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One Step Closer To Nowhere

by Tears of smoke

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1.
Jaundiced 13:32
Silence, the autumn arrives I couldn't remember how melancholic it could be Full of memories, slowly turn in ash Printed leaves have the past The night finds all that's gone in dreams from people forever lost No answer for the tears that once fed this fucking ground Smoke curtains fill the sky Shades burn their letters outside Trying to remember the sender's face Cowards hiding their heads even at night carrying their mistakes, maybe they were right I wanted to follow the light but it burned my eyes accustomed to the dark, the shine turns me blind Isolated and cold, I remember this place Unknown location, where I lost myself again A starlit sky, the trees are ready to die Noiseless, they're ready to go forever away They don't know if they will born again In scattered leaves, our dreams refrain I go outside, with all my fears I try to find my way to come back again Praying in silence, I hope to get lost before accepting the truth, I failed Now I am here, jaundiced Waiting to cry out here Where the wind once blew My soul surely left that day I wish to burn the hell inside of me My mind, my punishment Alone in the dark, myself is consumed Now I am here, jaundiced Waiting to cry out here Where the wind once blew My soul surely left that day I wish to burn the hell inside of me My mind, my punishment Alone in the dark, myself is consumed What remains, oh yesteryear
2.
Without You 09:37
You are gone These strangers Only see us Please don't go I need you here I need to see you Your warm now turns cold I don't want to see that hole Your eyes, closed Your lips, now gray Please, wake up Look at me tell me (something) I'll stay here Waiting for you If you open Your eyes someday I'll stay here Waiting for you If you open Your eyes someday Please, wake up Please, don't go Please, wake up Please, don't go Wake Up Don't Go Away...
3.
My hands are caressing the stones Their coldness piercing my skin and creeping to my heart The obscurity mixing black and gray My blinded eyes open theirs Everything there is full of sorrow Everything there is crying Forever lost I take your hands; i follow you to a better place I take your hands; let me stay by your side I take your hands; i follow you to a better place I take your hands; let me stay with you Her Ghost Haunts these walls Her Ghost Haunts these walls Oh no Among these ruins of our life, I walk slowly, sufferings tearing me, Flashes hurt my mind I see you everywhere, i can't forget you The rain is falling out there, the wind is whispering The world's turning dark, the ambient cold I feel your presence, your arms around me Your head on my back I killed myself I killed myself to join you I take your hands; i follow you to a better place I take your hands; let me stay by your side I take your hands; i follow you to a better place I take your hands; let me stay with you (Armony 12th) Her Ghost Haunts these walls I take your hands; I take your hands; I take your hands; Her Ghost Haunts these walls I take your hands; let me stay by your side I take your hands; Her Ghost Haunts these walls I take your hands; Her Ghost Haunts these walls I take your hands I take your hands; let me stay with you to join you
4.
Hopelessness 09:45
Life goes, lies come No answers from my lord for his forgotten son Shattered, bitter, and tired I remain Hopelessness invades every part of my brain I only know I've been refusing my cure Refusing the life, follow the death spoor It burned my eyes, every step closer to nowhere When I lost my stride I forgot I was scared *Eternal monstrosity inside of my soul I wait for my death, I'm the destiny doll Crying for nothing until my eyes got dry Now in the depths of my mind, I won't fucking try Every lesson I had to unlearn Now to walk back is what I yearn My dreams lie in my broken hands Everything dies in these desert lands (Emptiness followed me Darkness enveloped me My hopes abandoned me I am no longer here) Everything changes even when I Do nothing I won't get back anything, my life still clocking hopelessness, I just can scream in the dark The better times have passed and they never come back I prayed so many times in search of hope The only they give me is my own rope I'm all alone taking the last glance Trying to live after I die inside Now you can watch how I'm falling Away from your grasp, you watch how I'm drowning I'm relaxed and smiling when I feel the water Years ago, to me nothing more matter So long time ago I broke my vows Everything I love tuned into dust Every fault take a part of me It let me empty, shattered, and full of fear Every loved one turned into a stranger My disassociation started to getting stronger I yearned the help but I couldn't cry out My cowardice take me and crush me from inside When I drink the bottle my happiness reigns Ruthless sensation running in my veins Too coward to die now, afraid of my life Thru isolation, I learn how to survive What I think helps me to cure myself Now is a vice burned in the shelf Things I love sometimes feels as a load What will I do if I can't take this anymore You gonna judge me is nothing new to me Every decision is not as it had to be I started to hate since I stopped to cry I can't do it, something inside me is dry There is no tragedy to write about Is just a voice and every day it screams loud I have control of me but I always harm me I don't know what happens but I don't feel free I blame the world for taking what is mine It took my illusions and buried on the ground I turn addicted to burning my life It has more sense than I ever had -------------------------------------- Everything is not as it has to be My daydreaming never had a guarantee Wishing black and grey turn into color A happiness minute equals an one empty hour I put my gaze beyond the horizon the sun is too up, it won't infected with my poison Yearning possibilities of a plenty life If my days won't burning me too hard I walk in the night carrying my mistakes My expectations and my mental aches My memories diluted, is real or my fiction? Apparently is better forgot my futile affliction I won't spend my time, I know I won't change People tried to help me but I turn estrange I can't start bitching that I ended alone coz inside of my head I'm glad they're gone Stop to look at me as if I'd wish this all happen No one warns you that your life could be befallen I tried to go outside but I'm a coward Don't worry you know I ain't go so far I've never told anyone about my illness I just sat in my room to drink until unconsciousness Is too late to talk with anyone or is it in vain? Coz all I want is to hide me again
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Chase the sun but it's going away Lost in your memories, all in faded days Trapped in a cage of what should it be All nightmares are coming that won't let you be free Passed the years, goodbye turned not so hard Accepting the truth triggers the void inside It's easy to deny and painful to face life I chased the sun when I was surrounded by dark adversity rains all over, fair, unfair, it neverminds Screaming from the void when myself was blind I prayed every day and found no more answers I moved forward, it's late to turn back I fought so many times against my unswerving fate Defeated and empty, I remain and await Tired in this epoch of indifference The purpose was washed away, all lost its sense ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// They take my mind is too late for me now My self grows in apathy, it turns me raw Condemned and numbered, like everyone else The things that make me special make my brain melt Innocence is gone, rotten in a desperate soul hedonism makes my mind mature until it takes control All my morals and beliefs I once time ago trust Is used against me, until the mysticism turns into dust Eventually, this turned a world of cliches Stupid, arrogant, all I know is what sacred hand says Now I think who betray me next and how I afront this God is enough, you got me praying on my knees A small bright appears in front of me calling me to go even when I don't know what it could be I've tried to reach until I can see the light Forced by the arrogance that is my only right It moves me to my destiny, it moves me to my grave Praying to divine, imagining that I could be saved Besieged by my own shade and darkness of the world It enveloped taking my life to the unknown My life was short, but my death gonna be eternal ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// I whispered - for the gone days (I chased the sun so many times, I was never able to see the moon) It drained me - I'm nothing but the dust (Foolish, I've thought I've lived in eternal noon) The essence and taste - never turn back (My breath started to get weak every time I wished to give one more false step) Thoughts of thoughts - in dissonance (My knowledge is dying and is not so much ) Chase the sun but it's going away Lost in your memories, all in faded days Trapped in a cage of what should it be All nightmares are coming that won't let you be free Passed the years, goodbye turned not so hard Accepting the truth triggers the void inside It's easy to deny and painful to face life I chased the sun when I was surrounded by dark adversity rains all over, fair, unfair, it neverminds Screaming from the void when myself was blind I prayed every day and found no more answers I moved forward, it's late to turn back I fought so many times against my unswerving fate Defeated and empty, I remain and await Tired in this epoch of indifference The purpose was washed away, all lost its sense It moves me to my destiny, and to my grave Praying to divine, imagining I could be saved Besieged by my own shade and darkness of the world It enveloped taking my life to the unknown All for I once fought is lost now but I haven't regretted what is gone Breaking my vows and tore my dreams My body will be ravaged by the streams by the streams... So try to chase what you know is going away, the funniest prank you'll ever see Private in comfort, and walking with no sense, a whole life thinking I was a serious man So everything I've ever felt is now lost in time My self and my trace are disappearing like tears in the rain, Now I only wait for my die, it's the only promise that remains, and the only fact And after my wandering, it's my only hope and comfort Anyway, who needs the light when you're blind? I never saw the beauty of the night, until I obtained the sun, so ... Chase the sun at night
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7.
"Then I walked to the mountain, nothing more to see, unconsciously I climbed a gentle path, I thought about gone opportunities, how time left me behind and I have less every day. I arrived at the top, and I prepared my rope in the only tree around, I couldn't help but cry, I cried more than I could imagine, I saw through the perfectly tied rope, it was a beautiful day" Woke up and found nothing to feel proud Look how your brightest days befog What one day you started to build Now is empty and full of ruins No direction to turn your head No perception to believe again No hope to keep your smile Your path is out of thy light Everything you had you took for granted It changed even when you did the rightness Is it your fault or who are you gonna blame? Is it too late to start again? I fill myself with more doubts About the peace that I feel once The storm comes and I've watched all I pray it to kill me and finish all Like the coward, I was then and I am now Take my values and tear them from inside Probe me one more time I don't care at all if you gonna fail then you don't have to fear Another day comes and goes Forever, it vanishes slow Infinite path shines out of my grasp Behind me, everything turned grey I wish to go too back to when I was a child And the years auguring a possibility Before a massive void consumed me and let me here where every step doesn't count The time accelerates year after year And happiness is just an ephemeral moments I keep in my mind as a treasure and eventually, they're harder to keep All our smiles fly away from here "Forever" turned into a tragedy What was here doesn't exist anymore And the time that passes is like blasphemy Tell me where I should go. Every direction conduces me where I am now And I haven't more time to spill If I want that my life has a sense I'm turning into a monster Destroying the essence of myself Making me get afraid of my reflection And taking me to hurt my loved ones I got lost fighting against him Alone inside me, I turned blind I just hid my tears in my wrath impotence that has left me voiceless I'm too far to become the man I've wished to be I'm too far from turning back and wish something else The trace disappears with every wasted second Every day I don't wanna see what I've become All that's mine is condemned to disappear? What can I keep close and what shall I quit? If I sacrifice something can I keep something invaluable? At this point, did I have something real? Is there a destiny that is condemning me? Is there a god who decided to punish my sins? Because I'm afraid that reality is simpler And it could be just the price of my mistakes my mistakes... Tired of taking this load with me Alone across the night Loading my stupid expectations Of what everything should be The tears burn my face til I can't recognize myself at all The guy in the mirror Is not the face I can remember I took my arrogance and fears and set em fire on my coldest night They still keeping me alive but should exist another way... And the night burned and the world changed when I was lost And the dreams surely died I couldn't kill the reality I shout to the sky While stars swear me Waiting for answers in tears but I still continue, even knowing I'm gonna die... Ignorance can teach me to live again? Or only I need to leave my anger behind? Is the best to try to forget? Or ignore my golden wasted years? Is the best to try to forget? Or ignore? When the yearning tore me? There's a path to follow? There's really nobody around? Am I one step closer to nowhere? I quit to show a smile to hide my distress I need your help to go outside of this place I try to understand this imperfect world I'm accepting my life in the absurd And now I don't care where should I go I can't change anything but I can move on I feel free to continue what I've started Unlearning pointless grief nailed to my back And I can go anywhere I want coz there's no path Can I make something wonderful or waste my potential? I was walking with closed eyes along a traced line A live in fear and regret, I forget I am alive

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Journey through negative thoughts and their consequences.

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released November 2, 2022

Composed and mixed by Aaron Quio
Cover art by Aaron Quio

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