1. |
Melting Innocence
04:59
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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
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2. |
All I Need
03:40
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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
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3. |
The Hammer Fell
04:28
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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
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4. |
One Fucked Up Deal
04:07
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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
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5. |
Baphomet
05:03
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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
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6. |
Stolen Moments
05:02
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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
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7. |
The Weight Of Things
04:16
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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
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8. |
Swallowed By The Snake
04:31
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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
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9. |
Stone Cold
04:42
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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
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10. |
Original Sin
03:40
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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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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
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