1. |
This Gentle Cold
07:22
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Thus
I live only to suffer
Drifting from cold sleep to agony
In this violent ersatz misery
Selling broken men fragility
You’ve not yet beheld the sun
You’ve not yet beheld the sun
We the cold
Missing time
Fill us with the fire of a dying breath
We’re not living, we despair
But may we be tomorrow?
So to the dying we’re the dead
And to the dead we are a dream
A whisper of a warmer world
No more
Pray
For the cold,
Feed us deathlessness of our own
I’ll not feed on entropy
Eternity is death to me
I’m
Waiting for the end, this roiling atrophy
Feel your heart break open unto me
To the void let’s step in two as one
To the void, the death we’ve left behind
I’d give anything to save us both
I’d give anything to save us both
From the vile slavering of the night
From the horrid screams of candlelight
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2. |
A Feast For Rats
03:55
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“God it’s so cold”
Got another motherfucker in a chokehold
Hey I hear mother calling
“Wait no what I’m so sorry don’t do it”
Hey I’m broken
Head hangin’ on a rusted bike chain
There’s no red blood here to see
They took and hid it in the falling snow
Chop me into bits
And spread me in the grave
Wipe up my blood
Act like you are
Something other than a
Hateful fuck
I hear no god
I am no god
I hear no god
I am
“God it’s so cold”
Got another motherfucker in a chokehold
Hey I hear mother calling
“Wait no what I’m so sorry don’t do it”
Hey I’m broken
Head hangin’ on a rusted bike chain
There’s no red blood here to see
They took and hid it in the falling snow
Chop me into bits
And spread me in the grave
I hear no god
I am no god
I hear no god
I am
Blood, to the dirt
Seeping slowly low
To the dirt
Blood, mulched flesh
So above, we
Felt no love
As above
So below
Feed me to the rats
Feed me to the swine
Feed me to the flood
For this earth won’t be mine
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3. |
Hollow Be Thy Name
05:14
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Another Father
Feeds another violent lie
Used sex as a way to break their spine
While setting fire to everything they love
You maggot, you fiend
How are
You willing to
Let any child
Bleed out by your hand
So let the marrow
Flow from broken bone
Look Father
As we burn your home
No peace for pigs
No love for swine
You took our youth
And we’ve come undone
And we’re done
Your god
Wouldn’t wish
This upon
Any of
His children
Regardless of
Who or what
They love and are
Your god loathes you
No paradise awaits
And as you sit and drown in a lake
Of blood and gristle
I hope you remember
That this is the heaven you so loved
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4. |
Dying Embers
07:02
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See this world
How it fades
In flame and bone
It’s now encased and
I, of the frigid night
Can’t find a breath
Or a will to fight
Men and beast both
Will always die
And those who fight fate
Give it time
The body aches
To join the void below
Tomorrow fades
A world I’ll never know
This cold night
Hail
Lord of the burning cold
Hail
Everything will turn to snow
Bleeding fire, bleeding flames
Sprinting through the night
Vile to the burning liturgy
Nowhere finding haven for the cold
Frozen as is my idolatry
As my blood
My pulsing, warm heart
Leads them right to me
She curls cracking lips
“Those given to the flames
And gifted to the ash
We burn out of our names
They are the godless sons
No cinder, bone or blood
Fire is the chain
Hellfire is the blade
Sew them shut
Those that cry
Sew them shut”
Dark never came
Men die
Every day
Eternal
In this decay
So for your fallen son
We find him overcome
"For I, in agony,
Desperate to be set free
I am not the man I was
I am not the man I was
Nor am I the man I’m meant to be"
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5. |
The Last Great Day
02:07
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I awake to a blue sky. The sound of birds, the crash of waves. Another morning, another beautiful morning.
The breath is fresh in my lungs, the sun warm on my skin as I walk through the threshold of what I once knew as my home, now a hollow shell of what it was.
As the world thrives and lives around me I cannot help but consider yet again that I must watch it all fade. I must watch this all turn to naught but dust and ash in the wind, and I must listen yet again as the man on the radio proclaims that this will not be the end. That this will not be our downfall, that this will not be what brings us to ruin, that this will not be our final great day.
Yet here I am staring at a sky that will soon be red, then black, wishing I could do anything but watch, and wishing you could do anything but die.
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6. |
Let The Sun Swallow All
10:55
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I cannot do this another time
Twilight dreams and lost souls unto flame
Fire-opened eye and bone spit out
It has taken everything that’s made me whole
Falling fast, you laugh, full of life
My light slowly ending
Nothing’s left of me
Flesh scored from bone by the blaze
Swathes of panicked men
Lo, watch them flee, until morning comes
And I’ve watched the sun fall from the sky
Far too many fucking times
Seen it all go down in flames
Heard the cries of the ending of an age
Felt the ash fill my lungs as I watched
The tears of all the children never born
Silenced in a final sudden gasp
As I pray desperately it’s the last
And I see flame
Flickering cross your face
And I can’t bear it any longer
I watch the stars wink out one by one
Knowing that I’ll have to start again tomorrow
But this one night I wasn’t alone
I can see in your eyes
You’ll never believe me this time
Nor any time before
As I tell you for the final time, today
I’ll never get to love you anymore
Trapped in this all-collapsing refrain
I cannot stand the weight or the pain
I’m crumbling, I’ve fallen time and time and I know
I am alone again
Curse these eyes, that I am alive to see it end
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Biledriver
Biledriver is an international collaboration between a group of individuals from the USA, Canada, the UK, and Sweden. We play a variety of metal, the genre of which we are eternally uncertain, and we really, really need a nap
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