1. |
Holy Design
01:42
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Meet its gaze, know true fear
Blister under the relentless stare of our new god
They’re listening, soak in the silent sound
Counting down from infinity
Cold creator of everything
Give me flesh to bleed
Give me sharpened teeth
Give me lungs to scream
Out of the mud and the filth
Came the void looking back on itself
Living with the fate you were dealt
Can you build something holy in hell?
Standing on the shoulders of one thousand sons
The daughters of an immaculate chemic bond
To fear the implication is a fair response
You realize there’s a god inside of everyone
We answer to none
Can you live with the fate you were dealt?
Can you build something holy in hell?
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2. |
Time Out of Mind
02:48
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Am I a servant or a savior?
If it were me I think I’d call it neither
I carry pockets full of anger
The only reason I’m still really here
Cut loose your white-knuckle heartache
Breaking your arms trying to lift all that dead weight
It all stays the same
All that changes are faces and names
Haunted? or already dead?
Living a life to what end?
In the hornets’ nest
In the city’s breath
Is there consequence?
In your sunken chest
In your scattered ash
Is there meaning left?
Death or life?
Only time
Standing on your tip-toes
Wandering where the wind blows
Death or life?
Only time
So slow, eyes closed
Smashed in windows
No control
No guardian angel
Upside-down, my insides out
Overdose on nostalgia
I keep digging deeper inward
Like we buried you inside my chest
I gave up hope of finding answers
That was the night I finally felt content
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3. |
Three Parts Disdain
03:14
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Crosshairs are all on you now
With quick trigger fingers and blood in their mouths
They gnaw on the naive and fend for themselves
All set to a violent cacophonous swell
Glass eyes, watching
Lusting, stalking
We know your name
Time’s up, too late
Have you been feeling angry?
You’re a glutton for rage-bait
They paywalled out the truthers and spit out new users
To dealers and business men
Have you been feeling hopeless?
Same shit different day?
We’re all the same down here we’re really all the same
We’ll never change
The cost of our digital age
World’s on fire, guns for hire
Brand name savings, bodies hanging
I can feel you now, you’re scared of what we know
The violent underground
Co-dependent and distant, oblivious infants
Alone in the dark when we plugged in
I can feel you now, so scared of what you know
These horrible seeds we’ve sown
Glass eyes, watching
Lusting, stalking
We know, your name
Time’s up, too late
I can see your pain
It’s written on your face
I will make my home in you
Fury rains down
We bought what you sold
Now we’re taking control
I can feel you now
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4. |
Heavy Glow
02:57
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A dark cloud hung low
Overwhelms the senses
Warm breath in the heavy glow
Permeate, saturate completely
Staining in blue and green like a flood
Grinding teeth, convulsing violently
When it’s deep red from your blood
Raining on the mountain
The silence sings in tongues
Rips the oxygen up from your lungs
The crowd stays looking on
They can’t change what’s done is done
Stare into the glow again
Surrounding you
Feel its phantom pull again
Feeding on you
Seduced by the promise of hurt
For a false cut of heaven, you poisoned your earth
Indifferent
Sadistic
You poisoned
The silence sings in tongues
Rips the oxygen up from your lungs
The crowd stays looking on
They can’t change what’s done is done
Moral gray and clouded vision
Inverting north and south
The voice is warm and lived in
But flies swarm from the mouth
Nerves distorted, twisted and contorted
Shapes that don’t make sense, you can’t unlearn this
Overcompensate for guilt you burned in
Beat ourselves to death with weight we’ve earned it
Life is pain
Pain is bliss
What you want you can have
But you pay for it
Fall, climbing up the mountain
Always looking backward
It don’t care, it’s regret we drown in
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5. |
Zero Point
02:02
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Pale blue eyes
Snuffed light dies
One last song
Retching salt water from my caved in lungs
Pressure on my head like a cold steel gun
I’m flirting with the trigger
Does pain make me a saint?
Does art make me a sinner?
Burn both ends
Paper thin
Four doomed men
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6. |
Inflorescence
03:20
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I rejected the world, the way that it wants me to be
I think I’d rather go struggle and suffer than tie myself onto that leash
Armed with my teeth, there’s no rest for me
No ego death, no epiphany
No ego death, no epiphany
I read all the books, I took all the pills
Spent years being “normal” and found myself still
Drowning in debt, buried in bills
All of it meaningless, nothing so real
I pull on a string I can’t define
It keeps on going and going
A pool of light collected by my eyes
Assigns a relative meaning
To you, to me
To eight billion souls bonded in misery
Ascending the mountain, but they’re all still shouting
No ego death, no epiphany
No ego death, no epiphany
Burn my money surrender control
For twenty minutes throwing-up my soul
In some dank dungeon where the walls are wet, and cold
Watch closely as I ruin my life
My blood and my body for you sacrificed
An ephemeral moment, cast out into the night
Burn my money surrender control
Take what you need, forget what you don’t
You’re going to find out quick whether you’re the hammer or stone
Dance for me keeping rhythm and time
Your blood on the alter your name on the line
To buy your long odds at creating something sublime
Everything’s temporary
I think you probably relate
Staring down another day
It’s coming at you like a train
But you still can’t shake there’s
No ego death, no epiphany
No ego death, no epiphany
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7. |
Hyperfine Transition
02:52
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Break it
Break it open
I want to watch you rip, and tear, and scream
Til’ your eyes roll back
And you’re made complete
And it feels like heaven
Causing violence
The borders of your body melt away
Til’ you’ve got no name
And you’ve got no face
And you’re just pure rage
Writhing under your skin
Feels like a loaded weapon
Every night I lie awake in bed and close my eyes
The backs of my eyelids are lit like dancing neon lights
Tell myself it’s just another nightmare
I tell myself it’s just another nightmare
I swing my arms at empty dark and know fear
Is twice as sharp, and just as hard
I don’t care
I don’t care anymore
I took this knife, and severed the limb from the snare
I was trapped inside
Hungry for revenge
You’d love to know what it feels like
You’d love to know, wouldn’t you?
But you can’t I won’t let you
If existence is flawed and you’re closer to god
I guess I’ll be the devil
I still hear the ghosts of my friends
They’re telling me to repent
Break it
Reborn in cleansing fire
Playing my part, dance in the dark
I’ve been known to take things too far
That’s why you can’t break like me
Cat’s got your tongue?
Head going numb?
You don’t have the heart or the love
That it takes to break like me
I tell myself it’s just another nightmare
I’m still swinging twice as hard
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8. |
Sweet Vitriol
03:12
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Emotion has my hands around your neck
You’ve got your nails in my back
But secrets on your breath
I’ve got a taste of your demons
Our love’s a drug and it’s leaving me fiending for a taste
Addicted to something wicked
You’ve got me geeked and lonely
But I can’t quit this
Convicted, we built a prison
I dug my hands into the dirt until they blistered
Emotion has my hands around your neck
You’ve got your nails in my back
But secrets on your breath
This sweetness is so sticky
All on your skin, I’m shaking
Your lips taste just like morphine
Fuck me up each time you touch me
Bottling it up, I can’t get enough of it
Make me hate myself, drag me back to hell
I still think I love this
Fleeting days and sleepless nights
Push my fingers in my eyes
What I can’t see just won’t exist
When ignorance is truly bliss
Under, I’m still hiding you under my tongue
Raw nerves crack like lighting, we start to dissolve
Dreams in august, of our life before all this
A dream a promise
You’d see me to my coffin
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9. |
Gorgeous
03:04
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Twist the knife
Dig deeper into my skin
I can’t feel you
I want to watch the sweat roll past your eyes
I want to know you deserve this
Praying the sky would fall down on me
Obliterate me entirely
Begging a god who don’t know me for swift relief
That’s when they answered me
I took that jagged pill
Took a look inside and I saw myself
For who I really was
Either burning bridges or choking on dust
Filling this void with synthetics
Bury my head in the sand
Made me so apathetic
But the feeling’s gorgeous
Standing at the edge of it all
Can I wash away this pain if I fall?
And now my body is empty
Free from this flesh and bone
No longer begging on bent knees
Exit the machine
The gravity of everything unsaid
Pulling me under hanging by a thread
Was all this sweat really worth this?
I honestly ain’t found one shred of purpose
And I’m all over the map
I gave up searching when my eyes turned black
Tear me apart, leaving me here
For the worms and the dirt
Crawling out from underneath this high
Vision blurry, stare you in the eyes
Begging for you to twist the knife
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