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Your Delilah
05:48
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Fits just right, nice and tight
This second skin of seething sin
Moves in me so languidly
To flush my cheek; it’s sanguine, sleek
I’ve been watching, waiting, feeling
Every single beat
Speaking into velvet shadows
Deep inside of me
But when he speaks, he’s breaking peace
What he needs, it isn’t me
Spare me all of your excuses,
Piety, pretenses, there’s no room in my bed
I won’t play your Delilah
Excuse you from desire to shame me in your stead
Moving slow, this afterglow
How it feels, he’ll never know
I live for me, unfettered, free
Won’t let him in beneath my skin
I’ve been watching, waiting, feeling
Every single beat
Speaking into velvet shadows
Deep inside of me
But when he speaks, he’s breaking peace
What he needs, it is not me
Spare me all of your excuses,
Piety, pretenses, there’s no room in my bed
I won’t play your Delilah
Excuse you from desire to shame me in your stead
And when I go,
Can’t share the pain, he’s left in shame
But I know there’s
No pain
Spare me all of your excuses,
Piety, pretenses, there’s no room in my bed
I won’t play your Delilah
Excuse you from desire to shame me in your stead
I come in with no pretenses
Lower my defenses, here beside my bed
I won’t play your Delilah
I know my own desire, no fire’s in my head
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2. |
Beautiful Agony
05:24
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I'd made my peace
With the rose that clouds my fading memory
So I could turn away
Pretend I never knew the shape of yesterday
Now I've grown
Blind to my own pain, but I can feel again
I must
Rewrite history, whitewash everything
Now every dream
Is beautiful agony
Between these yellowed walls
Paper curling in the shadows growing long
So I start sifting through
And every scrap's a finger pointed back at you
I've grown
Blind to my own pain, but I can feel again
I must
Rewrite history, whitewash everything
Now every dream
Is beautiful agony
Yes, every dream
Is beautiful agony
I'm scarred on the surface
But happy in denial
(The memory is sweeter the farther away)
Don't follow me back there
I speak through switchblade smile
(The dream has grown bitter, it darkens the day)
Every dream
Beautiful agony
Yes, every dream
Is beautiful agony
I'm scarred on the surface
But happy in denial
(The memory is sweeter the farther away)
Don't follow me back there
I speak through switchblade smile
(The dream has grown bitter, it darkens the day)
I'm sorry I can't save you
You know I cannot stay
Forgive me my treason
My memory has betrayed
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3. |
Gemini
04:05
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She left a vacancy; dark where there should have been light
I felt the distance, a dullness where once we were bright
A phantom limb, absence not fading with time
Still it echoes, these things which were hers and were mine
Burn to fill the spaces growing between
Not in presence, but maybe there’s closeness in dream
Come from shadow to find my way by your light
The same I offer to you, ’cause we’re like
Twin stars, miles apart
Joined at the hip and the gut and the heart
She shines so bright in the night sky
Despite our light years, you’re still my Gemini
Caught the flash of a distant star
Darkened now when we’ve come too far
It’s clear to see the path we run
Only when two brilliantly shine as one
Last chance, gotta break and find a way
To be free of the shadows where they lay
Come between two spirits born to be
Together, we
Are irrevocably…
Not long till we find each other, now
That hope keeping me from breaking down
Reunite, ’cause we are meant to be
Together, we
Are irrevocably
Twin stars, miles apart
Joined at the hip and the gut and the heart
She shines so bright in the night sky
Despite our light years, you’re still my Gemini
Caught the flash of a distant star
Darkened now when we’ve come too far
It’s clear to see the path we run
Only when two brilliantly shine as one
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4. |
Flood
04:53
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I bore the rising tide of fate
Agreed to bide the time in chains
But now these expectations weigh
And I can’t fight
This need, it builds, it breaks, it pulls away the equilibrium
I bleed, I feel, I need, I see, I take the last steps to oblivion
Oh, I feel the dam is breaking down
Oh, my head below the waters now
Just one breath to fill my lungs
And purge myself of influence
This water, black and thick as blood
It fills me up
This need, it builds, it breaks, it pulls away the equilibrium
I bleed, I feel, I need, I see, I take the last steps to oblivion
Oh, I feel the tide is rising now
Oh, I give myself away and drown
When I’ve
Run out my line
I find
Nothing waiting for me
So I
Drift idly by
And know
It’s breaking
Leave the floodgates open I want you to see
When the waters have closed over me
Oh, my feet have touched the bottom now
Oh, but still I feel I’m sinking down
Sinking down… waning now… sinking…
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5. |
Narcissus Shore
05:01
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Be as right as you like
As alone as you must
The world becomes so hollow
Save your appeal for my heart
I’m shutting you out
Your soul’s become too fallow
So sure you know
You close your mind
And with your silver pool
Reflections echo you
I felt you slip away
‘Til echoes swallowed you
When I departed your shores
I didn’t look back
I knew you would not follow
Cold at the end of the world
But you will not feel
The emptiness surround you
So sure you know
You close your mind
And with your silver pools
Reflections echo you
I felt you slip away
‘Til echoes swallowed you
(spoken)
Though I’ve carried you in darkness
Followed you in light
I can’t stand the weight of your self-righteousness
That burden is yours to bear now
When you call my name, don’t wait for me to
Follow, I won’t follow
And with your silver pool
Reflections echo you
I felt you slip away
‘Til echoes swallowed you
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