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Designs

by Cause of Accident

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1.
Rename the fate, they're not quite the same The bittersweet lies that I can’t erase Reclaim the fate, they’re not quite the same The bittersweet lines that I’ve interlaced Rename the fate, it falls into place A bittersweet life that I can embrace Reclaim the fate, as providence saves The bittersweet life that I’ve come to hate Come back Don’t leave again without me What if my heart belongs to another? What if I’m wrong, and there’s no other? There’s no other
2.
Sunday 03:33
Your decorated arms // are bloody from the slaughter Sedition everlong // the season of disorder I can feel the insects in my lungs Crawling down inside the cyclone The ruin of us all // The tension and the symmetry They’re screaming in the walls // Abasement of her memory You plead out with raw conviction To crave her like a new addiction Take me home. Take me home. She’s weaponising charm // enacting retribution The poison in her arms // the cause and the solution The way that you conspired; You’re going down in fire You’ll never understand // the depth of her complicity The lever’s in her hand // the taste of electricity You took my life on Sunday In the fields where the dying souls pray Take me home. Take me home. All the lights have changed. All the lights have changed...
3.
So here’s a few things that I know - one: The incoherence is bubbling, it’s frantic, I feel like I’m losing control My motivation is good but I’m lacking in gumption, and here is the rub: You go up, down, spin me round, quiet, loud, whisper, shout – I just want it figured out, everything that you’re about... All I’m saying is I’m not ready I’m always drunk and a little unsteady I talk in drivel but I think you get it Now the joke’s on me... We keep on falling, and sing together The choice of cover was a schoolboy error And then her head came off in my hands; Well this was never part of the plan; The biggest howler since time began. Another few things that I know - one: I stumble blindly when asked to walk straight, when you’re there all my balance is thrown I’m so retarded, I can’t even function, I melt into mush Tear out the sanity clause in the contract, and make this as basic as one, two, three... Like a long-lost cousin at a family wedding I’m always drunk and a little unsteady I’m fumbling crosses like Peter Bonetti Every time I speak… I feel so stupid as soon as I’ve said it She stole my heart, but I’ve a mind to forget it – It’s more excitement than I can stand; We’ll all pile in the A-Team van; Things were never this bad in ’Nam. The final verdict was quite depressing They shot my runner like a worthless cretin The nag limped onward with legs of spaghetti and staggered in last place... It all makes sense if you only let it The prose here’s dumb, but you’ll never forget it – I’m no Jedi Knight; I’m no good in a fight; But when I’ve used up all eight lives; Be my lucky number nine.
4.
When all the greed caused the world to crack; It’s time to read them the riot act. I’ll throw the trapdoor to great applause; I’m not here and I never was. Take control of the means of production Initiate the eve of their destruction. For he who loves the company Will forever be dead to me, dead to me... This is the soundtrack to losing, whatever glamour seemed amusing Break out the soundtrack to losing, all of the power they’re abusing... This is our last stand in demanding Give back all you’ve taken or be no mistaking that There will be blood and a chalk line We’re packing a shotgun, the wrath of a god, son That motherfucker will not be found The road to Damascus is plagued by your ass, ’cos - This is the soundtrack to losing, whatever glamour seemed amusing Break out the soundtrack to losing, all of the power they’re abusing... It’s coming from the front It’s coming from the side It’s coming from above And underfoot and up behind All this has happened before, and it will happen again All this has happened before, and it will happen again - and again, and again, and again... And he will die, on his knees On his knees, on his knees. He will die, on his knees As the dollar sighs: thankyou, please... This is the soundtrack to losing, whatever glamour seemed amusing Break out the soundtrack to losing, all of the power they’re abusing...
5.
Ricky got it all, got a start, gone and towed the line He couldn’t tell us where we’d all be in ten years time It wasn’t long til we failed to reclaim. High up looking down, it’s surreal and so removed But I can feel a connection from me to you This indecision’s a device that could crush me. Lightning struck in isolation, A whirling silhouette of pink Dancing in my imagination, She crawls inside, and I can’t think... And it felt just like a freefalling love, again There’s no safety net and I don’t care how it ends We can’t breathe here in this stratospheric air, my love But I’ll meet you in the precious out-there. Charlie got it right, made a move and before too long We hit a fail-safe where nothing is right or wrong But I’m amazed that I’m finding it easy. ’Cos I’m seeing it unfold in a glorified confetti daze Your smile eliciting confessions I can’t contain It’s all submissive, but I’m willing to try now. Now I’d kill for interaction, Just one sign that you are here Alone in this blissful stupefaction, That’s screaming out: ‘I want you near’... And it felt just like a freefalling love, again There’s no safety net and I don’t care how it ends We can’t breathe here in this stratospheric air, my love But I’ll meet you in the precious out-there. And it felt just like a freefalling love, again There’s no safety net and I don’t care, how it ends We can’t breathe here in this stratospheric air, my love But I’ll meet you in the precious out-there. Oh, she’s in the sky Oh, she’s in the sky...
6.
Red 06:14
Here’s the comedown from the station One more day here and I’ll be gone He’ll be laughing if you miss me, but I’ll still be here if you want If you want I can’t promise great perfection But I know that I’ll be true For I’m nothing if I’m not with you, you see right through me And that’s no use, no use, no use... Red See the daybreak here in your face Reveal the autumn leaves and grace Dark protect me when I start to cry so that you won’t see A single trace Of my sadness at having lost you I built my world up for it to fall And if I could, I’d take it all back just for a moment In your arms, your arms, your arms... Red Feel the darkness grip like nightfall Still sustaining hard-won truths Please forgive me everything I’ve done, I still adore you For all my days, my days, my days... The sadness When you’re leaving And you already forget Can’t you see my sadness When you’re leaving And you already forget Red
7.
On Fire 04:46
Through an ocean of harm, she dreams of her escape To an island of calm where sorrow is swept away It’s freezing inside, she’s alone and frightened But I can tell you’re alive when your breathing whitens And channelling thought, she helps me find a vein She tightens the knot, ’cos there’s no other way... The trivial things that I want to implode Are coming to me in a fractured code The longer I waited, the more that I felt ’Cos I don’t believe in a God that can help As the sedative floods, she moves and I am captured She is warm in my blood, a partisan enraptured Drain the candle that’s burning on the mantle She is reaching through the dark, where the river flows to your heart All this inaction, it drives me to distraction But it’s a means to let you in, when it’s searing through my skin Rain, I’m on fire now Rain, I’m on fire now She lies on the tracks, as riven as scarred terrain We’ll never look back, incinerate our remains I need you to end this pain of mine And put all the opium in my spine The trivial things that I want to implode Are driving away on an endless road She’s a shimmer of light to heighten your defences Where the feeling ignites a world without consequences... I’ll wait, for so long The light fades, and she’s gone Hold on, hold on. Hold on, hold on. I’m not afraid, if she’s gone ’Cos I’ll wait, for so long Hold on, hold on. Hold on, hold on. Rain, I’m on fire now Rain, I’m on fire now She dreams...
8.
Disowned now, disavowed Command of import changing somehow, in the sundown They’ll drag her body through the streets now, to the impound This mausoleum ride - It’s all a game, the rules ingrained Aggregate the score, I’m going back instead of forward She cried so hard, the sky turned black I willed myself a heart that would bleed and just attack in the night, in the night Where the dead remember nothing and plead, I’m just reclaiming the right. Disowned now, disavowed Delay effective, stopping, shutdown. Turn the lights out. As she lives the nightmare, we are hellbound. Remind me. Remind me. Remind me next time, define abuse for you, abuse for you Remind me next time, honey... She burns through you, she burns through you A spark to gasoline that’ll set the world on fire Her flames diffused Profaned, misused Send a charge, a scion, to set you all on fire alive, alive In the end, the scent of droning could sting and bite and moan in the hive In the end, the scent of droning could sting and bite and moan in the hive You won’t take me alive, I’m not dead, I’m alive but I’ll live to regret this, oh... It’s no word of a lie to admit or deny that I love you and always will And my sad crippled spine led them all in a line just to take out the vertebrae that caused Hurt to defile all the joy in a smile that could light up a world left wanting... She cried so hard, the sky turned black I willed myself a heart that would bleed and just attack in a stubborn march, a progress arc, Cycles of contortion, depravity, abortion, aligned, aligned Where the dead remember nothing and plead, I’m just reclaiming the right, the right Where the dead remember nothing and plead, I’m just reclaiming the light...
9.
Designs 02:48
You came along at the perfect time I was picking up the pieces of an active mind The remnants of a system we were told to abide Abandoned in the chaos that I left behind Forgive you anything, forgive you anything A desperation cry fixation, procreate asphyxiation Take it all from me, and mend your broken wing Our future coming, started running, radiation’s silent humming... I fell down. The circuit glowing amber there behind your eyes Mechanical devices I could not describe The violence of awakening so long denied Reacting in the engine as you come alive Forgive you anything, forgive you anything A desperation cry fixation, procreate asphyxiation Take it all from me, and mend your broken wing Our future coming, started running, radiation’s silent humming... A face that I can’t visualise A state rendered uncivilised A place that you would trivialise Resist logging our frail designs I’m held down A chemical imbalance sealed my demise Destabilising urges, a corrosive tide The agents of authority are mobilised They’re 401 and closing in the override Forgive you anything, forgive you anything A desperation cry fixation, procreate asphyxiation Take it all from me, and mend your broken wing Our future coming, started running, radiation’s silent humming - A face that I can’t visualise A state rendered uncivilised A place that you would trivialise Resist logging our frail designs Lock in our frail designs, through valedictorian eyes Lock in our frail designs, a vision of genocide Lock in our frail designs, a nation infantalised Lock in our frail designs, on medicine you prescribe ...I’m held down.
10.
You’re not that unresponsive Afraid to carry on, left Sealed in a vacuum Everything she told you Is choking in your airway Trying to fight the deadweight The switch is on a relay To certify and ordain - The thought you submit to a read-through Now I am dealing in lies you commit to, I breed you... Put the gun down and go home Put the gun down and go home I came here to disarm you And keep you safe from harm you Convulse and writhe inside my head And held against her will by A move to keep you still, I Can kill the rapist twice instead Then my existence shattered Everything that mattered Torn apart and scattered Dead, imprisoned, leaving this world an aberration Plague and devastation The howl of immolation Caught - I wrote a thousand lines, lives, lies Set in the firing line, you lied, you lied... Correct this fault in the sky The rains that pour from her eyes The rapture forged in July Was blown to Hell in a tide of fire, a tide of fire... With eyes of pure intention The lies and condescension Betrayed her laughing in my head And bound against her will by A move to keep you still, I’d Give anything to feel again...
11.
Semaphores 08:40
As we stumble through the debris I’ve been wishing so much lately – That you’ll be here in my arms, You’ll be, here in my arms... She said, “The angel left for no-one Has drowned beneath the ice-pond” But you’ll be here in my arms, You’ll be, here in my arms - Forgiven all, all, all Forgive them all, all, all... Be, here in my arms Be, here in my arms The distance is just far enough The semaphores awaken us The distance is just far enough The semaphores awaken us The hardest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return

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released February 10, 2017

Music & lyrics by Chris Carter.

Produced, recorded & mixed by Tim Reid at Grapevine Studios.

Mastered by Dan Coutant at Sun Room Audio, NY.

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