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dreary
06:45
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the quiet cold grey hours
that make up my dreary days
come and fade without a meaning to gain
the empty stranger shapes
I glimpse with my weary eyes
come and leave without anything to feel
I wait for the cold wind to pass
I plead for the grey to turn to another shade
motionless falling apart
the quiet ache as faded scars burn anew
the dreadful silence is wearing me down
the piercing shards of loneliness
leave me bleeding
awake in the dead of night, a black star pulsing
I bathe in the vapid embrace of a neon grey mist
another song to cling on to sanity
I yield to the gloom, that’s overbearing, overtaking
cutting all hope away
see it all act out, with no part to play
the image coming undone, colours in decay
always cling to this miserable comfort
that’s slowly killing me
see it all drift by, with no current to follow
this comfort in misery I’m too used to
is slowly killing me
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should I leave or wait the storm out
but it feels like it's been rain all along
can’t find a reason to walk nor stay
some wave will take me somewhere
and today I’ll find a way away from here
and today I’ll find the means to disappear
everything around is bound by cold monotony
seeing lives of quiet desperation, torn at the seams
I’ve been waiting for the dam to break
for the flood to wash it all away
not a single thing I’d hold onto
take this weary heart and find some place new
and today I’ll find a way away from here
and today I’ll find the means to disappear
everything around is bound by cold monotony
seeing lives of quiet desperation, bursting at the seams
crushed by the weight, buried in a faceless sea
breathe into scarring lungs, the empty air so thick
keep the wheel in motion, demoralised to complicity
grind down the hollow bone, and watch in silent misery
and tomorrow I'll change
never go back again
but tomorrow's a lie
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cold
04:08
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in dreary night I shiver as blood runs warm
still life, oppressive silence
they've all gone and left me in this cold room
keep piling onto all reasons to end it
the hours conspire to drain the life off all matter
when morning comes the world will be gone
all things collapsing on their unbearable weight
let the light die
10 years passed, this empty heart too familiar
I should know by now, I'll never leave here
silent wails thrown back from these cold walls
lie in black sheets, the wound always seeping
the hours conspire to drain the life off all matter
when morning comes the world will be gone
all things collapsing on their unbearable weight
let the light die
I can’t take another night like this
I’m shivering
I can’t take another night like this
I’m so cold
I can’t take another night like this
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neon grey
10:01
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wake to the cold light, a dead sun rising
the dread of night still in my head
the leeches in my bloodstream
another day to waste away the neuronal capacity
to shed old skin that weighs the flesh down
lift the veil and see the ruins
grime and rust, regret on every calloused heart
chained in apathy and caged to wither
the stars we'd reached for come raining down
as faded memories of all that could've been
the sands that seemed so endless running out
promises drenched in rust
the faint glow of hope just a neon grey light
reach for the hard ground, the steps ascending downward
can't see forward, seeing back to the mess I left behind
in agrypnic streets of memories buried
another night I lie awake
haunted by the flashes of every wakened phobia
of rueing ghosts, the noise that silences
the stars we'd reached for come raining down
as faded memories of all that could've been
the sands that seemed so endless running out
promises drenched in rust
the faint glow of hope a dying light
in purgatorial halls of sleepless nightmares
I engineered my own hell
can’t tear through the neuroplastic confines I'm held in
relive the wounding, the chains binding trauma won’t break
paralyzed, mind backed into a dead-end loop
a glass wall I can’t see through
derealizing carbon, in a chemical imbalance
and I can’t find a way back in
can’t crawl back into my skin
lost all control, lost all of myself
can’t wake from this sleep
falling in starless fields
stairways winding into hollow space
wake to the cold light, a dead moon falling
the dread is pulsing in my head
through every cell it’s gnawing away at the core
another year of ceaseless anxiety
I’m losing hold of the pieces of identity
dissolving to nothingness
collapse the light to a black star
memories past the lost horizon
embrace the shadow, tear deep into dark heart
lay bare the bleakest core
collapse the light to a black star fading
and emerge reborn
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Letheum Vienna, Austria
Formed late 2018 in Vienna, Letheum play predominantly cold and depressive Rock with influences of Post-Punk, Blackgaze and some warmer shades of Post-Rock. The vocals range from fragile and soft to wistful screams, dealing with alienation, loneliness, mental health issues and environmental themes. ... more
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