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Borealis

by Against The Waves

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1.
Your clock's ticking now, up in your throne You play hide and seek but this just won't be told I'm shaking your blood and chasing your ghost To eat this world alive This is a dead end, where all dreams come undone This is a dead end, this is a dead end And when the sky breaks You only breathe to stay alive Cause this life keeps moving on Just be sure to remember who you are All lessons learned are waiting ahead With your heart on your hand you can't make mistakes Before it all collapses Our beautiful days became my worthless nights And even after all this time I'm still drowning in your eyes I won't let this go 'Cause I want it all
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Too Far Gone 04:25
You're so invited to come with me To my secret place that nobody else can see So invited to come with me To my secret place, to my secret place I can't rely on the masses To put in motion this masterplan I wish I could write a line to undo all thee wrong We keep fighting an enemy that's long gone I will repaint this weathered canvas with new memories I can't help but forget To forget to remember this And even if you fall I'll stay on the edge of the cliff A dead and dried up tree against the breeze I've been on this road before for so long Do what you must do, do what you must do And the man I once was is too far gone There's no peaceful way to play this You shouldn't tear it all away Cause the truth that we're yearning for Doesn't come back around Just slowly fades to grey Offer my ashes to the sea A silent explosion led to an amber corrosion We sharpened our teeth and went to war So distant is the message from its meaning But we adored and secured the lie Better save yourself Save yourself You better learn to live and carry on Our old ship will sink at the break of dawn Save yourself and carry on I'll keep us floating in the eye of every storm
3.
I've seen brighter days In times like these A warning comes as it may I, deceiver, I, betrayer Disrupt the sleep of the sovereign Singing an ode to the long-lost forgotten Open the gates to the damned Mediocrity overflowing A flood of stagnant routine Course-corrected by the clutches of time I'm an island Being unique is not a disease I'm an island Did I go too far? A plea for an average existence Defined by the foretold It's just a wake up call I only bow down to ideals that keep me hanging on I'm done wasting my time I won't delete and rewind I embrace the gallows you assigned This is the legacy of a broken man The merits of someone who never had Something good enough to write home about My dearest friend No one likes a discorageous war In our home away from home Did you honestly believe That I would just walk away? You know uncertainty is what makes me feel alive
4.
We're ready to crack the day Let's take a ride where no one stays The leech and the vampire's paradise When vultures circle the night The honest men share a glass of cyanide Fate wears a velvet and barb-wired glove Caressing a kevlar skin with a crystal core A sinister forward motion flows down the river And the fire from a proud wooden spine Will show the way for those who deliver Our shame will guide those who deliver Losing all Was not enough to break these walls Cause what makes us who we are Is to chase the northern light My whole life felt misplaced I'll be swallowed by the northern skies As the prey runs, the hunter prays If you seek for courage you won't find it there Cover and follow tracks won't work in this place If you long for answers, you won't find me there Crossroads crash and I'm scared to death The path I chose is no more When the lights go out, my fear goes infrared Burden and the blessing are too similar to ignore I eclipsed the sun, can we start anew? Forked tongues over frozen shores This is my design Dancing with monoliths, feeling so small Too old to take any risk, too young to care at all These are my footsteps into the wild The blueprint of the mess I left behind This is my design
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Guidance 04:40
From the depths of the blue I swallowed salt and poison But then it came the surface light Showing me the current of the best part of my life So we wander around these crowded but lonely rooms Wishing some warm colors might shine And heal our wounds Time flies and bruises shine As we swing in the branches of this tree Carving our names with every turn of the rope We both have scars to proudly show And I'll prove to the world That for once, nothing is impossible If you ever get lost Keep shining bright, keep singing loud Cause I will always find you after all is gone You are my true guidance And the only home worth coming to Promises and fireflies like embers through the air Nothing is for granted and i'll always take my chances Just to see a spark become your smile Who I used to be it's not me We can keep holding on I was so wrong, too blind to see, so lost After knowing heaven, I can't settle in a room with a view Thanks for showing me That the moon it's up for me to touch For the unbelievers I will scream: For all of this there's a reason and it's always been You
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All these years you were too blind to see You praise false hopes, yeah we're all for make-believe So sick and tired, too eager to breathe the winds That they filled with corruption I was so close to true honesty But it drove me away from reality It all starts with an eye for an eye Make it count There are infinities within the mind Be careful if you let them out I stretch my arms onto the sun To repair all that I have done Would you return? I stretch my arms to reach the sun This is where my story leads now Take all of this loss and watch it burn Go be who you were meant to be Feelings lurking, approaching They don't let you see You feel drowned in clouded verity And the question still remains Will this ever feel like home? I forgive, yet I'm proud So tell me what you stand for Is it really worth to live for? Is this the time and place To get rid of all those chains? So tell me what you stand for Is it really worth to die for? Is this the time and place To be the one who stays? Take all this loss and watch it burn Bury this loss and let it die Better make it count
8.
New Myths 03:52
We are the new myths They will raise their glasses and sing songs 'bout us Over the withered field we given our lives to preserve They'll get drunk with black and white From their comfy misconception of love We are stolen paintings, acrylic illusions and mesmerizing lights Not even the cover-up work of an expert deceiving hand Can fake the patterns that glow from underneath your skin Can you set me a light before they drain the night with their neon eyes You don't need to understand it I feel disconnected from what I considered so perfect But I got nothing to prove to them Cause I got nothing I could share We'll carry the flame again Cause we are the new myths I'd rather kiss soil and bones Than rule below a starless sky History will change our names and erase our debts Youth depletes but eyes will keep gazing strong Behold the Land of the Dead We reign the Land of the Dead Hey, it's never too late To be what you might have been Hey, one step at a time This is all for you to take
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Hold Back 04:14
Show me what you got Fake it Please don't you dare to say I wasn't there for you Say what you will, you just didn't allow yourself to feel Where blood runned with rage It's now an empty shell Thoughts dance in revolutions Against recently painted walls To the rythm of the distance we created Vertiginously, making me sick Breath in unison Keep our hearts beating, keep our hearts beating fast And the place I rested my head on Is the same where doubt is born I no longer see the difference Between lethe and home Hold back and clear the dust from my eyes We're running now in circles, do you feel alive? Hold back, it's not easy to grow old Without growing apart from the heart Finding ruin in the place that we built I'm left to conquer your ghost At least I can say I tried I don't know you anymore You flee, you escaped, you given up on me Your shadow seems more familiar Than your new and broken smile I hate the fact that you're just fine Trustworthy and persuasive First you love it, then you hate it A compass drawn in sand Its lines spin with every lie The maker and the destroyer Of every fucking joy that's now faded You said you'd never let me go Only to finally put me down Lost in time, floating in a moment The stars remember that the sun came down And it was all worth it You held me back And it was all worth it Now no one remembers that
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Interlude 00:35
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I had plenty of time to reflex Inside a cold womb made of excess You watched me make the same mistakes Over and over and over and over again If only you knew my hopes Life on repeat, time to pause I'm coming for you now The Universe will fall and shatter The great spiral devours any sense of direction What we lost in the fire cannot be restored Will we ever forgive ourselves What we lost in the fire leave these skies torn Forevermore We'll die for sure on the path we roam Just like everyone else that came before Were their dreams worse than ours? With good intentions this graveyard is paved We'll keep our heads above the water Misguided youth, this is the end of the world Board up your windows and lock the doors We've been stucked for so long by an invisible force That moving forward is what scares the most Live forever with your eyes closed We'll die for sure on the path we roam Just like everyone else that came before Were their dreams worse than ours? This graveyard is paved with good intentions Seize everyday like it's the last one Nothing is set in stone Never regret the choice you've made The sunset dies, don't move an inch while you say “Never regreted the choice I've made” Just seize our time before it bends and breaks Nothing is set in stone Your eyes are the only measure of my time When we dream out loud, we'll meet again In a different place, with a different face

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released October 10, 2016

2016. All songs written and performed by Against The Waves.
Produced by Joey Sturgis.
Mixed and mastered by Joey Sturgis.
Recorded at Metro 37 Studios (Detroit MI, USA).
Vocal engineer: Nick Matzkows.
Guitar Engineer: Josh Buckner.
Bass Engineer: Nick Matzkows.
Drum engineer: Joey Hall.

Artwork by Tumulus & Crafts.

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Against The Waves Madrid, Spain

Against the Waves was formed in 2008 in Madrid (Spain).

The band released their first EP “Furious and lonely conversations” (2009) and their first album “The Golden Hive” (2012).
Borealis (produced by Joey Sturgis 2016). At the moment the band are producing their upcoming release teaming up again with the same engineers based in USA, responsible for their previous studio album.
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