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Driven
07:01
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It always gets worse before it gets better
Got pulled out of this state, so callous and afraid
Though there was nothing to lose I put everything on the line
No burdens, void of desire
Within a heavy heart
No need to aspire
Just pause, a new start
Still seems impossible to explain
Such a solid plan blown to smithereens
So, this is the poison of the sting
So red, black, shimmering and sweet
To see this through and still be free
Just seems like too much of a task
So take all you need, just take it from me
I promise you won't even have to ask
I can barely see
You simply can’t easily lose something like this
In an agreement called never it’s hard to tell pain from bliss
And still I would stop and drop everything I got
To understand how this came to be, is beyond me
I am trading solace for something real
So I’ll give away more of myself
And deny to yearn for something in return
So I run on for a hidden truth
While the night is darkest just before dawn
And these are the remnants of your gift I could grow to loathe
To see this through and still be free
Just seems like too much of a task
So take all you need, just take it from me
I promise you won't even have to ask
I will never rest
Still I run on for a hidden truth
On through my darkest night,
Waiting for dawn
I still long for the remnants of your gift I have grown to loathe
To see this through and still be free
Just seems like too much of a task
So take all you need, just take it from me
I promise you won't even have to ask
I can barely see you
I will leave this path of thorns
In truth, you did barely see me
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The Pursuit of Mementos
05:31
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Savored these memories and carved them in deep
Lost all connection to rational thoughts
A grinding vision of sleep and craving the flames
Living in woe and in solicitude
We reap what we sow
No one was there to witness
No one knew nothing about where I thought you'd choose to run
We'll never be the same
All clouded by ourselves
A plan killed the wish
Refuse to give in so quickly
This is what hurts us the most
While we keep resembling the pieces
We are just remembering ghosts
This presence might beat you and claw for your tongue
The uncertain bleeds pictures and let’s you run on
It takes a sleight of hand to close all of the wounds
When the whispers are heard and the runway is curved
There was every warning
This ends in more than a fray
There was every warning
They told me to stay away
I covet the idea of a story about a life
I have no clue how memories keep on breathing
No one was there to witness
No one knew nothing about where I thought you'd choose to run
We'll never be the same
All clouded by ourselves
A plan killed the wish
Refuse to give in so quickly
This is what hurts us the most
While we keep resembling the pieces
We are just remembering ghosts
And no one was there to witness
And no one could tell nothing about where I thought that you had chosen to run
And we will never be the same again
As we’re getting in way over our heads
It is the mind's plan that killed the wish
But its light still blinds
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Vain Gods never learn
04:19
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Our egos are endless
No judgement ever handed down
We won’t confess to our blindness of bigger pictures
Man reigns in the dark and takes all for granted
What can you see past the edge of our wealth?
We never chose an heir
We forget the ricochet is the second part
We tumble into oblivion for lessons we did never learn
After taking what we did not
Earn a step towards the end
No more speculation
No more betting on the death of the poor as they weep
No more caging of progress
No more arrogance, no more
The face we dread, it glows in the dark
In our war room of concrete and glass
So much to reach for, but we look at the wrong skies
We’ll rot in our holy grounds
Or burn in the tops of our spires
And the ones who stand and defy
Will watch everything bleed to its last drop
We tumble into oblivion for lessons we did never learn
After taking what we did not earn
Earn a step towards the end
Vain gods never learn
This all ends up in oblivion
It’s what you get if you’re unwilling to learn
Enjoy your glory in death
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Diversity, Fragility
05:40
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A tearless grief for phantoms past who never had a say
Their kingdom turned into barren lands since we took it away
Praising the diversity of all that's gone
And of the treasures which still remain with us
And the fragility of every single part of life
It brings great beauty, but killers wipe all clean of it
False green order, withering life
A spreading reign of the sand since hopeful times of old
The lung has been all cut up
We gather the poison
The big blue breathes its last..
We’re really that cold?
No drill holes ever spew out that sort of hope
For this dying kind that seems to have long moved on
Please, for the sake of our descendants regency
And to keep us here, so our kind’s still worth saving
I'm missing the gallows here at the summit of greed
Why aren't we, one by one, hung up high?
Better gods died where we carved our paths in the dark
While we just stood by and we just watched
Is this really the truth about the so called crown?
Do we forever avert our gaze from home as we drown?
There should be images of reapers or blood stained mirrors
But the illusion is done, our need for prosperity’s won
False green order, withering life
A spreading reign of the sand since hopeful times of old
The lung’s been all cut up
We gather the poison
The big blue breathes its last..
We just circle the drain
Our traces on her faces like lacerations, never fading away
Who could fight our golden cerberus as he devours forgotten remains
I need the diversity of all that fades
To love the killers
To hope there is change in them
No one sees the fragility of all we have
It brings great anger to once peaceful hands and eyes
I'm missing the gallows here at the summit of greed
Why aren't we, one by one, hung up high?
Better gods died where we carved our paths in the dark
While we just stood by and we just watched
A clock that still has time left to save this precious coincidence
Who will raise a hand in protection while the armies of the many stand still
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Somewhat afraid to admit this keeps fading
That last remaining anchor, a life vest to save..
Save the ghost in the core, the one I never knew
There is no easy answer if you insist on a reason
It speaks too loud and outshines all
In years of apparitions, in these silent seasons
A stinging name unknowingly took a pride of place
And one word lingered on and on and on: unconditionally
This could be a pointless endeavour for solace, for deliverance
An exercise in futility, but I'm sure I waste absolutely nothing
It's peace for restless minds, this promised to provide
With no effort you cleansed the mess from my head
Some will say this brings myself nothing more than emptiness
No easy mission to cling to how I pictured you
Endless patience is punishing, so practice moderation
Advice is given as often as it’s ignored
To be oblivious while insisting on a reason..
Can’t we get away? We deserve this!
If I ever reached a harbour and still had anything left
I would bow my head and never leave again
So while I could go away and try and rush and grasp I'd rather have you here
This could be a pointless endeavour for solace, for deliverance
This could be my very last endeavour
To conquer time and overcome distance
It's peace for restless minds this promised to provide
With no effort you cleansed the mess from my head
Some will say this Brings myself nothing more than emptiness
It could not be another time or on a brighter day
And reaching far won’t help you to find a better way
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Gloom
03:25
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I am a constant
I am, oh, so confident and ever so stable
Though always at the brink of collapse
I can rely on despair
On the wrong signs
A lack of compassion
I need to see this
And you, to see this
I am longing for the end
I need holes and cracks in this hull that was built 'round me
And many more who mean well, but all fail and destroy more of themselves every day
I lost track of this
Though I didn't move at all
I need a constant
Oh, I need a confidant
Can you please build me up
To save me from the brink of collapse
Can you cleanse me from my fears,
Everyday's gloom
And my own thoughts
I need to see this
And you, to see this
This is over when we confess to ourselves
And wear it on our sleeves
Hold it high over our heads
Hold it high for all to see
Reach inside the darkness
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Run Atlas, run
05:58
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Start to seclude and sever the feeble bonds
What was so weakening?
What lead it astray?
To predict or predicate the outcome of the smallest of collisions
Add a little weight
Disrupt the orbit
Run Atlas, run
Spare me the parade
We are glad but what persists after ending the charade?
All laid upon my shoulders
Now, to sever every strip and let it slip
I’m adrift in this for far too long
This forlorn hope
States of ain soph aur
Who would run and cower?
A merchant of redemption sometimes earns seeds of silence
When you just pass me by, make a decision
Hale us to safety
Never aimed to be a hero
Never longed for the tragedy
I can’t be the shadow anymore to veil your eyes from inequities of the past
Know
Now
Hold on
Sever all ties
In the end disposition lies within and so does all affection
I still need some time to pack
It’s so much more now
Some things need to end
These sickening ways
Of vacillation, complacency
Begin to try to be what once was me
Run Atlas, run
Spare me the parade
We are glad but what persist after ending the charade?
All laid upon my shoulders
Now, to sever every strip
And let it slip away
Hold on
Sever
Hold on to sever
Renew
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A Day, so dark
05:24
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My open eyes hurt from the small red and white spots in front of me
Scant of breath I head home on the way preset by the demons of 2
My clenched fists still hurt
I watched the abuse and vain vanity
More and more this feels like war won by the cowards
And every breath is burning from this filth and disease that is spread these days
It has always been done, with or without any vile intentions
You fill the world with the empty space in your heads and in your hearts
There's no love, not even paid by the hour
I wait for a new day, for the end of us
So let us fall away
I'll leave all solace behind
My heart and hands haven't done what should have saved me today
Did we really end up at this point of basking only in extremes
And of a pastime of simply bashing ourselves, our lives
Or are we just misguided by the digitally divided
Whose swords only click
Fury, as useless as war over beliefs
Do as you please, lash out, ut leave me out of this mess
It’s like a plague, you’re unwilling to think
What can I say? It makes me sick!
In time they will all fail us
Then look at what we become
If we vanished today it would not be much of a loss
I dwell in a day, so dark, to sleep could lift this veil
I dwell in a day, so dark..
Let me rip apart this new veil
See, my conscience is awake
And my conscience strives away from your reign
There is enough done in vain to see me leaving you all
I'm pledging to call for truth in you, in me
I wait for a new day, for the end of us
So let us fall away.
I'll leave all solace behind,
My heart and hands haven't done what should have saved me today
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Transience
06:04
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Rage, rage against the dying of the light
Don't let go quietly
I found these moments to teach me adoration
The profound meaning behind the slight sad look of eyes in love
We all come down with grief every once in a while
And with nostalgia over something we haven't even lost yet
So, know the value of scarcity and learn to cherish the finiteness of life
How can you squander the possibility for transcendence and love while you are conscious of your fleeting time here?
Does impermanence bring meaninglessness when beauty fades to nothingness?
And the exception is a rabbit hole
A notion to avoid decay
While it can only be temporary, do you give in?
Do you renounce dependence and all attachments?
Is the rose that you give to a loved one made of plastic?
Or would you want a setting sun to last forever?
Everything you enjoy will one day end and vanish
Everyone you love will one day be taken away from you or you from them
All beauty dies, but it's the fact that it dies that empowers your emotions to appreciate all you have
So much more
This lifts me up and disguises the world’s apathy and hatred
It’s the softest touch and a warm glow, even in the absence of colour
Without things I fear I might lose I am nothing at all
They tear at my heart and hang onto my very soul and won’t let go quietly
It’s when the whole world dissolves and reappears again
And you skip a beat, a breath, a blink of an eye..
I will extend these moments forever
Or at least I will give them my all
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All Its Grace Mainz, Germany
New Album "TO WHAT END?" out October 13th on Bastardized Recordings
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