Absurd To Wake, by The Ugly Facade

Absurd To Wake

by The Ugly Facade

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Daniel Tase Hayden The Ugly Facade brings us their best album since "As Written By...". A mix of anger, anxiety, depression, and nihilism presents the perfect soundtrack to 2023. Add to it amazing melodies and vocals and this is a can't miss ode to this Sick Sad World Favorite track: Main Character Syndrome.

qa1wsx Ugly Facade can do no wrong. Unexpected this year and so happy! After the EP of Failed State, thought the standalone single might be it. But, another in flawless catalogue. Favorite track: Main Character Syndrome.

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1.	The Lie My Country Sold Me 06:40	lyrics
And I wake up again I’ve lost the time to fix what time is left For all my knowledge All the tools I learned to cope leave me bereft And so I carve the rut And drag the knee I cannot seem to bend I toil for a dream I can’t revive A heart I cannot mend And I keep treading water Barely staying up to take a breath Surviving isn’t living So I court oblivion or death I aim my prayers into the sky Like fucking clouds can cure what ails And scream for all the noise to die All that I’ve lost and all I’ve failed If only I was someone else This simulation of myself This glitching avatar could be My holy ghost inside the shell If only I was someone else I wish that I was someone else I cannot seem to be at peace Inside the bondage of myself /////////////////////////////////////////////////// There is no sympathy No clarity, No way to course correct I’m told it’s me and only me By all the voices in my head I ponder all the times I scraped the bottom looking for an out And all the ways this place just keeps me In the cycle, up and down I keep on building the same prison And escaping just to see I can’t tell if I’ve grown Or if the fucking prison’s growing me I’m wearied and I’m tattered Too young to die, too old to matter Pretending I will have some legacy The lie my country sold me The lie my country sold me The lie my country sold me The lie my country sold me I know it’s all a fucking cosmic lottery Yet it seems like it’s a burdensome responsibility If I let go then it’s a possibility I lose myself or maybe all the lies I’ve come to know as me ////////////////////////// I hope this finds you well I hope that I can find you in myself I hope that I can be like you That I can just escape myself If only I was someone else I wish that I was someone else I cannot seem to be at peace Inside the bondage of myself It’s not that I'm not flawed It’s just that I deserve a god That looks at me and sees a child of light Inside this hideous facade And I can conjure such a creature If I have a steady hand I know that if I wake up shaking I’ll have forfeited the plan I hope there’s respite from the weariness and pain And even though I’ve tried to close the door and seal it shut I hope the door remains In time I hope I get there to the place where I can finally rest And where my voice might matter more And I’m not some unwelcome guest And maybe all the holes are patched And all the cuts are stitched And all the things I never was and never did Can somehow not be missed The loathing all consuming pace at which I’ve misconducted life Has left me too far gone And it’s too hard to keep on I feel so broken now I feel so broken now I feel so broken now I feel so broken now ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// But there’s so much more to it At this age I should know //////////////////////////////////////
2.	Main Character Syndrome 04:49	lyrics
This one holds a candle This one barely holds a flame Nothing we can handle Burning always for the fame Never gonna make up all the time Never gonna skip to the front of the line You got to know the part that you're assigned You got to know your lines 'Cause you’re inside my Main character syndrome Main character syndrome Main character syndrome And you have your part to play Incel just a jester just to beta test the simps God hates humble men so all the alphas act like chimps Beating chest and beating off and beating up the immigrants Everybody's gotta pay for all their daddy’s negligence And if we’d only stop the pay to play to kill the false pretense Then maybe there would come a day that all this language would make sense But it’s just another chosen side It’s just another false divide It’s just a platform to provide Each twisted truth from twisted lie You’re just another way to hide You’re just another silly lie You’re just another suicide You’re just another part of my Main character syndrome Main character syndrome Main character syndrome And you have your part to play Main character syndrome Main character syndrome Main character syndrome And you have your part to play
3.	Down Striving 03:53	lyrics
Got such a young looking face I’d like to know Why you have fallen from grace I’d like to show You a way You can stay And maybe we’ll play pretend We’ll point the finger with the very hand that we extend Got such an innocent smile I’d like to know Why you can’t stay here awhile I’d like to show You a game We can blame All the portents and pretense We’ll burn the savior who was sworn to come to our defense I’d like to show You the way I have taken every shortcut and lost I’d like to keep You from harm But the falling is worth paying the cost You take too much too fast You move to make it last But you’re never gonna have any place unless you put it down You take too much too fast You want to make it last But you’re never gonna have any faith unless you come back down Got such a star in your eye I’d like to see If you can harness the fire I’d like to be The first one that the sun Sends your broken body to I’ll scrape off all the ash And eat the darkness out of you Built to struggle built to burst Built so you can’t quench the thirst Icarus is broken, burnt and beautiful And tumbling to the earth Tried to get so high you never left the ground Tried to sing so loud you never made a sound You take too much too fast You move to make it last But you’re never gonna have any place unless you put it down You take too much too fast You want to make it last But you’re never gonna have any faith unless you put it down
4.	The Farce 05:31	lyrics
We talk about you behind all your backs We have all the things you seem to lack We are entitled because of our scars We are embittered for losing what’s ours Make me to mold me to stay underneath Catch me to hold me to never release All of your dreams are now mine to believe Will you not comfort me, come to me, ask of me, follow me, faithfully, finally trust in me? It’s all a farce today. But I will find a way to figure out everything but you. To filter out everything but you. We talk in circles I’m left with disgust And I feel so full of your shit I could bust But I keep my mask on and nod in reply And you keep on talking and I want to die Will you not save me from foolish regret Will you not keep me from getting upset All of your fears now imprinted on me Will you not comfort me, come to me, ask of me, hear me and see me and finally set me free? It’s all a farce today. But I will find a way to figure out everything but you. To filter out everything but you. Its all a farce today If I could find my way Then I could finally stay Coming around Finally home again Coming full circle now
5.	Free As A Ghost 03:44	lyrics
Born free Free as a ghost Chained down Bondage and discipline She spies knowing I’m limited Beat down She wasn’t listening Pour lies into the cup drink it up Place sighs into your lungs fill 'em up The gown all covered in blood from your back Shut down Burn all the books in the stack She talks nobody's listening I’m free Free as a ghost Bondage wasn’t my discipline But now who has the most? Pour lies into the cup drink it up Place sighs into your lungs fill 'em up The gown all covered in blood from your back Shut down Burn all the books in the stack Born free Straight into agony Cut down Cry like an oak She spies she never lent a hand She cries why is she so surprised? Why is she so surprised? Why is she so surprised? Why is she so surprised? Why is she so surprised? Pour lies into the cup drink it up Place sighs into your lungs fill 'em up The gown all covered in blood from your back Shut down Burn all the books in the stack
6.	IDWTD IDWTBA 05:03	lyrics
Unknown and I’m lost in the game I’m a victim of safety I’m bored and I’m safely Passing by An invisible pawn To invisible gods Who keep moving the board around This time I have opened my eyes I don’t want to die I’m learning to be alive I’m broken but open to change I’m learning the game, But I don’t want to just survive I’m tired of the new paradigm I’m a victim of plenty I’m bored and I’m gently Killing time Hoping for a short end And I can’t find a friend That relates consequently This time I have opened my eyes I don’t want to die But I don’t think I feel alive I’m broken but open to change I’m learning the game, But I don’t want to just survive I’m healing and hoping to stay I don’t want to stray but I don’t know how not to strive I’m done navigating the lies I don’t want to die But I don’t want to be alive I don’t want to die But I don’t want to be alive I don’t want to die But I don’t want to be alive I don’t want to die But I don’t want to be oh I prayed that this wasn’t a sham But it feels like a scam And we celebrate scammers Now that I have no money to take I can see who’s the fake And they will not be taking My great works are inside my head They will lie with me dead I will die in great debt And it’s all okay, even though you think not But I am sick of your thoughts What you worship will ALSO ROT I’m burning just trying to remain There’s no point to the pain But I don’t know how not to strive I’m pushing the stone up the hill And the future is nil And there’s no path in which I thrive I can’t wait until it’s my time I’m tired of the trying I don’t want to just survive The drive is extinguished inside I don’t want to die But I don’t want to be alive I can’t wait until it’s my time The state of line And the way that we live’s a crime I don’t think we’re gonna survive I don’t want to die But I don’t want to be alive I don’t want to die And I don’t want to be alive
7.	Into Exile 01:23	lyrics
And no amount of making life surreal can capture all the fucking hate I feel The new absurdity is just a trick to pacify the margins, poor and sick We bathe in exile We drink in exile We float in exile We drown in exile
8.	Shotgun Lobotomy 02:47	lyrics
Done anticipating dumb apocalypses These are the anti-complications The magic word to open gates of unimportance unforeseen The magic word spelled backwards forward hungry lacking FUD A fly in ointment, solvent sharpening its early broken wings The evidence refuted last reviewed appearance made unseen We shout and swear some non-plus-ultra sounding left-wing misery And God is dead as untucked ABCs in bed and woe is me Accordion existence, folding back a whore of God made real Until the matrix fails and nihilism is the sim revealed You overthink you overanalyze a thing to make it hard To catch and kill and eat and play and fight and build and to discard To wonder is to hold at bay the pain of being caving in To wonder pain is such a hell and such a waste of staying in But stay inside, dear, while you can 'Cause Mother Nature’s coming fast And coming has become the reason we can’t conquer what is past Almighty buck, almighty fuck, almighty queen and queer and quest And we can’t win until we try our best Oh, my, absurd is not a word It’s just a bluster by the smart Intelligence is bought by money and it’s funny, so is art The false complaint of never-read and over-gossiping elites Is all the inside baseball to the game they rage quit in defeat They pile into the dinghies disappearing as we start to sink Commence the orgies and the opiates the masses start to drink And it’s a shame that as we drown we realize all the rules were fake And all our gods were killing Christ for money’s sake And no amount of making life surreal Can capture all the fucking hate I feel The new absurdity is just a trick To pacify the margins, poor, and sick We bathe in exile We drink in exile We float in exile We drown in exile We bathe in exile We drink in exile We float in exile We drown in exile And no amount of making life surreal Can capture all the fucking hate I feel The new absurdity is just a trick To pacify the margins, poor, and sick We bathe in exile We drink in exile We float in exile We drown in exile Oh DADA let’s go down Come on down Let’s go down Oh Tristan let’s go down Down to the river to pray
9.	Should I 03:34	lyrics
Could’ve helped yourself Could’ve helped the world Could’ve been a could be A never-was still caught in a can-be A can-be could A can-be good A could-be should But a should be full of would Would I right all the were’s Were I right? I bet I were. I bet I would I bet I could I bet I’m right Right into should Should I? Should I? Should I? Should I? Should I? Should I? Should I? Should I? Should I? Should I? Shouldishouldishouldi Should die Should die Should die Should die Wasting time against the sun The constant neverending hum Of everything I haven’t done Is so fucking completely dumb Could’ve burned this shit down Could’ve shot up a crowd Could’ve been a has-been But it never fucking happened Could have found my tribe Would I have never imbibed? Should I have done more or less? Still haven’t learned my lesson I hear that life’s the cruelest joke God ever told God ever spoke I bet the punch line’s really good I bet I’m right Right into Should Right into Should Right into Should Right into Should Wasting time against the sun The constant neverending hum Of everything I’ve ever done It’s so fucking completely dumb
10.	Western Brink 05:51	lyrics
There won’t be cataclysm Not some violent overthrow It won’t be magical The dissolution happens so slow All the saints will come again That’s the lie we’re living in Never even questioning Never even asking why i know faith will crumble take us all out in the tumble Steady how the love grows colder God is just a frozen shoulder when you see us falling over Know that we’ll be dragging you we’ll be dead and you’ll be closer To the war we drag you to It won’t be so romantic It won’t be so romantic all the pains will come again thats the price of living in the delusion of the west Put ~Enlightenment to rest when you see me falling over Know that i’ll be dragging you I’ll be dead and you’ll be closer To the void I drag you to Wave goodbye and cut our ties So you can have a fighting chance If you hold on to the way we were You will never advance all the saints will sin again thats the price of listening to the devils in the wings primed and practiced for their part when you see me falling over Know that i’ll be dragging you I’ll be dead and you’ll be closer To the place I drag you to when you see us breaking open Know that one day you’ll break too We’ll be gone and you’ll be closer To the brink we brought you to when you see us all on fire Know that you’ll be burning soon We’ll be ashes by the time you realize that you’re up in fumes All the saints will come again As machines that listen in They will dream eradicate Never even asking why
11.	Keep Them Close 03:26	lyrics
Keep them close Where they lay Wash their feet At the end of the day Let them know Your love runs deep Cut their throat While they’re asleep Now we pray Before we rise Begin the day With Salt and lies Pitch the hay At their side Until their sweat Burns your eyes Fetch them water When they thirst Just so they Don’t get there first Keep them close Where they lay Wash their feet At the end of the day Restless ones why don't you sleep I'll sew you dreams that you can keep Now close your eyes and don't you fear I’m standing guard I’ll be right here With fork hand The wolves at bay I’ll bare my teeth And tear away Let you go This is the way The earth will crack The boughs will sway The sky will fall The seas will spray And what was you will fall away Keep them close Where they lay Wash their feet At the end of the day
12.	The Dirge Of Blame 04:03	lyrics
Not a sin Should your children go to hell For not believing in All the lies that you retell I am home And it’s not where I belong I am not your son We don’t seem to get along I can see you For the first time in a while I don’t want to be you Seeing you it’s hard to smile Letting go Is not the same as giving up I don’t have to know You don’t have to fill my cup I concede I surrender you have won I forgive the things you did And all things you left undone I am not Destined to be tied in knots I think I forgot I can purge you from my thoughts Not alone And I’m not the only one I know nothings set in stone And I’ll see you in the sun I love you I know I’ll be holding you I wish you could hold me too But I’m glad it’s finally through
13.	Posing For The Sun 06:02	lyrics
The sun comes up The story ends And I am worn And waiting for Another night again The stars I’ve crossed They long forgot That they taught me To see the world For what it’s not A mediocre cog A suicidal slob A wanting stranger in a land Made strange by Wanton idle hands The sun betrays The sleep betrays My enemies The elements My body hurts From all the days I spent caught up In decadence My friend she pats me on the head As if I have something to say She lets me know I’m not alone And with her I can face the day The sun comes up She gives a grin And I know it will be alright again
14.	A Real Negaholic 05:20	lyrics
How much damage did I do? It’s hard to think about They tell me not to but I do And it fills me full of dread and doubt If the glass was half empty I’d drink until the glass was dry I’m a real negaholic To the ones that never think about why I think I’m trying to live longer But it’s taking everything I have To learn a way to be stronger In a place that makes me feel so bad I took all I could take And then I took some more And my only mistake Was not dying on the fucking floor And I don’t know what I have And I don’t know what I lack And I don’t know what I lost And I don’t know if I can get it back Optimism is a fucking vice That kills the revolution of the heart The voice that tells you you belong here If only you can stand to play your part And it's a farce that I just can’t believe To pretend to be ok Is a betrayal to the part of me That still thinks there’s another way Life is just a series of mistakes And I don't know if I can make one more I don't know if I have what it takes To be of use to you anymore I'd like to think that there's an answer to The sheer insanity And that it's not all just the helter-skelter Of an unfulfilled American dream I took all I could take And then I took some more And my only mistake Was not dying on the fucking floor And I don’t know what I have And I don’t know what I lack And I don’t know what I lost And I don’t know if I can get it back

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Written and produced by Jeremiah Johnson
Violins on Dirge Of Blame by Peter Veronov
Textures on Posing For The Sun by Holly+
A Real Negaholic based on "Told The Soul" by Matt Anderson

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released October 6, 2023

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The Ugly Facade

We live our lives in boxes, with little glowing screens. We fill our blood with toxins, so we can deal with things. And sometimes, more than often, the bitter masks the taste. The fruitless failed reflection: what if it's all a waste?