The weight of things

by NERVD

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1.	Melting Innocence 04:59	lyrics	buy track
The walls are going up Gates are coming down All of it closer, yeah closer than I thought Now tell me what am I really losing If I've got no sense of loss? The long walk home - I'll never make it The innocence - I want it back The long walk home - Still dedicated The innocence - I want it back Awake all night I'm sleeping all day long I've cut through all the wires I pull them back Retrieve them one by one The signal's dead The signal's dying The dawn is blue and purple, red Something dies, something lives instead The hues of melting innocence Disappear into the morning I'll never make it home I'll never make it back I'm falling, swallowed whole I wade into the end I'll never make it home What it means and what it meant Calling out the name of innocence Dying
2.	All I Need 03:40	lyrics	buy track
All I need is air to breathe To fill my lungs again To remain a free man In this hell of crashing slave-trains I should kill off all the candles And restore the sacred black Concentrate on what you're left with At the bottom of the stack All I need is air To lift my words up out of here Plain as shit Speak my honest mind from a bleeding lip My true worth is mine to decide The line's in the sand - Fight where you stand Each new abuse, failing design There's some things they touch but some things they just can't This low is your low Oh no it ain't mine 'Cause I'm carried high Arrows, poisoned arrows Rain back from the sky Every single time Something to pry loose this grip on my neck Now you're telling me it's too much to be asking for breath The harder I fight, the tighter it gets I'm taking you down if I'm choking to death All I need is air to breathe All I need is air to set This crooked signal right Filter out the fucking noise Let the cosmic truth ignite All I need is air Plain as shit Speak my honest mind from a bleeding lip
3.	The Hammer Fell 04:28	lyrics	buy track
Forms unrecognizable Floating in the sloshing brine Yesterday I saw a new giant rise Gather itself and stand erect a hundred men high Towering over human forms All of these faces with no eyes Swaying weakly in the north Untethered, untied Then the hammer fell And all pretense abandonned The world The crushing hell That is not dead which can eternal lie And with strange eons even death may die And then the hammer fell On any thought but fear from gathered minds Too late to save yourself It will remain untold And then the hammer fell The earth is laying bare to climb ungodly heights Too late to save yourself And then the hammer fell Nothing will ever rise again
4.	One Fucked Up Deal 04:07	lyrics	buy track
I've got more than one life yeah When I need more life than one I go from this sunset to the next Tell me why can I just get no fucking rest Every sleeping moment Is a nightmare - I'm awake And as I stumble through the day Every single waking hour's fake This sure is one fucked-up deal Another trip lined up to the other side And it's all just stuck on max Another shit-list to spin through on the way Left with nothing to face here but death and taxes No rest for this wicked soul No lids on these smiling eye-balls Twenty seconds left to stand Here we go again Take a look in the eye The pain just multiplies Nothing counts, nothing's right The pain just multiplies Behind this dead skin mask Nothing counts, I wonder now How long I'm going to last All of the lives I have are at an end On all sides the walls are closing in I tried so hard to keep it just to myself In this life I feel like I've been someone else The pain just multiplies
5.	Baphomet 05:03	lyrics	buy track
Candles are crashing into the blaze Watch it devour the fabric of life Next to the red golden everything pales Headlong rush into infernal time Taste the sex and clotting blood The metal, the acid, the snot on your tongue A bigger body - Let violence launch it Scale and skin and motherfuck into oblivion Smoke and grime and motherfuck into oblivion You'll never go back to what you were Digging deeper's the only way Shed your name, your face, your words Those on this journey've got nothing to say Bring them in, bring them now Burst in through the circle Raging beast, spit and growl Everything will splinter, will splinter Watching the moment stretch Scale and skin and motherfuck into oblivion
6.	Stolen Moments 05:02	lyrics	buy track
Beauty glimpsed through the rain A second, split, cut off from the driving pain A fuck or a kiss The last time that we melt together The antagonist A fight to define, 'cause it's now or never Our moments are stolen Not to hold on to but to live These little flints are golden In this tunnel existence that we dig, down Swimming against the tide To briefly caress the sharkskin side A vision soon to be washed away soon The briefest resistance under the moon Crawling through the landslide Racing techtonic shifts One more connection With what the world really is about
7.	The Weight Of Things 04:16	lyrics	buy track
Can you feel the weight of things On your ribcage, on your breath? Can you now? Seeping into your ideas These stars so many drops of sweat So many drops 'Cause inertia is forever And that which flies, it must come down Can you hear the scream of lead? It's in the air now Can you hear the muscle groan? Leaning on your brittle frame You feel the bullet coming home It's coming home to you 'Cause inertia is forever That which is high, it must come down Your flight was always temporary Accross the sky, you're crashing down You see the last one snap And we'll be strangers once again True penetration is not of this world You can live but not so fast That you escape the weight of things Pulling on your flesh Give that vice another turn Standing now in the face of judgement I feel the struggle warp my will, I'm looking down I've been holding back the sword of one thousand years If this is what it means to live Under a mass so enormous that light bends away Here in the dark without meaning Oceans of pressure have crushed into shape ground into dust, but the hardcore remains Here in the dark without meaning I am reborn - Call me Hate
8.	Swallowed By The Snake 04:31	lyrics	buy track
Smooth curves and bright light Way below the surface In this tunnel life I'm just passing through On this never-ending, needle-bending, inner-circle ride This ain't ours And we don't know you To the rising pitch of needles tilting As the belt accellerates I'm just leaving Leaving it all so far behind Faster and faster and faster I'm receding So far away Our years are only moments Following the names And men will lose their minds Our years are moments Flashing as we change Swallowed by the snake Our years are moments And men will lose their minds Our years are torments And then we all go blind Can you hear me screaming From behind the glass Just a broken thing In a broken mass And poison's sweet Killing your senses It's so rich and sweet Oil on your lenses Taking you home
9.	Stone Cold 04:42	lyrics	buy track
Pushed into the red zone, suffering alone They'll blink first and then I'll hold my peace I used to be sorry for the witness-folk But even that now I no longer feel This man I've built to last me a lifetime I could only build from stone And still the blood it flows, here nothing can be sacred The crows will cover me from head to toe Carved into my flesh, my hopes and my hatred The scars they run as deep as any oath I had to rise up and I rose I had to choose now and I chose There's nothing else to show That's how the story goes Rise up and I rose Choose now and I chose This man I've built to last to last me a lifetime They'll rot away in this forest of poison
10.	Original Sin 03:40	lyrics	buy track
From the ashes of your church I've built my own Chosen my own god where there was none From the remnants of this cage I've built a throne Whence I contemplate the ruins of your goals Won't you come and join me? When I'm walking through this field of stones The echos of your prayers feed my song At last I've pushed away the sacred bones The heavy hand that rests upon my shoulder From dogma to the weakness I behold I'm left to cut down everything you've sown But in spite of all my efforts I can never win And in spite of all my cleansing I still feel your original sin Every single day of this life Every single night I can feel it I still feel it

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released June 11, 2021

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NERVD Paris, France

NERVD drives ahead with a look in the rear-view mirror. By no means stuck in the past, the band simply loves the sound that forged its identity. With roots in the90s, the quintet goes for solid metal that never forgets groove nor melody. Pantera, Alice in Chains, Hatebreed... Plenty of references, but NERVD plays NERVD first and foremost. ... more