FRIGID FUTURE // 03.18.16 via We Are Triumphant & Victory Records
Produced, mixed and mastered by Carson Slovak & Grant McFarland at Atrium Audio in Lancaster, PA. Recorded February-March 2015.
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Inside Out (Japan Only Bonus Track)
Towers (Japan Only B-Side Alternate Lives EP)
Eradicate what you know about me
Your frigid future is void without a dream
It’s like I’m witnessing a sinking ship
Watching everybody drown inside of it
We’re the wolves in the blizzard
Starved, not lost
We’re the crops that won’t wither
Or subdue to frost
Please calm down, I want to make a name
Far from here, I will be back someday
Pull my own
I crawl this beaten path with claws unhoned
I’ve been told
That those who plant winds harvest storms
Hit the road, it’s time to live the dream
Hear my resolution, let’s start a revolution
Swimming blindly through the stream
It’s time to live the dream
Loosing faith is all I’ve known
But I won’t sail these seas alone
It’s like I’m witnessing a sinking ship
Watching everybody drown inside of it
We’re the wolves in the blizzard
We’re the crops that won’t wither
In this moment I feel so cold
I won’t be alone in the blizzard
At the atmosphere I surface
My body’s free tonight
My vision serves a purpose
Leave me to close my eyes
I’m left for dead but i’m always getting stronger
I’m loosing sleep and my mind just seems to wonder
This life is wild, meaningless, and the sun will never die
We’re open minded, superstitious, and we’ll lose our fucking minds
We get caught in these lights (Woah)
We live alternate lives (Alternate)
Destined to meet again
My hands are shaking now
I want to feel you
I want to breathe you
In two different worlds
The sunset is my escape
Silence eases all the pain
I’m not the one to break your fall
Just another caustic phase
Your bleeding heart bled for a purpose
Love filled with black and blue
My deepest regrets rise
Inside I always knew
And I was born to run
Nowhere to go
I’m holding onto what I know
Because I’ve learned to let go
Grab all your baggage, it’s back to the station
The train is departing with no hesitation
All these ‘goodbyes’ amount to nothing
When you return to find out
I never was loving
I just needed some space
To drown the dark feelings
That engulfed my heart in flames
Save me from this place
I’ve been led astray
Time to choose my faith
Or I’ll lose my way
Cleanse myself, erase my sin
Lie to my face, and take it away
I’ll drink away everything I’ve learned to be
(Such a waste)
Day by day, fate will change
Let’s see the pain escape
Watch my hours fade
Let my pieces stray
Help me to be (to be)
Honest with myself
This time I’ll make my own path
It seems you live in the past
(Na Na Na)
Just learn to live and laugh again
Yeah, I thought I needed help, and nobody’s listening
I want it all, all for my own selfish reasons
Every person, place, thing around me
Will change my life ahead
Stand up kid, pick your feet up off the ground
You need to move on with this hell
And everything around you
Wait, nothing’s gonna save me
Please perceive the devil inside of me
I’m letting of the pain escape
Rest in peace, I never meant to fool you
Your destiny, it wasn’t ready to fulfill you
I’m wide awake
I can’t seem to, can’t seem to find
(Find my way)
I’m miles away
I can’t seem to, can’t seem to find
Find my way
Searching for a meaning
Always loosing feeling
And I don’t wanna let it end this way
I thought I had something more to say
But now I realize it’s just all too late
This isolation never kept me safe
(Never kept me safe)
Turning around, you’re bringing me down
To everything that lies below
Do you haunt me now?
I’m already dead… dead inside from this nightmare
My guilty conscience claims that I can’t hide from there
Yet still I’m lost
Lost in my mind
In apparition, idly floating by
Pack the suitcase, take a load off
The past two days consumed my demons
This path I take, comes full circle
Relapse, repeat, it’s all in my head
Hide the heartache in a bottle
Selfish bastard you’ve lost it, lost it all
Devil beside me stow me in chains
Devil beside me show me your pain
Part of me can’t carry on this way
‘Cause I know (I know)
That you’ll fade away
Disregard this burden of today
‘Cause I know (I know)
That I won’t be saved
Reach out and grab my soul
The ghost in your eyelids will turn me to stone
This mask is slipping, my organs are failing
Her touch is like porcelain
Taking down black and white pictures off the wall
(I’ll burn them all)
Replacing memories with the ones you can’t forgo
You, yeah you left us without a doubt
Turned your back on the flesh and blood
Who tried to help out when shit got rough
I guess you really never gave a fuck
You, you said it was for the best
But we know you’re a sycophant
it’s nothing personal, it’s just business
Shut up, you’ve burned your bridges
And cut the ropes to all the things you once held close
Back then we chased the dream
And fought through masses of
Frauds, scammers, liars and thieves
In the end, we thought that we could trust you
But trust is not a god damn virtue
And everything you ever wanted
Was staring back at you this whole time
So tell me, it’s ending
Were you just pretending?
You’ll leave your friends, deceiving them
They’re left betrayed
Repeating trends you see instead
To get your way
It was for the best
It’s nothing personal, it’s just business
You’d rather spend your days
Living life on the road
Getting drugged by your so-called friends
Living your life like a fucking lie
Sycophant your fate is in their hands
You betrayed your fucking five best friends
Just hope you’ll never see us again
I keep the pace and traverse down this weathered road
To find some closure from the place that I called home
Jagged stones, stagnant water
Sleepless nights, is it over?
Yet, these past few weeks I’ve got to thinking
Will I ever resonate with the land I'm bound to be in?
No one can startle me
I am the strongest breed
If you take away what means most to me
My jaws of life will bite ferociously
Step back, the cliff is far too close now
Unless I leap with every bone
To find the aspiration that every day is not a clone
I keep the pace and traverse down this same old road
To find some closure from the place that you called home
Is this my final stop?
Staring at a dimly lit door
Barron trees calmly swaying in the midnight snow
The air fills my lungs
With a chilled, northern cold
I am, and all I will be
It’s staring back within, it’s right in front of me
I won’t fall, through it all
I will vow, hear me now
This is who I am
I won’t let the world break me down
Is this my final stop?
Staring at a dimly lit door
Barron trees calmly swaying in the midnight snow
The air fills my lungs
With a chilled, northern cold
The breeze lifts my spirit
I am home
I now know my purpose
To judge those who are worth it
I now know my purpose
To maul those who deserve it
She packed her bags and moved on (Woah)
Said she’d flee to Hollywood (Woah)
I’m no actor, but she’s an actress
Regret my actions, won’t learn my lesson
Do we exist? (Woah)
We were too selfish that I know
Is this the ending that I wrote?
Free your mind, free your soul
And then you’ll take control
Write it out, let it go
Just let your thoughts unfold
This is an empty
This is an empty world for an empty girl
Cameras rolling, she told me I’m late
Bought and sold me out like a slave
(I want to watch you)
Fall, fall apart
Apart at the seams
Just like me
I’ll destroy me demons to shine like a beacon
It’s hard to keep writing the script that you’re seeking
Take your keys and drive somewhere out of sight
I never wanted you to go
I never wanted you to leave
After all you’ve said and done for me
I don’t want to give up
With life on repeat, you’re all that I’m missing
When I visit your grave, you know I’m not dancing
After all you’ve said and done for me
Our love wasn’t hard to cherish
Tell me I’ll be okay
I feel the light from your halo
Please tell me I’ll be okay
Open my casket, I’m torn into pieces
I’ve knocked on death’s door just to say what I’m feeling
Tell me I’ll be okay
As the wind swept through the grass
I felt the presence of your life
And suddenly, everything around me
Started to make more sense
Reflections of these heartfelt memories
Transcend in my consciousness
At this point, I knew you were around me
I never wanted you to go
Tell me I’ll be okay
I never wanted you to leave
Please tell me I’ll be okay
Standing at the edge of my tower
This world turns cold with every hour
And oh my god they’re killing me
With all the shit they say
So I’m gonna lay here and waste away
What is our purpose for?
What are we dying for?
We need to start again
Because we’re destroying our towers
Trying to hold my composure
Watching my soul float across the ocean
What the hell are we doing here?
‘Cause it’s driving me insane
So I’m gonna pretend it’s all a game
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Your face was so unsure
And I thought you’d leave me more
How can you be so forward?
And I’m trying to be who I am
And I’ll bleed over and over again
You know I’ll see through the end
Won’t miss me when I’m dead (Woah)
Over and over again
Delusions sweep my darkened mind
Pushing out the stable thoughts and makeshift pride
Block it out and cut my wrists
Watch me suffer through all of this
Ending it won’t cleanse my sins
Because I know it was enough to shed your skin
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Inside Out:
Misinterpret the devil's eyes
You walk through hell to seek the light
The serpents tongue, it feeds on lies
A better you, a new disguise
Please just make it stop until I'm inside out
I don't wanna live another lie
Drowning in the doubt, will my flame go out?
Draining all my thoughts on the inside
Hold onto your dying breath
This is our only chance to make amends
I'll never see you
Spit out my wild fire right in your eyes
Back on the road in my van before I said goodbye
I feel your body moving rushing through my head
Distance is closure that I'll never see you again
I'm leaving, I'm running
To islands to mountains
