The Navigator
Track List
01 - In the Shadow (feat. Hoyt Carter & I the Ai)
02 - Light Up
03 - The Navigator
04 - Threw a Stone
05 - Sleep
06 - Midnight Dance
07 - As You Healed / The Guide (feat. Dan Russo)
08 - The Great Pretender
09 - Morning Star
10 - Call the Nightingale (feat. Juniper Vale)
11 - In the Shadow of Love’s Shield (feat. Hoyt Carter & I the Ai)
Credits
All mixing done by Vian Izak
All songs written by Vian Izak except “The Navigator” written by Vian Izak and Hein Zaayman and “As You Healed / The Guide” written by Vian Izak & Dan Russo.
All songs produced by Vian Izak except “Midnight Dance” and “The Navigator” produced by Vian Izak & Hein Zaayman.
Strings on “Midnight Dance” and horns on “The Navigator” by Adam Aldo.
All other instrumentation by Vian Izak except percussion on “Midnight Dance” by Hein Zaayman, acoustic guitar on “Morning Star” by Lincoln Mick, and synth keys on “As You Healed / The Guide” by Dan Russo.
Vocals on “Call the Nightingale” by Sarah Jane from Juniper Vale.
Vocals on “In the Shadow” and “In the Shadow of Love’s Shield” by Hoyt Carter.
Backing Vocals on “Midnight Dance” by Sarah Jane from Juniper Vale.
Backing Vocals on “The Navigator” by Hein Zaayman.
Recorded, Mixed, and Mastered at The Kudu Studios, Nashville TN.
Album & Comic art by Hein Zaayman
© 2019 I the AI Records
Lyrics
In the Shadow
When the Queen of Shadow strikes
The Navigator sets right
The lost who fall into night
The lonely in their plight
The Queen never holds her tongue
Hunting you since you were young
All the while Love's constant shield
Kept you safe as you healed
The Captain knows your true name
And never runs from your shame
He sets stars up as your guide
And drives the darkness from your side
So face the beasts of life
Stand do not take flight
You're not alone
In this fight.
Light Up
Please straighten my roads 'cause death will be my final home
And release my spirit from this world
Through the darkness I crawl but my heart still silently calls
So light up and let me grow
Pull me into the new and out of the old
Yea light up and let me grow
I am breaking the wings the wings of this soul
When I was a child my sins were all small
Everything manageable but now I'm just losing control
They say pray fall to your knees
I repeat and repeat but the wickedness seems not cease
The Navigator
Oh I left a light on
With my heart in the right place still I did the wrong
And Lord send the lifeboats
With my brother on my back I'll walk into the storm
Pray that a better man than me brings him home
Let love be left uncharted
Leave your navigator home
And sail your ship through breathless waters
Love lies at the edge of hope
At the edge of hope
At the edge of hope
And oh you gave me all
All the sweetness that I breathed in through my mouth
And Lord after the fall
Yea my legs were weak and my heart was beating loud
Teach me to be a better man than I am now
Threw a Stone
I will keep all the doors closed
There are ghosts, there are ghosts, there are ghosts when you're gone
So I'll pick myself off the floor
My heart is yours, my heart is yours, take it all, take it all
I threw a stone through the window to the outside
You beckon me on from the window to the outside
I will feel hopeful again
You pulled me out, you pulled me out, you pulled me out from my own end
Where I threw a stone through the window to the outside
You beckon me on from the window to the outside
Sleep
Is hope just a far away dream
A story to help me sleep
Where are you in all this where are you
Is love just something I say
When the loneliness makes me afraid
Where are you in all this where are you
Sleep, darling, just sleep
In the morning we'll wake up and see
Sleep, darling, just sleep
In the morning we'll wake up and see
Now my dreams have all come true
Oh the novelty of losing the new
Where are you in all this where are you
Where are you in all this where are you
Midnight Dance
If I could just get out I would
But I'm caught in a trap of words
If I could just be like you I would
But perfection's not in the cards I've looked
So give me one more chance at love
I can do better than this let's rewind
Give me another midnight dance
'Cause your hands look so much better wrapped in mine
If I could take you to the edge of the world
And what you sway as the heavens all unfold
If I could take you to where the seasons find their colors
And bathe our bodies in the clearest of their waters
As You Healed / The Guide
Here I am
Oh, my heart is open
Love can stand
Only when I broken
Here I am
I can do no other
Life is grand
Even though I suffer
Though I am lost
I've never really gone too far
By waves I'm tossed
But they have never moved the stars
The stars, the stars
Yahweh you're my star
The stars, the stars
You're my guiding star
As time goes
Shadows grow longer
My heart flows
Looking for love as I wander
Here I am
Oh, my heart is open
Love can stand
Only when I broken
The Great Pretender
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Morning Star
The ocean took me and I floated away
Left where the light shone to the chaos of the fray
And I fall in love over and over again
Where is my heart it's not in my chest where did I leave it
You are my morning star
I can't see this darkness fade 'till I know where you are
You are my morning star
And I feel old grey but I know you won't be long
The lighthouse goes out in my soul when you go
The sight of old ghosts and the beauty of scars and the wonders of love
Call the Nightingale
Call the nightingale
There is heartache in this town
And the stars are just old lights
I can see them falling down
I'm not scared of the dark
It's been less bite and more bark
I'm not scared of the end
Life always begins again
Call the nightingale
There is heartache on your lips
And your heart's a foreign house
And your soul is full of rips
But don't be scared of the dark
It's been less bite and more bark
Don't be scared of the end
Life always begins again
With the songs of nightingales
With the songs of nightingales
In the Shadow of Love’s Shield
All the while love's constant shield kept you safe as you healed (As you healed)
All the while love's constant shield kept you safe as you healed (As you healed)
All the while love's constant shield kept you safe as you healed (As you healed)