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Anachrusis
01:47
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Coward now you turn to leave
Us to nurse our broken dreams
Stitch it up now piece by piece
N’our heart has lost its beat
It’s over oh you said that night
M’every choice is always right
Once we burned so very bright
Now fading flame’s our only light
How could you turn tail and run
From our moment in the sun
And now you’re gone I must announce
I hate the way you’d always count
One, two, three, four, five, six
Oh and we say today’s a new day
We’ll pave our own way
And the loss of your power weighs hard on our shoulders
We watched our dreams smoulder
Be buried by boulders
And cast off of your hand like meaningless sand
We watched our decay, the end of an age
But we won’t fade away
Nothing’s left for me but anxiety
And I’m struggling to reclaim our dream
I won’t turn and run, I do this for love
Left now in this sea nothing’s left for me
Don’t you see
You hurt me
When you left
This family
I’m screaming
For meaning
But none comes
With out love
No
Oh, and you say you exist to resist
All the shit that we’ve lain right at your feet
Counting on you keeping our beat
And you said at your end “friends don’t you see
The reason for treason is only for me”
I can’t go on with this song
Coward now you turn to leave
Us to nurse our broken dreams
Stich it up now piece by piece
N’our heart has lost its beat
It’s over oh you said that night
M’every choice is always right
Once we burned so very bright
Now fading flame’s our only light
How could you turn tail and run
From our moment in the sun
But now you’re gone there’s someone else
Who keeps our beat and rings the bells
And now you’re gone I must denounce
The awful way you think you count
And you say you exist to resist
All the shit that we’ve lain right at your feet
Counting on you keeping our beat
And you said at your end “Friends don’t you see
The reason for treason is only for me”
So here now we stand stronger and tall
As you cower before us wretched and small
And you said at your end “I’ll only stay
If you tell me it’s only, It’s only for me”
And you say
“Tell me it’s only, it’s only for me.”
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Petals falling, I used to feel
I tell myself now it’s not real
Winter, spring, summer, and fall
As seasons pass I dismiss them all
Marking off those wretched days
With scotch stained hands on an ink stained page
My poison blood my heart protests
The pain I know I won’t forget
Glass in hand, I need a drink
Swallow lethe, no longer think
“Forget me now, my only love,
There’s no heaven up above”
Going blind but still I see,
Her ghost there in front of me
“What of me?” I shout at her
“It’s over love,” she says.
-“Over”
I throw words in her face
She wraps my throat in golden lace
I feel her weight against my chest
And swallow lethe to forget
Going blind but still I see
Her ghost there in front of me
Broken hearted, broken spined
Screaming this life can’t be mine
I throw the words back in her face,
She wraps my throat in golden lace
Choking, burning, spitting, she shouts
-Swallow
Another sip to calm my nerves, down my throat the poison burns
Going blind but still I see, her ghost there in front of me
Still I see that tragic end, her concrete form and twisted limbs
So out I toss all sober thought, and crush the ice and shake the cup
The bottom of a bottle lends to my growing list of faded friends
Each name’s a stain on a skin torn page, writ with blood and viral rage
So I pour myself another drink, to numb my mind to drying ink
And so too, or so I hope, rid my throat of her garrote
Swallow lethe to forget, how her weight pressed my chest
Going blind but I still see, her ghost there in front of me
“’Ver,” she said; “’Ver,” I cried, in that beat my heart died
Gone is love, gone is hope, all that’s left’s around my throat
Broken heart, broken spine, empty words and empty lies
I will go the way of Poe, take my poison and sip it slow
I will bring my tragic end, concrete form, twisted limbs
I’ll swallow lethe to forget how her weight compressed my chest
Burning, choking, begging, shouting
-Swallow
I do it all just to forget
The way that her weight felt compressing my chest
The knife that sticks still deep in my veins
Digging in deeper day after day
She cries “No”
“Let me go”
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4. |
Der Walzer
01:05
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It’s over, it’s over
Over for you.
My heart’s still beating,
Oh it’s beating through.
My chest is open
My rib cage in tatters
Oh not that it matters
The window still shatters
The voices still clamor
“We’re coming for you”
Lips locked and
Eyes shut and
Just out of
Ear shot
The cawing
The squawking
The nights I spent clawing
At my eyes
At my ears
Oh the things that I hear
You wouldn’t believe me
They said it
It’s over
Oh my four leaf clover
Oh let me roll over
let me feel satin
And let me feel birch
Let me feel locked in
Oh I’m at my worst
Words set to play back
The ones in my head
The lies that I’ve said
The stories in bed
Oh lover, oh lover
Oh I’ll come for you
And all the while singing
A melancholy tune
Your skin’s still shining
And I’m still divining
Your mood
Wake up lover, lover wake up.
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5. |
Konfekt
04:03
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Oh lover, oh lover, please speak to me
I’m no more deaf to your hoarse voice, your pleas
Can your snowy skin still feel my lips?
Open your eyes love, you’ll miss the eclipse
Oh and you’ll see that I’m not such a beast
I’m only a ghost, and I’ve lost all my teeth
Oh lover, oh lover, I’ve come for you
And all the while singing a melancholy tune
Your shining skin still so sweet on my lips
Yet something in me shrinks from that last arctic kiss
Tell me nothing’s wrong
Wake up lover, sing me a song
Tell me I’m not such a beast
That the bruises on your neck were not caused by me
Wake up lover, lover wake up
Wake up you’ll see that I’m not such a beast
It’s over, it’s over, over for you
My heart’s still beating oh it’s beating through
My chest is open, my rib cage in tatters
Oh not that it matters, the window still shatters
The voices still clamor, “We’re coming for you”
Hide me lover, hide me with you
Tell me this nightmare’s a dream
Tell me lover that you’ll let me sleep
Oh and you’ll see that I’m not such a beast,
I’m only a ghost and I’ve lost all my teeth.
Wake up lover, lover wake up
I swear I’ll trade my breath for you, your love
Wake up lover, I’m begging for you
For the touch of your hand, for your vacant eyes blue
For just a touch of your lips
For any excuse for one more kiss
Wake up lover, lover wake up
I swear I’ll trade my breath for your love
As the blood drops out of my veins
I can’t help but feel that nothing will change
That you’ll still be gone if I ever come to,
That lover I did this, I did this to you
Wake up lover, lover wake up
I swear I’ll trade my breath for you, your love
Wake up lover, tell me you’ll stay
As the blood leaves my veins and my vision turns grey
Tell me lover you’ll stay
Lover please, lover please
Wake up lover, lover wake up
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6. |
Murder
04:24
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Opening my eyes, surrounded by the crowd
The voices grow in volume, 'til I can't help but shout
I know they're all in danger, I know that I need help
I know there's only silence just beyond my self
The thoughts I'll never hear, the minds that aren't mine
The fingers that I'm feeling tracing shivers down my spine
They keep getting louder, telling me to kill
If you won't bring me silence damn it then I will
Open up your skin, enough for me to see
The marching red inside you, marching to your beat
Are you afraid?, I know I'm not
For the first time in a long time the voices have just
-Stopped
Taking in the air, swallowing the scene
The murmurs once inside me now turn into screams
They keep getting louder, as blood dries on my hands
It's slipping through my fingers like so many grains of sand
Locked in my skull, I see her skeleton still
Blood on the walls cakes, flakes, and covers me
On a throne made of bones she sits, throat slit and turning green
I claw at my eyes, she begs me let her die
"Oh let me go" She says, I'll make it worth your while"
"Oh no, my only hope is silence"
I open my eyes and darkness is all that I see
From the corners, the walls, seeps and creeps even out from me
Locked in my head I'm already dead
And the filth on my hands has painted me red.
The voices grow in volume; I need to let them out
They keep getting louder, 'til I can't help but shout
They're bursting from inside me; I'm splitting at the seams
The silence that I'm longing seems a bitter distant dream
The thoughts I'll never hear, the minds that aren't mine
The fingers that I'm feeling tracing shivers down my spine
They keep getting louder as blood dries on my hands
It's slipping through my fingers like so many grains of sand
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7. |
575
05:23
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We walk hand in hand
Down this dreary rain-drenched path
And though our hearts still
Beat we fear our time has passed
We walk in silence
Together but still alone
We walk and beg the
Setting sun to take us home
And so far from Earth
Where the gyre ebbs and flows
even the stars feel ‘lone
And in that silence we wove, she takes my hand and says to me,
My love our hearts are lost within that terrible sea
An acrid frigid
Breeze bites bitter at our bones
And on that silent
Path we drop our wilted rose
And so far from Earth
Even stars can feel alone
Her cold hand in mine
Tells me it’s time to let go
Still there she stands, and clasped in her hands is
Nothing she says and nothing she shows
But still she feels safe oh from my embrace
For poison’s my touch, and poison’s my tongue
And nothing I've sain can ever be changed,
She’s dark and she's cold, even to me
So I’ll take the blame and sign off my name
To the atrocity that I’ve made of her and
She sighs, and in the silence breaks
Saying she can’t go on
I walk in silence
Down an empty rain-stained path
And though my heart still
Beats I fear my time has passed
And so far from earth
Where the gyre ebbs and flows
Even stars feel ‘lone
And in the silence we wove
I claw her skin and
Beg her flesh to not leave me
Left without my breath
And she
She sighs and, condescends my wish
And so I’m left behind, taking every painful breath
Oh I feel sick and pale, as if my bloods all dried
Instead pumps through my veins all the tears I’ve cried
So with every cell, every fang and tooth
I beg the open sky ‘deluge let loose’
Wash me clean
Of sin and skin
An acrid frigid
Breeze bites bitter at my bones
And on that silent path
I grip our wilted rose
And in the silence
I can’t help but feel alone
I beg the setting
Sun to come and take me home
Thorns stick in my flesh
And drink up my wretched blood
I close tight my eyes
And brace for the coming flood
Still there she stands, and clasped in her hands is
Nothing she says and nothing she shows
But still we, we walk, and talk past our past
But poison’s my touch, and poison’s my tongue
And nothing I've sain will ever be changed,
She’s dark and she’s cold, even to me
And under my hands she turns to sand
And she starts to fade, she’s fading away
Tell me she says, are we at the end?
And I nod, I cry, at the greying sky
It’s here and it’s now, though I don’t know how
And I’m cold and scared of this sickening air
And she’s in the mist, she’s fading with it
And I try to hold, hold her with me but. . .
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This sea’s alive, writhing with flames
Its shores are my wrists, and its rivers my veins
There is no, stopping it now,
Some courses through me, but most’s on the ground
But I’m still alive, the blood isn’t mine
Some poor wretch dropped his head with his wine
The razor’s ready to give its salute
And glorious red drips down in volute
Oh happy day that virtue’s in charge
A Marat I pledge all of my heart
Here at the home, the core, of revolt
Here it is that Deus cried vult
Here it is that Corday bowed
Here it is that gathers the crowd
I pray for blood each day of the week
And count my blessings as wolves count the sheep
The sky’s dripping red, I’m drinking it now
The blood of man so much sweeter than cow
I pray for no end to this week
And count all my blessings as wolves count the sheep
Lower your voice
Lower your voice the razor now speaks
Announces those who it will eat
But this can’t be right the razor chose me
He who so proudly uncovers his knees
I who was there at the death of the king
I who was there at the fall of Bastille
I'll lose my head by the end of this week
I count all my blessings and wolves count the sheep
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9. |
Storming the Bastille
03:49
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Light drifts in through an open window
It casts prisms in this castle
Workers toil in the soil
They don't know that this day's their last
The gates are open, rebels flow in
Voices bleed dread, as the field turns bright red
Give us your heads
The turrets bleed nightmares from dreams
But the sun shines on the front lines
The rebels still flood Versaille with blood
Speaks the kingdom 'tyranny or freedom'
The poison they brewed calls for fresh food
'Let them eat cake' brought on this fate
Give us your heads
They fought on with tooth and nail
Royals fall under their hail
Blades, fangs, clang in the rain
And empty the Versaille's veins
This war's taken its claim
Left the earth scored by her flames
As the people decree
With the king down on his knees
Give us your heads
Pleading softly, swearing harshly
The people decree, with the king on his knees
Give us your heads
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10. |
Call Me Ishmael
03:14
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He casts his line
Into the stained-glass waves
He sees only a happy past
As the sun begins to fade
He feels only her caress,
The rising of the tides,
Solitude, such solitude,
And water on all sides
Storm on the rise,
Oh she comes to life
Oh acrid breeze,
Let it not be so
He still sees her struggling
To break the undertow
Her hand in his,
He cannot let go
His heart is braced
Against the coming gale
In the sea he sees her face
Swollen, aged, pale
He cannot forgive himself
‘The tempest be my judge’
By the light of the setting sun
He knows his end is come
Storm on the rise
Oh she comes to life
Oh acrid breeze
Let it not be so
He still sees her sink below
Fear born in her eyes
Her hand in his
He let go
Crashing waves tear flesh from bone
Arms open wide he swims for home
Morn on the rise
The wind bears no voice
Lost to the sea
They are now content
Two hearts torn by the storm
Two lovers slain
One fell to the crashing waves
And one to falling rain
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11. |
Lovecraft
07:20
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Oh lover, oh lover, lover wake up
Tell me there’s something a heaven above
Say that you love me, oh say that you’ll stay
As the blood drips from my veins my vision turns grey
But something seems wrong dear just behind your gaze
Your eyes stare at nothing; they’re wrapped in a glaze
Tell me oh lover you’ll always be mine
And someday I’ll see you on the other side
Oh and you’ll see I’m not such a beast
I’m only a ghost and I’ve lost all my teeth
And oh how I know that we’ll drown in this flood
But I swear I’ll trade my breath for your love
He stands atop a burning bridge
Her lifeless form held in his hands
Insanity on either shore
She begged no more, she breathes no more
Oh how he cries out to the night
‘Where is my sun? Where is my light?’
He lays her on death’s broken throne
And he takes up a shattered stone
Oh how he holds her hallowed corpse
He’s gripping thorns, his voice is hoarse
He beats her breast, he begs her breathe
He knows she’s gone but can’t believe
Oh how he tries to let her go
To bury her in memory’s snow
To rid his mind of this awful tryst
A shattered stone sticks in his wrist
Oh on that bridge those lovers lie
And from his lips escapes a sigh
He sees her blood, oh how he shouts
‘Out damn spot out, out damn spot out’
Oh, he says ‘so this is how we end’
He sighs, ‘so long, farewell, goodbye’
He lays his cheek upon her hair
Though its golden shine’s no longer there
He hates himself for what he’s done
She was his shade, she was his sun
He never thought it’d end like this
Two lovers fallen ins abyss
The first snow falls as lovers lie
He sighs once more to her goodbye
He sighs to her goodbye; ‘farewell my love, goodbye’
He takes her hand and dies, and sighs once more goodbye
He sighs ‘so long, farewell, goodbye’
Oh she fades, and oh deaths awful throne makes her its slave
Oh he takes her hand, as their streams meet
And so his heart slows to her beat
Oh how they lie upon that bridge
Two concrete forms with twisted limbs
He holds her tight, he understands
She slips away like so much sand
That shattered stone sticks in his wrist
Erasing memories of their tryst
And so they drown in the blackest snow
Her hand in his, he can’t let go
So this is how we end
Bitter corpses, barely friends
He takes her hand and dies
But sighs once more goodbye
So long, farewell, goodbye
Oh on that bridge that’s burning bright
The lovers sink into the night
And so their sins their love forgives
His hand in hers, her hand in his
Below that bridge the gyre flows
The lovers grip their wilted rose
Their frozen lips produce no sighs
They birth no words, they speak no lies
They watch their black sun rise
With no life behind their eyes
All angry beasts leap from their chests
To tell the world of the lovers’ deaths
The world as one together cries
‘So long dear ones, farewell, goodbye’
Oh how they lie upon that bridge
As their two souls fall off a ridge
And soon enough no one will know
What’s buried there beneath the snow
No one will speak of that awful day
And soon their memory fades away
The wind picks up, as if to sigh
‘So long dear ones, fare well, goodbye’
Oh goodbye.
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