A hollow hand, held out in high demand
By fear's command, invaders taken stand
Now in the brief, and violent relief
Upon the sand, the bodies form the land
Still you seize and you thieve
Finding faith in reprieve
While you care for you lies
The hollow takes a life
A path serene, forgotten in our dream
It's never clean, while picking at the seam
Look to the blood, the stain beneath the hood
We come too late, just to avoid their fate
Still you seize and you thieve
Finding faith in reprieve
While you care for you lies
The hollow takes a life
And now we hear the drum beats of war, it is the sound of lies
and the love of power, I won't stand idly by
And i, will testify, to the time, it takes to rectify
And i, would give an eye, perhaps a tooth, if getting at the truth
And i, will fight the lie, if resigned, to give it all my time
And i, will justify, how they find, a place to unwind
Beneath the sun, we stand alone as one
There'll come the day, this is the only way
Without the grief, to rid us of the thief
So Que Sera, we never knew how far, they'd go
Still you seize and you thieve
Finding faith in reprieve
While you care for you lies
The hollow takes a life
Another human dies
credits
released July 18, 2020
Written by Pale (Mikey Clark / Tim Gawthorpe / Sean Gennard / Dean Fellows). Performed, recorded, engineered and mixed by Pale. Lyrics written by Mikey Clark. Mastered by Anthony Weaver at Tower Studios, Stone. Recorded at Pale's Underground Zombie Bunker. Artwork (c) Pale 2020.
Pale bring
elements of hard rock, post rock, heavy metal and grunge
and bind them into a set of powerful
and punctuated songs;
a melting pot of tribalistic fury, brooding presence and
vitriolic angst.
Their songs are of pounding and passionate, soaring,
grinding rock; lyrically flavored with visceral and
impending words of despair, faithlessness, rebellion
and smashed illusions....more
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