1. |
Sirens
05:11
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it shakes me and leaves me
shivering unpleasantly
i feel a void so fill it up
i'm all alone that's not enough
it's rushing through my rubber veins
it's hurting though i feel no pain
get in my car i cannot stay
voices from afar calling me away
the laughing women talk and sing
they promise me a better everything
it's hard to breathe i roll the window down
i have to speed to blow the words around
nothing to wish for
a circuit overloading where am i going
nowhere to come from
a landscape eroding where am i going
all i hear they're calling me
they drain me and comfort me
through the black inky night
swimming figures say i'll be alright
nothing to wish for
a circuit overloading where am i going
nowhere to come from
a landscape eroding where am i going
nothing to drive to
a car bomb exploding where am i going
no one to run to
a future forboding where am i going
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2. |
Another Day
05:15
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i take out the pictures of me and you
all the memories of what we went through
i put on my coat and i go outside
i pull down my hat 'cause i've got to hide
i squeeze through the back door of the cafe
i talk low i whisper it's always the same way
just another day in my life
i can't remember a time when you were here
i can't remember what it's like with you my dear
things just aren't the same since you've been gone
i've felt so lonely everything's been wrong
it's been a wild and wicked thing
i've been a wild and wicked thing
a beast without reason some would say
i hide beneath the cloak of night
'til darkness fades and turns to light
i have to keep this grim disguise
so no one looks beyond my eyes
the evil thing that tore your throat
still roams the streets in hat and coat
the first time i saw it it had painted you dead
it began to sing with the voices in my head
i've been a wild and wicked thing
since the night it took you away
i'll just take another life in my day
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3. |
You Lied
03:51
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i believed the lies you told me
i took them as the truth
does the devil give you lies to tell
or do you make them up yourself
where do you get your inspiration
it floods in from your past
i can tell you now quite honestly
that contempt is all i have for you
you lied
why do you lie does it make you feel good
make you feel alive
does the devil give you lies to tell me
when you sleep with him at night
all the lies that you've injected
i live every day
and it haunts me it taunts me
when i try to close my eyes at night
recompense will catch you
your soul will melt and your mind will dry
when the devil gave you lies to tell me
he knew your will had been compromised
and all the lies you told me
you'll live every day
and it will haunt you it will taunt you
when you try to close your eyes at night
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4. |
Implosion
05:58
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i can feel no one but you
i can see no one but you
while you're out playing
in fields outside
the grass is swaying
no place to hide
maybe one day we will see
all the things in store for you and me
just say my name
i see everything you do
i know everything about you
i know everyone you please
and i'll never be away again
no i'll never be away again
i can light up any sky
i can dry up any tear
i can make the nightmares go away
i can make them all come near
and my eyes are burning blue
and my skin is crawling black
i'd do anything to hold you
i'd do anything to have you back
i can see you
i can feel you
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5. |
Fragilis
03:28
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empty heart full of hollow chambers
empty like an unloaded gun
like a beehive abandoned
a roomfull of no one
pick up the brittle things
with broken fingers
pick up the little pieces
of broken dreams
useless lifeless barren and dry
the shed skin cast off in summer
wrap it in your hair one last time
let me feel your soft petals
til they dry as brittle as mine
pick up the brittle things
put them in my empty heart
fill it up with soft petals
nothing else will fit inside
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6. |
Spasm
04:33
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and all the problems i faced
are coming back again
the darkness i had erased
is turning black again
the farthest thing from my mind
is drawing near again
and all my courage i find
has turned to fear again
the wounds that almost were cured
begin to bleed again
the pain that i had endured
i almost need again
and all the nightmares i had
are coming true again
don't know if i'm going mad
or coming to again
and all the pain and all this madness
all the sweat that i create
and all the dreams i amputate
this life is hate
the voices stuck in my head
are whispering again
and though i know what they said
i'm listening again
and all the people i've met
are only strangers now
and though i try to forget
i can't remember how
and enemies i forgave
i want to kill again
i thought i'd had enough hate
i need my fill again
i once thought i would survive
but it was just a lie
i once thought i was alive
i'm just in line to die
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7. |
Book
03:53
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the needle invades the tender skin
she feels the bite as it goes in
a necklace forms from beads of sweat
withdraw and bleed she's cold and wet
it rains and she plays with her braided hair
she studies a photo and wants to go there
she knows all about what she'll never attain
pierce and weep in the saturday rain
she always wears red she always wears black
the world's in her head the world's on her back
as chopin plays in another room
she wants to play at bride and groom
the young man moans and turns away
despise and romance just the fuck of the day
the realization starts to set in
exploring and travel will never begin
excitement and wonder are all but dead
she'll never visit the things in her head
she needs some adventure in her life
it comes in the form of a sharpened knife
the beauty and hope drained from her youth
shame and lament for the bitter truth
a child herself a child to raise
she toys with death while her angel plays
she finds herself what she once despised
she closes the book and closes her eyes
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8. |
Diabolique
04:17
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welcome to this empty world
don't ask me to explain
it used to be so beautiful
just look what it became
i am the unspeakable
nothing but agony
you will find it disconcerting
but you are left to me
look at what is happening
no mystery unravelling
you never seem to realize
this is all as i devise
there is no redemption
the best has come and gone
this is your salvation
come and see the great beyond
you cannot regonize me
i do despise reality
this is false and hopeless now
i made the when you made the how
if you have no more questions
if you know so much about life can you define it
and if you've figured out the answers
if you know so much about death can you describe it
fear me i will fuck you
and death will never come
i crush you as i need to
until you succomb
welcome to this broken vessel
come and take your place
don't look to me for guidance
we have both fallen from grace
tell me what you think you see
i would not lie it doesn't suit me
expel me like a poison
before i earn your soul's devotion
i am the unspeakable
i am the detestable
i am unwilling and amused
i will undo you as i choose
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9. |
Thorn
05:37
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i am bound to you by hate
i will swim upstream just to avoid you
i can never escape the memory
i still feel you under my skin
the certainty of anguish
the consoling pain and comfort of apathy
the chiming mockery and chides of your insolence
rang in me until i was deaf
my ears bled dry without them i can hear you
my eyes wept blind without sight i still see you
my tongue swollen thick
unable to speak i call your name
my breath screamed short
unable to breathe i whisper in vain
i spoke of her until all grew weary
and left me alone with disgust
i remembered until all i had was the past
and the present fell out of my reach
the gods mocked my pain with visions and
lonely hopeless dreams
the recollections never waned even after the bashing
rocks tried to stop the pictures in my broken head
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10. |
I'm Not Interested
04:19
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i've thought a lot about the things you said
and i've come to the conclusion that i'd like you dead
i'm not interested
i never really liked being one of your toys
and you aren't making sense you're just making noise
i'm hanging by the neck from the threads of your love
and my tears fall on your smile as i swing up above
your love is a need that i cannot appease
it flows through my veins like a crippling disease
i hate you now shut up get out
and take your stuff no more enough
you meant to hurt me but you never meant much
i tend to feel nauseous whenever we touch
i've still got a part of you inside my head
and i'd feel much better if that part were dead
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Ichor Los Angeles, California
Ichor (US) was a dark electro/industrial rock band active between 1994-1998 and comprising Steve Ashburn, Chad Blinman and
Ron Jon Hartman.
The trio released their debut album Nonplus in 1995 on the German label Danse Macabre, touring Europe that year with label mates Das Ich. In 1996 Ichor toured the U.S. with Faith and the Muse, Sunshine Blind and Malign.
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