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World On Fire

by The Ahab Dilemma

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1.
Go 05:01
Sleepless nights... Something ain’t right Can’t stop the feeling That this time you just might Follow on through And just go And I’m not sure that it wouldn’t be best Cause the level of stress is killing us both In and out of your love Used to fit like a glove Now it’s choking me out But I can’t shake the feeling You won’t be leaving Unless I give you a shove Now I must consider The price if I deliver The final blow Just one more step before it’s over (One more step to go) Do I really want what I want? You to go Just one more step and it’s all over (One more step to go) Do I really want to let you go? Just one more step and it’s over (One more step to go) Do I really want what I want? You to go
2.
The morning framed the frozen moon, While this world’s in flames; But I know that someday soon We will all aspire To rise together from this World on fire. What sort of man can I be From deeper down inside of me? But I know that someday soon We will all aspire To rise together from this World on fire.
3.
Waiting 05:46
I see your face pop up on my cell phone, as you call Trying to get a message through I feel my heart start breaking as the longing comes I want to hold you but you’re gone I’m not sure that I can face the day alone Though I know you’re already on your way home And I pray to whatever might be listening, and beg for your safe return Just a few more hours and I’ll get to hold you and Start another perfect evening Doesn’t matter what we do cause what makes it perfect is being together with you Every car sounds like that Chevrolet Maybe I’ll check under your hood today Baby I can tune you up like nobody else can I’ve always been good with my hands Can I help it I don’t think that I can The biggest part of me is being your man That may be all that’s left of who I am The waiting Feels like it’s never going to end Haunted by a temporal anomaly Deja’ vu’ all over again I’ll forever be waiting...for you Took you half past forever just to make your way but I hear you pull up into the driveway I still have a belly full of butterflies Even after all this time I meet you at the door and try to take you coat You can’t wait to put your arms around me My heart starts breaking as I realize You’re going right back out again The waiting Feels like it’s never going to end Haunted by a temporal anomaly Deja’ vu’ all over again I’ll forever be waiting...for you I’ll be waiting I’m waiting The waiting Feels like it’s never going to end Haunted by a temporal anomaly Deja’ vu’ all over again I’ll be waiting I’ll be waiting I’ll be waiting I’ll be waiting...for you
4.
Without you, I am most alone Yet somehow, I have wandered far from home. I can’t undo what I have done Just like I can’t stop the setting sun. I’m convicted, but can I be atoned, For reaping all the toxic seeds that I have sown? I should have sought to walk along the higher road When I had the chance to take it… But now that chance is gone. Is there any good inside of me? If I reach out, will you take my hand And find a way to set my angel free? Has my destiny already been foretold? Is it pointless to try and breakout from the mold? I’m knocking on your door, waiting for your answer… Do you know? You see, I’m dangerously close to the bone. Dangerously close to the bone.
5.
Another year’s gone by and it’s time to celebrate All the love were still feeling for each other And in the evening when you sit there looking gorgeous I remember why this feeling still brings me to my knees After all this time of being by my side You still look at me like I’m the best man in the world Don’t save it all Darling don’t save it all I’ve been saving all my loving for you darlin And I know that you’ve been doing the same And when we get away together all alone They’ll be time enough to share…share those things together But tonight I might not have the strength To wait another moment to draw you close to me Don’t save it all Let’s come together now I just can’t stay away from you tonight I need to feel you touch me Like nobody else ever could Happy Anniversary baby You know I love you
6.
In The Quiet 04:01
I can tell that your thoughts are troubled Though you might not want to say. Come sit and tell me, little darling, What’s vexing you today? Since you were born, I’ve been bound and determined To help you find your way. You can be sure, even when my life is over, My spirit’s here to stay. So, when you see that new sun rising; Giving light to the day’s horizon – Never doubt that my spirit will be there. Just listen for the river’s ramble; The brushing deer in the woodland’s bramble. In the quiet of each moment, I’ll be there. His true love was taken from this world. Now what was he to do? Then just a glimpse through the eyes of their child; Her spirit shone on through So, when you see that new sun rising; Giving light to the day’s horizon – Never doubt that my spirit will be there. Just listen for the river’s ramble; The brushing deer in the woodland’s bramble. In the quiet of each moment, I’ll be there. People wander round their lives like shadows, We hustle and we bustle pointlessly. Sometimes I can’t imagine why it matters. God, what on earth will ever come of me? So, when you see that new sun rising; Giving light to the day’s horizon – Never doubt that my spirit will be there. Just listen for the river’s ramble; The brushing deer in the woodland’s bramble. In the quiet of each moment, I’ll be there.
7.
I could run around babe Everybody wants me around Make you sit and wonder why I’m never home to hold you tight Leave you lonely.... But you’re the only... The only love I need I could call at midnight Tell you that I’m not coming home Party every night Treat you wrong and make you cry Leave you lonely... But you’re the only Love of my life I want you baby Yes, it’s true baby I’ll be here when you call me There’s nothing I’d rather do than be loving you I could run around babe Even when you need me around Make you sit and wonder why Not be there to hold you tight Leave you lonely.... But you’re the only... The only love I need Leave you lonely... But you’re the only Love of my life I want you baby Yes, it’s true baby I’ll be here when you call me There’s nothing I’d rather do yah yah I want you baby Yes, it’s true baby I’ll be here when you call me There’s nothing I’d rather do than be loving you
8.
A Whaler’s Lament circa 1850 Tomorrow at daybreak, I must take my leave dear. I’m Atlantic bound From the Nantucket Sound. Out on that whaler I will be sailing To where Leviathan’s found Beyond the Nantucket Sound. Thirst for the whale’s oil, will drive us out farther North of Iceland and ‘round Back to Nantucket Sound. It may be two years’ hence before I return, love; That’s if I haven’t drowned, back to this fisherman’s town On the Nantucket Sound We’ll harass the behemoth until it gives up its ghost to the blue Then hunt 40-some more until the ship’s hull is full. I can’t help but wonder if we’ll cull the great herd to the brink… With such ravenous greed, will this bounty deplete? Now if I could run from this life I am tied to, You know I wouldn’t be found Near the Nantucket Sound I’d take you away, dear; far from this ocean On to happiness found, to a much higher ground, Than the Nantucket Sound But, it’s all that I know – just like my Father before; A treacherous toil, that, alas, I abhor. I am indebted and to the paymaster enslaved. So, what choice do I have but this harpooner’s trade? Dear girl, come the morning, while you lay sleeping ‘Neath the warm eiderdown I’ll be Atlantic bound From the Nantucket Sound
9.
Awaken Sunday morning Wipe all the sleep from your eyes and you Think about it About the feeling The one that tells you who you are and you Start to question Start to wonder How it is you could have fallen I know what it means to have faith I’ve felt the hand of a god Now I see through the illusion There is nothing to fear Awaken From the darkness Come let us reason together Awaken From the dream That kept me blind and confused I know what it means to have faith I’ve felt the hand of a god Now I see through that illusion There is nothing to fear Cause there’s no one there If there is a god He created me Without the faith to continue To believe Without question That he’s really out there Loving And forgiving And reaching out to his prodigal son
10.
Maybe it’s time we turn a new page. Maybe it’s time for some fresh color on the wall. Maybe we’re verging on a new age? Maybe it’s time to listen closer to the call. Maybe it’s time to build a refuge; Now that we’ve burned this whole city to the ground. Maybe it’s time to gather up the stones And pave a wider road we all can travel down. Maybe it’s time, right now While the sun is shining and our feet are on the ground. Maybe it’s time, maybe it’s time Right now. Maybe we’re on the road to ruin; Maybe it all won’t make a difference in the end. But, then again, maybe what we’re doing Will clear a pathway for us to transcend. Maybe it’s time, right now While the sun is shining and our feet are on the ground. Maybe it’s time, maybe it’s time Right now. There’s no use in waiting for a Day that may never come… Alive in this fleeting moment Arise like the Chosen One. Maybe it’s time, right now While the sun is shining and our feet are on the ground. Maybe it’s time, maybe it’s time Right now.

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World On Fire is the debut album of The Ahab Dilemma.

The Ahab Dilemma is a collaborative project by musicians John A. Walsh, Dennis Farrar & Terry McGee.

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released October 2, 2021

All Songs by John A. Walsh, Dennis Farrar & Terry McGee

John A. Walsh: Vocals, Electric & Acoustic Guitars, Slide Guitar, Mandolin
Dennis Farrar: Electric & Acoustic Guitars
Terry McGee: Vocals, Bass, Drums & Percussion, Organ, Electric Guitar, Bodhran

David Tenney: Bass on Sunday Morning

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