1. |
Aftermath
05:25
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They found us
Ghosts wait where the angels used to play
High on the aura
And the ashes taste like home
A landscape of lost
The remains of things gone
The air fills these lungs
Burns like it cuts
Blood in the smile
Scars on these hands
Winter’s death comes in cold
Summer becomes a story told
Colors stay as memories
In the backs of minds gone gray
The sky is falling down
Sinking all creation into the ground
Conclusion is miles away
Revolving in our dreams
I don’t know my own name anymore
I never knew my place anyway
Home is nowhere that I lay
I am fading in this place
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2. |
Virginia is for Losers
04:57
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Something just ain't right here
Feeling so empty staring into space
Must be something in the water
This fragile home has me feeling out of place
I'm afraid of tomorrow
Feel the shakes of a train coming overhead
Sit on pipes above water
Something inside keeps me miles away from here
Long gone, I know there's nothing going on
So tell me, is life worth living for?
When stress is eating up and you just can't take anymore
Broke and bare, sinking into a hole
All the colors fade as memories walk out the door
We're nowhere, and going deeper there
Nothing left to lose, and even then, who really cares?
Just let it wear down to bone
Good luck, you're on your own
Something just ain't right here
Catch maybe an hour or so of sleep
Must be something I'm missing
Living off of the dirt kicked in my face
Every day's like a fever
Struggle just to climb out my bed
Going deaf and disconnected
Trying to ignore the voices in my head
I know you've been my home all along
A broken, filthy place to sit and sing these painful songs
Just let the wounds all sting
I never meant a thing
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3. |
Just Like Winter
04:24
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4. |
NSFW
05:16
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Colder nights spent in our fires
A sadist passion; our unholy desires
Tied and bound
Abrasive arouse
A torturous romance
Everything exposed
Never a love so close
Our limits to choose and break
With empty voices, we scream our sins out loud
Never felt so free in chains
With blood and leather, a fervent affection
Intimate violence
Scars and marks; penchant
I’m alright in pain
Fetishes explored
Anguishes adored
Tied and bound
Spirits inside-out
A quiet evening in malaise
Morbid marvel
Dolor pleasures
A vehement play
With empty voices, we scream our sins out loud
Never felt so free in chains
With blood and leather, a fervent affection
Intimate violence
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5. |
Eskimo
04:15
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Our hands, they sway, as we're walking over graves
Unaware of the poisons we both bear
Romantic sin, again and again
We can't tell anyone
Don't spoil our fun
On father’s gun
Making love after croquet
Our bloody hands touching one another’s faces
Smoke to our evils done
We’ve both had our fun
On another’s gun
Who can tell us we’re wrong if everyone is dead and gone?
Rest well, Heather
My noose is yours
Rest well, everything
My death is yours
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6. |
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Another needle underneath the skin
One more excuse to start again
Two more days till we get paid
It only takes one to throw it all away
I can't wait for the day
When my dreams chase my pain away
I can't wait for the world to say
You can live, let your reflections fade
'Cause I feel stuck in the past
Nothing good ever seems to last
But if there's light at the end of this
I'll keep on breathing till it goes out
[Inhansed]
Yeah, yeah
Feeling alone, but never reach out for help
Feel like a drone, never feel like myself
And I'm feeling like my mind is one of a kind
But I can't seem to show it when I'm writing these lines
I find I need the confidence to pull me back up
Before I get stuck in a hole that the flag dug
The sedentary life really isn't for me
Need to find my drive so I can climb back up on my feet
You don't think I can fix the mess that I made? (Nah)
You think that my dreams stay locked in a cage? (Yeah)
Well, one day every lock's gotta break
And one day they'll say my reflections can fade
I can't wait for the day
When my dreams chase my pain away
I can't wait for the world to say
You can live, let your reflections fade
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7. |
Sunny Graves
04:48
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The sun shines on your open tomb
Our bones warm in the heat
I reach into six feet under
and pull you back to life
We wake the dead
You empty my head
You cut into me
You're timeless beauty
An autumn breeze slowly creeping through
Long enough for us to breathe
Minutes dissolving into hours
The soil steals your skin
I hear your voice through holes in the earth
Can you hear mine?
I just need to know what's really there
Your ghost makes me believe
You whisper my name
Somehow it's just the same
You take it all away
Even in death, I'm here to stay
Smile and wave
Our souls embrace
I'm losing my mind
Your love haunts alive
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8. |
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Lips red, like evidence
Pacing around a filthy room
Is this where we go?
Is this all we know?
Dressed in after-effects
A pharmaceutical casket
Dwelling in depression
No one knows you anymore
Playing with curses, sinking slowly
These ropes will lead you to god
[Joey Woodard]
You're in a new realm
A padded, roach-infested hell
Muttering jinxes
All their eyes are watching you
Something is burning, it must be you
You're only a memory on display
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9. |
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[Alison LoPresti]
It’s eating your mind
All the time
Reflections;
You cast your thoughts awry
Shooting too high
Out of your sight
Regressions;
Keep your past alive
If you could just concern yourself with better things
and bring your soul back in from sea
Vivid hindrance; you begin to paralyze
You’re letting your doubts materialize
Take a clearer glance;
Discordant clairvoyance
[Alison LoPresti]
Gazing so far
Eyes wide and jarred
Deflection;
Point fingers miles on
Elsewhere and gone
Transcending lost
Evection;
Meshuggah disposition
Redirect yourself from fantasy
Your guile keeps you from reality
A frozen countenance
Dissonant contrivance
Trivial fortune
Wither in wanion
Blinded in bambosh
Rusting in revelry
Bound to your balderdash
Star-gazing to the grave
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10. |
Bad Chatters
04:16
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Are you calling out?
Are we above ground?
Transmissions loud and clear
Intwining atmospheres
Radio waves collide
Static is building inside
A supernatural encounter
Our spirits haunt each other's minds
Connections make us feel alive
It’s just the way we speak
I talk to you through waves and waves of unnatural ways
I bleed for you
Is this signal going through?
I talk to you for days and days in clairvoyant gaze
I swim with you
Somewhere far from there and then
Are we talking now?
Are our thoughts too loud?
Holes where my mind should be
Places my eyes shouldn't see
Visions like astrology
Celestial colors never seen
Radio waves collide
A lucid realm where we hide
Affixing our auras in each other's
Magic by gesture of hand
Rendezvous in clandestine land
Are we in tune tonight?
I talk to you through waves and waves of unnatural ways
I'm calling you
Is the signal going through?
I talk to you: days and days in clairvoyant haze
I drift with you
Somewhere far away from real
Radio waves collide
A portal is opened tonight
Tempting senses from a distance
Seen you in every single dream
We’re getting closer or so it seems
I’m wide awake tonight
I talk to you through waves and waves of unnatural ways
I dream it too
Is the signal going through?
I talk to you hoping to be there someday
I’ll wait for you
'Til our spirits clash again
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11. |
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Completing a picture of long ago
When color still remained
[Rebekah Rafferty]
Eyes embrace a different kind of place
A quiet whisper across the midnight lakes
Wide awake, in moonlit rays we lay
Everything goes silent in this space
We see what we feel;
Something in the air makes it so surreal
Ponder on forthcoming years;
Mapping out anxiety on hopes and fears
[Rebekah Rafferty]
We’ll trade our lives for what fools our minds
Make an end from where you began
Nostalgic plagues etched in our graves
Pictures painted in passions time erased
Reflect on the pictures of long ago
With nothing left to show
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12. |
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Inside of a hollow shell
I loathe and dwell
Awaiting the final days
We’re lost and misplaced
A paradise found in death
A new bed where I’ll rest
Your ghost remains in my head
I’m following again
I wait for death to realign our lives
I wait for death to reunite our hands
Arms open like pearly gates
As I finally wake
Fading into my tomb
As I walk to you
I can never sleep the same
No longer in this world should I remain
I wait for death to realign our lives
I wait for death to reignite our fire
I wait for death to realign our lives
I wait for death to reunite our hands
I await return to you
This world is nothing more than a tomb
Pull my heart out, it’s all for you
Pull my eyes shut, take me too
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13. |
Nurturing Nullification
04:04
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How the times have changed
All the blood and words exchanged
I look inside and I don't feel so alive
God, it’s like there’s nothing there at all
Nurtured torture;
Hapless haptics;
Gentle killing;
Peaceful pain;
Make it so there’s no feeling to know
The thing that separates us is accepting reality
Wearing another’s heart on your sleeves
Tugging strings until it doesn’t bleed
A finer suit in which to die
A familiar vacancy I've felt a thousand times
Now no one has my heart
Not you, not them, nor I
I gave you everything
Just to forget everything
I won’t be your fucking scapegoat
Dragging over broken glass and solitude
Crawling back to a time before you
Everyone we love
Couldn’t give a fuck
Everything we love
Will turn us to rust
We were given life to die
You never wanted connection
You only wanted control
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14. |
Open Road
04:42
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I’m on a road that never ends
And I don’t know where I began
I’m on a road I’ve never seen
And I don’t know where I should be
I’m on a road
I call it home
Faces to know
Places to go
I’m on a road again and again
And I don’t know where it will end
Running low and stretching far
Never know just where we are
I’m on a road
Don’t know where it goes
I’m on my own
The only way I’ve ever known
Summer days keep me amazed
Fall leaves me no worries at all
Winter time hits cold and blind
Another year’s gone by
We all keep riding on
I’m on a road that’s growing thin
I think that I’m reaching the end
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15. |
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From hugging, stuck in a snow storm
To empty, alone by the dance floor
You know, I left my heart in you
You know, I had so much to lose
You know, I left my heart in you
You know, I never got to choose
Every day’s the same to me
Everything’s the same, I see
Can’t believe what I’d believe
Oh, how I would bleed
From fucking in the beach house
To screaming our lungs out
From smoking in the graveyard
To slicing every vein apart
From kissing out on the porch
To making everything worse
You know, I left my heart in you
You know, I had so much to lose
You know, I left my heart in you
You know, I never got to choose
Every day’s the same to me
Everything just fades, I see
Now it’s like we never were
Nothing left means nothing hurts
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16. |
November Blood
06:30
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This month will be the life and death of me
Years spent asleep, what’s one more day to see?
What a way to end the year
What a time to disappear
When things begin to fade
Remember all the noise you made
Is this my blood to bleed?
What ever else could I be?
I think I’m ready for it now
I’m just a person, what have I to prove?
Not much to me, not much to you
Not one for alcohol, cracks in the skull
No worries out in the open, no fears at all
They tried to warn you
Unrelenting screams within
So tell me then, is it quiet in heaven?
All the time you spent awake
Just to die another day
Followed everything they’d say
Just to go a different way
It’s gonna happen someday
Just you wait and see
The colder you get inside
The colder the blood you bleed
When your time is up, what will the pages read?
When it’s time to go, what if we never leave?
It’s alright, no time to mind
It's alright, no time to die
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17. |
Death Walk
04:24
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Mouths are moving but making no sound
Feet are walking but there’s no ground
Time is going and we’re never slowing down
Teeth are gnashing with tongues screaming out
I know it’s strange to walk away
Wearing death like a wedding ring
I sleep fine knowing where I'll be
Away from you, and away from me
'Cause I'm a nuisance
Completely useless
Just a number getting number
And I may not be right
But I ain't fuckin' you
Got a stride in a newer skin
What’s done is done and will be done again
Something to never mean; promises never seen
Funny how it takes tragedy to make us believe
I know it’s strange to walk away
But when words mean nothing what can you say?
'Cause I'm a nuisance
Completely useless
Just a number getting number
And I may not be right
But I ain't fuckin' you
Funny how it ends
Laughing at ourselves
Funny how we lie
Everything deserves to die
Do we really need to die?
Just so you can see it with your eyes?
'Cause we’re a nuisance
Completely useless
Just numbers getting number
We were never right
Everyone deserves to die
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18. |
Dusty Heart
04:48
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Well, I'm sorry if I don't say it enough
Troubled days and years make your skin so tough
But I'm still thankful for all the people I know I can trust
I still have trouble sleeping at night
But when I wake, I know the sun's gonna shine so bright
So incase I don't say it enough;
Thank you for your kindness and love
Been in and out of every jail in town
But never once been arrested
Did my time at the Amazon
Up and left as soon as my shares vested
Reminisce on days when I was less paid
Always kept me going away
Shacked on Appalachians where the shine burns blue
Spent every night writing new tunes
I still think about forgotten plans
But I know I'm better off here holding your hand
So because I don't say it enough;
Thank you for your kindness and love
Been up and down the east and west coast
Carry plenty of curses, known too many ghosts
Smell like campfire from a night hanging with the boys
Please don't be mad if I'm gone all the time
I promise on my life you're always on my mind
Fell asleep once on the edge of a bridge
Still getting used to this noisy life
Screaming over guitars in a big lime light
They say you can't say it ever too much;
Thank you for your kindness and love
It'd take a hurricane to clean my dusty heart
Half the time it's a wonder how we haven't fallen apart
But incase I don't say it enough;
Thank you for your kindness and love
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19. |
Happy Travels
05:04
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[Instrumental]
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20. |
Home Flight
03:12
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[Instrumental]
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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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