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The Golden Hive

by Against The Waves

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1.
LOOK INTO ITS EYES... IT SEES WHAT WE CAN'T AND THEN THE MIRROR CRACKED.
2.
Hivemind 05:38
DEFEAT IS JUST A CHEMICAL WEAKNESS STAY AWAY FROM TENDER WORDS WITH HIDDEN MEANINGS BEYOND THIS CONSTELLATION THERE ARE NO FEELINGS ALLOWED TAKE OFF THE WEIGHT OF THE WORLD FROM YOUR SHOULDERS DISCOMPOSURE PAVES THE ONLY TRAIL THAT I KNOW PICK UP THE PIECES AND BUILD SKYLINES ABOVE MADE FROM THESE BROKEN THOUGHTS A GOLDEN THRONE ROSE WHITE NOISE AND STATIC TOOK WHAT WAS MINE I TRIED TO STAY AWAKE, THIS WORLD WAS NEVER MEANT TO BE YES I WANT TO BELIEVE, OH I'D DIE TO BELIEVE I TRIED TO STAY AWAKE NEVER MEANT TO BE APART FOR A LONG TIME – MY FIRST REGRET I'LL NEVER SEE LIGHT AGAIN I'LL NEVER THINK FOR MYSELF LEFT BRUISED AND BROKEN ASUNDER THE EYE IS OPEN, I SEE THROUGH THE DARK SPACE BETWEEN AND LOVE IS NO MORE, PAIN IS NO MORE, I AM NO MORE ERASE THE PAST, DEFACED AT LAST, DOES IT REALLY MATTER TO US? YOUR BURNING SELF, PHOTON AND SUBSTANCE IN CONSTANT DECAY EVOLVING A THOUSAND EYES WITNESSING MY FINAL BLINK THE DEATH OF INDIVIDUALITY, THE TASTE OF SURRENDER BELONG, BELONG, BELONG TO THE SWARM YOUR THOUGHTS, YOUR BONDS NO LONGER THERE I'VE CREATED MONSTERS TO FEAR, KEEP THEM CLOSE TO ME FEELING THEIR BREATH IN MY EARS NEVER STRAY FROM THE INFECTIOUS PATH GRASPING THE PATTERN, SHIFTING DEEPER KALEIDOSCOPE MIND ARISE IN THE DARK WITH BITTER CLAWS AROUND MY NECK NEVER STRAY FROM THE INFECTIOUS PATH BREAKING THE CYCLE, SHIFTING DEEPER KALEIDOSCOPE MIND ARISE IN THE DARK REMINDS THAT I'M BRETHREN TO THE CHASM BECOME WEIGHTLESS, BECOME LOVELESS - ETERNAL SWIM THROUGH THE DARK SPACE BETWEEN AND HOPE THAT SOMEONE CAN SEE YOU
3.
Nebraska 05:12
WEATHER FORECAST REPORTS ALL OVER THE NATION DESCRIBE IT AS “THE STORM OF THE CENTURY”, SO, IF YOU'RE PLANNING TO GO OUT,BE PREPARED, IT'LL BE A HELL OF A NIGHT LIGHTS OUT! WON'T BE MISSED, JUST STAND UP FOR MYSELF KEEP WANDERING THE RUINS THAT GAVE ME BIRTH THEY GAVE HIM BRICKS AND STONES TO BUILD A HOME IT DOESN'T MATTER, IT'S FAR FROM OVER CAST ASTRAY IN FURIOUS SHORELINES HE LEARNED TO EMBRACE HIS RAGE AND FORGET 'BOUT WHAT LIES AHEAD WRECKAGE EUPHORIA, CYMATICLY SHIFTED BY CLOUDBURSTS FOREVER CRAVE FOR A NEW DAWN, WHEN SILENCE DISAPPEARS CHASING THE VORTEX, TWISTING FRAGMENTS OF BLISS & LAUGHTER THAT HE'LL NEVER CALL HIS OWN A CHILD OF NOWHERE, UNWANTED SON I NEED TO WASH OUT TO CRASH DOWN, SCREAMING OUT LOUD WHEN I FALL INTO ANOTHER BREAKING POINT NEBRASKA FEELS LIKE HOME YOU HAVE TAKEN ALL THAT MATTERS, NOW IT'S TIME TO GET AROUND BUT WHEN I FALL FOR ANOTHER TURNING POINT NEBRASKA FEELS LIKE HOME FAINT REMNANTS OF HIS MISCARRIED SOUL NOT BEING ABLE TO CARE FOR OTHERS WHEN ALL IS SAID AND DONE HE WILL BE THE ONLY ONE STANDING HERE ALONE DISGUSTED BY CALMNESS, ONLY FINDS PEACE IN DISASTER THE WORLD TURNS ITS BACK AGAIN, SO WHAT'S LEFT FOR HIM? GNASHING HIS TEETH, A SOMBERLY DANCE WITH THE WHIRLWIND SPILLING IN THE AIR, HIS HASSLE REIGN FULL OF BROKEN TOYS AND ELECTRICITY UNLEASH THE STORM THAT'S WHAT TAKES TO GROW UP TORCH HIS DREAMS, BRING HIM TO HIS KNEES MAKE HIS CHILDHOOD BLEED, THE SEED OF CONSUMPTION FROM THE FIREBOLT TO THE PIT
4.
Ecotone 04:42
LET'S START A FIRE, BURN DOWN ALL THAT MADE US WHOLE ILLUMINATE OUR PUPILS WITH THE VASTNESS OF THE EXTINCT TRICKY ARE THE SHADOWS OVER YOUR FACE THEY DANCE AND CHANGE AS AN UNDERWATER MELODY EMPTY IN MEANING AND TERRIBLE IN NATURE ASHES WILL MAKE UP OUR SHIVERING INTRASCENDENCE THE BREACH BETWEEN THE STARS HAS TAKEN FROM US SECURITY JUST TAKE A STEP BACK – TOO CLOSE TO SEE CAPTURE THE NIGHT AND WRAP IT UP FOR US TO BE IDLE AS IDOLS – TOO FAR TO REACH WE USED TO FEEL INVINCIBLE WE ARE THE ONES WHO RIDE THE BULLET BUT NOW WE FEEL NOTHING AT ALL TEARS, BONES, DESIRE, IT'S NEVER BEEN EASY WHAT IF THAT FIRST NIGHT WE WOULDN'T LOOKED AT EACH OTHER? HUNGER GROWS, I WANT TO IGNITE, I WANT TO BELONG TO WHAT CANNOT BE TOUCHED, BUT YOU CAN'T STOP STARE AT WITH LUNACY, WITH COMPLETENESS, WITH DISARRAY WHOSE SIMPLE NAME REVEALS WHAT YOU REALLY ARE WHAT YOU'D LIKE TO TEAR APART EVERYTHING I EVER WANTED TO KNOW BURN UNTIL IT DISAPPEARS, THE VULNERABILITY THAT GATHERS US VANISH AMONG THE SMOKE, THE SKY THAT ABDUCTED US WE USED TO FEEL INVINCIBLE WE ARE THE ONES WHO RIDE THE BULLET BUT NOW WE FEEL NOTHING AT ALL TEARS, BONES, DESIRE, IT'S NEVER BEEN EASY THE VEIL TORNS AND THE FLESH FLOW BACK AROUND THE SKULL HE KNOWS SHE'S WAITING AT THE BEST OF ALL POSSIBLE WORLDS EVERYTHING ELSE IS OBLIVION
5.
Twin Tracks 04:02
RISING AND FALLING RISE UP, EVEN THOUGH IT TAKES OUR CHANCES I WON'T GIVE UP BUT I SEE YOU, I FEEL YOU BETWEEN THE LINES FALLING A MILLION MILES AWAY FROM NOWHERE THE SPIRAL DROWNS ME NOW BUT I SEE YOU, I FEEL YOU BETWEEN THE LINES IT'S ALL ABOUT TIMING WHAT IS LOVE? WHAT IS LOSS? YOU TAUGHT ME THE FIRST TIME OUR LIES ARE NOT MADE TO LAST RISE UP, YOU WON'T BE DEFEATED BY THE WAVES, I FOUGHT! WE'RE TAKING SEPARATE WAYS YOU HAD THE CHANCE TO SLOW IT DOWN STOP MOVING FOR THE SAKE OF THE MOTION STOP UNTIL WE LEARN HOW TO PLAY TOGETHER I GAVE EVERYTHING BUT IT WASN'T ENOUGH TALKING BACKWARDS AT THE END OF THE WORLD BUT I STILL CAN DRAW YOUR FACE I PLAYED MY PART, I FACED MY FEARS START BLOWING WORDS AWAY I CAN'T RECALL THE TASTE WIPED OUT BY THE RAIN IT'S ALL ABOUT TIMING WHAT IS LOVE? WHAT IS LOSS? YOU TAUGHT ME THE FIRST TIME OUR LIES ARE NOT MADE TO LAST RISE UP, YOU WON'T BE DEFEATED BY THE WAVES, I FOUGHT! TODAY IT'S THE LAST DAY TO TRY HONESTY A DESPERATE MEASURE BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE BURY ALL EXCUSES, SPREAD YOUR ROOTS IN ME YOU THINK YOU'RE BETTER OFF ALONE, ANYWHERE BUT HERE HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS, BUT YOUR'S SPILLED ALL OVER THE SPHERE CAN'T MAP MY WAY BACK TO THE ISLAND AND NOW WE'RE STARING AT INDIFFERENT SUNS YEAH, YOU COULD HAVE TRIED
6.
THRIVE! FOLDED ALONG, A SCRATCH IN THE SHEET OF LIFE YOU'VE SETTLED ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE PAPER AGAIN I CAN SEE THE TRACES IN THE INK THAT SOAKS THROUGH THE FIBRE AND DISINTIGRATES THE MILLSTONE OF ALL EXISTENCE EVADE THIS PATH, A CREASE IN TIME THAT DISTORTS INTO LIFE MERGED WITH THE PAST OVER AND OVER AGAIN THERE MUST BE SOMETHING MORE A GLIMPSE THAT I RENDERED BEFORE I COME UNDONE IS THIS ALL THERE IS? WITH ANIMOSITY I WILL MAKE BELIEVE THAT WE WILL THRIVE SLOW BUT RELENTLESS I ADVANCE THIS MISPERCEPTION IS CONSEQUENCE OF ALL THIS WRATH INSIDE SLOW BUT RELENTLESS I ABIDE THIS MISPERCEPTION IS CONSEQUENCE OF ALL THOSE CRIES OUTSIDE THIS ARMADA WON'T SURRENDER, OF FIRE AND SOIL WE CHOOSE FIRE PHOSPHORESCENT FEVER SCARS CRASHING IN ON WAVES BECKONING THE BIRTH OF FLIGHT BETWEEN THE SHOULDERS THE END IS CLOSE TO ME PARALLEL VAPOUR TRAILS CARVED BY THIS PAPER PLANE AND WE WILL COME TOGETHER I AM THE AERIAL, FROM MY PASSING I WILL CATCH EVERY SINGLE STAR THE HAZED MOON DESCENDS, INFUSED WITH THE VERY AIR I'LL WAIT TO SEE YOU, MY SOMETHING MORE THIS IS WHY I HAVE TO GO, THIS IS WHY I HAVE TO GO I'LL WAIT TO SEE YOU, BUT NOW I HAVE TO GO THE LACK OF CONSCIOUSNESS, THE PRICE TO PAY A LONESOME JOURNEY, THE RIDGE WE ESCALADE THE LACK OF CONSCIOUSNESS, AN HONEST MISTAKE A LONESOME JOURNEY, THE RIDGE WE ESCALADE
7.
Original song by Placebo. Lyrics by Brian Molko. SINCE WE'RE FEELING SO ANAESTHETISED IN OUR COMFORT ZONE REMINDS ME OF THE SECOND TIME THAT I FOLLOWED YOU HOME WE'RE RUNNING OUT OF ALIBIS FROM THE SECOND OF MAY REMINDS ME OF THE SUMMER TIME ON THIS WINTER'S DAY SEE YOU AT THE BITTER END EVERY STEP WE TAKE THAT'S SYNCHRONIZED EVERY BROKEN BONE REMINDS ME OF THE SECOND TIME THAT I FOLLOWED YOU HOME YOU SHOWER ME WITH LULLABIES AS YOU'RE WALKING AWAY REMINDS ME THAT IT'S KILLING TIME ON THIS FATEFUL DAY SEE YOU AT THE BITTER END FROM THE TIME WE INTERCEPTED FEELS A LOT LIKE SUICIDE SLOW AND SAD, GROWN INSIDE US AROUSE AND SEE YOU'RE MINE LOVE HAS SEEN YOU RUN-AROUND WHO WANNA SEEK YOU NOW? I WANT A PEACE, I'D WHINE OUT LOVE'S REACHED HIS SIDE GRAB THIS GENTLENESS INSIDE HEARD A CRY SIX FEET DOWN IN SIX WEEK'S TIME THE MESS YOU LEFT WILL END SEE YOU AT THE BITTER END
8.
I HOLD MY BREATH, YOU CHECK THE TIME I DIVE RIGHT IN, YOU CHECK THE TIDE STARE AT ME UNTIL I COLLAPSE - YOU AGREED TO FOLLOW A WEAK PARADOX I LEAD THE WAY, IT'S MEANINGLESS - LUCKY US, I'M OBLIVIOUS AND A FAKE THEY DIDN'T BREAK ME, I WAS ALREADY BROKEN I KNOW IT'S KILLING ME, AND I KNOW IT'S COMING BACK FOR MORE I KNOW IT'S UNDERNEATH ME - SHOULD I BE FIGHTING BACK? NEVER ENOUGH WAKE UP TO THE SOUND OF DEFIANCE, SPOTLIGHTS AND PAPERCUTS MANNEQUIN'S EYES PRY AWAY AND WE BREED NO RESISTANCE TO THEIR SIGHT DESCRIBING SUNSETS TO THE BLIND, SO THEY COULD CATCH A GLIMPSE TO RETCH THE VOID AND EVADE ITS DEPTH WOUNDS WIDE OPEN, I SHOULD REMOVE THE ASHES BUT I'M FOREVER LOST TO APATHY I KNOW IT'S KILLING ME, AND I KNOW IT'S COMING BACK FOR MORE I KNOW IT'S UNDERNEATH ME - SHOULD I BE GIVING UP? WAKE UP TO THE SOUND OF DEFIANCE, SPOTLIGHTS AND PAPERCUTS NEVER ENOUGH WAKE UP TO THE SONG OF THE SIRENS - YOU HELD THE WORLD IN YOUR HANDS I HIT THE GROUND SO HARD THAT NO ONE COULD EVER DIG ME OUT THAT'S A FEEBLE ATTEMPT TO AN OLD HOPELESS CASE ALL BRIDGES SHALL FALL APART! WE'RE NOT HEADING NORTH, I WAS AFRAID (LYING) AND NOW WE'RE LOST PAST IS NOT BEHIND US AND WE'RE ENGULFED BY ITS DAWN NEVER FIND A PLACE TO CALL IT HOME WAKE UP TO THE SOUND OF DEFIANCE I GUESS YOU'D NEVER UNDERSTAND NEVER ENOUGH WAKE UP TO THE SOUND OF DEFIANCE, SPOTLIGHTS AND PAPERCUTS WAKE UP TO THE SONG OF THE SIRENS - YOU HELD THE WORLD IN YOUR HANDS
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Syzygy 02:45

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released September 20, 2012

Recorded and mixed by Alex Cappa at The Metal Factory Studios, mastered by Jens Bogren at Fascination Street Studios (Sweden).
All songs and lyrics by Against The Waves 2012. All rights reserved.

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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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