Passion and Vanity

by Iron Kitten

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1.
Fell in Love with the Cage 02:53
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I’m free to escape but afraid to move Don’t know what to do with power Confidence creeps in, madness too Don’t know what to do with power Somebody locked me in this cage Why did they give me what I need? Are they out to prove That they’re in control Or that I am content? Some days I run away and see This place isn’t made for those like me I’m an animal Looking for prey In a desolate world And still I search And still keep running on back It’s a paradox I can’t prove But I like when I don’t have to move When I’m master of what I know, what I see Slowly fear sinking in And still pressing onwards For nothing else we ever knew But to follow Somebody locked me in this cage Why did they give me what I need? Are they out to prove That they’re in control Or that I am content? Some days I run away and see This place isn’t made for those like me I’m an animal Looking for prey In a desolate world And still it seems that we’ll never last But how could we know if we never see? And how can we play when the rules are gone? Maybe we just need power Maybe it’s really just a game? Maybe we just need power Somebody locked us in this cage Why did they give us what we need? Are they out to prove That they’re in control Or that we are content? Some days we run away and see This place isn’t made for those like us We’re all animals Looking for prey In a desolate world
2.
Downfall 03:57
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Take back every word I said Take back every thought of mine Words can be so quick to break The trust we took so long to build Thoughts can be so quick to end The feeling, the vision, of us as one But now undone When everything burns, what do I still feel? Am I just a vacant soul now gone? I watched it fall I watched with my own eyes, you cried I wanted more than someone to blame Well I’ll see in time Exposed to you and to the world, I am Escaped from the darkest corner of my mind Just a single thought Take back every word I said And take back every thought of mine Erase the depths from which they came The hate, the lies Extinguish the fire in my hands I watched it fall I watched with my own eyes, you cried I wanted more than someone to blame Well I’ll see in time If I find myself again Some say love will find a way But what’s left of the path to walk? What’s left of the heart to mend? And what more can we ever learn We don’t already know? We’ve already felt? Some say love will overcome Some say trust can never be rebuilt And I don’t know just who or what I can believe I wanted more than secrets and lies Well I’ll see in time
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Killed the Nice Girl 04:32
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There was a plan inside my mind Until you took it from me Waking up an inner fire Coursing through my soul There was a point to all of this Before the night had fallen Vacant dreams have never felt so Cold or far away You take everything I return the favor Darkness takes its toll on my mind Well before it’s lost There’s only one thing left to try To make this go away Is there a silver lining still To see the world so bitter No more will I trust again And no more can I fall So don’t even think your feat can save you today We’re all at fault, all destined to fail Some sooner, some harder, which one will it be? I never thought I’d see the day but now it’s come It’s time for all to watch you fall, to watch you burn Take your blame and throw it away Make your fame then wither away I hate to say but you killed the nice girl so long ago We’ll see a day, when the embers fade, we’ll see, With the ashes gone, what’s left Clawing my way to the stage I made The home I built, so far away Got to believe there’s a better end Oh we’ll see, we’ll see Take your blame and throw it away Make your fame then wither away I hate to say but you killed the nice girl so long ago You say what’s done is done and gone Let’s put that to the test when the tide is turned When the fire burns We’re all at fault, all destined to fail Some sooner, some harder, which one will it be? The time has come to walk away now It’s all burned to the ground I’m never giving an inch to save you Never looking back
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Heaven of Hope 04:31
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Running on an open road, I pray the right way Got to get somewhere I know I see the finish clear as day But it’s hard to say it’ll ever show Swimming into open sea, it’s so hard to say That this is the right way to go I see the finish clear as day But it’s hard to say it’ll ever show I know we’ve all said or thought this before But lately it’s the only feeling I have: This thought, this fear, that it’s all in vain Maybe it's best not to open your eyes I've found the road but it's dirty and dark Why feed the mind such a heaven of hope When all the eyes see is a wandering dream? Winning and won can be decades apart The loneliest fear a hollow victory This soul of mine holds a heaven of hope But tears it all down when it's shrouded in doubt “Is my life good enough right now?” We always ask ourselves Where exactly does that leave us? We think it’ll help us try to improve somehow Until all we see Is what we’re not What we want Even when we can’t Or never would be And with exhaustion sinking into my soul There’s only one thought left that makes me press on: This feeling must end somewhere Maybe it's best not to open your eyes I've found the road but it's dirty and dark Why feed the mind such a heaven of hope When all the eyes see is a wandering dream? Winning and won can be decades apart The loneliest fear a hollow victory This soul of mine holds a heaven of hope But tears it all down when it's shrouded in doubt I thought this feeling would end by now I thought the road would turn Do I turn away or press on? Maybe it's best not to open your eyes I've found the road but it's dirty and dark Why feed the mind such a heaven of hope When all the eyes see is a wandering dream? Winning and won can be decades apart The loneliest fear a hollow victory This soul of mine holds a heaven of hope But tears it all down when it's shrouded in doubt
5.
Together Apart 03:09
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Well now it seems that we’ll never be free from each other Though we’ve been miles away for so long Something tells me we weren’t made to be alone in this world Hope within me brings the strength to press on and survive I hear your whisper in the distance I know we can cross this divide And now when we finally thought it was over No, we don't have to conform to the label Maybe someday we will both say dreams can all come true Maybe somewhere there's a place where there's no me and you I hear your whisper in the distance I know we can cross this divide (I hear you, so far, I know we can) I see now we don't have to fall in line We don't have to be one single thing We're together apart
6.
The Fake 04:22
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I tried to find some way to care about you I tried so hard to be genuine too Why do we waste all our lives Acting like it's more than show? I tried so hard to make a plan but spent too long on how it'd look Tried so hard to care Tried to make it true Looking everywhere I cannot count the lies to you Why do we even try? Now that I know All will be exposed Listen here, I take back everything I said Listen here, I don't mean anything I said to you I'm not real I can't feel - I'm just a simple heart of steel In a shell disguised as flesh I'm a fake And you are too - we don't have to take the blame When someone sees right through our skin How could we just let it slide Knowing full well it's a lie? I don't know why I'm so afraid but it's so hard to tell the truth Everyone is fake Everywhere exposed Got a choice to make Do we admit the case is closed? I'm not real I can't feel - I'm just a simple heart of steel In a shell disguised as flesh I'm a fake And you are too - we don't have to take the blame When someone sees right through our skin Look back to every virtue There's never more than a selfish motive If you could see the world as I see Well then you'd know Why I had to lie to your face Why I had to take it away Well we've both gone much too far now It's time to let go Now it's time, forgive and forget Now it's time to grow Now it's time to make amends Now it's time to say the truth Even when we've both gone so far As to confess it's all true An act as a simple as a gesture of faith A calculated move in the human machine I'm not real I can't feel - I'm just a simple heart of steel In a shell disguised as flesh I'm a fake And you are too - we don't have to take the blame When someone sees right through our skin Right through our lies
7.
No Regrets Yet 02:54
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Some days all it takes is a taste to forget The life you just left behind And when the whisper of clarity calls We turn and scream: “We’ve got to look ahead where there’s nothing to lose Live our lives like there’s no tomorrow You can take the safest way out But I won’t live with regret” And still when desire consumes the weak mind Temptation is left to sow And we forget to fake our place As the virtuous soul Well maybe live and learn and grow and move on Embrace your past but don’t make it an enemy You can live the life of your fantasy I won’t live with regret (Yet) Cause someday I’ll be coming home And I don’t want to feel the shame Of knowing I had held back my heart Or knowing I had lost my mind Look ahead where there’s nothing to lose Live our lives like there’s no tomorrow You can take the safest way out, but I won’t live with regret (Yet)
8.
Burden Lost 03:43
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Alive but treated as dead “Open your eyes,” they told me again Condescending, humiliating, the voices of control “Strengthen your heart,” they told me again to fight Well I’m done trying to blame it all On the things that’ll never change Accept their fate or learn to resist Well I’m done with running away from a faceless enemy I’ll never listen and fail to question I’ll never sit back again “Trust in yourself,” they baited me too I tried and failed to think for myself I can’t complain, I never returned from the bliss they set me in Call it destiny when it suits you, call it fortune when it fails you Accept or resist, you don’t have to choose You can save yourself Reject it all You don’t have to yield control We’re not so helpless to leave it up to chance And I'm done with all of your floating view of reality We can look behind the curtain and see who has control Remove the mask I’ll never yield control to forces unspoken Faceless, nameless Breathe in the ashes of war Taste just how lonely your own victory feels Freedom alone is dark, cold and blue But holding this burden is torture on you All we want is out of our reach But something’s changing Accept their fate or learn to resist Well I’m done with running away from a faceless enemy I’ll never listen and fail to question I’ll never sit back again Now we see the illusion’s gone With no voice, the burden is lost Now we know we don’t have to choose Never change and never submit
9.
Suffocated by Security 04:14
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A relic of the long gone hope from the adolescent mind To live unbound and unopposed, a dream to live apart There's nowhere to go Can't we learn we'll never be alone There's no way back out and you'll never be alone Think like no one else would know You'll run and you'll never come home Suffocated by security We will never be free And now you think you're in too deep to feel unique again A hubris of your own maturity, to think it means completion But still can't we dream? Don't you know you're never too far gone Think like someone else could care You're safe but you're not on your own Suffocated by security We will never be free Do you feel whole? You aren't too far gone But you don't have to say what you don't mean And you don't have to play like you don't care Think like no one else would know You'll run and you'll never come home Suffocated by security We will never be free
10.
Show Me 03:29
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Restricted to a single perspective of thought All you see is a shadow in time Lost in your thoughts In your dreams No one knows and no one cares for more than a brief moment How you look in your own eyes Don't you know that every claim we've ever tried to make It's only in our own heads Your precious gold and the titles you hold All in vain and all insane It's only in our own heads Think you stand tall On top of the world Oh no Wither away With nothing around To show If I stay or if I go Either way you've trapped us both All inside your sadistic game The wall falls down Your mental crown Let's see how much it's worth Your confidence can't save you Let's put it to the test Tell me again that I am a fraud Show me again what I have done wrong Tell me, show me Tell me I've claimed I'm something I'm not Show me where I said I was a god Tell me, show me Show me where I've said anything less It's not too late to come down I'm not your enemy But I can't keep holding back And I'm not afraid to lose Face to face or back to back I'm forced to fight back now Either way, at least one of us Has to fall off their throne, Sink into the earth Tell me again that I am a fraud Show me again what I have done wrong Tell me, show me Tell me I've claimed I'm something I'm not Show me where I said I was a god Tell me, show me Think you stand tall On top of the world Oh no Wither away With nothing around To show
11.
Bury the Ashes 03:18
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If there’s ever been a time for relief A place to set your soul free It’s here and it is now Suffering Suspended in torment I can’t help but rethink, “If you would have just stayed with me.” Never will I seek Forgiveness for my deed Bury the ashes of you So I continued with my life With a shadow over my heart It’s done but it’s all wrong To move on Suspended in torment I can’t help but rethink, “If you would have just stayed with me.” Never will I seek Forgiveness for my deed Bury the ashes of you You ignored the warning: don’t leave me, don’t leave me The fire’s consumed – you cannot leave me, can’t leave me now Our hearts were the same but I can’t ever explain You’re done, I’m spent My passion’s fulfilled but with emptiness opened You’re still gone

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released December 7, 2018

TT Cameron: Vocals
Charlie Garcia: Guitar, Bass, Vocals

Written and produced by Charlie Garcia
Drums and orchestra created using Toontrack Superior Drummer 2.0 and IK Multimedia Miroslav Philharmonik, respectively.

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