A little bit of promo

[deathboy]

Two tracks from the current album in progress that I'm fucking proud of:

Safety in Numbness:

(direct download)


You. Take a step away.
So perfect, and you only tell the truth.
When you need an example
Of what happens when you lie
Point your finger
And say that I'm the proof

Sanctimony
always came easy to you
Well, I'm too far along now
so tell me
What should I do?

and tell me:
is there safety in numbness?
do you find
you can hide
inside your ignorance?

safety in numbness
It doesn't feel right
My thoughts collide
with your disfigurement

Safety in numbness
numbness
numbness
numbness

Your reputation beyond question
While mine lies battered and bruised
You minister to your congretation
I hang my head and look at my shoes

Sophistry
always came so easy to you
but when the answer doesn't fit
the question
what do I do?

tell me:
is there safety in numbness?
do you find
that you can hide
behind your innocence?

safety in numbness
Pacified
I cannot abide
This servile obedience

Safety in numbness
numbness
numbness
numbness

They hang off all of your opinions
Taking warmth from the flames behind your eyes
And if there's doubt among your minions
I'll take a bullet
I'll be your sacrifice

I don't believe
that it's been so easy for you
And the next time you judge me
or push me
I'm turning on you

Don't tell me that there's
SAFETY IN NUMBNESS
YOU'RE DEAD INSIDE
AND ALL YOUR PRIDE
HAS LEAD TO IMPOTENCE

MASK YOUR DISCOMFORT
CONVENIENT LIES
AT LEAST I'M MINE
DON'T NEED YOUR DELIVERANCE

HOW COULD YOU BECOME THIS?
CRUCIFIED
ALL WE HELD HIGH
HAS LOST ITS SIGNIFICANCE

SAFETY IN NUMBNESS
I'D SOONER DIE
EYES OPEN WIDE
I DON'T ASK YOUR FORGIVENESS

No safety in numbness
numbness
numbness
numbness


(I've been told it makes me sound like Zeromancer)

and

Buddhabox:

(direct download)


let's cross another line
fulfill another promise
try to fill myself with wine
hope I wake up at the office

I don't think I work here
don't recognise your face
feeling quite disorientated
wait, I know this place

can i wander into your life?
you can talk a walk in mine
can i wake up in the desert?
thirteen years, a lot of time

my science fiction soundtrack
leaves a lot to be desired
all the diodes down my left side
need to be rewired

If I'm making too much sense
you can whisper in my ear
introspective providence
a consequence of fear

I'm a side-effect of
genuflecting perspicacity
Are you my reward or reprimand
it's getting hard to see

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(you know we're living in a sci-fi movie
Rutger Hauer's gonna walk right through next tuesday)

[young boys fall in love with their dreams
you're not a toy, but you're not what you seem]

{and who do you think you are? you. you. }

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lose my flow to this nostalgia
I'm sounding insincere
they say "we're so relieved we found you"
but I'm not really here

you're like emotional methadone
feels like I lack the chromosome
a synthetic alternative
to being on my own

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when I define myself I find myself
somehow lacking
keep my displacement in the basement
till I'm unpacking

burst open packages of memories
and conversations
my black dog's become a product
of domestication

but this is not the thing I am
and this is not what I will be
the thing you're pissing in the wind
is your potential to be free

so fixated on the car crash
try to tear your gaze away
I don't need to be this man
deathboy's just a sobriquet


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