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Walking the Plank
06:06
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I have seen them turn to nothing
Still the taste for life’s unfading
Vanishing like thoughts of kindness
Losing everything to numbness
And you embrace the sale
Persuaded through the veil
Of culture
Sensation leads the way
Respect for life decays
Devoured
Vanity prevails
Reveals the blind man's trail
Truth won’t make you see
Cries won’t make you hear
Doubt won’t make you think
Thought won’t make you feel
I have seen you stealing life
Cheapening blood that flows like water
Stepping on the plank to pleasure
Sacrificing their volition
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Bury Your Head
07:03
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Bury your head in the sand
Hide it from plea
You’ll never sleep
Falling into dreams
Hauling air
We are just born to stare
We all just take our share
Cracking the will to dare
Your life is my life
My life is your strife
Your strife is my delight
But your right ain’t my fight
Kings will drown
With heavy crowns
Kings will drown
With lethal crowns
Dust off the specks of yourself
Turn the cold cheek
You won’t admit
What came before won’t fit
Hauling air
We are just born to stare
We all just take our share
Cracking the will to dare
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3. |
Evolve
05:16
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We embrace the age-old abyss
Feeding the monsters we dismiss
Deities come and then fade away
None could have changed men’s frozen prey
We embrace that ancient praxis
So evolved, so decayed, charade
We embrace that ancient praxis
So evolved, so decayed, charade
Savage ways take their breath away
Twisted ideals that they must obey
We embrace that ancient praxis
So evolved, so decayed, charade
We embrace that ancient praxis
So evolved, so decayed, charade
Ancient, mindless, primitive
Senseless, barbaric, obsolete
Numb, dark, apathy
Blind, ignorant - evolve!
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4. |
Fragile Fallacy
06:08
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What should I say or do
To make you see within
The breadth of change in you
I cannot explain
It’s always been your weakest spot
Drowning in the crowd
Turn away, look at them
Think of them to understand
Witness the pain
Break through the veil of delusion
Breaking the chains of routine
That weigh on your weakened neck
The creeping chill inside your heart
Fragile fallacy
It’s always been your biggest fear
To stand out from the crowd
Think again, not the same
Think again to understand
The way you see it
Grey turns to white
The part that heeds
Is truly cracked
Drawn to the spite
The mob and the flame
Arresting guilt
And shifting the blame
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Bitter Truth
07:52
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The more you peel
The more you conceal
A bitter truth
A grave of the mind
Logic confined
Suppress the decision
The more you peel
The more you conceal
A bitter truth
A shattered plate
Disservice to hate
Begins the transition
Starting to absorb
Swallow the pain whole
The more you feel
The more you reveal
A bitter truth
At last you perceive
What’s hard to believe
Embrace the collision
You cannot ignore
This civil war
A bitter truth
Decision will bring
The simplest thing
An end to tradition
Starting to absorb
Swallow the pain whole
Tell me, show me
What they do to those pure hearts
and behind the walls
The world has lost all meaning
I’ve heard, forever
They serve me, I’m above
Tomorrow holds no place for thee
The less you block
The more you unlock
A bitter truth
Why try to defend
What you must amend
Revise the cognition
Excusing as fate
and quick to negate
A bitter truth
If you see the lie
You cannot deny
You’re caught in addiction
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6. |
Flip of a Coin
05:28
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Flip, flip the coin
They can’t see
You fall down
On your face
It isn’t them who saw you dying
It isn’t them who put you down
You won’t know tomorrow
You don’t know today
You won’t be their best friend
That tear does not fall easy
Grain of sand
Razor’s edge
One demand from me
Connection
Dissension
No enemies
It’s over
High time
False benevolent memories
False benevolent memories
Forgotten like friendly enemies
They said they love
You won’t know
Flipped the coin
Coupe de grace
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The Candle
05:41
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The candle, the candle’s burning
It burns us, searing white
And right now gates are closing
Narrow as the minds
Goodbye to blue sky
We couldn’t justify
Fading, fading mercy
Many years have passed us by
Never stopping to ask why
We could let it go, let it go
Part of the same mold
Welcoming the blindfold
Faking just a blank face of stone
Part of the same mold
Welcoming the blindfold
We have seen the road that lay ahead
Falling down, heavy’s the crown
Falling down, when will we drown
Waiting for the storm
To find us in our homes
Crazy, this is crazy
All those fears are creeping by
Calculating when we’ll die
We can’t let it go, let it go
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8. |
A Shadow Play
09:05
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You’ve lost the witness
The one who made you see
You’ve found the illness
That warped reality
Do you feel it now
Do you hear the crowd
They don’t speak but they plea
Hopeless silent cries
Sleeper, downwind seeker
Disdain preacher
Death-bound creed
Why, why are you surprised?
They cannot see inside
No, you don’t feel them too
How would they know you strayed
You sway and you come again with another tale
If only the truth could match it
You slay the moments that lead to a better way
And cast doubt away
Grey is the forever mask
Doves won’t fly back to you again
Is this all a shadow play
Until we break
Until we ache
Until our deeds see the strings on which they’re hanging
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Protomythos London, UK
PROTOMYTHOS is the musical project of Israeli-born, London-based musician Tom
Treivish.
Heavy Crowns, released in 2019, was mixed by Grammy-winning mix engineer Michael Brauer (Coldplay, Bon Jovi, Dream Theater) and mastered by Maor Appelbaum (Faith No More, Yes, Sepultura).
The debut album, In Human Sight, came out in 2013 and is a prog rock vegan concept album. Yes, you read it correctly.
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