1. |
Siren
05:32
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We're all eat up
Taste the air you waste
A murderer's mirror
Eyes watching themselves
I want out of this shell
Out of this packaged lie
Out of what kills inside
I cut to reveal what lies beneath
We're all each other's graves
Uncle Sam's children getting fingered
Screaming in the silence
All just strangers getting stranger
Fucking cattle bound to earthly treasures
Recycled plagues masked as pleasures
Looking for gold in rusted layers
Killers speaking holy prayers
Line your lies
Blind your eyes
Sin disguised
Hand in hand, our fate's intwined
Run and hide
Turn your sight
Design your denial
Eye for eye, for you and I
All in time, the time is nye
We've sold our souls to live and die
So let freedom ring...
What would you do if I opened it up for you?
Could you smile and wave at the sight of the ugly truth?
Tonight I'll paint these walls with my brains
The last siren's most deafening
There's five people you'll never meet
I find nothing admirable in you
I only like the image I've made
Don't hold an unloaded gun to another man's head just to scream "April Fools" when he shoots you instead
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2. |
Cleanse
05:25
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24 fucking years I've wasted on something that I hate
Watching the world have its way with my mind
Thinking I'm doing just fine
But all we know is all we are
And all we are is lost
All you know is all you see
And all it means is nothing
So cleanse the world in ashes
It's all just progress
Watch your daily habits eat through your skin
Head is full of nothing and things crawl from your eyes
I'll smile and wave at your name on a grave
Full of nothing any god could ever save
A monotonous melody hummed in your head
The hourglass is empty and the sand is in your bed
So cleanse the world in ashes
It's all just progress
There is no comfort in this desolation fed and nurtured
We're all just eating each other alive
I am a puppet cutting its strings
You are the barrel I breathe into
A tantalizing deception, like perfume on a prostitute
At least now I can get some fucking sleep
Dead
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3. |
Decadence
08:45
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Isolation
Burning inside out
The world has left a hole in you
Revelations
You remember too much
Your mind wanders too far to come home
So far into our fates we've roamed
The only road we've ever known
Plagued by the past, decaying our futures
A decadent void we create
We are the only ones we hate
Death comes crawling to your door
You become the thing you hated before
The whole world's been abandoned
We're possessed by our own possessions
We confess only to sin again
We build over mistakes to forget them
Decaying by the day
Vultures will have their way
Everything’s gone to hell
We’re already all in pieces
It’s already fucking over
No way out
You lost it all again
Nothing left
Temptation wraps like a noose
Can’t let go
Binding and borrowing in you
Feed the hole
So sick of eating leeches
Drill screws into my feet
No one returns from this
We’ve steadily dug these depths
You can lose everything
You will see such pretty things
Loathsome devil
Fucking mental
Alone and withered
Reaching for restoration
In these eyes
Time waves goodbye
Holding hope like a gun
A broken place
We'll never see peace until it brings about our end
Hold faith through decadence
Hold faith till the end of this
Hold faith through decadence
Hold faith, you’ll see an end to this
Corruption is the cure
The world diseased itself
These things go away
The past is meant to fade
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4. |
Uncommon Sense (Danger)
08:02
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Run far now from the outcome
That you have generated
Like the maker of a monster
Ashamed of what you created
This is your time
Rise and fucking shine
My eyes...
Have seen death...
Awaiting...
Oh how I've yearned...
For ages...
Trapped within...
But now...
I've returned...again
This world ignores its own mistakes
Your bliss will be your demise
Hidden beneath the deceptive skin
A vicious monstrosity lies
The irony is we're living to die
We'll bore the evil seed
Bring into this world once pure
One more dark entity
This life,
What a curse
Oh how I envy
The one in the hearse
Strung high
Hear my words
Kill me now
But you'll be the one who burns
Drowning your thirst in gasoline
You throw yourself to the fire
We will never learn from the past
We are too busy living in it
Say another prayer to a god not listening
The whims of the damned are no longer heard
We're so eager to crawl into our graves
Little do we know, we worship the absurd
Gamble away your brothers and sisters
The surface blinds the simple minds
They have no idea
The light at the end is a bullet from the barrel
Through our own hate
We've sealed our own fate
Through our own greed
We planted the seed
Life's a whore
And we can't get enough
We built our homes on piles of their bones
Through our own hate
We've sealed our own fate
Through our own greed
We planted the seed
Life's a whore
And we can't get enough
We built our homes on piles of their bones
Built our homes on piles of their bones
Built our homes on piles of their bones
Built our homes on piles of their bones
Killed them all to make it our own
They reap what we sow
And seal our lips shut with the needles
Our vanity is our tragedy
We've spawned machines
That we cannot control
With only words we've killed ourselves
Like an addict's empty bottle
We know our guilt too well
Screaming for help without a voice
We've sold away our right to choice
Jesus Christ
Forever shut these eyes
Sing and rejoice as we all die
Foreseen is the silent massacre
But we heed not its warning
Foreseen is the silent massacre
We all feed on ourselves
No one skepticizes
Blinded by our vices
Taken by devices
Society demonizes
All (No one knows what's real)
For (Nothing here to feel)
One (No one's in control)
Desire (No one gets out alive)
This is my world now
This is my fucking world now
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5. |
Furious George
04:34
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An open casket
Everything coming to pass
Repeating and relapsing
Until everything is cold and black
That thing I once was is gone
That person you knew is so far away
That thing in the mirror's turning real
That thing in your nightmares is right here
Trading sanity for basic relief
I am completely self destructive
Now everything feels like fire
But everything is fine in your head
I'll regurgitate my hate until I'm dead
I'm not worth shit
A mess of projected emotions
I'm not worth shit
I can feel resentment, I wear this loathing as my skin
I try to pretend I do not like this
I'm spitting in my own face
Reclusion, reckless abandon, and utter misery
The good in me has been erased
Rise and fall
Staring down this dimlit hall
Through broken glass I walk
But where I'll end may be no different than where I began
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6. |
VHS
05:08
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I want your heart, I want your soul
Give me your life, give me control
Distant eyes with stoic minds
Exploit and destroy
It comes down to what we perceive
The way we subject ourselves
What we allow our senses to read
We're defining a new generation
I'd kill just to show you what's real
I want to take the same thing I give
Take me to places I should not be
Entertain me with the horrors I soon will be
Cut from empathy
Apathy runs like a drug
The screams like highs of an opera
The feeling like a church mass revival
Studying the ways of the world
Looking through the lens of every evil
We find it to be a mirror
We find we're not so different at all
Life is porn
And I want more
An enthusiastic corrosion
The corruption of the human mind
There is no way to rewind from this time
Someday, they'll hear you from beneath the earth
(Spoken portion after song into next song, done by Kenny Roberts):
Hey, you listenin' close you smelly sack of shit? What is it that makes people like you feel empowered anyway? What gets you off? Hm? What gets you on? Well let me tell ya a little something...your wife sucked me off earlier this week, prick. How does that make you feel? Remember when she told ya blowjobs weren't her thing? Remember when she told ya that she "just wasn't into it?" It's all a lie. You know it is. You know what it really means. She doesn't want you, she doesn't want your small, erectile dysfunctional dick. She wants a real man, and the fact that you question if you are one, just like right now, is exactly how you and I both know you aren't. So what do you do? Pat yourself on the shoulder, let some voice in your head behind that cigarette you smoke and that piss-tasty beer you drink tell you that you're doing a good job? Is that it, then? Is that all you need to keep your sanity in check? How about money, what is that to ya? A joke? Your life? Somewhere in between? And is that because you never have enough? You already know you've got nobody to run to. Oh no! Mommy's dead, that shoulder you used to cry on is long gone and you'll never get her back. And so you, as the rest of this shitty excuse for a world does, fill yourself with all these people and things you THINK care about you and you THINK you have some kind of significant control of. But deep down inside you don't. And you know it. That's why you're poor, that's why your wife cheated on you, that's why you work a mediocre job, and that's why you will die with an unsatisfied lifestyle. That's just how it is in this world. We all wanna take more and give less. We all care more about the physical, status-related, society-pressed bullshit that really means nothing. That's why you, as with most of America, are depressed. We all follow traditions, go to church and pray, follow authority and pay taxes, fear change and shun integrity, and refuse to innovate and so ironically encourage people to be what we call "leaders," yet force them to follow a set of hand-me-down standards that we claim are the things that DEFINE a "leader..." There is no thinking for one's self, no independence, no people's say, no control, and no real "justice." We all give head to something "greater," and just can't stand to swallow...
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7. |
Rollercoaster to Hell
01:51
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8. |
Satan's Playground
04:57
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Today you'll find god
In a bathroom mirror
Blood-spattered and shattered
See yourself in the pieces
Used it to open up
Used it to see beauty
You were looking through a dirty lens
You were looking through bullet holes
Curses, candles, and total demise
Hell is right before your curious eyes
Looking through you'll soon despise
This door you opened up far too wide
Drawing circles and breaking spines
Crawling around in the devil's binds
Tonight god turns a blind eye
Tonight you'll share Allegheri's sight
A headless child in the hell you play
But I know you like it better that way
Head scrambled like blood on the wall
Eyes crying for another face to recall
Something fucked with me
And I never want to live again
Cutting out my eyes
Burn the board and become a whore
Dripping down everything's thighs
Masturbating in tongues and knives
I don't know what it is
I know what it wants
It whispers words of suicide
It entices, and my blood turns cold
God, I wish I were dead
Forgive me father, and take my head
Scratching off skin in place of prayer
There's no quicker way to get you there
Salvation found in ripped out teeth
Your sanity lies somewhere beneath
Used it to open up
Used it to see beauty
You were looking through a dirty lens
You were looking through bullet holes
Head scrambled like blood on the wall
Eyes crying for another face to recall
Something fucked with you
And I bet you'll never play again
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9. |
Stitches
09:10
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Twisting inside out
I offer my thoughts to god
A chorus of dry heaves
Tract marks map the portrait of an inevitable ending
Raising hell till heaven's reached
Eyes scatter like moths on a lightbulb
A disfigured beauty
Open wounds like ventilation
Bloodshot eyes
A putrid guise
The lights grow dimmer
Lines grow thinner
This body's a conduit
Something's been clawing its way out of you
Skin is aesthetic
Stitched over the real deal
Shed your shell
Show your shapes and colors
I just want to taste what's real
I just need to know it's there
You're nobody's anything
Don't you EVER breathe again
You're nobody's good time
It would never hurt you
Nothing more than meat with eyes
You're nobody's anything
Don't you EVER breathe again
You're nobody's good time
It would never hurt you
I open myself to you
To show you what lies beneath
The things that you've never seen
Tonight I'll make you believe
I open myself to you
To show you what lies beneath
A memory for you to keep
A sight to haunt your sleep
Eyes filled with nevermore
Mind corroded with substance
When I pick up the phone
Still no one is home
Insects crawl through lacerations
Picking apart like the people you knew
The church bell rings as you cry for blessings
A fallen angel gone black and blue
I open myself to you
To show you what lies beneath
The things you've never seen
Tonight I'll make you believe
I open myself to you
To show you what lies beneath
A memory for you to keep
This time, we have cut too deep
Jesus is in the pill, it will bring you salvation
Come touch hands with your savior
Life will only repeat it
Life will bring you deceit
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10. |
Lights
05:53
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Every time I look into your eyes
I like the flames you make
The way the lights illuminate
And if you stare for too long
You could lose your sight
Glow in the night
Fires ignite
Here, before our eyes
In darkness, there is light
Like oceans, we sway
Rough to calm in a day
Colliding in our waves
Beheld by beauty we create
Every time I look into your eyes
Every time, it makes me feel alive
Though your pain I can't erase
I gave you my heart to replace
And if I stare for too long
I might lose my mind
Glow in the night
Fires ignite
Here, before our eyes
In darkness, there is light
In oceans, we sway
Rough to calm in a day
Colliding in our waves
Beheld by beauty we create
Every time we glow in our lights
Every time, it feels like forever's been defined
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11. |
Parole
03:17
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It's like the cross between life and death
The way we define heaven and hell
The suit you wear to hide the skin
The same mistakes we'll make again
Your time, your time, parole
Your time, your life...
The things we choose define what we lose
We mold our roads into our tombs
The things we need, the ways we bleed
Remove the chains, but we're never freed
So what does freedom mean to you?
Just getting out, is just getting in
What good is leaving if you never reach resolve?
How do you spell "salvation?"
Your time, your mind, parole
Your time, your life, your soul
Your time, your life, an end...
Welcome home
So here's to never ending
A salutation to your past, so present
On your way out, you'll look back
You'll see you're no further than before
Time will go and sins will show
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12. |
Junkyard Congregation
01:46
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13. |
Drunk on Sabbath
06:59
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Rise and shine, you’ve lost your mind
20 plus years empty inside
Alone and cold, no one is home
Suffer pains that you’ve never known
Taking all day
Just to wake
Same old aches
In here, you stay
You want to know how it feels?
Life is everything you feared
You start to see what’s real
You disappointed everyone at once
Praying into a barrel tonight
With all my demons by my side
I’ve lived a lonely life
But with these voices here, I’ll never die alone
They must’ve told you light was at the end of this
There must’ve been something that you missed
Daddy’s three cans away from death
Mommy won’t breathe another breath
And here you are, failing at both life and death
A hand up Mona Lisa’s dress
A ghost that always knew you best
You’re wasting everything that you were blessed
Still have pictures on the wall
Still wish you could burn them all
Never-resting eyes haunted in recall
Threw tantrums, wrote page after page
Lost yourself in all that rage
A rabid animal locked up in his cage
Weakness wins
You sin again
Addiction
Plagues your skin
You’re as hopeless as your efforts
Give up while you still can
Crawling slowly to your grave
Your heart gets colder by the day
Waking in vomit and piss today
Regurgitating your mistakes
You’ve lived a lonely life
But with your demons here, you’ll never die alone
Gloom and doom since you left the womb
All you ever wanted was someone to want you
All these scars across your chest
Another man's hand rests on her breasts
They laugh and toast at your pathetic loneliness
"Ah-ha-ha..."
Echoes everywhere
Screaming and pulling out your hair
Silhouettes everywhere
You pray for them to take you there
Can't quite tell if you've ever grown
A child rotting, cold and alone
Can't quite tell if you've ever known
All you've ever been is on your own
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14. |
Violent Therapy
03:03
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Shut your mouth and close your eyes
Let these voices be your guide tonight
They're gonna fuck the god right out of you
It's not enough to hurt every day that you live through
They're gonna drive you fucking insane
Your faith and fluids are somewhere down the drain
You are meat gone vegetable
No pill could make you sensible
Never in this world will you ever be normal
Bless your soul, you've lost control
Made a grave out of your home
Keep on running till you find there's nowhere else to go
There's no greater high
There's no better time
You're in need of help
You need out of your mind
There's no other way
There's no brighter day
You're in need of something
Let these bugs burrow inside
Take you to the places that you'll never leave
Blind yourself with lights that you'll never reach
I hate myself like a pregnant teenage junkie
I go to sleep every night with nothing but my longing
To die
Nothing special
Don't you know?
You're out of your head
Receive the worms
You've been force fed
I'm all around you
Fiddling with your conscience
You cannot live
Unless I say so
You threw away your worth
You gave away the world
Now you're in your own world
You are so worthless
You are so worthless
You are so fucking worthless
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15. |
Letters
03:08
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Falling asleep in a casket, awaking in a rusted cell
Don’t forget that bloody cross you painted on your forehead
There’s no god in your heart, you disgraced the womb that bore you
Dear child of mine,
Sometimes I wish I could return you where you belong
Oh my, what a life
They all lied, I deserve to regret the air I breathe
You had it once
You threw it away
You’ve gone without
And now you want it again, and again, and again
The choice was clear
Opportunity was there
You threw it away
And now you want it again, and again, and again
Come on, don’t break my heart
I could be everything you need
You could have it all
As long as it’s all me
You need help
You’re out of your fucking mind
You need this and that
Silence your life
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16. |
Red Moon Blues
03:59
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There seems to be no hope tonight
A red moon shines down from the midnight sky
I can feel it burning up
The devil's scratching at my door
I stare into my six-shot savior
Say my prayers to a cold chrome chamber
Dead inside
Counting time
God is in the knife
I will return my life
I'm in love with a shallow grave
She pulls me in and makes me think I'm saved
All my demons clawing up my skin
Choke down another dose of my sins
Whispers creep into my head
My repentance will be my end
Dead inside
Cut the line
God is in the knife
I can't trust myself tonight
Dead inside
Plagued by my mind
Take it from my eyes
Dead inside
Take my life
My heart is gone
I won't make it out alive
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17. |
Autumn Leaves Ashes
03:44
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Another day living out of my mind
Taking time and slowly killing mine
Another offer that you can't refuse
Slowly accepting what you hate is true
Bricks and pavements over graves
Wandering orphans, ghosts with no names
Ain't it so damn cold when freedom's only found in the ground?
A ticking clock begins to slow when wear-and-tear gets to it
Autumn leaves ashes, you burn your blessings day by day
When everything you loved is gone away
Here again and only wearing thin
Living on dying dreams and oxygen
Wear a tie and think you live a life
Laugh off the irony as you die
Broken records, skin for gold
Painted smiles, life bought and sold
Ain't it so damn cold when freedom's only found in the ground?
A shattered mirror tells the truth; reality is too real
Autumn leaves ashes, you burn your blessings day by day
When every ounce of faith is stripped away
Ain't it so damn cold when freedom's only found in the ground?
Time is never slowing down, you're running round in circles
Autumn leaves ashes, you burn your blessings day by day
When memories eat your whole life away
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18. |
The Horror Hall
02:20
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19. |
Burn the Journal
04:50
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A call through aching
Time is fading
You're moving on from memories
Everything spinning
Conscience thinning
All that's left is you and now
Turn the pages as you write it all away
You've offered blood to nothing but a broken place
It swims through your skin
Looking back through a broken lens
You have scars in places unseen
I can feel the weight you've carried
The marks craft a picture of your hollowed soul
Substance in your veins just to numb it all away
Haunting feelings plaguing all nerve endings
Shadows crawling all across the ceiling
Voices laughing as you slowly fade to gray
You choke on prayers to just be taken away
A call through aching
Life is waiting
You're going to have it all this time
Your heart is hoping
Your eyes wide open
You're leaving all despair behind
It's hard to see light from under blackened skies
But faith will do you good
Sometimes you just hate to feel
Other times you wish you could
A call to your aching
Heaven is waiting
The pain is fading
A call to your waking
Your skin may be aging
But time will bring reward
Put the past back on the rack
Take the hate out of the cartridge
Don't leak your pain out from the veins
Don't let those curses find their way in
Black skies clearing for light
You're walking forth with clearer sight
The pages stripped away
You write a new chapter on a cleaner slate
It's do or die
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20. |
Leftovers
07:37
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Here, again, the day comes to an end
In here, we die, with life before our eyes
Like the sky, from blue to grey
Refrigerated, spoiled shame
We soar and land, so far away
Looking back, it's just the same
You're a ghost now, just wind in their ears
A ballroom closed, torn down with the years
Your river's dammed, and the fish don't swim
Father time sleeps, and mother nature weeps
We break our bones for sticks and stones
Consumes the world, when Queen takes King
But look around, familiar footprints on the ground
We're here, again; the same as we began
Holding on
Turning the hourglass upside down
Refusing
We can't accept what the mirror renders real
Scream and shout
Underneath a thousand sounds
You're calling out
But in a sea of noise, it drowns
"There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it."
"Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life."
"A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing."
"One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation."
Life never forgives
Time never forgets
Not once since the day
Not once since it went away
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21. |
Ghost Town
06:12
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Gets a little colder each night
Take a ride, all alone, to clear my mind
Some STP and BoC are my only friends
Full of empty in a city where dreams end
Don't say
That this is where my life will end
Don't think
I'll ever come back here again
Don't wait
Till death comes knocking at the door
Don't stay
Where you've got nothing anymore
It's become a ghost town
Everything's gone into the ground
I'm gonna leave this ghost town
Off to somewhere I'll never be found
It's just one big ghost town
Not too many people left around
I'm gonna leave this ghost town
Ascend and never come back down
I'll never come back 'round
Take another look back and all I see
Always haunted by inherited misery
Sit alone, with my thoughts, like a casualty
Two decades offered up to monotony
Won't stay
Where I've got nothing anymore
Won't wait
I think I've found my open door
Won't be
Another victim of recycled fate
Won't freeze
Let's hope the future lights a flame
Been spending just about every single day
Just trying to find myself a better way
Gets so cold, all alone, in the dark and grey
Nothing here but echoes of what used to be
It's a curse no one ever quite learns to break
It's a place where the worst wouldn't want to stay
Somehow, by now, you'd think I'd find a way
But it's a long road out of here I've yet to take
It's become a ghost town
Everything's gone into the ground
I'm gonna leave this ghost town
Off to somewhere I'll never be found
It's just one big ghost town
Not too many people left around
I'm gonna leave this ghost town
Ascend and never come back down
I'll never come back 'round
Got all the time in the world, until we die
Do or don't, it's a choice only you decide
Look towards the sun and shadows cast behind
Never let your fears constrain your life
Won't stay
Where I've got nothing anymore
Won't wait
I know I've found my open door
Don't wait
Till death comes knocking at the door
Don't stay
Where you've got nothing anymore
Feels so alive
Feels so revived
Set it on fire
Free to aspire
It's a ghost town,
With not too many people left around
Somehow,
I don't feel so hopeless, in this light I've found
A ghost town,
It's a home I've learned to live without
I've found
Somewhere better for my fire to die out
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22. |
The Human Sculpture
06:42
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23. |
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In waves, you drift and decay
Holding your breath in the casket you lay
Dissociated from physical life
Strange things happen in your head tonight
Eating, sleeping, and living feel like winning a war
Just want to feel something other than fire and empty
Half awake, your perception fades
You will see such pretty things on the other side, so cross your heart and pray to never wake again
Eating, sleeping, and living feel like winning a war
Just want to feel something other than fire and empty
I'll bet you wish these nails were her embrace
You're spilling blood and semen all over the place
You planted the seed
Now on shit you feed
With roaches, rats, and bad memories you sleep
Turn this into learning
Fill me with infections
You did this to you
Are your eyes open now?
Out
I can see how it's eaten you
From where you've gone, there's no return
The ghosts haunt and laugh as you stagger your way back home
Don't wake me, just end me, dear god
The world went cold
You're going home
I'll have you know that
I'm on my way back
And I'm still alive somehow
I'll have you know that
I'm on my way back
I am headed home
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Asylum 213 Richmond, Virginia
Asylum 213 is an experimental rock quartet originally founded as a solo project by Dylan Lawson in the summer of
2010.
Feel free to drop a line any time at themusicofasylum213@gmail.com for bookings, thoughts, compliments, insults, and more! Much love!
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