1. |
Failure to React
04:52
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VERSE
Devil eyes
Desire staring me blind
Does it delight in the ways that it finds me pushing away?
Stick to the better roads
Stick to the same back and forth battle of pleasure and shame
Stick to the better roads
Stay in the safe lane again
CHORUS
Back to back,
Another failure to react
But staying alive
Means to stay in the light
And I know this style of life
Is in spite of my
Fighting the right
To have what I want
So back to back,
Another failure to attack
My body’s intact,
But my mind is a wreck
‘Cause it came - It went - It’s gone
And now I’m facing the fact that it’s never coming back
VERSE
Silhouette
A dark shade of regret
Could I revive and restore
To retry for an opportunity ignored?
What’s left to talk about?
What’s left to say?
Other than this self deprecation display
What’s left to talk about?
What’s left to weigh in on anymore?
CHORUS
BRIDGE
No, It’s never coming back no
It’s never gonna show
Next time will be right
The next time around
Next time will be right
The next time around
Next time will be right
The next time around
But this time it’s never coming
CHORUS
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2. |
Syntax
03:56
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VERSE
Combat, time to lace up
As this debate defaces the best of
Our level intentions and aspirations
‘Cause our defences are altercations
That stop the train
Deceleration
Funny how that goes
Firing tender blows
Over an outcome you propose
CHORUS
Unwavering convictions
Despite the contradictions
From your firehosing frenzy
‘Cause it’s not about persuasion
Or clear communication
No, it’s not about what we believe
It’s win by any means
VERSE
Resignations the flash in the pan
Logic be damned
Inflate the demand
The fast evasion
For justification
Towards you entertaining an indisputable plan
No opposition
Funny how that goes
Every way we go
The only way you can impose
CHORUS 2
Deciphering your language
Is detrimental damage
From your firehosing frenzy
‘Cause it’s not about persuasion
Or clear communication
No, it’s not about what we believe
It’s win by any means
BRIDGE
Take some tiny detail
To break and belittle my will
To fake some tiny victory
Passing, fleeting, defeating
But keeping control
Keeping control
Passing, fleeting, defeating
But keeping control
CHORUS 3
Well I will not go crazy
From all the verbal hazing
No argument could save me
From your firehosing frenzy
‘Cause it’s not about persuasion
Or clear communication
No, it’s not about what we believe
It’s win by any means
It’s win by any means
It’s win by any means
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3. |
Someone Uninvited
03:31
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VERSE
Smoke signal from the far right side of the world
Somebody ready to enforce the strength of his will
And even if you could have a taste of the people from the better place
There’s no way that you’d believe it from decisions that your mind makes
PRE CHORUS
From the far right side of the world
From the far right side of the world
From the far right side of the world
From the far right side of the world
Smoke signal from the far right side of the world
Smoke signal from the far right side of the world
CHORUS
Well if you’re listening
It doesn’t matter if they see it your way
Well it don’t matter the say
Because the matter of the day
Is that it’s already decided by someone uninvited
It doesn’t matter if they feel pain
It doesn’t matter if they’re willing to change
Well it don’t matter the say
Because the matter of the day
Is that it’s already decided by someone uninvited
VERSE
Sharp shooter on the sideline looking to fire
Somebody aiming to deflect the scent of desire
And even if you could induce an excuse to prove the point of the mad
There’s no way that you could redirect the focus to your false flag
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4. |
Underpaid Machinery
03:55
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VERSE
Form a line
leave any baggage behind on the front step, leave it on the outside
Along with any excess weight you find inside
No time to specify the kind of life that you’d expect to be supplied
So let it die,
Better leave it dying right where it lies
They’ve all forgotten down on the front and centre lines
In the trenches we all fight to fortify
Keep someone else’s vision from taking the short dramatic dives
So suck it up
Bare the buck
And fucking row
CHORUS
To them you’re nothing more--
More than underpaid machinery
You’re flesh and bone, but too afraid to speak
VERSE
Flail in the deep end
Hope and pray that you can deliver the boat load
Keeping you submerged until you choke
Sink or swim while spinning china plates
Oh fuck the rates
And fuck whatever you were promised right out of the gate
They say that kids complain well they’re playing the blame game
Compare themselves to slaves while centre stage
They bravely coat the boat with tears and sweat for years with broken hearted varnish
Now tarnish the tow
Make those mother fuckers know
CHORUS
Make ’em know you’re more
More than underpaid machinery
Flesh and bone, but too afraid to speak
You’re more than what they’ve led to you to believe
BRIDGE
So why would you stay here?
why would we stay?
Why would I stay?
We’re more than underpaid machinery
Flesh and bone, but too afraid to speak
You’re more than what they’ve led to you to believe
So why would you stay to work another day?
Make those mother fuckers know
Make those mother fuckers know
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5. |
Another Injustice
04:41
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VERSE
Well it’s just another injustice
Like it ever really affects
It’s just a supernormal infection
That forgot the fear of detection
We are too far down the road
CHORUS
Deer in the headlights
No will to run away
Trapped in a paralytic state
VERSE
A supernormal infection
That forgot the fear of detection
Will it leave a lasting impression
Or are we too far gone to know
CHORUS
Well can we just discuss this?
And pretend it doesn’t disgust us?
When silence and violence are side by side
You’re just a deer in the headlights
No will to run away
Trapped in a paralytic state
POST CHORUS
Well I can’t be held responsible
Cause I never held the gun
Well I can’t be held responsible
When I’m not the only one
BRIDGE SOFT
In the wake of tragedy
Reality seems
Like an awful dream
All around, we silently observe
Morality swerve
Around the nerve
Now everything inside of me is weak
Oh where’s the energy to speak?
Now everything inside of me
Is abetting the enemy
Is abetting the enemy
BRIDGE HEAVY
At the tip of my tongue
A verbal barrage
so say something more
say something now
not nothing at all
not nothing at all
CHORUS
Deer in the headlights
No will to run away
Trapped in a paralytic state
Trapped in a paralytic state
POST CHORUS
Well I can’t be held responsible
Cause I never held the gun
Well I can’t be held responsible
When I’m not the only one
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6. |
Inside You're Alone
05:18
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VERSE
Telephone. A periscope.
Blinking lights and flares from home
All in my reach
In my sight, but out of mind
Satellites.
Fifty million signals follow where I go
In my sight but out of mind
CHORUS
Look back the other way
The way you came
The only way that you should be looking
back into the fray
The way you came
The only way you won’t remain the runaway
you won’t remain the runaway
VERSE
I’m here, you’re ok
There’s no change from yesterday
A cold unveil
Sad details
Rest assured that everything will go as planned
It’s in your eyes
And on your face
It’s so much worse than everybody says
CHORUS
So look back the other way
The way you came
The only way that you should be looking
back into the fray
The way you came
The only way that you’re never facing
back into the fray
The way you came
The only way you won’t remain the runaway
you won’t remain the runaway
OUTRO
Just in case you go
I know how strong you are
Couldn’t ever underestimate
All your bravery
Stronger than I’d be
There’s no shadow of a doubt
(shadow of a doubt)
no shadow of a doubt
I’ll try to let you know in case you go
Just in case you go.
Just in case you go.
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7. |
Force Feeding
03:36
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VERSE 1
Take on every thought to perceive as defeating me
See it setting in stone
Not what it was supposed to be
Still it will resonate all the same
But not on my resume
Nor the places I go
Whenever on show
Never redirect
And break the camera flow
‘Cause I guess new life
Can only devolve
And I’m unfit throw away the cave I’m hibernating in
No, I can’t disown
And follow my own advice
To utilise the dice
You’ve never thrown
CHORUS
What’s it they say about insanity?
Repeatedly force feeding a meaning to my conditioning
An unpredictable casualty
Or so it seems to be
If not for that old adage on history
VERSE 2
My world provokes the fear to fall
So to find a fault designed to choke the now unfocused mind
It’s all overexposed
To alter the old pose
Or the clothes of the mannequin
Play the part of a reluctant man again
Play it up for a passing fling
To pass on the real thing
No, I can’t disown and follow the method I know
To let the rest go
CHORUS
BRIDGE
Take on every thought I perceive as the only way
Take on every attribute, acutely reconfiguring me
Take on every voice that I hear as the final way
as the right way
No, I can’t disown and follow the method i know
To let the rest go
CHORUS
So let the rest go
So let the rest go
So let the rest
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8. |
Matrix Love
03:47
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VERSE 1
You come online
And I know exactly when you do
What you’re doing at this time
That’s the only thing that’s on my mind
(thing that’s on my mind)
(thing that’s on my mind)
I’m looking out for love
And you’re quite the exhibitionist
So you keep doing what you do oh so well
It’s all the thrill without the risk
(thing that I could wish)
(thing that I could wish)
CHORUS 1
I’m staring right into the intimate
While I’m safe and sound inside my home
Solely keeping tabs on you
Through my window here with a view
VERSE 2
I barely try at all
My device is customised to see
So if you’re gonna make the call to put it out there
You put it out for me
CHORUS 2
I’m staring right into the intimate
While I’m safe and sound inside my home
Solely keeping tabs on you
Through my window here with a view
BRIDGE
Watching you
Watch
Watch me
Watching you
I’m watching you
You’re watching me
We’re watching everything that finds the voyeuristic side I need
They’re watching you
They’re watching me
They’re watching everything that finds your voyeuristic side
Your voyeuristic side
CHORUS 3
Staring into the intimate
While I’m safe and sound inside my home
Solely keeping tabs on you
Through my window frame with a view
Tonight I’m staring into your intimate world
Just like everybody else is doing now
Gotta keep my eye on you
Through my window frame with a view
OUTRO
Watching you
Watch
Watch me
Watching you
Watch
Watch me
Watching you
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9. |
The Circle Bends
03:16
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VERSE
Blood stain
Pertain the campaign
Lines that they casting
Cascade the cosplay
Crusade the same old way
Spit-spit fire
Old men with new ties
Pressed suits and young wives
Steep cheques and declines to cut ties
Saving their own damn lives
Flip-flipside
Protestor, pick sides
In-trends and outliers
Where the fakest of the fake can duplicate while—
While the rest of us can debate
CHORUS
We've heard it all before
We hear it every time the circle bends
We've heard it all before
We’ll hear it all again
VERSE
Cheap-cheap thrills
More miracle pills
Low effort, high skills
Same danger, no kills
No pressure ‘bout your body or your bills
Until after you got your fill—
— my head
Be grateful you’re fed
And praise god you’re not dead
Then praise him again (again)
Forcibly grounded and dying
It’s their turn
Their world with their word
Their view with their voice
Their turn to turn a phrase or altercate choice
And whoever remains can rejoice
CHORUS
We've heard it all before
We hear it every time the circle bends
We've heard it all before
We’ll hear it all again
We’ll hear it all again
BRIDGE
Backwards and forwards
It feels like we’ve been here before
Around and towards
It sounds like we’re waging a war
It’s their turn
Their world with their word
They sing to their score
With their weapons of war
Count it down to the end
And watch the circle bend
CHORUS
We've heard it all before
We hear it every time the circle bends
We've heard it all before
We’ll hear it all again
We've heard it all before
We've heard it all before
We've heard it all before
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10. |
Pedestals
04:03
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CHORUS
Fantasy berate me
Leaking constantly
Fathoming belated (visions)
Fantasy berate me
Leaking constantly
Fathering a deprecated view
VERSE
So vulnerable
Baring down, the evil eye
Pedestals up so high
So pristine, undermining me
Undermining me
CHORUS
Fantasy berate me
Leaking constantly
Fathoming belated (visions)
Fantasy berate me
Leaking constantly
Following a fabri- (cation)
Fantasy berate me
Leaking constantly
Fathering a deprecated view
(Fantasy berate me,
Leaking constantly)
VERSE
Overnight intake
Compelled to see this through
Lucid dream, underwhelmed
Overused, undermining me
PRE CHORUS
(Force fed motive, failing fast
No obligation, no stimulated path)
Force fed motive, failing fast
No obligation, no stimulated path
CHORUS
Fantasy berate me
Leaking constantly
Fathoming belated visions
Fantasy berate me
Leaking constantly
Following a fabrication
Fantasy berate me
Leaking constantly
Fathoming belated visions
Fantasy berate me
Leaking constantly
Fathering a deprecated view
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Figures Melbourne, Australia
2020 sees the release of a debut album from Alt-Metal 5-piece, Figures. On Operating In Unsafe Mode, the band’s distinctive take on melodic alternative metal is familiar, but violently ramps the intensity up in a significant way. With equal parts soaring melodies, blistering riffs and rage, their Alternative rock and metal influences are all unabashedly on display. ... more
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