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Empty Speech Act

by Empty Speech Act

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1.
8yrs 04:50
You bury your head in ideals penned in bed Scrambled brains mask the pain of eight years of regret Try as you might you just can’t go outside Lest they all realise when you unmask those eyes Here’s a chance to open up once more If you wait for a raincloud you’ll drown in a storm Eight years is far too long If you live by the sword then you’ll die of frustration Eight years has been and gone The glory of bands writing lines in the sands No regret is allowed when we cannot stand When you can’t stand yourself or even the thought Then you’ve no legs to stand on anymore
2.
Fallout 03:47
Clear the beds Clear the beds for the expected casualties Casualties, and the infected Radiation - panic! And the sky And the sky is filled with fire But we knew But we knew this world was dying
3.
She hides away inside her broken soapbox Checking yesterday's predictions, reading yesterday's bad news A life so harshly ruled by her opinions Blinded by a light she thought that only she could see She lost her train of thought, derailed emotions Said goodbye to her family, made a beeline for her dreams Ideals she never had the time to question She passed them onto everyone but no one cared to hear (we need to give it more time) There's always space, there's always time There's always somewhere we can hide There's always fear, there's always pride These continents always collide She died alone with only hate and slogans Nobody there to miss her, nobody there to care I found her note and sent it with this letter I hope you can forgive her only sin - she just believed
4.
If there's time - so much time - why can you not see? If you're mine - you're all mine - then are you not me? When we go we're alone there's no you and me When we die - we all die - we go solitary Stay mine we'll live all night Stay mine we'll live our lives Stray minds the disease of us Stay mine - we will Did you hear what I fear is engulfing me? Do you know just how low broken men can be? If a part of your heart is now dead to me Then I'll go, and I'll know we were not to be
5.
An Apology 04:03
For when i've worried you For when i've damaged you For when i've fallen off i always take you with me For all my ignorance For all my innocent mistakes For always, for always giving up and moving on Throw your arms out there's a new me Throw your doors wide open - yet another new me For when i wouldn't hear For when i disappeared For when i found redemption somewhere that you can't see For all the lies i've told For how i lost my soul For always, for always running off to start again You always thought i would come back
6.
Science 03:51
Is no one sticking around? Does no one care what we've found? You're abandoning our progress All the plans that we laid Discoveries that we made Science is our success There's no-one here There's no-one there There's no-one coming Take a little bit with you, i don't need it all You've helped me out a thousand times I’ll help you out a thousand more How can we disagree? There are things we've still yet to see Let's not stop this prematurely Don't want these people to know We've left our seeds here to grow This place will be amazing
7.
I feel it burning as it grows We're grasping out for something beautiful to hold If we could only tighten our grip We've had the same dreams many times Where indecision doesn't plague our childish minds If we could only listen to ourselves Towards the glow of dreams and new beginnings Of worlds that keep on spinning as these words are spinning lies We'll never know just what we were conceiving Until we stop believing and the glow is gone for good We fear the worst for years to come Burnt out dreams on rivers of regret do flow If we could only tighten our grip The nightmares end when life begins Hope eternal springing from the simplest source If only we were born with this light on
8.
The Fire 04:52
We've forgotten what it means To be rational human beings The sky so low - the sun is smoke Our dying breath a screaming choke Emotional entanglement No longer our sentiment Survival seems a long way off Now we all pray for molotov And the fire burns… We once lived in paradise Our nightmares confined to our minds Outside the sky was blue and white The terror only came at night But now our fears play out each day We've chosen the improper way To live alongside one and all We watch as the burnt sky does fall (All hope has died, our thoughts collide We're prisoners, inside our minds) When we go we go alone There's no chance of returning of home Our hope has died our thoughts collide We're prisoners inside our mind.
9.
Cathedrals 03:24
She’s my cathedral She’s my holy ground I’m an illusion Some magic she’s found Where once was inertia Together we dream We share space and time Soon we’ll fly from this scene We can draw our own map She’s my cathedral My alter my shrine She slowed both my hands down How precious is time? Where once was inertia Together we dream There’s clouds parting At our hearts mezzanine

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"Empty Speech Act: where affected persons are motivated to express false or bizarre belief statements due to an underlying psychological disturbance."

These 9 empty speech acts, conceived and raised in a cold corner of England over 4 long years, are the result of an occasional collaboration which may never happen again. They are the beginning of a life doomed to end - a desperate grab at some sense in a world that makes none.

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released September 22, 2012

Andrew Ridley - Guitars / Synthesizers / Programming
Jonjo McNeill - Lyrics / Vocals

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