The Potter Has No Hands Cover

"The Potter Has No Hands" (Norma Jean Cover)

Small, weak, living in a shell
Mind racing with fear of the unknown
And I asked the air to be my father
Saw the others do this too
I grasped at straws, and all His people answered
"His blood be on us and on our children"

I was so afraid of their power over me
I tried to hate them
To fashion a sword out of my mind to keep at the ready
Thoughts to end it all still just as sharp
Betrayal, and the guilt of that, seeping through my armor
Hatred of others, of the world, and of goodness itself
But love grew inside that well of sorrow
A seed that would germinate in the depths of my being
And see to it that my fears would begin to fade

A man once doubted
The world moves on
The world moves on

Recovery

No more traces of life in this love
Helpless to resent time well wasted

Go back to the time when we loved one another in ways that were practically healthy
Hope despite the evidence lingering, telling us that our days were numbered

Lie down beside me, not far
We can make believe under the stars
There will probably be some uncomfortable moments if we're committed to this forever
And at every corner we turn
There's a cost to the habits we learned
Boring down into the underground, into the underground we will become

And now the "light"
We always thought we'd get much farther
I wanted you for years
I will love you until I die and then in whatever comes next, but we can't

Go back to the time when we loved one another in ways that were practically healthy
Hope despite the evidence lingering, telling us that our days were numbered
Young until the end
We were practically living
Hope until it went
When we were young and stupid

The halfhearted way that I loved you
Dishonestly clenching the status quo
Averting my eyes as the clock runs down
As it runs down

No more traces of life in this love
Helpless to resent time well wasted
I'm the only one I argue with now
I'm the only one I battle with now
Only ghosts, only ghosts

Go back to the time when we loved one another in ways that were practically healthy
Hope despite the evidence lingering, telling us that our days were numbered
Go back to the time when we loved one another in ways that were practically healthy
Hope despite the evidence lingering, telling us that our days were numbered
Young until the end
We were practically living

Hope until it went
Hope until it went

The Picture of Health

I believed in something
That something's really nothing
Played pretend in the streets but in my bed there's no one
Why is it so damn hard to make friends as an adult?
Childish behavior is how I even got this far
Now skip past the awkward part and get a grip on the belt loops of your own big boy pants
There's something kind of hot about you when you're upset
Yeah there's something 'bout that honesty
I'm probably done

All the way down
We're partying up in this place, the Devil's pretty cool to be around
It's the sound
A motion trailing from our ears into the ground
It's lit now
I believed in something, that something's really nothing
But in the end, when my gig's up, I'll scream it loud
It's the sound
It's a stampede of the buffalo variety and when it comes there's only one decision on the table

We lost touch in the summer
Can't hardly take this permanence I never felt
Resuscitate a conviction I didn't want
This isn't great it's going on for far too long

Mind left long ago and all that's left is ransomware
Taking turns just hitting skip again and again
Being patient's getting old, I'm wanting a fix
I'm trapped in a chemical hell
By and by, the days peel off, it's blurring, oh it's
Blurring oh it's, it's blurring oh it's
Let's go back and do it over again
I can't take this joke, it's wearing me thin, it's wearing me

I believed in something
That something's really nothing
Played pretend in the streets but in my bed there's no one
Why is it so damn hard to make friends as an adult?
Childish behavior is how I even got this far
Skip past the awkward part and get a grip on the belt loops of your own big boy pants
There's something kind of hot about you when you're upset
There's something 'bout your honesty

Get it, get it down
We're making shit bump in this place, making a goddamn mockery of you
And we're proud
Caught between duplicity and artifice
Now it's on the table, lightning rod for all your fables
All along I've been digging a hole
Now it's on the table, power saw you could disable me
Even more than I already am

(Try your best)
Try to kill me
Try to take me down
Give it all you've got
I don't wanna be found
Try your best
Try your best

I believed in something
That something's really nothing
Played pretend in the streets but in my bed there's no one
Why is it so damn hard to make friends as an adult?
Childish behavior is how I even got this far
Now skip past the awkward part and get a grip on the belt loops of your own big boy pants
There's something kind of hot about you when you're upset
Yeah there's something 'bout that honesty
I'm probably done
I'm probably done

Damn, We're in a Tight Spot

Lighting the room up in ecstasy
Pulling out entropic empathy from the air
Tethering everyone's minds to the thought
Of copacetic matrimony
(Copacetic matrimony)

And all at once he held the sun in his arms
There was a solar flare that burned a hole inside of his heart
The end obscuring view from all of the means
But it was copacetic matrimony

Years of waking up and hating what you see in the mirror
Well it's time for you to exchange your suffering for beauty
Life is more than what you want it to be
But don't close your eyes for the last time tonight

The space between the voids in our hearts
The tether is broken
(We're falling apart)

Do you remember love?

And all at once he held the sun to the ground
Choking life out of the only good thing he'd ever found
The end obscuring view from all of the means, but it was meant to be
(But it was meant to be)
(Meant to be)
And all at once he held the sun in his arms
There was a solar flare that burned a hole inside of his heart
(In matrimony)
The end obscuring view from all of the means, but it was holy
(Not looking back, I'm not looking back)

The space between the voids in our hearts
The tether is broken, the tether is broken
The space between the voids in our hearts
The tether is broken, we're falling apart

I Felt Like Destroying Something Beautiful

Wounds that will never heal
I've tried to make an excuse for why
How this will be all okay
The words that we say, muttered in an ignorant haze

Break the peace
There's no time for hiding safe and sound
And I don't give any god damns
I refuse to hide what I believe is true
Set the world on fire
Unless the current state falls, inequality is policy
And I won't hold back my fuckin' tongue
This system has got to burn, and I hope I live to see it
These voices aren't being heard
These memories will be lost like piss in the wind
Like spitting in the rain

So do you think for yourself?

Wake up
We will take it back
The seed of annihilation
Wake up
We will take it back
The seed of annihilation

And in this moment
Inject love and common sense into the world
Replace the status quo
Before your chance to recognize and reconcile is snuffed the fuck out
Take it back
Unless the current state falls, inequality is policy
Take it back
Take it back, take it back
Wake up
Wake up the fuck up
(Wake up)
Replace the status quo
(Wake up)
The seed
(The seed)
Of annihilation
The growers of annihilation

Hot Snakes

Take all of it down
Northern lights dancing all my life flashing
Make something else now
No one else can predict the future like
You just wrote a really bad song
Write a new one, make it have some goodbye glum
No one else can predict the future like you

And they say, "Bottles sucked down dry can cure the pain"
But it's too late
I'm hanging off the bridge with only an arm
Like marbles colliding I'm still uninviting
My best skill is that I can choke on my own saliva
Now there's surely a fire escape that I can take, I can take

Bring me peace that I can hold onto
Safely arriving where I belong
Nothing in the world is just like you
Nothing in the world is just like you

Fake, holding it down
Making damn sure that girl over there sees you strut like a penguin, emperor
Emperor, emperor

And they say, "Bottles sucked down dry can cure the pain"
But it's too late
I'm hanging off that bridge with only an arm

Bring me peace that I can hold onto
Safely arriving where I belong
Nothing in the world is just like you
(Nothing's good enough)
Nothing in the world is just like you
(Nothing's good enough for me)
And I'm trying to make you see
Nothing's good enough for me

No one else can see her eyes on me
And no one else can hear the song she sings
I'm tired of lying
This is something I already can't ignore
It's like the stars have aligned overhead
I'm ready to try now as I feel my fucking heart beating out of my chest, out of my chest
I'm tired of lying
This is something I already can't ignore
It's like the stars have aligned overhead
I'm ready to try now as I feel my fucking heart beating out of my chest, out of my chest

My heart skipped
My vision cleared
My heart skipped
My vision cleared

Bring me peace that I hold onto
Safely arriving where I belong
No one else can see her eyes on me
(Nothing's good enough for me)
No one else can hear the song she sings
(Nothing's good enough but you)
Nothing in the world is just like you
I saw the light
Nothing in the world is just like you

You're Not Jesus! You're Bob!

Lights out, the fade comes quick
There's no warning behind it
The control was ripped out
No solace now
Left my love for a short while, I'll be coming back
But control ripped out
Times opens up and I'm plucked from the earth

And all I remember is the boat tipping
And we're capsizing
Life flashing before my eyes
Far from my one and only saving grace
Don't even have the time to realize that I will never see her again

And now the tides pull in
But you'll never find me lying cold and stiff upon the rocks
I'm only known to the salted depths now

And all I remember is the boat tipping
And we're capsizing
Life flashing before my eyes
Far from my one and only saving grace
Don't even have the time to realize that I will never see her again

And when the courage isn't quite enough to hold on
And when the current's plenty strong enough, you can't fight it
I didn't wake up expecting to say goodbye
I didn't wake up expecting to say "I won't leave, no, I won't slumber"

And when I move on, will it be bittersweet?
Tides push and pull, but you'll never find me
And when I move on, will it be bittersweet?
Remove my hand from her face; she can't feel me

Well Well Well, How The Turntables...

And you said I wouldn't run
As you're holding the gun
I've been tryna believe
Here you are again trying to make men bleed money out of their eyes
You wanna prowl like a lion
Yellow Versace top hanging on plumes like an atom bomb
This marrow is black and blue, but I can see right through

Breathe in smoke now I can barely breathe
Your cold hands keeping me awake and scared of letting down my guard for too long
Breathe in smoke now I can barely breathe
Your cold hands keeping me awake and scared of letting down my guard
I've been dead all along
But all you see

Breaking down the beating down the walls
I've been breaking down the
Breaking down the beating down the walls
Violent prescribin' this body's municipal
And we're breaking down we're beating down we're breaking down the walls

Just when I thought I'd take a breather, there is more of this shit
It never ends, it never ends
Broken glass and beating down and breaking down the walls
It never ends, when will it end?

Breathe in smoke now I can barely breathe
(Said I wouldn't run)
Your cold hands keeping me awake and scared of letting down my guard
(As you're holding the gun)
I've been dead all along
But all you can see

From the summer til the end of the year
How did it get this far?
To losing time
I didn't mean to try
I didn't mean to try
I didn't mean, I didn't mean

Break the ties
Save this life
Put the gun down
Break the ties
(Breathe in smoke now, I can barely breathe)
Time rewinds
(Your cold hands keeping me awake and scared of)
Put the gun down
And you said I wouldn't run

...And We're Here to Make You Think About Death and Get Sad and Stuff

Back and forth
Tides they change
Take away
Take away
Back and forth, my mind runs in circles
I have no control anymore
They never lived in violent days, they never lived
Up and down with no destination
I have no center anymore
On an upswing, got enough bling
I want to practice what I preach

But it’s in the rain
Maybe I’m crazy
Sitting around and being swallowed up by all your needs and worries
While you ring up another one
An addict, you’re an addict

Pray the sun obliterates today and makes ya rock hard
Something’s scratching my mental, a certain impulse: Apollyon
I’m just trying to stay alive

Je suis déraciné
Arraché à l'appartenance
Trouverai-je jamais l'endroit
Où j'ai un but et du confort

Back and forth, my mind runs in circles
I have no control anymore
The caustic rain, inches per day, collects under the golden tower
In and out, I’m caught in the waves
Is this what my life is now?
They never lived in violent days

But it’s in the rain
Maybe I’m crazy
An addict, you’re addict

All in your head, walking ‘round dead, inside you’re a fucking mess
Praying that the end of days will come
What’s wrong with you?
(What’s wrong with me?)

Mental jail I didn’t ask for it to lock me down inside a rollercoaster
The theme of this theme park is to keep outsiders out because it is too brutal
(You’re alone)

It makes so much sense, it makes so much sense

It makes so much sense, it makes so much sense, it makes so much sense
It doesn’t make any sense at all

Fractured revelations ahead
I’m gonna get there

But it’s in the rain
Maybe I’m crazy
Sitting around and being

Take the pills, pretend you’re healed, and wait for waves to crush you
Something is overflowing under the doors and out into the front yard

Mental jail I didn’t ask for it to lock me down inside a roller coaster
The theme of this theme park is to keep outsiders out because it is too brutal
Round and round there’s no way out, you best get used to nausea
Down, down, down, only further into the ground
Only further into the ground
I’m getting used to this

manic. - single

manic. (single version)

This is the second single from our debut album L'art De Mourir, scheduled to release July 28th 🖤

This is All I Am and All I'll Ever Be

Two piece post hardcore band from WI and SC.
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