Lyrics and lyrical themes
Selfless Devotion (EP)
2022
Ruin by Seduction
Lyrics
I feel like I've been living in a nightmare for all my life.
My mind is poisoned, can't get any clear air, immune to any cure.
l'm forgetting who's family and who's an enemy.
All l'm asking myself is who am I?
But will I fight for redemption?
Don't try it!
But will they forgive me one more time?
Ruined is my future.
My fate has been sealed.
I don't know if I may rise again,
but I know it has begun.
I need you to lift me up from this hell l've made myself.
I want to live. I don't want to die. lt doesn't matter to me.
lt's a sneaking power, a seducing drag.There are dark times ahead. lt's too late to turn back. l've failed once again.
But will I fight for redemption?
Don't try it!
But will they forgive me one more time?
Ruined is my future.
My fate has been sealed.
I don't know if I may rise again,
but I know it has begun.
Lyrical themes
Drug use, drug addiction, suicide, depression
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Band comment:
Ruin by Seduction describes how drug use and depression can slowly lead to an identity crisis. Once you make "something bad" a part of yourself, it becomes difficult to get rid of it. Especially when people close to you want to help you get away from it, this can even develop into an insult against yourself. ("I'm forgetting who's family and who's an enemy.")
Satan comes for Dinner
Lyrics
Something's pulling me under.
A demon, l've got to know years ago.
This f*cking insecurity is preaching me things I don't want to hear.
When did we lose this rare thing called sanity.
Holding on to something slightly real.
In this prison of repression.
Feeling the rage inside my heart.
God told me to leave you scarred.
l'm just protecting my own needs.
Your death, his demand, my release.
Finally I find out who I am. But I can tell you, I don't like it.
Give up. Self-righteous-self takes over your fate.
These demonic sounds seduce me to commit homicide, suicide.
I'm so fucking dead inside.
There is no guilt in me.
l'm simply empty.
Scarier than every monster.
From power to insanity.
Didn't give the order so we're off charge.
"Surely they would have done the same".
Scarier than every monster.
From power to insanity.
Lyrical themes
Depression, schizophrenia, (suicide) murder
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Band comment:
Originally the text was about the genocides in Rwanda. In the meantime, however, the text can also be interpreted in such a way that a person with a mental illness is urged by inner voices to commit bad deeds. The second verse also describes the realization of having a mental illness. ("Finally I find out who I am. But I can tell you, I don't like it.") This insight allows for self-reflection, in which one finds out how one deals with oneself and/or with other people.
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Selfless Devotion
Lyrics
Everything is possible if you follow my rules.
Everything is legal as long as you believe in me.
Forget your ideas. Forget your ideals.
There's only god, nothing else is real.
They can't hear you scream trapped in their innocent dreams.
No one can relate to the ache. Their spirit is what they take.
Nothing is wrong in this blessed house.
You can't blame me. l'm a holy man.
Screaming for help at the surface.
They can't hear you scream trapped in their innocent dreams.
No one can relate to the ache. Their spirit is what they take.
They won't do a thing. Carefully watching the angel sink.
Until they're getting accused of every godless abuse.
They can't hear you scream trapped in their innocent dreams.
No one can relate to the ache. Their spirit is what they take.
They won't do a thing. Carefully watching the angel sink.
Until they're getting accused of every godless abuse.
Lyrical themes
Rape, abuse, sexual assault in religious places
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Band comment:
Selfless Devotion is about the cases of abuse and sexual assault of minors in religious places. Just in an environment where one should feel safest when one is a member of a denomination, priests and higher figures in the church use children as slaves in the name of God for their sins. But still nothing is being done about it, let alone demanding a punishment for the sinners. ("You can't blame me. l'm a holy man.")
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The Parasites Gift
Lyrics
This girl is wondering how to deal with life.
Walking down the same streets again, running out of time.
People tell her she doesn't belong, she's a different kind.
She's the only one who knows about her poisened mind.
This fucking parasite leads the blind.
lt might be her only ally.
The pain she's drowning in, destroys her mind.
Please set her free.
My lovely girl, please don't cry.
Dad's taking care of you, all the time.
They don't realize she needs to be alone.
To break through this, to reclaim the throne.
This fucking parasite leads the blind.
lt might be her only ally.
The pain she's drowning in, destroys her mind.
Please set her free.
Lyrical themes
social pressure, stress, depression, bullying, borderline
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Band comment:
In this case, the parasite describes the borderline disease. The feeling of being alone and not being understood is reflected in the lyrics. ("People tell her she doesn't belong, she's a different kind.") Close people are pushed away for fear of being a burden. Although friends and family could be of great help in a situation like this.
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Reset
Lyrics
Waking up in captivity. Nobody takes you seriously.
Looking through the window, no, it's not bad dreams.
Rotting in here until you die for nothing more than being different. You ask yourself where you belong, waiting for it all to end.
There's no point in explaining yourself if your audience is deaf.
A rain of shame, a fire of hate merge into chaos.
The world is dying.
Yes we are the biggest threat.
Yes it's not worth trying.
Now it's time for a reset.
You try to sleep but the thoughts keep roaming through your head. Am I not good enough? Fitting in, so difficult.
Yeah you've done no wrong. Your biggest mistake was being born. Support seems like a greedy snake who wants to enslave you.
Fight, fight, fight, stand up for yourself. As if it were so easy.
lt's a fucked up place. Why do we live here? Let's press reset.
The world is dying.
Yes we are the biggest threat.
Yes it's not worth trying.
Now it's time for a reset.
Lyrical themes
Neglect of our environment, human egoism, war, sexism, homophobia, the end of the world
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Band comment:
Originally, the text only described homophobia and its effects on people, the feeling that others don't agree with who you are, that you don't belong. Although you can't help it, or being "different" isn't actually a bad thing. ("Yeah you've done no wrong. Your biggest mistake was being born.")
But at some point we realized that humanity is so ignorant and hateful that there would have been too many topics for one song. (War, global warming, racism, etc.) One got the feeling that a new start for the world / humanity would be the only way out of what we call society. ("Yes it's not worth trying.Now it's time for a reset.")
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