1. |
The Stagnant
03:51
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I've lost my way
I'm not sure where I was from
I've lost my way
I'm not sure where I was headed
Remember your crossroads
And the memories that I carried
The last time I've been there
No roads were left at all
So this was me?
Tell me how I came so far?
So this was me?
Tell me how come there are no dawns?
Who took the sun away?
Who took the sun away?
Who took the sun away?
Why are we here?
I've lost my way
I'm not sure anymore now
I've lost my way
East and west are now the same
It's all mud
I remember the sound of breaking
Did I ever try?
Maybe the pressure on the glass started slow
Reached to the top
Was there a place before this?
Reached to the top
Did it ever exist?
Why didn't anybody make a sound?
Why didn't anybody make a sound?
Why didn't anybody make a sound?
So this was me?
I've lost my way
I'm not sure where I was from
I've lost my way
I'm not sure where I was headed
One step forward
One step down to the ground
Look for east or south
North or west, it's all behind
When I was broken
I left the wind aside
I cant move anymore
I cant see anymore
It's all the same
It's the end of the game
It's all the same
Who is all to blame?
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2. |
Frostbit Heart
02:59
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Wolfgang saved my life
Through his bleeding heart
All those songs of love
19 years all went by
I told him "it's good to enjoy,
"All the little things you see,
"It's better to be alone,
"All alone for a while."
Going down with my frostbit heart
Dimitris said "hello,
"So weather's bad over there?"
Let's take a stroll down the street
To get some booze or poke some whores
Nothing better to do
All failure, all emptiness
All the backstabbing and the leaving
I guess, left me sour
Going down with my frostbit heart
Rust turns to love
Love turns to rust
Silver into steel
Steel turns to rust
Rasputin saves my life
Will and discipline
He tells me I'm better without,
"Get rid off all the vermin and bugs."
Woke up today, feeling astray,
I took a razorblade to see some blood
I took a look at the mirror and said:
"There are better things to cut!"
Going down with my frostbit heart
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3. |
That Evening Sun
03:50
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Now take my hand
For a lesson in nightswimming
To an isle so close
Clocks stopped working there
A colony of dreams
Souvenirs of stillness
Let's take a new path
And see where it ends
Step out of time
Break all your chains
That evening sun
Washes the grief away, the grief away
Now we pave our way
Through the cliffs and the hills
Into a forest
To find a fine spot for a kiss
The sea is infinite
Marble halls once stood here
Then the monks disappeared
Left the place for northern men
Step out of time
Help me cut these strings
Step out of bounds
Into the alien
Step out of time
Break all your chains
That evening sun
Washes the grief away, the grief away
Come take my hand
For a lesson in failure
An isle so far away
Arrival is just a dream
It's the memory pain
Another chapter in loathing
Leave behind the bliss
Embrace this fine craving
"It'll pass," you said,
"You know, it always does."
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4. |
The Ride
03:48
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Here take a ride with me across the snow covered city
Faster and faster we shall go staring at the city lights
See how they blur into a heaven of colours in darkness
While we ride without a worry in the world
Riding on the wet road
Risky it shall be
But do we really care?
Well, this is only the dream
You will be the native and I will be the stranger
You will give the directions and I'll be the driver
The passenger
And to the freeway and to the outskirts of the city
And outside the road where we'll hear the sounds of people
Speaking and fucking behind the bushes where animals dwell
So I ask myself
Are they dreaming too?
Silence of the winter
Nighttime forever
Speeding into the darkness, sprinting in the water
When we ride downhill, I lose control
I'm the ghost rider
I'm the passenger
I'm the ghost rider
I'm the passenger
Until we arrive into the valley in the forest
A silent wooden boardinghouse by the lake
Majestic trees on the other side in the fog
This is where you'll leave me behind
I'll wake up an old man
Living in the house all alone
With dead letters and postcards never sent
Dreams never realized
The postman never arrived
Never
Never
I'm the passenger
I'm the ghost rider
I'm the passenger
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5. |
For A Short While
05:19
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Through the fears, all these years, I walked alone
I look like shit, I always did and they still fucked me
It's just by luck that I found, should've played the stupid
My honesty is just a disease
Can not scream, can not speak or smack the walls now
I lost it all, I lost the cause, I should've listened
To my mom and dad, hear what they said but now it's curtains
And you know I'll be wrecking soon
Oh yes she knows how it feels
Dear mother light come make me bleed
With you one thinks love is real
And then the weakness shows
But for a short while it was good
For a short while it was new
For a short while it was good
For a short while it was blue
Now I know that it's only pain
With these teardrops I'll decay
But for a short while it was good
For a short while it was new
Life's a dream, so hold still before it's over
Cancer bites, eyesight dies and the heart gets tired
Spirits dance, I take a glance at my body
'Cause you know, nothing remains
Oh you carved in me this hole
Faces change but spirits don't
With you at first I felt reborn
And then the weakness showed
But for a short while it was good
For a short while it was new
For a short while it was good
For a short while it was blue
Now I know that it's only pain
With these teardrops I'll decay
But for a short while it was good
For a short while it was new
For a short while...
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6. |
Remembrance 1
02:51
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Rivers merge, the bridge is old
Muddy carpet, I see it all
A house so tall, without a soul
This is where the ocean hurts
Spiders bite, soldiers fight
The war of opium, it's alright
10 more minutes into this yard
And you’ll find where it's gone
How can a land be both
Toxic and fertile?
How it gives birth and devours
Within a kilometer radius?
Shipwrecks, tables, beds, souls
Plastic, blue, pink and bones
Black dogs, seagulls, fleas and yarn
Ocean creeps, the land forgives
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7. |
Despair
03:52
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Here is the room
A little hole to sleep in
Away from sunlight
That you adore
That I adore
So choose it over me
You can keep my notes here
On keeping myself captive
Locked inside
A box of dreams
A tomb of fears
Impossible bliss
It's despair
Only despair
It's despair
Imperfection:
A secret face
And a secret plan
Hurt me bad
With that old dirt
Everyone's stained with
Emotionally crippled
We all are here
It's me and some cat
So take out your blade
And carve out your name
On my chest
It's despair
Only despair
It's despair
All love is futile
Just obsession
Failed clutching
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I've been with all the bad girls here
For the next one I have some pills left in my pockets
He tells me he's been raped
And not just once so it's his fate
His body made but his heart didn't
So, he regrets
They said "you're a man, be cool!
"Fuck around, don't be a fool!"
He said "You know better than Poe?
"So I'll be a fool like him as well!"
He said:
I've been with all the bad girls here
For the next one I have some pills left in my pockets
Don't get me wrong, I'm no snob
I keep my expectations low
Once they sniff out my loneliness
That's when they really start to use
They all give you hope
And parts of them you'd think it's love
Banging all day is not what I mean
What I mean is that they share it all
I'm just confused
Why is it ok to hurt a man this way
Evil abuse
It's a lie that pain makes you strong
Never asked for pussy or ass
Blowjobs and backdoor sex
So they are not the payment back
Then I told him "I'm the same,
"Try it but they won't understand,
"We're born cavalier
"Into a southern land of whores and pimps."
"No matter how you feel,
"Stick to your heart, don't give in,
"The next time you make yourself sure,
"To give a good smack as the payment back."
I said:
We've been with all the bad girls here
For the next ones we have some pills left in our pockets
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9. |
Rails
01:41
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It was a place I found
So far from long pale days
In no man's land
Far from where I always had to be
And it was a place I built
Inside of me
So beaufitul, so serene
Only mine
Tailored from my childhood dreams
Covered in green and rusty
So near to sea that I can touch the sun
That melts my saddest tears away.
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Rhythm 0 Turkey
Formed in 2011 to create miserable music.
Personnel:
Mert Yildiz: Voice, Instruments, Production
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