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Tempus Deserta

by Arkangela

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1.
Redefine 04:46
When you open up your eyes Do you see what they wrote In-between the lines? People wasting all their time Does anyone care about life? If you're looking for sign Then just consider this a message! The world outside around you Wants you stuck inside depression You can whine about your problems And stay stuck inside the stasis Or get up on your feet And finally do something about it! Stand up, if you're sick of hearing Empty words that have no feeling Raise your hands if you agree REDEFINE! Tell me, are you believing? What is best is what we're seeing? When you're sick of feeling incomplete REDEFINE! Is it fun living inside The shallow box you keep your mind? When the day comes that you die Will you look back with shame or pride? If you wanna change your life Then simply ask yourself a question What is it in your mind That always limits your progression I'm not preaching, these are just words I've heard That I need to process And if you say you hate this song At least it's fucking honest Stand up, if you're sick of hearing Empty words that have no feeling Raise your hands if you agree REDEFINE! Tell me, are you believing? What is best is what we're seeing? When you're sick of feeling incomplete REDEFINE! We are empty beings Until we give our life A new meaning So stop waiting around for when the time is right Cause tomorrow might be the day you die Stand up, if you're sick of hearing Empty words that have no feeling Raise your hands if you agree REDEFINE! Tell me, are you believing? What is best is what we're seeing? When you're sick of feeling incomplete REDEFINE!
2.
Fact Of Life 04:03
I see everybody around me Only worshipping tragedy All of us think we're so significant But every story has an end The clock is ticking Why are you still wasting Away any proven chance That we have at life? The day will come Where all of us will Find we have to face Every day we live we Walk closer to to our grave The hardest fact of life for which we philosophize Not everybody lives But everybody dies Today, you're a human being But your time of that is fleeting Once you put a friend six feet underground You'll understand what I'm trying to say So get up on your feet And do not accept defeat You can't change a thing Until you try to change your thinking! The day will come Where all of us will Find we have to face Every day we live we Walk closer to to our grave The hardest fact of life for which we philosophize Not everybody lives But everybody dies Is there real purpose? And if there is, why can't it easily be seen? Do we deserve this? Or is peace something we will only see in our dreams? We take for granted All of the beauty in our life that our eyes see Right now, accept it The mind you occupy one day will be empty The day will come Where all of us will Find we have to face Every day we live we Walk closer to to our grave The hardest fact of life for which we philosophize Still can't figure out why Not everybody lives Not everybody lives But one way or another One way or another One way or another It's a fact of life Every Body Dies It's true It's true You and you and you And me too One way or another...
3.
Do you know how far That so many people would go Just to prove that they're not crazy? What they say is true And if you disagree, then they may Come for you, even without proof So would you die if they told you it was for something greater Not everybody can be saved And if you'd kill for an idea that you claim you're defending Take it to your grave, take it to your grave Man, I cannot believe the things you try To pass off and justify It's like you don't even hold yourself To the standards you set I wish that I could just spell it out But everyone that does just winds up dead So let's just say that freedom isn't free And they'll steal it back to pay the debt So would you die if they told you it was for something greater Not everybody can be saved And if you'd kill for an idea that you claim you're defending Take it to your grave, take it to your grave I hope when you die, that you finally see That this world is so much more than what just you believe So what if who is right is neither you nor me? Would you still insist on being enemies? So would you die if they told you it was for something greater Not everybody can be saved And if you'd kill for an idea that you claim you're defending Take it to your grave And make sure that you keep it there
4.
We all disagree on what it started from But we don't know if there's anything after it You better hold onto what you believe About your soul that runs, but cannot hide From the other side Take every single moment in your life Where you feel you gotta find a way to justify And leave it be What if we only have one chance to exist? Is there anything inside your heart left to give? Leave it be It won't be long until we waste away And if we're lucky, somebody may live in our memory But I see so many people keep empty faces Misguiding through their lives, holding everything inside From which they're told they should hide Take every single moment in your life Where you feel you gotta find a way to justify And leave it be What if we only have one chance to exist? Is there anything inside your heart left to give? Leave it be Take every little moment in this life Where it takes your breath away and you look up at the sky, and feel the relief Live in the moment, here, right now Cause the beauty of this life is time runs out C'est La Vie Take every single moment in your life Where you feel you gotta find a way to justify And leave it be What if we only have one chance to exist? Is there anything inside your heart left to give? Leave it be C'est La Vie
5.
Ride Or Die 03:52
Sticks and stones may break my bones But they'll break yours just as easy (easy) You're not the first, so do your worst But don't expect it to phase me (phase me) You took advantage what we took for granted Your promise of a friend who won't abandon Before this, I have always given second chances Strike that fucking chord, now this is war Against a world I had so much faith in So now the only thing I can believe in Is the music doesn't stop, until I stop breathing So when they poke around Through all your insides Will they find a spine? This beating heart of mine Pumps to a one track mind If you won't make the sacrifice Then don't promise ride or die These words of spite I keep repeating May drill a hole into my brain But I'd rather die than prove you right Even if it drives me insane So you can run but you'll never escape from The truth inside the lie of the man you've become Keep speaking through your teeth, keep sticking to your guns Convince everyone that what you say is true But I can see that it's driving you crazy Constantly searching for credibility No matter what you are, I know you can hear me Did I fucking stutter? So when they poke around Through all your insides Will they find a spine? This beating heart of mine Pumps to a one track mind If you won't make the sacrifice Then don't promise ride or die I heard that you told everybody you created me Taking credit for my accomplishments, And talking shit upon my name My sympathies have once again matured to hate You got a lot to say about the Fucker who gave you your identity Your identity has no integrity or loyalty You'll say the words they wanna hear But you're not fooling anybody Cause the hardest part of letting go Is thinking what if or maybe so You know, your memory's defective, inaccurate The past is a trap, don't dare look back to it You took the love that I gave you And spat it back in my face, You forget what I won't forgive Your promise stays in present tense Cause this is ride or die And I'll hold you to your empty words tonight
6.
Hate to hold onto (Waoh, waoh, waoh, waoh, waoh, waoh) Hate to hold onto (Waoh, waoh, waoh, waoh, waoh, waoh) They say that living in the past Will ruin each new day But I'm afraid if I let it go I'll have nothing to sing I remember all the suffering But still, I wouldn't change a thing The boy you laughed at grew up Into a man that defies you I tried to forgive all the ones Who have done me wrong But the only thing that happened Is the helped me write this song Will it be their relevance That determines my significance? If so, then I'll need you for Hate to hold onto (Waoh, waoh, waoh, waoh, waoh, waoh) To help you understand We must rewind I spent my teenage years Depressed and angry all the time But when I lost faith in everything I heard the music say to me "Give your soul to me It will pay off in due time" I tried to forgive all the ones Who have done me wrong But the only thing that happened Is the helped me write this song Will it be their relevance That determines my significance? If so, then I'll need you for Hate to hold onto I spent so many nights alone Just wrestling with my demons Holding on for better times Without these bitter feelings You kicked us into the dirt And didn't have a reason But doing so only helped grow This fucking band you're hearing I tried to forgive all the ones Who have done me wrong But the only thing that happened Is the helped me write this song Will it be their relevance That determines my significance? Did you expect the result From all your negativity Be possibly the greatest thing That every happened to me? Every night that I hit the stage You're the reason they'll remember me I won't forgive but must thank you for Hate to hold onto (Waoh, waoh, waoh, waoh, waoh, waoh) Hate to hold onto (Waoh, waoh, waoh, waoh, waoh, waoh)
7.
Virality 03:55
Can you see what I see A divided crowd of people With their eyes sucked into the screen A greater worth lost in the sound Of finding ways to pervert perfections Of something profound So make your words into a gun And with bitter intention, fire without discretion No matter how you say it, your opinion won't ever matter Until it's televised then everybody suddenly cares So stop bitching on about your happily ever after You're the reason that this world is ending faster We use tits to sell in all industries But we berate the same mother for feeding their baby Virality, stupidity You replaced your brain with the latest, greatest technology But do scrolling screens make you feel complete? Or do you ever find yourself just feeling nothing but empty? No matter how you say it, your opinion won't ever matter Until it's televised then everybody suddenly cares So stop bitching on about your happily every after You're the reason that this world is ending faster And almost everything that I'm seeing Looks too plastic to me For every hypocrite, there's someone full of shit That's trying to sell me something that I don't need I don't believe in anything, cause this entire world is bullshitting No matter how you say it, your opinion won't ever matter Until it's televised then everybody suddenly cares So stop bitching on about your happily every after You're the reason that this world is ending faster So please just do the rest of us a favor already And shut the fuck up, put your phone down
8.
If the pain you kept ahold inside Says that you deserve to die Instead of painful suicide Maybe you should kill your Self (Maybe you should, maybe you should) Kill your (Self!) Kill your (Self!) Kill your (Self!, Self!, Self!) Allow me to cut right to the chase It might get a little deep or too real But I see you picking at the scabs And still expecting them to heal There's an irony in your reality Replacing substance with substances In search for your identity What inside the mirror seems to be missing? You're choking on the fumes when your running on empty Can't find your place inside of society? Is there any reason that you deserve to feel this way? Maybe you should kill your Self (Self!) (Self!) (Self!) (Self!) (Self!) (Self!) (Self!) (Self!) You probably think back to times Where you felt love in your heart Before the world came back and made sure That it ripped it all out Why give victory that that adversity? If the end justifies the means Then just blame Machiavelli What inside the mirror seems to be missing? You're choking on the fumes when you're running on empty Can't find your place inside of society? Is there a reason that you deserve to feel this way? If we never change, we won't be complete Let's cut everything inside we wanna throw away You can kill your self, if you don't take it too literally Are you proud of the person that you've become? Or do you spend your time wondering how it all went wrong? Wanting it all to go away can sometimes get pretty tempting But let's rephrase that statement into the solution this song is suggesting Will you retain suffering, your burden never earned? Or leave the version of this person you've determined makes it feel deserved? I wasted so much time reading between the line I let it get too deep, the people around me Who had me already defined But we can choose to be Any person that wanna be So if the life you lead is lost Then end it now, metaphorically (If we never change, we won't be complete) (If we never change, we won't be complete) What inside the mirror seems to be missing? You're choking on the fumes when you're running on empty Can't find your place inside of society? Is there a reason that you deserve to feel this way? If we never change, we won't be complete Let's cut everything inside we wanna throw away You can kill your self, if you don't take it too literally (Maybe you should, maybe you should) Kill your (Self!) Kill your (Self!) Kill your (Self!, Self!, Self!) Self
9.
Confessions 06:00
Don't bother telling me to go to hell Man, I've already been there and back The shit I've said and done Won't grant me no reprieve Just anxiety attacks You can't understand it Until you're up against it Does anybody truly get what they deserve? So show me something that you keep locked behind your eyes The entire world's a stage, don't get caught trying to hide For on the day you die, they see behind the faces you faked So, when in your final moments, with a single breath to take... What's your confession to make? I'll be the first to admit I've said and done some pretty fucked up things Quite a lot of which I don't regret Somewhere inside the rabbit hole I let my demons take control I'm sure they're not finished yet If I kept a million secrets, Not a fucking soul could keep one It's too damn easy to point the finger Until it's struck back in your face So show me something that you keep locked behind your eyes The entire world's a stage, don't get caught trying to hide For on the day you die, they see behind the faces you faked So, when in your final moments, with a single breath to take... Do we need something holy to love each other normally? Consumed inside a folly, where everyone cares more about What we believe, we're so naive So cast your judgement, throw your stones I made it this far here all on my own And to all the people I know that I've hurt I've made some decisions I'm not proud of along the way But the worst mistakes we can make Is missing a chance that we're too afraid to take Can you say you're being honest With all the words that you preach? Until you prove you're fucking perfect Don't you dare point your dirty goddamn finger at me You can't understand it until you're up against it You can't understand me until you're up against you So show me something that you keep locked behind your eyes The entire world's a stage, don't get caught trying to hide For on the day you die, they see behind the faces you faked So, when in your final moments, with a single breath to take... What's your confession to make? Spit it out
10.
Hollow 04:21
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Weightless 07:39
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Goodbye 05:59
I remember the times we spent as kids as bittersweet We were too young to see how much one day these Moments would grow to mean If I gave up my last few years, would it change a thing? Take me back to the same when I was so naive They always say that it would come one day But why the hell did it have to be today? You don't prepare to lose someone You always took for granted Until you see them go Just know I tried to say goodbye Well, I must admit, I've done and said some shit That some would find questionable I wish that you could see all the progress That I'm now making Who the hell did this to you, could they instead use me? You were too young to leave at only eighteen They always say that it would come one day But why the hell did it have to be today? You don't prepare to lose someone You always took for granted Until you see them go Just know I tried to say goodbye I'd give up my voice right here, right now If you could just hear me I've waited far too long to tell you I was wrong, and that I'm sorry Now I can't forgive myself Even though you've long forgiven me I won't let the world forget your name They always say that it would come one day But why the hell did it have to be today? You don't prepare to lose someone You always took for granted Until you see them go And I waited far too long To tell you I was wrong They always say that it would come one day But why the hell did it have to be today? You don't prepare to lose someone You always took for granted Until you see them go Just know I tried to say goodbye

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released May 20, 2021

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Arkangela St. Louis, Missouri

Combining a mix of the chaos of modern metal, the prowess of classic rock, the anthemic hooks of alternative, mixed with orchestral and electronic elements, Arkangela is a unique rock/heavy metal band centered around dualism, with one goal in mind...

Creating passionate, high energy music that hits the listener both in the mind and heart.
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