1. |
All the Way
05:29
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Hold my head down darling
Filling my lungs with more than air
Simulating drowning
We'll go all the way this time, you swear
Release yourself
Nothing else
Grip a little tighter
Caught in the ecstasy of pain
My heart is beating faster
Feeling the warmth inside me drain
Held to my base urges
Still I will do anything you say
See this through and take me to the edge
Don't let go until the ending
Lights go out and now you're done with me
Well who am I to drag you down?
And I think you're running scared
From the monsters in your head
Well who am I to drag you down?...
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2. |
Berlin
04:54
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We keep asking ourselves “Can we make amends
For what our fathers' fathers' generations did?”
Through recent history we've fostered guilt
Brought up with a sense of what was done before
And as I walk along these city streets remade
Constant reminders of the price that others paid
Build a thousand stones so we never forget
What they did
Into this labyrinth that closes on each side
Concrete monoliths are all that are in sight
Descending further 'til we've shut out half the light
Until these looming pillars cannot be denied
The streets all shine in the frost
Tattooed by it's monuments
The city has scars that show
A bloodstain that can't be covered by the snow
Leave the fragments so we always mark the place
Where we built walls that we now realise were mistakes
Our history's frozen
In front of our eyes
We will carve the words in stone so they don't fade
To mark the memories of lives that others gave
We can try to hope for better and to change
And make sure history does not repeat again
And in the present we will always mark the past
Grief is a monument that's built to always last
Build a thousand stones so we never forget
A thousand more to show the depths of our regret
And still we cannot shake the guilt and emptiness
Never again...
The facts and the figures stand
They're too huge to comprehend
The human impact and the anguish that was felt
Still echoing
Rebuild.
Restore.
Remember.
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3. |
Blood Ties
04:20
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Blood ties us back to our fates
Hard-wired in the DNA
Red marks that you can't erase
Surely we've escaped?
We've run so far now
And all those that followed are scattered to the winds
Tabula Rasa
We'll start again
To live on our own terms
Keep ourselves in grace
'Til we meet our end
No suffering and no regrets
We'll get away with it
And we'll be fine...
Blood ties us back to our fates
And forces our return
Hard-wired in the DNA
Of those we once
Forgot we loved
Red marks that you can't erase
Blood ties us back to our fates
And forces our return
We can never escape
The chains inside that hold us
And we can never escape
What betrays us in our veins
Don't talk to me
About heredity
And what we pass on to those that come after
The thought is so
Unavoidable
That we're beholden to that which is inside us
Tell me there is some way out
From what's coursing through my arteries
We may struggle against this code
But there are some things that we cannot change
But blood ties us back to our fates
And forces our return
Hard-wired in the DNA
Of those we once
Were told we loved
Blood ties us...
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