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1. |
Break Free From Time
05:24
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I was reborn when
I met you
And I can't bear
the thought
losing you
If I could
find a way
I'd be with with you
for always.
We are two souls
We share one mind
And I yearn
For us to find
A place outside of time
You'll forever be mine
Break free of time...
Break us free from time...
You saved my life when
I met you
And I can't bear
the thought
of leaving you.
If I could
I'd hold you close.
In your arms
forever..
We are two souls
We share one mind
And I yearn
For us to find
A place outside of time
You'll forever be mine
Break free of time...
Break us free from time...
Break free from time...
Break free from time...
Break free from time...
Break free from time...
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2. |
Pitch Black Wings
04:42
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It's written clear across my face - I don't deserve to be alive
Yet no-one here - seems to notice it all.
I can make you all believe
That I'm a good person
but I can't erase the dark that hides inside my mind.
Why am I never forgiven?
Why can't I escape my mind?
These high stone walls feel like a prison..
Wish my wings could set me free.
Why am I never forgiven?
Why can't I escape my mind?
These high stone walls feel like a prison..
Wish my wings could set me free.
All that I've ever I done for you is
selfish and hollow - though it's true
I wish I could be
better than I am
I'm a leech, a hypocrite, an undeserving waste of skin
who wants so badly...
to replace all of me.
Why am I never forgiven?
Why can't I escape my mind?
These high stone walls feel like a prison..
Wish my wings could set me free.
Why am I never forgiven?
Why can't I escape my mind?
These high stone walls feel like a prison..
Wish my wings could set me free.
Everyone I love always
abandons me
Nothing I believe in is ever
reality
I'm so tired of this life
of all the troubles, pain and strife
and so my heart has hardened like a stone.
Why am I never forgiven?
Why can't I escape my mind?
These high stone walls are like a prison..
Wish my wings could set me free.
Why am I never forgiven?
Why can't I escape my mind?
These high stone walls are like a prison..
Wish my wings could set me free.
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Art imitates, the world they say
Or maybe that's the wrong way round.
Whatever the case, we will worship
Those who've gone to ground.
I'm suffering, they always say
Cry out into the careless world
And only when they're gone do we
Ever seem to hear them.
This tragedy needs an ending
For you to even see it's there
The tragic vies for your attention
But you don't even see it's there.
This tragedy needs an ending
For you to even see it's there.
The tragic searches for the answers
But you don't even seem to care.
There's beauty in a life decayed
For those who're not laid low by pain
When it that state you'll find
Some respite when
you speak your mind
I'm suffering, you'll want to say
Cry out into the careless world
And only when you're gone will they
Ever want to hear you.
This tragedy needs an ending
For you to even see it's there
The tragic vies for your affection
But you don't even see it's there.
This tragedy needs an ending
For you to even see it's there.
The tragic searches for solutions
But you don't even seem to care.
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4. |
Misfire
04:19
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Why can't I do
What I want to?
Why can't I
make my body move?
It seems
to me
to be
so ludicrous
But I can't find
a way to
follow through.
Times like this
I feel so
hopeless
Times like this
I feel so
useless
It's happening
again
Destroyed by
what you take for granted
Cause
I'm a stranger
In my own skin
What I ever I do
I'll never
fit in.
Why can't I live
how i'd
like to?
Why aren't I
who I want to be
It seems
to me
to be
so pitiful
But I don't know
What I have to do
It's happening
again
Destroyed by
what you take for granted
Cause
I'm a stranger
In my own skin
What I ever I do
I'll never
fit in.
It's happening
again
Destroyed by
what you take for granted
Cause
I'm a stranger
In my own skin
What I ever I do
I'll never
fit in.
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5. |
Doubt & Resolve
04:45
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Tell me, what
I'll find in the end
Give me, some
reason to go on
in this game
Lend me, strength
to help me carry on
in this race
so that I,
can find,
release or escape...
I'll go on (I'll go on)
I'll go on (I'll go on)
I'll go on (I'll go on)
'Cause there's nothing else to do...
The end, comes
to claim us all some day
If we, slow down
that is when we'll be
its prey...
There are, no
answers in this life
so I'll spend all my time
in doubt
follow..
my own way.
I'll go on (I'll go on)
I'll go on (I'll go on)
I'll go on (I'll go on)
'Cause there's nothing else to do...
I'll go on (I'll go on)
I'll go on (I'll go on)
I'll go on (I'll go on)
'Cause there's nothing else to do...
I'll go on...
I'll go on...
I'll go on...
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Kindling the flame
Their distaste
Is there something more
for me to be?
Let me get away
From your hate
All I want is to
make my escape.
I'll be happier
in England
For I'll be a
different person
there
I'll be well again
in England
countless people
made from dreams
live there
I can't feel the same
For this place
Is there nowhere left
I can call home?
He won't let me go
That I know
Born into their sin
I'll die displaced
I'll be happier
in England
For I'll be a
different person
there
I'll be well again
in England
countless people
made from dreams
live there
The sky will be
blue again in England
Things I lost so long
ago are there
And I will not
bear your name in England
I'll make a new one
for myself there
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7. |
Live Inside a Lie
04:38
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I don't know
how you live like you do
You're so concerned by
what others think of you.
You've lived your life in this
tiny little cage.
You've stayed inside
'cause
it's easier that way
Normality is insanity
We are not all the same.
Normality is insanity
So why hide your self away?
You don't know
how I live like I do
You disapprove
'cause it seems the thing
to do.
We can all be whoever we like
So why would you choose
to live inside a lie?
Normality is insanity
We are not all the same.
Normality is insanity
So why hide your self away?
Normality is insanity
We are not all same
Normality is insanity
You're the one who is crazy
Crazy...
I think you are insane.
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8. |
December
03:30
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She's never been good at maintaining conections
Charming, but hollow, she hides her imperfections
Under the spotlight, she bleeds so they'll adore her
Desperately hoping that they won't just ignore her.
She is paradoxically a slave to and has no emotions
Scared to be lonely she's going through the social motions
She is paradoxically a slave to and has no emotions
Scared to be lonely she's going through the social motions
Twisted and broken she's lost in her obsessions
Searching for meaning in some stranger's affections
Friendless, she's lonely, and everyone who knows her
Just knows her image, there's no one left to hold her
She is paradoxically a slave to and has no emotions
Scared to be lonely she's going through the social motions
She is paradoxically a slave to and has no emotions
Scared to be lonely she's going through the social motions
She is paradoxically a slave to and has no emotions
Scared to be lonely she's going through the social motions
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9. |
Sea of White
04:51
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It's a matter of time I suppose,
not much to do now but grow old
days pass by,
a slow sea of white
as I wait for a world that I,
can't name.
Sleeping scares me,
it's too much like dying
this inaction's driving me
insane.
Though, like sleep, I know
it will be over
still I fear, that I'll
be swept away.
I just can't slow down I suppose,
as long as my heart's not gone cold
days pass by,
and I wonder why
I can't trust in myself
and just let go..
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10. |
Sorry
04:34
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I've tried so hard to fight
these feelings in my heart
and now I start to fear
that I will lose this war.
So if I fall apart and leave you all behind
I'm so sorry...
I really, really tried.
Everything I have to say
is written in my songs.
You've done all you could have done
there's none but me to fault.
So if I fall apart
and leave this world behind
I'm so sorry....
I really, really tried.
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11. |
Parasite
04:04
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Things seem so much different
when you're young.
I didn't know the waste love
could become.
When I look behind me to
this place, I know, I can
never turn my back to anyone.
Time rolls by and murders
All the good in me.
I wanted to love you.
You exploited me.
Things are so much simpler
when you're young.
I can't believe the cynic
become.
When I lift my head to face
this life, I wish, I could
just go back to living in my
dreams.
Time rolls by and murders
All the good in me.
I wanted to love you.
You exploited me.
Time rolls by and crushes
All the love in me.
I wanted to save you.
You abandoned me.
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12. |
All is Nothing
03:31
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We are all inconsequential
Choose our masks then die
So when you ask me who I am
I don't want to lie.
We spend our lives running from
The truth we know inside.
There's no real me
There's no real you
Just what's before our eyes.
The truth is we are all
Just constructions of our culture
and our genes.
And I am anything I choose to be.
So don't ask me who I am
I've been searching my whole life
To find the answer.
The truth is…
There's no truth!
There's no truth.
And everything we think we know
Is a lie…
We are all inconsequential
Choose our masks then die
So when you ask me who I am
Know that I won't lie.
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13. |
Touch
03:56
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I
cannot see
all the truth
for crooked trees
Run away through shadow people
people I can't reach
Then across the world
I see you and you meet my
eye
And for just a moment
there's just you there
and just I.
Lost in crowds I'm disconnected
Then you take my hand
And it's only for a moment.
But you understand
Then you disappear again
and I don't care to find you
There's magic in passing
moments I don't want to lose.
I
cannot see
all the truth
for crooked trees
Run away through shadow people
people who won't see
Then across the world
I notice one that seems
like me
And for just a moment
there's nowhere I'd
rather be.
Lost in crowds I'm disconnected
Then you take my hand
And it's only for a moment.
But you understand
Then you disappear again
and I don't care to find you
There's magic in passing
moments I don't care to lose.
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I've tried so hard now to reach you (reach you)
Now I fear you won't hear me (hear me)
I'll I ever wanted...
Was someone to understand me
Hear my voice and tell me that they understand
But all that's over...
I have tried to spread my wings
But it seems they've rotted away.
What more can I do now?
Now it's over.
Praying for a cataclysm
Come take me away
I don't want to feel this way
I don't want to feel this way
No, no,
Praying for a cataclysm
Come take me away
I don't want to feel this way
I don't want to be this way
No more.
I've tried so hard now to reach you (reach you)
Now I fear you won't hear me (hear me)
I'll I ever wanted...
Was someone to comprehend me
Comprehend my thoughts and know just who I am,
Now it’s over...
I have tried to spread my wings
But it seems they've rotted away.
What more can I do now?
Now it's over.
Praying for a cataclysm
Come take me away
I don't want to feel this way
I don't want to feel this way
No, no,
Praying for a cataclysm
Come take me away
I don't want to feel this way
I don't want to be this way
No more.
this way,
No more.
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I cannot help but fear
When every day
it grows near
What does all this of mean?
What am I mean to be?
If I should go
Would you remember me?
Or will I
simply fade away?
And though I know
That it won't change a thing
I'd like to know
that some part will stay
when my life is over
when my time is up
I can't believe in a god
So this is all that I've got
Born just to not to be
I'd rather I'd never been.
If I should go
Would you remember me?
Or will I
simply fade away?
And though I know
That it won't change a thing
I'd like to know
that some part will stay
when my life is over
when my time is up
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Our future’s fallen to decay
Signs are everywhere it seems
And behind it all I find
The one who stole it blaming me.
It’s you.
It’s you.
So if…
You hate what we’ve become
Then just look at the world
We’re from.
I’m surrounded by disease
Devours everyone I meet
And behind it all I find
The one who caused it blaming me.
It’s you.
It’s you.
So if…
You hate what we’ve become
Then just look at the world
We’re from.
‘Cause in the end,
All we share is you.
You’re to blame.
For the things you do.
If you hate me
Look at yourself.
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The Descenters Melbourne, Australia
Like electro-clash and post punk had a weird kid who came out and got really into
hyperpop.
You may also be interested in my industrial dance/spoken word side project at: robotboydestroystheuniverse.bandcamp.com.
The Descenters is the major solo musical project of Melbourne-based non-binary writer Maddison Stoff. Check her out on social media or visit her official website for details.
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