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Intro
01:44
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We try to separate
Ourselves from what we’ve made
We live an honest life
We can’t go back in time
We try to justify
Our self-entrapping style
We’re born with boundless minds
We feel the stress
(To my grave)
So lie through your teeth
And lead me direct to my grave
Lie like you mean it
(Where in the world did they get that idea?)
Work ’til you die
(Where in the world did they get that idea?)
Waste your whole life
Translucent lies
Pollute our minds
With ceilings so low
Where’s the reason to fly?
So lie through your teeth
And lead me direct to my grave
(Where in the world did they get that idea?)
Work ’til you die
(Where in the world did they get that idea?)
Waste your whole life
And I know that greed’s insatiable
It drives them every day
But true wealth is unobtainable
If you choose to live this way
I’ll never take this from you
I’ll never choose for life to end
I’ll never take this from you
I’ll never choose for life to end
I’ve seen my life flash through my mind
‘Fore I was 21 years old
I’ve seen it all through my father’s eyes
I caught a glimpse of his lonely world
And I’m not saying that every path is right
But I wish we’d keep each to their own
Religion, finances, decisions, romances
How vapid and hollow
How trite, how mis-sold
But who the hell are we to save them from themselves?
(Where in the world did they get that idea?)
Work ’til you die
(Where in the world did they get that idea?)
Waste your whole life
And I know that greed’s insatiable
It drives them every day
But true wealth is unobtainable
If you choose to live this way
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Sane
03:34
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A promise to uphold
Your actions feel controlled
When loyalty’s rewarded
What’s the point in being bold
You’re nothing but your word
Your own desires unheard
This self-inflicted obligation
Moulds you with the herd
This self-inflicted creation
(It calls your name)
This kind of life won’t keep you sane
Can we fix this world?
So plagued by constant debt
A shell, a silhouette
Resigned to find excitement
From some digital connect
The apple of your eye
Your way to justify
A life without a purpose or a meaning
Scream I’m not gonna take this anymore
I’m not gonna take this anymore
These meaningless obligations
(They call your name)
This kind of life won’t keep you sane
Can we fix this world?
Won’t keep you sane
Can we fix this world?
So if this is your only try
Would you be unique
Or will these burdens make you feel small?
And if you had to say goodbye
To that familiar face
Do you believe they’d love you at all?
Love you at all
Well it’s time to break these chains
Well it’s time to break these chains
This kind of life won’t keep you sane
Can we fix this world?
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Anchored
03:38
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From source to sandy shore
This river runs its course
With a path of least resistance
It’s unstoppable
Washed up along the coast
My doubts won’t let me float
No path lain out before me
I’m suffering
As the waves wash over me I’ll know
The tides won’t bring me closer
If I stay stubborn anchored in the ocean
As the waves wash over me I’ll know
The tides won’t bring me closer
If I stay stubborn anchored to the ocean floor
My world proceeds to turn
My skin begins to burn
This static sense of purpose
Is consuming me
Revive my fading dreams
Turn every sail to wind
Discard morose inflictions
The scars marking me
As the waves wash over me I’ll know
The tides won’t bring me closer
If I stay stubborn anchored in the ocean
As the waves wash over me I’ll know
The tides won’t bring me closer
If I stay stubborn anchored to the ocean floor
Your words sound
In deaf ears
I don’t want to hear you as I grow
So I won’t be silent anymore
So take back
Those fake tears
When did you ever care at all?
I won’t be silent anymore
As the waves wash over me I’ll know
The tides won’t bring me closer
If I stay stubborn anchored in the ocean
As the waves wash over me I’ll know
The tides won’t bring me closer
If I stay stubborn anchored to the ocean floor
Anchored to the ocean floor
Anchored to the ocean floor
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Drifting
03:53
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(I feel you drifting away) (x2)
One step too far
I’m in suffering
So close to giving in oh
So tell me I’m wrong
Tell me I’m wrong
You’ll never know
What you mean to me
Or what we could have been oh
My weakness prolonged
Weakness prolonged
We sell our souls to the highest bid
And we encounter more thieves than we know
We sell our souls to the highest bid
I feel you drifting away
(These walls are only built up by ourselves)
Drifting away
(My heart rate set to rise then fall to hell)
One more attempt
At this purgery
This sense of urgency oh
This cleansing of mine
Cleansing my mind
One final step
Try to turn away
Try to turn away oh
Or run back to fight
To seize and ignite
We sell our souls to the highest bid
And we encounter more thieves than we know
We sell our souls to the highest bid
I feel you drifting away
(These walls are only built up by ourselves)
Drifting away
(My heart rate set to rise then fall to hell)
(This song’s for you) (x2)
We sell our souls to the highest bid
And we encounter more thieves than we know
We sell our souls to the highest bid
I feel you drifting away
(These walls are only built up by ourselves)
Drifting away
(My heart rate set to rise then fall to hell)
(This song’s for you)
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World of Ashes
04:06
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Do you ever feel
The most rotten of feelings?
As you drift away your lifetime
Slow and circumspect
Never undermine
The weakness we draw on
As we force ourselves to
Never question what comes next
For the pain we feel now
And all that’s to come
Denial won’t keep you safe
This world of ashes can’t survive
Now the Earth boils
Fuming from your contempt
As the waves loom angry
Growing larger on the sky
But it’s not too late
To pin our eyes open
Privilege and desolation
Walking side by side
For the pain we feel now
And all that’s to come
Denial won’t keep you safe
For the life that you stole
Is yours now to earn
Your riches won’t keep you safe
On the fall of this world
You sat vapid cold
Your ignorance keeps you chained
This world of ashes can’t survive
(Can’t take this back)
The undeniable change
The crippling droughts
It’s now
No shield for such sights
The arctic ice melts
This time
With famine abound
But hope to be found
Can you find it?
As dark days draw in
As humankind dies
Will you save it?
For the pain we feel now
And all that’s to come
Denial won’t keep you safe
For the life that you stole
Is yours now to earn
Your riches won’t keep you safe
On the fall of this world
You sat vapid cold
Your ignorance keeps you chained
Our world of ashes can’t survive
(Can’t take this back)
Our world will fall before your eyes
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Razor's Edge
04:35
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These days
Hurt more than they ever did
With no hope
Nothing left to inspire this
And these chains
They shackle to broken ground
But this way
Seems so closed off this time around
My life
Summarised into vacant words
Is all I hear
Against a background of sufferance
And I’m torn
Between the boy and the man in me
And I’ve learned
The middle ground is just apathy
On this razor’s edge (x2)
And I won’t lose sight
Not one more time
I know my dreams
They’ll rule my life
On this razor’s edge (x2)
One chance
To escape from the tunnel’s eye
As it chokes
Making pinholes of distant lights
And I’m scared
Of the branch that I yearn to ascend
But I know
That I’ll never grow to love the stem
On this razor’s edge (x2)
And I won’t lose sight
Not one more time
I know my dreams
They’ll rule my life
On this razor’s edge (x2)
Life should not be a series of things that you do because they all aim directly at one ultimate goal. No, life should be a series of things that you do at that time in your life, at that moment, because you enjoy them. It’s never too late to decide who you want to be.
And I won’t lose sight
Not one more time
I know my dreams
They’ll rule my life
On this razor’s edge (x2)
I won’t lose sight
Not one more time
I know my dreams
They’ll rule my life
On this razor’s edge (x2)
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8. |
Worth Fighting For
03:15
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Fear from nowhere
Your fickle heart it smothers
Mental warfare
Your power like no other
End this nightmare
These iron bars confine me
And I can’t seem to shake this sinking feeling
So I’ll write this on my chest
And bare it all for the world to see
Though my head knows that it knows best
I’ll let my heart pull the strings for me
(Just admit you’re mine)
Conclude your internal war
(Tell me true this time)
Am I not worth fighting for?
Fear from nowhere
This undefined horizon
Mental warfare
Injected with this bleakness
End this nightmare
Don’t dare to say you love me
‘Cos I can’t seem to shake this sinking feeling
So I’ll write this on my chest
And bare it all for the world to see
Though my head knows that it knows best
I’ll let my heart pull the strings for me
(Just admit you’re mine)
Conclude your internal war
(Tell me true this time)
Am I not worth fighting for?
You fabricate your aims
You clean stains from your name
You do this for yourself
You do this for yourself
You fabricate your aims
You clean stains from your name
You do this for yourself
So I’ll make this choice
I’ll make this end
So I’ll write this on my chest
And bare it all for the world to see
Though my head knows that it knows best
I’ll let my heart pull the strings for me
(Just admit you’re mine)
Conclude your internal war
(Tell me true this time)
Am I not worth fighting for?
So I’ll write this on my chest
And bare it all for the world to see
Though my head knows that it knows best
I’ll let my heart pull the strings for me
(Just admit you’re mine)
Conclude your internal war
(Tell me true this time)
You’re not what I’m fighting for
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This Crushing Fear
03:46
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No more words
We’re not quite dead yet
But you’ve lost grip
On all your common sense
So I’ll sit in my room
And try to drink this pain away
Heavy thoughts
Conspire to plague my mind
And I can only try
To count the times
That I’ve been happy just to know
I’ve kept you safe
‘Cos you are the wind that whispers slowly
Drifting through my swollen lungs
You are the itch that creeps it’s way
To taste like poison on my tongue
Shadows fade but still your shiver
Filters softly down my spine
Like a villain starring in this
Mental relapse pantomime
So I’ll stay right here alone
And you’ll live your life like you’ve got
Nothing left to give
(To live this crushing fear alone)
(To live my life out here alone)
Cut the ties
I’m not justifying
Pain we’ve caused
Without empathising
Passion fled
And only anger fills its place
Speaking falsely
Just to pacify me
Written words
Must come and neutralise me
Pen and paper
And a hold on my own space
So I’ll stay right here alone
And you’ll live your life like you’ve got
Nothing left to give
And though the time will help you through
I know I’m better off than you
To live this crushing fear alone
So let’s get this story straight right now
I never wanted to be turning this pen on you
We’ll escape to better days somehow
But I’m wide awake searching in desperation
So I’ll stay right here alone
And you’ll live your life like you’ve got
Nothing left to give
And though the time will help you through
I know I’m better off than you
To live this crushing fear alone
So I’ll stay right here alone
And you’ll live your life like you’ve got
Nothing left to give
And though the time will help you through
I know I’m better off than you
To live this crushing fear alone
To live my life out here alone
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Colder
03:33
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I’m gonna find you
When there’s nowhere left to keep him
The sour taste of love
Fades slowly when you’re sleeping
Now here’s the question
Is it you or is it me babe?
That drove the wedge into
The paradise we’re keeping
Oh, well imagine
That it’s me who knows
Where you’ve been sleeping
Can you fathom
The consequences
Of selfish reaping
This time
Don’t try and justify the cause
You seem much colder now
Than you have done before
And I can feel this weight
Already breaking all my bones
I feel much colder now
Than I have done before
Than I have done before
Is it so obvious
There’s no-one here to help you
No more regrets ‘cos child
The Lord ain’t gonna save you
Is your perception that to lie
Is an attribute
To peel away my skin
And tinker with my heart true
Oh, well imagine
That it’s me who knows
The tricks that we suffer
Can you fathom
The pain of being
Betrayed by a lover
This time
Don’t try and justify the cause
You seem much colder now
Than you have done before
And I can feel this weight
Already breaking all my bones
I feel much colder now
Than I have done before
Than I have done before
It’s out of the question
It’s out of control
‘Cos you knew it was you
Who could make me feel whole
Don’t try to protest it
Don’t try and break through
‘Cos I’m better than this now
I’m better than you
Don’t try and justify the cause
You seem much colder now
Than you have done before
And I can feel this weight
Already breaking all my bones
I feel much colder now
Than I have done before
Than I have done before
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To the Wolves
04:24
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A steely resolve
And a promise to bear
But you don’t
No you don’t even care
Create your façade
Help me feel like I’m safe
Blur my hindsight
And soothe all my scars
A genuine taste
Leaves me craving for more
Such a comfort
To trust who you are
Light the flame
Fill my veins
Lead me to despair
Lie through life
Kill to thrive
Lead me to despair
So throw me to the wolves
And let me die
A morbid reveal
My surrender so cold
Your intent
Like a spear through my bones
A twisted design
But no different from most
This decay
It pervades
Every weakling it finds
Two faces for every mind
Light the flame
Fill my veins
Lead me to despair
Lie through life
Kill to thrive
Lead me to despair
So throw me to the wolves
And let me die
Light the flame
Fill my veins
Lead me to despair
Lie through life
Kill to thrive
Lead me to despair
So throw me to the wolves
And let me die
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A sycophantic murmur
A view to chasing lies
To follow template footsteps
To lead a vacant life
This solitary struggle
I fear it breaks my bones
To overcome this anguish
To venture far from home
I just tried to chase my dreams
I won’t give up my fight
‘Cos I’ve fire in my eyes
I’d longed for something more
‘Fore I was 21 years old
This pain is yours to take
No more than harrowing mistakes
I’d longed for something more
‘Fore I was 21 years old
So don’t tell me this is life
Another ruthless onslaught
Another minion won
To serve a failing system
So I intend on keeping
One eye open
And one eye shut
I’ll keep your message on my lips
So I won’t taste it on my tongue
I won’t give up my fight
‘Cos I’ve fire in my eyes
I’d longed for something more
‘Fore I was 21 years old
This pain is yours to take
No more than harrowing mistakes
I’d longed for something more
‘Fore I was 21 years old
So don’t tell me this is life
I tried to find
A way to see
The person I
Was meant to be
These words they fall
On fragile scars
And only reinforce the marks
I won’t give up my fight
‘Cos I’ve fire in my eyes
I’d longed for something more
‘Fore I was 21 years old
This pain is yours to take
No more than harrowing mistakes
I’ve longed for something more
Since I was 21 years old
So don’t tell me this is life
So keeping
One eye open
And one eye shut
I’ll keep your message on my lips
So I won’t taste it on my tongue
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