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"PROFESSIONAL PRETENDER" NOW AVAILABLE WORLDWIDE!

We are pleased to announce the worldwide release of our new album PROFESSIONAL PRETENDER, available on February 14, 2012. While there are a number of stores and distributors carrying the new album, we encourage purchases through CD Baby and iTunes -- check out the links below to get your copy today!

Riddle the Sphinx: Professional Pretender (Enhanced)

 

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Hey You

(Riddle the Sphinx)
Written by Christiane Kinney
Well I could just pretend today,
Just pretend that everything’s okay, the way we do.
But I don’t know your eyes today,
And I don’t know that unfamiliar way they stray, they do.
And I know you feel it too …
So I say hey, hey you.  Hey you.  Hey you, hey you.  Hey you, hey you.
 
Well it’s so hard to walk away.
All of the memories hold me one more day, that I stay with you.
But you feel so out of reach, when will you learn to practice what you preach,
And I’d teach you too.
Oh I don’t know what to do, so I say hey, hey you, hey you….
 
It started so beautiful,
Those moments too few.
But couldn’t we be beautiful,
Couldn’t we start anew? 
 
But I know you feel it too, so I say hey, hey you, hey you.
 
Well I cannot pretend today,
Just pretend that everything’s okay, the way you do.

Professional Pretender

(Riddle the Sphinx)
Written by Christiane Kinney and Burgundy Morgan
You love me true, you love me true
How you cherish my name, but
How can it be when your words to me
And your words to her are just the same
 
I wanted you, that boy I knew
True love is forever rare
But you and I with all our lies
We do what we do ‘til we don’t care
 
And all of the world’s a stage,
And all of your words so tender,
I forgot so lost in love that
You were a professional pretender.
And all of the world’s a stage,
And all of your words so tender,
I forgot so lost in love that
You were a professional pretender.
 
My love is lost among the rest
I feel us growing apart
How can you say you love me best
When you drift among so many hearts?
And does she know just where you go
When you’re not in her arms
Does she see you run to me
Does she see through all your many charms?
 
[Chorus]
 
You filled my heart with song
And sunny bright tomorrows
I guess I got it wrong
You left me filled with such sorrow.
So now I must be strong
And build my own tomorrow
I guess it won’t be long,
It won’t be long, before you’re gone, before you’re gone …
 
I love you true, she loves you too
So I’m ending this game
Sometimes you lose, sometimes you choose
Sometimes you live and love and walk away
 
[Chorus]

One Man Band

(Riddle the Sphinx)
Written by Christiane Kinney and Burgundy Morgan
In the orange afterglow
We got lost in Mexico
Didn’t know which way to go
Didn’t really care to know
Couldn’t imagine a finer place
So enchanted with your beautiful face

Every day you filled my heart
Through the joy and sorrow
And in every vibrant start
Not one day was borrowed
No wasted moments in all our days
I will be at your side always

Take me away
I don’t know where we’re going
But I know that we’ll get there someday
So come take my hand
and stand by my side my darling
Don’t want to be in a one man band.

I see many giving up
before love has ended
Shedding brand new tears
Before hearts have mended
But we can have all that is possible
All our life, our dreams and passions are full

[Chorus]

Out of the ocean, out of the blue
On bended knee
Life is not what it seems to be without you

And I can see the light again …

[Chorus]

Don’t want to be one,
No more of this one,
Don’t want to be in a one man band.

Master Plan

(Riddle the Sphinx)
Written by Christiane Kinney
The son you never knew, the child who never grew
I hear him sing so sweetly now
And yet I’m tossed away, morals lost in shades of grey
I find myself just wondering how
the hero makes his trade,
and in the shimmering blade
I see the light shining brightly

Was this all your master plan?
If so, I’ve played the fool too long
Before it’s done, I hope you’ll understand what side I’m on
I’m not a game for you to play,
I am the Queen I’m not your pawn
The rules have changed, the King he draws his sword
and I am gone.

The tower gets so cold, as I watch the days unfold
atonement for my so-called sins
And my mind begins to twitch between laughs and weeping fits,
insanity is caving in
But I rise above this throne,
and my eyes begin to focus
on the light shining brightly

[Chorus]

This life is now my only will,
and my heart beats strangely still as I walk blindly
These lies they penetrate
knowing that they bring my fate, but not too kindly
Heavy toll, to you commend my soul.

[Chorus]

Within Reach

(Riddle the Sphinx)
Written by Christiane Kinney and Burgundy Morgan
The ground below holds no promise
So beautiful up here
Moonbeam on water, the stars beyond
I hope to find you there
Those glimmering shades of radiant light
Beckon from afar
We draw our gaze upwards
I tell you of the stars
 
And I would not trade your dreams for mine
But I hope your heart is where my blaze shown
My wish, for you to travel by my side
And the path still be your own
Just within reach
 
So my promise in every life
The journey beyond adventure
But I must go now before I tire
Will we arrive together?
I was never satisfied to set my sights for their desires
My intent is so much grander, my aspirations so much higher
 
[Chorus]
 
You were closest to my heart’s desire
But can you hold it’s fiercest fire?
 
[Chorus]
 
I understand what moves my spirit
and beautiful thing you are
it would break my heart to lose you
because you didn’t reach for stars
just within reach