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Death And His Brother Sleep

by Only the Bones

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1.
Betrayer 04:53
Wires connect the body In series, in parallell A machine of bone and tissue With one function. To function It’s a blood pact Time-honored and true An unspoken bond between brothers A promise needs no proof But there’s been a coup Limbs all gone rogue A subdermal civil war A wire sabotage. Written in the code All the fingers are numb Compiled firmware Cells turn on the host You’re the bone betrayer. You betrayed the body You’re the blood brutus You betrayed our body Wires all been frayed with bare copper veins Soldier joints creak and crack never to be set right Circuit boards will melt Filling lungs with sludge Oil, blood, rust and smoke The invisible disease Multiply multiply Time is short for us Multiply Multiply Settle your affairs Written in the code All the fingers are numb Compiled firmware Cells turn on their host You’re the bone betrayer. You betrayed the body You’re the blood brutus You betrayed our body You betrayed the mirror Boiled and burnt Charred Blood
2.
Decided to be me for now Later I will return to dust A break in time Alive amongst a sea Of darkness Now I’m a wisp in the nebulas You’re here Me too What are the odds Of all that could have been All that could have been Despite the years where I never wept I’m left with a chance to see it all Born from infinite nothing Destined to burn Back to sleep Memories in stardust Copy and decode
3.
Hourglass 05:26
I’ve wasted a good life done some ugly things Never made much, never measured up Pissed away every second chance I got Never laid down roots Was a shitty man Disappointed my Dad, let my friends down Before my mom left, she killed my dog Don’t take it away I’m not finished yet Am I too late Give me one last chance This is my promise It’s fragile and thin A seed in shitty soil, but it wants to live I’m done gnashing my teeth, indulging regrets I welcome them all Don’t take it away I’m not finished yet Am I too late To be a better man This is mine For better or worse Once again I fell in line This one is mine and it’s good enough And was left behind Say yes to the demon Say yes to it all I want to be yeasayer I want to be to infinity
4.
I had the luxury of contemplating more my own death I fought to savor the droplets of my time Knowing it’s temporary It fell upon my mind Living in arguments with imaginary peers and fantasy Under the sun I wear a mask of conformity and it serves me so well I dodge the moon to find a safety so I can get some sleep My happiness was to look so brightly, brightly toward the future Now I weep at the thought of tomorrow There’s no greatness in yesterday All that has passed Mining, sifting through ashes of the light
5.
Trophy Room 03:40
Bite down Bite hard Before the sunset ends You’re not a ghost of former glory Victory leaves a stale taste in your mouth Outrun your shadow prove you’re still standing upright Stand upright Destroy the shelves that hold your trophies Melt down your medals for raw material Tear apart your awards set them on fire Outrun your shadow prove your still standing upright stand upright Burn down the room We’re not past tense. Not yet. There’s only now Where’d you connect? Who’s by your side? Stand Make something new Make something real Make something now And take the hits Your time is now No glory days
6.
Corrupted 03:11
He’d light the fires Without knowing why Conspiracies need not hide They’ll put a number right on your arm Just when will you defy? Corrupted straight to the bone No life inside Start a war with the facts Let’s all hide in the cross Hoodwinked and swindled Taken for rubes Prey upon your nostalgia For a time that doesn’t exist A gilded age of whiteness Corrupted straight to the bone No life inside Let’s all hide in the cross Petulant and oh so fragile A child with a bomb They’ll line their pockets with your blood Feasting on your good will Corrupted straight to the bone No life inside
7.
Patient Ones 05:53
You can hide all day Distract, deny, evade The patient ones wait Behind your eyes In the still of the night You are at their mercy You can’t outrun yourself Believe me, I’ve tried Divide This bed is torture Deny Every vein in my bloodshot eyes The Lies My pillows, estranged wives Tonight Sleep I don’t recognize Head down Closed eyes The rest is all just lies Seeping in through the veins Your collapsed lungs suppress the breath Drown in sweat as they bend the walls The phantoms from the Upside Down Drown Sleep Underground In earth

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Recorded at Electrical Audio with Greg Norman 02.10.17 - 02.12.17
Mixed by Greg Norman
Mastered by Collin Jordan at The Boiler Room

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released October 19, 2017

Only The Bones is:
Ben
Nick
Zafar

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Only The Bones is a Chicago post-Fugazi band with members of Swan King, Snow Burial, and This Computer Kills.

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