Freedom means being afraid. Is life better in a cage or exposed? Discuss.

If you are ever going to learn to survive out here alone 
You’re going to have to learn to get along 
There are creatures and beasts that want to do you harm 
Just don’t forget that you’re one of them 

In the nighttime you’re scared of things you cannot see 
But do you think that they may feel the same 
If you close your eyes and make a wish 
Don’t wish for things that you’ve been before 

Remember when you were young and it wasn’t that fun and you had it in a cage 
Remember how you and me were hunting too and we found ourselves 
Looking back on a mirror in a river in a creek in the nighttime and we tried not to hide ourselves from a mirror in the river in a creek in the night time 
Oh a mirror in the river in a creek in the night time 

And now that we’re free 
Fear has become you and me

Children With Wolf Heads - 11 - Free To Fear (Goodbye, Children With Wolf Heads)

A gang of hunters get drunk on wine while roaming in the woods and come across the tracks from the Children. Slaughtering ensues. Metaphysical laments. Two survive.

Out in the hills with lantern shining bright /we traveled slowly with a pack into the night 
The woods were lit up like a Sunday afternoon/ with shadows dripping from the lonely autumn moon 
Our guts were full of spirits we could not contain/ our lungs were bathing empty pockets in the rain 
We came across some tracks that led beyond the shore/ What barefoot devils travel wildly by the score? 

Do you think its true that we will never die, or we just kind of float away? 
Or do you think we go up there or way below and simmer for eternity?
We live, the others died- where is the other side?- you and me we must be on our way… 

Illuminating things so strangely through the trees/ Deception lingers where some monster used to be 
Some blood was found and beating fast we followed through/ convinced ourselves that there was only one or two 
Our breath was short and now our bodies tense and fine/ we loaded rifles, tried to shake off all the wine 
When thunder crashed we ducked and huddled in the rain/ orange flashing lights lit up deceptively again 

Chorus 

So in our path a nightmare howling at the moon/ wild death a cunning sort do you need us so soon? 
Their bodies small and frail but heads of demon cast/ these children devils time has surely come to pass 
With god in hand and blood exploding all around/ so goes the devil back to hell they will be found 
We cut off all the heads arranged in shallow grave/ damned evil wolf heads will never linger on this way 

Chorus

Children With Wolf Heads - 10 - Do Ghosts Dream Of Death?

It's a retelling of little red riding hood, basically.

When you came to my front door 
When you came and knocked and more 
I don’t believe in you, I don’t believe in you 
When you knocked on my front door with miracles in store 
There’s nothing you can show me that I haven’t seen before 

When you came to my front door 
When you knocked or maybe more 
And you said that you were children lost and how the rain does pour 
When you came to my front door brining children lost and more 
And you said you’ve got to show me things that I’ve never seen before 

Well I have seen so many things in my life but never ones, ones like you 
And when the sun arose from bed that morning what a sight for sullen eyes 
I saw my days were fading far behind me I gave you life I gave you life 
Take it fast, leave no trace or warning they’ll come for you they will get you 
When my bones are clean, I’m no longer please let me be and rest in peace 

They told her they were hungry and they want to know 
Where her body goes when their bodies grow 
She trusted them forever but her trust was blind 
And she couldn’t bring herself to be wary in kind 
Instincts like a knife with a sharpened blade 
They knew nothing of the laws our society plays 
No slap on the wrist or taken to jail 
They don’t believe in their lives cause they’re nothing as well 
The only thing true is what their heads say they need 
(breathe) a belly full of hunger you can be sure indeed 
a constant source of fear might just keep you alive 
But don’t venture past the river by the shadows tonight 

Cause they didn’t know a friend from an enemy 

They smell the blood and it smells so nice 
and they ask the gods if it’s tonight 
When their bellies fill and their stomachs grow 
and their minds expand and they oughtta know 
If they’re only creatures and we’re animals 
is it wrong to kill when its reasonable 
Cause the only law that makes sense to them is to 
eat from the plate that is given to them

Children With Wolf Heads - 09 - What Big Teeth Pts. I & II

The debut album from Monolithic Cloud Parade, a mostly solo affair at the time. All songs, with the exception of Airplanes Full of Flames, are Corey Fry.

Children With Wolf Heads - 08 - Airplanes Full Of Flames

They come across a cave, find a monster, run away, and some die. Such is life.

The Children with wolf heads 
Are hiding in a cave 
They’re trying to be brave 
But nothing is alright 
And all around them 
They’re looking for the light 
They started hearing voices 
Saying “Do you want to fight?” 
They quivered in the corner 
And said “No thank you we’re alright” 
“That wasn’t what I asked you, 
I said do you want to fight?” 

The children with wolf heads have got to learn to fight 
The children with wolf head ran out into the night 
The children with wolf heads got to run for their life 
Now they know there’s worse things than fight 

Most of them made it out, made it out alive 
They didn’t dare look back, their fear still so bright 
Where did my friends go, into the night? 
We’re on our own again, but it’ll be alright

Children With Wolf Heads - 07 - It'll Be Alright

They died, or at least most of them did. So now they're singing about reincarnation.

I really don’t think it’s fair for us to die this way 
I really hope when I wake up it will be today 
And when all the trees collapse on us and we go to sleep 
Pretend it’s a secret place where our secrets will always keep 

And if it was up to me we’d come back again 
I’d be flying through the leaves you’d be my best friend

Children With Wolf Heads - 06 - We'd Come Back Again

Children With Wolf Heads - 05 - Feasting On Wolf Heads!

The one that started it all. They meet HER in the woods, but they don't even know about their wolf heads. How could they?

Children with wolf heads they don’t even know about their wolf heads, 
They don’t even know about their wolf heads they don’t even know 
Prey is away and sitting in the willows, away and sitting in the willows, 
Away and sitting in the willows 
She is fat and chained to the trees with an arrow, alone and naked, 
Crying out with the sparrows 

Tales of new life in death were enchanting 
As was their assurance of truth in their ranting 
Forgive me father for I have sinned 
Now grant me permission to sin again 
Forgive me father for I have sinned 
Now grant me permission to sin once again 

She knows how she got there, knows it's her fault, 
Knows it was stupid to believe in the cult 
The fault rests on her for believing at all, 
When belief exists only to pacify the wrong 
She wants no forgiveness for the choices she's made, 
She's ready to accept death and end the masquerade 
Children with wolf heads, the children with wolf heads, the children with wolf heads, 
They don’t even know but they don’t want to go

Children With Wolf Heads - 04 - Children With Wolf Heads

Children With Wolf Heads - 03 - The Forest

A taste of freedom, fuzzy and two chords.

Are we dangerous, are we bizarre, growing up in a cage but we traveled so far 
At the first sign of freedom we made our escape and the world was reborn and we got our first taste 
There wasn’t a path leading into the woods but we tore through the trees and it felt so good 
Inside and out of our lungs moved our lives and we took up some space and we were alive 

Running and pumping our blood flowing fast never look back again that old life is surpassed 
Clawing and clutching and breaking abounds with our tongues in the water and voices all around 
It wasn’t a shock to see you as me when the moon lit the creek that we saw through the trees 
It seems we’re all one and we’re in this together and now I believe we will live forever

Children With Wolf Heads - 02 - We Are Alive We Will Live Forever

The first song from the Children With Wolf Heads album announces the story with an intro that has been described as a "descent into guitar hell." Then the song proper begins, detailing the escape from normalcy (a traveling freak show wagon caravan) and into the wild unknown.

It can be very frightening, running and then hiding 
I’m glad that you’re here with me to keep out the monsters and ghosts
When we made a run for who knew we were going to survive 
But all of us are stronger together than god is alive 
And did you stop to look back I was too scared of the sun 
It rises on the men and exposes our flesh to them 

And all the things we used to be were left for who we are 

What was the noise up on the pass, where the mountains turn to grass? 
We were the guts of that machine at least until it spit us out 
Suddenly there was a scream but no bars to keep us in 
So like a cancer to a cell we took to the earth and destroyed 
And like a river overflows we took it whole 

And all the things we used to be were left for who we are

Children With Wolf Heads - 01 - All The Things We Used To Be

Recorded in the middle room at the house on Pacemont. Drums recorded at Robert's house. This is the second full-length release from Monolithic Cloud Parade and first as a full band.

Monolithic Cloud Parade is, on this album, Robert(drums), Damien Pyles (lead guitar/noises), Brandon Isabell (trumpet, keyboard), Darrin Wesenberg (bass), and Corey Fry (everything else). All songs written by Corey Fry. Lucas Conklin played bass on Track 2.

The Sea And Setting Sun

The Sea And Setting Sun - 12 - Gravity Vs The Moon

The Sea And Setting Sun - 11 - All of My Blood

The Sea And Setting Sun - 10 - Six Arms

The Sea And Setting Sun - 09 - In the Shadow of the Mountains

The Sea And Setting Sun - 08 - Colourful

The Sea And Setting Sun - 07 - The Sea And Setting Sun

The Sea And Setting Sun - 06 - Decoding the Monuments

The Sea And Setting Sun - 05 - Adventurer

The Sea And Setting Sun - 04 - Cowboy

The Sea And Setting Sun - 03 - Empty Vessels

The Sea And Setting Sun - 02 - The Moon Fell Into the Sea

The Sea And Setting Sun - 01 - A New Ice Age

This album was originally intended to be released in 2010. The middle four songs were written after we were asked by Alex Douglas, guitar player for Columbus/Athens band She Bears, if he could record us as part of one of his final projects for his audio engineering course work. So we went into the studio for the first time, tried to record all these songs, and they came out less than we expected because we ran out of time. So we sat on them and then decided to do something with them, so we re-recorded them at the old house on Pacemont and did the drums in Robert's basement again. Hopefully they are better now.

Damien: Lead guitar on The Boy, Sunrise Reset, Mountains Were a Dream and The Podium Was Empty. 
Darrin: Bass on all but Carpenteria. 
Kevin: Drums on all but The Boy and Carpenteria. 
Corey: Everything else.

Sunrise Reset EP - 06 - Carpenteria

Sunrise Reset EP - 05 - The Podium Was Empty

Sunrise Reset EP - 04 - Mountains Were A Dream

Sunrise Reset EP - 03 - Sunrise Reset

Sunrise Reset EP - 02 - Soldiers On Parade

Sunrise Reset EP

Sunrise Reset EP - 01 - The Boy

We are a band that used to be alive but are now dead.  Check out our new project Sunrise Reset. http://soundcloud.com/sunrise-reset

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