1. |
Monument
04:26
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Crackled is the paint on the children's faces
Blown like glass from the heat of an atom bomb
While over here reality's in cultural paralysis
Oh come on baby Gabriel, blow me back to genesis
My lord you've been such a place of understanding
That's why I turned around to make it easier for stabbing
Phobias saved for my failures to carry me every bit further
Though mother father let me take a chance to never move forward
Let me take a step back and say
I don't believe in anything sincerely anymore
My mind's a brothel and my faith's become the stinking whore
She would say to all you jaded lovers
Memories dissolve when their reverence is cowered
Bless you I've said so many times sarcastic
Thank you I've sang when my gratitude was plastic
I'm just one klonopin from snapping
I'd rather sink the ship as captain
I'm much to far from land to know
Where the anchor's landing
I've forgotten what the monuments meant
And I've forgotten the time on prayers I've spent
Didn't you say that you've always prayed for me
Because I'd like you to know I'm feeling
exactly the opposite these days
Why did I fake sickness, til I caught the disease with
Overbearing second fads, warlords, sleeping giants,
the publicists and tyrants, political truants and rapists
lobbyist and court cases, obesity and racists
Bad words, sinking stars, biblical wars, crashing cars,
scripted reality, but the news station acts as if it was the
latest issue of soap digest magazine
But when the blood of our men
Runs thicker satisfying few
Who cares of the rivers
Who cares of the oceans
Who can define a trench anyways
Ignorance makes us forgot that these children of wars
Are becoming currents in a growing flood rushing
gallons and gallons of bloodshed
Numbers, mathematically have proven probability
But where do my chances fall when my fears
draw shackles on me
Now my failing nature is reliable as it's foresight
What's the point of this age of experience
In this short existence we're given
I don't want to dance, I hate pep rallies
Hail to the sheep who keep on smiling I once, once
Wanted to join in any one of their melodies
Celebrating every good time, celebrating the days of their lives
Celebrating every chance to sleep, celebrating the right time to eat
Celebrating a love so hollow, celebrating it by the volume
Cherishing empathy as opposed to apathy, maybe enjoying a party
Then sitting in the back, quietly drinking
Celebrating every good time, celebrating the days of their lives
I don't believe in anything sincerly anymore
My death's expected, my drinking just ejects me
So let me say to all you jaded lovers
Memories dissolve when their reverence is cowered
Shockingly I've come time and time again to pray for a sign
The truth is I haven't given a shit in a long time
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2. |
Stay Together
03:40
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Stay Together said the mountaintops before the lovers fall
And crumble universes who reasons being are more than monument
Crawl again said a trusting friend who trusts one side of problems as
If it all was nothing more than bias, nothing more short of some virus
Let the knife cut through her heart, said the ones that got a hold of it
Let memories decay, Let motions fade, let her passions leave
What it used to be
What she could have seen
Her hair tangles as she falls lets the wind just tear her skin
She can see those organs rise as she drops a skeleton
These veins snap so fragile-y they act if as their weathered twigs
I watch every feather drops, gravity’s broken both of her wings
So until the pressure pushes my eyes
Blindly left with the pains of feeling
Wondering if she could hear at all
To see who’s to blame for all this screaming
We’ve seen the end of these fights; we’ve seen the end of this ride
But I’ve seen the end of this night; I’ve seen the end of this life
Oceans erode time, weather evokes faith
The fire it burns lives more than a rope takes
Why do you, you, you, you focus on the flyaway
The earth corrodes everything that we make
Is that to say we weren’t worth the keepsake?
Why do you, you, you try to stay when you can’t truly
Come together said hate on the fence who
loves nothing more than violence
Why did it come to the point our veins break
like ashes from some summer’s warning
If loves abstract what pains have been
made so tailored by architect
Pain and pleasure come in knowledge
spoiled once in value by the sight of it
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3. |
Remember, Just Slowly
04:46
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Get to stepping out the door, I've just found out
That love was more than time and yesterdays looks
Meet me in the middle please I can no longer take the tease
While my soul gently melts from my limbs
Sing me a song so loyal in tone
But tear your teeth when we're all alone
I never should’ve second guessed that kiss
Temptation came not from your lips
But thinking any problem was short enough to fix
Remember just slowly that I was the
only one to pick you off your feet
The rhythm in our groove kept our soles
on the move but it never weakened our knees
So why are we both falling down
the mountains we built in our days
Together we hit the ground,
rising some humble sound
which brought us much further away
The folks they came to seal the scene,
of flakes cracking off many seams
but the crowd decided they’d do otherwise
Lovers come, they build and climb,
fighting the pressure of their times,
a force itself growing in their minds
But for one to leave one in the cold,
to harden their shoulders,
to strengthen their bones
You could clown around,
life's truly yours, but you lost the stakes
to control my own and I can’t keep blaming myself
you ended up alone
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4. |
Folks In Blue
04:23
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Feel the crash in this competition of self
Versus the water whose first to soften
Let us keep diving, switching stations on our radios
to find the perfects speech to make
This leap spreading forward closed within our minds
ever so simply erasing the rest
Arise with a war message, a vision growing overflowing,
baptism in the bleeding red tide
No horizon has matched these miles
And when this illusion takes it break for a while
I’d have grown, become numb right to the sight
Because I’m sick of believing the wright
Rise. Accept. Become Savage.
Will is the thrill of true allowance
Of these chains to break, with the quietest sound
Let the knowledge sink in, see your heroes unbound
Welcome to this reality; don’t hide yourself interpreting it all
What’s the point of more poster children for nihilism
though I do enjoy the isolation
Is the religion of the future just nothingness,
as concretely as it is on these fingertips?
As I’ve come in today intoxicated with these infinite limitations
Have I learnt through my own extension
the new price of loving fate and her consequences
I feel the best when I’ve hoped,
I feel just right with my faith
I feel alright when I’ve prayed,
until it washed away
I feel so wrong when I seen tears
I feel so bad when there’s blood
But its these moments that I’ve found
I never felt so good
The folks in blue are painting red,
this white dream message where’s all better off dead
It’s not the way it was it’s the way it should be
The firemen will become arsonist, the ambulance will carry morticians
It’s not the way it was it’s the way it should be
There’s constructs laying the foundation
while pride’s drawn on its chest with crayon
It’s not the smell of a dream, it’s a burning book
Some tattered rose may graze us with knowledge
While the now gaze-less stare of some regular foliage
Describes passion as if it were a four letter word
It’s not the way it was it’s the way it should be
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5. |
Follow Me Follow
03:46
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Please tell me that lovers stare in each
other’s eyes to see they’re falling still
Please tell me that parents love all their
children not to set them up for the kill
Because I would love to love them still (follow me follow)
Yes I would love to love you still (follow me follow)
Jenna starts bawling been rocking along with your mister
A kiss in the shade, spent some delicate days, see its all clear
Now they’ve blown the flame that was once was burning
You could see there’s a fighter lost
Can you tell behind the colors of my eyes?
Please tell me that every single tear that’s
formed is all due to my relief
(released in shock, I missed the chance)
Please tell me that your parents still carry
their hates blind, as they drown you in the seas
(It’s a shame, the winds that found you)
Because I would love to care just still (follow me follow)
Because I would love to worry still (follow me follow)
Joey is faking; he’s got you breaking up with your muffin
A bet to the bed, I guess he’s laughing to death with his real friends
Now you know its all a game they played
Do they still talk to you the same?
Can you tell now as you tried calling me drunk?
Because I can’t let myself fall down the same goddamn hole
But I can watch you drag down my so-called friends, dear
Though right now I’ve tied every rope
so they can choke from my fingertips
I’m watching some scream, some gleam as my
other hand draws much closer
Those little fingernails rip,
those little fingernails rip
Those little fingernails rip,
bit by bit
It’s sometimes just as good the second time you find love when everything never seemed to go right the first
A lesson like poison why was your heart so chosen, to crumble up a brittle bunch where concrete love just became dust
Please tell me this happy ending I’ve found
now is finally cutting through the clouds
Please tell me you’re still a ball of hate, waiting
on this old telephone line
Because I would hate to remember still (follow me follow)
Yes, I would love to hate you still
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6. |
Secondhand Apologies
04:32
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Secondhand apologies never meant anything good for me
But I’ll just check the mail
The morning sky loves to turn her eye
she grew ill looking a second time
But boy do I love the shade
I love how the color blue sticks to me glued
wish purple came next
But the hand stays just a bit too loose
But I’d say cheer up but I’m not serious
Frankly I really don’t give a fuck
About how miserable your life is
I rather see you in pain then save another helpless soul
And watch you fall right in the hole you dug right on your own
God damn it if I’m not the champion of lost dreams turned thieves
Bless the separate coffins, grace heartless cadavers
Oh you patron saint of disease, lower me
Cliché up your party boy, is the mirror reflecting back the toy
That your parents left in the attic so long ago
What a taste, a taste so taint, the young man cries
before the tears are ripe
I guess this jaded age has lost seriousness
Surround yourself with the world you spread,
never thought it was so simply read
Boy doesn't a ceiling hang a fan so tight
Living forever is pure narcissism; I don’t need any of your criticism
When the sound escapes, I see a careless slowed burn
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7. |
It's In The Air
04:00
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Love is an open canvas for us, to lay memories and feelings on
We’d like to keep it untouched but uneasy weather will always come to
Try and poke a hole through it, It’s our choice if it rips
Time ages the letter but the fabric never quits
One step right into the right way forward to the path of our dreams
Never a thought of the wrong step backward or to the left, if
Lefts what we had yesterday, that means loves has found a way
To open our hearts and lead the crowd apart
There’s no light to set the mood
There’s just the right attitude
I’ll tell you there’s nothing to fear
Cause love is the only thing here
I understand the scars from a broken heart
But for a lasting love you don’t have to look so far
It’s in the air tonight, and I can tell by reflections in your eyes
You don’t just feel it out, but feel the feelings all around
It’s a crazy notion dancing with the love of my life but
I’ll just enjoy the dance, it’s in the air tonight
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8. |
Tidal, Pt. 1
03:13
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9. |
More Than Me
05:59
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Rewind before it all began the collapse of love and thoughtlessness
When time and place were just another friend
When days got brighter standing hand in hand
When we could find the time, when we weren’t looking for space
When love prevailed it all, before the crosshairs of shame were stained
Rewind before the bridges burned
how did we let it get so dark and crisp?
She took love as options never as the risk
The movies had it so exaggerated the man can beat the odds
The woman ends with the win the crowd applauds it all
And then the picture ends
Take the better parts of me and never take anything less
Don’t settle second for what we had
Don’t let reason shed the courage of chance
Time only grays the hairs on our heads
It’s doesn’t take the breathes we’ve taken
Let us burn brightly like stadium lights
When the streets only glow from the stars tonight
I love this city, this city in her ugly hours
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10. |
Sleep Again
03:13
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Sleep again, don’t let insomnia burn your innocence
Childlike and wonderful but so alone, a bruise to fruit sewn to the soul
I know you get tired these days when you feel it’s all more of the same
To trade passion for time to waste, then something a little more than
Lately its someday we will find our own little place where
Sunday’s sorrows are gone in the garden that we grew to set them
No low tides washing away the shores we celebrate on
Our own little Eden I can see it and it’s getting a little clearer
If hope is the anchor, he’s the spreading rust
If your faith were in placed in scrapbooks, he’d become the dust
Although we can pace over the future years with
all the plans kept hung up in our heads
Hopes remain high, when you’ve found out how to fill the cup, these dreams will savor the light, grace your eyes there on
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11. |
Under The Radar
04:04
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How is one to win when we’re both blind to other sides
Of the stories we supposedly knew felt as we were right there
Inclined to be assigned take a number and a seat
And wait for one more breath to stick your head up in our air again
Two to one million, a drop turned to tremendous sea
When blind eyes mixed with deafened ears
a bitter wind taints her faux tears
Opinions tossed a bias locked into acquaited vaulted hands to
Bolster an ego never birthed, but a love grand enough to assert that
Feeling Fire, a mint appeal, I’d rather save myself than steal
Another quarter hour smile, that state could never be worthwhile
What happened with what I’ve guessed would have be solution to
What dissolved out problems to become a rag never worth its rare use
I’d like to be under the radar
Away from all the constant instigation
Sealed in a world that I can call my own
Hidden purely from pre-lead investigation
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12. |
Velvet Cigarette
04:48
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It feels right that I am alone tonight
(hidden from the setting sun)
Its feels right that I am alone tonight
(driving on the highway blankly)
It feels right that I am alone tonight
(with my mind calling lonesome hymns)
It feels right that I am alone tonight
(dragging on a velvet cigarette)
I see in the mirror of the black in her eyes,
she’ll leave tonight lame and broken
As it dangles from her lips,
her sights are aimed to save ignorance and bliss
She may a live a life of the coward-dess
until her reflection hang her by the hairs
Hitched to reality, she seethes as I
tear her little cockroach wings
So the madness drives the wheels,
society make man-made treacherous cliffs
Shes so pleased and vainly lit,
well equipped, I’m choking, she has spoken
A sharp tone and such a hidden prime
shows that emotion can really lobotomize
A lesser kind carves souls so hollow,
I showed my strength, she just swallowed
Hidden from the setting sun
Driving on the highway blankly
With my mind calling lonesome hymns
Dragging on a velvet cigarette
Dragging on a velvet cigarette
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13. |
Hit Heaven Hard
04:24
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Read a story about a man salivating at the sight of sun
as he drew in his breath, never knew what he’d see next
So I turned the page to see a change but it all ends up being the same, why not find an escape rather than waste another day
If we’d find all our troubles, please tear them in front of me
and if you decide roll the windows right up and just turn the keys
I’ve been rewinding tapes, throwing photographs away,
let them burn like the hell only love can bring
I’ve been shredding the cards, forgetting memories,
letting time be erased, let it set the stage
Is it love or are we jaded,
what’s reality if it’s all what we make it
Is it angst or sophistication,
when we breathe in the smoke and the fallen glass
The wolves I see they smile at me
they see my nerves pulsating as they come
Whispering it all gets worse as my breath significantly worsens
and They come as if they’re shot from a gun;
they can see my knees weakening
Fall down with me, fall down with me
He saw a play the other day directly taken by the wright in shame;
he said do fact and fiction really need distinction
He shouts in laughter the question’s answer just as if he never meant to say, I never meant physical, these morals are just so trivial
He sang when we fall, our wings break
did you think I would give them strength
Fall forward to the boards,
hit heaven hard let them wash away
He’s been storming the lines we’ve never meant to cross;
he’ll speak Rand-nian shone in young decadence
He’ll speak of loving ourselves, keeping dedicated,
so we’ll question the night reveling in her sweet violence
We can leave this town, we can run away
Like a movie scene hung on a stranger’s face
Because I know that I can’t
Love again the same as yesteryears
the calluses on my knees have all dried from its bleeding
You know I’d rather stay; I’d rather stay with you
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14. |
Take The Easy Prey
03:43
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Darkness emerges crowding the streets
he said pulling her hand close
and tightens his grip he says remain sleeping
my dear carries her further
down the stream, its just a dream he laughs
to calm her throbbing heartbeat
He runs with her weightless and concentrated,
hes reaching the light at the end of the
Let us be villians today,
we'll use the time to take the easy prey
Shed the sheath of the cynic's blade
and hang the heads that procrastinate
Praying to the beautiful
With thier minds so preciously certain
They know nothing but the invitation
While we chew youth to the point of multilation
A slow wind graces the lovers as they fall
and make sure that each oneis up to run to
freedom and fighting strong odds, is all love ending in 3/4 time
Tired eyes, upon her lips, apocalyspe she yells to destroy the castle
A souless vessles, champions dragged, to brave a rising new tide
Take The Easy Prey
It's Just Another Day
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15. |
Angels And Angeles
05:38
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So…did you expect me to live forever
Did you really think that I could grow old
So…did you expect me to carry on & on
So…did you expect me to kicking the same cloud
Did you really think that the hold could cover up
So…did you expect me to just keeping digging a growing pits into the sinking abyss you laid Like steel on fertile grounds
Send me an angel to lift me off this world with her wings
Send me a stranger to hinge my mind to think of better things
Send me a lover to build this broken heart up again
Send the medication so the doctor can take away the pain
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16. |
Tidal Pt. 2
05:15
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You Know, You Know, You Know
It'll take all the fire in hell to hold me back
There's no need for waking in the dark
I know I know I know
It really is a pity to leave when it starts igniting
And you’ve stopped fighting, its like, anyhow,
Goodnight to our home and garden
Goodnight to the footsteps washing away
From the rain, you got to, got to, got to know
I'm feeling better these days
They know, they know, they know
This story of mine is only at disbelief
My mind is lighter, I've kindled the fire of my own
Just know, just know, just know
You can take all those dances back into your dreams
Remember it feels right to live a life of take
It's closing time for these broken lights
Winds have gotten easier, the directions right
To set my sail less miserable, you got to, got to, got to know
I'm feeling better these days
Because all in all were all in love that could never fit in a single love song
And you, you say that you know that we’re falling too
Well baby just know we’ve all felt it too
So goodnight to all my friends, goodnight to the times we spent
Washed away in the tide, you got to, got to realize
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17. |
Boy Of Tomorrow
03:48
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A thousand pokes it takes for you to realize
You’re not so hot in someones eyes
Ain’t that a shame for the boy of tomorrow
Used to love the sayings you learned from all your schools
They just don’t apply anymore
Where did level go for the boy of tomorrow
A jab of two right into you hopefully will glue
The nerves you rubbed so strongly off
Tell me how numb you’ve become, Mr. Boy of Tomorrow
The ideas you had were funny safely kept in your head
But to your networks, drop them dead
Do you still watch the tv shows Mr. Boy of Tomorrow
Your searching for someone to see your genius
Even when you had to explain everything to all of us
You’re reaching for higher plains but it’s already been,
bought, sold and trade to fade
Give an applause for the boy of yesterday
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The Antique Romans Fort Myers, Florida
Taking their name from a line in Hamlet, The Antique Romans live up to their Shakespearean influence through their eclectic
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