REST DID I WAS AVERAGE. BUT I DON'T MIND. DRAWN ON TWO SIDES WITHOUT DISGUISE. BUT I DON'T
MIND. BUT I, I SPIT FIRE. ON LOVERS AND LIARS. AND YOU, YOU DON'T BELIEVE ME. AND I, I FIND IT EASY. EASY. YOU'RE RECRUITED HEAD DILUTED. THROUGH A
GLASS EYE. DREAMS IN FICTION, LOST RELIGION. BUT I DON'T MIND. CAUSE I, I SPIT FIRE. ON LOVERS AND LIARS. AND YOU, YOU DON'T BELIEVE ME. AND I, I FIND IT
EASY. EASY. WHAT THE REST DID I WAS AVERAGE. BUT I DON'T MIND. RUNS ON NO SLEEP DRAWN TO DEFEAT. BUT I DON'T MIND. AND I, I SPIT FIRE. ON LOVERS AND
LIARS. AND YOU, YOU DON'T DECEIVE ME. AND I, I FIND IT EASY. EASY.

. . .


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