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The Black Room

by Infraction

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1.
Masquerade 04:16
You’re state of mind is so strange Living in a warped fantasy Your self image through a smashed lens That fails to show reality A painted picture of a fallacy That you hold to A smeared portrait of a past That was never true Why Do you want to live like this? Why Do you aspire to be gutter born? You were raised in the castle Elevated above the streets So don’t come down here Just to play at poverty The mask slips From your face The mirror Has cracked The mask slips From your face The mirror Has cracked You trawl the depths To be covered in the filth But you can’t disguise The rose-scented truth In your head you glamourised The paupers life But never wanted to Suffer any of that strife Intoxicated By a path you’ve never walked Well now you’re trapped here From all the bullshit that you talked
2.
The 63rd 02:30
There was an inclination To keep staring back Into a past That I couldn’t change And so I strove For forward motion Learning from The errors of my history I’ve sifted through the wreckage I have laid my soul bare Every step marked with persistence On a pathway to completion But sometimes it feels so easy To take a step back To fall into old ways When there’s so many targets to attack Now there’s no motivation To keep looking back After all this time I’ve pushed beyond that So I strive To keep momentum Never to grieve The mistakes of my history I’ll not be stuck back there Encased in my own fury I’ll continue to evolve Beyond these limitations Push through these barriers That I have placed In my own path To reach the 63rd I’ll reach the 63rd.
3.
Separated from the outside I retreat internally To find my solace But my mind betrays me Forced to walk a dark path A reminder of my mistakes A nightmare of history That I can’t realign This wave of negativity It floods my soul And I have no defences To hold back the storm So I go under Swallowed by my depression So I go under Until I fucking drown Change direction Force myself back up This blackened room Will not be my prison I cannot lie here And allow myself To be defeated By my own self-hatred I will not be captive In a cell of despair I will not surrender In this mental warfare
4.
This is the realisation A portent of a prophecy The understanding made long ago That this is where my life would lead And in this waking hour With only 24 left I look out across the water And prepare to take my last steps With so many years Wasted behind me Now there’s only this day left And I’m consumed by a numbness As my time is ending I stand alone on the shoreline And into the abyss I’ll scream my last breaths This is the recognition Of a harsh reality A conclusion written long ago That this is where the end would be And in this final moment With nothing else left I see the fog roll across the water As the Ferryman beckons me No I don’t feel anything As I cross this river And no I don’t feel anything In this lonely place of dying

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Released Friday 31st July 2020

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released July 31, 2020

Music recorded at DaEndz Studio by Adam Harris
Vocals recorded at Bai Long Studios by John Kata

Backups: John Kata

Artwork: Mark Hiblen (www.instagram.com/mjhiblenart)

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Infractionhc London, UK

Drums: Tom
Bass: Cary
Guitar: Hannah
Guitar: Adam
Vocals: John

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