Lyrics:
I’m lost
Every step I calculate the cost
Can’t come back
The good just like debris has all been tossed
Tick tock
I can’t ever seem to make it stop
This clock 
Ringing out the days and all the cost

Won’t you wake me 
from my violent dreams

Come and shake me
Hold me as I scream
Do you believe?

It seems
Cast away all my cherished things
Just to leave
the space to bring in what i can’t conceive
Do you see
the meaning in the last breath 
I do breath?
Am I free?
Trapped inside and caught up in these

Won’t you wake me 
from my violent dreams

Come and shake me
Hold me as I scream
Do you believe?

Misdirection

Wake Me

Lyrics:
See my breath fog up the window
as I try to peak inside
Everything is on the table
except what you want to hide
All the guests are so enchanting
as they’re caught up in their lies
A masquerade of false intentions
It’s where truth it goes to die
It’s where truth it goes to die
It’s where truth it goes to die

It’s all a rush until the end
It’s all a rush can we not bend

Silhouettes and shadows dancing
liquid fire on the walls
Moving shapes and twisted figures
waiting for the beck and call
He’s the one they know is coming
they say he can change it all
Grant us all our vulgar wishes
Get us ready for the fall
Get us ready for the fall
Get is ready for the fall

It’s all a rush until the end
It’s all a rush can we not bend

Sadness of the morning after
Feeling naked and ashamed
Lumped with all the other masses
who were here to do the same

In the light their grotesque bodies
and their dark and dirty souls
It makes them all feel quite uneasy 
as they slink back to their holes
As they slink back to their holes
As they slink back to their holes

It’s all a rush until the end
It’s all a rush can we not bend

Can We Not Bend

Lyrics:
Sooner or later 
she said
We’ve got to talk about
the memories
that are slipping from your head

Do me a favor
instead
just hold me ’til 
this nightmare’s
over and we’re waking in our bed

Now that my world is fading
and I’m forgetting the people I knew
I lie contemplating
on checking out 
but then I think of you

Want to hold out for
more time
but fearful that I’ll miss
the moment
right before I lose my mind

Then be forever
trapped inside
my years of living will 
not matter
this is how I’ll be defined

Now that my world is fading
and I’m forgetting the people i knew
I lie contemplating
on checking out 
but then I think of you


* Shoutout to https://www.instagram.com/filmcre8or/ for the great artwork accompanying this tune.

A/V Cult

Fading

Lyrics:
Night falls down on me Jesus, won’t you take away my sins
All I have is thirty reasons, silver pieces oh so thin
I know my kiss was one of treason but to my chagrin
You will rise before the season and I will hang below the limb

Sometimes in life you’re just part of the ride, people take what the want and they cast you aside
Part of the twelve spawned salvation from hell, you’re the one that they blame, the act carries your name
Sometimes in life your just part of the ride, people take what they want and they cast you aside

Pontius Pilate, new beginnings, Roman soldiers with their spears
In the crowd there’s jubilation, led to death among the cheers
A spectacle of fascination as he’s nailed upon the cross
An ironic twist of condemnation, the world was saved upon his loss

I never held such bad intentions, I was merely just a pawn
This whole damn plan was set in motion, sure as the rooster greets the dawn
He held me close at the last supper, He said that i would be the one
I didn’t know that he meant murder of God’s sole begotten son.

Thanks to https://www.instagram.com/kayleigh_mphoto/ for use of her cool photo for this song.

Judas

Lyrics:
I’ve been drinking way too fast
caught up in the past
letting the anger build

Every shot that I take down
and everyone who buys a round
takes me deeper still

Remember when we said 
that yesterday we would start over
Let that nonsense leave your head
(I’m still falling down)

And in the morning
when I’m feeling somewhat close to sober
i will live with my regret

Try to process what I've done
see the man that I’ve become
the one who let it go

I cant find the reasons why
except of course my foolish pride
and now I’m all alone

Close To Sober

Lyrics:
Well you’re here for the money
Put on a show
I want to see you dance
And slide on the pole
Watch you strut
To classic Rock & Roll
As you pick up bills
On the runway floor

Come be my private dancer now
Gonna make your Daddy proud
All grown up but not so loud
A broken girl from a busted town

Bend over baby
Touch your toes
I want to see you smile
as you hold that pose
If you’re a good girl 
And do what what your told
When I take you in the back
I’ll give you some blow

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Dancer

Lyrics:
Sunday hurricane
Monday feels the same 
Tuesday who’s to blame
For all this chaos they can’t explain
Here since the dawn of age
But now someone’s got to pay

Storm is coming, its coming fast
wipe out the future and cleanse our past

cause we are nothing lets dumb it down
we are just cockroaches upon the ground
The storm is coming, its coming fast
wipe out our future and cleanse our past

Progress has got to go
we’ll reap what we did sow
Freedom for thought control
our way of life and what we know
so lets give it away
‘cause they’ll be fair thats what they say

Storm is coming, its coming fast
wipe out the future and cleanse our past

‘Cause we are nothing lets dumb it down
We’re just cockroaches upon the ground
The storm is coming, its coming fast
Wipe out our future and cleanse our past

Sunday hurricane
Monday feels the same 
Tuesday who’s to blame
For all this chaos they can’t explain
Here since the dawn of age
But now someone’s got to pay

[Progress has got to go
we’ll reap what we did sow
Freedom for thought control
our way of life and what we know
so lets give it all away
cause they’ll be fair thats what they say]

Storm is coming, its coming fast
wipe out the future and cleanse our past

cause we are nothing lets dumb it down
we’re just cockroaches upon the ground
The storm is coming, its coming fast
wipe out our future and cleanse our past

Photo by stein egil liland from Pexels

Hurricane Sunday

Lyrics:
Driving down the highway
with nothing on my mind
A thousand miles from nowhere
and all I have is time
If I can't be there by tomorrow
well that'll be just fine
This life is just a journey
so come on let’s take a ride

I’ll never go back
to the place that I’m from
It took a whole of lot of dying
to see how the damage was done

Lost city of angels
a cross roads in the sun
I’ve got my top rolled down
as though I’m the only one
But as I look around me
I see I’m not alone
Me and my fellow travelers
we’re searching for a home 

I’ll never go back
to the place that I’m from
It took a whole of lot of dying
to see how the damage was done

Finally at my destination
but it’s time that I moved on
Getting stuck in the same situation
well that would be just wrong
Turns out I need to wander
to truly feel alive
This life is just a journey
so come on let’s take a ride

I’ll never go back
to the place that I’m from
It took a whole of lot of dying
to see how the damage was done


Car photo via https://www.pexels.com/@shukran

Nowhere Ride

Lyrics:
Little girl, lost no where to go
So afraid, trapped in the snow
Last person she saw 
Slit her throat for a show
Deep red on white
Soaking the earth below

I make this pledge to you
I’ll hunt you down and run you through
And when we finally meet again
I’ll drag you screaming to your end

Crooked teeth and empty eyes
As she bleeds out, she sees him smile
The rage it builds deep within
No, she won’t die, she won’t let him win

I  make this pledge to you
I’ll hunt you down and run you through
And when we finally meet again
I’ll drag you screaming to your end

Little girl lost nowhere to go
Yeah that was me but so long ago
Now I’m here and I’m so alive
As I see the pain and fear in your eyes

When we finally meet again
I drag you screaming to your end

(Photo by cottonbro from Pexels)

Pledge

Lyrics:
I remember thinking how
I was going to make my life so perfect now
Wasted all these years and now there gone
Stuck myself in middle age
I got lines criss-crossing on my face
Thought I had more time
But I was wrong

Thinking back on days gone bye
Well i shake my head and wonder why
I blew off all those things that meant so much
Relationships and missed birthdays
Graduations, high school plays
The comfort of a woman’s  loving touch

As I sit here by myself
With a tv tray and nothing else
But loneliness and dark and deep despair
I know I have no one to blame
And if had the chance, I’d do the same
And all my sorrows start to fill the air

Calling as I’m falling
Yes I'm falling once again

Falling, yes I’m falling 
Yes I’m falling once again

Perfect Now

Lyrics:
Hey baby it's time to go
I shot the man we held for ransom 
When they didn't show
We gave them plenty of time
But couldn't find the dough
I guess he didn't mean that much
Well what do you know

It’s time to run again she said
Another man that you shot dead
The second one in just two weeks
We need to take a break I think

Burn the bodies
and dump the car
Cause we got to go fast
and we’ve got to go far
I didn't notice the skulls or 8 pointed stars
They got while  in prison
behind Russian bars

It’s time to run again she said
Another man that you shot dead
The second one in just two weeks
We need to take a break I think
                                            
Hey baby it's time to go
We’ve got a long drive down to Mexico
Yeah they’ll be gunning for us
Before you know
So grab a few things we’ve to go 

It’s time to run again she said
Another man that you shot dead
The second one (time) in just two weeks
We need to take a break I think

Time To Go

Lyrics:
I don't know what you meant 
All I heard was what you said
Why’s it so confusing?
Trying to figure out your head

I've been running around in circles
(andI I’m) trying hard to figure out you
When I think I finally got the answers
I realize that i haven't a clue
               
All the words from your mouth
pass right through my simple mind
Clouds of doubt and pretense 
I know it's just a matter of time

This makes no damn sense
At least in the way you explain
So i'm left here guessing
Is this all just part of your game
---
Photo by Liviu Gorincioi from Pexels

Haven't A Clue

Lyrics:
Everything we said we said
And all the things we did we did
Now I’m caught up in my head 
With all the things we did and said

I know, we soon will reap what we did sow
I know, cant take it back its what we own

Thought our love was meant to be
All laid out for you and me
Then petty judgement crept right
Found us naked in our sins
Too late now can't stop this train
All that’s left is guilt and pain
Captured in our vacant stares
Ripped our wounds wide open

I know, we soon will reap what we did sow
I know, cant take it back its what we own
I know, we soon will reap what we did sow
I know, cant take it back its what we own

All that’s left is memories
That seep inside us when we sleep
They bring us to a darker place
Hold us in its cold embrace

The whispers that we long to hear
Are flooded out by all our fears
Of dying in this place alone
The fading light of what we’ve known

I know, we soon will reap what we did sow
I know, cant take it back its what we own

Thought our love was meant to be
All laid out for you and me
Then petty judgement crept right in
Found us naked in our sins
Too late now can't stop this train
All that’s left is guilt and pain
Captured in our vacant stares
With our wounds wide open


Photos by Antonio Friedemann and Dids from Pexels

Wounds Wide Open

Lyrics:
40 year joyride
Let me break it down
Did a stint in juvi 
But I couldn’t stick around
So I left with someone
Didn’t know he had a gun
When we got confronted
That’s when it all came undone

1 to 40, in zero seconds flat
My life had just begun
Now there’s no going back
1 to 40, in zero seconds flat
I was just 16
Now there’s no going
There’s no going back

From being housed with children
Thrown to the lions den
Learn to live by aggression
It’s either me or it is them
Violence is a sanctum
That keeps the wolves at bay
And only by striking out
Can you live another day

It’s hard to believe it started
With just a fateful ride
I bought the car on my own
But my old man had to sign
He reported it stolen 
When I drove it to the shore
Went to show off to my friends
That was it and nothing more

Image (manipulated) from Pixabay on Pexels.com

One to Forty

Lyrics:
The urgency it brings me down
Caught up in what can’t be found
Puzzled as I look around

Though I rise up to my feet
In this world I can’t compete
On my own I’m incomplete

And everything I say
doesn’t make a bit of difference 
anyway

Cause it’s all over now
I can’t change it
it’s just a matter of where and how

Stumble as I take a step
Just a few and I need rest
I admit I must confess

Try so hard to make it through
So unsure and so confused
On what I did and didn’t do

And everything I say
doesn’t make a bit of difference 
anyway

Cause it’s all over now
I can’t change it
it’s just a matter of where and how

So at night I close my eyes
Lay in bed and wonder why
Hit repeat on all my lies

If I could change you know I would
but I can’t cause I’m no good
You moved on just like you should

Over Now

Lyrics:
I’m bringing you down and I’m so sorry
Caught up in my own self doubt again

Why don’t you take advice
Cut ties and don’t think twice
‘Cause the morning won’t make it any better

Another day, another worry
And another waits around the bend

Why don’t you take advice
Cut ties and don’t think twice
‘Cause the morning wont make it any better

Now I feel it’s almost over
But I feel that every day
It doesn’t help if I am sober
Can’t get these thoughts to go away

Why don’t you take advice
Cut ties and don’t think twice 
‘Cause the morning wont make it any better

Photo by Mikhail Nilov on Pexels.com

Cut Ties

Lyrics:
Hanging tough but feeling low
I’m getting caught up in the throws of alcohol and cigarettes
How did you lose that party dress
I’m right down stairs 
You didn’t know
This is the place I score my blow
This is the place I score my blow

I don’t know you
Should I disown 
You’re just like me
Can’t cast a stone
In the end it’s just a show
of make believe and rock and roll

Time and space too far gone
Cannot put my finger on
Moment when it fell apart
Blackness of our bitter hearts
Led our lives into decay
We are the same what can I say
We are the same what can I say

Everything will be alright
It’s just another wasted night
When we finally make it through
You’ll be with me and I’ll be with you
You’ll be with me and i’ll be with you

I don’t know you
should I disown 
You’re just like me
Can’t cast a stone
In the end it’s just a show
of make believe and rock and roll
In the end it’s just a show
of make believe and rock and roll


Photo by Pixabay: https://www.pexels.com/photo/smoke-59810/

Cast A Stone

Lyrics:
Pretty lights, magazines
Red carpet, cocaine dreams
Fancy cars, diamond rings
Look at me, the next big thing

Everything it goes astray
Who we are what we claim
I am just a broken fool
But here’s the rub
So are you 
So are you

Casting couch they had their way
For every part you had to pay
Salvation for a minor role
Lies confused, truth untold

Everything it goes astray
Who we are what we claim
I am just a broken fool
But here’s the rub
So are you 
So are you

Turned out trick
That was you are
A faded, washed up D-list star
But in you mind you are one
That lit the world just like the sun

Everything it goes astray
Who we are what we claim
I am just a broken fool
But here’s the rub
So are you 
Here’s the rub so are you


\Photo by Redrecords ©️: https://www.pexels.com/photo/unknown-celebrity-wearing-black-dress-carrying-black-leather-bag-2446570/

So Are You

I never know exactly what I think I know
I've been caught up, strung out, and passed out on the floor
I pick myself up, if I'm lucky, find the door
But in these days of muted grays, I'm not exactly sure now

I keep my head low
I keep my head low
I keep my head low
I keep my head low

I never see exactly what I think I see
Was she with him, was I with her, or you with me?
Caught in a dream, the social scene, it's all a lie
A flash of light and broken teeth, let's take a ride

I keep my head low
I keep my head low
I keep my head low
I keep my head low

I never know exactly what I think I know
I've been caught up, strung out, and passed out on the floor
I pick myself up, if I'm lucky, find the door
But in these days of muted grays, I'm not exactly sure now

I keep my head low
I keep my head low
I keep my head low
I keep my head low


Photo: Huebert World on Pexels https://www.pexels.com/photo/grayscale-photography-of-space-3213982/

Head Low

Lyrics:
Take my hand 
baby come with me
We’re going to the ocean 
where we’ll be free
And if we sink to the bottom
as we try to swim
We’ll fill up our lungs and do it again

Feel the water 
so warm and blue
It draws you in 
as you push on through
So you ride the wave 
just as long as you can
The wall is crashing down,  
but not your will to stand

Now I feel it
And it brings me home
Now I feel it


Photo by Oliver Sjöström: https://www.pexels.com/photo/split-shot-photo-of-the-ocean-1074505/

Swim

Lyrics:
I can see it
Can’t quite believe it
As the mist rains down on me
I can feel it
My skin is peeling
Screaming out in agony

Hey, yeah, yeah
The end is coming too soon
Though we try, it’s all lies
There is nothing but doom
Close the blinds, seal the doors
But it fills up the room
Blistered lungs, melting flesh
No one’s immune

Hold in my last breath
As I fight off death
An exercise in futility
Hands on my mouth now
Hoping that somehow
You will hear my final plea

My mind is racing
Not yet embracing
That this end will set me free
Nothing to do now
My body breaks down
Such a pointless destiny

Final Plea

Lyrics:
Sometimes love’s a fire
sometimes it’s a ghost
And when we lose desire
it’s when we need it most
I never saw it coming
Well, that’s a lie
Blame it all on distractions
Such is life

Every story has an end
And it is there that we transcend
A deeper meaning of who we are
And in this loss we come so far

Now I sit here thinking
of what could have been
If only I would have listened
instead of digging in
Try to solve the problems
instead of letting be
(why can’t I let it be)
There is more in silence
It often holds the key

Fire image: Photo by Adonyi Gábor
https://www.pexels.com/photo/red-and-orange-fire-1558916/

Love's The Fire

Lyrics:
If you don’t feel nothing,
Why don’t you leave?
The time that we wasted
Well I really can’t concieve
What we held onto
I thought was our fate
If I could find a silver lining,
I would wait

Try to hold onto
things that we said
Then I remember
it was only in my head

Give me answer
Tell me a lie
Make me feel better 
Won’t you help me reconcile
All of these feelings
eat away at my pride
Am I just a play thing
that you’re taking for a ride?

Try to hold onto
Things that we said
Then I remember
It was only in my head

Wake in the morning
Truth shows up too soon
The rise and fall 
The violent sun and killing moon
Reach out to something 
I know it isn’t there
The silver lining
dissipates into the air

Every now and then
Every now and then
I can finally start to breathe

Silver Lining

Lyrics:
I was here a time or two
didn’t act or follow through
time to lay the hammer down
bare the truth of what we found

Every time I see your face
caught up in the killing grace

Nothing but a sacred cow
time to bring the hammer down
drop the beast unto it’s knees
slice it’s throat and watch it bleed

Every time I see your face
caught up in the killing grace
Everytime is see your face
I see my own with such disgrace

In the Earth a six foot grave
the more I dig the more it caves
pretty soon I’m trapped inside
the golden calf begins to rise

Every time I see your face
caught up in the killing grace
Everytime is see your face
I see my own with such disgrace

Now I’m gone and so are you
parasites, fogotten few
we weren’t meant to stick around
that’s why they brought the hammer down

Every time I see your face
Every time I see your face

Killing Grace

Lyrics:
On the day I met you,
I really didn't see
The fundamental chaos,
In what was meant to be.

You're like a roller coaster,
Hitting breakneck speed,
The fall is getting closer,
Crashing down, and I can't breathe.

I'll buy another ticket,
Hell, I'll take them all,
The only thing we have in life,
Is the rise before the fall.

You're like a roller coaster,
Hitting breakneck speed,
The fall is getting closer,
Crashing down, and I can't breathe.

Don't know why I like it,
This feeling deep inside,
Something that I can't shake,
I need another ride.

You're like a roller coaster,
Hitting breakneck speed,
The fall is getting closer,
Crashing down, and I can't breathe.

The ride is finally over,
Time to go again,
I cut back onto the line,
It is here where it begins.

You're like a roller coaster,
Hitting breakneck speed,
The fall is getting closer,
Crashing down, and I can't breathe.

Thank you:
Photo by Wolfram K: https://www.pexels.com/photo/london-s-eye-digital-wallpaper-804115/

Roller Coaster

Lyrics
Hey yeah
I’m falling down
with all you said 
that's gone around
and how I treated you so bad
I never meant to make you sad

I told you before
and I’ll tell you again
that I like you a lot
but we’re better off friends
and it's bringing me down
and making me think 
what I really need now
is a couple of drinks

I don't know 
what to do
All of these feelings 
misconstrued
You're the one who called me up
but I could never fill your cup

I hope
that it goes well
But only space 
and time will tell
Second guessing what I did
And now I have to live with it

Couple a Drinks

Lyrics:
They say
Time don't wait for anybody
I know it doesn't wait for me

When I rise
Try to make a good impression
But I know it's lost on thee

Oh yeah
Caught up in the misdirection
Got me thinking you're runnin' around

When I see
The emptiness in your reflection
Got me thinking you're runnin' round

Try again
Focus on a new beginning
But I know we're at the end

Too late
All I had was good intentions
But they’re not enough to mend

Runnin Around

Lyrics:
Time will tell, I know it's here
Strike a match, fill me with fear
It's getting dark, blow out the light
It's coming soon, but I feel alright

Guilty, like I was before
I paid with flesh, but you want more
You bind my hands behind my back
On full display upon the rack
and the whip does crack
and the whip does crack

Feel your breath upon my skin
A cold embrace and it begins
The rapture and the end of time
Complete chaos but I'm feeling fine

Guilty

Lyrics:
Broken down and given up
Hate could never fill my cup
But in you I find enough
My new messiah 

I don't care just what they say
I’Il take it all so come what may
And in the end there’s hell to pay
For my new messiah 

Won’t you take me down
When you come around
Won't you take me down
When you come around 

Crying out in ancient tongues
In your name my will be done
I have found the chosen one
My new messiah 

Cursed just like the Book of Job
A simple bet for pain untold
In the end I came to know
My new messiah 

Won’t you take me down
When you come around
Won't you take me down
When you come around 

So in you I leave my fate
Who I am and what I make
Witness as you change your shape
My new messiah 

Now the doubt it eats within
Cognizant of my last sin
On your face I see a grin
My new messiah

New Messiah

A/V Cult are long time friends and music fans who enjoy writing music together - mostly alternative rock. Dave and Glenn grew up about six houses down the street from each other in Northern Virginia (outside of DC) and have been best friends for ages. They met John in the early 90s when he joined the band Dave, Glenn, John Truesdell, and Kay Lightfoot started called Killing Beethoven. Life happened, they moved on with careers and families but always stayed close.  They started writing music together again a few years ago and decided to start posting it as A/V Cult

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