THE BRODERICK LYRICS

1. Black Lung

I fear this anomie runs through my veins.
I'll conceal intent and bite my lip off.
Encircled by the baseness. Consumed by contrition.
I am fractured; I see nothing of you in me.

Falling apart into utter darkness, a purposeless animal.
I am fractured; I see the ruin in me.
Disconnected savages. Free to rot, free of sin.

2. Distance

Wasting away. I feel the cracks beginning to show.
These empty pages once had the best intentions and hopes before they filled these empty shelves.
Feeling nothing by design, I forgot myself so easily.
I don't recall the words meaning a thing.
Each of these nothing words reminds me and brings no comfort to me.

Tell me again why we stare at an empty page losing sleep and suffering until day.
Tell me again why my throat is crippled in pain while empty faces stare a hole through me.
Tell me again why we persist through atrophy when no one reads or cares about what's said.
Tell me again.
Tell me again.
Tell me again.

I didn't feel the moment I lost me. I am incapable of writing anything worthwhile, anything that makes me feel something.
I will tear out every page, every fucking page.
To find that fleeting moment of clarity that sets me free.
Only dark clouds bring me comfort. Take me places I want to go

3. 1950 DA

Voiceless city.
Reminding us what we are.
Faces in a crowd, our conscience spat out.
Dreamers drowning in this lonely town.
Sinking in city streets.
May they swallow me.

4. Drone

No hope behind that door, that door that brings me back again.
Nothing beyond those walls, those walls that bring me back again.
I would tear down everything if I could to get you away from that door, these walls that bring us here again.

These sad walls with their paint stripped back now, still hold the darkest plans.
These old floorboards, rotting away now, still make the most gruesome sounds.
There is no home here.

Time has disappeared between the cracks in these floors that bring me back again.
Photographs replaced by neglect, a regret that brings me back again.
Overheard you crying again today.

Burdened to stay you said.
A weight on these shoulders, that brings me back again.

Say it isn't so; this isn't it for you right?
Say it isn't so; love will be enough this time?

The flood of guilt overcomes my eyes again.
I should be the brave one.
The one to fix this though I can't fix me.
I wish I were strong, strong enough for the four of us.

5. Unseen

6. Low Sky

I'll hold my breath as I drive past that street,

I'll close my eyes and wish you here with me.

How I hate the loveless stares. I would resent me too when you talk that
way and make yourself feel anything. And when you walk (that way) with the
weight of the world holding on to what's lost, you can talk that way and
make yourself feel anything.

We will talk, pretend and reflect. Of course you can't go through another
night like this. Erase and self-destruct, make everything ok. When your
voice changes like that and your face goes blank. I can talk that way and
make myself feel anything.
We will talk, pretend and reflect. Of course you can't go through another
night like this.

Just forlorn creatures, overcome by the dread of lonesomeness.
Made from fear and circumstance
Are you hopeful now?
Held by fear and circumstance
Are you hopeful now?

7. Brave New World

Wandering. Endless roads. I feel nothing.
Wandering this brave new world, I feel nothing.
Drifting through this place everything and everyone is unrecognizable.
I am walking tomorrow's trail with yesterday wrapped around my legs.
Unnoticed.
Good luck,
I said as you walked away from me.
I see no redeemable qualities in your face, in anyone's.

Good luck.
Searching for something worth searching for.
Trace our steps and map out our destination.
We re not moving. We are stationary.
Drag your feet and hide your teeth.
You're nothing new.
I'm nothing new.

I see them drowning, drowning at my feet their arms outstretched searching but I watch them sink.

8. Savages

Shame.
Her eyes reflect a vile being that brings me to my knees.
A change of heart and scenery, talk to me talk to me.
Bring me to my knees.

Stay I say.

Sleepwalking.
Her eyes reflect an empty vessel that brings me to my knees.
Running now gains everything, talk to me talk to me.
Brings you to your knees.

Defeated.

Faceless.
Didn't I?
Did I not explain?
The reason I left was the reason I stayed.

9. Unheard

10. Diving Bell

Could I disappear with the day?
I am left underwhelmed by the pavements whisper
'Today is not your day'.
A thought for an instant, a reflection of this empty page.
For a second, for forever.

Distracted by the horizon. I am told that it s natural.
I again am left underwhelmed. I feel much older though not wiser.

I try so hard to be good, I know I promised more than this but I feel it rising through my skin.
Overwhelming.
It remembers my name.

You need to stop this, stop pretending.
Participate, just wake up and participate.

I have betrayed myself again.
I try so hard to escape my evil thoughts.
Consume me.
Leave me here
I am everything I hate,
I am empty skies.

How could you?
Let go?





THE BRODERICK LYRICS