Name: The Purpose
Duration: P00H05M00S
Description: Recorded December 2021 at VuDu Studios in Port Jefferson, NY

The Purpose

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Recorded December 2021 at VuDu Studios in Port Jefferson, NY

lyrics

Lay down
Acceded compromise
Carefully cauterize catatonic autonomy
Keep your head held high
Don’t you know you’ve lived a thousand lives?
In between the darkness and the light
Try to get out in front of it

If the purpose isn’t worth it
Why am I wasting time
See this circus isn’t working
When you find they’re throwing loaded dice
Gaze down from ivory towers,
and finally feel the rain

Disintegration fares well
in the lack of light
Dead roots stretching out
from fabricated flowers
Ablations offered to pseudo apostles
I’ll show you fear in a handful of dust

Wake up
Divided in the crowd
Harken to hope that drowned
at the bottom of everything
Keep your head held high
Sit by me and watch the stars collide
In between the darkness and the light
Step inside your divinity

If the purpose isn’t worth it
Why am I wasting time
See this circus isn’t working
When you find they’re throwing loaded dice
Gaze down from ivory towers,
and finally feel the rain

Disintegration fares well in the lack of light
Dead roots stretching out
from fabricated flowers
Ablations offered to pseudo apostles
I’ll show you fear in a handful of dust

It’s such a weight to feel so alone

Delay,
design,
controlled opposition
Create crossfire
Withheld integration

Peace now,
seek silence in the sounds
Cautiously fading out
In defiance of reckoning

Disintegration fares well in the lack of light
Dead roots stretching out
from fabricated flowers
Ablations offered to pseudo apostles
I’ll show you fear in a handful of dust

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released September 13, 2022
Produced and Mixed by Mike Watts
Engineered and Mastered by Frank Mitaritonna

Drums performed by Billy Rymer

Additional Vocal Production by Jordan Haynes

Artwork by Mark Borison

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