This song is about learning to let go of personal control... struggling with yourself, your inner demons, your inner saboteur, not letting them win, but negotiating with them. When we let go, there is a release of energy that allows us to relax and evolve.

LYRICS:
Black sky kissing the ocean
You call my name
The calm before the storm
Out goes my flame!

CHORUS:
I drown in your waves
Crashing down, down, down
I am surrendering... drifting
Down down, down, down

I choke on your water
I thrash and I fight
You whisper... let go...
Your current holds me tight

CH x1

Aimlessly
Weightlessly
Painlessly
Fearlessly

Your dark, cold embrace
I'm turning bloated and blue
Your deadly caress
I am beyond rescue!

CH x2

The Box

Let Go

Inspired by the Polish/Slavic myth of the Rusałka, a female water spirit, the underlying message of this song reflects on the rights of women to find individual strength to fight back and not depend on anyone else to "save" them, both sexually and intellectually.

LYRICS:

CHORUS:
Violent... violent death.
Who is gonna avenge me?
I can't cross to the Otherworld,
Until you avenge me.

Unclean spirit,
I dance in the water.
My siren song,
I am your charmer.
Wade in to me,
I'll lead you astray.
I want to love you,
But you are my prey.

CH x2

Hair like eels,
Are coiling around you.
Embrace so fatal,
Because I love you.
I'm pulling you under,
Love's lost its meaning.
I take your life... HA!
While you're still pleading.

Ruuuuu-saaaaał-kaaaa x4

Violent death!
Who will avenge me?
I can't cross!
Until you avenge me!

Who will avenge me? x2

Rusałka

Everyone has heard the expression, "to open Pandora's box"... which is essentially when we do something that triggers a lot of other problems to appear that did not exist or were not known of before. This song is inspired by the Greek myth of Pandora in Hesiod's "Works and Days".

However, the song is not influenced solely on the myth, is it a comment on our individual responsibility, also as a collective, a community, to take a look at our actions, the words we use and our impact on everyone and everything around us. To stop the chain reaction of the destruction of our planet, the subjugation of all humans - fight war not wars, to protect those without a voice - animal rights, to end sexism, racism, bigotry, homophobia, colonialism, white privilege, fascism, nazism, capitalistic oppression and domination.

STOP THE HATE!

LYRICS:
This precious gift that I've received.
I do not see I've been deceived.
I wonder what's bestowed to me.
And you are good at make-believe.

Seduction lives inside this box.
Its secrets hide behind no locks.
An ugly truth in dark disguise.
Empty beauty to mesmerize.

Pandora x2

I have succumb to temptation.
I've looked inside at flirtation.
But now I see it is too late.
To open it has sealed my fate.

A box of evil I've released.
Curiosity has unleashed the beast.
Upon the world this pain will spread.
I've set in motion a curse of dread.

Pandora...

With a little nod in the direction of Orwell's "1984" for the title, this song is about the use and affects of the Propaganda Machine. Our rights as humans. That we stand up collectively and not be blinded and so easily coerced by everything mass media presents to us. Do your research, find the facts.

STAND UNIFIED!

LYRICS:
One by one,
Fall in line.
Thirst for power.
Manipulating minds.

CHORUS:
How can you be satisfied?
They will always misguide.
Information falsified.
We must stand unified!

Speak the truth,
Beguiling silver tongue.
Freedom of choice,
Between right and wrong.
Emotional response,
Is what they need.
Don't listen to reason,
It's a social disease.

CH x1

Preach slick politics.
Media for the masses.
Lying by omission.
Fear for low classes.
Conditioned thoughts.
Stay with the pack.
Conformist propaganda,
Gives selective facts.

CH x1

Truthspeak

Both of these singles are a comment on war. A gruesome disregard for human life that never seems to end for some people and something some of our so called "leaders" never seem to learn anything from.

"The Emperor Rx" is influenced by the tarot card The Emperor when it is reversed in a reading. It signifies abuse of power, totalitarian states, corruption, loss of control, weakness in stability and megalomaniac tendencies.

"Bloody Rites" is about what happens when countries go to war because of religious clashes. When the state and church believe it is more important to attain power no matter what the cost, than to value life and seek agreement and understanding.

100% of your purchase of this double single is being collected as donations for people in warring countries around the world.

With this donation you will receive a discount code for -20% off the purchase of the full length album "The Emperor Rx" once it is released.

We must stand unified.

Bloody Rites

The Emperor Rx

CIERŃ is an anarcho post punk band from Berlin with members from all corners of the world. Collectively they combine their moral values, philosophical principles and passion for punk music. They create music confronting and fighting ideologies that dominate and oppress human rights, animal rights and the conservation of our planet. We must stand up against sexism, white privilege, racism, bigotry, homophobia, transphobia, propaganda, mass media, capitalism, colonialism, genocide, fascism and nazism. Question everything… be conscious… think before we speak… think before we act… be aware of the impact we have in society and on everyone and everything around us… there is a ripple effect.

WE MUST STAND UNIFIED!

CIERŃ

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