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Lo
03:53
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Cleanse my soul
Purify my heart
Leave no trace
Of what is displeasing to you
Leave no trace
Burn it out
Put me to the fire
It seems that there’ll be nothing left
For I am burning
I am burning
You’ve put me on the coals
Pull the impurities out
Will there be nothing left
For I am burning
You put me in the fire
Cleanse my soul
You’ve put me to the fire
And I am burning
Leave no trace
Burn it out
Put me to the fire
It seems that there’ll be nothing left
For I am burning
I am burning
You put me in the fire
Cleanse my soul
You’ve put me to the fire
And I am burning
I am burning
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We Are All God's Fault
02:46
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Every day
I feel more fucked
Than the day before
but Jesus saves.
Every Day
We stray
Farther from God’s light.
We are all
God’s fault.
He put us here
If everything
Is from God
Then what of our sin?
He gave us
The choice
Then took the blame
He is the
Only One
That I'm still here for.
Everything is fucked,
But Jesus saves
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Lightbearer
04:47
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Clawing at my mind with greasy black fingers
Breathing brimstone into my lungs
Making a place for hell in my heart
Whispering just what I want to hear
Leading me where I want to go
I make it so easy
The sin is already there
I make it so easy
I was born
With the putridity
In my soul
The lie you tell
Is what I want
Is what I need.
In the darkest
moments of my life
you were there for me.
I cannot tell
Your voice from mine
Because I’m sick.
Born into this world
Ravaged with disease
This curse is mine.
Every day I claim it as my own.
I'm not the one who started this decay but
I daily make it my own.
This curse is mine
Satan is alive, and he’s coming for you.
He comes to steal,
Kill, and destroy
to keep you from God.
You are convinced
That he wants you.
He does. He wants to rape your soul.
A bearer of light,
He brings darkness
To cloud your vision.
You see him
As the god
Of knowledge,
But he is the master of deception.
O, Lucifer
Get behind me
I belong not to you.
Old Serpent,
Place your head
Beneath my heel.
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Glory
00:45
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Is it so wrong to think?
If to be absent the body
Is to be with God,
Can I just take my life?
I want to die.
Hide me beneath your wings.
I want to die.
I’ll fly away.
Oh, glory, I want to die.
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XLV
04:46
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God, its so hard to see Your plan on days like today.
Its hard to stand for the least of these when the people who claim Your name are the ones against them.
Were you not lost?
Were you not once dead?
Were you not blind?
Were you cursed in sin?
You are not the god of hatred
You are not the god of hatred
You are not the god of hatred
You are not the god of hatred
Why are the people carrying your name
The ones acting in hatred. Walk in grace.
The healthy do not need to be healed
Forgiveness is not for the blameless
Have you forgotten?
We’re called to love
Have you forgotten?
All have sinned.
We are to clothe the naked.
We are to welcome the outcast.
We are to love the unloved:
To give hope to the hopeless
To those who extend grace
Much grace will be given.
Keep His name out of your mouth.
He is not the God of hatred.
You are not doing His work.
You do not speak for Him,
And on your last day
He will not speak for you.
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Burn me alive.
Set this vile
Body aflame.
We don't always
get what we deserve
in death.
So burn me alive.
Burn me alive.
Place your heart
Before God.
Find the shit.
Burn it out.
I am constantly crushed
Under the weight of
My own failure.
My existence
Is a blasphemy
Strike me from the record.
Wipe my foot prints
From the earth.
Burn these flapping lips, this hateful tongue,
These blackened lungs,
This poisoned liver,
This clogged heart,
These thieving fingers,
These clenched fists,
Cowardly feet,
And whoring dick.
I am a plague To this world.
Every touch brings misery.
Every breath is a curse.
Let no memory of me remain.
May it be so.
Place your heart
Before God.
Find the shit.
Burn it out.
Reveal Your face that I
May finally be damned.
I will call down my dark
And my cold and be damned.
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There are so many things
I wished the courage to say.
29 years, I have been silent.
29 years, I’ve tried to forgive.
Much of what was done
My mind won’t let me remember.
Much of what was done
I will never forget.
I’ve struggled to come to terms
With the fact that I was abused.
My mind, my body, my soul:
You violated me in every way.
You passed your curse to me.
I am a failure.
I am not a man.
I will never be loved.
I will never find grace.
I will never be better.
I will always be nothing.
I ruined your life.
I should never have been born.
You were to
Teach me to love.
You showed me how
To grow hate in my heart.
You were to
Inspire hope
within me.
Through you,
I came to know despair.
You were to
help me grow strong.
You exploited my
Every weakness.
You were to
Show me the path
To walk in faith.
Every word and action was hypocrisy.
You never wanted to be my father and mother.
I never wanted to be your son.
I will never tell,
But you should already know.
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My dearest heart:
I don't want to know what it’s like
To live in a world that
Doesn't have you intervening for it.
I don't want to
Live a life
That isn't covered
By your prayers.
My whole life,
You have been
Before your Creator
Speaking on my behalf.
What kind of life will I lead?
What kind of man will I become?
Where would I have been if "life had happened",
Or you were too tired or too angry
To daily get on your knees and cry out for me?
I am the man I am because of you.
All the good in me was from you.
I learned how to live a life of grace and love
Because of who you were.
Who you were.
You taught me how to love my neighbor and love our God.
You pulled me from darkness and bathed me in light.
You were the brightest flame in my life.
Your strength seemed limitless. your joy infectious.
Who can take your place?
What will this world be?
What kind of life will I lead?
What kind of man will I become?
Where would I have been if "life had happened",
Or you were too tired or too angry
To daily get on your knees and cry out for me?
I am the man I am because of you.
All the good in me was from you.
Through you I learned how to live a life of grace and love.
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Unclean
07:29
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I’ve failed you
Every single day.
I daily nail you
To that tree.
When I try to do
What I want to
What I know I should
I don’t.
When I try to do
What I don’t want to
What I shouldn’t
I do.
I claim your name
In the same breath
I curse it.
I beg forgiveness
While plotting my sin.
I carve your words
And face into my arms
While the devil
Is carving out
His place in my heart.
I could say
The devil made me do it,
But I called Lucifer in.
You stand at my door and knock,
But Satan is already here.
Faye looks down
Kneeling at the feet
Of her Savior
Watching the boy she spent
A lifetime praying for
Wallow in his own filth
Watching her hopes undone
Hearing me twist
Her prayers to blasphemy.
You lived on your knees
To give me strength to stand,
But this life is my own.
These choices were mine.
You haven’t failed me.
I’ve failed you both.
This body’s unclean.
This body is weak.
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