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Drowning In A Wishing Well

by Drowning In A Wishing Well

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Distancing 05:37
Obsolete and orphaned Quite obviously tamed By the let down of the daylight The false promise it made There’s no conciliation Neon synastry a guise So sit back and enjoy The soundtrack to our pure demise Would you rather live a fiction Counterfeit and fake? Plastic faces won't redeem The meaning they erase Bleeding out ink to put on a page Create emotion we won’t attain. We are so connected By this distance in between Ourselves and our portrayals Of who we think we want to be Isn't it so lovely Lovelessly in denial Cardboard cut out corpses Rot beneath vanilla skies If only I could capture This ocean in between A self prescribed depression And a pseudo suffered apathy Torturing our sorrow Torturing ourselves Paint a pretty portrait And live like you're not someone else Stage fright from the daylight Of your mediocre life Don’t stop to think of your life’s worth When worthless is your life.
2.
Now gaze upon the empty room. No light will enter here. My conscious is a phantom limb; A mind that’s full of fear. Keep quiet while the colors fade. Sheets keep me out of sight. A perfect martyr of myself; Both rabbit and the light. Amputate my lungs I have no need to breathe in Underwater you won’t feel the rain. Dissolve in the art of your hate Torn blinds oppose encroaching days And days they’re all the same. Invent a meaning for the lives we lead Its leading me astray The apparitions of my past Haunt sleep and in between. Fallen short of expectation, When life is your disease. Hang the noose Around my soul Kick out the chair And let me go Let me go Saw off my limbs Sew shut my sins And watch me slip away
3.
Isolation 04:36
Isolation Where best friends are strangers You had it all Now you’re alone All sense of feeling Shows little reason Reasons why We’re alive Do you know who you are? Isolate your heart. Feeding on secrets That aren’t worth keeping At least you’re free Free in a cage. Just keep believing That there is a reason Reasons why, You’re alive. Do you know who you are? Isolate your heart. Isolation
4.
Shards 04:33
Predictably Blinded by the colour Envisioned in another’s dream. Black and white charades This endless masquerade The mask becomes your complexion. Tell me is this real? I can't recall my name A ghost inside a mirror Left to disintegrate Predictably Perfect for the frame. Hung up in another's place. Imprinted on the iris To kill what’s left inside us. Perceive a perfect paradise in vain. Head down It’s safer in the shade Darkened By the monoliths we made Dead upon arrival I think I'll stay a while So happy It’ll turn to apathy in a day This moment is just enough to keep me up for now This moment is just enough to keep me up for now The ghosts in the mirror no longer speak When this machine pretends to breathe
5.
Valhalla 03:49
Angels on the high rise Waiting for the next in line The lines become so long The crowd below will break your fall Too tired for this art Too bare to bear these feelings A cold abyss of comfort A place where nothing matters at all. Pyre on the water turn to dust before I drown A wish to fall Not to change the world Rearrange who you thought you were The eyes below stare back at me Surrender to this gravity Too tired for this art Too bare to bear these feelings A cold abyss of comfort A place where nothing matters Pyre on the water turn to dust before I drown So cold inside a fire Tell me who is sorry now Who is sorry now?
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Carved out happiness Wake me from this lullaby tonight Dreaded memories never seem to fade Isolate the day when dreams come to life Carved out happiness Carved out on my wrist Carved out happiness To satisfy the demons from within your fragile mind Craving your soul and your life Carved out happiness Choking on your thoughts Can’t abandon these fantasies that haunt Darkest lights become your brightest of days Illusions just enslave when nightmares come to life And where our hearts should rest I carve these words into my chest This blade reflects all we’ve ever known As the blood drips to the floor The blood drips to the floor The blood drips to the floor
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Dead Air 03:42
Justified solutions To the problems we create Live in atrophy sublime As we feign to imitate. Corrupted or enlightened, Delude the dreamers they Fabricate these saviours To believe they can be saved In this This dead air Pieces of myself The pieces I leave here In this Asphyxiation Why do I always choose The hardest way to lose We're not out of Kansas yet Your false enthusiasm So completely underwhelms A pseudo optimism Only disappoints yourself Encapsulate emotion In a drug that we can take Illusion of elation To believe a truth so fake
8.
The Fear 02:16
Grains of sand Through a shallow hour glass. Tears unshed will fill the bottom long before I open my eyes to realise what was lost So long underwater I’ve learnt to breathe in it To end my association with existence And begin a new one with the pavement Introduced by my good friend gravity It’s not that I want to die It’s just I don't want to live And even then they try to bend The truth it is so relative Save the dark and hate the rest When choices are less obvious Momentary happiness Of moments future spent I know they won't transpire No matter what words passed our lips It was just air and noise Indistinguishable from the let down of reality Another thought Another immortal intermission in the screenplay of my life My memory's projection begins to lose its focus When I've seen this film a thousand times before Holding hands with ghosts You don't have to die to be dead At least not to me Euthanise my darkest fears For even they can’t find me here Sew my eyes and saw my limbs I won’t be needing them again In the lost and found again The found are lost when we pretend Let the dark absolve our sins It’s the fear that keeps them in
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We could all pretend that everything is perfect here Would you rather live a lie or a life of fear? Tell me what it’s like to look through vacant eyes A one way mirror with nothing more behind. And if I'm gonna go I think I’d rather know this time. All my hopes are coming true As I enjoy the view from this cliff. Pray to your executioner But you cannot be heard from behind this veil. It’s safer to fail than try I think I'd like to send a message to the optimist It written in a truth that you can't comprehend. It’s a disillusioned daydream with a death wish for a life. The writings on the of the walls of the blind This profit over people is enough to let me know. I'm a number in the system, I'm a nameless faithless soul Take my hand and stare with me into my crystal ball. What's the point in rising up when you know you’re gonna fall? And now as I disappear Overshadowed by the fear of knowing the truth. Flames caress this empty shell of a lifeless living hell to exit existence. Holding the threads of life.

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This is our first release, recorded at home over a period of about a year and a half.

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released December 23, 2011

Vocals // Jade Browne
Guitar, Bass, Production // Jordan Browne

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Drowning In A Wishing Well Hamilton, New Zealand

Drowning In A Wishing Well is an alternative rock band from Hamilton, New Zealand.

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