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Split
04:16
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I’ve gone and made a mess of myself
Come back to me in 10 years
Maybe by then I’ll have it figured out
If the answer is this
Then the question is that
So what’s the fucking point again
(Oh shut the fuck up)
Why won’t these voices leave me alone
I can tell they want a place of their own
I’ve been sharing my mind
Quietly hoping inside
That one day we might find
What we crave
I’ve been searching all my life for what does not exist
I’ve been chasing a dream, that I can barely resist
Is this why when I hear them calling out my name
I follow them blindly all through hell and then back again
I’m beside myself
(It’s pointless)
No reason to be found
(Of course)
But what did I expect
(You tell me)
That things might work out
(Don’t hold your breath)
(So why the hell do you fight)
Why else
(So why do you fight)
I told you
(Tell me why you fight)
Fuck you
You can’t lie to us
'Cause we are you
Who said I need a reason
Take a look at yourself we were born to die
Who said you even had to be
Take a look at yourself we were born to die
Ergh
I’ve been searching all my life for what does not exist
I’ve been chasing a dream that I can barely resist
I can make mistakes but just can’t make amends
I’m a slave to this life until the end
My time is short
My patience thin
All faith is lost
The verdict’s in
‘Cause All our gods are dead
And in their place we let the demons in
There’s no up, no down
No good, no bad, no chance to escape
From this empty shell that only ever tries to replicate
Who we were and what we thought
Everything we used to feel
We're clutching at these straws
As we fight with what we hope is real
They fooled us once, they fooled us twice
They stole from us almost half our lives
We can't accept that they are us and now we're dead inside
Quick to flip off the switch, I believe this is it
The end to of everything I ever came to know
Stripping shreds from my skin
Just to find what's within was never anything but more empty hope
They fooled us once
They fooled us twice
They stole from us almost half our lives
We still can't accept that they are us And now we're dead inside
We’re dead inside
I’ve been searching all my life for what does not exist
I’ve been chasing a dream that I can barely resist
I’ve made mistakes,
I’m a slave to this life until the end
I’ve been searching all my life for what does not exist
I’ve been chasing a dream, that I can barely resist
I can make mistakes, but just can’t make amends
I’m a slave to this life until the end
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2. |
Wanderer
04:08
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All my wildest dreams, I’ve watched them fade away
Carried by the breeze, they smile and wave
Another day, it’s all the same
I beg the time to fall away
I know the pain will dissipate
But it’s all just the same
I see the light, I can’t deny it feels so cold
Please, just take my heart before I’m swallowed whole
Just save me
I don’t know why I keep on trying
Just take me
I don’t know why I keep on fighting
Just save me
I don’t know how I’m still surviving
Just take me
Just save me
I swore I’d never let this break me
I promised to myself that I would fight through all of this
And here I am
I must confess, this broken mess
This empty home is all I know
A single frame I can’t explain
But I know I’m still alive
I’m a bad day away from the end
A single doubt, a second guess
It’s hard to know where to go from here
The road is long but the path is clear
(Watch it fade away)
I see the light, I can’t deny it feels so cold
(The colours wash away)
Please, just take my heart before I’m swallowed whole
Is it all in my head
Should I be wishing for death or just keep looking ahead
Is it all in my head
Oh, will this misery end
I’ll keep pushing till I end up dead
I’ve lost all my reason to stay afloat
I’m all out of time, I’m all out of hope
Losing all reason to stay afloat
All out of time, all out of hope
Just save me
I don’t know why I keep on trying
Just take me
I don’t know why I keep on fighting
Just save me
I don’t know how I’m still surviving
Just take me
Just save me
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3. |
Terra
05:09
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Naive fools all fighting for their paradise
Wearing tinted shades not opening their fucking eyes
Living in a world that I can barely recognise
No room for shame for those who can't compromise
Naive fools all fighting for their paradise
Wearing tinted shades not opening their fucking eyes
Living in a world that I can barely recognise
No room for shame for those who can't compromise
I could bite my tongue
Lord knows I should
Idealists everywhere
As if we're owed a second look
So You want to be a hero now
Or just to play the fucking part
It's all just ego here
It's all pointless fear
From those without a heart
It's yourself not the world that you're running from
You see a man, yet you focus on the smoking gun
Trying to justify all the things that you've done
It’s yourself not the world that you’re running from
You see a man, you don’t care where he’s coming from
Trying to justify all the things you’ve done
And time and time again
The world will burn, we all die in vain
It's Time to accept
Your role in all of this
The road to hell will be paved with honest intentions
Until we all wake up
It's Time to accept
Your role in all of this
The road to hell will be paved with honest intentions
Until we fucking wake up
Bleeding hearts with thin skin and so little sense
Burning witches at the stake time and time again
With Sharpened teeth when there is no need.
A failure to accept reality
Big dreams, free time and so little drive
You blame the world for your position in life
With Sharpened teeth when there is no need
A failure to accept reality
And time and time again
You shed your tears, you’ll take your aim
Dust to dust, hate turns to blame
The world will burn we all die in vain
It's Time to accept
Your role in all of this
The road to hell will be paved with honest intentions
Until we all wake up
It's Time to accept
Your role in all of this
The road to hell will be paved with honest intentions
Until we all wake up
And time and time again
You shed your tears, you’ll take your aim
Dust to dust, hate turns to blame
The world will burn we all die in vain
Watch it burn
Just watch it burn
Watch it burn
Just watch it burn
Sleepwalking past everything you need to know
With your heads all buried in your pathetic fantasies
Woah
Sleepwalking past everything you need to know
For the sake of your pathetic fantasies
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4. |
God of the Grey
03:26
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The stars have aligned
And now it’s my time
Reality itself will be redefined
You could call me a God
‘Cause I created the hell that you call divine
Oh, It’s getting closer
Heavenly hymns keep drawing you in
Expected beauty
Just to find that even the devil could sing
I exist between profound and empty words
The cure and curse, the last and the first
The line between the wise and the fucking absurd
And my word, you’re in need of me
A cause for the spineless
Disguised as enlightened
On my word you will bleed for me
And as your structures collapse
You’re forced to face yourself staring right back
An open grave
Another willing slave
Completely free and yet begging to be kept in chains
An open grave, another willing slave
Completely free, begging to be saved
A matter of fact is a matter of faith
All you know is destined to change
I bet you feel righteous, when you follow the crowd right into your cage
You say your thoughts are yours
And yet they're the same as theirs
It's either you follow suite or find yourself just drowning in
Endless nothingness again
Oh, how you fear my world
And as your structures collapse
You’re forced to face yourself staring right back
An open grave
Another willing slave
Completely free and yet begging to be kept in chains
And as your structures collapse
You’re forced to face yourself staring right back
An open grave
Another willing slave
Completely free and yet begging to be kept in chains
You want meaning? Is that what you've been looking for?
Is that why you're lining up outside the chapel doors?
Got your enemies picked out, all your weapons drawn?
Without a second thought you just picked a side, went straight to war
Pathetic
Celebrating those who pull your strings
Praising them for saving you from anything that makes you think
Now here we are at the end of the fucking road
Spineless fools
What the fuck?
Spineless fools
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5. |
Decay
03:35
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Look, no offence, I need you to go away
I mean, I’m really not in the mood to wear that mask today
You just talk and you talk nothing ever comes out
And I’m just there nodding and fucking smiling while you put me through hell
And it’s like
Every conversation I've had has been a waste of breath
I’ll be talking to walls until I’m fucking dead
I could keep biting my tongue
Or I could reach for the gun
Introduce our thoughts to the pain
That’s got us feeling numb
We’re all alone my dear
We’ve been here since the end
And I would fall towards the sky
Like it’s the only way to fly
My world is on fire
I’m sick of biting my tongue when I’m the closest to home
What the fuck do you want from me
Breaking down from the thought of more empty words
I keep my mind close to my chest for the sake of yours
What do you want me to say, what more is left here to take
Breaking down from the thought of more empty words
I keep my mind close to my chest for the sake of yours
What do you want me to say, what more is left here to take
I’m all alone
I fear I’m near the end
And I would scream towards the sky
Like I would find a reason why
My faith’s set to fire now
I feel so cold watching you drown
When we have nothing left to lose
Tell me what else is left to prove
My faith’s set to fire now
I feel so cold watching you drown
When we have nothing left to lose
Tell me what else is left to prove
My faith’s set to fire now
Burn
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Artisan Sydney, Australia
Artisan is an emerging 6 piece progressive metalcore band from Sydney,
Australia. Influenced by bands such as
Architects, Polaris and Periphery, their
sound incorporates tight, heavy rhythmic sections, quiet and melodic bridges,
rap inspired vocal lines and powerful choruses.
Artisan’s debut EP ‘Grey’ which showcases their
unique expression of contemporary heavy music.
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