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Grinding Teeth (Live)
03:22
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I died years ago before you met me
Drowned in promises and guarantees
A rancid birth, a fucked up choice
Be with me my only voice
Never got to know her
Never knew the truth
And on the day she died
I did too
Empty thoughts rot
Help me fall
Empty thoughts
Help me fall
Asleep
Telephone poles, broken glass
Hospitals, accidents
Waiting
Grinding teeth
I died years ago
Drowned in promises
A rancid choice
Be with me my only voice
I could have triеd
I should have been there
I should havе tried
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Exit Wound (Live)
02:12
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Swallow my world
Watched the blade slice through my skin
Extremities spit blood unto the ground
Through bandages too thin
To deal with agony too proud
Pure white walls
Throbbing veins
How long will
My blood drain
No mans land
Nowhere, man
No mans land
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Dispel (Live)
02:26
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I am just a lowly worm
Grasped in the mouth of a majestic bird
From under the dirt I was pulled
And in her beak I’m firmly held
Oh, shit
I relax in this new cocoon
Her beak my earth, my earth no more
This creature must love and care for me
To pull me from that sacred soil
Worms will never sing like birds
I was never meant to make a sound
And worms will never sing like birds
But I was yet enough for her
To find me in this soiled ground
Why does my body still squirm
When dissected by her perfect beak
This creature was misunderstood
Shallow as her desired needs
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Starve (Live)
02:53
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I remember the night
He means nothing to me
He means nothing to me
She screamed
I can tell my own distress
My heart drops with every breath I let out
My stomach churning worms
Anxious, aching
I have no fear for what comes next
Her words flow like waves from ear to ear
I don’t know you anymore
I no longer starve for your love
Let me drown, I don’t care
Let me drown, I don’t care
I don’t care
Let me drown
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Everything (Live)
03:17
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Goddamn
You left my head to break
Rotting
Inside your dismal world
Hatred
Is what I feel for you
Hurting
Inside you fucking lies
Disappointment
Rears its ugly head
Everything I want you to think of me as
Is nothing you will ever be
The disappointment in your eyes is deafening
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Chimeric (Live)
01:52
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He watches me
Like a killer
Stalking the night
I feel his eyes upon me
I can tell
He is ready
The knife it pierces me
It lands, it sticks, it twists
In my side, in my back
I can feel his cold hands around my throat
Life pours out of my wounds
I awake
Enlightened through violence
Fragile bones and tired flesh
Brutality imagined
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Myling (Live)
02:53
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The cold ground
Crumbles in my hands
In this ground I have found
Remnants of life
Her spirit echoes close
The words of greater men
This burning cloth and oak
Memories veiled in smoke
In the night
She came to me while you were dying
In the night, in the night
In her arms
I wept for you through trembled sighing
Reprieve my sense and sight
To bury
To cast the stones of ill intent
To lay to rest
To rid the gruesome
To hate, to yearn
To cave to your urge
The sounds forgotten
The pain, torment abounds
I will not stand
For what lesser men have done
Bow down, bare the shun
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Sacrifice Of Form (Live)
03:01
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I carve these words for no one
On the pages of my skin
Betrayal flames and constant
Do it
You’ll feel better
End your pain
Time is the hardest thing to let go of
Every day I fight
Struggling, succumbing
Every day I fight
A suicide of reason
Uncertain object
Release yourself
Fundamental sympathy
I do not know the extent
I will
Sacrifice my only form
Sacrifice my only form
I will sacrifice my form
Sacrifice my only form
A sacrifice of form
The altar already adorned
I sacrifice my form
My altar already adorned
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Basilica Boone, North Carolina
Innerstrength Records
North Carolina
hair/slam/shred/core/death
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