Rolo Tomassi : Where Myth Becomes Memory

Experimental Metal / United-Kingdom
(2022 - MNRK Heavy)
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Lyrics


1. ALMOST ALWAYS

It's all returning to the start
It could be different but it's not
These sentiments are weightless
There's more than miles between us

A pedestal to be kept on and dissipate into the air
Eventually I will forget, I close my eyes and bury it

Are you listening to your heart?
What happens when it stops?
Are you waiting for a sign?
A goodbye?
Goodbye
What do you do when you're lost?

You're dreaming
If you think it's changing
But you wait for a sign
A goodbye
Goodbye

You'rе dreaming
If you think it's changing
But you wait for a sign
A goodbye
Goodbye


2. CLOAKED

Ticking through decades, impaired and unchanged
Move in the space between where decisions were made

Is it too much to live with this?
The worst of it still growing

Claim, channel, define by one distraction
Ruled without intention, some days I felt that burden

Is it too much to live with this?
The worst of it still growing
What lies beyond the end of this? Wait for it
Wait for it

Screaming on the outside looking in
Longing for the simplicity of nothing
To bend without breaking when chances are slim
Locked in this rhythm, locked in this ruling

Screaming on the outside looking in
Longing for the simplicity of nothing
To bend without breaking when chances are slim
Longing for the list of things I'm losing


3. MUTUAL RUIN

Intention within
The elements of harnessing
Igniting a spark, to burn right through
Look inward, draw it out
To accept and to disguise
An age I've never known

A need to break things down
To borrow, steal, transform
Not prepared for the truth
So cut it loose

Fateful as a near miss
Fatal as the next chapter
The future and the past
Between guilt and innocence
What if it changes too much?
Causing a shift in my existence
The line of least resistance

A deepened commitment
To faith in our essence
The future and the past
The lightness and the dark

An age I've never known, borrowed

Spirit in sympathy
The nature of design
To unite or divide
What we are internalised

Searching for the steady sense
Displace the parts of what was left
Laid out in plain sight
The darkness and the light

How we've grown
An age I've never known, borrowed
Borrowed

This is the place, this is the final show
I won't give in but I must let it go
Counting all hours down to now
To climb up to the peak
The view of what could be
Bring the light where you land
Don't forget to look back
Sometimes


4. LABYRINTHINE

Out of season now
Out of touch and overgrown
The same again
Remains unchanging

It's now tearing through
But don’t take this too far
Moving forwards
Countermeasures

Following the arrow of time
How easy it would be
Moving infinitely
Tied to the burden of legacy
So is the key to stop resisting?
How easy it would be

Out of season now
Out of touch and overgrown
The same again
But now impending

What pieces will be left? What's carried?
Meaning to be something more than this
Present in body, resigned in mind
A figurе worn down, portrait of decline

I miss the thеatrics (I miss the thrill)
One window of perspective, to push it through
A portrait of decline (A figure worn down)
Turning inward, taking flight
Set in time
Pour your heart into it


5. CLOSER

Where to begin?
How to fathom this?
An endless beautiful symmetry
Designed to fail, sweet catastrophe
Once lost in the glow
Now I’m the devil you don’t know

What’s left to lose?
All I want is you
Your patience removed
But all I want is you
Naive to assume
Yet all I want is you
As language concludes
The only way out is through

And all I want is you

What’s left to prove?
Once lost in the glow
Now I'm the devil you don't know


6. DRIP

On the worst days, it’s growing, growing so slowly
What to embody? A plea for the remedy
Forced into a place that never felt like home
And if it takes me here then where is there left to go?

To strike before it’s all too late
Put to rest, all souls are safe
Existing in the maze
Memory is imperfect
Take my hand, let’s slip beneath the surface

On the worst days, I slip, as dеceitful as hope is
Walking on a knife-еdge, I traced the line and I leapt
On the worst days, I slip
On the worst days, I slip

It’s been strange and stranger still
Freed from the fears that paralyze
Always distaste, always regret, the least of it
A revelation into reality unspoken
Between the signs and the sounds, taking shape encompassing

All things begin and end here
All things begin and end here
All things begin and end here

What it means to be
In the aftermath of tragedy
What it means to be
Finally uncaged and I lost my way

Understanding the relevance of the eclipse
When I can’t forgive
Nothing is ever enough
When I can’t forgive
Nothing is ever enough
I can’t forgive


7. PRESCIENCE

How could it get any better?
Formed by anger, full of terror
Favoured curiosity, wearing off so rapidly
I didn't owe a single thing
And there was nothing left to give

Shadows in my vision bleed
Out obscured and distracted
Each step a mistake in trying to see past it
In line with futile company
We fought to protect it
This was supposed to be different

Not one to refuse and so far misused
Raptured in ruins
Immerse yourself, prepare for the fight
The last twist of the knife

Not one to refuse and so far misused
Patterned abuse
Immerse yourself, prepare for the fight
And that's what keeps me up at night

For those of us leaning into harm's way
When nothing came easy
Was this the grand performance
To make a spectacle of me?

For those of us leaning into harm's way
With everything to lose
Was this the grand conclusion?
To sink with everything that's gone

A tragic reveal
Brought to my knees
Not without fear, daring to be brave
I wasn't asking for change
I was asking for it to let me in


8. STUMBLING

Acts of delay
Always the way
It came to me
Blindly

Patterns repeat
Is it because I'm afraid?
Stumbling blindly
Afraid, stumbling blindly

Is it because I'm afraid?
Let it remain undone


9. TO RESIST FORGETTING

The birthplace of creation
To walk and not run through
To remind myself I have failed
So many times
Tried my hand at redemption
Just another symptom
I have failed so many times
But I'll come out from underneath to understand

How important to identify
A gentle lullaby
For better or for worse
To remind
I have failed so many times

The heaviness pushing us down
The expanse out on either side
And if we hide
For long enough
We might survive

I will wait until then
Try to look deeper
To call louder, learning
Not to surrender
Learning how to lean into
Making these marks forward
In how to execute
Without a limit, without force

You're not the only one that can save us
You're not the only one that can save us
You're not the only (I hold it at arms length)
One that can save us ('Cause that's where I feel safe)
You're not the only (I hold it at arms length)
One that can save us ('Cause that's where I feel safe)
You're not the only (I hold it at arms length)
One that can save us ('Cause that's where I feel safe)
You're not the only (I hold it at arms length)
One that can save us ('Cause that's where I feel safe)


10. THE END OF ETERNITY

Moments seem eternal
Full of mistakes, words can't convey
If I can't get what I want
What if what's left is not enough?

Reaching out for infinite brightness
We'll find this

An empty space, glittering gold
Our hearts grow bolder, so I'm told
Moments seem eternal
Full of mistakes, words can't convey
But what if there's an accident?
That gives us no chance to pretend
What if my days were all misspent
What if I don't see you again?

Reaching out for infinite brightness
We'll find this
Reaching out for infinite brightness
We'll find this

Plagued by the days that changеd things
A fear my voice would betray mе
The persistence of memory
There is no end

Anodyne shades of the same
It's all returning
Eyes closed walking through dreams
There is no end

I feel something
That has not changed
I feel something
There is no end



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