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BURN IN THE FLOOD
03:55
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I feel that I’m going round in circles,
Trying to navigate the progress that I’ve made
And It seems I’ve made a map but lost my compass,
Found my sight but lost my focus
The never ending cycle starts again,
Again and again and again
Am I destined to repeat every fault and every fracture that lies beneath my feet?
And I’m questioning every single choice that I’ve made
I guess you can’t fight the shadows when you’re stuck in the shade
To think that I thought we were the same
The same cliche stuck on different pages
You live your life, cascading through fire
Let this rain crash down and wash all over me
Let it soak into my bones, just let it take ahold of me
There’s a fire in your eyes, tells me I am not enough
So hand in hand we go my friend… to burn in the flood
Yeah, we’ll burn in the flood
Blank hollow stare, at this house we called a home
In the middle of this ghost town is where I find my vacant soul
I forget when I was happy and now my outlook feels so bleak
I spend my days lost in a coma and spend my nights just chasing sleep
Is this all that’s left, screaming out my chest,
I thought I’d figured you out, but you were just like the rest,
If this is love then we should cherish it not bury it.
Is this all that’s left, is there no other way out of this mess
I can’t believe, it’s come to this,
A sunken ship steady shrouded in bitterness
We will burn in the flood
So douse me in kerosene, my decision is finite
The embers will rot
Claim waste to our family tree
And though the withered roots still grow deep
The soil is lifeless
Hollowed hearts clenched tight in history
To a family drowned deep in misery
Our foundations have faltered
and branches break under the weight
of a bond made from blood
Hand in hand we roam my friend,
Destined to burn in the flood
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FAILSAFE
03:22
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With courage and a lost cause
I refuse to walk away from destiny
But the guilt keeps rising and its rushing through my blood streams again
Forced to the end of my tether
Damned to embrace the ache cos things aren’t getting any better
No saint, no martyr
Condemned to repeat and render the same mistakes
No valour no honour
Now all hope has faulted but I just can’t let this go
I’m constantly nervous
And I can’t escape it,
Hope I don’t break before I bend
Coz the tick tock of the time bomb clock
Is getting ever so close to the end
I just wanna feel like I’m not broken
Like I’m just wasting my time
Coz I’m starting to believe this dreams a fantasy
That I’ve built up in my mind, it’s got me feeling like
Everyday my head is a battlefield
Both sides waging war on how I’m supposed to feel
I just wanna feel like I’m not broken,
Like I’m just wasting, just wasting my time
So how many times must I calculate a reason for my disillusion
And now that it feels (feels)
Feels like we’ve adapted to chaos, I can’t live without the taste
I’m scared to bite the hand that feeds, but you love to force these words upon me
So go ahead and give me the last line
(you’re preaching to the choir)
’Cos I don’t believe a single word you say
Life plays out like a day dream, contorting reality
Yet my perception remains so clear
Now I’m running out of options, I’m running out of time
And times all that we have left
I’m sick of treading water when this is sinking sand
Trying to keep afloat with concrete for a life raft
and if my days are numbered I think that you should know,
We’re children of the fire and we will always burn
I need you to know
I’m sick of treading water when this is sinking sand
I’ve tried to keep afloat, I need a helping hand
and if my days are numbered I just think that you should know,
We’re children of the fire and we will always burn
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IN RETROSPECT
03:25
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Oh god, it feels like I’m falling apart
And I can’t help but feel, I brought this on myself
Now my eyes are open wide
And as my pupils dilate, I see the reckoning
Try to settle the scales of fight or flight
I just can’t balance the weight, I’ve reached the tipping point
The sands of time beckon me to yield my faith
But I keep asking myself,
If I’m the final piece to this puzzle, why can’t I find my place?
Coming round from a coma, when I wasn’t asleep
Ask myself what the hell happened to the person I used to be
Things have changed on the outside, why am I stuck looking in…
We are the lost and insecure
We are the counter to your clause
Forever falling short, but not far off the mark
(we are the hope you left behind)
Make your stand, take the fall, play your part
You mean more to me that you could ever know
Than you could ever know
Oh God, am I falling apart?
Down but not out
I’ll stand up for myself, hold my head in the clouds
Drown in the drought
My lungs are flooded with reasons that I have to doubt myself
We are the lost and insecure
We are the voice you can’t ignore
We are the sickness and the remedy
Unite in unison, just have a little faith in me
I’m like a fire,
Burning a path through water
Burning a path to you,
You can see this through, just have a little faith in me
I'm living proof that it’s never too late
Avoid the fork in the road, stick to the path you create
And when push comes to shove and you’re ready to break
We can do this together because we’re one and the same.
Now 3 years on, so many things have changed.
I guess I’ve been better, but I’m doing ok
I still feel like winter on a warm summers day
It does get easier with time, but it never goes away…
Now 3 years on, and I’ve grown in so many ways
They sang my songs for you, they were my voice when I was afraid
The beauty in your message has helped to ease so much pain
It does get easier with time, but it never goes away…
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MONARCH
03:35
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Rewind, now play it back,
Let’s raise a glass to the death of everything we had
Yeah rewind, and play it all back
So we can relive the life of an endless anxiety attack
Face to face with the damage I’ve done,
It’s dead behind the eyes
Yet it mirrors all my movements, so delicate and fluent
I’d swear it haunts me every night
I guess I see the irony, oh how the Punishment fits the crime
But whilst I’m shackled to the summit of all my fears and failures,
You’re sinking in the silence of the words you could never find...
Tell me can you feel it,
Now it’s coursing through your skin
so tell me can you feel it,
How these walls are closing in around us
is it just another state of mind or just another tie that binds us to these feelings,
I won’t be the reason that you’ve fallen from grace
Blacked out in the river, and I’m still drowning in the promises I know I can’t deliver,
I never meant to be a sinner, no, but I lose myself through the cracks in mirror
If you need peace of mind, just have a little piece of mine, coz I’m lost out here
To the void of time, you’ve all left me behind
I’ve had this premonition bleed into my visceral vision
I see you for what you truly are... Ghost.
You’re just another ghost
I’ve had this premonition bleed into my visceral vision
I see you for what you really are... you’re a Ghost.
Tirelessly searching for a way to break the chains
That hold you and I to history
So let’s just bury our dead, incite the funeral verse,
I guess it wouldn’t be the truth if it didn’t hurt.
Just hold fast cos this isn’t the end,
Just a path to salvation, without me to hold you back
You’re just another ghost.
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BETTER DAZE
03:50
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I’m alive, and that’s ok, coz we’ve been holding on for the better daze
But I can’t help but feel like I’m still running out of time
Life kicks us to the curb, we’re still swinging
Cos I’ve got a point to prove, I’m not quite done with believing
That I could leave a mark, fix the hole in someone’s heart
You’ll never be alone when you follow me out of the dark
Could I be the compass, could I be the remedy
Let my words be the light, that will guide you home, coz we are a family
I’m alive, and that’s ok, coz we’ve been holding on for the better daze
So we wait for the rain, to wash us away
We could start a brand new chapter
I just pray that my hope and dreams, don’t become the things that only could’ve been (should’ve been)
I guess it plays on mind from time to time, but I think we’ll be alright
Let’s start a movement, let’s raise the stakes, hold our heads high and go face to face
With those who never thought we would amount to anything
Well go ahead and tell me what it’s like to be relevant
We are a movement, and this is a war
Bury your doubt deep underground
It’s time for you to flourish in the hope we’ve found
Heads up, stand your ground, cos we’re not done just yet
I’m alive, and that’s ok, coz we’ve been holding on for the better daze
So we wait for the rain, to wash us away
We could start a brand new chapter
I just pray that my hope and dreams
Don’t become the things that only could’ve been (should’ve been)
I guess it plays on mind from time to time, are we gonna be alright
Don’t paint smiles onto scares that show you are
Cos you can’t fake a perfect picture when you’re stuck the negatives
Don’t develop a complex,
Pain is relative.
The pain is relative
I’ve been so close to the edge but I need you to know
That in my time of need you never, let me go
So I won’t let you go
I’m alive, and that’s ok, coz we’ve been holding on for the better daze
But I can’t help but feel like we’re still running out of time
I’m alive, and that’s ok, coz we’ve been holding on for the better daze
So we wait for the rain, to wash us away
We could start a brand new chapter
I just pray that my hopes and dreams, don’t become the things that only could’ve been (should’ve been)
I guess it plays on mind from time to time
We’re alive and that’s ok, coz we’ve been holding on for the better daze
So let go of the pain that runs through your veins
Cos it doesn’t even matter
It’s sundown on my hopes and dreams, but the morning brings a brand new sense of clarity
I finally know how it feels to feel alive… we’re gunna be alright
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In the wake of oppression, the silence speaks for itself
And yet again we’re met, with the same twisted resolve
White washed with a bitter apology
Years of disdain forced to drown in the shallows
Promised the light but we’re kept in shadow
Altercation in the name of fractured faculties
Led to believe they lead with our best interests
Force fed agenda “Progression is sickness”
Let’s take up arms and draw a line in the sand, cos we will not be silenced
Reckless in a state of disrepair, but yet we’re still singing
“We will not be swayed”
Forever waiting for our happy ever after
“We will not be swayed”
We stand together united for change
A stalemate society always destined to break
But in the wake of oppression, the silence speaks for itself
And after it all
They would have you believe that death was necessary
United they fall
With blood on their hands, they’d rather bury the truth rather than let it all linger
I see the facts slowly slipping asunder
Not gods, not kings,
Just corrupt cowards who created the problem
I won’t stand idly by
And watch history repeat in 20/20 vision
And what gives you the right
To dictate who should live and who should die?
I just don’t wanna be afraid anymore
The times have changed, you gotta hear me out
Late nights, fear the bright lights of curtain call
“Can’t live like this no not anymore”
Centre stage for a better tomorrow
We can’t be allowed to go back
Ever again… Never again
Raise your fists and cast out your pain
Be the voice to action the change
Raise your fists and cast out your pain
Cos things can never be the same again…
I just don’t wanna be afraid anymore
We will not live in fear anymore.
And in the wake of oppression, the silence speaks for itself.
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7. |
OVERCAST
03:42
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Black clouds, rally around
My head like it’s the eye of the storm
Relentlessly cascading through
My better judgment and my thoughts
How I long to free my mind, find clearer skies ahead
Cos if every cloud has a silver lining then by now I should be dead
Hey, Hey, “You better give up the ghost before it’s too late”
But it’s much easier to wallow in modest misery
Hey, Hey, “where’s your self worth?”
About 40,000 fathoms deep buried in dirt
I’ve been coming apart at the seams
Losing track of everything that matters to me
Never did I think I’d become so hollow
I’m not ok and that’s a bitter pill to swallow
It’s overcast, guess I'm back here again
Coz the black clouds overhead just never seem to end
but have peace of mind, in time I’ll be fine with or without you...
When did it become okay to not speak your mind?
“Keep your eyes on the prize kid, bottle it up deep inside”
Cos nobody hears, and nobody’s here,
To help you deal with the fallout,
These things have got to change…
No more, suffering in silence
Call me a skeptic coz I just don’t feel like you.
Where’s the compassion and the kindness?
Nobody’s listening…I’ve reached my breaking point.
I’ve got this feeling like there’s somebody watching me
Setting me up, just to push me back down
But they will all be sorry when we come back around
So I ask myself, where did it all go wrong
I converse with myself like I’m somebody else
It’s been my problem all along
Oh take me back to the days when, I felt I could live and learn
Just what it means to be happy and what it’s like to not hurt.
I’ve been coming apart at the seams
Losing track of everything that matters to me
Never did I think I’d become so hollow
I’m not ok and that’s a bitter pill to swallow
Its overcast, watch me fade to grey
Coz the black clouds over head are here to rain on my parade
But have peace of mind, in time I’ll be fine, with or without you...
So things have gotta change
Things have got to change
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These withered pages of a chapter undone
From the ink of a poison pen spoken by a serpents tongue
It comes in waves, the bitter realisation,
Another day spent in turmoil is nothing more than damnation.
I pray for hope but I can’t help but feeling
If I’m destined to die, then what’s the point in believing
Self deprived in a comatose state
Am I another statistic, another soul for the slate?
Every second feels like a stalemate,
and every movement feels like a mile,
Can I just be alright for a little while?
Can someone tell me how to live like I’m not dying
Coz I’m so afraid to die alone,
Now that I can feel the pressure rising
I cannot afford to lose control
I just need to know that you’re still with me
Cos I couldn’t bear to let you go.
Time is short and life is oh so fleeting
And in the end, we’re all just dust and whispers in the wind
I’ve got a hundred voices in my head,
Should I let them in?
“Don’t do something you’ll regret”
Well I’ve never been fond of the company
Yet another sleepless night
I can’t escape this goddam anxiety,
No matter how hard I try
It’s always been my greatest weakness
Every second feels like a stalemate,
And every movement feels like a mile,
I feel like screaming out, is anybody listening?
Can I just be alright for a little while?
Just let me be alright for a little while
Every second feels like a stalemate,
And every movement feels like a mile,
I swear I’m screaming out, why is no one listening?
Can I just be happy for a little while?
It’s all getting too much to carry
It’s all getting too much to bear
And I’ve never felt more alone, does anybody care?
I’m so sick of this goddam anxiety,
I swear this isn’t how it’s supposed to be,
another victim of a broken society,
I just need help.
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Come forth I condemn you to all bear witness, to the miracle of Manus.
Now I am lost, my humanity spent, what lies in wake... we are the children of manus
Gotta ask myself, am I the only one?
Left to roam the abyss, cast out to the cold to lay in guard for my sins
Must I pace these empty halls searching for solace within
Or just rekindle the fires that allow me to breath again
I am alone.
Breathe in the hate, cos I’m a self destructive optimist too content to change,
No more than blood and bone, merely mortal after all,
I fear my moral code is getting the best of me.
And now I’m nothing but a shadow of my former self,
You just can’t fathom how it feels to wanna be someone else,
I’m done, feeling like I don’t belong,
I’ll take my place as the heir to this hollow throne
Still made from blood and bone
An empty empire built of souls and cinder
But I would rather know happiness than be this alone
You wanna know a secret… we’re all alone.
Breathe in the hate (the pain) cos I’m a self destructive optimist too content to change,
Just another vacant soul, am I human after all
I fear my moral code is getting the better of me
I have nothing left to give,
Now I’m falling further, further into the blight…
Come forth I beg you to all bare witness, to this my sonnet of sadness
Now I’m undone, my morality lost, let it be known I am the true face of manus
From this day forth I’ll be the true face of manus
And for what it’s worth, I am alone
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10. |
BLOOD
04:36
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Times of trouble always bring out the worst in me
But I’ve always tried to find the right words to say
I guess they don’t always meet their mark
But I’m trying to rebuild this house without the missing parts
So I wrote this song just to say
If I could take myself away from the flood
And bring back every person we’ve ever loved and lost
Then I would give my blood, give you every little thing I’ve got
To rewrite your history, coz I’m with you, just don’t forget me
When it feels like every days another uphill struggle
Another mountain to climb, a summit out of sight
A clear perception born from tired eyes and seeing double
I’ve gotta step back, won’t be the catalyst
Could it be, circumstance has drained my apathy
I hate what I’ve become cos I just don’t know who I am anymore
So I wrote this song just to say
I know I should have been there
But I’m here for you now
If I could take myself away from the flood
And bring back every person we’ve ever loved and lost
Then I would give my blood, give you every little thing I’ve got
To rewrite your history, coz I’m with you, just don’t forget me
If I can find your colours, please let them show, let them bleed onto canvas
Cos I can’t let them go, just know I’d give my blood, give you every little thing I’ve got
To rewrite your history, coz I’m with you, just don’t forget me
When I think back to the start of it all
When I couldn’t hold back the waves, (you held me close yeah you where my shelter)
When the ashes burned through the hole in my heart
You were the shadow they cast behind me
So I wrote this song just to say
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The fear and the doubt
The fear and the doubt grow deeper again
This process is agony, to sever the ties and shatter the pretense
Is this the end
Is this the end of how I once lived
It’s killing my family
Addiction it spreads like a cancer within me
Can there be more than this?
Am I really living a life,
If living a life is like this?
Or is it a lie? Forever a slave to this one tragic vice.
Keep rolling the dice, but fate plays my hand leaves me nothing but snake eyes.
Take steps into the dark
And when you’ve lost your way,
Just shine a light on me
I watch the shadows dance around me
Like echoes of misery, they’re nothing more than history now
Just like my father said, when there’s dark days ahead
I understand just take my hand and shine your light on me
Just shine your light on me,
Yeah shine a light on me…
Oh, it’s happened again
I promised myself I’d break free from this trend
But my consciousness wavers
Risking the bet without placing a wager
Torn between relapse and rapture
I’ll make my stand and descend to the depths
Of self preservation buried deep in the landfill
Laid to waste with the wrath of my kin
I will be the remnant of transgression
So forgive me my sins
And take steps into the dark
And when you’ve lost your way... just shine your light on me
I promised you, that I would be a better man
I’m taking steps to achieve the master plan
I swear I never meant to let my family down
(I think I let you down)
I promised you, that I would be a better man
Took for granted the things that made me who I am
I swear I never meant to let my family down
I guess I let you down….
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Our Hollow, Our Home Hampshire, UK
Est.2013 // Melodic Metalcore // Southampton,UK
New Album ‘Burn In The Flood’ out 28th
May
Physicals & Merch : smarturl.it/burnintheflood
Management: Down For Life Music
Bookings: Avocado Booking
PR: Public City PR (U.K.), Starkult (DE), HIM Media (FR)
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