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What If All We Give is All We Ever Get to Keep?

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Invasion icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 (track 02 from the Virus LP by Haken icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 )

Haken's "Virus" album cover. [Formatted 500x500]

One less life for us to live
Holding on to something real
If these walls could talk to me
What if all of these eyes only saw what they believed?

Two heavy hearts that refused to beat
When my words fall on deaf ears
If your soul could cry for me
What if all we give is all we ever get to keep?

When we left behind the friends we made along the way
Why is it we never learned from all the mistakes we ever made?

One last chance to disappear
Calling out for someone real
If this God could pray to me
What if where we’re lost is where we are meant to be?

Too much
Much too young and gone too soon
Letting go
Latching on to something new
If this breath is the last I breathe
What if all of my sins are still addicted to me?

When did we give up the ghost as a trade for a heart that begins to break?
Why is it we’re never learning from all of the mistakes we ever made?
How is there one unconditional love when you’ve taken my will to breathe?
Losing our sense of direction has led us to where we all need to be

One less life for us to live
One last chance to disappear
One less life for us to live
One last chance to end this

When did we give up believing in beautiful minds that begin to fail?
How is there always a different path waiting for every road to which we stray?
When did we give up the ghost as a trade for a heart that begins to break?
Why is it we’re never learning from all the mistakes we ever made?

Album Haul, November 2018 Edition

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A smörgåsbord of bands and artists this time around.

Finally picked up a Butthole Surfers icon-external-link-12x12 album—I’ve been meaning to do that since I saw them on an episode of Beavis and Butt-head icon-external-link-12x12 some time back.

Protest the Hero icon-external-link-12x12 seems to be a pretty solid heavy metal band. On first listen, I was actually reminded of the sonic characteristics of Avenged Sevenfold icon-external-link-12x12, with the major difference being that the music is actually enjoyable to listen to. Too bad the Hot Topic icon-external-link-12x12 era of heavy metal doesn’t have clue what constitutes quality music—just give them lots of skull-imagery, and songs with contrived Halloween-style lyrics and redundant chugging guitar riffs.

Also, major props to Haken icon-external-link-12x12 for working plenty of Gentle Giant icon-external-link-12x12 worship into their songs. The latter is such a criminally overlooked and underappreciated band; the former probably is too.

Haken
→ Restoration
→ The Mountain

Haken's "The Mountain" album art. [Formatted]

Animals as Leaders
→ The Joy of Motion

Animals as Leaders' "The Joy of Motion" album art. [Formatted]

Butthole Surfers
→ Independent Worm Saloon

Constantines
→ Kensington Heights

Protest the Hero
→ Fortress

Protest the Hero's "Fortress" album art. [Formatted]

Melvins
→ Bullhead

Skinny Puppy
→ VIVIsectIV

Skinny Puppy's "VIVIsectVI" album art. [Formatted]

Michael Manring
→ Thonk

Angel Witch
→ Angel Witch

Steven Wilson
→ To the Bone

Steven Wilson's "To the Bone" album art. [Formatted]