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Down Into The Depths
03:31
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What if the shadows left me alone
for just one moment I could breathe
And what if the shadows left me alone
for just one moment I could breathe
No I will not tell you no
I will not go away I'll relax and fall
Down into the depths of every hole I've ever fell in
Down into the depths of every hole I've broke my face in
And then there's the screaming
They can’t stop the screaming
It goes on and on and falls in two
And they want you
And they want you to
Hold their little hand
And "walk with me
Walk with me"
And tell me everything about yourself
Everything about yourself
Before I die
Before I slip away
Down into the depths of every hole I've ever fell in
Down into the depths of every hole I've broke my face in
You want to take me on yeah
You want to take me on
but you can't see through these eyes
You want to take me down but
Said you want to take me down yeah
But you can't see through my eyes
you can't see through my eyes
I've been building this time
I've been building this time bomb
for some time and
you might want to walk away yeah
you might want to walk away there's
no telling what these limbs might do
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All this time feeling
All these backwards feelings
Drifting on —- but called back
again
All these eyes on you
Locked in silence too
Itʼs not a part of you
Now the scapegoats calmly
killing em
Oh the verse is golden
Dropping off and crippling
Down with her - so itʼs back
again
All these eyes on you
Droppin codes untrue
Slipping through my arms
It’s always coming back again
Stay wide-eyed
Stay right in front of me
All the words are frozen
Droppin off circlin
Down your throat
Hold them back again
All these eyes on you
Droppin coldest truths
See it crippling them
Oh the time for your
scapegoatsʼ crumblin
Stay wide-eyed
Stay right in front of me
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3. |
Defeated
03:51
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You donʼt want it, itʼs all been depleted
Locked in place the time has defeated it all
Over and over and over and over
You donʼt want it, itʼs all been depleted
Locked in place the time has defeated it all
Drifting and falling and seeing it all go
Down in a hole Iʼve been hopin and dreamin
I cannot believe that thereʼs nothing
Keeping me whole
Keeping me whole
Get out of my way when I come out bleedin
Nothings right and I feel Iʼm deceiving the world away
All the lies at bay oh
This defeated the purpose of dreaming
And I cannot see all the ways that itʼs hurting
Itʼs downward
The fires burning
Locked away and I feel all alone again
Glad to die and I see through your wounds and your lies
Please fall
Down in a hole Iʼve been hopin and dreamin
I cannot believe that thereʼs nothing
Keeping me whole
Keeping me whole
Get out of my way when I come out bleedin
Nothings right and I feel Iʼm deceiving the world away
All the lies at bay oh
Your deceiving
The world is believing
Way down in the open
Youʼre dragging your crown on my
Soil
Fingernails digging youʼre way out
Relieving your mountains of crutches
And no one believes that you’re sane
Finally you’re
Down in a hole Iʼve been hopin and dreamin
I cannot believe that thereʼs nothing
Keeping me whole
Keeping me whole
Get out of my way when I come out bleedin
Nothing’s right and I feel Iʼm deceiving the world away
All the lies at bay oh
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4. |
This Dream Does Not Work
04:04
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Tell me
Why won't you suffocate?
Why do you hold on so?
Close your eyes and just let go
Let go
And after all of the trouble and
all of the pain
and all of the things you've
done
Why can't you
just disappear and let it all
fade away
Let me
find something for my own
Let me find something to hold
onto
I watched clarity slip away
I felt clarity slip away
And after all of the trouble
and all of the pain
and all of the things you've
done
Why don't you
disappear and let it all
fade away
Don't come back today
Why don't you disappear
Turn to dust my dear
Let the winds carry your dirty
face to the shore
Where you drown
Why is it you'd float upstream
Come back for me
Arm over arm
determination
Cause I've got to crack
you've got to let me know I'll
never make it
I'll never make it
After all of the trouble
and all of the pain
and all of the things you've
done
Why don't you fade away
After all of the trouble and all
of the pain
and all of the things you've
done
Why don't you stop your
breathing oh
After all of the trouble and all
of the pain
and all of the things that
you've done
Why don't you stop breathing
And let it fade away
and let it fade
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5. |
Pushed To The Limit
03:42
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No closure, walk in her sights
In time youʼll see it all yeah
No closure, walk in her sights you
Youʼll find a way out
Heʼll find a way out
Whether or not youʼre breathing
Heʼll find a way out
Pushed to the limits leaving
No closure walk in her sights you
Youʼll travel all around it
No closure walk in her sights you
Youʼll find a way out
Heʼll find a way out
Whether or not youʼre breathing
Heʼll find a way out
Pushed to the limits leaving
And now your time is running out yeah
No closure, walk in her sights
In time youʼll see it all yeah
No closure, walk in her sights you
Youʼll find a way out
Heʼll find a way out
Whether or not youʼre breathing
Heʼll find a way out
Pushed to the limits
And now your time is running out
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6. |
Deeper In The Shallow
04:57
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They will dress you up, just to take you out and break your face
Split your sides with laughter, meanwhile your heads’ erased
And when the bottle’s empty and you’re all alone you feel
And when the bottle’s empty and you’re all alone you feel
No it’s not so easy is it
Beaten down and overcome with sorrow
No it’s not the first time
Close your eyes it’s blackened till tomorrow
And so you spit names, choke on scenes, deeper in the shallow
And now you’re blind to facts, defend their thoughtless acts
and drown in the shallow
And when the bottle’s empty and you’re all alone you feel
And when the bottle’s empty and you’re all alone you feel
No it’s not so easy is it?
Beaten down and overcome with sorrow
No it’s not the first time
Close your eyes it’s blackened till tomorrow
And when you turn your back, they’ll be there with knives up yeah
And when you start to bleed, they’ll tell you how you’ve sinned
And no words can express the way I’m feeling now
Terrified, your heart stops - is this the end?
And it’s not the way yeah
There’s nowhere you can run, from the past and what’s been done
and I fall
Forgiveness just drowned in, just drowned, drowned in my head
The fists fall and life drops
It’s mapped out and you can’t stop
Break it down, watch it crumble on
Now there’s no sound when the music dies
You will be
You will be
You will be
You will be gone
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7. |
This Lonely Choir
05:00
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Youʼve depleted all the ways that Iʼve found
Youʼre still needing all the songs of this lonely choir
Youʼre still feeling going back all the way to the wire
Youʼre seceding prophesies in the warm red fire
Keep your eyes wide open
Keep your eyes on me
Youʼre deleting all the ways that Iʼve found
Decimated only way to my one way out
Youʼre seceding no the heathens canʼt stay around me
Itʼs repeating always sleeping with one eye open
Keep your eyes wide open
Keep your eyes on me
Keep your eyes wide open
Keep your eyes on me
Punching my way out Iʼm coming to get you
Can you feel it? Can you feel it?
Itʼs down to the wire and nothing will stop me
Can you feel it? Can you feel it?
Hold on to me tighter, weʼll never be silenced
Can you feel it? Can you feel it?
Weʼll silence the liars, this all will expire
And soon be over
Tried depleting all the ways that Iʼve found
Youʼre still needing all the songs of this lonely choir
Youʼve no feelings going back all the way to the wire
Youʼre seceding push you back in the warm red fire
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8. |
Supervised Suffering
06:04
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Sunday morning going backwards
Feel all the hope has died
Keeping the smile on feeling weighed down
Locked out overall
Feeling alone in guarding our lives
Keep it all outside no opening up
Locked down, feeling low
Going round in my mind
Coming back to see it
It’s the way out
The way out
Sunday morning’s fake sunrises
Fighting back tears climb the compromise now
The way out
Pen to paper sick of listening eyes
All words unspoken
I see it in your eyes
Open the door imagine them run
Been locked away and they feel it all
It’s supervised suffering
in sterile rooms they listen in
I’ll open the door
You run and run
Feel alive
Then meet me home
And never-mind the wake behind me
I’ve been stomping and slashing and cutting through
To the way out
The way out
Step right in front of me now
It’s the last thing you’ll ever do
The way out
The way out
Your “justice” is broken
Burn down your system
It’s time
You can’t contain us
Nothing will keep me away
Calm down now my baby girl I’m here
And wipe the tears from your beautiful, big brown eyes
No one’s gonna keep you away from me
The way out
The way out
Step right in front of me now
I’ll force feed you your last breath
The way out
The way out
Stomping your teeth in
Stay right out of my way
Cause you kept us locked out
Tell me now
How does it feel?
No one will keep me from my children
So calm down now my baby boy we’re home
And wipe the tears from your beautiful, big brown eyes
Cause no one’s gonna take you away from me
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9. |
Set Fire
05:40
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These exit wounds
all now paint the truth
All these scars in view
now become the proof
And now I am bleeding out
you left me reeling now
Same story different lies
now I canʼt turn this around
Left in silence
Words rip so violent
Now these thoughts are crumbling
No I will not see your face again
And if I claw my way out
I will set fire
And if I claw my way out
I will set fire
And when I claw my way out
I will set fire
And when I claw myself out
I will set fire
So set fire and burn this thing on down
Set fire and burn this thing on down
Set fire and burn this thing on down
Set fire and burn this thing on down
Set fire and burn this thing on down
Set fire and burn this thing on down
Set fire and burn this thing on down
Set fire and burn this thing on down
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Assertion Tacoma, Washington
Formed in June of 2019
Assertion is:
William Goldsmith (Sunny Day Real
Estate, The Fire Theft, Foo Fighters and Brawley Banks) on drums and vocals
Bryan Gorder (Slorder, Blind Guides, The Speans) on bass
Justin Tamminga (Pig Snout, Blind Guides, Dying Trades) on guitars and vocals
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