1. |
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(Rook)
The red sky fading in the distance
The peacesign burning in a vision from God
Please help me
The red sky fading in the distance
The peacesign burning like a vision from God
Please help me
(Devi)
NO HOPE
NOOOOO HOPE
Eeughh... NOOOOO HOPE
Can we make something beautiful with NO hope?
(Rook)
The nightmare hiding in the corner
The dead hope that you always held onto as a little girl
You know why everything is horror
(Devi)
Horror horror
(Rook)
You know why no one will remember us in a better world
(Devi)
CAN WE MAKE SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL?
FOR A BETTER WORLD?
FOR A BETTER WORLD?
(Devi)
(unintelligible)
(Rook)
[Lyrics unknown]
(Devi)
(unintelligible)
PEACE SIGN
You can do whatever
I'll see you later
You can do whatever
(unintelligable)
(Rook)
?????????????????
The dead hope that you always clung to
The dream that someday it would heal you
Is there anywhere left to fall?
I try so hard to recall hope
Ancient hope
Rotting hope
Can we make something beautiful with no hope?
(Rook+Devi)
Ancient hope
Rotting hope
Can we make something beautiful with no hope?
With no hope
WIth no hope
Can we make something beautiful with no hope?
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2. |
Concrete Bubble
03:34
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(Rook)
OKAY
UH
ALRIGHT ALRIGHT
UHHHH
Haha... uhh...
FUCK THIS SHIT UP UHHH
Rock out rock out
Ok
Devi,
(Devi)
Rock your body uh uh uH UH UH
Rock your body like a cattle plague
Endless, paralytic, stagnant uncertainty
Watch the death like a shitlib
Sitting on your hands
Never did shit, never known shit
Never done shit for anyone ever
Never-never done shit for anyone ever
I know it's not easy for anyone
We're all on a clear light hell trip
But that doesn't mean we shouldn't try
Just don't come anywhere near me
And we'll be ok
I don't wanna see anyone's face
I'm dealing with my own shit right now
You can deal with your shit somewhere else
(Rook)
TEN THOUSAND EYES (yea!)
BROKEN LENSES SEEING DIFFERENT LIVES
IT'S OKAY TO HIDE (yea~!)
If you have the luxury...
THIN LINES (yea)
GETTING THINNER ALL THE TIME
THE LIGHT:
CASTING SHADOWS TIL THE SHADOWS
ARE THE ONLY THING ALIVE
ELEVEN THOUSAND EYES
(Devi)
Stuck inside a concrete bubble
Everyone is "doing their best"
I think that it's kind of whatever.
But dreams are not meant to be achieve
It's just not enough
It's never been enough
When the FUCK has it ever been enough
Only to dream?
(Rook)
How do you know
What direction you should go?
Breaking into pieces
Offering up your soul
Keep it behind your windows
I can't put you at ease or judge you
Everyone is a different ruin
Everyone has to figure their own shit out
I'm not you
I'm not you
And you're not me
I'm not you
And you're not me
I'm not you
AND YOU'RE NOT ME
(Devi)
I'm not you and you're not me
I'm not you and you're not me
You're not me and I'm not you
I'm not you and you're not me
I can't even stand to be me.
What the fuck is going on in your head?
What the fuck is going on in your head?
What the fuck is going on in your head?
(Rook:)
I KNOW WHAT IT FEELS LIKE
EMPTY HOLLOW INSIDE
EVERYONE'S FUCKED UP
I CAN'T TELL YOU THAT YOU'RE FINE
Life goes on, you know?
(Devi)
Is that...?
shit.
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3. |
Bulldozer
02:56
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(Devi)
Pussy like a bulldozer
Pussy like a bulldozer, drooling and grinding
Pussy like a bulldozer
Pussy like a blown out speaker
Pussy like a bulldozer
My pussy like a bulldozer, drooling and grinding
My pussy like a bulldozer
My pussy like a blown out speaker
My pussy like nothing at all
So it doesn't matter
I could fall apart right now if I wanted to
Give it to you raw
Like this, no autotune
But I could still feel it
But you could still hear it
No one wants to say what.
Kinda skittish like a cheating love
Change your life like a free hug
Changing tactics like I give a fuck
Kinda fucked up...
(Rook)
Fucked up.
Pussy like a
Pussy like a
Pussy like a- uh-
My pussy like a
(Devi)
I thought there was a mistake but I was wrong
Thought there was something I was missing, I was different
But I was-
I wanted to be like the other girls
Now I'm just like the other girls
I wanted to be like the other girls
Now I'm just like the other girls
I wanted to be like the other girls
Now I'm just like the other girls
(Rook)
Pussy like a
Pussy like a
Pussy like a
Pussy like a
My pussy like a blown out speaker
Uhuh
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4. |
Heaven
03:08
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(Devi)
I'm just meat without a soul,
Without a brain,
Without anything,
An animal.
I'm just meat without a soul,
Without a brain,
Without anything,
An animal,
I have no spirit everlasting.
I love feelin' pain
Makes me feel like I'm going to heaven
Makes me feel like I'm going to heaven
Makes me feel like I'm going to heaven
I love feeling pain
Makes me feel like I'm going to heaven
Makes me feel like I'm going to heaven
MAKES ME FEEL LIKE I'M GOING TO HEAVEN
(Rook)
The night explodes in the light
From a shooting star
All things beautiful and warm
Reflected in your heart
And all broken creatures are
Perfect just the way they are
But it's easy to be disillusioned
When you don't know who you are
(Devi)
Ok uhh
(clears throat)
Uh yea
I'm nothing
I'm less than nothing
I'm just spit in the wind
That's-
That's so wonderful
Isn't it beautiful?
I know that you are doing good!
Every sunrise brings a new tomorrow!
(Rook)
The night explodes in the light
From a shooting star
IT'S EASY TO BECOME DISILLUSIONED
WHEN YOU DON'T KNOW WHO YOU ARE
And it can live forever in your heart
It can live forever in your heart
Forever in your heart
It can live forever in your sick pathetic little heart
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5. |
Tiny Ball
02:15
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(Rook)
Everything's inside a tiny ball
Everything's inside a tiny little ball
Of fear and pain
Everything's inside a tiny ball
Everything's inside a tiny little ball
Of suffering
(Rook+Devi)
We all live inside a tiny ball
We all live inside a tiny ball
Of pain and suffering
(Rook)
Inside our tiny little walls
(Rook+Devi)
Tiny balls for life
Hell yeah hell yeah
We all live inside a tiny ball
(Rook)
Stuck inside our tiny little walls
(Rook+Devi)
Everything's so tiny and small
(Rook)
Tiny little ball
(Rook+Devi)
We all live inside a tiny tiny little ball
(Devi)
I know it sounds stupid for a world like this,
People do their best
And still come off so twisted up and so heartless
And I know I'm grateful if someone tries at all
Still ends crumpled up,
Scrunched up, like a tossed away love letter but
(Devi+Rook)
I think
(Devi)
If there was ever a right way to do it
(Devi+Rook)
I think
(Devi)
That nobody's ever even done it
(Devi+Rook)
And I know
(Devi)
A Stupid Evil Eye for Perfection
(Devi+Rook)
Even though
(Devi)
It's unsuited for a world like this
(Rook)
A tiny little ball
Tiny little ball.
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6. |
Silver Bells
03:11
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(Devi)
I always hoped that it could be something else
I couldn't think about it cos it made me too depressed
And in my head it rang like silver bells
To think that even one single wound could be healed
But on a clear and cloudless day
It feels like the planets atmosphere
Is stitched together by everyone's pain
And we just breathe it in...
But they want something that they couldn't get
(Rook)
Something that no longer exists
Or that doesn't yet
And we try so hard
And we try to make
Something out of this
(Devi)
Sad and rainy day
(Devi)
I always hoped that it could be something else (x4)
(Rook)
I'M TIRED
I'M OUT OF BREATH
I'M SCARED OF EVERYTHING THAT'S LEFT
I JUST WANT SOME GENTLENESS
BUT TENSION AND DESPAIR
IS ALL WE EVER GET
(Devi)
Are u ok?
(Rook)
Sorry, um,
(Devi)
No no but like are-
(Rook)
Got kinda carried away there...
(Devi)
I'm saying are you actually,
(Rook)
Ok
(Devi)
Whatever...
(Rook)
Lemme try this one more time
Building it out of ashes
(Rook+Devi)
Building it out of trash it's all we've got left
Building it out of ashes
Building it out of trash it's all we've got left
(Rook)
MOTHERFUCKER YEAH!!!!
(Devi)
On a clear and cloudless day
It feels like the planets atmosphere
(Rook)
Haha....
Motherfucker. Yeah.
(Rook+Devi)
Is stitched together by everyone's pain
(Rook+Devi)
Building it out of ashes
Building it out of trash it's all we've got left
Building it out of ashes
Building it out of trash it's all we've got left
Building it out of ashes
Building it out of trash it's all we've got left
BUILDING IT OUT OF ASHES
BUILDING IT OUT OF TRASH ITS
ALL WE'VE GOT LEFT
(Rook)
I need somewhere to spit in here...
(Devi)
Like m
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7. |
Ragequitted
03:03
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(Devi)
Wasn't it? Wasn't it?
Didn't you do it by accident?
I could think a million things
I could think of many things
Wasn't it? Wasn't it?
Didn't do it by accident
I could think a million things
I could think a million things
I don't wanna do this anymore
I don't wanna do this anymore
I don't wanna prove I was wrong about you
I don't wanna do this anymore
I don't wanna do this anymore
I don't wanna prove I was right about you
(Rook)
Couldn't it wouldn't it
Couldn't it be any different
Failing a careful balance
Falling into distance
Wouldn't it wouldn't it
Wouldn't it be any different
Overwhelmed by static
So far past the limit
Someday she'll know she'll know what peace feels like
She walks alone through warm and placeless city nights
And everyone who told her otherwise
Doesn't remember she was even in their lives
(Devi)
I don't wanna do this anymore
I don't wanna do this anymore
I don't wanna prove I was wrong about you
I don't wanna do this anymore
I don't wanna do this anymore
I don't wanna prove I was right about you
(laughs)
Was a bit busted
since I never tried singing it with like
with the key change
but yea
oh its still recording.
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8. |
Waiting42moro
03:27
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(Devi)
White noise kinda drown me out
White hot flame kinda melt me down
White hot pain lightning thundercloud
Well, what the hell else is there to talk about?
I don't think we can talk it out.
We can't talk it out.
Never even mattered what I talk about.
I don't want ppl listen to me
If I had an answer, you think I'd be singing it?
(Rook)
I don't know anything
And I can't pretend I do
I pretend a lot of things though
So I guess I don't blame you
Every day in this world:
Pretend I'm not scared
Pretend that I'm somewhere else
Pretend that everyone
Doesn't feel this lost as well
Pretend that I can see
Heaven just beyond the sky
But I know it's somewhere else
That's reflected in my eyes
(Devi)
WAITING FOR TOMORROW
WAITING FOR TOMORROW
WAITING FOR TOMORROW
FEELIN' LIKE SHIT
WAITING FOR TOMORROW
WAITIN' FOR TOMORROW
WAITING FOR TOMORROW
FEELIN' LIKE SHIT
WAITING FOR TOMORROW
WAITING FOR TOMORROW
WAITING FOR TOMORROW
FEELING LIKE SHIT
WAITIN' FOR TOMORROW
WAITIN' FOR TOMORROW
WAITING FOR TOMORROW
FEELIN' LIKE
(Rook)
I can almost see
I can almost taste
I can almost touch that better place
In a single day
I know everything can change
But this dead world won't go away
(Devi)
Pulling, yanking, dragging on a thread to heaven
I don't know if it's wrong
Pulling, yankin', draggin' on a thread to heaven
I know if I try, I'll just fuck it up worse than it is
A little dirt might cover up the wound
(Rook)
A little dirt might cover up the wound
(Devi)
But a little dirt might infect it too
(Rook)
Infect it too
(Devi)
There's no right choices to make in this life
(Rook)
This life
(Devi)
All you can do is what you can do
(Rook)
I can almost see
I can almost taste
I can almost touch that better place
In a single day
I know everything can change
But this dead world won't go away
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9. |
Gone In An Instant
02:59
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(Devi)
Certain types of fire,
Does it burn us into shapes?
Always tends to make everything in the universe
Seem like a tiny sparkle
Unexpected and cute.
Thankfully,
Gratefully,
Gone in an instant.
(Rook)
And everything crumbles into pieces
In a blooming fractal flood
But no one staring at it can believe it
As it freezes out the sun
An empty dream
A stupid dream
A hopeless dream
And everything continues
Just like everything does
Just like pain
Just like love
(Devi)
Just like love I can't explain the way I feel at all, o~ooh
I wanted, I wanted to show what I meant
But the meaning just slipped thru my hands
I wanted to do better than I did
But isn't that just life?
(Rook)
And everything crumbles into pieces
In a blooming fractal flood
But no one staring at it can believe it
As it freezes out the sun
An empty dream
A stupid dream
A hopeless dream
And everything continues
Just like everything does
Just like pain
Just like love
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10. |
We'll Figure It Out
02:59
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(Devi)
People always say that we'll figure it out
But everything just keeps piling on up
Economy size blood bigger than God
We'll just solve 10,000 years of problems
Next generation gives all of the hope
Fix it all up 'til nothing is wrong
So keep piling it up
Pass it along
I know we can solve all of the problems
I'm breaking it
It's broken
I open it
It opens
I'm breaking it
It's broken
I open it
It opens
I'm drowning and I'm floating
I'm dreaming and I'm hopeless
I don't give a shit if it doesn't work
I done a lot of things and none of them worked
I'M BREAKING IT
IT'S BROKEN
I OPEN IT
IT OPENS
I'M BREAKING IT
IT'S BROKEN
I OPEN IT
IT OPENS
I'M DROWNING AND
I'M FLOATING
I'M DREAMING AND
I'M HOPELESS
I DON'T GIVE A SHIT IF IT DOESN'T WORK
I'VE DONE A LOT OF THINGS AND NONE OF THEM WORKED
I'm fucking in a trap
We're fucking in a trap
We're fucking in a trap
We're ffuucking in a trap
We're Fucking In A trap
We're fucking in a trap
We're fucking IN a trap
We're fucking IN A Trap
We're Fucking in a TRAP
We're Fucking in a TRAP
We're FUCKING In a Trap
We're Fucking In A Trap
We're fucking In a trap
We're fucking in a trap
We're fucking in the doorway of the trap
(Rook)
I'M JUST TRYING TO UN-FUCK MY BRAIN
AND SLEEP LATELY
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhmmmm ok
I WISH I WAS FAKER
SO PEOPLE WOULD HATE THE FAKE ME
(Devi)
I don't wanna say it
(Rook)
I DON'T WANNA SAY IT
(Devi)
uh uh uh uh uh
(Rook+ Devi)
I DON'T WANNA SAY IT
uh uh uh uh uh uh uh
uh uh
(Rook+Devi)
I'M BREAKING IT
IT'S BROKEN
I OPEN IT
IT OPENS
I'M BREAKING IT
IT'S BROKEN
I OPEN IT
IT OPENS
I'M DROWNING AND
I'M FLOATING
I'M DREAMING AND
I'M HOPELESS
I DON'T GIVE A SHIT IF IT DOESN'T WORK
I'VE DONE A LOT OF THINGS AND NONE OF THEM WORKED
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11. |
Understanding
04:53
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(Rook)
Grey city, 2016
Night bus home, N19
Chain link, rain and concrete
Lashing out and falling
Picking quarters up off the hardwood
Skytrain, Joyce-Collingwood
Losing floating knowing
Stopping pain from showing
(Rook+Devi)
Hell to me in the moment
Scream internally
Soul exits me
(Rook)
Through all the lines i write
(Rook+Devi)
In basements far away
If I can purge
This broken hurt
In haunted words
Will it surround me?
(Rook)
And like the city nights
just drift away
(Devi)
I couldn't figure it out
I couldn't fix it by myself
I couldn't do it alone
I couldn't figure it out
I couldn't fix it by myself
Everyone else seems so strong and
I tried to offer up my pain to be understood
But I don't think it's my pain that can be understood,
Or needs understanding.
There's not a lot of pain in the world that makes any sense
I wonder where all this pain comes from,
And this evil is,
And where it lives?
(Rook)
Future wide open
But defined as broken
Every achievement
Hoping wishing aching never knowing
The pain I write about
So I don't fucking die
Interpreted as everything
I've got to offer in this life
FUCK NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(Rook+Devi)
Time is a circle
Forever hurtful
No hesitation
Nostalgia or ideation
(Devi)
I couldn't figure it out
I couldn't do it alone
I couldn't fix it by myself
Everyone else seemed so strong
I tried to offer up my pain to be understood
But I don't think it's my pain that can be understood,
Or needs understanding.
There's not a lot of pain in the world that makes any sense
Maybe people need to be understood instead.
I tried to understand why it happened like that
But it just made my soul break down
(Rook)
Break down and
(Devi)
I didn't want things to go like that
For a while I was confused,
But now I think I understand.
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12. |
Perfect Teeth
03:06
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(Rook)
Everything,
Everything that you are
Everything that you are
Everything that you are
Everything that you learn
Everything that you learn
Everything that you learn
Everything
Everything
Everything
Everything that I love
(Devi)
Summer-
(Rook+Devi)
Summer heat
Winter freeze
(Rook)
Broken bones
(Rook+Devi)
Perfect teeth
(Rook)
Concrete concrete
Replacing dreams
Burning sky
Antifreeze
(Rook)
Hold the vision in your mind
(Devi)
BURNING SKY!!!!!!!!!!!
(Rook)
Dissociate, anethetize
What broke you waking deep inside
It never sleeps
(Rook+Devi)
IT NEVER DIES
(Devi)
Look,
Look down on me
Look,
Look down on me um
Look
Look down on me
I'm up with the Angels
Look
Look down on me
Look
Look down on me, huh
Look
Look down on me uhhh
I'M UP WITH THE ANGELS FUCK U
People think it's...
People think it's edgy what I lived thru
But I'm all sparkle sparkle and shit
People think it's edgy what I live thru
But I'm the nicest person
I'm just like My Little Pony
I'm just like uh, Cartoons
And that's so silly to me
If that's your idea of being edgy
I guess that's good for you
I think that you must have a NICE life
A nice life
A reaaal nice life
haha ugh
(Rook)
Everything that you love
Distortion distortion
Everything that you breathe
Distortion distortion
Everything that you are
Distortion distortion
Everything that you need
Distortion distortion
(Devi)
A set of perfect teeth
Shining, glinting in the dark
Trying not to scream
Praying out for a spark from GOD,
For the lights to come on
Perfect teeth, perfect teeth
Fucking chewing on me
A set of perfect teeth
Shining, glinting in the dark
Trying for the scream
Praying out for a spark
For a sign from God
For the lights to come on
Perfect teeth fucking chewing on me
(Rook)
Distortion distortion
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13. |
Zero Ultra
03:31
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(Devi)
Twisting shadows,
Of shadows,
Of shadows,
Of shadows,
Of shadows,
Of shadows,
Echoed down thru time
Twisting shadows,
Of shadows,
Of shadows,
Of shadows,
Of shadows,
Of shadows,
Of shadows of confused and poisonous light
And everything it touches dies
In a form of supercomplex violence
But that could never happen to us
(...)
(Rook)
I don't know if this is sustainable
Try to make it last
(Rook+Devi)
Try to make it last
(Rook)
Everything that I got left is stuck inside me
(Rook+Devi)
Like bits of glass
(Rook)
In the moment I feel so infinite
(Rook+Devi)
Power over the bad dreams
The dissonance
But I need impossible gentleness
(Rook)
To stay intact
(Devi)
TO MAKE IT LAST
(Rook)
It's easier to make you think
(Rook+Devi)
I'm too far gone
Than it is to try to tell you
What's in my heart
It's easier to make you think
(Rook)
I'm dangerous
Than it is to try to tell you
What *********** is
(Devi)I NEEEED AUGH
I NEEEEeedd uh
Twisting shadows of shadows of something I can't say
Echo down thru time
Reflecting out thru a rainbow prism colorwheel
In every direction,
Of confused and poisonous light.
(Rook+Devi)
Pull me out of stasis
(Rook)
One more time return to life
Search deep inside for weight to
(Rook+Devi)
Put behind every line
(Rook)
I can't remember what my name is
(Rook+Devi)
Shake the dust from inside
Is there a way to break the cycle?
(Rook)
Defenses up. Borderline
(Devi)
EEEEEVERY THING I
GOT LEFT STUCK INSIDE ME LIke
bits of glass
I neeeEEEEDDDDDDD Impossible gentleness
To stay intact
I
I need Impossible-
-ness
I need impossible gentleness
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14. |
Mistake
02:04
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(Devi)
Ok
As a young kid I studied the unknown on the internet
Sacred geometries,
Metatrons Cube,
The Flower of Life,
The Worldsoul,
Y'know all that...
When you're-
When you're a kid y'know, you wanna try and understand the world
Try and find your place in it
People love to tell you your place in it but,
Isn't that just for them?
Isn't it always just for them?
But it makes sense to
wanna
know
what your place in the world should be
But it's not for them
It's never ever ever been just for them.
I never never never never never never should have tried
I never should have tried but it's not my fault.
What does it really take to want to hurt a child?
It seems like it's not much for a lot of people.
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15. |
(Can't) Keep It Together
03:58
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(Devi)
If everything fits into place,
Seamlessly pieced together in the most terrible way
I couldn't keep it together
I couldn't make it last
I couldn't prove I was good,
I wonder if anybody could.
I can't keep it together
Nothing is meant to last for that long
But it doesn't make me feel better
To put it in a stupid song
I wonder if life is all about just falling apart
And painfully becoming something else?
(Rook)
Breaking down inside every day
Another day of hoping for something
That I can't say
Love confusion hopelessness pain
Just falling
Through a thousand different lives
Of the same thing
(Rook+Devi)
I'm a person inside a person inside a girl
(Rook)
I used to be
(Rook+Devi)
A million different things
A million different dreams and hopes
(Rook)
But now I'm nothing
Splintered, fighting for control
(Rook+Devi)
Inside a shattered soul
(Rook)
Staring blankly
Frightened and all alone
(Rook+Devi)
Still moving forward
(Rook)
Broken down from everything
(Rook+Devi)
Did I do the right thing?
(Rook)
I wish I had the strength to be
(Rook+Devi)
Everything to everybody
(Rook)
I don't know what I need to be
Hopeless dreaming
Please take care of me
I know there's no more place for me
These ruined lives inside me scream
(Devi)
I couldn't keep it together
I couldn't make it last
I couldn't keep it together
But it's not that bad.
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