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Traps

by The Diomedes

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1.
Open Arms 03:05
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2.
No Sleepwalking 03:59
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I want to tell you a tale thats never told So not the one where we don’t die or get old The one that we all know but can’t believe, can’t admit, And if you’ll listen as well it won’t go back in its box I’d like to spin a truth thats never been heard The curtain falls and all thats left is absurd Know it but look past the fact life is ridiculous No walls and only one chance Just break all the rules that you can So what we fighting for? An idea that somewhere there is something more So what we fighting for? For our lives Only this and nothing more I know where we’re going and what will follow Its madness and this way it (comes) Come count the times that you give chance a meaning Pre-programmed infiltration; roots running deep And as we grow on falsehoods all truths lie just enough To crack the balancing act, to break the odds tip them back Let’s write a story where no one need break free Accept the chaos its beauty embodied No one is pulling levers; don’t think about it Break all the rules that you can Just don’t try and see how it ends So what we fighting for? An idea that somewhere there is something more So what we fighting for? For our lives. Only this and nothing more I know where we’re going and what will follow Its madness and this way it comes Comes for your best then still takes the rest Madness has come Don’t stop or it’s won Don’t think about it No sleepwalking You’d only want to feel it again So what we fighting for? An idea that somewhere there is something more So what we fighting for? For our lives. Only this and nothing more I know where we’re going and what will follow Its madness that’s coming and this way it flows The only reason to pull meaning From inconsequence Is to try avoid the truth Lids off the box now for good Just don’t try to see what it’s holding for you
3.
Masquerade 04:20
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Find your feet and then find where they are Check the walls to make sure you're alive Clutch a pulse found through thickest of skin Endings never hurt much to begin Masquerade into a perfect storm Shed existence to prove you were born Hold together all the madness calm Find your feet then find where they are You might not find a way to make some sense at all Never become aware of what you're looking for And so just carry on without a hope or cause Just prove no-body can cut out your voice And so hold your line Hold your nerve As your moments fall Losing your mind Won't be hard When it’s all that’s yours Find your feet and then find what they're for Kicking breaking down all closing doors Moving closer with no lasting glance No collapses Just an endless crash Cause theres no other way thats making sense at all And all the words have failed to scratch through endless walls But always carry on without a hope or cause Just prove no-body can cut out your voice And so hold your line Hold your nerve As your moments fall Losing your mind Won't be hard When it’s all that’s yours Gather endings all into a start Waking breaking up the old facades Surface faces made to fall apart Everyone builds up Traps; pyres to burn Let’s light them up So hold your line Hold your nerve As your moments fall Losing your mind Won't be hard When it’s all that’s yours So hold your line Hold your nerve As your moments fall Losing your mind Won't be hard When it’s all that’s yours As faces fall It’s only yours, only yours. Find your feet and then find where they are Endings never hurt much at the start
4.
Gasp 03:45
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Hi can you tell me what it is that happens next What’s the new way to make the floor fall away? Could be something from me it could be something from you It’s going to need to be really something The tallest barrier The oldest boundary A new strain of impossible If dealing out belief There’s nothing worth less than your easy I'm only asking you turn the unstoppable round I'm only asking you grind the immovable down I'm only hoping that you break resistance every day I'm only hoping that we can say hello again So who's grasping on to what will happen next One foot forwards tightening up the blindfold Do you feel the unease do you feel the edge It’s got to be a way of feeling something The tallest barrier The ostracisers in A new strain of terror is here It'll chill you to the core The only thing you’ve ever hoped for I'm only asking you turn the unstoppable round I'm only asking you grind the immovable down I'm only asking that you break resistance every day I'm only hoping that we can say hello again Life's come so far Down racing lines That trace out the hardest truth That out of control is easier than impossible You found your own way up so now find a down And if it turns out you can’t Just up and escape I'm only asking you turn the unstoppable round I'm only asking you grind the immovable down I'm only asking that you break resistance every day I'm only hoping that we can say hello again That we can say hello again That we can say hello again We can say hello again We can say hello again We can say hello again
5.
Tension Head 03:34
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Reset, reset, architect Tension, tension, tension head Amnesia, amnesia, panic set Tension, tension, tension head I can't try and tell you what’s happening If you won't get a handle on the state you're in Pushing back the walls to see the roof cave in Holding your rope and its tightening Don't know where I am where I am And I can’t tell you that I’m only looking for something Don't fancy your odds or your chances But I'll still, take on all, bets Question, question, time to end Tension, Tension, Tension Head Loathing, goading an ascent Tension, Tension, Tension Head   Can't say you haven't heard the message yet That you can't take control; it’s all been outbred So it’s not the cage that starts to tilt It’s the night and the day; they only spin spin spin Is there a way to survive in a world that's selling its barricades Can’t breathe, can’t medicate As the rope tightens, no joke Force, fall away Don't play their games Can you survive as the panic sets? I don't like your chances but I'm taking bets Draw out last stakes No compromise and no relent It’s the only deal you have that keeps your head Sign the line sign the line for a life reset Then we'll go on down and be your architect Come get undone with me Come get undone with me Come get undone with me Before you'll only want to beg and plead
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Part 2 02:52
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7.
Our Dying Glow 02:48
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Seal off the door and we'll rattle around Pair of survivors just awaiting an ending And though we know we're the last of our kind I'm never letting you out When they strike me down I'm lighting you up A convocation as our numbers are thinning Silent companions extract from the dark And though the risk is only getting hot headed I'm never putting you out If they strike me down I'm lighting you up And together we'll glow And glow Our dying glow Like there's one place left to go I can tell by the look in your eye That you’re only ever waiting for something A single moment or a second last chance To get your buttons pushed If they strike me down I'm lighting you up And together we'll glow And glow Our dying glow Now there's one place left to go We'll travel through a certain new shade of red Burn our tops down right down to the ends Just to prove they shouldn’t leave us together We’ll only ever be each other's touch paper There's an end that we both know is coming And though it's needed no one will admit it A grasping clutch and a rise in the dark And one last flash in the air When they strike me down I'm lighting you up And together we'll glow And glow Our dying glow Like there's one place left to go
8.
The Tower 07:25
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Vaults locks and keys Tumblers click into place Keeping from sight Concealed passage ways Designed to hide Halls never meant to hold you If old ways are built in stone never accept them You only need make your own door Born minus key streets will lurch in on you No care for lives changed just to play a tune But fall right through And break through the other side They're waiting for you To fall right through alive Higher and higher Climbing their walls Higher and higher Harder we fall Higher and higher Climbing their walls Higher and higher Abandon control Higher and higher Climbing their walls Higher and higher Harder we fall No one can ever take it from you The very last thing you’ll ever do   But fall right through And break through the other side Your bones will tell you, To focus true One clear thought one clear sight Recalls the one truth, You’ll need ever know Don’t worry; just fight Higher and higher Climbing their walls Higher and higher Harder to fall Higher and higher Climbing their walls Higher and higher Abandon control Gathering speed So fast it hurts So fast the air will burn One chance to survive The fall that is coming is falling faster Fall right through Break through the other side They're waiting for you To fall right through Breaking through all eye lines If I can’t even catch myself How could I catch someone else If your falling you may as well drop As hard as you can and laugh till the end Fall right through Break through the other side Then maybe we’ll pretend We came back again Or we never even heard left Higher and higher Climbing their walls Higher and higher Building a stall Higher and higher Climbing their walls Higher and higher Abandon control We’ll know what’s true When they come and find you
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Spoiling 04:34
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Pole straight and hostile His eyes bore a hole through solid air Music bowed bodies Heat sticks clothes to skin Have another sip Pole straight and hostile The room decides to keep its distance Eyes strain for contact Try to form a word And instead collapse Spies an inversion The room circles toward its centre You know the type All that black hole charm crushing air from lungs Do you see? Eyes protrude throb red so no he don’t; clearly He sees his pulsating insectoid gut crawl free Bones pushing against skin Lights Lights blaze and ink This is it Window panes pool in liquid cresting rings Flowing molten as paint blisters bursting Bodies lifting Watch it burn; a world ending Pole Straight and hostile Leave the room for oppressive night Black hole flares a smoke Pole straight and hostile A light to hand Do you see? Eyes protrude throb red so no he don’t; clearly He sees his pulsating insectoid gut crawl free Bones pushing against skin Lights Lights blaze and ink This is it Window panes pool in liquid cresting rings Flowing molten as paint blisters bursting Bodies fall, lifting And now tomorrow's caving in And then the next day's shattering And then again again it all begins He waits for an apocalypse to come Waiting he crawls though his life never certain Insect inheritance Lights Lights blaze and ink This is it Window panes pool in liquid cresting rings Flowing molten as paint blisters bursting Bodies fall, lifting And now tomorrow's caving in And then the next day's shattering And then again again it all begins And then tomorrow's caving in And then the next day's spiraling And then again again and Imaginations a wonderful thing
10.
Howl 01:41
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11.
This Place Is Electric 05:01
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This place is electric It screams the ends in light Static and fluid Cold heat lashes your sight Light up the night lines Defining all lit sparks Electric memories are crawling in from the past   They’ll bind you if they don't first light you right up And though before you'd try to slip by Now there’s no more hiding   Because I hear all the cries There's a howling that'll tear right through your night tonight Calling Passing the cut aways Smiling Grinning at gone mistakes Burning Feeding a flame with a fire Breathing Drowning in all lost days Gasping Coveting words misspent Howling A ghost of a life just slipped by   This place is frenetic Just feel the heat discharge The lights all vibrating Try stop and set your heart You knew it was coming Still chose to find the dark A cold shadows reaching up and taking a grasp   All saying we all tried turning you round And though before you've tried to slip by Now there’s no more hiding Now we hear all your cries We’re a howling; we'll tear right through your life tonight Calling Passing the cut aways Smiling Grinning at gone mistakes Burning Feeding a flame with a fire Breathing Drowning in all lost days Gasping Coveting words misspent Howling A ghost of a life just slipped by Calling, calling, howling We'll tear right through you tonight Tear right through You want us to We'll tear you through alright
12.
Wishing Games 06:30
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Breath And live with it Let the tension flow loose I only long for the noise That which can’t be diffused   That thickens the blood Removes the air that’s our last Ease suffocates I need it It’s my trap So I know now it’s a prison and a passage out All our doorways one the same And I’ll know now where they’re leading There’s one way to find out Because I might have been wrong And I might have been right It’s not important if you just try There’ll be no walls standing left to climb   Traps and happenstance Grind the gears of this world You’re either caught or create But it only ever starts with words And you were only ever right You’re the one thing I can’t leave behind So no saving anticipation Moments falling, No one waiting No pulling sense out from a truth or lie So it’s goodbye I’m ready    No delaying, no more waiting No more counting times a changing No more chasing boundaries fading No more days to keep on breaking Now it’s a prison and a passage out All are doorways one the same And I’ll know now where they’re leading There’s one way to find out So I know now it’s a prison and a passage out All are doorways one the same And I’ll know now where they’re leading There’s one way left to try now Because I might have been wrong And I might have been right It’s not important if you just try There’ll be no walls standing left to climb But show me a heart that beats without a desire Be careful with your wishing games You'll only have yourself to blame Be careful with your wishing games You'll only have yourself to break

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released March 17, 2017

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Mark Champion, David Myers, George Harris. Electropunk three piece from Leyton, East London UK.

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