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Red Eyes, Red Blood, Red Wine

by Drew Dormis

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1.
End 05:52
Let me embrace you, childhood friend You'll be with me until the end Let me embrace you, permanent companion Until the end Welcome me at the place we parted Where I once had you discarded That place that only we know That place buried deep inside my soul You tell me that it just had started While I'm begging for it all to end Let me embrace you, childhood friend You'll be with me until the end Let me embrace you, permanent companion Until the end Make yourself feel at home Possess my mind, make it your throne Take my body, expand your reign You turn hope into desperation You control my imagination And I know that you can't die before I do I wish I were dead, but I'm so scared of dying
2.
This is the moment those questions arise That torment me every night Another moon spent with sticks in my eyes Illusions are walking outside The shadow that steps in the middle of the street Transforms to Your shape as it seems Searching for answers beneath Your disguise Ambition confronted with lies I've witnessed The Master softly losing his mind I'd comfort Margarita when she broke down and cried I've tasted Your whip burning guilt in my skin Now I can't figure out where to end or begin Confusèd moonlight once broke through the wall Of clouds surrounding Your lips You kicked me down and You made me crawl Destroyed by Your fragile grip Roses and vampires have their teeth and thorns Tearing my flesh and my bones When I am playing the songs that I wrote I always think I've heard them before I lived through Jan 14 and the 20th December I was smothered in my blood when You had me dismembered I was where the ducks go during cold winter's wind Now I can't figure out where to end or begin Tu suces mon sang Tendre fleur-vampire Tendre fleur des flammes Je n'osais jamais cueillir Quand tes pieds dansent sur le feu brulant Il n'y reste que de la cendre pour y écrire La peau déchirée Les yeux déchirants Les flammes brutales cachent Ton imperfection Il n'y reste que de la cendre pour y écrire Quand tes pieds dansent sur le feu brulant I've witnessed The Master softly losing his mind I'd comfort Margarita when she broke down and cried I've tasted Your whip burning guilt in my skin Now I can't figure out where to end or begin I lived through Jan 14 and the 20th December I was smothered in my blood when You had me dismembered I was where the ducks go during cold winter's wind Now I can't figure out where to end or begin Mired Sword stuck in Mired Words
3.
The needle scratches on the label For two hours or even more But I'm too weak to flip the record The only people I've seen recently Are the ones selling beer and wine The elixir of life in one of those nights And while I cry myself to sleep Dreaming of good ways to die I hear the Jefferson Cars driving by
4.
C17H18F3NO 02:20
I guess I'm doing fine if I can't feel the sickness I'm not scared of ghosts like me, immaterial and formless I sense surprising silence of the siren's choir The gas station and the lighter are keeping quiet But please shut your mouth about romance I've made a whole album without any lovesongs Some people are dumber, some are more ugly So how come that I still could never get in? I've been through the trouble, so mission abort Until my faith in love is restored Shut the fuck up about romance Please shut your mouth, pretty please Don't have to check my shirts for blood stains Don't have to help me or to get away Let's go out tonight, and have a couple of beers So text me, call me, meet me The songs of mating birds sound pretty sad when you're lonely
5.
مها 03:49
Pressured by the heaviness of these four walls And as life slips out of my hands, I'm losing control I've got this world in my head, exposed to myself In this infinite isolation I've got this pain in my heart, blade in my hand Give me a reason not to use it Losing all hope, I watch dawn plainly fading to night And I guess what you said in the store room was right You told me to be me, but the one thing you didn't see Is that I'm not worthy of being Leave while you can, before I tie you to me I want you to be free, I don't want to be your burden Leave if you want, before you carry my cross Leave if you must, though I know that I need you You're the only one that ever understood my mind The only one out there not to judge me for my kind You stood by my side when I needed you most Clinging to every moment Just like a thief I was stealing your time I sucked your blood like a leech Imprisoned by the pressure of my own four walls Sitting here smoking, feeling nothing at all I could just walk through the door, but I've got no place to go In this world full of hatred سجد لاك روحي و جناني أستغفراللهة يا حليمة سجد لاك روحي و جناني لا اله الا مها
6.
Tyranorexia 02:58
I can't take this much longer You feed off of me, growing stronger If my death caused You guilt and pain I'd kill myself right now to watch You drain Coffee and cigarettes Antidepressants, laxatives I can't take this much longer Parasite feeds off of me, growing stronger If my death caused You guilt and pain I'd kill myself right now to watch You drain Coffee and cigarettes Antidepressants, laxatives You keep Your nails sticking inside my eyes You keep Your teeth sticking inside my throat
7.
Driving down the sleepless motorway Driving home at 100 mph You feel safe on the passenger's seat The World Is A Beautiful Place on the car radio We sing along 'though we don't quite know the lyrics Something in my life feels incomplete And as we crash into the guide rail Stealing our time to say goodbye We don't care for Jefferson Cars driving by
8.
Mired Sword 03:18
Depressing silence Awaking alone in the dark In an empty bed Lonely moon travels around the sky I sympathise Somnolent Shaking off the dreams of day and night Standing there helpless A supernumerary of my dreams Anyway, all events fulfil Cigarette smoke The tiles in the bathroom reflect my thoughts Words I don't want to hear The mirror image A distorted yet familiar face And as I rise from the mirror on the wall I feel everything I saw and heard before A free man locked in chains A broken heart ablazed in ice A virgin swallowing razor blades A musician with no expression A writer with imprisoned words Surrealistic colours of a black and white soul My black and white soul But everything is the same But everything is the same Hamstrung Life slips away before my eyes Where are You to awaken me from this nightmare?
9.
Goddess of truth, wisdom and clarity Goddess of beauty, love and sincerity My unworthy lips whisper a prayer to thy ear A prayer for guidance through this maze of fear I broke out of the pressure of my own four walls The prison my mind had locked me in You had the key all along, but You couldn't find the hole And that same old blade's still buried in my skin We were running in this big field of rye By some crazy cliff ten stories high PLayin' some game, remembering our youth A feeling I never felt before And You were the catcher in the rye When the sky was turning flaming red and pink When Ra's burning ship was about to sink You caught me and embraced me in the rye I was breaking down when You caught me in the rye I can't find You in our embracements anywhere Sure, Your body's there, but Your spirit's far away As I inhale the odour of smoke in Your hair Where are You to guide me through this maze? I'm lost inside Your forest's hair, I'm lost out on a plain Where You have abandoned me, tired of my complaints إنما اشكوا بثي وحزني إلى مها Turn to me and be gracious to me, I am lonely and afflicted Goddess of beauty, love and sincerity Take my hand, guide me towards clarity I know, I'm not worthy of Thee, but with me You're inflicted The ambiguity of true love and pure hate Is omnipresent when You silently stand by my side Well, You know, I usually don't mind sound's peaceful abscence But wait! Maze! Another complaint! I need Your sacred advice The sun and the moon fight for their presence Why can't Your solar eyes unite both worlds? You were my personal sun, my solar system circling around Thee, Circling and circling for what felt like eternity But stars are also bound to die after a billion years And Thy supernova threw me out of my orbit إنما اشكوا بثي وحزني إلى مها
10.
Borderline 03:38
Outcasted, all alone I was thrown into this world A life long full of longing for Your responsible guidance Craving for Your sympathy and empathetical trust But You refuse to take me by my scrawny, trembling hands Is Your sweet surrender to me based on true love and devotion Or on this "emotion" of nothing but treacherous pity? I'm Your abiding shadow as we step into the light I can't feel no embracement, but Your grip's still tight I wish Your arms were around me as we fall into the night I can't feel You near me, without a touch Your grip is tight You made me swear to text You everytime I scrape my skin And 'though You never answer, now Your phone rings all the time I wonder what You see in me, but killing pisces is a sin For 'though they can't express them, their feelings are like Yours and mine You hold me in this world despite all of its malady I can't trade You for Nirvana, You're my heartache's therapy I'm Your abiding shadow as we step into the light I can't feel no embracement, but Your grip's still tight I wish Your arms were around me as we fall into the night I can't feel You near me, without a touch Your grip is tight I'm Your unwanted servant as we're swallowed by the tide Tender chains around my neck - pull them tight! I wish I were Your cigarette as we're dancing to the beat First I would kiss Your lips, then lie down by Your feet
11.
I feel deluge bursting out of my wailing eyes I don't know who it was to commit those sins I just know that it's me who's going to drown You apocalyptically approach riding a pale horse I unfold my arms and You trample me down as Birnam Wood apathetically comes closer tearing down my golden calf, can't You see it has Your lineament? I need something substantial to cling to, and 'though the material is counterfeit, can't You see it has Your lineament? You refuse to pour the matrimony wine, so I scrape Your sacred name into my skin and drip the blood on the ceremony shrine. Whatever ritual I may perform cannot petition Your mind Bury me under empty bottles and cigarette stubs Make sure nobody comes to my funereal I couldn't bear the phoniness Of the "remembering" minute silence Red eyes, red blood, red wine Will You decide to read the signs Of my surrender to a slow decline? Kiss me kindly, sink into my skin Take the pain away, make me feel again Devoted death wish makes me feel alive Razor blade, lovebites that never fade Kisses from the edge, lovebites that never fade Constructing a road inside my lungs Leading me to something more than this And the smoke manifests to a phantom I try to speak to You And You dissolve like a dream Red eyes, red blood, red wine Will You decide to read the signs of my surrender to a slow decline? I sought shelter in an insane asylum and became the Master's best friend I cheered with Margarita at Satan's great ball, now there's nothing left to do but awaiting the end. Numbing my sensitivity, drunk on poetry and enlightened by beer, with wine for blood and vodka for tears, pure spirit in the image of a high priest in the cathedral of hugging trees' arms, by the altar at the river shore, listening to my confession, speaking his blessings over me Bury me in a secluded tomb of razor blades Make sure to lay flowers on my grave I couldn't bear Your sadness Maha, wipe the tears away and smile! Red eyes, red blood, red wine Will You decide to read the signs Of my surrender to a slow decline? Bury me in a secluded tomb of razor blades Make sure to lay flowers on my grave I couldn't bear Your phoniness Maha, wipe the tears away and smile! Red eyes, red blood, red wine Will You decide to read the signs Of my surrender to a slow decline? The only kind of love that I've ever encountered Is the one that can't come back to me So stop messing around with this thing You call "Karma" While I picture Buddha chilling alone in Nirvana
12.
O musa moritura, te adire peto. Da mi basium postremum ore puellae sacrae. Cantus ultimus cantandus est.
13.
Beginning 02:58
Is this what you hoped for? Is this what you craved? There is now way for anyone to be saved You can't expect no mercy, can't expect no love There is no use in praying to your deaf Lord above Rain's the only thing that's ever heaven's sent This is the beginning of the end Everyone to their loved ones, ask them for forgivness If you hid your love for her, now's the time! Confess! You may call it Armaggedon, you may call it doomsday, You may call it apocalypse, death don't care what you say You might not be willing to ever understand This is the beginning of the end Naked children on the streets crying for their parents While some folks are still waiting for the judgement to commence Somehow they did not realise that G-d died long ago Death angels are happily dancing to and fro For those sleeping on a park bench or in the Holy Land This is the beginning of the end Everything has changed its shape, the rivers are blood red The colour of the sweetest love now fills me with regret There was lots of love inside me, couldn't let it out Lilac withered, roses shrivered, people scream and shout Love is the salvation, once we had it in our hands This is the beginning of the end

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released October 12, 2018

Drew Dormis - Vocals, Guitars, Programming

Jeff Dormis - Bass, Lead Guitar on tracks 01 & 03

All tracks written by Drew Dormis

Recorded at Virtuose Vibes Studios Dresden, Germany in September 2018
Engineering, Mixing, Mastering and further Drum Programming by Niklas Wenzel

Produced by Bill C. Boothe

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