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Wings
03:13
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My backs against the wall
Backed into a corner I won’t leave at all
Forced to make decisions we later on defy
Though long ago we sought comfort and shelter
Now I find it hard to breathe restricted by your protection
I still need my lungs to breathe
I still need my blood to bleed
I will never know who I’m meant to be
If I can’t spread my wings and fly
These concrete boots that chain me down
As water continues to rise
Hold my head above the torrent
Scream till my lungs collapse
Hoping you will hear my torment
Anticipation
I’m still drowning
Contemplation
While your still breathing
Expectations
Of what you want me to be
Pure frustration
My side you just don’t see
We held our refuge with a silent tongue
We held our refuge till the silence
My backs against the wall
Backed into a corner I won’t leave at all
Forced to make decisions we later on defy
I still need my lungs to breathe
I still need my blood to bleed
I will never truly be me
If I can’t spread my wings and fly
These concrete boots that chain me down
As water continues to rise
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Skin & Bones
03:45
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A picture holds a thousand words
Image tells a thousand tales
Each timeless portrait steals a piece of your soul
A vulgar display that you shamefully disgrace
Yourself for the amusement of the souls who can’t be saved
We are blood and flesh, we are skin and bones
Just stop the obsession, embrace imperfection
After all it’s what makes us all unique
Don’t sell your soul for the price of beauty
Don’t sell your soul to be another clone
Identity abandoned - true beauty lies within
Don’t need your opinion to sway an altered perception
We won’t offer forgiveness to the sheep who follow regardless
Dedicated to obtaining perfection
Completely consumed by your own reflection
A vulgar display that you shamefully disgrace
yourself for the amusement of clones
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Gambit
03:31
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Conscious that you have a problem
Yet choose to resist for the thrill of the chase
The stench of victory overthrown by countless mistakes
Beating a dead horse
Double-down your arrogance
The odds are stacked against you
You’ve been dealt a dead mans hand
Would you throw it all away?
Contorted by greed of money
Feed the addiction to fuel the flame
While you throw your life down the drain
So roll the dice
Pretend your selfishness is justified by the price of your fortune
Snake eyes
No guilt and no remorse
Obsessed by increasing volume
Russian Roulette every time you place your bet
Hold the gun to your head
Dignity put a price on integrity
It’s safe to say your down on beginners luck
Put a price on your dignity
Put a price on integrity
It’s safe to say you are royally fucked
Bow down to beginners luck
Clean sweep or a heart beat
You’re royally fucked
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4. |
Chapters
03:30
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Strive forward for tomorrow
If you can’t get your best out of today
Erase it from your memory
Obstacles are thrown at us
Test our judgment, trial our trust
All chapter to our life story
Will you be forgotten or say all you wanted to say?
Fade into obscurity or build a legacy?
Life’s always changing beginning till the end
Always shaping children into men
Turns children into men
Think you’ve found the solution
Indications lead to contradiction
Search to find your better self
With no feeling in your ambiance
Search to find your better self
And no heart in your brutality
Search to find your better self
With a lack of passion and clarity
Search to find your better self
Struggle to find rhythm in life’s harmony
The change starts today it’s up to no one else
Independence - A strength most don’t possess
Until your forced to learn the hard way
Insecure - You’ve lost control, your life’s a mess
Far from the hopes and dreams your reminisce
The only one to pull this train back on the tracks
The same person condemned us all to see the wreck
Condemned to see the wreck
When staring at defeat the strong will find their feet
To march on through the rain to find a better day
‘Bout time you found your better self
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Like A Ghost
03:24
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Exploited
Taken advantage of
I dug myself my own grave
Buried myself with others problems
Shifting in and out of consciousness
Grieving compulsions I must repress
Walk around like a ghost with your head in the clouds
Subject to violence I am renowned
A mouthful of sorrow to wash it all down
A sudden realisation
Like lightning restored my vision
Backflip decision to remove myself from the source of depression
Why do I have to be the only one
To walk away or bite my tongue?
So many things I had to say
Where you won’t like my reaction
I always have to be the bigger man
And walk away when the damage is done
So many things I had to say
So many friends lost along the way
With my feet firm on the ground
I’ll neglect as you choke on your sorrow and drown
Subject to violence
Your neglect cut straight to the bone
Why am I the only one left biting my fucking tongue?
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6. |
Follow My Name
03:47
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If I embrace this downward spiral
Or give in to this vicious cycle
I will never find my way and my signs are vital
As I tiptoe through this headspace
To find the memories I’ve hidden away
Under lock and key and woe is me
I’ve got my fingers crossed that they weren’t erased
Cause I vaguely remember devotion
But I kind of think that it was replaced
By a confusing sense of direction
I’m hoping it will show me the way
As I lose sense of perspective
A broken compass is all the remains
To navigate me through my problems
That I struggle with every day
I will search the depths of this ocean
Uncharted waters and crushing waves
In the distance I see a flashing light
I’m hoping it won’t lead me astray
Now I’m running through this headspace
Unlocking memories awakening pain
Looking back on life right before my eyes
and nearly everything I wanted to change
Cause I vaguely remember composure
But I’ve lost my drive to navigate
Still the distance calls and beckons me
and now I’m left to follow my name
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7. |
Paths Divided
04:50
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Not even in my worst nightmares
Could I have ever believed that
This sickness that courses through me
Will bring me down reduced to nothing
Within the very depths of my mind
Forever trying to find the strength to survive
Forever in the depths of my mind trying to find
Lonely, Abandoned
Deserted by myself on the verge of death
Fragile carrying a burden
Feeling breakable under all this stress
Desperate to conquer this plague and find my way back home
With every second I waste I will not hesitate
To fight on and last another day
With every step I take I will not hesitate
I will not hesitate to fight on and last another day
Now I see the light through the darkness
Now I see the path that divides me
Struggle on through the sickness
Through the fever thats burning me
Battle past complications in the face of adversity
I fight with belief that I will be well again
And conquer this plague I call my own
This black room that divides me
Separates me from the outside world
Images of my life crash to me as I find it hard to breathe Reflections of my life crash to me as I find it hard to
Separate the real from this dream
Reality imaginary
Separate the real from this dream
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8. |
Bitter Resistance
04:06
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Here’s my retaliation, a verbal devastation
Keep hating me - that’s your only justification
Cryptically abuse and lie for the whole damned world to see This hollow truth that you live by no longer involves me
In the hope that you won’t strive for such sympathy Somehow you’ve mistaken death with prosperity
And as the lies build you dig a deeper hole
Who will benefit the most out of this tragedy?
Cause I clearly see that your playing the victim
Will you ever hold guilt in your heart or live with deliverance?
Remember that sympathy
Is only short comfort in tragedy
Keeping your honesty
Stay true to yourself or your nothing to me
I’ll take your criticism bottle it up to fuel the rage
You call me gutless, you call me weak
Yet too coward to say it to my face
And now its clear to see that your pointing the finger at me
So easy to play the victim when it all seems like criticism
In the hope that you wont strive for such sympathy
Somehow you’ve mistaken death with prosperity
You face a Bitter Resistance
Remember that sympathy
Is only short comfort in tragedy
Turn a blind eye to honestly
Stay true to yourself or your nothing to me
I’ve been there through everything
The hard times the lows and the self pity
Through all my advice you turn a blind eye
Now you face a Bitter Resistance
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Blindfold
03:55
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Future destroyed, he only wanted to enjoy
The finer things this life supplies
But his life changed and on that fateful day
This boy would never be the same
Cause he knew a man who was a family friend
The boy thought that he could trust
But he was betrayed, kept quiet with bribery
All to forfill a religious pedophiles fantasy
Raise your voices to unravel the conspiracy and betrayal
Cover ups, secrets and lies
Manipulation of our generation behind your disguise Paying for your alibi
Robbing children of their innocence
Blinding parents of their common sense
Future destroyed, she dreamed to conquer the world
Her future burning all to bright ready to ignite
Eager to learn she learnt a harsh life lesson
At the end of the school day
Then her life changed lived out the rest of her days
A product of her own disgust
She was betrayed, kept quiet with bribery
All to forfill a twisted teachers fantasy
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10. |
X VII
04:44
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My heartbeat in your chest
Your breathing in my breath
Staring into your eyes entwine myself with you
Legs begin shaking
Trembling lips embracing
Time makes this an eternity
I am lost in your serenity
We made our way out of the catacombs
We made it away from deaths mosolium
Shine your light for me
These shipwrecked seas that torment me
I need your light to guide me free
Three sheets to the wind
Sail this gallion from this chasm
My love my life my everything
So shine your light
Loosen the noose
Loosen the hangmans noose my love
Unchain me from the gallows
I’ve been chained down for too long
Loosen the noose been chained down for to long
This heart upon my sleeve I wear with pride
And with every passing breath I promise to be right by your side
This heart upon my sleeve I wear with pride
Take your hand in life or death this I solemnly vow to you
I don’t want to live forever
I just want to live for you
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Lycanthrope Newcastle, Australia
Lycanthrope is a six piece metal band from Newcastle in NSW, Australia.
With music that is full of energy and
purpose, punchy rhythms, melodic choruses, and heavy breakdowns, Lycanthrope are quickly building a solid fan base and leaving their mark on the metal scene.
New EP 'Revival' is available now.
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