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I stand in torrid waters, they rise above my head.
A restless hell of broken dreams to greet me at my end.
Never succumb, never give in, to this tidal world of waves,
Nod and grin and swim and say that yes you'll die- but not today.
Here I stand, a man among thieves,
Who've stolen from thought the innate philosophy,
Of an objective truth, our existence defined,
Swapped out for silence within the man's mind.
I- Will never again, cede reason to blindness so shepherds can lead.
I- Will die by the creed, that all that I am is neither flawed nor diseased.
All the while these shadows will scream,
A fragmented picture of suicide dreams.
Whispering death so willfully sough,
Forever I cry for the voices to stop.
Man must never bow,
Never again to dictator or crown.
Not for eternity, a proposition most foul,
Heed not the sirens our lives are ours now.
Drive back the infernal swell of infinite pauses on which death must dwell.
Stand on the brink of a rational reality,
And see on horizons vast the lives we were born to lead.
I must rise, past the indelicate assumptions on which their truth lies.
I must see, with the judgmental eyes of a wrathful epistemology.
This life, this life is ours. Rise up and live it.
Rise.
Demand in our lives we must never personify
The bastardized beliefs that we were born to die.
Rise up and live as the waves...the waves come crashing down.
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No Koi No Yokan
03:39
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I saw your face in a life darkened night
And in my heart's lying mind I knew it could have been right
I scream still today it's a dream that would've worked
But there's no life here, no embrace but the earth.
I stand on a ledge staring off to life without you
On a bridge built too far past all the life I once knew
With dead heart dreams and hateful things I couldn't say
Too choked on broken hopes to not die in this violent rage.
No koi no yokan
In life I know the tears are falling
No koi no yokan
In death I see the stars are dying
No koi no yokan
All I knew was fading from me
No koi no okan
No embrace but the earth.
Why did you go and leave me in this shallow grave?
A broken man with dark thoughts and memories that fled in vain.
I hate the times I see your face in mind's eye that can't go blind
I love and loathe this grieving truth that you'll never truly die.
Slam the gates around me, lock and bar the doors,
Scream in agony, a dead man's antipathy, I'll never win the war.
I'll see your face til the mind's light fades, I can never run away,
Too far to outpace a nightmare, too close to kill a dream.
No koi no yokan
The past has passed but I'm still reeling
No koi no yokan
The now is then still with wounds bleeding
No koi no yokan
New days come with nothing for me
No koi no yokan
No embrace but the earth
I'm bitter and I'm hardened, I travel on alone.
Now and then I still look back to hate us both some more.
The hate I have for seeing signs when blank space was all I knew,
The hate I have for open eyes, the hate for seeing you.
No koi no yokan
Now my hell is finally fleeing.
No koi no yokan
The time has come for you to leave me
No koi no yokan
In these faithful arms not failing
No koi no yokan
No embrace but the earth.
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In ___ We Trust
03:36
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And then there was Light.
What's happening next? What's happening now?
Are we just a long dead dream of eternal sorrows?
An echoing cry amid the mindless mass,
Screaming infinite life in a finite existence.
I don't know who's right,
I'm not trying to make any calls.
If you are truly out there,
Will you break down these walls.
I used to speak to fictions,
To comforts and to skies.
In fear I never knew the truth,
From all the boundless lies.
Will you ever hear my fears?
Do I die on faith alone?
On Heaven's hopes do I waste my tears,
On what I'll never know?
I thought I knew what was and is and called my life Denial,
I tried to drown my senses in their blood-red wine.
I knelt on broken pews of glass and in fear I couldn't stand,
I know you wouldn't fear me so if I wasn't god-damned.
Bereft of a conclusive answer
Whose question remains a thorn ingrained,
I still scan the skies in the hope
That someday I'll be vindicated.
I will stand on the concrete conclusion that I could never believe in a dream.
That I can't close my eyes to injustice done in the name of your theology.
Prey not on the minds of the impressionable young, don't lock them in your stables,
Of ill-conceived thought based on your jealous gods as your freedoms are stoned and disabled.
I hold on to hope that I'm made for more than an amalgamation of anomalies:
Gilded refuse of a once-great kingdom.
More than a dream, more than a nightmare plot devised by the overlords of hatred and bigotry:
I will actualize my charge, to die free.
We are- the fragments of stardust and eternal space,
The death-obsessed creatures whom gods will deface.
We are- the mind and the body that could rule all our worlds,
And we- will never succumb to the lies, the lies that would lead us astray.
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Deathbed Dichotomy Bismarck, North Dakota
Deathbed Dichotomy has one simple goal: to make music and to incite intelligent conversation while doing it. Our sound has strong black metal influences, but we maintain that we will never be afraid to step outside our comfort zones, genre-jumping whenever we see fit if the music or lyrics written dictate such a move. ... more
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