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I´m an item on a list
Something to accomplish
The ever-growing density of time and space
No sexual release
No deep and inner peace
Not anything to hold you to the impossible world
The devil owns our fallen world
I'm all cracked up
And broken down
I'm that sinking feeling
Of leaving town
You're the empty space
You're nicotine
You're the anesthetic
My fucked up sleep routine
The devil owns our fallen world
Oh, all I wish I'd done
Is to get beyond the guilt and pain
To take the punch
And all I ever did
is spend the nights
Talking myself to meaninglessness.
Meaninglessness
Meaninglessness
Oh, I talked myself to meaningless
Meaninglessness
Meaninglessness
Please talk me into meaning
The devil owns our fallen world
And I cut my hair
Got cold under the blade
Oh tell me where
These words go when they're said
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Stronger Than Me
03:21
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Ever since the day they took the body away
Her hopes fell silent
She bit the apple and was left for dead
Defiant
She was a fuse that broke the dark and lit the way
She meant every word she said
She's the closing that he couldn't find
In dark nights. Saying
All you´ve got to be is stronger than me.
And all I've left to do is confide in you
Small hands. Wet eyes
Have been forgotten
Drowned in dust
Deaf ears. Closed mouths
Is where we lost them
(Long enough)
They´ve been listening for a lifetime
But still don't understand
That all they ever do is pretend
She said
Time is not a river but a boat lost at sea
That comes full circle back to me
That comes full circle back to me
All you´ve got to be is stronger than me.
And all I've left to do is confide in you
Time is not a river but a boat lost at sea
That comes full circle back to me
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Ambulance
03:34
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The lights burned down
Don't you love the sound?
The sedative buzzing
Of my words
Signifying nothing?
The bang and whimper
God's lonely call
All you hold dear
Is to rise and fall
And I've stuck electrodes to what should be alive
I know hope dies last, oh, but lastly it dies
Can't seem to see you as a white rose or a halo over me
We fell from grace
Beneath the bottom line of things unsaid
The remnants of our terrible mistakes
The shape that love takes when it freezes up
I spent half a year setting fires with my brittle hands
We are crawling in circles
We're circles in circles
We're lighting wildfires
Extinguishing flames
We're the hope and ruin
We're holding on tighter
Pushing us away
We're circles and circles and circles in us
Always breaking down. Constantly rebuilding
Always breaking down. Constantly rebuilding
Oh, I've stuck electrodes to what should be alive
I know hope dies last, oh, but lastly it dies
Can't seem to see you as a white rose or a halo over me
We'll fall from grace again
Oh, I can't feel a pulse of what's dead like the night
I know hope dies last but I've seen its faded eyes
Can't seem to see you as a white rose or a halo over me
We fell from grace
We're circles in circles
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On A Grave
03:53
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My narrow limits. My lack of confidence
My endless great, great powerlessness
My deep desires and short sight
I'll sit, be quiet and listen
Turned myself down a notch, cranked you up a lot
That's of no use when the speakers are falling apart
You said you would not leave till I'm in a cold dark grave
Oh, I still picture tombstones wearing our pretty names
You'd put your head through the wall
I'd pick you up when you'd fall
Thought we could be
A glaring guiding light for all the world to see
My smile's a skeleton grin
Killed such a beautiful thing
I doubt that God
Would sacrifice another son for us
I felt my body lose the control
A million cigarettes ago
The hopes and fears from all these years
Are here with us tonight
They are taking shapes and given names
Until the morning light
You'd put your head through the wall
I'd pick you up when you'd fall
Thought we could be
A glaring guiding light for all the world to see
My smile's a skeleton grin
Killed such a beautiful thing
I doubt that God
would sacrifice another son for us
What kind of bastard nails his child to the cross?
Better to be angry than nothing at all
Better to be gone when the curtain calls
It's the tiniest things that keep life interesting
Like an airplane crash or a school shooting
The danger is you don't resist
The danger is you die like this
Oh, I won't wait for what time may bring
The way out is the way in
The way out is the way in
Our pretty names carved on a grave
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Gallows
03:12
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Silence
The royal cul-de-sac
It shatters you to pieces
Slowly breaks your neck
And all the sweating
All the shivering we've done is worthless
Longing for a warmth that only fire can give
You're just as dead, bring on the gasoline
We're burning to be seen
Your soup has gone cold. My drink's warmed up
Is anyone listening? Cause I think you're not
It's this mediocrity of everything
That keeps my eyes shut in the morning
I´ve seen you
Busy putting holes into the ground
Making seeds grow to be gallows
To let your fears hang down
And the cops won't come in time to stop you leaving
You caught me blind in your headlights
Come find me on the other side
Silence
A hollow victory
Can't really say how one tells it from defeat
It's been a long job piecing this together, love
A whole that must spell Death To Us
We must burn. We must burn
Drown in the heat
I´ve seen you
Busy putting holes into the ground
Making seeds grow to be gallows
To let your fears hang down
And the cops won't come in time to stop you leaving
You caught me blind in your headlights
Come find me on the other side
And I've seen you
Busy putting pins into my eyes
So I can't see where you´re going
Once we've said goodbye
And the cops can go to hell and take us with them
You caught me blind in your headlights
I'll see you in another life
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Towards The Light
04:21
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Dark clouds are closing in again
Wild thunder calls with heavy rain
You know the calm before the storm
The devil's running through your veins
You pick the fight, you've crossed the blades
The lights are down, but not out
I know you're not dead cause you will stand up
I know you're not dying cause the dead lie down
I know you're not dead cause you will stand up
Let me be your ultrasound
In the midnight-hour
It's everything in this world that ain't simple
It's hardest fucking thing to do
And the day your tender heart starts pumping blood
A thousand doors've already shut
But you kick em in and you walk right through
Go walk right fucking through
This feeling's been here forever
And it'll stay until the day you die
But hell, you'll beat it every time
It's everything in this world that ain't simple
It's hardest fucking thing to do
And the day your tender heart starts pumping blood
A thousand doors've already shut
But you kick 'em in and you walk right through
Go walk right fucking through
How do we prepare for the times to come?
How do we find peace with what has been done?
How do we react when it all looks the same?
Forever working towards change
Chained to the dark
we drag ourselves towards the light
Chained to the dark
we try to build a better life
Till the end of history
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Night Children
03:25
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The morning I did not wake up
Cause I hadn't closed my eyes
The darkness stayed, our wasted lives
Chased us through the night
I found a way out of life
A death that is keeping me alive
The line is drawn, the curse is cast
And I will guide my shoes
Not with a broken heart
But to the heart of what is broken in you
(and it cut me too)
The shame is for ourselves
The past is something you can't take away
The shame is for ourselves
Our disappointments wear each other's names
The morning I did not wake up
Like graveyards over ground
Surrounded by a thousand people
When at the same time you're alone
The night I didn't close my eyes
Like graveyards over ground
Surrounded by a thousand people
When at the same time you're alone
I found a way out of life
A death that is keeping me alive
I saw you turn off the lights
Dried up the water alright
We stand alone
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Love Invisible
03:24
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The year passed
Unforgiving. Inexorable
We dragged ourselves around the sun
Impossible
Oh, one fine day, you grow together
And one fine day, it ends forever
Calm me down
Gravity, pull
My drifting feet to the ground
Make me conquer my own silence
Send me empty into the night
I said I'd be your light.
But I can't be this time
Just show me one thing in this hollow world
That is exactly just what you think it is
Between ideas
And reality there falls a shadow
And our shadows are casting shadows
Calm me down
Gravity, pull
My drifting feet to the ground
The only pain I enjoy is self-inflicted
Not old barren wounds or crawling sickness
Go, sub-consciousness, intervene, do your part and what's required
Oh, I would walk away and shed my skin
If these memories were quiet
Shed my skin
Take me in
Shed my skin
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Cold Smoke
02:46
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You've got me feeling like cold smoke
The ghost of something that burned long ago
And I´m understanding hope
As a concept that you preach before you go
The first word leads to the second
The second to a line
The line leads me give it up this time
It's just another crack, yeah
One thing you should have said
One more one last time not coming back
Like corpses in mortuaries
We are laid out in bed
Looking vast asleep
While we're already dead
Dressed up
Still here somehow
Soon the be coffin-bound
And six feet in the ground
You've got me feeling like cold smoke
The ghost of something that burned long ago
And I´m understanding hope
As a concept that you preach before you go
Before you go
Like piano-wire, cyanide and guillotine
Oblivion is baring its rotten teeth
And everything you say
Sounds like death to me
These dull words wrap around my neck
But you're just as dead
You've got me feeling like cold smoke
The ghost of something that burned long ago
And I´m understanding hope
As a concept that you preach before you go
We burned long ago
Too damn long ago
All we breathe is smoke
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Crosses in the Distance
02:51
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When my father dies I stand alone before death
I hope I have constructed myself for this
Not sure I'm contributing, uncertain I've progressed
Two worlds that coexist in everything that I am
Waste your life
Come watch the years go by
Waste your life
Till we're nothing but dust in wet eyes
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Waking Up
04:20
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We could've stood there waiting till the light had gone
We set our conscience on fire. We're wasted young
Now I broke my bones, I'll leave them here
Come trap me in your camera before I disappear
Deep down, deep down. Beneath the violence of words
We spoke half a language that no one had heard
What are we to do with all this future?
How are we to fill the years?
Can't sleep them away
Waking up - Staring in the darkness waiting for a sign
Waking up - You hope you'll grow into this haunted after-life
Waking up - With all the motions that you started at an end
Waking up - Wishing the dead could just start breathing again
Are you losing the taste?
Have we come apart in the atmosphere?
With no pressure and no gravitation
Holding us together, we disappeared
Are you losing the taste?
Have we come apart in the atmosphere?
With no pressure and no goddamn gravitation
Our bodies are bound to disappear
Corrode me. Dissolve me
Split my atoms and turn me into light
Sleep it all away
Waking up - Staring in the darkness waiting for a sign
Waking up - You hope you'll grow into this haunted after-life
Waking up - With all the motions that you stared at an end
Waking up - Wishing the dead could just start breathing again
Breathing again
You're not the only one
You know the devil sat by my bedside
You're not the only one
You know the devil sang me to sleep
Waking up
Picking up the pieces where we dropped them
They amount to nothing
If we can't break through the rage
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