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He & She, Angry enough to keep Loving in the Dark Ages

by 2L8

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rainer eric
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rainer eric Brilliant. Haunting. Addictive. Favorite track: You Walk on Empty Streets Now, Holding Your Heart in Your Hands (Part I).
Poesy Rider
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Poesy Rider Un album hors du temps et donc hors des modes, singulier, et que l'on pourrait classer à défaut et donc à corps défendant dans une sorte de mouvance post-rock art-rock... Nonobstant, classons-le parmi les très bons albums ; c'est le minimum ! Favorite track: You Walk on Empty Streets Now, Holding Your Heart in Your Hands (Part II).
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The night passes slowly Mistaken (Thought) The night will never let them go Well we got stuck here And it’s cold You see This is my end Till the death of need I Change I Where is the place you promised us in our early days? Where is the place you promised us in our early days? Where is the place you promised us in our early days? Where is the place you promised us in our early days? Oh, you think this is about my shadow, don’t you? No, this is the end of my floating in your endless sea Where is the place you promised us? THE PLACE YOU PROMISED US! Where is the feast? My enemies are laughing The fool still believes in That old rusty scale we dumped long ago in the water Where is that sound? The sweet melody that eternally will calm this weakness? How come I never get an answer? Instead, another pill, a new prescription? Where is my raincoat? Where is my precious blanket? I used to wear you to pacify this hunger Where is the awe? This venomous feeling? My love I have to drown, to seek underwater Where are my feet? Where are my feet? Guide me! Where are my feet? Where is the place you promised us? THE PLACE YOU PROMISED US!
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Prologue 01:26
The frustrated poets choir Hail the condemned to death Hence, you still think this is about my shadow On the contrary! On the contrary! I was floating in a vast sea Your voice woke me up and I am drowning After you got lost I didn’t know how to live So I didn’t I made a choice never to react Never to be surprised Every night I walk in the dark alley And I wait for him The cold blade My murderer But I am my murderer Don’t be fooled Lie is a universal principle The Ministry of Propaganda Don’t laugh This is the beginning
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Just give me some time to overcome the fear of the evil I have inside of me I need all your patience and all your kindness Josephine oh it tears my heart the words I said to you that day Josephine oh I never tried, and I know now that I have to pay The telephone rings with your voice, when I answer it is not you. I see your face everywhere I look, yesterday I saw you on the moon Josephine I am constantly talking to you Josephine every single word was invented, oh it was meant for you I quit my job, I no longer seek, no salvation for me please I want to scratch you off my head, but I no longer have nails. I step to the balcony there is life outside Don’t know where I am going, never been to that part of the town Josephine when I met you I had to give birth to a new self Josephine now that I’ve lost you have to kill myself again Josephine will you strangle me? Josephine will you strangle me? Josephine will you strangle me? Josephine you strangle me
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Josephine will you strangle me?
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Why didn’t you tell us the sky is your lover? Why didn’t you tell us the sky is your lover? Why? Why didn’t you show us life without mirrors? Why didn’t you show us how to sleep at nights? Well I am alone and you are alone, oh why don’t you see me? Well I am afraid and you are afraid, oh why don’t you scream? Why? Pretending that I am dying from bitterness I walked in the dark dying from bitterness If I am alive and you are alive why are we bleeding? We want it all but we are not willing to change Why? We must protect ourselves from excessive clarity This is where life loses the most beautiful ideals I want to rest, oh I want peace then why am I still burning? I want to feel, I want to love but why do I still moan? They try to convince us every effort is useless But the rain starts with a single drop If I am drop and you are a drop then we become a river And it’s about time we fucking drown them all Are you afraid? Don’t be afraid! Don’t be afraid of losing! We are going to lose for sure! But it’s ok, yes it’s ok, cause we are not alone!
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Excessive are the ways of the sky...
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He aimed for the sky, but this ladder doesn't reach the surface But still he aims for the sky He lies She lies
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I wait, oh wait to define your breath
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Paradox 05:21
What are we doing? What have we done? What are we going to do? Let’s blame the sun Me? Cancer? Resist? Collapse Deep inside him The ghosts cry If we shoot the sun Everyone will go blind We got nothing left To believe in Walking dizzy and blind Till we die Your life was only the dust and mold of books, waiting in a shelf To drive you away from I, but still you want to know? No knowledge is any help, all is vanity Without Yours, without Mine We will exhale
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The Abyss 04:57
Wait, drop your guns, seize fire Oh my love, is sleeping, and dreaming of me Lay by her side while gloom is crawling in Till the smell of her hair would become a part of my sleep Safety, my warm shield, blossom Blossom our passion Bless our love My love is sleeping in my arms Blossom their lust For fresh bloom We are safe dear As long as we don't let them in our dreams
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Didn't know our love was so small couldn't stand at all
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I wasted all these days counting numbers, now I seek for you in vain I wasted all these days mumbling answers, now I sing for you in vain I wasted all these days following the rules, ironic now it’s too late In vain, in vain, in vain, I got nothing left to say I thought the day we were to meet I would burst into a river of words Funny huh? Funny... I got nothing left to say For I remember the day that I lost myself to a no good cause Back and forth, back and forwards Till I had no name I am a stone So, I finally quit my love, this is my last song Couldn’t you see? Couldn’t they see? All I wanted was to sing for my soul All I wanted was to sing for my soul Buying Selling
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Epilogue 04:21
The frustrated poets choir: No more poetry, only raw meat How did I get so far away from things that really matter? What happened to my sanity? Regret i name myself no more. But this scar flows like a river. And this river leads to eternity. Oh, my love, my sea. I finally found a way to get inside you. I melt this flesh to become a river. For the sea refuses no river. I no longer have a use for this body if I cant embrace you. So I close this letter. I quit penning suicide notes and anonymous love letters. Time to rest.. I shall be remembered for this. For I walk on empty streets now, holding my heart in my hands. For I walk on empty streets now, holding my heart in my hands...
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Dialogue 04:31
In my sleep I heard your eyes blink Desired to wake up and kiss you but I was trapped in a dream In this dream I was falling asleep, struggling to stay awake and focus my hearing on your eyes blinking It’s a circle that leads to nowhere If I were to violently draw a flower in your palm and walk six fingers along your arm and then end by whispering would you show the land before time? Hope should be a three letter word, in fact we should just keep the o, wear it like a halo, still it will remain hollow. I am inventing a new alphabet, doesn’t seem enough, I am to paint, colors speak all languages. It’s a circle that leads to nowhere The frustrated poets choir: How do the pages fill? In the end the hero dies In the end the hero is dead He who talks loud says nothing No revolutiuon is ever complete and rebellion continues forever I heard her voice grow faint, how unfair Victims of chance To see myself into your eyes, tiny, bit distorted, yet recognizable Nowadays we prefer the replika to the original I hate NO WHEN RAIN DRIES CLOUDS FORM WHEN CLOUDS MOISTEN RAIN FORMS WHEN RAIN DRIES CLOUDS FORM WHEN CLOUDS MOISTEN RAIN FORMS It’s a circle that leads to nowhere It’s a circle that leads to nowhere We don't need to know, we can live here We don't need to know
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The truth my friends is I am a thief A cheat, a liar, just a kid Don’t whip my love, no please don’t cry I burn everything tonight I sing cause I am left undone No peace inside my empty heart Can’t you see I am terribly tired? I am moving to the sky To the sky When I am up there and watch you die I’ll laugh and show my bitter smile If I am a liar, a trait, a cheat Would I be here tonight? Please, oh please, don’t mind me please I am fooling you with all these tricks I confess, I am selling dreams I am the only one who’s buying My disguise I find it hard to be a very Caring person, yes indeed I know you can not understand But it’s so hard to say The things you must be thinking, dear The things you wish to hear I know you can not understand But I can hold your hand.... It’s enough, It’s more than enough my love, It’s everything to me Oh I must I go, can’t breathe here Can’t you see, I drown in fear, I don’t belong, I don’t deserve, I want to be left alone You can’t dictate compassion Tenderness or inner warmth Can’t you see I am terribly tired? I want to be left alone Enough!!! For a moment there I loved you Listen to me, I am plain and true I wasn’t born for no reason For a moment I had you You justified my existence Shuttered down all the resistance A pity to just say goodbye Come and live with me up in the sky Tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight!
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Tonight I give away whatever is called mine Tonight I burn, all the past, all the glory, all the words All the mistakes and the faults I am left undone We didn’t fail as lovers. It’s just that love is forbidden in this collapsing world Yes I know I heard it all before The tyranny of the corporation The science of exploitation The terrible legacy of poison The cancer epidemic Changing the composition of the atmosphere And the poor generations to come Love is not a part of the plan Love was never a part of this plan Well I don’t care anymore No we didn’t fail as lovers Something was stolen from us Since then we move like ghosts Living in past tense With these open wounds Traumatized and paralyzed Unable to love and be loved Our emotions will never be safe here So come with me Come hide with me in a volcano They won’t find our DNA Join the resistance, fall in love! We’ll jump together holding hands Together holding hands But you hold my hand no more You hold my hand no more And if I have to sing goodbye tonight And if I have to sing goodbye tonight my love I got one last thing I’ll miss you I miss you already I miss you my love I miss you like the flower misses the sun I miss you like the sea misses the salt I miss you like the night misses the moon I miss you like the sky misses the birds I miss you like bees miss pollen I miss you like the winter misses snow I miss you like the fire misses the forest I miss you like I miss you Soon I will disappear

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“Attempting to place an album like this in any firm category would ultimately prove to be futile, and finding something to compare it to has become a daunting task as well. So, it goes without saying that this isn't your run-of-the-mill experimental rock record. Here's the breakdown: there's a singer/composer (and I get the vibe he does plenty of other stuff), a guitarist, two drummers, a cellist, a viola player, and a chap handling the double bass. The music they put together with those instruments is, not surprisingly, slightly classical in nature, but by experimenting with tones and composition, they find effective ways to embrace quiet darkness, fill the sound with a palpable nervous energy, and take seemingly standard arrangements and suddenly turn them inside out and upside down. All of this, coupled with the trembling, frantically emotive vocals, adds up to a collection of songs that will not only beg you to listen to them repeatedly, but also to study them carefully.”
Brad - CD Baby

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released October 12, 2008

Thanks to Nagash Sagan from Brasil for resizing the original cover to fit in a square! :D

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2L8 Θεσσαλονίκη, Greece

A collective led by K. and comprised of greek talented musicians, 2L8 is a bold project that has come to be categorized by their radical stylistic shifts between albums, while retaining a consistent interest in rhythm and distinct sonic accents and textures. Their music is rewarding, challenging and lurches deftly between emotional intimacy, ambition and uncompromising experimentation. ... more

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