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The Demos

by The Dark Retreat

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1.
Dark Star 03:49
There's black in all I see Without your love with me The night, the sky, the dream The darkness is closing in on me (underneath the same bad moon) Dark Star, you always want what you can't have The night's never over...
2.
Wake up, wake up, we're calling Eyes closed, you do not hear Wake up, wake up, we're calling Beautiful Nightmare The Sandman's got you captured Daylight so far away The fear is your undoing It creeps out in the day "Someone help me!" (wake him up) Dreams aren't so real
3.
Infatuation 04:46
Hanging on to every X in your texts Wondering when I will see you next And if we're doing the right thing Sugar, I am soaking in our sin Your finger trails where he has been In so deep, I'm drowing Listening to a song we shared At least once a day Searching for some hidden message That might lead the way Don't you know that I am falling fast Infatuation (She's full of loving but she's got no heart) Infatuation (Who wants a girl that's falling apart) I want to hold your gaze But I'm afraid that you'll stray Searching for some hidden corner Where we can hide away Don't you know that I am at a loss The hardest thing's the walking away
4.
This Unrest 04:46
A dark retreat, where spirits roam This unrest, my only home I greet the void, you face the storm I'll haunt this place now that you're gone I cry out loud but no one's there... ...for you're miles away Fevered heart and fevered head Choking on words left unsaid Your plan for help left me for dead I'll keep it warm, our empty bed I cry out loud but no one's there I cry out and fade away No one answers (fade away)
5.
Dressed to the nines Class on all fours Spent money on trash Tipped his hat to the whores You go to bed and you never wake up Crucified High from his pain Between lake and sky The Angel of Soho His art out to dry Is that all that you are? Is there more that you want? Be hated for what you are Not loved for what you are not (Saint Sebastian)
6.
You say that you're sorry Well, girl don't I know I'd love to forgive you But I can't let it go Why'd I let you bring me down Look what you've done to me My friend, the enemy? It is time for me To turn the other cheek? This Tell Tale Heart will beat It pumps our misery Let it bleed, let it bleed, let it bleed What you embraced was wrong Lust in your belly Deceit on your lips Under your floorboards Lies our friendship in bits
7.
It's days like these Take us back to the beginning We fight our cases but no one is winning babe
8.
Plato's Cave 05:25
A dance of dreams Illuminated by the flickering Eyes to the wall Fixated to the trickery Filing past Beasts and men with horse's heads The wisest man Predicts what will happen next Shadowplay Unaware the world is turning Set me free Let me see your fire burning Inside this cave The heat is blistering But listen close The dark is whispering Unbind your chains Explore the world above you If you put this pantomime to bed Reality will blind you Blinded by the daylight
9.
The Silence 03:54
I wake alone then yearn to sleep Directionless, just air to breath Now she's gone her face is haunting me The nights are long and days just seem like weeks Now she's gone, the blame is all I feel It's the silence in my ears The silence, it's all I hear The nightmare's gone but her face is haunting me The silence is breaking me
10.
I am the fallen one. I am the fallen from Heaven Oh Venus, oh day star Lucifer, son of the dawn I am the fallen from Heaven Oh Venus, oh day star The King of Babylon Falling from grace Is it my ego that's left me here tortured Are you convinced that it's all about me Their stories are twisted Have damned me forever Misunderstood for all of eternity I can't bow before him, I love you Was born of the fire Made to adore thee How can I worship something Moulded from clay Created with eyes and a heart for you only You ask of me something I cannot display (Cast me out, throw me down, to Hades bound!) These the words that I refused... "You'll throw yourself at the first man" Adam, Adam, I'm damned, I'm damned
11.
You waited for my answer After all of these years Now I'm waiting for an answer No photo on the screen They say you'll never grow old The news it got me thinking Of your life and tragedies Those dark days that followed you Not self inflicted but received And now you'll never grow old Sail away sweet sister The song we used to sing So sail away sweet sister May your soul rest in peace And now you'll never grow old I'm sorry I was mean So sorry I was mean May your soul rest in peace Not lost but now released
12.
Feral Child (free) 03:26
Oxana, show your teeth Escape on hands and knees Live your life on gut instinct Life's a bitch and you're its queen Mother, father... I'll play dead Distant howling in your head Oxana, led astray Lick your wounds and run away Sweet moonlight The dogs are out tonight I can be your feral child
13.
Fighting for the future by erasing the past Once bitten, twice rabid Our flags at half mast Let it go The storm that's inside me It weathers my pain My heart squeezing out every last drop of rain Don't be afraid The silence between us grows louder each day Ear shattering words that we're both scared to say
14.
Run Away 06:04
It's time you leave & walk away Just run away, you can run away Your honesty is just abuse You're crucifying the life that you once knew Where's the love and dignity This life is just insanity It's time to face the truth Your honest is just no use You keep on trying but nothing changes you Is this our destiny?
15.
Time Out 04:04
I've come to play here by myself I don't need anybody else A string of pearls around my neck Lost beads for everyone I've known Caught on the breeze, escape like leaves Making it easier to breathe (alone) You can't touch me, see or hear me I am out of sight I don't feel you or remember Truly out of mind Only the sky will answer now I'll greet the rain with open mouth Will wash away your fingerprints Clean at last, my purest self I'll stop the clocks and sit alone Forget I'm made of flesh & bone
16.
CQD 03:26
Scapegoat down The North Star as my witness That seat, it beckoned me And low, I sank into the night I'm lost at sea The sky, it casts a shadow On my sisters & on my brothers The sun will not rise again for the many others CQD: Danger on the high seas CQD: Man overboard My luck which brought me to land Curse in disguise, for it is I who am damned A man that should have stayed starboard And never ran If I had known what I do know now I'd trade Terra Firma for some dignity
17.
It's time you leave & walk away Just run away, you can run away Your honesty is just abuse You're crucifying the life that you once knew Where's the love and dignity This life is just insanity It's time to face the truth Your honest is just no use You keep on trying but nothing changes you Is this our destiny?
18.
The distance we've made The time spent away Means nothing Decisions we make Fatal Mistakes We're learning Brother Indigo A spectrum of light Vibrating in me I open my mouth And it's colours you see Don't live in the dark Follow me here Under the stars Legends of gold Too yellow to find If the glitz and the glamour Is all in the mind
19.
Sophie 02:24
20.
Black Jaws 03:39
The words of a man, lost A manse, unoccupied No man is deemed alone With The Devil by his side Run away In his Black Jaws From the Word of Our Lord And the voice of Sound Reason I give you my word As seeing is believing (la la la) He's cut of different cloth The Devil's in the detail His stitching's come undone He's off the rails Father, Son, Unholy Ghost On the book (I swear) Seeing is believing

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released July 1, 2011

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