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Were​(​The Wild​)​Wolves Are Is: Demo Pt. 2

by Optic Arrest

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1.
So close to nothing til the lights begin to fade and all I radiate is all you'll ever need until the day Saviour Fluorescent Ill keep you dry in a dark sea or just a station til you find yourself something better down the street Now she's dancing through the street as if the music never stopped yeah shes everything I never knew enough to have forgot whats the point pretending that I'm not here to stay I'm just a fixture catching glimpses as she's dancing away. Staring as she moves so deftly like clockwork out of time to the sound of claws unclenching this floating rock as they place it into mine and she'd still be spinning if the sun forgot to glow but for now she's spinning like were everything and that's all I need to know. Now she's dancing through the street as if the music never stopped yeah shes everything I never knew enough to have forgot whats the point pretending that I'm not here to stay I'm just a fixture catching glimpses as she's dancing away.
2.
Blood soaked in sand where shadows grow tall and legions lay leveled with the drop of your jaw To charge into hell to rise from the crawl I'd be your devil if anything at all. What would you steal should fresh bowstrings not break? And what would I feel if through new ropes I wake? These honor bound bonds made from each lock you take What was my price What did you make? The crowd erupts as cannons every shot fired's One for you the cry as much as they would like to see you win You know that hey would much rather watch you die Now I scratch at my face to sharpen these horns and hate til I'm numb til I cant feel the scorn The way this head hangs once such valiance torn My past wouldn't guess that I've ever not worn burn blackened eyes Of Samson Chained I'd tear us down if you could promise me your pain See from my throat, spill pride as rain I needn't hope as these columns come falling The crowd erupts as cannons every shot fired's One for you the cry as much as they would like to see you win You know that hey would much rather watch you die
3.
Name For It 03:51
She's the glinting diamond on the flying trapeze Silhouette on the pinhole night sky with the birds and the trees and everything Miles above the skylines city Here's the body that heaven boasts and it soars like she sings and it floats like a ghost it goes She'll acquaint you with the pain of breaking as the horizon steals the red taillights and everything gets smaller and smaller and smaller Whatever she reach for Doesn't have to reach for her She can shatter just like everyone else and just like everyone else, her mosaic will be built someday
4.
Circus Fire 04:48
I'm blessed with sun Where once had all been dark and somber Instead of basking I'm just waiting for the rain Not everyone was meant to leave on happy endings Some of us are just allowed less pain And Now I'm waiting for blue skies to falter I'm waiting for the black clouds to return I'm Waiting for the ground to crack from underneath and my feet and take me down to where I'm safe and sound and watch me burn Watch me burn You've shown me colors I've not seen so many things I cant begin to know the meaning I'll admit it caught my eye But when I return to myself These thoughts will gain dust on the shelf And in the end it'll just keep killing me inside And Now I'm waiting for blue skies to falter I'm waiting for the black clouds to return I'm Waiting for the ground to crack from underneath and my feet and take me down to where I'm safe and sound and watch me burn Watch me burn Oh oh oh (X alot.) to where I'm safe and sound and watch me burn Watch me burn
5.
We walk on broken ankles From the city to the sound Once the singing of the sirens now the beying of the hounds Looking or familiar faces in the darkness of the crowd Cause in the sun Vampires sleep their deaths away. So I rifle through my pocket for a silver tongue to bear blades of hate and insecurity 'fore the demons know that there be a man who walks among them in disguises that they where or so I tell myself So I can sleep at night And we scream til we're stripped of the need to forget Every dance Every step What was right? Now what's Left?
6.
Lack 04:35
Walking down a dark street Through a story with an ending I don't know leaving behind all of my promises With just a case in tow Without a care at all that all the old beat pathways wouldn't show and nowhere i really need to go after some lost time wandering I began to feel the strain Despite all I had left behind what I kept still manage to pain If I continue now I knew there would be nothing I could gain and there's no reason to feign Because I'm bolder now than I have been Yes I'm bolder now than I have been And these steel locks keeping me locked wont be freezing When I leave them at my heels Cause I'm bolder now than I have been As the air lifted my shoulders and the wind lifted my feet it felt so good to feel so good that I had refused to retreat as I continued on it seemed that every man that I would meet Never seemed as tired as me Once I chose to remember I learned that it wouldn't go away despite all I had shed what I kept had still managed to weigh for lack of a better word the emptiness had long chosen to stay and I concede theres nothing strong as yesterday Because I'm bolder now than I have been Yes Im bolder now than I have been And these steel locks keeping me locked wont be freezing When I leave them at my heels Cause I'm bolder now than I have been The day I met the ocean was the day I learned the road did end Now everything was gone and I'd forgotten why I had began I looked into the infinite and screamed the message I would send No one really cared to pretend I looked down at my nakedness tried to remember what I'd known time and distance had a way of turning all my tragedies to jokes but I'll admit I was much too tired to want to be alone So I turned and started home
7.
You're searching for another rung to reach out for looking off the last edge of the world As shadows dance quiet across creations eyes are you the only who's still surprised Sailing deep waters for each rogue wave you could find running from the home you left behind May not be what you want but maybe what you need So for now baby lay you head down go to sleep.
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Jellyfish 05:10
Translucent broken angel clings to shore Listing lazy long the sea This gravity is to abhor Are you impressed by anything? You're beautiful but you question my taste I've seen you so regal and full but my vision is to waste How can you breathe with that tight lip purse and stare? Now can't you see that you're better off down there? Countless every days wash off your back Careening absent from the fight Thick yellow cellophane attack Blue pooled with oil in the light On an air you glide A photoexcitation Like none other can fly Expecting admiration The visage looked upon to set to stone is this the fluid work of art? Is this the skill you choose to hone? Is this the quintessential start? Free from peer or bloom Your umbrella shields emotion When the new tide looms Will it still be your ocean? What can be helped When your toxic claws are hid? Not to push or pull like everybody always did. Are you sunken have you drowned Are you everything I lost and lever found The virtue you're the sin and I'm everything that won't let me begin That creeping sense of dread and tiny voices swimming through my head Full of lies and all so wrong Had what I seen been nothing all along I'm healthy not the hole you used to dump the remnants of my soul I'm lucid I am proud and not just everything that I'm allowed So much wasted on the tryst and not a single thing that I will miss So permittance to exist Dictates the cry of triumph and it goes a little something like

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released October 26, 2019

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Abel - Bass , Vocals
Nick - Drums, gear skank
Caesar - Guitar, Sunshine

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