Barricage's Vocal Tracks

Eight Circle of Hell (the mind of the manipulator) 

(A.k.a I am Legion for we are many)

Rational Idols
And national bibles
A latch for the tied up
And cash for my soul

...

My eyes
Derive lies
From the pinkish skies
That surround the goodbyes
At the end of another night

Plenty times
I survived
Atop a hill, a light
When its time to improvise 
The summaries I surmise 

A disguise
Again... Lies
Maybe my demise
As I watch from above
Like ants, them living their lives

Perhaps I hide behind 
The scenes I analyze
What seems to comprise
A machine I can't find
Now...

...

I simulate my life
But can't read most the code
Pull the strings on all the toys
Maybe it's why I come off as cold

Once the girls and the boys
Now the women and the men
I appease them all I can
Everyone's number one fan

So where's my prize?
I played the game just as was told
To control the young in ploys
And reap the souls of the old

Swirl the tongue with a noise
Just to lie right through my teeth
Decide to slide the blame
To some name from underneath

...

They must be fascists
Thinking they can unmask this
Impeccable costume 
I spent decades perfecting





///////////2023

Eighth Circle of Hell (the mind of the manipulator) [Demo]

Helm


A one way ticket to another land
Alone displays the limits, who you are and where
Flashing lights are all blue and red
Might...
Excuse the abuse that the soul demands 

Reduced to a number, once a dreamer now an ant
Follow the queues to the trains that will lead you there
Taking flight, write a prayer for your mind to prepare 
Open the gates in a place to be strapped to a chair

[Pre]
And tap out...
And type away...
What looks back at ya in the mirror
Ain't what it used to be...
A tribal way...
Devours all to see until there is...

[Chorus] 
Nothing
Nothing there?
In the void of personality
That you call yourself
Knock-knock...
Someone there?
Once you join the new morality
You'll sit in a shelf!

Decide...
What will...
Be my brand new flag
My father's dead...
And so is my land

The Nation-State
The final frontier, at last
In case I struggle
To forget the past

The screen I see
So blinding!
Beliefs it'll preach
Remind me
To redeem my mind
Must collide with
The lines sold on discount
By the talking heads


[Pre]
And tap out...
And type away...
What looks back at ya in the mirror
Ain't what it used to be...
A tribal way...
Devours all to see until there is...

[Chorus] 
Nothing
Nothing there?
In the void of personality
That you call yourself
Knock-knock...
Someone there?
Once you join the new morality
You'll sit in a shelf!

[Bridge]

[Chorus][2x] 
Nothing
Nothing there?
In the void of personality
That you call yourself
Knock-knock...
Someone there?
Once you join the new morality
You'll sit in a shelf!

///////////2023

Helm [Demo]

Lyrics:

Pace the painting
So frustrating 
Debase the thinking
And drown the babies - Down by the river
Persuading
Confidently conflating
We're debating
Though there's no control to anything we're saying


[Chorus]
The rivers of damned souls
Flow by me
The sins of long forgone
Enemies


Televising me
I've crippled my fantasies 
You are no master to me
I can bring myself to my own knees
The keys to guarantees 
No longer mine to seize
Degrees beg for expertise 
As dreams sail away with the passing breeze


[Chorus]
The rivers of damned souls
Flow by me
The sins of long forgone
Enemies

[Solo]

[Chorus]
The rivers of damned souls
Flow by me
The sins of long forgone
Enemies

[Solo]

///////////2024

Down By The River [Demo]

Sea of Red


...Takes me
So far and far and far
Until we're all alone 
...Breaks me
It's what I sought
I hate - I love it now, I gotta...


Make it funky
Promise that you'll love me
Sing me a song 
So I can forget the worries, baby

They can see right through me
Telling you to rule me
The lifeboat keeps on rowing
Sailing us to - nowhere

Pain in me always
Sending me the wrong waves
Been stacking forays
Into a toxic embrace

A single room - maybe
Can assume, a tomb, baby
Resume the bloom
Welcoming as the womb
The way she...


...Takes me
So far and far and far
Into my all alone
...Rapes me
It's what I sought
I sinned - I followed, now, I gotta...
...Test me
So I fall, I fall, I fall
Up in a ladder
...Remake me
Into my own distinctive plot
But now I'm gonna...


Start it Monday 
Might not be soon, but not late
Got me loving to make
'Til when tomorrow's yesterday

Sing a serenade
Somebody wrote for me
Might aid to bay the ache away
Somewhere... Another day...


...Brings me
To a farce, a far away
Cave of my own
And it Rapes me
It's what I sought
I sinned - I loved it, now, I gotta...
...Test me
So I fall, I fall
Further into tomorrow
...Shape me
Into my own role
I direct it and I wrote it all



///////////2024

My Oasis pt.1 (Sea of Red) [Demo]

Lyrics:

The Trap Rock... The Philosopher

Forget who you are
Forget who you've been
This is your world now
This is your end

Don't expect remorse
Don't cry for help
A hole dug by yourself, yeah
This is your hell

These people around you
Their eyes are holes
Gets you so scared
That yours are closed

You know you can't see
Beyond these eyes
You'll only hear your words, ha
Even the lies

You've jumped head first
Into quicksand
Off the mud you Maggot!
And fight like a man

Other doors are shut, so
Break through the wall
Walk the path you chose, son
It's all your fault

Your time's running out
You better know that
What you wanna do
Flee or you gonna act?

You better find yourself
Before you get lost
Surrounded by a crowd, huh?
But at what cost?

You're stuck here in this cave 
Along with everybody else
You love to point out their flaws
But you can't see them in yourself

You pretend you are a saint
And that you don't follow your lust
But you know well that in the end
It's ash to ash... And dust to dust

Aye
Don't give one damn about our ways
The prisons of tomorrow are our cellphone screens today
Understand, and don't forget the things that you were told
Bend them to your will and finally find your soul
Sooner'r'later you will figure out what it takes
To finally accept that those around you are snakes
You'll come to terms on how you don't got a clue
When you get to learn that so are you





///////////2020

barricage

The Trap Rock (The Philosopher)

The Trap Rock... The Philosopher [Remix]

2013- 
SAMENESS IS LAMENESS
Lyrics in descriptions (We advise you read along)
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We bet you $10 to find anything on soundcloud that sounds like our stuff

Dave writes lyricz and Lex writes the riffs

also theyre all works in progress

Also, instrumentals will only be in the Tracks page (though we know nobody cares about those anyways)