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Desert
05:15
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waiting, anticipating, biding our time until it will fall,
all the preoccupies my mind, is to feel these chains and ropes unwind,
is to see these towers of distorted existence crumble
The desert is forming
the system's collapsing
the tables are turning
the cities are burning
abandon futile ideas of hope,
let fear become courage in these times of despair
my desires are buried in a muffled shell.
alienated, domesticated
what's stagnant will rot,
whats stagnant will rot!
Do you feel safer, when everything is captured by the light
do you feel safer, when all of our movements are magnified?
All i really want is a truly dark night,
All i really want is a truly dark night
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Anywhere But Here
04:16
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There's no way back out of this
I feel overcome with panic
With anger that has no body
I clench my fists and wail
We are barely surviving when our minds our consumed by despair
We can no longer be untouched by this
I see the van parked down the end of the street
Our hearts race, instinct screaming
I hear a siren and I want to run
Be anywhere but here
I feel the cameras scrutiny and i try to disappear
Into a place that no longer exsts in my mind
A Place where we lived without fear
Their hands not yet imprinted upon our skin
We hold each other but it's so hard to not give in
Their metal hands on my body
The sound of their voices are deafening
The cold of the steel and those four white walls
Are tearing at my mind and i'm trapped wihtin
So many people trapped and they cannot get out
Won't be trapped
Well we won't be trapped we are breaking our way out
Won't be trapped
And I won't be trapped!
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Mountains
04:56
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These mountains that have always been
Are vibrating and the air is filled with the sound of machines
The stars will never shine bright
The stars will never shine bright
The stars will never shine bright with a glow
With a glow of a city nearby
Nothing is intact, everything is broken taken or claimed
Nothing is intact everything is broken taken or claimed
Pre-designed paths, artificial living
All is made of plastic in a blurred reality
Pre-designed paths, artificial living
All is made of plastic in a blurred realty
This death is called civilization
Its genocide and extermination
This wilderness is domesticated
This wilderness is domesticated
Nothing is as real as the seasons that will change
But we surround ourselves with the things that machines made
We're disconnected from a world we should trust
But what does it take to get really lost
What does it take to get really lost?
What does it take to get really lost?
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From the window I see the mountains
They roll like tidal waves across the horizon
The rain cascades down
Like lava it consumes everything on its journey to the bottom
From the window I hear the aching groaning wind
It forces its way through the cracks onto my skin
I long to climb out , to be swept up in its wrath
But I can't break through the bars that keep me in
There's nothing i want more then to sleep under a night sky
Hear the animals as they go about their lives
Feel a fire warm my body, feel the mud under my toes
But tonight this cell keeps me enclosed
The trees form a secret green embrace
Their arms beckoning to swallow me whole
I want to climb over these rooftops
And over these fences
And escape to the places none of these guards would go
Sitting here I prepare myself for the future
When instead of one month I could be here for years
Would I lose hope, would i take my life
Or would we find a way to break ourselves out of here?
For if we don't have our freedom if we are captured by their iron hands
Then the vision for fire it burns so much more bright
There's no justice in this system
A bigger cage is still a prison
Well I hope that somewhere someone breaks free tonight
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Resilience
04:22
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6. |
Disconnected
04:07
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When somebody dies theres a light in their eyes
That suddenly ceases to exist
A whole world once glowing
Vibrant and breathing
blacked out like a solar eclipse
The lights go past, as you're lost in the mist
As you lie in your last resting place
The road it shakes, it never stops
No one even notices your grave
Who is entitled to walk on this earth
How do we decide another one's worth
Wherever we go death follows us home
In the shops in the kitchen in the street
Oppression on display
discount on murder
We're all commodities, disposable pieces of meat
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Gone
04:18
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There's blood in your veins
It pumps through your heart
Your voice it is distant
You shake you fall apart
There's blood in your veins
It floats through your brain
Your face it moves different
Will never be the same
And I keep telling myself that it was not my fault
I keep telling myself that it was not my fault
I can never take it back, I can never take it back
I can never take it back, i can never take it back
I cannot erase the town we were in
The things that we said
The people we have been
You always told me I don't know what its like
To be truly hurt
No hope to hide behind
Afraid to be truthful afraid to be loved
Afraid of the distance growing between us
Was I selfish, was I too late?
Were we abusive, what mess did we make?
Words are spoken, trust is broken
Words are spoken, trust is broken
I felt you were holding me down, but I didn't know that you might drown
I can never take it back
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I Wander
03:42
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I'm going, and I won't stop
I wanna reach around the mountain top
I wanna go where the cold wind blows
I want to see to where this forest grows
I wander, I wander
I'll follow the trail of the moon
Morning coming way too soon
With the sun I'll walk the land
Knife and compass in my hand
Am I aimless, am I restless
Or am I just drawn to the road
Am I lost, what pulled me to leave
Is this the path of growth
I wander, I wander
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You little heart beating too fast for your body
You panic cause you sense its time to die
There's others around you and they can feel it too
You try to escape but there's no room to run or fly
In the clutches of the machines meant for killing
You struggle but the force is just too strong
And in the moments that follow your precious life is ended
In the name of convenience and consumption
We are not entitled to your bodies
To the fur and the skin that keeps you warm
Your milk is for your babies
Your eggs should not be forced
We must see that your life is yours
We treat you as our slaves to do our bidding our entertaining
Then murder you when you're no longer of use
We put you through the pain of existence when you're the victims
Of our aggressions, our hte nad our abuse
We cut you up we burn you we tamper with your brain
To further scientific research
We skin you alive and sell you for the highest price
To be paraded on the catwalks of the earth
We do not have the right to own you
To decide what kind of life you're going to live
And yet the chains that we have tightened around your necks
Must be cut for our reign to finish
Get your hands off of them
Get your teeth out of them
They're not yours to abuse
They're not yours to control
They're not yours to eat
They are their own animals
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