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FRIGID FUTURE // 03.18.16 via We Are Triumphant & Victory Records

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Produced, mixed and mastered by Carson Slovak & Grant McFarland at Atrium Audio in Lancaster, PA. Recorded February-March 2015.

Artwork by Cory Swope

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Tracklist:

Into the Grey

Caught In

American Winter

Medicate the Past

Haunted

Hands of Porcelain

Sycophant

Okami

Empty World

Ghost of the Grave

Just a Shade of Blue

Inside Out (Japan Only Bonus Track)

Towers (Japan Only B-Side Alternate Lives EP)

*Lyrics*

Into the Grey:

Eradicate what you know about me Your frigid future is void without a dream It’s like I’m witnessing a sinking ship Watching everybody drown inside of it

We’re the wolves in the blizzard Starved, not lost We’re the crops that won’t wither Or subdue to frost

Please calm down, I want to make a name Far from here, I will be back someday

Pull my own I crawl this beaten path with claws unhoned I’ve been told That those who plant winds harvest storms

Hit the road, it’s time to live the dream Hear my resolution, let’s start a revolution

Swimming blindly through the stream It’s time to live the dream Loosing faith is all I’ve known But I won’t sail these seas alone

It’s like I’m witnessing a sinking ship Watching everybody drown inside of it We’re the wolves in the blizzard We’re the crops that won’t wither

In this moment I feel so cold I won’t be alone in the blizzard

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Caught In:

At the atmosphere I surface My body’s free tonight My vision serves a purpose Leave me to close my eyes I’m left for dead but i’m always getting stronger I’m loosing sleep and my mind just seems to wonder

This life is wild, meaningless, and the sun will never die We’re open minded, superstitious, and we’ll lose our fucking minds

We get caught in these lights (Woah) We live alternate lives (Alternate)

Destined to meet again My hands are shaking now

Fuck!

I want to feel you I want to breathe you In two different worlds

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American Winter:

The sunset is my escape Silence eases all the pain I’m not the one to break your fall Just another caustic phase Your bleeding heart bled for a purpose Love filled with black and blue My deepest regrets rise Inside I always knew

And I was born to run Nowhere to go I’m holding onto what I know Because I’ve learned to let go

Grab all your baggage, it’s back to the station The train is departing with no hesitation All these ‘goodbyes’ amount to nothing When you return to find out I never was loving I just needed some space To drown the dark feelings That engulfed my heart in flames

Save me from this place I’ve been led astray Time to choose my faith Or I’ll lose my way

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Medicate the Past:

Cleanse myself, erase my sin Lie to my face, and take it away

I’ll drink away everything I’ve learned to be (Such a waste) Day by day, fate will change Let’s see the pain escape Watch my hours fade Let my pieces stray Help me to be (to be) Honest with myself

This time I’ll make my own path It seems you live in the past (Na Na Na) Just learn to live and laugh again

Yeah, I thought I needed help, and nobody’s listening I want it all, all for my own selfish reasons Every person, place, thing around me Will change my life ahead

Stand up kid, pick your feet up off the ground You need to move on with this hell And everything around you

Wait, nothing’s gonna save me Please perceive the devil inside of me I’m letting of the pain escape

Slow down your life

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Haunted:

Rest in peace, I never meant to fool you Your destiny, it wasn’t ready to fulfill you

I’m wide awake I can’t seem to, can’t seem to find (Find my way) I’m miles away I can’t seem to, can’t seem to find Find my way

I can’t find my way

Searching for a meaning Always loosing feeling And I don’t wanna let it end this way I thought I had something more to say But now I realize it’s just all too late This isolation never kept me safe (Never kept me safe) Turning around, you’re bringing me down To everything that lies below Do you haunt me now?

I’m already dead… dead inside from this nightmare My guilty conscience claims that I can’t hide from there Yet still I’m lost Lost in my mind In apparition, idly floating by

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Hands of Porcelain:

Pack the suitcase, take a load off The past two days consumed my demons This path I take, comes full circle Relapse, repeat, it’s all in my head

Hide the heartache in a bottle Selfish bastard you’ve lost it, lost it all

Devil beside me stow me in chains Devil beside me show me your pain

Part of me can’t carry on this way ‘Cause I know (I know) That you’ll fade away Disregard this burden of today ‘Cause I know (I know) That I won’t be saved

Reach out and grab my soul The ghost in your eyelids will turn me to stone This mask is slipping, my organs are failing Her touch is like porcelain

Taking down black and white pictures off the wall (I’ll burn them all) Replacing memories with the ones you can’t forgo

I won’t be saved

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Sycophant:

You, yeah you left us without a doubt Turned your back on the flesh and blood Who tried to help out when shit got rough I guess you really never gave a fuck You, you said it was for the best But we know you’re a sycophant it’s nothing personal, it’s just business

You will never learn

Shut up, you’ve burned your bridges And cut the ropes to all the things you once held close Back then we chased the dream And fought through masses of Frauds, scammers, liars and thieves In the end, we thought that we could trust you But trust is not a god damn virtue

And everything you ever wanted Was staring back at you this whole time

So tell me, it’s ending Were you just pretending? You’ll leave your friends, deceiving them They’re left betrayed Repeating trends you see instead To get your way

It was for the best It’s nothing personal, it’s just business

You’d rather spend your days Living life on the road Getting drugged by your so-called friends Living your life like a fucking lie

Sycophant your fate is in their hands

You betrayed your fucking five best friends Just hope you’ll never see us again

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Okami:

I keep the pace and traverse down this weathered road To find some closure from the place that I called home Jagged stones, stagnant water Sleepless nights, is it over?

Yet, these past few weeks I’ve got to thinking Will I ever resonate with the land I'm bound to be in?

No one can startle me I am the strongest breed If you take away what means most to me My jaws of life will bite ferociously

Step back, the cliff is far too close now Unless I leap with every bone To find the aspiration that every day is not a clone I keep the pace and traverse down this same old road To find some closure from the place that you called home

I won’t die here

Is this my final stop? Staring at a dimly lit door Barron trees calmly swaying in the midnight snow The air fills my lungs With a chilled, northern cold

I am, and all I will be It’s staring back within, it’s right in front of me I won’t fall, through it all I will vow, hear me now This is who I am I won’t let the world break me down

Is this my final stop? Staring at a dimly lit door Barron trees calmly swaying in the midnight snow The air fills my lungs With a chilled, northern cold The breeze lifts my spirit I am home

I now know my purpose To judge those who are worth it I now know my purpose To maul those who deserve it

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Empty World:

She packed her bags and moved on (Woah) Said she’d flee to Hollywood (Woah) I’m no actor, but she’s an actress Regret my actions, won’t learn my lesson Do we exist? (Woah)

We were too selfish that I know Is this the ending that I wrote?

Free your mind, free your soul And then you’ll take control Write it out, let it go Just let your thoughts unfold This is an empty This is an empty world for an empty girl

Cameras rolling, she told me I’m late Bought and sold me out like a slave (I want to watch you) Fall, fall apart Apart at the seams Just like me I’ll destroy me demons to shine like a beacon It’s hard to keep writing the script that you’re seeking

Take your keys and drive somewhere out of sight

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Ghost of the Grave:

I never wanted you to go I never wanted you to leave

After all you’ve said and done for me I don’t want to give up With life on repeat, you’re all that I’m missing When I visit your grave, you know I’m not dancing After all you’ve said and done for me

Our love wasn’t hard to cherish Tell me I’ll be okay I feel the light from your halo Please tell me I’ll be okay Open my casket, I’m torn into pieces I’ve knocked on death’s door just to say what I’m feeling Tell me I’ll be okay

As the wind swept through the grass I felt the presence of your life And suddenly, everything around me Started to make more sense Reflections of these heartfelt memories Transcend in my consciousness At this point, I knew you were around me

I never wanted you to go Tell me I’ll be okay I never wanted you to leave Please tell me I’ll be okay

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Towers:

Standing at the edge of my tower This world turns cold with every hour And oh my god they’re killing me With all the shit they say So I’m gonna lay here and waste away

What is our purpose for? What are we dying for? We need to start again Because we’re destroying our towers

Trying to hold my composure Watching my soul float across the ocean What the hell are we doing here? ‘Cause it’s driving me insane So I’m gonna pretend it’s all a game

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Just a Shade of Blue:

Your face was so unsure And I thought you’d leave me more How can you be so forward? And I’m trying to be who I am

And I’ll bleed over and over again You know I’ll see through the end Won’t miss me when I’m dead (Woah) Over and over again

Delusions sweep my darkened mind Pushing out the stable thoughts and makeshift pride Block it out and cut my wrists Watch me suffer through all of this Ending it won’t cleanse my sins Because I know it was enough to shed your skin

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Inside Out: Misinterpret the devil's eyes You walk through hell to seek the light The serpents tongue, it feeds on lies A better you, a new disguise

Please just make it stop until I'm inside out I don't wanna live another lie Drowning in the doubt, will my flame go out? Draining all my thoughts on the inside

Hold onto your dying breath This is our only chance to make amends I'll never see you

Spit out my wild fire right in your eyes Back on the road in my van before I said goodbye I feel your body moving rushing through my head Distance is closure that I'll never see you again

I'll never see you again