Fortitude (feat. Anna Rest Easy)
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No Resistance
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Desert of Nevada
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Fortitude
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Songs written by Birdeatsbaby & Anna Rest Easy.
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released December 15, 2018
No Resistance
I dream of the day when I caught your eye
Now we don’t speak but your voice still whispers inside
Nine weeks straight I’ve been sober and dry
An aching lust never to be satisfied
I’m speaking my mind but it won’t make a difference
I’m staying inside, there will be no resistance
The sky wasn’t ever big enough for me
I weep and I crave for a little white lie
While the boy in his cage can see through my disguise
Ten years straight with a thorn in his side
From a wreath of mistakes, he’s barely scraping by
But if we keep our mouths shut, and we’re no longer touching
We can fall out of love, and fall into suffering cos
Softly spoken are the awful things, my friend
Now the miles stretch out, like the veins of my life
And all we can do is wait for the floods to dry
So we planted a seed, but it never grew
Now the shape of my mind is just this empty room
I’m speaking my mind but it won’t make a difference
I’ll just stay inside, there will be no resistance
The sky wasn’t ever big enough for me
Desert of Nevada
Down in the desert of Nevada
My baby was taken to the slaughter
Guided by frozen spirits
They put his heart under the sand
In the desert of Nevada
Back in the sweet arms of my mother
She warned us against the tricks of strangers
Beware the men who promise
Those things that they cannot afford
Stay in the sweet arms of your mother
Once on the way back from the chapel
A kind stranger offered me an apple
His eyes were cold like moonlight
He led my foolish heart astray
On the way back from the chapel
Before our love had time to linger
Our wedding rings were taken from our fingers
By men who came to tell me
My lover was a gambling man
And there was no time left to linger
Under the lights of the bordello
His memory nothing but a shadow
The only thing remaining
His unpaid debts and empty words
That he left at the bordello
One night, while giving men their pleasure
I prayed to the spirits of the desert
To find the one who sold me
Into these debts I’ll never pay
Though I give these men their pleasure
Down in the desert of Nevada
You’ll hear the warnings of my lover
Taken by frozen spirits
To pay his debts under the sand
In the desert of Nevada
Fortitude
Time is a mind-fuck
Toying and teasing
Wearily dreamt up
Nothing to ease me in
I coil as the curtains are drawn
Await temperate torment once more
Falling, my arms are falling
Intent to wake through endless morning
And bleeding, my eyes are bleeding
As fainter feelings mask my view
And rinse me of fortitude
Falling, my arms are falling
Though pills may hold me sane
And breathing, I know I'm breathing
The air of an older pain
My nights sink into poison dew
Tell me all that I dream is true
Suffer the waking subdued
And free me of fortitude
No Resistance
I dream of the day when I caught your eye
Now we don’t speak but your voice still whispers inside
Nine weeks straight I’ve been sober and dry
An aching lust never to be satisfied
I’m speaking my mind but it won’t make a difference
I’m staying inside, there will be no resistance
The sky wasn’t ever big enough for me
I weep and I crave for a little white lie
While the boy in his cage can see through my disguise
Ten years straight with a thorn in his side
From a wreath of mistakes, he’s barely scraping by
But if we keep our mouths shut, and we’re no longer touching
We can fall out of love, and fall into suffering cos
Softly spoken are the awful things, my friend
Now the miles stretch out, like the veins of my life
And all we can do is wait for the floods to dry
So we planted a seed, but it never grew
Now the shape of my mind is just this empty room
I’m speaking my mind but it won’t make a difference
I’ll just stay inside, there will be no resistance
The sky wasn’t ever big enough for me
Desert of Nevada
Down in the desert of Nevada
My baby was taken to the slaughter
Guided by frozen spirits
They put his heart under the sand
In the desert of Nevada
Back in the sweet arms of my mother
She warned us against the tricks of strangers
Beware the men who promise
Those things that they cannot afford
Stay in the sweet arms of your mother
Once on the way back from the chapel
A kind stranger offered me an apple
His eyes were cold like moonlight
He led my foolish heart astray
On the way back from the chapel
Before our love had time to linger
Our wedding rings were taken from our fingers
By men who came to tell me
My lover was a gambling man
And there was no time left to linger
Under the lights of the bordello
His memory nothing but a shadow
The only thing remaining
His unpaid debts and empty words
That he left at the bordello
One night, while giving men their pleasure
I prayed to the spirits of the desert
To find the one who sold me
Into these debts I’ll never pay
Though I give these men their pleasure
Down in the desert of Nevada
You’ll hear the warnings of my lover
Taken by frozen spirits
To pay his debts under the sand
In the desert of Nevada
Fortitude
Time is a mind-fuck
Toying and teasing
Wearily dreamt up
Nothing to ease me in
I coil as the curtains are drawn
Await temperate torment once more
Falling, my arms are falling
Intent to wake through endless morning
And bleeding, my eyes are bleeding
As fainter feelings mask my view
And rinse me of fortitude
Falling, my arms are falling
Though pills may hold me sane
And breathing, I know I'm breathing
The air of an older pain
My nights sink into poison dew
Tell me all that I dream is true
Suffer the waking subdued
And free me of fortitude
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Dark and orchestral Rock band from Brighton, UK. "Birdeatsbaby celebrate the strange and obsessive, the freakish and the free-thinking" - The Quietus
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