elainegreendike
Can't describe how epic this song is. The whole album is a banger!!
Douze points! ♥♥♥
Favorite track: Dispute.
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Sharpen Your Sword
03:40
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Oh Saturn treat me kindly.
I recognize these old themes come to teach me.
All you slaves of darkness, get behind me.
From now on my truth will be my victory.
All your old scores
Will rise again til you learn their lessons.
Sharpen your sword.
At the break of day we choose our weapons.
All your old scores..
Go through the fire and come out gold.
I know these shadows find me
As harbingers of opportunity.
From this vantage point I see it clearly.
Pick your strategy for battle wisely.
All your old scores
Will rise again til you learn their lessons.
Sharpen your sword.
Master your mind.
Let that be your weapon.
It's what you're here for.
To realize your regal nature.
Universal law.
Close your eyes, remember.
All your old scores.
Go through the fire and come out gold.
Sharpen your sword.
Identify what you can't control.
It's what you’re here for.
Remember now what you've always known.
Universal law.
Sweep the ashes from the soul.
It's what you're here for.
Remember now what you've always known.
Universal law.
Sweep aside the ashes.
Reveal the soul.
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2. |
Codeword
04:06
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If you were wondering
Yes I’m wondering about you.
You’re a weight on my chest
A destination I can’t get to.
A door opens, when I pass inside
Everything is hidden.
To see beyond this point, this filter, is forbidden.
You changed the code word and now I’m locked out.
And now you judge my attempts to figure it out.
Or is that what you wanted?
Tell me your secrets, your fucked up dreams.
The source of your desire.
Something tells me behind the scenes
You’re setting up trip wires.
Is that a snarl or a smile?
Some kind of invitation?
I can’t tell if you’re messing with me.
It's a loaded conversation.
You changed the codeword to lock me out
And if I knew it, I’d scream for a time out.
Or is that what you wanted?
Tell me what I missed.
How did it come to this?
Take me back to the start.
Going room to room looking for a clue.
I’d make it stop but I can’t.
Is that what you wanted?
Is that really what you had planned?
You changed the code word and now I’m locked out.
And now you judge my attempts to figure it out.
Pinned under glass on the wall of a dark house
No sudden moves, or is that what it’s all about.
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3. |
Walk With Me
05:56
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I know it’s hard, but listen in.
Don’t pull away.
Can you acknowledge your sin?
Allow yourself to feel the shame
That you were unaware
And now it defiles your name.
Let’s linger here
Where the guilt’s alive.
It isn’t much to ask, complicit in the lie.
Now is not the time to jump to your defence.
Driving home a legacy of negligence.
It takes a kind of mutiny to step into your destiny.
I’ve chosen love
Will you walk with me?
Now the nerve’s exposed
Let it be touched.
Just like your heart,
There’s no such thing as too much.
As it breaks apart, do not withdraw.
Determination means
You’ll stick around for more.
Now is not the time to jump to your defence.
Drive home the shameful legacy of negligence.
Do you choose the path of self respect or dig your heels in and regress?
Here’s the chance to face your soul.
You’re more powerful now than you’ve ever known.
It takes a kind of mutiny to step into your destiny.
I’ve chosen love
Will you walk with me?
Let your heart break apart.
Do not withdraw.
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4. |
Skin Hunger
04:14
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Peering out through a window
Between streaks of grime.
Everyone’s moving
Marching in time.
If I focus I recall how it feels,
The touch of warm bare skin.
Nothing’s for certain.
No, nothing is mine.
And I know that,
So while we’re alive
I want to sway with your arms around me.
Do more than just survive.
My skin hungers.
I want you to touch me.
The point of contact-
You see yourself in my eyes.
This is sacred.
Who’ll hold you when you cry.
I close my eyes.
I’m pulling you near.
But it’s too far gone
And we’re barely here.
Should I let myself wonder
How you might break the curse
How would you touch me
How would you quench this thirst.
My skin hungers.
I want you to touch me.
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5. |
Dispute
04:52
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I have been given too much advice.
More than I asked for.
More than I’d like.
There is a point where you just have to act.
The flood gates are about to break
I dispute your facts.
Yours is the loudest voice because you think you’re right.
Why don’t you take a breath and see what peace is like.
Tell me again how we are good friends.
Then when it suits you it’s a rule you bend.
One day you’ll lose it all.
We all lose what we have.
The playing fields are leveled.
Naked you will stand.
Yours is the loudest voice because you think you’re right.
What don’t you take a breath and see what peace is like.
I can shout but I prefer to be wise
It’s not a competition and there is no prize
I’m calling bullshit.
I wasn’t asking to be fixed.
There is a point where you just have to act.
The flood gates are about to break
I dispute your facts.
One day you’ll lose it all.
We all lose what we have.
The playing fields are leveled.
Naked you will stand.
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6. |
Long Shadow
03:54
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Here on the ground
Patterns shifting.
The fading light
Puts us to sleep.
But some of us we stir,
Who know what it means,
To live beneath a long shadow.
Casting a mask across your face.
Creating new shapes.
They say that death leads us to hell or heaven,
But so can life and that’s what we’ve forgotten.
What of last days should we mention,
beneath the long shadow?
Casting a mask across your face
Revealing new shapes.
And we say
“Fuck it all why not drop my inhibitions?
I got nothing to lose.
I don’t need permission.
There’s nothing to get wrong.
So here’s my swan song”.
Struggle no more
Cus life’s a win.
You have a thousand breaths left
As the light grows dim.
When will you begin?
It’s a long shadow.
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7. |
Do You Dare
06:00
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There is this place to voice opinions but they don’t get heard.
A silent scream resonates in unison around the world.
It’s been removed from the curriculum, no cursive now.
You and your cell,
Are you a person or a super brand?
Do you dare
To fall in love?
To pin your dreams on the future?
With faith enough
You’ll still endure as human creatures.
This is no place to bring a child.
Are you so desensitized?
You speak your mind?
Do you dare?
It suits me best
If you’re compliant and suggestible.
You feel empowered
But you have very little choice at all.
Do you dare
To fall in love
To pin your hopes on the future?
To not give up?
To let your instincts be your teachers.
Do you dare to give your hearts?
To show who you really are?
To fall in love.
Do you dare?
It’s easy to romanticize the time before the arpanet.
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8. |
We Are The Virus
04:46
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I’m not this flesh.
I’m not my name.
I’m not these clothes.
I’m not my pain.
I rip myself open every day.
These ruins make a sorry stage.
We need to choose what to save.
Make a utopia from a grave.
Let’s admit that it’s us.
We are the virus.
With greed and violence and drugs.
We choke up the silence.
But it’s a much bigger trip
To discover what’s inside us.
We’ve no more right to be here.
than the forest or the spiders.
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9. |
Disillusion
04:39
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I opened up to you,
The one who’s safe.
Only to find a bed of snakes.
Have I been fooled?
No, nature doesn’t make mistakes.
I could fall on the blade
But I choose to mutate.
If that’s not love what is it?
So why does it feel like this?
I thought that you could do no wrong.
But a dissonant sound crept into our song.
It was the voice of truth
That strips us bare.
When you see someone’s shadow
Do you not see yourself there?
If that’s not love what is it?
So why does it feel like this?
Thank you for breaking my illusions.
Thank you for showing me what’s real.
All roads lead back to my realisation
That I am not the things I feel.
I held you up to a higher standard.
I set you up to take a fall.
If I judge you I’m judging myself.
You’re just a human after all.
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10. |
The Start Or The End
05:03
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Captivated when I hear it
Just like a firework being lit.
Anticipation, and the danger,
And all I want is to stay stood way to close to it.
I’m so excited I can’t stand it.
I feel ice and become fire.
I can’t help it.
We’ve come this far together,
Let’s dive into the river.
We’ll melt into each other.
An iceberg into lava.
We have the power to destroy each other
Why would we choose that?
We’re not meant to suffer.
If we let down all of our defences
Would it bring peace
Or short circuit our senses?
Always the birth of a brand new cycle feels like the end.
It doesn’t have to be the end.
We have the power to destroy each other
What if we used it like angels or lovers.
What if we dropped all the old pretences
And with the surrender
There’ll be no fences
Always the start of a brand new cycle feels like the end.
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Die So Fluid London, UK
Die So Fluid are a unique alternative rock band fluidly combining the muscle of metal with the angular cheekbones of post-
punk,all laced with intoxicating melody.
Led by ex-pat-in Los Angeles Grog, the London based band have 5 albums under their belts. A brand new album SKIN HUNGER comes out September 20.
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