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Whispers

by To Die Elsewhere

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1.
Day I 02:35
I open my eyes to a grey sun Adding a hint of contrast to a dark world A lifeless pit that tries to keep me in So I decide to look for a way out Escape to a place full of color And I stumble upon what’s left of a road But I’m not alone They move in from all sides They come in closer with faces just like mine But with crooked smiles They sing through their teeth “You have arrived, this place is enough”
2.
Climb 03:31
Reborn into an unforgiving world I’ve got a second chance But how can I survive when everything wants me to die? With wolves around each corner The only way is up Chainsaws and chainmail are still no protection from their cuts So climb on words of ancients Keep your sights set up high Escape to safety in the sky Our lives lay between jaws of evil Only truth can snatch us away Our hearts are haunted by the sins of tomorrow Only love will bring the light of day The stones the teeth of a hungry earth Gnashing with my every step in the dirt One slip and I’ll find myself in the fangs Their constant threat draws my eye to the grave Battered and burnt, I’ve got my back to the wall Surrounded by wolves on the hunt Why give me life just to watch me die Have you abandoned me? Or where is my... Escape by the bridges you built before, you plotted years ago I saw construction but found no worth until at deaths door But I’m not ever safe Until I’m in you arms I’ll find another threat Teach me to be strong Waves rise and break Break skin and poison the blood within Find shelter from soil and sea alike And just find a way to climb
3.
Day III 00:34
4.
Keep the fire low and stay still in the shadows Locked doors keep private lies hidden away from prying eyes The disease is spreading, my flesh is rotting But my condition is not their business I’ll hide away until its finished There’s nothing wrong with me That you can see So keep your distance, there’s nothing here to see I’m only dying The price of pride is paid in pain Through covering up my shame But I hide it all behind a smile And say I’m fine, I’m okay All the while my heart it breaks And I look for a chance to escape Why won’t you just look the other way Just let me be We speak in whispers when we don’t want to be heard We lock out the doctor when we don’t want to be cured Smoke and mirrors distract the eye Lead the audience to fantasize While the ugly truth is behind the curtain Neither seen nor heard Neither helped nor cured And I’m praised instead of despised This is my body stripped and broken In the light for the first time Hide your eyes I beg again From the scars that cover my skin Broken and full of disease This is my sin Drink it in We speak in whispers when we don’t want to be heard We lock out the doctor when we don’t’ want to be cured I am disgusting, my body tortured But now I fall on my knees and beg to be cured
5.
I feel their stares, like arms around my throat Tightening with every mistake Worthless, I see it on their faces I feel it in my veins and want to release it Just let it out, just let it out I can’t take it Just let it out, just let it out I want to end it Won’t have to worry anymore About being your perfect boy Will you even cry or be relieved when I... Be still my child you are forgiven I’ve seen it all and I cried Not for your fall but your pain They’ve been there too but they hide Hide their pride behind their blame They’ve learned that the mask of a judge Can cover the face of the guilty But if they could love like I love Then they could save the hurting I’ve felt those stares as well, but those are my arms around your throat Protecting you from the blades you’ve come to desire You are loved
6.
Beasts Below 04:07
A cold darkness seeps into mind But I push it back, push it back inside Into the cracks and corners that no one’s ever seen Into the dark waters of the deep I forget its there until it comes out to feed Tearing away at my self esteem It hides there away from the light I try not to notice as long as it hides The beasts below now break the surface Bursting from my chest, their ocean No longer hidden in the deep They fight for air the light an audience Illuminate the darkest regions of this sea Eradicate these beasts within me
7.
Lapidation 04:29
I sentence you to chains But they’re the same that shackle my bones I mock that you climb that ladder just to fall But I’m three steps up I’m already three steps up And I’m so afraid to come down But first I will watch you fall You’re not the only guilty one here But I’ll turn a blind eye, a deaf ear I’ll call out your blood stained hands So they don’t see it dripping from my lips I choose my stone, make ready to fly But I keep my eye on the man to my right I know that at any moment it could be me It could be me Let them fly Let them fly Surely he will die They’ll all see my hate So the won’t recognize my chains Let them fly When their eyes turn back at me The blood is still here it never leaves Put down the stones Have mercy, have mercy Deep down aren’t we all guilty? I’m sorry, I’m sorry Just let me live Can’t anyone forgive? Let them fly Crucify
8.
Day VIII 01:07
9.
Her voice rings loud at the gates “How long will you love your simple ways? You avoid knowledge like a plague and remove the truth like a tumor” The crowds gather to hear her speak Gasp at the promises she makes Death will come to us all From the towers we build we’ll fall Lie to me Don’t you dare tell me to change Lie to me Just tell me it will all be okay Lie to me I don’t care what you have to say Lie to me Or just go away We silenced her with our swords And locked her away in the dirt But her words still echo down my spine I try to bury them too but they just won’t die And so I build my tower And ignore the resemblance to gallows Stone upon stone my life is laid In earnest ignorance But that voice haunts these halls And I feel the walls, they’re shaking This temple’s unsound when I’m the builder Lust and greed are no proper mortar But where is she now? I search for her like silver I long to hear her again But know that I’m the murderer So I write her words on my arms As much as I recall Then I turn and walk away As I let my tower fall
10.
Unfinished 03:35
The gears have lost their teeth To a mechanical methamphetamine The belts are slipping, slipping into a depression Who is the mastermind That’s behind all mankind? Could he see what he was building? Form muscle and bone And let the veins be sewn But no heart, no brain, they’re easily corrupted This is a failure The machine decays before our eyes Pull the plug on this disaster This body is flawed in its construction I don’t understand I tried so hard, I tried so hard But I still can’t make it Why would you waste your time to build something that would fail you? Was I made from spare parts? The leftovers of prophets and heroes? Am I the one you forgot? Forgot to finish? I think theres a short circuit in my chest because my heart is cold and lungs depressed with no air to form the words from my lips I am unfinished Was I made from spare parts? Was there nothing left? I made you perfectly incomplete To search for the missing piece that is my I made you perfectly incomplete Rely on me
11.
How long have I been drifting? Sail wrapped around my bones To fight off the piercing cold The only thing keeping me alive The only thing keeping me from life I ignore your whispers in the wind And wait for a ship to bring me in Drop the anchor and stay in place Don’t dare stray into uncertainty Choose familiar danger over the strange And wait to be saved I ignore your whispers in the wind I’m lost at sea I understand if you forget about me I ignore your whispers in the wind I’m much more comfortable in sin I open my ears and sails Your breath carries me to safety Your words to sanity Thank God I am loved
12.
Renfield 04:12
I start with a fly, then move on to a spider And soon I’m coughing up a sparrow’s feathers As I devour each life I feel that much stronger But it’s poison Each skull a stepping stone to all that I desire But it’s poison What I take I’ve earned and I relish my reward But it’s poison With every bite of flesh it seems so much easier I know the first shall be last But my blood stained teeth Can’t wait for their meal I sit on a throne ten stories high Built from my brothers’ spines I’ve found my treasure here on earth But soon it will rot with me in the dirt We weren’t made strong to feed off the weak We were given strength to feed the hungry Give to me what I deserve
13.
Whispers 07:35
I open my eyes to the same sun Glowing on a faded world I rise on shaky knees to numb feet My legs take me back to familiar roads Where familiar faces stare And I remember just how they got there I know what comes next Pick up my step before My path is blocked by rotting flesh A sea of teeth and nails can’t be crossed by A heart that’s not resilient “Join us in this death Your struggle is worthless Repetition is the sign of your depletion You have nothing left” Break through My ears stopped by determination My legs strengthened through will I’m not what they say I’ll find the strength to find a new day Cut this loop and cheat death to find a new sun Breath cut short by the collar of my shirt In the grasp of those that went before me A thousand fingers still gripping still pulling Tearing back at my confidence Surety they will die They were right I can’t make it They were right I am nothing I had my chance and didn’t take it Now this is where it ends Is there nothing that can give us strength? It seems I’ve tried everything But then I hear a whisper in the wind “You are loved” My strength renewed but not of my own The gears in me were stripped hours ago This can’t be done by flesh alone But I’m reignited by love So I break through the crowd And I break through time To watch the sun fall on the longest day of my life Repeated failure now behind Tomorrow a new sun will rise And whatever new fight I find I know that I am loved

credits

released September 30, 2016

Vocals: Richard Marsland
Drums: Jamison Dufour
Guitar: Spencer Kienzle
Bass: Michael Daniel (Tracks 2, 4, 5, 6, and 7), Spencer Kienzle (Tracks 1, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 14)

Written and Produced by: To Die Elsewhere
Engineered and Mixed by: Jacob Hignight
Mastered by: Stephen Pettyjohn at Ethereal Mastering
Artwork by: Taylor Bates at New Melody Art Design

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To Die Elsewhere Salem, Oregon

A metalcore trio from Salem, OR writing honest songs encouraging others to look inward to affect outward change.

For Fans Of:
Oh, Sleeper
Periphery
August Burns Red

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