1. |
Your Gods Won't Tell You
07:10
|
|
||
|
Everyone who breathes here is guilty
He who's blood runs holds a grudge
In this prison nothing gets forgiven
Everyones a victim and a judge
So take care who that you talk to
Choose well who that you serve
Your Gods won't tell you though they aught to
We get the world we deserve
Up on the hill their queuing for the gallows
The people spoke, the congregation sing
Their hanging heads from every window
The people chose, the clown became the king
The hunter looks along his rifle
His moral compass never swerves
The luck of the draw, the fight for survival
We get the world we deserve
There's a riot in the heart of the city
Two tigers born inside a cage
Father and mother, vengeance and mercy
Schizophrenics born of faith and rage
The bars were torn down from the prison
The warden's lost his nerve
And all the inmates cried to the sky
We get the world we deserve
Some believe that all chains should be broken
Some believe that freedom is a curse
While lies are sold and the truth remains unspoken
Hearts are emptied just to fill a purse
There's time enough to serve your endless sentence
To laugh and cry around this endless curve
But know your words are wasted on repentance
We get the world we deserve
There's a fire in the garden of eden
Like a sun it burns through the night
Like Maria who holds back her tears
For the darkness when he turns out the light
So take care who that you talk to
Choose well who that you serve
Your Gods won't tell you though they aught to
We get the world we deserve.
|
||||
2. |
Death of a Heart
06:21
|
|||
|
Outside
I hear the river raging
The streets are filled with thieves not worth saving
My heart now rides a hearse
The poor thing died of thirst
And now it's raining
Inside
I wish your face forgotten
You're memory from me is barred from top to bottom
I'm searching for a trick
To somehow spin your silk
Into cotton
Bring me a surgeon not a priest
Or this hurt will never cease
Draw the curtain
But there's no such thing as peace
It's war from west to east
And that's for certain
I'm weary
And the road is endless
Broken down, penniless, and friendless
If it wasn't for my doubt
If I found a cowards way out
I'd end this
Shame
And humiliation
And the distance between the tongues of every nation
It's the heart that must be slain
To kill the phantom pain
Of separation
Bring me a surgeon not a priest
Or this hurt will never cease
Draw the curtain
But there's no such thing as peace
It's war from west to east
And that's for certain
Love
Offered no resistance
The sky's alive with gunfire in the distance
The kiss didn't leave a scratch
Tenderness is no match
For deaths persistence
Still
I love you more than ever
I could no more change my heart than change the weather
This head will always need
This heart will always bleed
To be together
Bring me a surgeon not a priest
Or this hurt will never cease
Draw the curtain
But there's no such thing as peace
It's war from west to east
And that's for certain
Outside
I hear the river raging
The streets are filled with thieves not worth saving
My heart now rides a hearse
The poor thing died of thirst
And now it's raining.
|
||||
3. |
Every Angel Falls
05:32
|
|
||
|
Spring came crueler than winter
The sun went dim through the sky
And the birds all choked on a tree of smoke
Where the branches reached a mile high
Wont you look at the view my darling
Doesn't it look so calm
And you'd have given them an early warning
Though they meant to do you harm
Knee deep in blood with two blinded eyes
That's when his visions start
All too late he regrets his fate
Just like every human heart
I never pictured us living
Just to survive inside of a life of crime
And you were always too forgiving
But every angel falls it just takes time
See the fireflies above the river
They're not the kind we used to know
But close your eyes, see our fireflies
They'll be with us wherever we go
Don't you know I heard you crying
In the darkness where you curled
In my dreams were always dying
And it's always the end of the world
Spring came crueler than winter
The sun went dim through the sky
And the birds all choked on a tree of smoke
Where the branches reached a mile high.
|
||||
If you like Ben Holland, you may also like:
Lullaby (Shigeto Remix)
by Andreya Triana
featured on Bandcamp Radio Dec 22, 2015
go to album
featured on Bandcamp Radio Sep 29, 2015
go to album
Lost Where I Belong
by Andreya Triana
featured on Bandcamp Radio Mar 17, 2015
go to album
featured on Bandcamp Radio Mar 10, 2015
go to album
featured on Bandcamp Radio Jan 27, 2015
go to album
Sorry I'm So Sensitive
by Bea Stewart
The second EP from Northern Irish singer-songwriter Bea Stewart runs from gentle folk to pillowy pop ballads, all perfectly executed.
go to album
The Room
by Fabiano do Nascimento & Sam Gendel
featured on Bandcamp Radio Jan 9, 2024
go to album
