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EXILES: pt. 1 "Tristia"

by The English Wraith

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1.
All the leaves of evil adorn the way to nirvana Pagans for the reaper; What yesteryear’s come to pass will set us free Broke when the seal’s read; Oh dear God what will be Do what you please til All the stars collide to end your sleep Vigil by the tree at dusk, the leaves have all fallen down When the dawn is breaking the rooster crows at last But not for me Why did you leave us here to die To cut the cord with no goodbye The brightness burns The eyes look to the light Too late to call out when all the blood came falling on my hands They’ll burn the children, their ashes will just mingle with the sand You’d be the apple of my eye just to be there at my side Pushed off the cliff before we fly As fire ignites the wasteland, a newborn is heard to cry I will have the last laugh, you can have the rest On bended knee And so you’re sucked into this hole I’m guessing heaven only knows The laughter in your suicide The tugging at your sleeve Hours by the wall Held the stare To burn so bright, a night light So self aware When mother calls me, I will sleep at last inside your bed On every page are images to never leave my head The sunken angels screaming for now and evermore A manic ocean tide still elusive at the core Trailing after the scent, the darkness will manifest Would take a single droplet to shake this pale unrest Stand on my feet Everything is so divine Look at me I’m right on time Climbing up an endless vine Why won’t you sleep at night? Come now away Raised in pain Strung up in hate Locked out the gate Harken with fine ears; the midnight sounds and now they’ll empty me A waste of my years; a moaning lisa on a picture’s sleeve I couldn’t wait to see inside so I climbed into your heart Eternally in this divide as it echoes from the start Don’t let me be buried alive There’s got to be another way inside I’m looking out where the blood is shed And I’m a stranger to all of it
2.
Hold my eyes Angel of mine Hold my light Let it shine Old joy, meat cow, burnout, cold ground, lullaby, cavalry, hummingbird, dead sea Kept in the dark, A ghostly heart A vile machine of violent green All is as one under the sun There’s nothing’s new to do with you I’d reach out my hand but you’ll just let go Cause you’re my angel in the snow You ride into town on a horse of gold Freezing softly in the cold Take all control, just skin and bone A birds eye view, master of the cue And in the lounge where laughter sounds You’ll have me alone inside of your home Say it! “My life is a waiting time", “A light that will never shine" Talking in a shadowland Standing outstretched in the mist A figment begging to exist When you find your shell it will be yours to sell But you know it all so well The time is grey, you’re in the hay Out on the ship you take the slip A rotten device that bleeds from the ice A beautiful lie you’re rolling a fixed dice There’s nowhere left to go I can not feel the words Just leave them for the birds I’m living in the 21st century Whoopee Lucky me
3.
Pesach 04:48
Can’t end this way, break up the day It came to stay, we’re in the way The automatic freefalling static i’m in the rush; can’t go to sleep Captain of the ship lets sound the band I’m reckoned with, I’m in demand I man the stick, Can’t handle it I’m on the row body and soul Laughed at by crows; that’s how it goes You’ll be deloused; Take off your clothes A hearse with riders, Drip drunken drivers Dead children run on naked ground Mister medallion; no faith so blind You’re circumspect, out of your mind You come to kill upon what will When firing you give no sign Glory is mine just sign and stay this line in my favorite hole It’s in the design; i went for the orphans Smooth operator. A smooth operator! Guess it could stand to reason Silence of a small room louder than a ceremony Everybody has their season In a little drawer where the will is the testimony Why hath ye ghost forsaken us? My will will rot me. why let it stop me Comer of shadows, one with the gallows It’s come to this; such is in a kiss Once formed a question, it made me restless Was on the front; tip of the tongue Can’t feel it much; Cold to the touch And now you’ll see this part of me
4.
Amouria 05:17
Wake in a panic coming out of hibernation Winter dreams of horrors unknown As quickly I’m broken my thawed heart has spoken A long lost stolen song And still it comes out all wrong Amouria Tell me what is in store Are we all accounted for, Dealt the true cards of chance? Foot caught in a snare Trying to get to the air If only I could breathe Into your lungs I would seethe Amouria Helpless I only wanted what’s true for me Helpless I only wanted what’s true for you Fear and trembling, the weight of this reality Where will all the children go? I was shameless, no one is blameless From this cross we all grow If I knew I’d let you know Amouria When the moment was now I lost my sense somehow Did you so much harm Bent on living this pride hates forgiving But that was never me If only you could see Amouria Helpless I only wanted what’s true for me Helpless I only wanted what’s true for you Fade away, we all fade away. Real gone - These shores we all fall on.
5.
I went down in the water It caught me up; the flame was gettin' hotter Run into the wall: it’s all accidental Awake in a dream - a hospital for the mental And waiting to break the silence of passion On the set of the stage to the means of the action I went down to the wire It caught me up in a sudden blaze of fire Your cold red heart I’m begging to feel it You keep it away and so I’m trying to steal it Playing with switches and pulling on levers The freefall of life in the fright and the fever Don’t wanna stop you up The many years free from this womb It’s not for long and you die in a blue moon Eggshells made for breaking If all is for forsaking Thought I might find you here in your empty room I went down to the wire I saw the love inside the muck and the mire Break these vessels and call it virtue A speckle of dust was never flying to hurt you A wisp of soul must drag a cold corpse You break your leg and now you're beating a dead horse One step to fall from grace I cannot rectify your wounds Amalgamation in a dirty silver spoon The fire of the twilight Of dying rays of sunlight While you are stranded on your desolated moon
6.
I have to separate There isn’t time to wait All of the stars will fade to blue Old dawn has come to fade There’ll be another day Wherever it is I’ll be too Foggy light on the horizon but I can’t see it through Out on a stormy shore You cannot give me more I wanna know what’s true for you For you, the love in my possession A loneliness just grew So quickly with the whip Give me the cup to sip I’ll walk into your point of view It’s true your love will bury you I guess that mine will too Hum nature’s song Have I heard it all along? It’s all around here All around here And all around it grows All around here All around here And everyone knows Talk is cheap where’s the money Don’t you laugh it isn’t funny Governments just tell you lies Aliens and circus spies Take no pity Have no pity on it If it’s in your heart, it's in your heart I’ll take you home when you’re all alone You’ll breathe into my soul And for this gift I’d give everything As empty as I’m whole And the water turns to blood Your only friend is on the fire So let me on the fire And the trigger happy man fires when he can It encirles, encircles, encircles you encircles, encircles, what else you’ll do Do the chicken dance hop stop get stoned
7.
Emblems 05:10
Wear the flag to cover your rags File under the tag Or be part of the plague Numbers are the know And you’ll just have to let go Til there’s no fight for control Between your mind and your soul Now we’re against None of us sit on the fence You’ll see who started this tribe All of us joined in a pride We draw up the laws Our speakers speak for the cause We set all new precedents For all this that we’re against Everybody’s moving on me I think I’ll lay here in the moment The safety of your point of view Banners so high That they blot out the sky We’re so much different inside And that’s no word of a lie But how can it be When anybody can see They’re always speaking for you But noone’s speaking for me Everybody’s moving on me Yes I’ll stay here in the moment Safe inside your point of view Under the torches of this trial that burns for awhile Don’t waste me Cause soon I’ll prove myself to you Got a place on the side You’re the pig in the middle We kick you to the ground And we make you feel little Know what to know Look at all of the others How they know it the best All of your sisters and brothers Hey I’m your captain Radioactive Positioning the rank Taking it to the bank Hey I’m your captain Radioactive All that you once were Is under my control
8.
Supersonic 04:13
What is near just can’t be groped Following an impatient hope Empty looks and peaceful stares Everyone cries but nobody cares It’s supersonic Now don’t you want it It’s elemental It’s existential And if you got it Then you can flaunt it But when you’re speaking in tongues don’t you forget about me I won’t hold you down I won’t pull you down No I won’t Weariness becomes the chase Lines are drawn without erase Tangled up in circumstance Absence in the way of chance It's supersonic Now don't you want it It's elemental It's existential And if you got it Then you can flaunt it But when you're speaking in tongues don't you forget about me I won't hold you down I won't pull you down No I won't Spell of longing draws you out Silence answers every doubt Walking for no reason at all Horizons beckon, forever's call
9.
Easycomer 02:43
Your talk is rich you’re a victim on contact A picture drawn - white innocence of a dove 'Be what you want, so you try just to be that Now open fire yeah just give me the love Easycomer come to distill me Easycomer vying for health Easycomer why can’t you kill me? The hardest part is what you do to yourself It’s not a race but still you’ll take every shortcut I’m in your way but someone’s gotta be at fault What does it take to be so conscious of nothing? To have so much faith in nothing at all Fight for control and see where it gets you Cover your tracks and hide under the rug Make no mistake, there’s not a thing you’ll grow into Would take so little just to pull out the plug
10.
Alien Son 03:29
There you are inside a dream Can’t hear even as I scream And looking very cold, dreamlike and can’t be told I’m holding just to hold; fossils lost the mold A monkey in the middle plays a rubber fiddle Much too far across when I wake up cold Reaching out to hold, pull you out My little alien My little alien son Winds rushing through my head Blow on embers; the living dead Imprint of memory, the only place for me Cloudy as can be, a mist upon the sea Forces against stay obtuse, sources of the abuse A light for other eyes, I feel it there but I know I got to let you go. Let go My little alien My little alien son Peasant children Destiny of fools Don’t you keep them away from their family Keep them away from their family When you whispered in my ear A little angel bigger than the fear Selected by the hunt and born under the gun We're in the races run, bastards - every one Eternally it seems, the setting of the dreams Where we can play for free - just you and me Come along and see; hands free My little alien My little alien son
11.
Don’t stop baby, don’t you ever stop Up up up, bottom to the top Nothing here remains, take all that you can take Enter under cover, leave it in the wake Visions of war foam from the mouth Death in the trenches, north eats the south Skull-faced talkers talking out of turn Diamonds in the rough just dying to be heard Justice at the stand where everyone’s a judge Order in the court wink wink nudge nudge Kidnap the kiddies, pass around the hat Sharpen up the fang, learn to chew the fat Money talks freely, dollars are a will Silent voice is stupid: tell us what to kill! Back with the tests. What’re the results? Clean bill hell, bear no faults Chorus Spotlight on, everybody look at me Show a little something, hide a vacancy Flex a little muscle, execute the power All eyes on you - pretty as a flower Point of the finger: "get down on your knees" Pointed right back: "I don’t eat that cheese" Know your own value, forget the rest Keep it safe in mind; don’t ever take a test ‘Nothing’, so you say, ha ha how ironic The way you move your lips is practically iconic Word is the bird and don’t mistake the passion Cheers to the peers when hatred is in fashion Fuck fuck baby fuck you too Kids in the back don’t ever have a clue Stand up straight, wait for a master Wait for a number, practice for a camera Chorus Figment of the mind behind a false door There you are behind, pacing round the floor Duty outside keeping up with the external Days go by, dying is eternal Phonically demonic, sonically insane Thrills of the flesh and tonic for the brain Groovin' to the beat with all you are on clearance By the time you’re gone noone knows your disappearance Loyalty is fun you’re my one true friend Nothing is forever; blame you in the end When you’re not looking, what I’ll claim is mine I, the sole witness, silently divine Need help now, will it work like it should? I can’t be good I can’t be good I just can’t be good I just can’t be good I swear I really try I swear I really do Tired and weary, frozen in fear Everything I do gets reflected in the mirror But it won’t really help me, noone helps you Disconnect my head when I’m feeling blue Everything on time Everything in line Wax until it shines Loneliness is me Beaten to the knees Seeking the police Dust thrown in the wind Endless till the end
12.
Stigmata 04:19
Come unto the lowliest form All of you so tattered and torn What is it to be a human being? Spoken like a child in his youth The bearer of a fantasy’s truth And you laugh a liar’s laugh at the lie Intoxicated until you die Welcome to a world within limits You were born to die in it Victims of the infinite Have a suck of the lemons Taste the flavor within In a world within limits At the altar of it’s precedents Reason never fails to take offence On the question it cannot start Smothered in the crux of the heart Silence is the presence of faith Never does it say what they say Darkness at the face of the leap Keeper of whatever you keep With dove like wings my bird will sing The echo within is all that I am All as it appears shatters in the mirror So run to the ledge, just drop off the edge I feel so high I could fly Never have I felt so alive Poison my little black eye Fall down from alien skies
13.
There’s no culture fit for me I am an orphan’s industry Of the abyss The place your eyes always know to miss Come bring your metal, break me baby Punch a hole through my wall Bloody up your knuckles, come and take me I’m sailin' for the waterfall It’s not my revolution My revolution is free It’s not your revolution Your revolution is me Walking the strand It’s in every grain of sand And where the river bends Flows a will that won’t ever end Charmed, to be sure, so pleased to meet you What is it you’re waiting for? Break out the bubbly, noone else to Pour the gasoline on the floor It's not my revolution My revolution is free It's not your revolution Your revolution is me A fire cracks in a cave on a mountainside Thunderous sound May their honey never dry You missed the memo you’re late don’t blame me The futures already in store Flood the whole world, see if you faze me Walk in through an open door

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This album is dedicated to Adam Czerniakow

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released January 16, 2015

Mastered by Carl Saff
Original cover photo by Derek Wasylyshen

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