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One
03:28
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We all live the same lives
Through different eyes
All our stories have been told
We’re one
And the sum of our parts is fading away
As we arise to the calling of the ether of time
And all the stars set in our eyes
Like I wove a path that we can never wash our hands of
The memory of a stolen answer
Find a way to pull me out again
I know it’s not too late
(give me a taste of a future that’s made for us)
We know it’s not too late to start it all again
Don’t hang suspended, fearing the light of the flame
We know it creeps towards us, but watching it won’t change a thing
(We all live the same)
Fire is catching and we’ll all burn the same
(We all live the same lives)
Fire is catching and we’ll all burn the same
(Through different eyes)
Fire is catching and we’ll all burn the same
(We all live that way)
Fire is catching and we’ll all go up in flames
You’re the morning that’s shining
Starting to fill me
Up with light
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Ive realized every person I see
Is hanging from perilous threads just like me
With every step, each moment becoming a memory
Another page in a book I wont read
Every eye witnessing beauty
And every mouth drawing on the cup of life
To bear witness is to open your eyes
Waiting on the wings of an awakening
I can see that we’re outnumbered
A collision of contrition
And the consequences of leading a life we half formed
The black and the white
That spans the fabric of existence
Is yours to weave your thread through
Should you grow bored of the road
to your horizon
Let your colours flare
Reaching out for the fire that’s burning beneath your ribs
And a hunger that drives a conviction in you
Paint a picture that shines with the light that you thought was forgotten
Let your colours flare
Feeling them frantically searching for an escape
This tempest it rages inside of us
I will turn the pages of the books I wont read
Every eye witnessing beauty
And every mouth drawing on the cup of life
Bear witness
Open your eyes
It’s the edge of the mirror, a glimpse in the night
A match to the pyre, and knowing you’re right
Letting this caution float free on the breeze
Refusing to live a life down on my knees
Reaching out for the fire that’s burning beneath your ribs
And a hunger that drives a conviction in you
Paint a picture that shines with the light that you thought was forgotten
Let your colours flare
Feeling them frantically searching for an escape
This tempest it rages inside of us
Every eye witnessing beauty
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Luminous
05:00
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My trail paves a narrow road
lit by moments that fade with each step
but before me hangs the curtain
wreathing panic round my neck
Every memory reflecting a shard of sight
As the call of the past meets my present
The formless features of annihilation
Holding me to the abyss
It’s the blinding reminder of the time you’re erasing
We’ve figured it all out, it’s the time you’ve been wasting
And I am encased in cold and grey
But we will become luminous
When surrounded in darkness
We seek out distant lights
and the safety we presume it provides.
This desire to stray is a game of the mind.
A breeze rolls by you
you feel the fire beside you flicker out.
Now with your world at its darkest
(darkness descends on us)
you sense danger and seek a way to gain relief
(Give me release)
Curiously you tremble
as you push toward the warmth that pierces the uncertainty
Exchanging the reflections of who I am
A fortification, an iron will mind
give me the strength i need to open my eyes
within the black of the deep
ignite a spark to show me the road
cos I've fallen asleep at the wheel
a bitter man with a heart set to heal
give me the strength to survive
I pledge these changes on all of my life
shadows lifeless weight
calm as a lovers embrace
We’ve figured it all out, it’s the time you’ve been wasting
And I am encased in cold and grey
Bit I still see the light
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Fall (ft Thando)
03:43
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Mesmerised by the arrow of time
We find solace in a horizon of a million pixels
This is an endless expanse of possibly
Futures unseen behind a veil of screens
So keep your eyes locked on em
I've given up, so plunge me headlong into the
Fray
Be my pain
And the ocean will sweep us away
Take my shame
And let us drown beneath the calling of our age
We wind our fingers through this vacancy
A message blown in the wind
Our voices call to rescind
Our distant sins
Help me to carry the weight of authenticity
The ocean will sweep us away
I've been seeking the source of my dependency
Dredging the ocean of all of my infirmity
Scratching at the walls of my morality
Conspiring to break the best of me
Surely matching the path to oblivion, I
Can I keep wandering
Can I keep waiting here
Forever fearing the flaws of my humanities call
To repeat
Have you ever felt less authentic
Have you ever felt less certainty
Is the calling of the dawn of the end
Seeming as though it's reaching out to me
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I’ve been refusing to open up these hands
Releasing clenched up answers within white knuckled fists
Feels like I bought the ticket
And I'm afraid to take the ride
The disease and the cure
Vaccine or thorn in the side
Ignorance is bliss in the heart of the vulture
Success, the ruination of man
Ignorance is bliss, it's a part of our culture
It's been so long, holding on, keeping this inside
And all the pretenses I tried to hide
Tried to renew everything for you
And you left me high and dry but we're holding on,
we're holding on to the key
To our cage
Dispossessed of the answers I so sorely need
But I'll make the distance, shouldering the weight of this conviction
Abstinence from the source of all my intuition, the face of a broken man
How did I slip so far from who I am?
It's piracy in its highest form
Emaciated faces staring at the feast of all the ages
Moral fibre frays as we come to the end of our rope
Manifest destiny
For humanity
Quaking in fear of our nearing end
Ignorance is bliss
In the heart of the vulture
Ignorance is bliss
It's a part of our culture
It's been so long, holding on, keeping this inside
And all the pretences I tried to hide
Tried to renew everything for you
And you left me high and dry but we're holding on,
we're holding on to the key
To our cage
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Within a restricted idea
Trapped beneath the weight of influence
A shape emerges, limited in its freedom to move
Though certain of its freedom to choose
We stack inerasable moments, convincing ourselves to climb
But true heights we hide from others
Out of fear of being left behind
Pleading that my range of needs
Goes further than what is expected of me
The master, the maker, the slave and the breaker
Do I decide for myself what’s becoming of me?
Am I designing or observing the lie
Conducting the sequences I’ll never see
The master and the maker
(The sequences I’ll never see)
The giver and the taker
I need to seek my own desires
(What if you had gone an alternate direction?)
Decide for myself what is precious
(And you need more than what you have to make it through)
I need to seek my own desires
To block out the voices holding back my conviction
Within a restricted idea
I’m trapped beneath tightening skin
A shape emerges, limited in its freedom
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Arkive Australia
Progressive Metalcore band from Melbourne, Australia
Featuring 6 members. Mitch on vocals,
Court on Screams, Sam and Josh on Guitar, Zahn on Bass and Tom playing drums. Together since the start of
2014. We want to write and play the music we love, providing hard hitting riffs with feel good melody's in an attempt to provide a contrast in musical style and ability.
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