I can be bigger Stronger than I thought Fearless and wiser Ready to risk it all I remember well all the wasted years When I believed that I was broken Like a disease it just gets inside And makes you feel like you’re choking When I saw the water rising up I lit a match and burned the boat When nobody heard the cry I survived it on my own And it made me bigger Stronger than I thought Fearless and wiser Ready to risk it all They tell me I’m wrong Chances long gone Stick to the path where I belong But I will be bigger I’ve known it all along I was hitting dead ends in the dark Driving corners like I’m blind Watching every ugly scene replay Trapped in my mind (noo) I saw them try to tear me down Smiling as I bruised Then came the morning I woke up With nothing left to lose And all this pain inside I know you feel it too But I know on the other side Lies a different truth That you can be bigger Stronger than you thought Fearless and wiser Ready to risk it all They’ll tell you you’re wrong Chances long gone Stick to the path where you belong But you can be bigger The trick is holding on And we can be bigger Stronger than we thought Fearless and wiser Ready to risk it all They tell us we’re wrong Chances long gone Stick to the path where we belong But we will be bigger and bigger I’ve known it all along And we will be bigger, bigger Stronger than we thought (noo) Fearless and wiser Ready to risk it all And they tell us we’re wrong Chances long gone Stick to the path where we belong But we will be bigger and bigger The feeling’s growing strong (noo) Bigger (noo) (Bigger, bigger) The trick is The trick is The trick is holding on California Written by: Ally Cribb Performed by: Ally Cribb Engineers: Urmas Soomet, Josh Kelly Produced by: Robert Cribb Guitar: Stan Czajkowsky, Kevin White I whisper your name through the phone I beg you to come back home Unfamiliar laughter drowns out your voice I promise I’m fine on my own I wake in the night just to see If you’re in my room fast asleep The feeling hits me as I open my eyes And see the empty space between you and me Cus’ when a small town boy Loves a small town girl He’s gotta choose between her and his dreams And when a small town boy Leaves a small town girl She’s gotta heart forever ripped at the seams California Oooh Took you from me I gathered your things and I called up your mom I broke down and cried when she told me I’m strong She always said she hoped you’d end up with me But now she says that I should try to move on Cus’ when a small town boy Loves a small town girl He’s gotta choose between her and his dreams And when a small town boy Leaves a small town girl She’s gotta heart forever ripped at the seams California took you away From your life back here in the shadows From our childhood memories When we ran hand in hand Through these streets We swore we’d never leave I still remember the day it all went dark You were throwing your bags in the back of your car And I stood on the steps just to see if you’d turn around But you kept the car in drive and headed straight out of that town Cus’ when a small town boy Loves a small town girl He’s gotta choose between her and his dreams And when a small town boy Leaves a small town girl She’s gotta heart forever ripped at the seams California, ohh I whisper your name through the phone I promise I’m fine on my own

I whisper your name through the phone I beg you to come back home Unfamiliar laughter drowns out your voice I promise I’m fine on my own I wake in the night just to see If you’re in my room fast asleep The feeling hits me as I open my eyes And see the empty space between you and me Cus’ when a small town boy Loves a small town girl He’s gotta choose between her and his dreams And when a small town boy Leaves a small town girl She’s gotta heart forever ripped at the seams California Oooh Took you from me I gathered your things and I called up your mom I broke down and cried when she told me I’m strong She always said she hoped you’d end up with me But now she says that I should try to move on Cus’ when a small town boy Loves a small town girl He’s gotta choose between her and his dreams And when a small town boy Leaves a small town girl She’s gotta heart forever ripped at the seams California took you away From your life back here in the shadows From our childhood memories When we ran hand in hand Through these streets We swore we’d never leave I still remember the day it all went dark You were throwing your bags in the back of your car And I stood on the steps just to see if you’d turn around But you kept the car in drive and headed straight out of that town Cus’ when a small town boy Loves a small town girl He’s gotta choose between her and his dreams And when a small town boy Leaves a small town girl She’s gotta heart forever ripped at the seams California, ohh I whisper your name through the phone I promise I’m fine on my own

He’s lost in a dark place tonight And I don’t know if he can win this fight I know he tries, but he can’t control his mind I close my eyes and pray he’ll be alright Oooooh My faith is fading But ooooh There’s no persuading Why can’t he ever need me Like I need him? So come out of darkness Into the light Feel the fire Open up your eyes Smash the bottle Take my hand Leave it behind Leave it behind Tonight I can feel him putting up a fight Pushing back tears, he begs me to hold on tight But his body betrays what his heart knows is right And as his stare turns cold, we plunge back into night Ohhhhh Voices screeching Ohhhhh But nothing's reaching I hate myself for caring But I still do So come out of darkness Into the light Feel the fire Open up your eyes Smash the bottle Take my hand Leave it behind Leave it behind I miss you in the morning And when the lights go out at night And even when you’re standing here I can’t pull you out alive So come out of darkness Into the light Feel the fire Open up your eyes Smash the bottle Take my hand Leave it behind Leave it behind Tonight

I think it’s time I pack my suitcase And make the bed up nice and neat Will you see my tears as I mouth the words ‘I love you’ As I vanish in a cab down the street At the end of August Hits me harder every year End of August I’d beg, borrow, lie and steal Just to freeze the final moments As the sunset fills the sky Stealing my breath, and giving new life As the airplane wheels life off the ground My heart is sinking fast I swear I see your face from row 18 But time slips away, like sand through the glass It’s the end of August And I’ve gotta go home Sweet months of August The best times I’ve ever known Just to freeze the final moments As the sunset fills the sky Stealing my breath, with you by my side When my plane touches down I’ll wonder what you’re doing And how our lives became so incongruent I miss you already Say you’ll me tomorrow When you wake up And I’m not there But the smell of me hangs in the air And the house feels cold and empty Because it’s the end of August And I’m leaving tonight But when my days get cold I’ll picture you In that South Shore light Back home on Barrington Street My hand in yours Sunset at the waterfront always seemed to be the cure I’m leaving I’m leaving tonight We’ve run out of time

News arrived today I grabbed my phone to call and share But as I dialed your number I remembered you don’t care Those days are long gone When we traded hidden dreams But the impulse lives on Buried in some deep subconscious need It’s a force of habit It’s a reckoning of time You swear you’ve let it go But every now and then you know… Love still lives inside When you made your exit There was nothing left to say Months have passed now And I’ve told myself those years were a mistake I gathered all the photos And threw out the souvenirs Then I woke one day And declared myself finally free and clear But the mind is trickery And the heart can’t see the lies Just when you think you’re done The feeling overcomes… Love still lives inside I wonder if you wonder too In your fortress of solitude Where you build up the walls that hide you from the past And at night before you go to sleep Have you ever once thought of me And tried remembering why we didn’t last It’s a sudden flashback With the power to hypnotize A fragment of memory That reappears right before my eyes In a haze of distance Your smile comes into view Now you’re standing there with open arms Like some haunting deja vu So once again I close my eyes And release you from my mind But as I swear I let you go Deep down somewhere I know Love still lives inside

Meet me late tonight in the old café That’s bathed in harbour lights We’ll speak of long, lost years As the young men sing out Barrett’s Privateers We’ll smell the salt in the air And touch the salt of the earth Time and tide wait for me Where the land meets the sea The undertow will sweep me home Set the clock back in my mind To Halifax time I’ve been so long at bay From the ancient shores That once begged me to stay But now my mind retreats Down the coastline roads Facing due east To feel the salt in the air And touch the salt of the earth Time and tide wait for me Where the land meets the sea The undertow will sweep me home Set the clock back in my mind To Halifax time Time builds walls between our lives And divides us into zones But now I need to cross that line And come home Time and tide wait for me Where the land meets the sea This undertow will sweep me home Set the clock back in my mind To Halifax time

Just give it thirty minutes Or she’ll be shooting holes in the roof I believe in what I don’t see And pray that faith is stronger than the proof She turns her face to the crowd And masks the weight that keeps her down In the time it takes to realize that nothing’s going to change She’s there Asking you to wait So just give it half an hour Before giving her the truth Cus’ I fall back inside my mind sometimes And my eyes start flashing red and blue And I never saw which way the car turned And I never looked her in In the time it takes to realize she’s losing all control She’s there Asking you to wait And now she’s staring at the clock Wondering when it stopped And how to get time back Come back She tries to drown out all the voices But still they’re screaming inside In the time it takes to realize there’s nothing left to win She’s there Asking you to wait