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Intro
00:42
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2. |
Crush
05:16
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Carried forth
With unrelenting force
So easily
How’d I ever make it this far
When I’ve spent so much
Of my precious time just worrying
Without a goal, just a blackened hole
A poisoned spear
Piercing a trail of fading years
Memories of many shattered, wasted hours
Fall away like tears
I don’t know what this means
I don’t know why it’s happening
Just keep pushing and shoving through everything
How’d I ever make it to you
And as the sun becomes a stealer of all our life
And time for panic-button full-overdrive
I would stay behind in the harshest light
To hold you as we head into the dawn
Then come what may
Dust to dust
Call out my name
Do whatever that you must
All alone, hear the footsteps
All approaching from some unseen
Paranoid delusion daydream
Somewhere inside, I hope there’s
Someone really watching me
A hush of tones and rattled bones
An acrid smear
Fearing there’ll be none of this left to hear
Peel away the layers to softened, pulpy mush
All pulverised and crushed
I don’t know what this means
I don’t know why it’s happening
Just keep pushing and shoving through everything
How’d I ever make it to you
And as the sun becomes a stealer of all our life
And time for panic-button full-overdrive
I will stay with you in the harshest light
The brightest dawn
Until it all falls away...
A bitter word on my tongue
Let it go, let it go
A savage thought on my mind
Let it go
Is there time on our side?
Never know, never know
My fears blown open-wide
Always know
They’re all inside
Silently
Face despair
Until all the noise of the world
Returns loud and clear
And it’s too much to bare
Is it my fate not to care?
I don’t know what this means
I don’t know why it’s happening
Just keep pushing and shoving through everything
How’d I ever make it to you
And as the sun becomes a stealer of all our life
And time for panic-button full-overdrive
I will stay with you in the harshest light
Until it’s all gone
How will I hold on
How will I hold on
When It’s all gone
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3. |
Left For Dead
05:40
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You sucker of blood
You ruiner of all that is good
You’re draining all of the life from me
I’ve stood my ground
But you’re never pulling your punches
You like to see that we suffer
Pulled apart like a doll
Thrown away on the heap
No remorse as they go
Always watch as they weep
Turn a blind eye to circumstance
So much colder than they know
Say something that
Means something
Not poisoned words
Hollow and blurred
Like a voice in my head
Saying I’m better off dead
Some things are better left unsaid
There's no reprieve
From plans that were formed to deceive
Kept in the dark and always so naive
Clutching at straws
Pushing on all of the buttons
Trying so hard just to make this work
Well we’ll go berserk
Lashing out
As we search for self worth
Chewed to bits like a toy
Tossed upon the pile
All the knives cut so deep
Stabbing as they smile
All the serpentine slithering
Their intentions becoming clear
Raise the flag
It's time to go
There's no backing down
It's here, it’s time to face our fears
We’re scared, holding in the tears
Be strong, there’s nothing for us here
Just weight we’ve carried round for years
Say something that
Means something
Words that are real
Something I can feel
As we’ve been left for dead
Some things are better unsaid
Say something that
Means something
Words that are real
Something I can feel
As we’ve been left for dead
Some things are better left unsaid
I’ll put you in your place
Deep in a corner of my mind
You are such a hideous disgrace
I hope it burns down around you
As you turn to face the music
But I bet you won’t care if it disintegrates
Dust into the air, you’ll just start anew
I hope I forget about you
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Interlude
01:04
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5. |
Never The Right Time
04:51
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Smothered in sweat like I've sprung a leak
Parallel lines down both my sides
Something is off, I don’t know what it is
How have I not lost all of my pride
Some days I’m lost within a void
Thoughts drift to all that seems so sad
It’s so ridiculous it makes me laugh
I can no longer get myself mad
Because I'm to blame
Maybe life's not so bad
Never the right time
Always the wrong time
Always too late
Walking a fine line
Falling far behind
Choosing to wait
It's never the first time
Always the last time
Always my fate
Always fear there's something wrong
Look it all up on the internet
How many horrors can I find
How much more stressed out can I become
How much more shit poured into my mind
Skin is literally cracking across my face
From all the poison down inside
Letting my body succumb to waste
Well I know I don't want to hide
I want release from this slide
Never the right time
Always the wrong time
Always too late
Walking a fine line
Falling far behind
Choosing to wait
It's never the first time
Always the last time
Always my fate
I can’t figure out what makes you love me
Everything in me is so ugly
Everything breaking, twisting, faulting, wasting, hating
There is always something that I can put aside
To stop me searching, finding, making, binding, loving
Maybe I can change
No longer so empty
This isn’t the way it has to be
No longer my own worst enemy
No longer a hindrance to myself
Never the right time
Always the wrong time
Always too late
Walking a fine line
Falling far behind
Choosing to wait
It's never the first time
Always the last time
Always my fate
Never the right time
Always too late
It’s always too late
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6. |
It's Not Happening
06:43
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I’ve seen it on the tv
I see it in the news
All the words
And the sounds
But they mean nothing
It all exists elsewhere
It's like it isn't there
Keep my head
In the clouds
Flee the storm incoming
The meltdown
Because it's not happening to me
Should be all that i can see
But it's not happening to me
I seek clear skies
Won't you leave me be
In my home, in my head
I don’t know what’s been said
In the streets, in the crowds
Where they gather
I cross the road
To avoid
Other people’s eyes
Cast my gaze
To the ground
Leave them far behind
Just show me the truth
I won't swallow all your lies
Packaged and slick
It's what we buy
And we can't get enough
Headlines all scream
To be heard, to be seen
It's what we need
Let them show we're so unclean
By the gospel of the screen
But it's not happening to me
Should be all that I can see
But it's not happening
So don't you take me
Please call off your dogs
And let me be
It's not what I want to see
It's not happening
I’ll flick the switch
And wake up from this dream
I need some space
I need some fresh air
I don’t need arguments
About what’s fair
I want wonderment
And natural beauty
To remind myself
That there is good here
Free of all the despair
Deep in a mind
That’s opened up and clear
From their project fear
I’ll walk the streets
And hike over fields
Run to the lakeside
Mellow and healed
My headphones
Playing the music
That I hold dear
Bounce in my footsteps
Sun beating down
Upon the ground
It’s a beautiful day
It’s a beautiful world
Don’t take that please
It’s a beautiful day
Don’t take that from me please
It’s a beautiful day
A beautiful world
Don’t take the from me please
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7. |
We Are Animals
06:34
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We tear around for hours
In cars out on the roads
Always everything with urgency
Wanting more
Put the pedal to the floor
Some don't know where they're going to
Others walk their chosen path
We all end up in the same place
It's always a trail we can't retrace
Alarm, sore eyes
Work late, rewind
Wish life away
Most days we forget we're animals
Just flesh, blood and bones
Why make it so much more complicated
On this rock in space, we're so alone
We rush around the offices
The work is never done
We're holding on for holidays
And the fleeting moments in the sun
Up later, so tired
But can't sleep
Till the noise in
Our brains goes away
Most days we forget we're animals
Just flesh, blood and bones
Why make it so much more complicated
On this rock in space, we're alone
Some times we forget what’s above
Too concerned with what’s below
And all the many things that we believe we know
No time to look inside ourselves
Though many words are so unkind
So many different ways to back away and firmly close our minds
Maybe too afraid of the truth that we might find
Underneath our skin
The tired beating of our hearts
Our patience stretched so thin
Pulled tight, until everything within is breaking
Don’t know where we’ve crossed the line
We’ve lost sight of what is wrong or right
Too late to stop and turn around
Unhappy, so sleepy
No escape, so empty
Our money, can’t buy everything we crave
So simple, so fragile
So confused, and so in denial
No we’ll never have enough
Never
No we’ll never have enough
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8. |
Be Anything
04:17
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At school we understood
Learned the things that they said we should
We were taught to interact
With our peers
Who'd stab us in the back
They set us on a path
Put in place the structure of our lives
Now the future is all fear
What's ahead has become unclear
It's okay
You don't have to be afraid
Just work hard
And you will be paid
Don't think
Be the best you can be
Just live life blindly
The words in all the books
All the tales about the future and the past
Some lessons have been spurned
And yet so many remain unconcerned
What will be our legacy
Is it better to be scared or to be free
You don't have to run or fight
Everything will be alright
There's plenty for everyone
Don’t think
Be the best you can be
You can be anything you want
You can do anything
You can be anything you want
That's no lie
The present is a blank page
In a big, wide-open book
But don’t look
Don’t look
Don’t you dare look
Don’t look
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9. |
Try
05:17
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It seems to be
We cannot see just what we are
The moving car already crashed out,
already gone up in flames
It’s sad to see
Just how high we can raise the bar
Every time we think we’ve maxed out
There is so much more we can lose
It’s so easy to try
But so easy to fail
While we’re living in this living hell
So scream as the madness fills the air
Attain the thousand mile stare
There’s still nothing for us anywhere
Well we’ve really dropped the ball now
Too stupid to ignore
The ringing of the door bell
They’ll always let you down
The prophets and the clowns
We’ve played into their hands
It’s so easy to be in here
With it out there
We’re just simply too meek to look at it in the eyes
While struggling to fill all of this dead time
Won’t some body tell us
Things will be alright
Because we’re starting to yearn
For the point of no return
There’s no way left for us to steer
The final stop off no where near
And not one thing remaining clear
Not one thing
It seems to be
It’s just what we are now
We’re no longer rational beings
It’s gone too far
We’ve grown the seed
That was already planted
The poisoned thorn has dug
It’s way down deep within
It’s so easy to try
But so easy to fail
While we’re so busy living in this living hell
There’s no asking why
And there’s no peering in
Won’t use our minds
Won’t use our eyes
Won’t see both sides
Just try, just once in your life
Try, oh won’t you
Try, oh won’t you try
just once before you die
It’s coming round
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10. |
No Going Home
04:48
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There’s no going home
We're stuck within this place
There’s no feeling here
It's cold and dark and strange
And I want to feel the sun shine on my face
Just like then
I want to feel it in my bones
So tell me why can't I go back
It was our time
We laughed and watched the stars
And searing, crimson blood sunsets
Filled our hearts
Now I feel nothing at all
The weeks have flown by
The years gone in no time
The past left behind
Oh why were we so blind
(recall)
When we were so happy
(free fall)
There's no stopping
I've feared and sometimes I have cried
There's something deep in this longing
There's nothing worthwhile in this pain
I'll be forever here dreaming
It's forever lost
This place
It's just an empty space
This place
Please just pull me out
Turn me around
So i can back away
Flee from the dark
I feel it in my bones
So tell me why can't I go back
It was our time
We laughed and watched the stars
And searing, crimson blood sunsets
Filled our hearts
And now I feel nothing at all
I see it in your face
It’s just like mine
A matching pair
We just don’t care
(recall)
When we were so happy
(free fall)
There's no stopping
So let's just close our eyes and dream
I'll meet you there
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11. |
Sink Or Swim
03:58
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Don’t know when to sink or swim
Duck my head beneath the water on a whim
Occupied by foul diseases
Feel it all just fall to pieces
Wedded to monotony and endless fallacies
Perturb the mind
And death is on the breeze
Don’t cry
Just look away
Nothing there to comfort or ease
Such a brutal tease
Culpable but unavowed (A hex on everyone)
Merry, dancing figurines upon a cloud (Await beyond)
Don’t believe a word they tell me
Corrosive bandwidth spreads the ugly
All the good and all the trust
Is sorrowed by a squalid, mellow rust
And death is on the breeze
Don’t cry
Feel it every day
My eyes need to look away
To unsullied skies
To a place where I will feel disdain no more
Where a knock on the door
Awakes me from a fever dream landslide
A smelling salt rebound, dredged from the inside
The rudder-less frame cracks and starts to shake
Cuz It can’t keep up the pace
Keeps on shuddering while trying to save face
Can’t keep up with the mistakes we’ve made
On borrowed time (it all falls away)
A loss of worth
The selfish ghost rebirth
Watch, helpless, cowering as the pitied mind consumes the earth
Without a care
There’s no one out there
No one with us here
There’s no one watching, never watching
Never there
Please don’t cry
There’s nothing more to say
Please don’t cry
I need to look away
Please don’t cry
I Feel it everyday
Please don’t cry
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Fracture
06:34
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Everything is temporary
We are perched upon a sharpened knife's edge
Stuttering, it really wouldn't take too much to make it fall away and break
A sudden shattering of normality
Leaving only what we've shared between us
Saddening, why all our memories are so fragile and can’t be trusted
Already, the many precious things are fading as they’re left so far behind
Can't relive again, all the joy and pain
Scattered thoughts remain
And I hold on to the blame
For every messed up, silly choice I made
And I can't help wondering
How you'd have lived had you not known my name
Would you have lived a fuller life
Or would you be someone's unhappy wife
Kids in tow, watching them grow
Helplessly sad
Instead you’re stuck with me
And I hope you’re happy
Can’t undo history
It’s lead both of us here
All that we have left to follow
Amongst the madness and sorrow
Who knows how many tomorrows
Will come
But I’ll do my best to enjoy every one
We’re still alive
Even if it feels some days just like we’re drowning
In the waves of the endless noise and the stress
Amidst the work and mess
Let it go
You’ve got to know
It’s just not important
We’re all that matters
Now and forever
Live
We’ve got to live
Before it’s too late
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13. |
Up In Smoke
07:06
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Too mismatched to commit to this
It couldn't last, it’s just attraction
There's nothing there shared in common
Two people who were not meant to be
Well it turns out
You can't buy me off with your money
Always keep leaving me so empty
I should've known
I couldn't get everything i want
Because i don’t know what i want
Maybe just some peace inside
It's up in smoke
Its all laid to waste behind me
It's all turned to ashes in my hands
That I can't hold
And I feel so old when i'm alone
Descended from a place that's all sad and broken
Behind my smile-less face, there’s a grief unspoken
Lets take a ride on the outside
Just for one day a week
I'll take you home when it's through
Not enough to know you
And I've been so meek
So self-absorbed in my anxiety
This picture isn't so pretty
And I should've grown
But instead this is all I’ve known
Can’t change now
This is how it has to be
But maybe that’s okay
Now there’s nothing to get in my way
Nothing left to lose anymore
It’s up in smoke
So don’t you ever bother giving me a hand
Something is dead inside
And you’ll never take me alive
There’s no showdown
Just closed off without a whimper
Our name is lost to the flames
It’s no tragedy
No future for you and me
Dead ends a the family tree
Faceless, unknown
No need to look ahead
Or back to empty yesterdays
When you went
Your separate ways
We came undone
In more ways than one
And when I’m gone
We will be reduced to none
Anger, fury and madness no longer fill every silence
I wonder, what will become of us years from now
Will we still get together
The time vague, always and never
The past is all lost forever
I’d change nothing
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The Black Light:
Martin Bassett and Andrew Watt
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