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I Speak to Rosaries
05:34
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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
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You're Right
05:24
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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
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Figures (Interlude)
01:04
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Prisms
05:53
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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
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The Roulettista
03:31
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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?
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Myasthenia
05:16
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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
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7. |
These Three Ravens
07:09
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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
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8. |
Hauntless
03:43
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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
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Judgement Day
06:24
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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
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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
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11. |
Memoir
05:45
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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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