BAND NAME: Saving Grace
GENRE: Melodic Groove/Death Metal, Metalcore
STATUS: Split-up
LOCATION: Gisborne, Gisborne, New Zealand
Lineup:
Ross McDougall - Guitars
Vasely Sapunov - Guitars
George White - Guitars, Bass
Shaun Anderson - Drums
Past members:
Nicholas Tautuh - Vocals
Little Ben - Bass
Savage - Bass
Bruce Reid - Bass
Mike Benson - Bass
Mark - Drums
Big Ben - Drums
Benjamin Davidson - Drums
Ryan Wilson - Drums
Links:
Discography:
Saving Grace (EP, June 2005, East Side Crew Hardcore) (CD)
1. For What I Hope 3:56
2. Traitor 3:03
3. Song From A Stitched Mouth 3:46
4. The Tired Discussion 3:48
5. Per Angustus Ad Augustus 3:06
Upheld / Saving Grace (split, 2006, East Side Crew) (format unknown)
4. Saving Grace - Unbreakable 4:39
5. Saving Grace - What The World Takes Away 4:45
6. Saving Grace - Get Me Through (Upheld cover) 3:07
Behind Enemy Lines (album)
April 22, 2008, Harvest Earth Records (CD)
July 12, 2011, Strike First Records (Digital)
1. Behind Enemy Lines 1:39
2. For So Long 3:30
For so long I've heard so many people crying out to God for His forgiveness.
They raise their eyes towards His heaven and cry out from blackened sinful lives.
When His mercy helps them live they turn their backs and fall into the world.
You take for granted the gift of Jesus' passion knowing your life can be redeemed, but bear in mind that His return is near and if your life is anchored by your vices you will be shunned for you walked the widest path.
Stand ready upheld by Christ living the life He made you to.
And praise His name for He is holy...holy.
3. The Most Beautiful Promise 5:17
...And then He swore to me
Swear did He silently
He'd stay right next to me
Said He'd be there for me
And in my times of need
He said He'd give to me strength I need to survive
The bloodshed of this life
And the wounds I sustained would heal and leave no scars
He said He'd die for me
He'd die a thousand times
This brought tears to my eyes and I fell to my knees
I opened up my heart and let his life consume me
Consumed... my heart... and healed... my wounds
And after a lifetime of lies and broken promises
His words made my mind swell with love and passion
Into your arms I commit my life
Into your will I commit myself
Into your hands I commit my heart
Into your hands I commit my spirit
I gave my life, my life, my heart, my soul!
And without parting my lips I gave him thanks
I gave him praise
4. A Poet's Burial 3:26
To write another song of heartbreak.
To lose the will to live again.
To write another song of hatred.
To feel the urge to kill again.
The same old tired numbness.
Nothing different but the pen.
I'm bleeding nonetheless.
I don't think I'll try again.
Instead I'll draw close to Christ and prove myself to Him.
I find me all by myself again and see that I am free from within.
The urge to seek the comfort of another angel's arms has died with everything else...
I'm dead to you...
Solitude is safety in my own arms.
5. Just A Second 3:36
Slave on your knees.
You're a slave on your knees...
Or maybe your back?
I guess it must just depend on what takes your fancy at the time huh?
Validation injected below the waist line, below the "waste" line.
Euphoric uplift unbeatable.
With fingernails embedded in flesh gasping, shaking, weak...
Perfect pleasure alright but it would seem that monogamy is monotony and your thirst is unquenchable.
Drown in your ocean of intoxicated ecstasy so weak...
You're so much less than you claim to be.
Slave to the world.
Slave to desire.
Slave to selfishness.
Killing your heart.
Killing your freedom.
Killing the gift of love.
Slave to yourself.
Slave to your selfishness.
Slave to the world.
Slave to yourself.
I give up on you.
Slave to yourself.
I give up in you...
Now drown!
6. The Eye Of The Storm 3:34
7. Even As I Bleed 3:25
With tattered wrists and shattered firsts I raise my hands to skies above.
On bloody knees I bow before my Lord.
With tattered wrists and shattered fists I raise my hands above.
On bloody knees I pray.
On bloody knees I bow before my Lord.
I pray... even as I bleed.
Praise be to you my God.
Thanks given to you Jesus.
For without struggle there would be no progress.
And without nightfall the sun's beauty'd be mundane.
Glory to you my merciful father.
I love You.
I'm humbled yet again.
8. In Your Own Hands 3:48
You were told there was no hope for you and you believed it.
Raped day after day by a world that knows little of compassion.
And you conceived its bastard child.
Now inside the sickness grows.
It swells and pressure builds.
You know it hurts you but you can't quite figure out why.
So instinctively you drown it in poison.
(But that glamour is temporary and eventually the cracks begin to show.
You scramble grabbing whatever you can find and hold onto it until it breaks for the pressure.
This cycle repeats...)
Until there's nothing left and you seem to think that there's but one way out.
Such a shame.
Such a waste of life.
Such a selfish choice.
In your own hands my heart bleeds for your soul.
9. U Becoming You 5:00
In a time where fitting in is such a crucial part of existence, self compromise hits an all time high and self-respect, self-awareness has died.
Why?
Where has integrity gone?
Where has acceptance gone?
Is individuality not beautiful?
(Just another pretty face in the heaving sea of bodies)
Not you.
Not even human.
Just another mindless drone walking the path of submission.
Your eyes glazed over and your mind numbed by years of sedation / submission.
I know that somewhere down there beneath that facade lies a neglected human being.
Just begging to see the light of day.
Just begging to know the love of self.
Bring that beautiful complexity to the world.
Give it a new lease on life.
Burn the guidelines.
Burn the pin-ups.
Be yourself.
Not what they want you to be.
Ignore their expectations.
Ignore the lies they tell you.
Ignore your self-rejection.
Ignore them.
Be yourself.
Not what they want you to be.
Be who you are.
Know who you are.
Just be yourself.
10. Last Chance To Dance 1:03
Unbreakable (album)
January 5, 2010, Strike First Records (CD, Digital)
2010, Deadboy Records, Universal Music New Zealand, Digipak (CD)
1. End Of Days (Intro) 1:34
"Satan has a whole army of people. They work around the clock, they work 24 hours a day. They don't slumber or sleep. They have an objective... and that's to bring everybody in this country into slavery."
Faith, family, friendship, forever.
Faith, family, friendship, forever.
Faith, family, friendship...
2. Unbreakable 4:33
New life, resurrected, one chance to start again.
My heart and soul convicted, freed from a life of pain.
This world will not break me, its lies won't hold me down.
I'll stand strong by your side, unified we'll stand our ground...
Through blood we are brothers, through blood we've been set free.
Through blood we are brothers, through blood we've been set free.
This friendship is forever, you are my family.
This friendship is forever, you are my family.
You are my family.
You are my family.
You are my family.
UNBREAKABLE.
Unbreakable.
New life, resurrected, one chance to start again.
My heart and soul convicted, freed from a life of pain.
This world will not break me, its lies won't hold me down.
I'll stand strong by your side, unified we'll stand our ground.
United we stand, divided we fall.
His blood was spilled for us, this bond...unbreakable...
Faith, family, friendship, forever.
Faith, family, friendship, forever.
Faith, family, friendship, forever.
Faith, family, friendship, forever true.
Forever true.
Forever true.
Forever true.
Forever true.
3. Bury Me In Jiménez 2:45
Bury me... in Jiménez.
Bury me... bury me...
Take me home at the end of the day.
Give me a humble burial in a unmarked grave.
Take me back... to where the water is pure and the air is clear... water is pure and the air is clear...
You carry me with promises to a place where beauty breaks your heart.
To where beauty breaks your heart... beauty breaks your heart...
To where I can lay at Your feet forever.
To where I can bask in Your majesty for eternity.
In Jesus' Name.
Amen.
4. The Disgusting Maw 4:04
From the moment that you were born you've been shown aesthetic perfection and told that you're nothing if not that, force-fed vanity by the media and its lies... and its lies.
So you hide your heart and you hide your face, buried beneath six feet of mascara, building your life on one single layer of foundation.
And all the while just beyond your sight:
The face of love; compassion stares from behind the mirror.
He weeps, for you are ashamed of the beauty He sees deeper, even deeper... the only beauty that matters...
For everything of this world will pass away: is subject to decay.
Look further... even further... even further... and you too will see what His eyes rest upon, it's you and that beauty is indescribable.
Let it breathe.
Let it breathe.
Let it breathe.
Let it breathe.
Let it breathe...
Go...
Let it breathe.
Let it breathe.
Let it breathe.
5. Pukelips 3:36
...An ever present question (question) haunting every single thought (every single thought) that passes through my head (through my head).
Inner monologue bombarded with a slew of degradation and abuse seemingly mocking my every attempt to grab at any form of stability... yeah... stability.
The voice of unreason screaming in my ear, throwing reality out the window and removing any sense of balance... and removing any sense of balance.
And all this through a crack in my shell.
And all this through a crack in my shell.
And all this through a crack in my shell...
The vastness of the enemy's army is both fear and awe-inspiring.
The vastness of the enemy's army is both fear and awe-inspiring... awe-inspiring... awe-inspiring, but a mere whisper has been more than enough to crush me.
Words...
Get out of my head... just get it out of my head... get it out of my head...
Oh...
Oh Jesus please (Jesus please) still this vomit lathered tongue.
6. Where It Rains 4:23
...If I could take you away, I'd take you to a place where I can sing you to sleep, somewhere I don't have to scream.
To a place where I can open my chest without being afraid.
And there the future wouldn't writhe.
And there the future wouldn't writhe.
Where He reigns: Where it rains: Where He reigns.
Take me to a place where tomorrow wouldn't cripple me with fear... cripple me with fear.
There tomorrow would not cripple me with fear.
There tomorrow would not cripple me with fear.
There, we could sit and talk the hours past and pain would wither in the radiance of His blessing, this blessing... of His blessing, this blessing.
Please bless this.
Father preserve us.
Maybe even our feet would never again touch the ground and it would rain every single day.
Maybe even our feet would never again touch the ground and it would rain every single day.
No more sunshine and here we find comfort and rest, only and always in (always in) eternal Son shine (Son shine).
Always.
7. The Eye Of The Storm Part II (Interlude) 2:08
8. Oaxaca 5:04
Through storms and wars take me into a new place, a world so beautiful, a city of treasure buried beneath a sky of injustice
I am here, but I am filled with fear
Am I ready or am I standing in naivety?
Send me out
Send me out...
Through storms and wars take me into a new place, a world so beautiful, a city of treasure buried beneath a sky of curses
In the air the smell of death, the grip of fear was all surrounding
The oppression all-consuming, overbearing, overwhelming
I am here, but I am filled with fear
Am I ready or am I standing in naivety?
(But the scriptures tell us that the Lord has not given us a spirit of fear, but one of power and of love and of a sound mind, that we can go into the world and that Christ will be our strength and our protection, and that the sick will be healed and the dead will be raised)
Send me out
Let it be
Send me out
Let it be
I am your hands, God use me
Send me out, out
Let it be
Let it be
I am your hands, your hands, God use me...
A nation on its knees will see the power of God released
A nation on its face will see salvation in this place
9. All, But The Archer 5:27
All I ever wanted was a father to love and edify me
All I ever wanted was a lasting pure embrace, but your attempt was self-serving and sick
What father would ever do this to his own child?
Let me fall victim to perversion
Justice died the moment you stepped in
Trust betrayed and innocence taken
Silence bought your justification
You put a price on purity
Scared it into secrecy, but dormant bodies burst
But the scratches on the surface hinted at something terrible beneath, waiting to bleed out a secret death
A truth untold, but once it's spilled the battle is over
Internal bleeding ebbs long after wounds have healed
No part of me remains untainted by your hands
The guilt is on your head
The blood is on your hands
This war is won
10. The Listener 4:45
I would have you know that if it were denounce or die you would be staring into dead eyes.
I would like to know, do you carry the weight of truth and conviction or am I speaking to a room pulsating with the motions of fermenting flesh?
...Or am I speaking to a room pulsating with the motions of fermenting flesh?
Would you really go to any length?
Would you fight 'til the death?
Would you really go to any length?
Would you fight 'til the death?
...'Til the death?
...'Til the death?
Would you really go to any length?
Would you fight 'til the death?
Would you really go to any length?
Would you fight 'til the death?
Well, either way, I hope you realize I would happily "waste" my breath on you 'til the day I die to help you see the truth.
'Til the day I die...
Until the day I die.
I'm not afraid of change.
My name is revolution.
I'm not afraid of change.
My name is revolution...
My name is revolution.
My name is revolution...
I'm not afraid of change.
I'm not afraid of change.
I'm not afraid of change.
I'm not afraid.
11. Bound By Blood 2:54
This is a blood-bound brotherhood, nothing can take this away.
No hate can come between us, no distance can separate.
Through the years I'm looking back without an ounce of regret.
These times we shared together I know we'll never forget.
No regrets.
Never look back.
In His Name...
Bound by blood...
Bound by blood.
"From the East Coast of New Zealand to South Australia and worldwide, flying this banner high, proclaiming a message of hope to a dying world."
"You think we're gonna sit back and watch this world burn in hell? Now way... it's time to step up or step out' the way!"
Break it down...
Drop it...
Bound by blood...
Bound by blood.
12. The Determined Drunk 5:54
(Audio sample from the movie "The Libertine")
John's Mother: "We who are nobility rise above the calls of the flesh."
John: "That is true. We have our strength of will, do we not?"
John's Mother: "I hope we do."
John: "But supposing we are perverse, and use our will to bad ends?"
John: "But supposing we are perverse, and use our will to bad ends?"
John's Mother: "Then we search deep inside ourselves... and we tear out the evil."
Flesh rising, a bloodied battlefield, mass temptation, a ceaseless bludgeoning.
Constant confrontation, a flood of decadence tearing at my weaknesses.
Clawing, gnashing at my blistered heels, who can save me now?
Who can save me from myself?
Can you save me now?
Thus far I've only further tightened the grip of sin's hands around my throat... around my throat.
No strength.
No strength of mine.
Only God's good mercy.
Only His perfect love.
(For I can do all things through Christ Jesus who gives me strength.
For I can do all things through Christ Jesus who gives me strength.)
Guilty hands are covered with the stink of sin, but perfect precious blood takes the bitter shame away.
Mercy poured out freshly, a flood of righteousness covering my brokenness.
Dark deeds are swept away like crumbling ashes.
I accept my death.
I embrace my cross, the thorn in my side.
I embrace my weakness, the log in my eye.
Thus far I've only further tightened the grip of sin's hands...
This is me, the face of dependency...
Go...
Lord give me strength, for I am weak.
Christ be my strength so I can overcome.
I will overcome.
Now This War Has Two Sides (split)
August 16, 2011, Seventh Dagger Records (Digital)
September 27, 2011, Seventh Dagger Records, Limited Edition (7" Vinyl)
Side B:
4. Saving Grace - Declaration 1:28
5. Saving Grace - End Begins (Earth Crisis cover) 2:10
6. Saving Grace - Sibling Rivalry 2:49
The King Is Coming (album)
November 21, 2011, Facedown Records (CD, Digital)
2012, Deadboy Records, Universal Music New Zealand (CD)
1. The King Is Coming 2:25
And all creation groans
For the return of the King
I tell you the truth:
The King is coming
The King is coming
All hail the King!
2. Shekinah 3:49
As in the days of old
The glory fills the temple of the Lord
We are your temple
We are your temple
The burning deep inside of my heart
These lips adorned with praise
My hand raised in worship lost
In the wonder of your ways
Come now and take your place Lord
Bring forth new winds of change
Set our lives ablaze with fire
Bring down your heavenly rain
We are your temple
Burn away the darkness of sin
Fill these hands with seeds of truth
Show the path and I will follow
Let your spirit lead me through
This hunger taking over my life
This thirst for heavenly ways
These eyes are filled with visions
This heart your dwelling place
Come reign here Holy Spirit
Bring forth a storm of change
Set our tongues ablaze with fire
Bring down your heavenly glory
Glory
You made these hands
Now take these hands
Lord fill these hands
Lord fill these hands with seeds of truth
Bring your fire down
Glory
Fire
Power
Shekinah
3. The First Woe 2:05
YOUR JOYS WILL CEASE!
And the mocking will stop.
Your songs will fail silent.
All consuming, the sound of human torture.
Your joys will cease,
And the mocking will stop.
Your songs will fall silent.
All consuming, the sound of human torture.
Agony tearing open the ears of the saints.
Screaming, begging & pleading for death in any form,
To steal you away from the affliction;
To take you away from the unending horror.
Blood emerges in dry clots,
And your screams are in vain,
As (death) Abaddon's Hoard overtakes you,
(Tearing your flesh from your bones).
Blood emerges in dry clots,
And your screams are in vain,
As (death) Abaddon's Hoard overtakes...
Abaddon's Hoard overtakes YOU!
Piercing! Ravaging!
Devouring your will to live.
Like leaves to a locust is the flesh of the markless man to these swarms of sadism.
And two woes are yet to come...
4. Cross Contamination 2:20
Flesh mingles with spirit and so begins the dilution
The fatal compromise
(The fatal compromise)
Septic hypocrisy
Muscles clench
Forcing vomit over the congregation's eager ears
Catering to the carrion...
Rot permeates the living
Deception devours selfishness
And the streets run red with the blood of the truth
Walking hand in hand with the great masquerader
Wading knee deep in the blood of the truth
Once could see, but now are blind
Wading knee deep in the blood of the truth
(The people's need for God is intercepted by a watery imitation, serving our carnal nature, justifying self gratification)
Though the night is dark
New light is yet to come
Though you bend and break
His strength is in your weakness
And through the bloodiest trials
New character is forged
Though the war is won
The battle rages...
ON!!!!
His kingdom
Will be preached
And so will
His testimony
His kingdom
Will be preached
And so will
His testimony
The Gospel lives
The Gospel lives
The Gospel lives
The Gospel lives
The Gospel lives
The Gospel lives
The Gospel lives
5. Deathless 3:09
Blech!
"He is the living one who was dead, behold He is now alive forever and ever and holds the keys to death and Hades."
Yeeaaahhh!
YEEEAAAHHH!!
Royal blood flowed through His veins even as He was a beaten man spat on in shame
Tied to the cross by mockers who scoffed, beaten, bruised, pulverized with no help from aloft
And though His body was buried once they pulled Him from the tree
There was no grave on earth that could hold His majesty
Death was rendered powerless and all hell fears His name...
Deathless Conqueror
King of Kings riding through a field of blood.
"He that is dead is free from sin and if we be dead with Christ then we shall also live with him.
Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dies no more; death has no more dominion over Him."
UH!
King of Kings and Lord of Lords
Eyes of fire...
Deathless Conqueror!
King of Kings and Lord of Lords
With justice waging war
He's the Deathless Conqueror!
King of Kings and Lord of Lords
Faithful and true...
Deathless Conqueror!
King of Kings and Lord of Lords
Word of God...
Deathless Conqueror!
King of Kings!
6. Man Of Sorrows (The Funeral Dirge) 2:17
Like a root from dry ground.
No majesty that pleased.
No desirable beauty.
Despised and rejected.
Acquainted...
With grief.
Repressed!
Afflicted!
Silent...
Like a lamb led to slaughter.
7. The Eye Of The Storm Part III 1:59
8. Habakkuk 3:03
In a world of increasing international crisis
And internal corruption
Nation rises against nation around the world and sin abounds at home
World powers aim an ever-increasing array
Of complex
Nuclear weapons
At each other while they speak of peace
The world at war seems incredibly imminent
While the stage is set for a global holocaust
An unsuspecting home audience
Ignorantly sings a blissful tune
The world's moral fiber is being eaten away
By a playboy philosophy
That makes personal pleasure
The supreme rule of life
Hedonism catches fire while homes crumble
Crime soars while the church grows sour
Drugs, divorce, and debauchery prevail
And decency dies
Frivolity dances in the streets
Faith is buried
"In God we trust"
Has become a meaningless slogan
Stamped on corroding coins
(In this world of crisis and chaos, the Prophet Habakkuk speaks with clarity
Heed is admonition
Heed his warning)
Take heart for through intercession
Worry transforms to worship
Fear turns to faith
Terror becomes trust
Doubts resolved with hope
And anguish melts into adoration
Then the heart can rest in the surety that Christ is King
(And patiently await His return)
Come Lord Jesus!
Emanuel!
Come Lord Jesus
Bring Your glory!
Come Lord Jesus!
Emanuel!
Come Lord Jesus!
Bring your justice!
9. Kefirah 4:24
"I'm gonna pull the whole thing down.
I'm gonna bring the whole diseased, corrupt temple down on your head.
It's gonna be biblical."
Hung from a tree,
The face of all truth and compassion,
Broken and nailed.
Bloodshed and death,
The price that was paid,
But your eyes are still veiled.
How can the truth of His words be so tarnished by lies?
You were the target of snakes;
Now they cover your eyes.
This is a warning to all...
"I never knew you" is not a metaphor.
You want your perfect life;
There must be compromise.
"You will know them by their fruits."
Well, this tree is FRUITLESS,
BARREN, ROTTED AWAY!
Fruitless! Barren! Rotted away!
There is a place created for demons;
There is a Hell believe Him He's seen it.
There is a purpose for warnings of old;
There is a war waging on for your soul.
Hung from a tree,
The face of all truth and compassion,
Broken and nailed.
Bloodshed and death,
The price that was paid,
But your eyes are still veiled.
How can the truth of His words be so tarnished by lies?
You were the target of snakes;
Now they cover your eyes.
"I never knew you" is not a metaphor.
The Way, the Truth, the Life,
He was the compromise.
There are many rooms but your house is...
CRUMBLING, FALLING, BURNING AWAY!
See through the lies,
Beyond the black,
Blinded victim of unholy attack.
No other name will snatch you from the fire,
If there is another then Christ is a liar.
He is the gate;
He paid the cost.
The key to the Heavens was hung on a cross.
He is the one mighty to save,
Conquering death as He WALKED FROM HIS GRAVE!
Blood...
Royal blood...
Most precious blood,
But you still want more...
King...
Father God...
Most Holy Christ,
Truly I tell you He is coming back for His bride not a whore.
UNIVERSALISM IS A LIE!!!
Whilst there is breath in your lungs,
Pray for cleansing...
(Pray for cleansing...)
Whilst there is breath in your lungs,
Pray for cleansing...
(Pray for cleansing...)
Whilst there is breath in your lungs,
Pray for cleansing...
(Pray for cleansing...)
Whilst there is breath in your lungs,
Pray for cleansing...
(Pray for cleansing...)
10. Beware The Apostates 2:46
Prophecy fulfilled in creeping defilement
Condemned ones bring perversion and disgrace
Disgust, spitting in His face
Denial of the Father
Denial of the Master
His grace and wrath, both equally righteous
Disloyal wings forever shackled in darkness
Ruins in flames
Immorality punished
The clock strikes the hour
Inflicting destruction
Blasphemy of the glorious ones through transgression of flesh
Dreamers of dreams scorn and reject authority
("Behold the Lord comes with ten thousands of His Holy Ones"
Righteous judgement poured out...words and deeds judged alive)
"These are hidden reefs at your love feasts"
Hiding, faceless
Devoid of truth
"They feast with you without fear"
Fearless, soulless
Shameless and sick
Shameless and sick
(Liars)
Shameless and sick
Eternally black...
As for you:
Be built upon the most holy faith
Let the mere scent of sin turn your face in disgrace
Show the mercy you've been shown and to doubters show grace
Be the one who, through Christ
Snatches souls from the flames
Glory!
Majesty!
Dominion!
Authority!
Glory!
Majesty!
Dominion!
Authority!
11. Revelation 6 3:38
Rrreeehhh!
Yeyah!
A VOICE LIKE THUNDER SPOKE
"Come!"
And one by dreadful one
The four riders arise
Each bearing his own disaster
Stephanos!
The crown and the bow bent on bloody conquest
Taking the triumphs allowed
By the Hand of He in power
OOOHHHH!
The taker and his sword
Tranquility slaughtered
The corpses pile high 'neath his unbloodied blade
Folding history upon the present
Unleashing our lust for battle...
Upon ourselves
The hand and the scales renders the people
Incapable of filling their needs
Drowning in your oil and wine...
And at the beckoning
Of the fourth creature
With Pestilence upon his back
The pale horse came forth
And Hades followed in his wake
And HADES followed in his wake
They were given power over a fourth of the earth
To kill by sword famine and plague
And by the beasts of the earth
Blech!
Here is the aftermath...
Each one begets the next
This is no trivial judgement
RRAAAWWW!
This the beginning of the end
And thus
The Great Tribulation has begun
This the beginning of the end
And thus
The Great Tribulation has begun
12. With Lifted Eyes 4:15
The vision beheld is one of terror and of glory
And every knee bows and every tongue confesses
So do the mountains crumble into silent awe
Creations groaning stills...
It gazes and as His brilliance pierces the dark, it flees
His presence overwhelms all
His majesty
(Oh, His glory
Hallelujah!)
(Hosannah!)
And as the sky rolls up and the stars begin to fall...
As the valleys rise up and the high places bow...
His people, with lifted eyes, raise hands
And voices and we scream, we sing:
The King...
The King is coming!
(The King is coming!)
Ablaze (single, December 13, 2013, Facedown Records) (Digital)
1. Ablaze 3:52
I will burn...
I will burn...
Through the world's affliction
Through the earth's decay and rot You reign
Victor to the victims
Life and restoration in Your name
Mercy for resistance
Even through my sin, Your grace abounds
Even in the distance
I hear Your voice and it sets my soul ablaze, my soul ablaze
Ignite the fire and I will burn
In these days of trial
In the years of turmoil You bring peace
In this life of anguish
The throne of grace and mercy brings release
Forever learning
Let Your Spirit guide me in this place
Hidden lamps are burning
It's time to let them shine and set this world ablaze
For the One who died for me: a liar
For the One who died for me: a thief
For the One whose eyes are filled with fire
For my loving Saviour I will burn
I will burn...
For the One who died for me: a liar
For the One who died for me: a thief
For the One whose eyes are filled with fire
For my loving Saviour I will burn
I will burn!
I will burn...
I will burn!
I will burn!
For the One who set me free I'll burn
For the One who died for me I'll burn
The Urgency (album)
January 17, 2014, Deadboy Records, Universal Music New Zealand (CD)
January 21, 2014, Facedown Records (CD, Digital)
January 21, 2014, Facedown Records, Limited Edition (12" Vinyl)
1. +0 3:13
Rrrrraaaawwww
Eeeeeerrrraaaa
Yeeeeeaaaaahh
You destroyers of grace
Destroyers of salvation
That which is wrought by faith
Can never be gained by works
The flesh you lean upon
Decays beneath you
It rots in your hands
It rots in your hands
Its acrid stench
Flows into your heart
Its acrid stench
Flows into your heart
Defecate your Bristol doctrine from your rectal tongue into porcelain
Defecate your Bristol doctrine from your rectal tongue into your cathedral
You mutilators
You deceivers
You've rendered the blood spilled
Pointless by taking up a burden long thrown to the ground
You have made them
Twice the sons of Hell
A burden only one man could ever bear
Defecate your Bristol doctrine from your rectal tongue into porcelain
Defecate your Bristol doctrine from your rectal tongue into your cathedral
You mutilators
You deceivers
If this is your way then Christ shall profit you nothing
If this is your way then walk it alone
Walk it alone
Walk it alone
Walk it alone
Walk it alone
Alone
All alone
Alone
All alone
Alone
All alone
2. Like A Trainwreck 2:28
With your sights aimed squarely at your two left feet
And your feet headed straight for your mouth
You run in ever decreasing circles of self defeat
Intent on keeping your eyes glazed over
And your head filled with lies
The truth is screaming at you
The truth is screaming at you
But the hedonistic hum of the west is all-consuming
It matches your frequency with the brownest of notes
While you medicate and masticate your way through life
Beauty passes beneath your nose unnoticed
For the beholder's eyes
Were torn from their sockets long ago
Beauty passes beneath your nose unnoticed
For the beholder's eyes
Were torn from their sockets long ago
EGH!
On your quest for self-gratification
I've seen you turn a blind eye
And drown out the voice of truth so many times
That I wonder if you even really want to be saved
But I can't leave you here to die
I can't just leave you here to bleed
But I can't leave you here to die
I can't just leave you here to bleed
Here to bleed
Here to die
Here to bleed
Here to die
With your sights aimed squarely at your two left feet
And your feet headed straight for your mouth
You run in ever decreasing circles of self defeat
Intent on keeping your eyes glazed over
And your head filled with lies
The truth is screaming at you
The truth is screaming at you
3. 1994 1:53
Don't you get comfortable
We are not a part of your furniture
We do not belong
We are here to burn your world to the ground
To the ground
EGH!
There is no corner to put us into
There is no wool over my eyes
There is no corner to put us into
There is no wool over my eyes
I perceive...
I perceive...
You can't poison the cure
What we carry crushes kingdoms
We will usher in a new age of truth
Make no mistake...
The past is gone
We will scream into the ears of those who sleep
We carry your awakening
We carry your awakening
And we are far beyond driven
Far beyond driven!!!
4. Descent 3:06
Clinging to the edge of my sanity
And I'm about to lose my grip
3285 taking its toll on my life
Who is the man that stares back from the mirror?
Is this beast my own creation?
As the final grain of sand drops free from the hourglass, I've lost sight
I'm looking away
I'm not the same
I'm not the boy who wrote those words
Can't shake the shame
With my head in my hands is there anything worse than forgetting your ways?
Than forgetting those nights and forgetting those days?
I am to blame
I'm looking away
I'm walking away
Tearing from the inside
Hearing voices
Seeing signs
Trying to find the answers
Losing ground, I've lost my mind
I could never imagine
I could never perceive how this ending would come
Always figured that something
Always figured that someone would tell me I'm done
But the fighting has killed me
And the fire within me has stifled and died
Now they're looking within me
And they're looking right through me
Exposing this lie
Tearing from the inside
Hearing voices
Seeing signs
Trying to find the answers
Losing ground, I've lost my mind
I've become the downside
Everything we once built I've destroyed
I am one with suicide...
Stumbling through this endless void
I am the apocalypse!
I am the apocalypse!
Betrayal on my lips
"Walking alone through this abyss,
My purpose remains clear..."
Freedom
I walk free
Walking free from the chains of a dead man
I walk free
Walking free from the chains of a dead man
I walk free
Walking free from the chains of a dead man
I walk free
I walk free from these chains
5. Horse Apples 2:15
This is the age of vanity
A self-obsessed generation publicly masturbating
Readily yielding privacy
And vomiting their ignorance into an ocean of foolishness
And vomiting their ignorance into an ocean of foolishness
Self portrait...
Self portrait...
Hand painted with diarrhea
Tunnel vision staring straight into a mirror
Tunnel vision staring straight into a grave
Breeding apathy and what seems like disbelief
In the existence of the world outside of your experience
This is the age of vanity
Nothing is sacred except for self
I refuse
I lift my body from the floor
I shall participate not more
I'm gouging out my minds eye
With bloody fingers
Of severed hands
Wash me clean and keep me free
Wash me clean and keep me free
"But this needy heart and these treacherous eyes would sooner have my drowning" than facing the sun
Keep me free
6. The Banks Of The Otara 3:09
OH!!!
Spilled into recollections
Encompassed by sound
Cut off...
Cut off and waiting
Cut off and waiting
12 years spent unconscious to my own grief
Pushed forward and owned by my own weaknesses
"I've done everything I can to push this away and forget it ever happened."
I've put these things below me
Attempting to heal through silence
I've put these things below me
Attempting to heal through silence
Or something
Or nothing
???
Or whatever
Warm blood
Deep breaths
You gave this noise to me
Warm blood
Deep breaths
You gave this noise to me
Warm blood
Deep breaths
You gave this noise to me
Warm blood
Deep breaths
You gave this noise to me
And I never thanked you because I never know
And I never once said what you meant
Or that I loved you
That I miss you
And I never thanked you
I never thanked you
But I wish you were here to see this
But I wish you were here with me
But I wish you were here to see this
But I wish you were here with me
7. Was:Is 2:26
Can you make it through the night?
Is prayer even answered?
Have you ever spoken?
Will I break and drink this light?
Is there any mercy...
Mercy for me?
The clock is broken.
Your eyes are swollen.
The price that I've paid.
The price.
Embraced the downfall.
Embraced the downfall.
Embraced the downfall.
Can I be the temple king?
Divine as my dreams,
Or is this my nightmare?
Will this ruin everything?
My life as a vapor.
Captive and dark.
Such thick oppression.
Dope sick repression.
The price that I'll pay.
The price...
So this is an overthrow.
Now this is my overthrow.
Overthrow.
Overthrow.
8. Ceremony 3:53
I exist to bring you despair.
I exist to usher your destruction.
Total chaos.
Total obliteration.
Your very demise is on the tip of my tongue.
No more lies.
No more deceit.
I have come to end it all.
I have arrived.
I have awakened.
Years of sorrow and years of torture culminating in this very instance.
A lesson lived, seven lessons learned.
Behind your disguise there is no surprise.
Can you see them?
The horde of soldiers shrouded in light?
Standing by my side?
As we sing a new song with fire in our eyes, this ritual is taking place.
Behold your downfall.
Welcome to your deathbed.
Behead the serpent.
Dig the grave.
Bury the body.
Walk away.
Walk away smiling...
9. The Anthem Of The Underground 3:48
GO!!
Fight.
Fight 'til the death!
Fight.
Fight.
Fight until our dying breath.
We are the broken.
We are the lost.
We are the ones who'll take this back,
At all costs.
This generation is alive.
The sleepless ones who'll raise the dead.
Because we have nothing to lose.
You can't hang this death over our heads.
No!
This is the time for which we're born,
And there's no way to slow us down.
This is the anthem of the underground.
We are the broken.
We are the lost.
We are the ones who'll take this back,
At all costs.
We are the faithful.
We are the few.
We are the chosen.
We are the true.
This generation is alive.
The sleepless ones who'll raise the dead.
Because we have nothing to lose.
You can't hang this death over our heads.
No!
This is the time for which we're born,
And there's no way to slow us down.
This is the anthem of the underground.
(Speaking)
Fight.
Fight 'til the death!
Fight.
Fight.
Fight until our dying breath.
Fight.
Fight 'til the death!
Fight.
Fight.
Fight until our dying breath.
OH!!
Fight.
Fight.
Fight.
Fight 'til the death!
Fight.
Fight.
Fight.
Fight 'til the death!
10. Temple Of The Snake 3:05
RAAAWWW!!!
Slipped once again and I'm finding myself back inside this same old story.
Fear coming over me, guilty as sin, succumbing.
I'm losing myself.
All the weight that I've carried these days is crushing me down and I fall.
Can't escape this.
How can I erase these thoughts?
They're all haunted by you.
YOU!!
Back once again and I'm drowning myself embracing this flesh-bough freedom.
It eats away at me and all the promises that I made,
I can't keep.
It's consuming me inside and out.
I'm blistered.
I'm rotting away.
Can't escape this.
How can I erase this?
Over and over again...
Still making the same mistakes.
Still walking away from grace.
I spend my days in the temple of the snake.
"And though you pick me up and you wash me clean,
I still turn and walk away.
I bite the hand that freely feeds.
I am the cause of all this pain."
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEOH!
Bind my hands.
Bury me.
Gouge my eyes out.
Set me free.
Bury me.
11. The Man Who Painted The Pavement 2:57
12. Ablaze 3:52
I will burn...
I will burn...
Through the world's affliction
Through the earth's decay and rot You reign
Victor to the victims
Life and restoration in Your name
Mercy for resistance
Even through my sin, Your grace abounds
Even in the distance
I hear Your voice and it sets my soul ablaze, my soul ablaze
Ignite the fire and I will burn
In these days of trial
In the years of turmoil You bring peace
In this life of anguish
The throne of grace and mercy brings release
Forever learning
Let Your Spirit guide me in this place
Hidden lamps are burning
It's time to let them shine and set this world ablaze
For the One who died for me: a liar
For the One who died for me: a thief
For the One whose eyes are filled with fire
For my loving Saviour I will burn
I will burn...
For the One who died for me: a liar
For the One who died for me: a thief
For the One whose eyes are filled with fire
For my loving Saviour I will burn
I will burn!
I will burn...
I will burn!
I will burn!
For the One who set me free I'll burn
For the One who died for me I'll burn
13. The Urgency 1:42
Listen...
Listen...
Listen...
Listen...
Be not sedated.
Be not amused.
Be not silenced.
Hide not this truth.
Be not sedated.
Be not amused.
Be not silenced.
Hide not this truth.
Recidivist (single, August 19, 2016, Facedown Records) (Digital)
1. Recidivist 3:43
Devoid of malicious intent
Just a mindless wanderer
Pushed and pulled by criminal impulses
Pulsating
Compulsive
An endless cycle of peaks and troughs
A perpetual rise and fall of weakness and will
Is this an illness, or nothing more than a product of the human condition?
A chasing of the wind
Just pissing in the wind
Bathed in the stench of repeated offenses
Enrobed with the reek of decay
A convict digging up corpses of past victims to kill again
Is this an illness, or nothing more than a product of the human condition?
A chasing of the wind
Just pissing in the wind
From blood to dust and back again
Stabbing, strangling putrefying flesh
The recidivist retracing steps erring both left and right
Yet there's no end in sight
Deeper
Further
To the very heart of darkness
Deeper
Further
And further still
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