1. |
The Swarm
03:57
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They'll keep coming and I promise that you can not
Drown them out, drown them out, drown them out
They'll keep swarming and I promise that you can not
Drown them out
They'll keep coming and I promise that you can not
Drown them out, drown them out, drown them out
They'll keep swarming and I promise that you can not
Drown them out
They'll keep coming and I promise that you can not
Drown them out, drown them out, drown them out
They'll keep swarming and I promise that you can not
They are infesting, rapidly nesting
Becoming deafening
It's never ending, like constant screaming
Tinnitus inducing
Can not escape them, forced to embrace them
Exterminate them
Volumes exceeding, ears are now bleeding
Sanity weakening
Torturous, I'm losing my mind
Static, coming from outside
Torturous, I'm losing my mind
Static, coming from outside
An audible representation of what it sounds like
Inside my mind, fluctuation of frequencies
Back and forth with my tendencies
Can't find a way to feel at ease
Eradicate the plague
Set ablaze the trees
Create a living hell
For nature's disease
Drowning without rain, air is thickening, sickening
Draining out my blood, eating at my skin
Can't escape this pain, knives inside the rain, damaging
Can't escape this place, it feels nowhere is safe
Cicadas all around, can't evade the sound, or drown them out
Screaming little insects, songs that sound so wretched
Ringing in my ears, sound I can't ignore, anymore
Please burn down the trees, burn them down
They'll keep coming
They'll keep coming
They'll keep coming
They'll keep coming
They'll keep swarming
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2. |
Stagnant
02:23
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I'm
overwhelmed by the crushing weight of this
Uncontained lack of sense of self worth
It
pulses through me and creates and ache
Pessimistic thoughts that complicate
Looking for reasons to complain
I tend to worry if I come off selfish
Are my problems smaller than they seem to me?
This is less a song and more cathartic screaming
I have no desire to become a burden
But it gets hard to contain this misery
In the comfort and confides of my mind
Reoccurring feeling of stagnance
Panicked by the lack of momentum
I can't bare the thought that this may become who I am
But I can't fight this
Misery starts to blend into numbness
Blankly staring as I embrace this mess
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3. |
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How has it already been a year?
I've been lost with no guidance, surrounded by fear
Fear of not following your word, of letting you pass
In vain
The immense amount of pain I feel will never compare to what
You went through
To what you beat twice which
Overcame you
The one thing that beat you is the one thing we all fear
Stage four and you were no more
Watching the last breath escape from your lungs
Was the devastating blow that
Made me not feel for months
The look in your eyes as there was
Nothing left
So I'm numbing every ounce of pain with some numbing effect so I can finally get some sleep
But every time I close my eyes I see that yours are open, I finally saw you in myself
A creature of habit that turns into
Reality
Then turns reality into shit
Then back to an ugly reality
I still feel guilty
For not having
A one and one
And forgiving everything you've done
I wish there was some time for that but the damage
Is done
We were told the best of news
That's why we were so confused
When three months later you were back in the chemo room
Remission was a thing of the past
Like a dream that's slowly fading away
We tried to live each day by day but we all knew you were fading away
Take this pill two
Times a day maybe
This will keep the
Cancer away
A statement so bold
We would believe anything we were told
Fear is the greatest mind haze, at times you're counting the days of lucidity
The days with no pity
When he knew your name
The rest were filled with pain
And those grew more plenty
So we sat next to your side
As we cried
And sobbed as you
Silently
Died
And sobbed as you
Silently
Died
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Wake up and feel the existential dread set in
Separation anxiety
Will slowly take over
Filled with self-doubt, painfully self-aware
Flashbacks clouded by nostalgia
Visions of neighborhoods
People I knew don't live in anymore
Have the best times already happened? Are they yet to come?
Danny:
Ascension batting around
Reconfigure dilated eyes
Gigapascals forcing a reset
Shout of a clarion
The ton of the room is silent yet piercing
Shadowing figure holds my hand
Loose grip, goosebump ridden
Attention deficit
Motivation deficient
I'm stretched so thin
(Parentheses = Danny)
Always on the edge
(No breathing room)
Breaking point approaching
(Hands gripping foil airways)
So much more unstable
(Number four reactor)
Than I lead on to be
(Complete meltdown)
Wake up and feel the existential dread set in
I find no compacency
Always searching for somewhere else
Or something
Else
Josh and Danny:
I've just about had it
Pick me apart
Mold me into
Something
New
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5. |
Hate To See It
04:06
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What have you become?
Hardly resemble your former self
It's sad but safe to say
Everyone you know has been pushed away
Nobody would've ever thought that this is who you'd turn out to be
I see your self-inflicted wounds
Both inside and out
And I hate to see it
It's as if you're falling down a stair case, each flight resembling a series of
Bad decisions
And the further down you fall you'll obtain more broken bones, becoming hard to recognize to
Those around you
As your wounds tear open wider, you'll begin to bleed out, becoming nothing more than a
Hollow shell
Where did it all begin?
Was it the perscriptions?
I can only imagine
What was your motivation?
What was the first step?
What lead to your homelessness?
I remember the days
Of smoking in my car
But was that not enough?
Did you have to try all those drugs?
I began to see
The scabs on your face
I couldn't bear to hear
Those words you said
I only wish that you
Would reach out for help
Do you ever think
If you died today
About what words they'd write
On your grave
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6. |
Automatized
03:30
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Insects that once lied dormant beneath the surface of the earth
Will now arise to reclaim the planet by erasing the human race
Parasites starving for sustenance will invade our bodies rapidly
Spewing acidic fluids into our arteries in order to decompose
Blood begins to boil, bursts through veins and escapes the skin
There we now lie in piles of disgusting festering flesh
Carcasses sizzling and steaming, crawling with these filthy insects
Subconsciously
Instinctively
Without thinking
Automatized
With no second thought their main goal is for everyone to rot
Consumption of our flesh is their means for their own survival
With no self-control they move from one morsel onto the next
Using our remaining organs for the sake of reproduction
In a matter of days
The world has changed
No time for panic
You will be consumed
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Cicada Swarm Hesperia, California
Metal band from the High Desert
Drums - Adam Morton
Vocals - Josh McCue
Bass - Andrew Bowen
Guitar - Eli Castillo
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