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Combat

by CIVIL ELEGIES

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1.
Bleed for your sins Keep the blood in Spare us your pain Bleed out again SILENCE YOUR WORDS ARE POINTLESS I’m left no choice Silence yourself Art flows through you Like sandpaper YOUR CRAFT DEAD YOUR LABOUR ROTTING SPARE US YOUR PAIN KEEP THE BLOOD IN
2.
Borders 02:18
Vibrissal Your actions aren’t on my conscience I’ll wipe the milk away And carry on And you’ll hate me And you’ll always hate me Your actions aren’t on my conscience Your promises are not my concern The downfall of a nation The borders remain But not tonight The nosecaps of the warheads Threaten my freedom Decrease my value And the strings sound As the stasis sets in I AM THE TRUEST SELF CUT OFF OUR HANDS
3.
Semantics 03:54
Decadent bourgeois obfuscation Neo-fascist warmongers I hailed the coming day When the revolution would be complete And the state withered away Stale phrases rang like music Tell me of your impotence I am one of them Intentional contrast Immense strength Intelligence And the state withered away Stale phrases rang like music Spilled alcohol and sexual current And the state remained the same Stale phrases rang like music And the state remained the same
4.
There is no time for us There is no place for us What is this thing that builds our dreams Yet slips away from us Who wants to live forever Who wants to love forever There is no chance for us It’s all decided for us Who wants to live forever Who wants to love forever Who wants to live When love must die Touch my tears with your lips Touch my world with your fingertips And we can have forever And we can love forever Forever is our today Who wants to live anyway
5.
Sate the discourse The modern man A bastard child Of promise Enveloped in comfort Consumed by blinding flash Twice the meat Condensed space Stomach the pain Distraction Sat with cattle We are the cold hard trash We are the cold hard trash Bastard child of promise Sat with cattle THE MODERN MAN
6.
The cold morning light Evasive and sterile Burned on our skin Our bodies perpetually futile The seed of the day Clubbed into our heads Bloodied and in retort We find our faces split in two Our organs on show Tongues flapping Muscles contracting with Precisely nothing to say So we mourn the remains of our experience A fade to white Passionate exit We rid ourselves of pretence Rip out our spinal cords And pray for dignity But it never comes And we never meet again And it works
7.
Please refer to previous works and interpret accordingly.
8.
The Way Out 03:27
I hide behind my leaves Each a cascade Each a regret Your visage appals me I sicken myself I see everything and I refuse my deepest tragedy A BLADE RIPS THROUGH MY FACE A WEAPON CUTS MY EYES THE TENDONS TEAR AWAY THE PROP WILL NOW SUFFICE I am the truest self and I refuse my deepest tragedy Hide behind my leaves Each a cascade Each a regret
9.
The Chorus 06:59
Outstretch your hands Receive redemption Your name does not change The music that plays Silenced in haste And a lone voice sounds: ‘I am the truest self I am the truest self I am the truest self I am the truest self I am the truest self I am the truest self I am the truest self I am the truest self’ You can’t get rid of me Bowed head in slapping waves Green glimmers through salt sting Knowing nothing but the need not to breathe And what have you achieved? What does your death mean? Is your art improved? Will your sex be missed? Can you answer these Before you’re knocked back by the waves And the pain recedes And the ledge you cling onto narrows We accept our loss Cut off our hands immortal invisible god only wise in light accessible hid from our eyes most blessed most glorious the ancient of days almighty victorious you knew what you were about when you created me NO SHOCK IN UNISON WE ACCEPT OUR LOSS CUT OFF OUR HANDS

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Third full-length from Glasgow noise rock band Civil Elegies. More dark, churning and expansive than ever before, this is the band's heaviest album yet.

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released August 13, 2016

Hamish Black - voice, guitar, synth
Kyalo Searle-Mbullu - guitar, electronics
Grant Donaldson - drums, electronics

Recorded live in a day at Audio by Michael Butler. Mixed/mastered by Hamish Black.

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