The Concrete Confessional

Looking Down the Barrel of Today

Demanufacture

Replica

Obsolete

Shock

Bowing to the chains
Screaming for a leash
Licking boots
Your cries never cease
A hollow drone
The swarm aligns
Crawling in filth
Begging for signs

Useful Idiot

[Verse]
Shadows crawl in the flood's black eye
Empty streets whisper why why why
Drip drip drip like a clock gone mad
Time's not real it's all we've had

[Chorus]
The drowned and the damned
They rise they stand
Hands like claws
They drag the land
The drowned and the damned

[Verse 2]
Broken glass beneath the waves
Shattered lives fill shallow graves
Can you hear the silence scream
Waking from this fevered dream

[Prechorus]
Cold hands reaching
Dark tides teaching

[Chorus]
The drowned and the damned
They rise they stand
Hands like claws
They drag the land
The drowned and the damned

[Bridge]
Breath stolen breath stolen breath stolen
Heart frozen heart frozen heart frozen
Echoes echo echoes echo
Nothing left but hollow hollow

The Drowned and the Damned.mp3

[Intro]

(Allahu Akbar / Basmala)
ٱللَّهُ أَكْبَرُ
Allāhu akbar
Allah + greater → “God is greatest”
Lit. God is greatest.

بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
Bismi llāhi r-raḥmāni r-raḥīm
In + name + of Allah + the Merciful + the Compassionate
Lit. In the name of God, the Most Merciful, the Compassionate.

2:286 (fragment)
لَا يُكَلِّفُ ٱللَّهُ نَفْسًا إِلَّا وُسْعَهَا
Lā yukallifu llāhu nafsan illā wus‘ahā
Not + burdens/charges + Allah + a soul + except + its capacity
Lit. God does not burden a soul beyond its capacity.

[Verse 1]

13:11 (fragment)
إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ لَا يُغَيِّرُ مَا بِقَوْمٍ حَتَّىٰ يُغَيِّرُوا۟ مَا بِأَنفُسِهِمْ
Inna llāha lā yughayyiru mā biqawmin ḥattā yughayyirū mā bi’anfusihim
Indeed + Allah + not + changes + what + in a people + until + they change + what + in themselves
Lit. Indeed, God does not change the condition of a people until they change what is in themselves.

53:39
وَأَن لَّيْسَ لِلْإِنسَـٰنِ إِلَّا مَا سَعَىٰ
Wa-an laysa lil-insāni illā mā sa‘ā
And that + not + for man + except + what + he strives for
Lit. And that man will have nothing except what he strives for.

[Chorus]

99:7
فَمَن يَعْمَلْ مِثْقَالَ ذَرَّةٍ خَيْرًا يَرَهُ
ۥFaman ya‘mal mithqāla dharratin khayran yarahū
So whoever + does + weight of + atom + good + he will see it
Lit. So whoever does an atom’s weight of good will see it.

99:8
وَمَن يَعْمَلْ مِثْقَالَ ذَرَّةٍۢ شَرًّا يَرَهُۥ
Waman ya‘mal mithqāla dharratin sharran yarahū
And whoever + does + weight of + atom + evil + he will see it
Lit. And whoever does an atom’s weight of evil will see it.

(x2)

[Verse 2]

6:164 (fragment)
وَلَا تَزِرُ وَازِرَةٌۭ وِزْرَ أُخْرَىٰ
Wa-lā taziru wāziratun wizra ukhrā
And not + bears + bearer of burden + burden + of another
Lit. And no bearer of burdens shall bear the burden of another.

42:30 (fragment)
وَمَآ أَصَـٰبَكُم مِّن مُّصِيبَةٍۢ فَبِمَا كَسَبَتْ أَيْدِيكُمْ
Wa-mā aṣābakum min muṣībatin fabimā kasabat aydīkum
And whatever + strikes you + of misfortune + then by what + earned + your hands
Lit. And whatever misfortune strikes you, it is because of what your own hands have earned.

[Chorus]
(repeats 99:7–8 exactly as above)

[Bridge]

39:9 (fragment)
قُلْ هَلْ يَسْتَوِى ٱلَّذِينَ يَعْلَمُونَ وَٱلَّذِينَ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ
Qul hal yastawī alladhīna ya‘lamūna wa-alladhīna lā ya‘lamūn
Say + is/are equal + those who + know + and those who + not + know
Lit. Say: Are those who know equal to those who do not know?
(x2)

[Chorus / Outro]
(repeats 99:7–8)

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