HELLIONS LYRICS

1. Firmament

Temporary, liberation floods the evening sky
I never wanted to die, I wanted to come
close enough to survive
Connoisseur of the gaping void
widening it seems, in the absence of joy
the masochist unmasked,
no future, no past
I guess it’s these things at the end of the day
that expose my weakness and show my age
the mind was something that I refused to waste
Just stop counting the hours of sleep
and meals in a day, grow frail and weak
I martyred myself alone
it echoes through my bones

What happens to this, happens to me
if it were to burn out young, wild and free
it’s not about what I know, but what I believe
I believe in good will, I believe in me

So sing, smile, dance - fall in love, take a chance
just believe that there is more than this; a much higher plan
True duality is governed by this very sound
unblemished clarity is yours and its calling out

2. Daughters

Race, rabbit heart race
red wine coursed through vindictive veins
red river, run
help me forget what I have done
and what I’ve yet to do,
everyone I’ll hurt when I’ve seen this through
if I can’t cater to the likes of you
who’re you to dispute armour of valid truth
Seven doors, curtain call
half way around the world I’ve lost it all
each inhibition, all prohibition
thrown to the wind as a nation listens
with their ears to the ground
coveting the forfeit of a crown
that doesn’t exist
with their ears to the ground
if you speak of a demon now,
it appears.

All I’ve ever wanted was to believe
before my family’s eyes are torn from me
I’m finding it hard to believe
in the things I cannot see
(like I used to) [2x]
like I did

Most days I’m tracking back in torment
when I remember when
our innocence quelled ignorance
a peripheral indifference
now it’s ‘fuck that, you made your bed’
you think I don’t regret what I did to them?
I can’t take it back and I won’t pretend
but I’m man enough to have dropped her hands
like I’d said.

All I’ve ever wanted was to believe
before my family’s eyes are torn from me
I’m finding it hard to believe
in the things I cannot see
(like I used to)x3 , like I

I know I fucked up but I was only a kid,
I was too short sighted to see what I did
I destroyed what was left of the little you had
and now nothing can bring it back

3. 10 / 8 /11 (I) The Spurway Pirouette

Pour me up a real strong one girl
I’ve got a phantom to forget, so let’s make this hurt.

There may be only one more thing
that you can’t take away from me
my stupid sense of honesty
you take for granted consciously
everything you took from me,
with lies and infidelity
I’m finally free, I finally learned how to breathe
I woke up, 21
to an email I hoped would never come
31 of 365, still young
of all the people you meet
of all the company you keep
he was always there,
right beside you, right in front of me

Remember girl, our open door
a home unlocked to any friend of yours
but you sold us out, yeah you fucked it all up
it took everything I had in me
to set the one that mattered free
just to watch you rot, crawl back and flee, again

So I ran, just like you did
when we were kids

Sometimes, people just change
there’s no saving face once a mind is made

Granted, once I shut the doors and drew the shades on you
but it doesn’t validate the shit you put me through
I’ve heard enough to let go and take control of my life
I loved you, but I know that it wasn’t our time

Remember girl, our open door
a home unlocked to any friend of yours
but you sold us out, yeah you fucked it all up
it took everything I had in me
to set the one that mattered free
just to watch you rot, crawl back and flee, again

All is said and done, so just do me this honour
stay faithful to him and be good to your mother
I have every reason to smile
and I lead a life free of spite and denial
I’m so lucky to have learned so much, so young

Remember girl, our open door
a home unlocked to any friend of yours
but you sold us out, yeah you fucked it all up
it took everything I had in me
to set the one that mattered free
just to watch you rot, crawl back and flee, again

4. (II) The Spurway Tourniquet

[Instrumental]

5. The Penultimate Year

For the pipe dreams of the luminous and eloquent
shunned to elucidate ostentatious temperament
we’ve got to draw the line
to ostracise the talented from the contrived

For a gentlemen, soaked to bone in gin,
doing anything to leave that void he’s in
while the born writers craft with pen and a page
the charlatans preach behind a mic on a stage

I won’t pick to pieces what I don’t understand
but I know that no power nor pride makes a man
forfeit conjecture, relinquish your fear
stand alone in the penultimate year

Fear draws near, always weighing us down
to a family underground, an airloom stands proud
'cause he's not so much his fathers son
more a product of his fathers battles won
of the blood, sweat, tears, tried and true all these years
through a bloodline ripe with musical pioneers,
unsung.

Unsung!

I won’t pick to pieces what I don’t understand
but I know that no power nor pride makes a man
forfeit conjecture, relinquish your fear
stand alone in the penultimate year

My heart is heavy, burdened with the weight
of good men and women who could’ve been great
a moment in it’s radiance will change your mind
and an hour will change your life

Wake up take a chance,
take step out your door
fuck the money, fuck the fame
know we can still change this world
fuck the cardinal charlatans
pull on that thread
until the bigotry unravels and reveals amends

Fuck it!
wake up now, ha
take a step out your door
wake up ha, now
take a step out your door

6. The Great Fabricator

Hellions, stand up.

We will embrace revenge, at our own expense
and bite (break), the hands of amends that never fed
you’re fucking this up, don’t ruin it all for us
you betrayed our trust, we can see
that all our friends are living by your double standards
living in comparison to the pretty and pampered

Black hoods hang from our worn heads
it’s time to tear straight down a fraudulent covenant
won’t take the blame for your mistakes
it’s like that, there’s no clean slate
eat shit.

HaHa

The rage inside, its still alive
and its calling out and it says
it has to start somewhere
it has to start sometime
what better place than here
what better time than now

It begins here, its begins now

Won’t take the blame for your mistakes
there’s no clean slate.

7. Consigliere

Time is just a measurement
my friends and I are testament to that
fall back, into collective clarity intact
to blur the line between what we think and what we know
young and so reckless
can’t take the hours passing so slow.
Before we spin out of control,
we will overindulge
before we’re jaded and old
we will squander our innocence
and we will overcome the cold

So take care my friend,
(don’t fray the wires, they may not mend)
we take this for granted until all of this ends
(theres more to this, than what we’ve got penned)
the common life, it calls but we wont answer it
'cause we never look so far, we never think too far ahead.
'cause I'm not ready to hang up my youth
it was never preordained for me to grow into a suit
by and by, my friends and I
sing sydney city blues until aurora’s rise
where will I be when my late twenties catch up on me

So take care my friend,
(don’t fray the wires, they may not mend)
we take this for granted until all of this ends
(theres more to this, than what we’ve got penned)
the common life, it calls but we wont answer it
'cause we never look so far, we never think too far ahead.

Do you believe that we could be truly
free of our fears as long as we’re running?
or will we have to come to terms with this?
with the fact that this could one day turn out purposeless

Do you believe that we could be truly
forever young as long as we’re smiling
time was always just a measurement
so ingest inequity for we are testament

So take care my friend,
(don’t fray the wires, they may not mend)
we take this for granted until all of this ends
the common life, it calls but we wont answer it
'cause we never look so far, we never think too far ahead.

8. Enough Embelishment

Spoiled lazy, bored belligerent
a litany of sycophants
revel in embellishment
and no, I ain't living in the dark no more
why live in periphery of war
to circumvent the pending call?

Can you hear us call?
we are crawling right beneath you all

Boycott the lost sheep
haha
abandon the scrap heap
ahah
bring that shit in

Leave your shells and fill the streets
find your feet and learn to speak
the time is now, answer the call
for honesty eludes us, each and all
if you want change then change yourself
rebel against the cards your dealt, haha
if you want peace don’t stand defeated ah
don’t be one to not learn the world
if you want change then change yourself
don’t be the one to rot on the shelf
if you want peace inhale the bitter shot, exhale the bullshit
Hellions, we never call it quits

9. Infamita

The truth is that I know why I don’t see you now
it’s ‘cause you can’t fuck girls with your friends around
these conquests, they’re nonsense
those habits, those comments
you’re a fucking mess, so weak and spineless

(Ft. Adrian from Northlane)
If you kept your eyes off your phone
you might have learned how to sing
if you weren’t conceited at heart
you’d might have seen yourself king
of a malleable scene,
you were burning green since you were nineteen

Old friend we’ve given you our all
we gave you so many chances that you seldom deserved
so can’t you just come clean
I don’t know much, but enough is enough
we gave you our trust and you just went and fucked it all up
you tarnished our songs with all of your mistakes
but we loved you enough to drag your dead weight

Infamita [2x]

10. The Grandfather Clock (I) Father

When you drag yourself around
when you look like shit, I know you think about it
the tempest, and when it will hit
if this dependancy were to turn to urgency
if this becomes more than just a thirst this week
I can’t come back, I can’t bare to see
you fall hard, face down without the ability to speak
you’re fading now, your ashes circle the drain
This isn’t it old man, please sit up straight
'Are you coming with me love?'
it wasn’t fair to ask, to divide a terminal illness
to multiply the loss
'at long last, my darling Persephone
will you take my hand and remove this harrowing disease from me
I’m so exhausted, I’m not sure that the kind of tired I am
can be fixed with rest, but I swear to you, I’m doing the best I can
With enough of his medication
and a bloodstream full of alcohol
a stomach full of poison, sealed in with Maxalon

21/10/ 91

'I cannot live without your father,
please forgive me my son’
and side by side before his very eyes
there they lie, intertwined and
she bid a silent adieu
to a benevolent life and to the world that you knew
three sons and your infant grandchildren will walk beside you,
through that valley, of the shadow of death
I guess that things can never be the same
not with this void running deep in my old man’s veins
it cannot change, it’s plain to see you’re ready to leave
when you heard a voice through the stereo, starting to plead
'hear our song, please just hang on'
sing along to our message to you

'Don't you forget who'll take care of you'
please.

11. (II) Faulter

[Instrumental]

12. 22

Breathe, be still, be free
be the anomaly that you deserve to be
bitterness, let it go
for as long as it has you, you’re all alone

Youth exudes, this is how it is
ain't a thing stiff gin and cigarettes cant fix
we are the wild ones,
ain't a thing gonna change
young Hellions, liberated,
taking our place

Hindsight can relieve, but it wont set you free
these contemporary lies, are fucking poisoning me
why should we squander, ever-waning youth
on some pseudo-dogma bullshit that they told us in school

Fall, let go, you’ll soar
lead the civil war that they cannot ignore
on hypocrisy, running far and wide
for a youth so crass and desensitized
truth exudes, brother can’t you see;
you can be anything you’ve ever wanted to be
and to the wild ones;
live at your own pace
for our true enemy has yet to show it’s face

Hindsight can relieve, but it wont set you free
these contemporary lies, are fucking poisoning me
why should we squander, ever-waning youth
on some pseudo-dogma bullshit that they told us in school

All of this, all that I’ve got -
I’d lay down for my friends

When you choke, brother I stop breathing
and when you fall, you know that I start bleeding out,
beyond all doubt, each day in, each day out
for everything that we’re doing now
is a result of what we did back then
old lessons, reinforced, (again and again) [2x]

We are just specks in time
particles lost in a grand design
we all exist, but so few live
burn out in a brilliant blaze
don’t fade into an idle haze
we all exist but so few live

(We are the wild ones
forever free, forever young. ) [2x]







HELLIONS LYRICS