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Lion
04:19
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Enter the tragic child; a dream run past his eyes
In arrogance, “The world won’t hold me down ‘til I’m laid in the ground”
The clock runs creeping on my shoulder
The sea will run me ‘til I’m red
I feel my limit tailing towards me
I won’t stop for the walls I’ve torn down
Before the start began, I wrote the end
Run home; Come end, run home
I’m the lion, the fire, the season
The wind rides off my back and calls my name
To come and settle down
Lift your eyes, I am the meaning
Run it down the river
I’m the light that feeds your life to take the pain away
Find me when I’m sleeping
The zero sum of all I’ve missed
I live inside the bigger picture
Grind my teeth to prove I’ve got it figured out
Tell her I’m still waiting
Expectations met and more
Blood and water never mix well
If I hesitate just tear my heart out
I’ve been pulled taught as the week’s run long
I’ve been asleep for too long
My wax wings burn from up top the sun
What have I won?
Enter the tired mind; the dream sat at his side
“I think I’m done. The world won’t let me down ‘til I’m laid in the ground”
Can I be more than all my parts?
Replace my heart
If I can’t handle the weight of the world, just replace my arms
I am a machine
If my heart won’t beat
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2. |
Sleepy Puppy
03:45
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Drowned in the calling, it’s all I can do just to breathe
How many years have I been asleep?
I’m always falling
It’s been so long it’s hard to say what’s right
Do you believe in life past life?
Would I have stayed if I could change
Wake me with light; I'm staying in tonight
All I am’s a constant crawl through all my mistakes
As much as I tried, I’m cold without the light
Meissa, please pretend with me
I tried being by your side
Bring this back to what it was
Crack a smile just because
It’s all that I can do to look above
Lying in my morning clothes
Waking just to fight with ghosts
A monster born to fall asleep
I gave you your chance to leave
The scale of this mountain
This monster born to fall asleep
I gave you every chance to leave
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3. |
Cold Snap
03:45
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The victim of disconnect, a life marred with moving on
Draw the curtain back
Whispering of technicolor playing on the water
The seasons only matter when they’re gone
I’m not enough
Do you picture me as a fall or spring?
Build me up; I’ve been emptied out
Sweet release, I need to breathe again
Is 4800 steps behind the starting line too late to turn back?
Along with both my hands, it seems I’ve lost a meaning
I move in circles
Exit unlearned, mourn me
I turned and thirteen years had gone
Cast out half blind, down shed
It’s time to break this body in
Current, whip me breaking in between is and what I know
Ocean, crash down ‘fore I start to doubt I am all my own
Bring me to water, I’ll drink ‘til the world’s gone dark
Sunk to the bottom, the sun hasn’t missed me so far
The distance between my feet and my first step goes on for miles
And the second miles more
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4. |
Ghost to Give
04:03
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Message: [Mistake] I couldn’t stay
Stumbling while all my bridges burn and cut me off
I’ve been running in circles for too long
I’ll be gone come the morning light
You never realized
That I’m not always going to be the closest comfort for your pride
You were every song I ever sang
I’m leaving here tonight
Freezing, panic
It’s too late, can’t stand it
I found myself caught undone run so deep
I can’t remember where I started from
Reckless, repeating
I’ve been repeating myself too long
Headrush and beating, the purpose defeated
Red run on
Body moves, head checked out, before I hesitate
Read on a note left by the door, “I’m already gone”
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St. Lawrence
03:38
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Shaken by the rush, the smell of want and fear and lust
Do you miss love and touch
(I deal in honesty and overwhelming peace)
Rhythm in the crash of desperate limbs and rushing blood persists
The only thing that keeps me breathing fire
Not everyone can wear this mystique so naturally
I think I feed on these kinds of situations
So brace, catastrophe
The ground falls out
Brace my jaw
This misdirection
Tell me, boy, what’s got you cold?
The gas is lit, the closet’s closed
So what’s got you so scared?
Fractured dream, I’ll fix you up
Gears all catching, I’ll grind you flush
Do you feel undone?
One time I gave a guy a book with nothing written inside
And told him to read between the lines
So quick to part with the reason you feel whole
Black out the lights, turn off the phone
There’s no one home
What do you do when you’re alone
Running with your head on backwards
Honestly, it’s all the same
Desperate try to keep the demons out
Was I wrong?
Laying out the consequences far too late to count
Running with your eyes glassed over
Honestly, it's all the same
Desperate try to keep the demons out
Was I wrong?
Laying out the consequences far too late to count
Tired dream made friends with doubt
The water’s fine, the fire’s out
So why are you so scared?
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6. |
Mercy
03:16
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Let the air out
Breathe in deep, heavy sleep
Living life from the back seat
I don’t approve
Life to lose, I’m shit with cues
I’m a master of making mountains from the ground
Until my heads up in the clouds
Let the night in
Breathe in deep, seventeen
Getting high in the backseat
Mercy, Mercy
Life to lose, light the fuse
I’m a master of making mountains from the ground
Until my heads up in the clouds
You know you come alive when we turn out the lights
I could never live without you by my side
Lean into the struggle, it won't be long
Who could ever live without you
I could never be without
Daddy doesn't like the games you play
Acting coy with all the other boys
All the nights I kept you away
You'd be better off
Quiet on set, frantic breath
Girl, you went and lost all of your fight so soon
You’d do best to play along
No one’s fighting for you here
Shining with the ritz, burst on the scene
Looking like your best out on the town
Honey, forget about your friends
Just run along now pretty girl
Pretty like a picture, moving on
You’d do best to play along
Pretty like a picture, moving on
Mercy, starting strong
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7. |
East/South
03:36
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8. |
Rabid
04:19
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Crawling back home, asleep at the wheel
Fell way off target, deep behind enemy lines
Furrowed brow, conspicuous tension
Show me mercy, show me
Caught on your back, safety exposed
Casing the door frame
Maybe I needed sharper decline to vent this frustration
Show me mercy, show me
Watch me falter, you won’t hear it
I’m exhausted, and you’re too much when you’re out for blood
‘Cause I’m not sorry, and you’re not sorry
Desperately searching for excuses we both ignore
You knew what this was, but
I’m not sorry; you’re not sorry
Can you see me? Were you ever there?
Half-hearted laughing; we talk in passing
Nobody knows you; were you aware?
Who cares when you’re gone?
Crawling back home, asleep at the wheel
Fell way off target, deep behind enemy lines
Furrowed brow, conspicuous tension
Show me mercy, show me
Caught on your back, safety exposed
Casing the door frame
Maybe I needed sharper decline to vent this frustration
Show me mercy, show me
A reason to stay
To wear this dread out
Give me a reason
Falling backwards every step we take
What do you want me to say
Something in the way to understanding
Every end the same, a circle ‘til we fall
All I really need; just give me time
Heard it through the grapevine you felt this way for some time
Desperation doesn’t sit well in your eyes
All I need
A broken agreement to meet at the end of it
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9. |
Wake This Giant
04:53
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And my final entrance, walk center stage
Am I not proud? The house is sold out
Hear the vultures screaming, ‘Feed hungry eyes’
The noise from the crowd; I played and they bowed
Mark my neck with teeth
How was I supposed to know?
‘Run’ she came; ‘Love’ she sang
She called so sweet; ‘Run’ she stayed
Breathing deep the comfort, sobbing in my ear
‘Mother, run home. I'm left not my own’
Just when did my siren start to sound so sad?
The nervous defeat, her lock incomplete
What’s so wrong that I’m cast away?
Wake this sleeping giant
Wake this dream tonight
Days turn to weeks turn to years
Thought turns to rot off the walls and the echo
Pacing a piece of me left a while on
Pacing in circles, a feeling a piece of me left a while on
Was I not worth the words I prayed for sleep
‘I’d die for sleep’
Forgive me if I might have been just a little
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10. |
Lamb
04:54
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Lines met at the end to bring the river down
Root the cradle up from underneath
Time and time to think that consequences weren’t all my own
It didn’t stop me then, but now that I’m alone
There’s circles ‘round my eyes, water if I try
All I’ve gained is a lack of sleep
Keep me from the dark, somewhere Meissa starts
Lift me farther, I miss the water
It’s cold out there
Sloughing death from sleep
I can’t keep but crying while your
Wrapped up in your mother’s hair
I can’t keep you
Draped in moss and rot, do my feet still walk?
It’s been a while since I moved on my own
A voice hopped off my shoulder and turned to look me in the eye
I can’t stand you staring at me now that I’m alone
Panicked, running scared, dirt run through your hair
All I’ve lost’s my peace of mind
Keep me from the dark, somewhere Mercy starts
Where’s my father, I’m just a daughter
All I have is moving on
Nothing breaks the surface long
Who will miss me when I'm gone?
Falling out, I fade away
Heavy breath, my hands are shaking
Tell me, who am I today?
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Vox Vocis Houston, Texas
Vox Vocis formed in August 2011 and through various changes reached today's prog playing line-up.
Zach Burton - Drums || Cheetah Moses - Bass || Alex Vaquera - Vocals, Guitar || Luis Cerda - Keys
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