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Our Raging God Unknown to Us

by Avenade

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1.
I speak to the rosaries They told me of my father's death They spoke through plastic and wore my neck so I can see the truth The grim stalked above his bed and clenched his heart 'til it drowned his lungs Oh mother, please don't cry I speak to the rosaries They told me of our home’s demise They spoke in cryptic tongues and sewn their words to my ears The grim stalks above us all and counts us down ‘til our final breath Oh mother, please don't die Present tense, my future seems irrelevant And I get to choose
2.
You're Right 05:24
First things first I want to speak to your god and ask how I'm wrong I'm stuck in love with her facade Handcuffed while she bleeds me out with her tongue I have no friends Just some liars that can pull me through this I work hard ‘til my bones ache She makes anger look effortless I carry her when she screams like a banshee in pain In the middle of the night I consume the lightning She holds me down with her violence And she sounds sweet like gunfire Who does she want me to kill? My only lover was a fool for the fight She torments me with no witness And I can hear the silenced rain She looks like her father when he screams like a banshee in pain In the middle of the night I consume the dark skies She holds all down with her violence And she’s my queen ‘til I die When who she wants me to kill is myself And I cower in fear, all gone And I cower ‘til doom takes us all down In the middle of the night I tremble in my bed She crawls and tears down my drywall And she lives miles far away She’ll cause the end of the world Love my doom
3.
4.
Prisms 05:53
You sucked at this game that you've invented Do you enjoy yourself to lose my trust? I've failed to decide where your morals lie Do you submit yourself to feel my wrath? You're afraid of this fate that you've predicted Do you commit yourself to hell on earth? I've found a way out of your rabbit hole Do you enjoy yourself to recognize that it will only be the both of us left, and oh~ Oh, you're gonna spill your heart out You're gonna spill your heart out to anyone you turn to Anywhere you turn These sides collide Everywhere I go And the prisms form I've heard a lot about you Your heavy smile brings an anchor to my eyes I know someone just like you It's just so hard to tell you two apart I don't want to have to tell you again This heart knows who it wants to befriend You have no right to shun innocence And you can't claim an enemy as your own This is a welcome that you've overstayed There's a temper that has no end You tried to convince fools with your pretense And now you're all alone Anywhere you turn I'll see you there Everywhere I go This violence is overdue
5.
I walk by brothers without mothers to a distant land I call the shots and cock the gun, while I lead God astray My soul determined to find shelter in a house full of thieves This is my way out of life as I picked up the gun to my head The barrel stays clean as I crawl to my fans Abused by chances, I wanted more than you can ever envision I gave you blood and my sweat while you gave me your tears Feed me into the fire You should love what you're doing to me I'll blame God if there's no one to save us With my crooked fingers I walk There's blood on my noose I’ll walk my brothers to a mother that will care for us all It's time I bring on a new life as I shoot the gun to my head The money it brings when I break off the gain It makes me feel like you Feed me into the fire You should love what you're doing to me I'll blame God if there's no one to save us With my wretched voice I speak There's blood on the cross And I'm saved! I walk with riches in the palm of my hand I lost my soul inside the pistol that I carried to lead God astray My brothers shun me for the rest of my life Mother offered help, this family is a cult And I screamed, feed me into the fire! Do you even know who I am?
6.
Myasthenia 05:16
Don't go Leave me buried in my bark I want to love you Please stay I'm nude in the ashes Breathe it all in Make good use of me We were all alone before I could never hold you back I cared for so long We're too tired to carry us home Don't go Pray for me when I lose hope Why don’t you love me Please speak I'll bathe in your water Talk inside my mouth And I will crave you deeply And I will grasp you tightly I can feel my face break with a warning Long live our doom
7.
I will go back to sleep Training all my thoughts how to deal with a little bit of hate in the morning My parents act so proud Just ‘cause you fucked up doesn't mean you can act all cool around me We're all stuck in this house They both claw up the walls with their ugly voices They race all the way up here If you decided to stick around Then what's the meaning of small talk? You bark so loud I will go back to sleep Looking for reasons why I’d ever need your help when I can do this all on my own How could you raise us like a dog? Just ‘cause it's your house doesn't mean you can act up and hope we would play along You're just stuck on your couch You tried to open up for so long as a man with a closed heart And when you died, I could never cry What's this feeling of trauma? Oh well, bon voyage I can hear you crying in the other room Get behind me darling, I’ve got nothing to lose And you’re just like a fire This home’s already wrecked with the words you scorched I can’t wait for the day I can finally speak up You’re a menace in my brain that’s been lounging for quite some time I block you out but you come back with false remorse You beg for me back as you lose all your friends If you insist, narcissist! I can hear you crying in the other room Get behind me Satan ‘cause you’re all that I’ve got And you lead like a liar You'd think so, but you were wrong, ha! I will go back to sleep Finding all I really wanted were the people who stuck around Where were you this whole time? Just ‘cause he passed on doesn't mean you can invite yourself in my life outside a holiday I'm more than fine with the circle I have now You can't keep bullshitting me just 'cause you're "family" And what if I want out? You're gonna hold the world against me
8.
Hauntless 03:43
And this time, I promise to make sure you live out a stronger life I wanted to talk to you through the worst of it all I won’t rest until I find out what’s on your mind and wash away the guilt It's true we share our blood from a dead man He wanted to talk to us through the thick of it all I won’t take another risk ‘til I know what's ahead and pray that you stay safe And we will be hauntless I’m proud to be your brother This grave will haunt me Until the Earth rots dry And all abandon ship I'll love you forever Until the sun burns out And all freeze up in flames This life’s a torment All I want is a second chance And this time, I promise to never live out our mistakes again We wanted to talk to you though the midst of it all I won't waste another breath on words I don't mean and give you my beating heart It's true we share a companionship You wanted to talk to us through the fog of it all I won’t mind to stay behind while you go on ahead and claim the throne you earned
9.
So long to everyone I can't wait to see your face when it ends We all surround ourselves with bricks of our past What's there to build from now? I'll die with everyone I wished you had come to me with a plan You weren't supposed to tell I wait here to be your fate as you crawl And it gets harder to hold onto her She's with me now to the end This is exactly where I should be now It scares me to hell I don't want to leave this world without you Come under my wings And we'll laugh out loud together when we die So long to all my work I breathe in the air as my conscience folds I'll say hello again to Grim as a friend Here's where it ends I carve my name into his book Embrace the pain like a dog It’s cold as I fall through the Earth
10.
I waged this war with my shaking hands For I've sunk broken ships in this toxic waste Alone in a field with spears grazed at my neck And an army of men with bows drawn to my head An enemy I am and a leader I was With the words that I write now a force of such vigilance I can't restrain myself from this memory Strayed and beaten when I considered you the bestest of friends You've pushed me for all I've had Scraping for drama with nails like a hawk But you aimed for my heart while you scoured for the truth All that I had was a name for you to use He called himself Jesus and he smelt of sin So cruel with an ego sewn into his skin An all-of-a-kind man with a public dream Of such goals he could achieve if he wasn't such a sleaze Give me a breakdown You have nothing to hold over me I trusted you to be kind Ghost me back and proclaim me dead I'm done! Listen to your heartbeat sync to mine I'm cutting loose of all I've ever wanted And I still fought for the rest of my days Time lost thinking you'll never die I've never been so cold to you Listen to your heartbeat sync to mine I've fought for so long I lost my mind In these caves, you dug me out I'll keep fighting these faces I'll separate myself from your heroes I've fought for so long It's time to share my life I've fought for so long I fought so hard I pray to be a wishful man as I fear in a world of hypocrisies I beg for the day I can bring myself up from this breathing underground I first saw him at a distance, he slowly crept his way to me His wicked interest swallowed me whole He showed me a version of himself, a nature I related to And as our years passed by, he was the best I've ever had And when my father passed, he told me "We'll get through this together," "Have you ever encountered death like this before?" And I said no I looked to him for advice, he grinned as he spoke in hypocrisies He twisted words around with an ignorance like I've seen before I never felt so cold while he made me out to be a villain He held me back from the world as he engulfed me in his troubled mind I was at my lowest point and I told him I wanted to leave this place He said "Your goals aren't right, there are bigger things to prioritize," He asked me one last time, "What's it worth to cut me from your life?" Abandon all that I have worked so hard for And I screamed no! I've tried to tell you the truth but you've heard enough Feed your soul into mine
11.
Memoir 05:45
I forgot to say goodbye when you called me on the phone that night Mom forgot to unlock the door, she saw you sick as a dog on the floor You forgot to check your health, your body was in for a world of hell We forgot to say goodnight when you fell to sleep and saw the light And when you died, I wished I would be there by your side I wish you the best, it's time to confront your life as it stands, father I see you in my dreams as a man who wanted to talk things through You see me as your son, an equal to your heart, a feeling I never felt You lie on the couch in pain, your words tense up as I hold you close I weep for your aching health as my eyelids wake with the sunlight And if I died, I wanted you to be there by my side I wish you the world, Grim steps up to you and guides your soul, father And if our God would happen to take things back where it was I'd reach for your hand and make my amends to you again, father

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"Unthinking they move to cut his throat, only to make a thousand mouths. If he is silenced we will speak for him. Signs and wonders flood our little sky. No stars above us, only eyes waiting to open."
- Kris Straub, L O C A L 5 8 T V

in memory of mark hawkins

recorded between the years of 2021-2023

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released October 13, 2023

all music and lyrics written by matt hawkins

matt hawkins - guitars, bass, and vocals
moa - synths, strings
gage brown - lead guitar
trey cardi - piano, saxophone, and backing vocals (track 10)
luca cimarusti - drums
kori - narrations
simon orr - sampling (tracks 1, 4, 11)
joss lockwood - featured vocals (track 6)

produced by matt hawkins and moa
mixed and mastered by moa
art direction by dorota hawkins
drums recorded and engineered at matt russell recording, chicago, il

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