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Acts of Desperation

by I See Giants

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Out, please 04:21
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Is it me or are my demons getting the best of me Never forget Will it pass or am I alone Just remember I can feel it pulling feel a life that's not my own could I please enjoy my few breaths shallow though they may be Is it me or are my demons getting the best of me Never forget Will it pass or am I alone Just remember You're just as sad please loathe please loathe me please loathe please loathe me loathe me loathe for loathe for there's hatred in my heart please loathe reject my shame I feel I fear to enter blissful numbness in my heart have myself handed back to me thoroughly abused could I please enjoy my few breaths shallow though they may be save my demons, running away perhaps I would just want out
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Mirror, mirror 03:34
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I’ve looked at you, I’ve seen nothing new everything just reflecting back at me. I can’t escape this shine you cast off. It’s me in my most true and terrible form in my one form I now see this, this other. I’ve always tried to outrun my new self, my other self. Now that I’m constantly confronted with my fear, I who was always so proud so strong so unaware will now meet my new ego, in my sub conscience we look at each other and we size each other up We talk we converse but all we say we both know. Such a strong and fragile tension. We created it and we savour it, enjoy it. Always together but always alone. Mirror Mirror on the wall, Who is the scariest of them all. Is it me, who stands here, shaking Every hour here, I’m breaking All this time I see your face Existing in this undefined space You are neither here nor there I won’t escape, I swear We could smash it and break it, but it would never leave us it would never break us apart. We are one. Always will and should be. Mirror, mirror, mirror, mirror Oh mirror, show me mirror Myself I fear, I shiver I won’t die, I’ll deliver I’ve seen my face in the mirror Mirror, mirror, face me mirror I’ve seen the face of my mirror Mirror, please deface my mirror I walked around, I walked, WE walked. Oh the miles we walked. There was a beach there was an ocean. Oh I drowned you in it Oh I drowned you Oh I drowned you in my tears, my sorrow, my desperation, devastation in the salt lakes, the salt lakes of my fear. I never thought about you. All those miles we walked and never were we together. (I want us to meet now for real I need to meet you, NOW, to feel) mirror mirror on the wall who is the scariest of them all I’ve built you up so high It’s about time I shot you from my sky I’ll reach through this rigid surface Hope to see through this empty canvas I’ll face this face in the mirror It wears my face my (t)error
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Breach 02:15
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I've seen it stream I've seen it flow out I beg you please see me pleading here The hurt that hit me in my soul was So untrue and unforgiving The pill got bit The pill that gave venom And now I've broken through my skin, seen through my true self I've flown outside and shown my last colour I've breathed in the fumes - of my lies - of your truths I've bled my ink of life - in my lies - in your truths Regurgitate myself - in your lies - in my truths I'll bleed to stand another - of your tries - of my tries Come back again Come back again come back to me Come back now please I need you to Bleed for me And now I've broken through my skin, seen through my true self I've flown outside and shown my last colour
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King and Child 05:24
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And the king he spoke to me On lives and worlds we'd agree of sunsets that envied the living and rainbows to be forgiven We'd seen the hills roll out to war a sight never seen before The clouds that billow as smoke overcast a forest of greying oak I've seen the mountains so proudly deafening silence so loudly rain for rivers to flow water to cleanse us so slow lives in forest as vivid as lives be intrepid harmony in song and sound voiced free, unbound Kingdom will come solace for some rumbling below tremble for lives down beneath life in the sky the flying of angels we'll never fly stand in contentment/cover my eyes/loathing this world Alone as life ignores us The king and I in the forest We'd forget the simple things Of life among our beings Kingdom will come solace for some rumbling below Can you hear me crying I stand here, standing here We see this world filled with dying children The starving children around Wait 'till they're dead to be found Dying children for a world's decoration Kingdom will come solace for some rumbling below I've hated standing in rain The pouring of pain The wind that tears at the world Children torn apart by cold
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Haven 07:39
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Doorways passed with light that fell in sparking pools on the floor I step lightly weaving my way through endless corridors chasing shadows of you shades of a human I once knew to be Weaving my way back home to find I'm alone weaving my way to the place I will never find myself And never ever stand to stare to look, to observe my watching felt so violent were you ever mine? 'cause I scarcely believe the things i felt , the things i've seen the worlds we made, hand in hand did you ever believe did you ever catch me hiding openly scared, running for cover running to you and running from me I was running to the edge Weaving my way back home To find I'm alone Weaving my way to the place I will never find myself Let me be that victim And safeguard me please I can't do this alone I need this hand to scoop me up, keep me safe The crows are getting restless I can't recall the sky was ever blue I fear this, I'm scared I won't do this alone

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Debut release by I See Giants. A Post-Rock/Post-Hardcore band hailing from Utrecht, The Netherlands.

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released December 20, 2014

Music written, mixed and recorded by I See Giants
Lyrics by Stef van de Kerkhof
Mastering by Gijs Oomkes
Artwork by Emy Spekschoor

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I See Giants Utrecht, The Netherlands

'I know all about acts of desperation'

I See Giants are a hardcore influenced post-rock band hailing from Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Among their influences are bands such as La Dispute, the Dillinger Escape Plan and Saetia.
Together, we try to write songs that incorporate energy, truth and emotion.

I See Giants is:
Marco Walma - Guitar
AJ Duin - Drums
Stef van de Kerkhof - Bass/Vocals ... more

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