A Soldier's Fortune, by Echopeople

A Soldier's Fortune

by Echopeople

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1.	I Am 02:47	lyrics	buy track
I Am (Waiting) I’ve been waiting so long (I am) I’m not dead or alive (Limbo) Static life killing me (Future) Take me in your embrace (I see) What I will become (Better) Once I take the next step (I can) Overcome the stagnant (I am) In control of my world Time to move on Change has to come (Waiting) I’ve been waiting so long (Time now) Time to get this show on (Limbo) Static life I will break (Future) Life is mine to be made
2.	Killing Machine 04:50	lyrics	buy track
Killing Machine I met a friend, a man in green Teach me to be all I can be Come see the world, grand adventure And so began my endenture He taught me how, to do my best Turned me into one like the rest A weapon now, hand of freedom Is what I am what I’ve become They taught me how I could be better to deal with pain I became stronger, if less than sane They gave me new power, identity I still can’t tell what it did or what they made me They gave me a gun and a pack said go get ‘em kid You’re made for taking lives now Before just a man with a dream that was Living my life how I want it to be Transformation, life I’ve given A new feeling, lives I’m taking Killing Machine I can’t believe Must kill or die I’ll stand in the end I put my fears to rest I’ve been trained by the best Animal instinct in me To join in the bloodbath I’m ready to kill so they’re telling me So they are telling me They made me now I have to live with this life That they gave to me They made me they made me Now I’m taking lives for them do what I’m told to do—anything They made me they own me
3.	Hard Rock, Rock, Echopeople - Sons and Daughters 03:27	lyrics	buy track
Sons and Daughters Chasing ghosts through the sand Seeking answers in the heat Find out all I am A knife in someone’s hand Sons and daughters Is this how we win? Living nightmare in this land Haunting friend and enemy Destroying all life now The lies are carried on Sons and daughters Is this how we win? The judgment is passed The barrel still smokes As one life will end Another finds pain Why do we fight, I don’t wanna die I don’t wanna kill I just wanna go home
4.	Never Thought 03:54	lyrics	buy track
Never Thought Was a time in my life when I thought I knew What the future was supposed to be But I look around and see reality Shifting like the sand under my foot I came to this place to change my life A purpose to find Naïve in my youth what I didn’t know I followed the blind I never thought, never thought about it I wanted to make a better life Then punching a clock But never wanted to take a life What did I expect? Never thought about, never thought about it When the moment came, it was all to late It was what I did, what I had to do Tell myself a lie, it was me or him My destiny shed this blood on my hands That I can’t remove But how does my life turn out from here In destiny’s hands Now I fall apart…
5.	No One But Me 04:38	lyrics	buy track
No One but Me I see me in the eyes of the world Find my way made mistakes on my path Fear I’ve known but the boredom was scarier No escape don’t wanna be that way Cos I’ve made my own decisions Look for a better way No One but me Decided to do all this Wanted to try, try to live my life I can’t blame Anyone else for this That what I have done came from No one but me Can’t take back all the damage I’ve caused Must move on when there’s no going back I can’t see any good that will come of this No use in pulling wool over my eyes Cos I’ve made my own decisions Look for a better way I stumbled right out of the gate of this life By living it day to day I see me in the eyes of the world Find my way made mistakes on my path Can’t take back all the damage I’ve caused Must move on when there’s no going back
6.	Home 05:17	lyrics	buy track
Home No one ever told me I’d turn out like this No one ever said I’d bear these scars forever But when they said I could go home again I realized that home ain’t home no more Dreams of my past create my walls today Want my life back, but what remains? I can’t have it, it isn’t there What’s left for me at home? Learn to live, all in me To be strong, be strong Don’t know if I can be The sun would rise to the fight in front of me I felt a part of something brave and noble But then the sun set to reality My eyes held open saw insanity Look here, look there The echoes follow me No shelter, can’t find it The echoes follow me At home can, I make them The echoes fade away But always, come back now Tear me up, consume me The echoes breaking me Don’t know who I am now The echoes taking me Must find it, some comfort The echoes take from me I’ll live it, I live it The echoes shape my days
7.	Focus 03:57	lyrics	buy track
Focus I was wasting time, but I didn’t know Because I thought I’d found a better path to my life I began to see a little clearer when I got a real glimpse of life It caught me lookin’ the wrong way Told myself it was ok Try to turn the right way It can’t wait another day Now I see it—once I find it, keep the focus Make me feel it—lost it once, never again no Sometimes it’s hard to see with open eyes When every thing I see is filled with grief It gets so easy, to tell me the lies That let me shove my head into the sand Tell me I fight the right fight It seems to turn from black to white No matter what I do or say It can’t wait another day
8.	Echo 06:01	lyrics	buy track
Echo Lifetimes past there was A child in this wide world On a course was unaware An innocent, Who chose a role to lead Into another life Life had beat him down Had to run away Where to go and what to Do he never knew Wind of Time carries his voice These echoes are eternal His voice is heard His love the tears he cried Hopes and dreams attained and lost A voice that’s one in a Sea of billions Face infinity alone He is the soldier who died on the field She is the mother can’t care for her kids He is the peasant who lost all his land She is the queen who was poisoned by friends They are the children who lived life as a slave They are the men who would fight back the beast These are the fools who took up the fight These are the echoes of humankind

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released September 18, 2007

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Echopeople Reno, Nevada

After years in various bands, Echopeople creator Ben Holsclaw began writing and recording music that represents the style of music he grew up with. In 2007, Echopeople released A Soldier's Fortune. The latest release, Seven Years Later shows an evolution in songwriting and presents musical themes that pay tribute to influences like Iron Maiden, Anthrax, Rush, Coheed and Cambria, and Lacuna Coil. ... more

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