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Redefine
04:46
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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!
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2. |
Fact Of Life
04:03
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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...
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3. |
Take It To Your Grave
03:15
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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
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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
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5. |
Ride Or Die
03:52
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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
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6. |
Hate (To Hold Onto)
04:15
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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)
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7. |
Virality
03:55
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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
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8. |
Kill Your Self
03:58
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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
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9. |
Confessions
06:00
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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
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10. |
Hollow
04:21
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11. |
Weightless
07:39
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12. |
Goodbye
05:59
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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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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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