1. |
The Starborn Promise
06:37
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A:
And when you play with fire
You have no right to complain
When you lose control
Of the flame
The glamour makes you forget that
Life can be so tender
A pile of embers
Is all I remember
Always wanted
Yea I always wanted to fly
Never wanted
No I never wanted to try
I heard it calling me it was to good to be true
Crafting any path that I choose
But as the pressure rose
I let the gravity expose
An unavoidable future in the scraps
With residue of when I used to laugh
I should have isolated my dying heart
But now I lie in nothingness deprived of a new start
And when you browse the junkyard
In search of stimulation
And find yourself
All alone
Attempt to end your cravings
And hide beneath the soil
Remember the raindrops
Something to hold onto
Always had a
Always had a dream of success
Never had the
Chance to put my will to the test
Went for the easy way
Anyone would’ve took the bait
Your ignorance has me
Living in the past
With residue of when I used to laugh
I should’ve isolated my dying heart
I showed my face and it fell apart
I don’t wanna see
Someone else repeat me
Read a book instead
Don’t poison your head
Discover other ways
To live out your glory days
I know that you think
That there’s no greater pain
Than being ignored
Everyone in the world
Is treating you like
You’re invisible dead to them
Turning instead of engaging
You never had it easy
But I promise you
They’ll never notice
Your arc of redemption
When everything you do
Puts a hole in the ground
You’ve reached your destiny
Your purpose was a fallacy
You sulk between the cold abandoned tracks
With residue of when I used to laugh
I wish I isolated my accidental wrath
The chain continues
The lower links are shadier
The pain renews
There’s no turning back
If I could start the cycle
And feel alive again
And give it up before the
Point of no return
I’d be the face of holy worship
You wear that badge for just a moment
The parasite is always changing hands
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3. |
Release
03:11
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C:
Release
Release
Silence your grip
Ability awaits
Reach
Reach
Control the Wind
Sketch in the air
Climb a canyon to the edge
Run your hand through the river bed
Eventually you’ll wind up with a hole in your head
So while you stand in fantasy
Find out what it means to be so free
Just breathe
Climb a canyon to the edge
Run your hand through the river bed
Eventually you’ll wind up with a hole in your head
So don’t rely on fantasy
Don’t make it impossible to leave
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4. |
Red Existence
08:16
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A:
And in the crimson night
It fell into my sight
Lifted the veil made the land show it’s true lights
I never knew what lied
In scattered streaks in skies
A beauty manufactured
To hide from common eyes
And it’s alright now
Alright now
If rotten fingers try to pull me back
I’m magnetized to making my new map
A hundred new directions enter sight
My red existence taps into new life
I thought that I was helpless
I thought I’d never raise my chin out of the muck
But now the earth is all for me to use
And in the infant day
I shook the dust away
The right instructions are finally on display
To set the sky alight
To gain some peace of mind
My cowardice will not remain
I’ll reinvent this life
I bet you thought I hit the road
I’ve only rediscovered home
Lying in the grass
With the world as my throne
So take the time to
Reassess the
Reassess what these two arms can move
Reassess the
Reassess what fuels idealistic obsession
Right above you
Right behind you
Blossoming perfection
As long as you can hold your grip
Come and take a ride
Across the sky
And see what changed
Behind my guise
And its all I want
All I own
If rotten fingers try to pull me back
I’m magnetized to making my new map
My shade consumes the barriers of light
Endless possibility tonight
But if you walk away then you’re a fool
You’ll never parallel this much control
A conqueror is floating by your side
My red existence was always my birthrate
I thought that I was worthless
A brand new life of value fills these shoes
I won’t come down till I have nothing left to lose
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5. |
Filling the Book
05:14
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A:
And as I learn the letters I forget
When I moved my table over to the left
Just another focus shift to power strokes
Only upward progress rides my train of thought
And while these observations have me on my toes
There’s just a tiny piece of me that wants to know
How much more is hiding in the floorboards
I choose to ignore so I can
Step up and restore
Every single step I take there’s more to learn
Flakes of mediocrity are peeling off
Counting my connections makes the picture clear
Living through evolution
And while these observations have me on my toes
There’s just a tiny piece of me that wants to know
How much more is hiding in the floorboards
C:
Absorb the Warning
Evaporate their words
Dawn is breaking
A:
Stack up the rocks on my back
It’s an easy feat I’ll still create a dynasty
Skin to the ground and I’m out
Of the range of human failure possibilities
I’m only functional when
I give up control and let temptation guide me
I’m losing my breath when I’m not
Filling the book with wisdom from the words that follow me
Why do you hide from me
Don’t you confide in me
The power inside of me
A taste of sweet relief is only steps away
I can’t concern myself with yesterday
I don’t want you worrying I’m breaking out
Can’t spare a thought to things that drag me down
And if the confrontation leaves me on my own
I don’t mind abandoning my loveless home
There’s just a tiny piece of me that has to know
If I conform will I remove the floorboards
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6. |
Slip
09:28
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A:
Erased by my actions
A grey stain on my future
Watching form your tower
Are you helping me
Are you hurting me
The needle’s poking holes
A peek into the grief
Snapping the arms of a foreign tree
And they’re watching me
While they bleed
And the breeze
Tries to subdue me
You fall in the ravine
Can I leave my horror dreams
A million ghosts are chasing after me
The perfect future riddled with disease
I think I know how this will end
A circle lined with hate
I do not represent
And even my throne in the sky
Can’t make me forget
I slip into the skin of a
Forsaken son
A child with a gun
My ailing palms will set off a wave
Like an atomic bomb
And rip the skin off your arms
What can keep the calm
The strings of disbelief
Etching the walls with charcoal
And teasing navigation
But they lie to me
They hide from me
The more I dig beneath
The less that I believe
That the momentum will set me free
And I want to leave
I try to leave
But the breeze
Repossesses me
I'm shifting through the hours
Watch the night become devoured
A stopping power is taking over me
A side effect to keeping on my feet
I think I know how this will end
A circle lined with hate
I do not represent
And even my throne in the sky
Can’t make me pretend
I slip into the skin of a
Forsaken son
A child with a gun
My ailing palms will set off a wave
Like an atomic bomb
And rip the skin off your arms
R:
An unborn daughter
Split from the martyr
A frozen beauty
A gem with a stare
A son of stagnation
He can’t remain attentive
Baring his genocidal face
Take a look inside
You will find that their minds are empty
Devoid of personality
Their hearts don’t know how to bleed
Robbed of the chance to experience fascination
Desire couldn’t bear to let them leave
Take a look inside
You will find that their minds are empty
The patriarch has drained their love away
Devoid of personality
Their mouths don’t know how to breathe
A:
I don’t believe this catastrophe
Was caused by the worst in me
Messiah your secrets put your sceptre down
I slip into the skin of a
Forsaken son
A child with a gun
Looking for the one who
Subdues me and runs
To block out the sun
I’m at the wrong end of the marionette
And I pray that I haven’t lost control just yet
My ailing palms won’t
Set off a chain
Of self-destruction and harm
I only want to disarm the ones who made me hurt you
H:
Despite your realization
Your quest for fame
The world will compromise you
You’ve tapped into the vein
And as you take the reins
The choices fade
You’re barely speaking english baby
I want you to escape
Slip back into my arms
Disregard the information
Gouge out your minds eye
Hold your weight
Don’t leave me in the void you left
From teleporting over to the roof again
It’s breaking my spirit
Chew me up spit me out
Destroy the tie to your sympathy
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7. |
Autopilot
06:43
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A:
No more room to breathe
No restraint go to sleep
If you are hearing this I do not understand
The overpowering surge inside my glands
I’ve tried to channel it I’ve done the best I’ve can
There’s something bigger in my hands
Static looms over me
Handles just out of reach
If you are hearing this I do not understand
The overpowering surge inside my glands
I’ve tried to channel it I’ve done the best I’ve can
There’s something bigger in my hands
Screams of Three
Bled me left me in the void
The shouts you hear are not my voice
Shut out from the ones I love
Grey window vignettes show me what I’ve done
My vessel drains into the mud
Sob at what your world’s become
Autopilot can’t rewind
Autopilot can’t turn off
This albino holding cell
Tries to leave me on the shelf
Can I ever steal you back
And learn to control the backlash
The edges seem translucent from back here
An automatic channel hopping curse
I concentrate on my lifeline
And the comforts of my return
I feel dismembered from my conscience
My phantom limbs erode a crooked path
But even warriors must replenish
The final moment to take it back
If you are hearing this I do not understand
The overshadowing golem of a man
I’ve tried to stop him I’ve done the best I’ve can
I need to kill the lights
Reject the name and drag myself to land
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8. |
World of Tomorrow
06:22
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A:
Never thought kissing the asphalt would be so comforting
The contact makes me feel like I’m in control again
Though a fourth unseen dimension must have accelerated you
Cause it only represents a battleground where the ashes carry a message
Ravaged
Damaged
Language carries danger unexpected
Deleting
Fleeting
Hoping for a replay so I could try protecting it
I wander through the streets
A hot flash made them hollow out
With nothing left to see
The world of tomorrow’s not surprising
But it hurts to see it mock me
Taking away my
I hardly recall the engravings jumping out
Fueling the furnace and sending you up in smoke
The scope of destruction has entered my reality
And I don’t expect the flagpole to bare its welcome shades
But I walk beside the footprints
Subsequently shallower
Every sign of motion’s
Only on the outskirts of
Where I made my name
Where I had my loved ones but
While I had my back turned
They succumbed to rapture of
Unprovoked absorption
Victims of the tractor
Their walls becoming thin
And breakfast getting colder
Caused by my wild thirst
A permanent brand in my hope
They’ll never know
Ravaged
Damaged
Language carries danger unexpected
Deleting
Fleeting
Hoping for a replay so I could try protecting it
I wander through the streets
A hot flash made them hollow out
With nothing left to see
The world of tomorrow’s not surprising
But it hurts to see it mock me
Taking away my
C:
Turn away
Warm your face
Detach your past
Excavate
A:
I wander through the streets
A hot flash made them hollow out
With nothing left to see
The world of tomorrow’s not surprising
But now I must prevent it
From taking away my voice
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A:
(awake)
And finally alone
I’ve brushed the floor
Drained the Source
Used it all
Suction stalls
Communities lost
The embedded the cost
If I replicate this when I can save the
Rest of the innocent and sedated
Scripture would label me as a
Psychopath of a violent breed
Pure isolation split from the nation
No other action makes preservation
Feasible enough to conjure up an attempt
And I’ll lay my head
Where I can erase my breath
Abandon what provided me
Grasp on the land
To protect their delicate faces
It's hard to disappear
Persevere and steer clear
Keep a smuggler’s pace
To a solar face
An Iris of the hive mind
Stares me down
Its reignited glances
Feed on my allure
If I concentrate to leave the sensation
Sneak away towards a bare destination
Scripture would label me as a
Tender guard of a threat unseen
Head to the mountains dampen your beacon
Stop bringing out the danger retrieved from
Languages that can’t be passed on
From worlds away
And I’ll lay my head
Where I can erase my breath
Abandon what provided me
Grasp on the land
To preserve their meaningful places
My kingdom Boulderfield
No soul to steal
Here we only leave for necessity
We feed on the beggars of relief
A fragrance of peace surrounds me
Docile and tame
It pushes me to build a new home
Burying my existence will keep them safe
Unaware of the sacrifice I make
Being forced to retire from the human race
And start my own space
An invisible shelter
I’ve lost my privilege to live among them
Maybe if they thrive I’ll be a hero after all
And I’ll lay my head
Where I await my death
Impotently watch the weather
Hoping I forget
And I’ll lay my head
Enter eternal rest
I can’t allow my hunger
To pillage the land
To prevent an infinite wasteland
I must resist the continuous urge
— — — — — —
A:
I belong to you
I belong to you
As long as my irises are speckled with your hue
I belong to you
I belong to you
They say you’re detrimental but I know it isn’t true
I belong to you
I belong to you
It pains me to admit it but your absence makes me blue
I belong to you
I belong to you
You showed me the potential and I want to see it through
I belong to you
I belong to you
I wish the sky would crack and send a torrent of your fumes
I belong to you
I belong to you
I feel my skin drying out without your pleasant glue
I belong to you
I belong to you
Starving my empty soul it isn’t worth the view
I belong to you
I belong to you
Don’t let me fall into behaviors I outgrew
I belong to you
I belong to you
No one can offer me a substitute for you
I belong to you
I belong to you
I’d tear apart a city block to reunite with you
I belong to you
I belong to you
I used to be imperfect but I owe it all to you
I belong to you
I belong to you
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10. |
Metrocalypse
05:33
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A:
Drop me in the crosswalk
Bursting at the seam
Reality collapses
Venom in the daydream
Can’t resist the pungence
Plunder every storefront
Walkers of the glass storm
Puncturing their veins
Look at how they crumble
Look at how they drain
A colony of ashes
Grows beneath the flashes
I’m trapped in a glass box
A hair apart from the demolition
And I won’t get to say goodbye
I’m mute to the carnage of the scarlet eye
They won’t know that I could’ve prevented
An era of extermination
But I couldn’t keep away
Murder on my fingers
A hurricane of bones
I’ve spent enough time alone I’m invulnerable
Maybe I can take some of my own
But the runes appear in thousands
More than I can handle
Fracturing the concrete
Sipping up the mantle
I could separate myself from the commonwealth
Lure the energy back to where it began
But I turn around to blackness
Cemented in the back seat
Can’t remove the lenses
Can’t return the peace
I’m trapped in a glass box
A hair apart from the demolition
And I won’t get to say goodbye
I strain my lungs but get no reply
They won’t know that I couldn’t prevent an
Era of extermination
But I couldn’t keep away
If I ever see a soul again
They wouldn’t get what I survived
I need someone to share my burdens with
There must be someone left to hear
I shattered the glass box
Released my strength into the population
And I won’t get to say goodbye
I won’t win no matter how hard I try
I’m sorry that I couldn’t prevent a
Countrywide annihilation
It’s too late
I’m all that's left
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11. |
I Saw a Cliff
08:50
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A.
I saw a cliff that tempted a promise of power to fix what I lacked
It reaches so much higher than I ever anticipated to climb
But I climb
I disappear into the brushes
Leaving your mortal rules behind
Physical barriers evaporate
I learn to dance outside the lines
Gaze across the valleys you can earn
Become engrossed with the prize
Singularity is waiting at the peak
I cross behind the line of total comprehension
I share the thoughts of every flower
My pores are sensitive to every new formation
And soon Ill dawn my golden hour
Gaze across the mountains you can earn
Become engrossed with the prize
Singularity is now within your reach
Somewhere inside me I always knew
The sparkling gestures wouldn’t get me through to you
And now even predators fear pursuit
They run, why do they run away
At the top of the sky I always knew
I’d pose for a portrait to be hung above the pews
A cosmic connection to the human views
Was founded after toppling the ones who made it true
And on my ascent I always knew
The embers were the only thing that I’d be fit to rule
The light swirls around me creating a cocoon
And I ooze from my soul while it consumes me
And I try to deny that it’s killing me
And I want to embrace and investigate
But there’s nobody there who can support and share
Just energy energy energy sealing my fate
Warp into a hall of mirrors
Each reflection aged
Damp and claustrophobically
We trade demises
Different climate same ancestry
Always dig it out
Exponentially increasing
Worlds we’ve torn apart
C.
If you want
To find your peace
Sow the seed
Don’t hold on
Just pass it on
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