Sinking Anthems, by The Ugly Facade

Sinking Anthems

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Seamlus M. Tpyare It’s like 5 different songs blended into 1, and done really well. Favorite track: The Sinking Anthem.

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1.	D-Day 03:02	lyrics
D - D A Y (jericho)  =========================   Change with the tide, just so I don’t drown Soak up the rain in case of drought All over signs of impending doom So I just lie and prepare in my room  People outside, begging for death Running around as they scratch off their flesh Looking for ways to distract my mind Can’t quite ignore all the screaming outside  Can’t breathe, can’t breathe Can’t breathe, can’t breathe Can’t breathe, can’t breathe Can’t breathe, can’t breathe  Still I’m waiting, not forsaking words I once felt like debating Fears I swallowed and dismissed for being far too pessimistic  Till the angels pierced the sky, their fury burning with the fire Of a thousand suns at once, the walls of Jericho came falling down
2.	If You Never 03:10	lyrics
I F Y O U N E V E R (tiny triggers) =============== And when should the push become the shove?  And should I rely on myself?  And when should I stop pulling these tiny triggers meant for someone else?   And is it too late to join the club?  Or would I just fail at that too?  And should I just give the fuck up?  Something tells me it's something I won't do   Do what you can, and just try just to try  And if you never get there, well then lie and just lie  And say you'll turn it around before you die  If you never, in time you will And when should the push become the shove?  And should I rely on myself?  And when should I stop pulling these tiny triggers meant for someone else?   And is it too late to join the club?  Or would I just fail at that too?  And should I just give the fuck up?  Something tells me it's something I won't do   Do what you can, and just try just to try  And if you never get there, well then lie and just lie  And say you'll turn it around before you die  You'll turn it around before you die Do what you can, and just try just to try  And if you never get there, well then lie and just lie  And say you'll turn it around before you die  Turn it around before you die Turn it around before you die Turn it around before you die If you never, in time you will
3.	Take Your Leave 02:44	lyrics
T A K E Y O U R L E A V E (king of cups) =========================   Hey old man, you falling tired?  Your faithless lovers look beside  The king they crowned will sleep in dirt again   Hearts weigh heavy on the throne  When god can't speak to claim his own  And soon the subjects will revolt again  You have eyes for it, it it  He's in Debt to it, it, it   Hey old man with furrowed brow  They told me I deserved the crown  Now hand it over perhaps I'll let you live   You want it all until you have to start believing  You'd like the power but you know that it's deceiving  You come unarmed and you expect to leave here breathing   Now shut your mouth And take your leave   You want what's mine?  Get in line you motherfucker  Or save yourself and get out   You want the crown?  Get in line you motherfucker  Or save yourself   You want it all until you have to start believing  You'd like the power but you know that it's deceiving  You come unarmed and you expect to leave here breathing   Now shut your eyes and take your medicine   You want what's mine?  Get in line you motherfucker  You're right on time  Come one  Come all   I know, I know  I know I know your side  I told my side  I know the king you crowned will sleep in dirt again
4.	Scend (free) 05:34	lyrics	download
S C E N D (invisible gods) ===================== by some mutated contract we buy this broken dream we gain a short admission to sell off everything send send the savior of us all your scapegoats are the sacred your pilgrims are the purge their mission manifested to kill and rape and scourge send send the savior of us all send send the savior of us all we give them right to own us we buy from them our lives our children made the debtors forever paying tithes DID WHAT YOU TOLD ME TO 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?" send send the savior of us all send send the savior of us all fuck your savior invisible gods do nothing now raise your voice and raise your fists for your children’s sake stop defending the ones who’ve made you suffer no one will save you but yourself make no mistake fuck your savior this and savior that it’s always been in your hands remember you whored it out to a bunch of greedy fucks but don’t you worry nothing’s forever the time of kingdoms is over it’s time to take back the pound of flesh they took from us raise your fists up high raise them for all the reasons why there’s no savior you will have to save yourself raise your fists up high raise them for every dirty lie there’s no savior for the ones who made this hell raise your fists up high raise them for all the reasons why there’s no savior you will have to save yourself raise your fists up high raise them for every dirty lie there’s no savior for the ones who made this hell let us pour our heart out to greater things
5.	Paper Thin 03:19	lyrics
P A P E R T H I N (lashes upon lashes) =============== Everything is black and blue  But it's nothing but a bruise  I can try to keep a few  Or I can heal if you should choose   Leaving soft come hither clues   Just another clever ruse  Break me in I’ll follow you  I will fall in love with you   Everything comes pouring through  With the final lash or two  I am paper thin for you  I am opened up to you   See me leaking out  See me coming undone
6.	Bystanders 04:57	lyrics
B Y S T A N D E R S (cor cordium)  =========================  Won't you save me  Hold me gently  I have suffered  Lift me upward Stuck in the riptide  Smile by the wayside  Help me I'm drowning  Wave barely frowning Can you hear me calling  Hold me up I'm falling   Feign me a rescue  Thought I should test you  Went as expected  You unaffected   Can you hear me calling  Hold me up I'm falling  And my lungs are filling  Was the past worth killing   Don't act like you ever  Don't act like you ever  Don't act like you ever  Don't act like you ever  You never showed up to save me so  I guess I'll just have to let you go  I thought that I knew what friends were for  You don't got to save me anymore (I'll forget you)   You went and you left me all alone  One day you will reap what you have sown  I'll sing it until it's set in stone  I still got my goddamn microphone (I'll forget you) You never showed up to save me so  I guess I'll just have to let you go  I thought that I knew what friends were for  You don't got to save me anymore (I'll forget you)   You went and you left me all alone  One day you will reap what you have sown  I'll sing it until it's set in stone  I still got my goddamn microphone (I'll forget you) (Can you hear me calling) You never showed up to save me so  I guess I'll just have to let you go (Hold me up I'm falling)  I thought that I knew what friends were for  You don't got to save me anymore (I'll forget you)  (And my lungs are filling)  You went and you left me all alone  One day you will reap what you have sown (Was the past worth killing)  I'll sing it until it's set in stone  I still got my goddamn microphone (I'll forget you) Apropos, the saint should show  As soon as I stand on my own Apropos, the saint should show  As soon as I stand on my own
7.	Cradle 02:51	lyrics
C R A D L E (headland)  =========================   I hear you calling me  Calling me to the cliffs  The rocks below they scream my name  So all I can do is follow   And I hope it's something grand  And I hope it's so much more  And this didn't go as planned  But then again, then again   I hear you calling me  Pulling me under with you  Your waters beg for my release  So all I can do is swallow I hope it's something grand  I hope it's so much more  This didn't go as planned  But then again   Your divine plan  So ill conceived  I can't believe  And I want to believe   Leave me alone  I seem alone  I'm not alone  And I could never be   So I await  An empty slate  A chance to be  More than I could ever be   This world I know  I must forget  Leave my regret  And let go   Kill it all away  Forget yesterday  Forget how the sun will  Rise another day  Rise another day  Rise another day
8.	River Of God 04:57	lyrics
R I V E R O F G O D (the fountain) ================== Take the cup fill it up Lift it up to the sky  Praise invisible gods for unforgivable lies   Tilt it back and wake me up from the animal dreams  I’ve been hibernating dreaming of unspeakable things And from the sludge we crawled on phantom limb to get to Her place  And in defiance sprouted tongues so we could have just a taste Every swallow every drop recalling things in my mind  That built the clot built the knot in the base of my spine   Full of come give me some share with me just a sip  Any chance to betray betwixt the cup and the lip And for the sinner for the simpleton who drank from Her banks  The everlasting urge to fall down on your knees and give thanks It is He who gave his sons a poisoned muscle to flex  Who bore the daughters who would swallow it right up to the neck   And for the blood the seed the poison She will give in return  A tiny piece of every son Her body happened to spurn And should She let me close enough to cut away all Her strings  With Her compliance I would do the most unspeakable things When all is said and done and all the fires begin to fume  Take the viscera that almost formed to bone in Her womb  And at Her side we’ll consummate the life we happened to live  By boiling all the children lost for gifts that She has to give And every book they ever wrote to speak to us of Her charm  Should be forgotten once we choke upon the first sign of harm All the things, all the things, all the things that She said  Now washed away and sinking silently to rest at Her bed  Every war every drought every capital built  Another stitch into the fabric of a blasphemous quilt An even farther cry is what we came to try to attain  The immortality and knowledge that we’ve sought all in vain And we run and we climb  And we scrape and we scale  And we beg and we bite  And we fight and we fail What we were what we've been  What we kill what we carve  What we choke what we cut  What we steal what we starve Just a glance just a taste  Just a sip just to see  Just to say I was there  Just to want just to be When we writhe in denial  When we find where She lay  When we drink from Her womb  Will we know what to say? When we open our skin  When we let Her seep in  When we’re born once again Oh in the River of God What our Father forbade  With the tip of his blade  When we fall when we bathe Oh in the River of God With our enemies slain  When we open the vein  Will we come once again Oh in the River of God What our Father forbade  With the tip of his blade  When we fall when we bathe Oh in the River of God
9.	The Sinking Anthem 06:41	lyrics
T H E S I N K I N G A N T H E M (many waters)  =========================   Your mission's compromised the moment that you lay the plans  I count the tired yarns you spin yourself on just one hand  And with all the time you're wasting I could write a thousand songs for you  If music spoiled your mission that would be one more excuse   Your "will"'s will turn to "might"'s  In spite of time's relentless melt  Your "maybe"'s justified  By all the lies you tell yourself   But rest assured my friend, In time you will in time you will in time you will in time you will in time you will in time you will in time you will   The cadence of these words will dawn upon a greater man than you  And he will change his mind to find the way of getting out of this is through  And with nothing learned and unconcerned you'll shrug responsibility  But you are well aware that this is not what you were born to be   Your "will"'s will turn to "might"'s  In spite of time's relentless melt  Your "maybe"'s justified  By all the lies you tell yourself  But rest assured, in time you will   I've been treading water, barely staying up  Tending to the broken hearts, and emptying the cups  I've been standing in the quicksand looking up  "In time you will" has been the sinking anthem long enough   Kill the fallen angels  Kill the ones I long to be   I've let Mr. Hyde decide for long enough  Broken glass and bloody knees and suicidal lust  All the faces photos seem to show beneath the dust  Wasted youth, unspoken truth, and traces of disgust  "Sorry, son, but could you hold this till your time is up?"  "Well, I've been been carrying the weight for long enough."  In time you would, in time you would, in time you would give up  In time you will In time you will In time you will In time   Kill the fallen angels  Kill the ones I long to be Call:   Give me what I'm owed and all the weight will seem to fall away  Response: Getting what you wanted doesn't mean the weight will fall away  Call:   Give me everything and all the weight will seem to fall away Response:  Give up everything and all the weight will surely fall away
10.	No Amends 03:50	lyrics
N O A M E N D S (the turning point)  =========================   Nothing works  Nothing hurts  Wasted words  Wasted words  The will is gone   Help yourself  Free yourself  No one else  No one else  The love is gone   Tie loose ends  Kill your friends  No amends  No amends  No amends   The fear is gone

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released March 11, 2012

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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?