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The Cleft Between What Is

by Blatant Lupus

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1.
Karōshi 04:46
White empty prisons symmetrically holding dead machines. Between tight walls my tired eyes reflect the moonlight staring in. The screen stares back, smoothly hums and keeps my company. All the other bees have long since left the hive to try and grow humane. My human motions have escaped my mind a while ago. I’ve only been existing in numbers and diagrammes. Then my eyes collaps from an overdose of harsh synthetic light And my head falls on the desk. Soon a snoring meets the roaring of the screen. Last week that one girl in the office that looks like she came right out of the movies smiled at me from her cubicle-cell and I couldn’t sleep the whole night. I can handle another double-shift, the extra bucks will get me a nice holiday, but... Last night on the news they said the terrorists could be here anytime now! How come I’ve enough to eat but still feel like I’m starving more and more every day? Sometimes, when I’m real’ messed up I think of just quitting my job and tearing the whole place down! Each day‘s getting shorter Though speed is increasing. We are productive Cause life‘s become lifeless As the disillusion of my dream blows out I wake up to the fact that I‘m way behind schedule. So I pop a pill And quickly fill My throat with half a dozen coffee chips and hack onto the keypad. - It feels so strange... - Life‘s flashing past now! (My breath‘s getting shorter. My heart-rate‘s increasing. Limbs growing powerless, Consciousness fading!) As I watch my missing out on the only chance I‘ve had My last thought‘s that I know now: I should have never become this!
2.
All of your might keeps falling, strongest sense of doing something wrong. A devious tongue soliloquises, so makes the truth relapse into silence. Feeling somewhat dispatched but at the same time cramped and confined. When you’re lingering ’round and suddenly all of the world keeps drifting away, strongest wish to cling to something true. You stumble from branch to branch. Fixing your view upon yourself, you wonder if that’s you who’s speaking, you’re never quite there. Widening your eyes you crave to, rip them off and turn ’em around to see yourself as you are When you stare at the world and wait for a savior, that’s no proof for your hollow soul. You‘re just alone and addicted to life’s contingency
3.
Anima 04:04
The power feeds on your and your siblings’ enormous hardship. We’ve been enslaved for as long as we stand, now we might just as well die out! No introspection will ever help you make the psychic constraints go. The struggle within will only pass if the horrible world outside is broken! Instead of atavistically obeying nature’s causual nexus we gotta use our reflection to take the power back and build a world that lasts! When you feel like none of this is worthy of having been born from a human mind, you endignitise yourself and show the machine that it is not in charge after all! When you summon change and overgrow your time, brining human to himself, you‘re defending your strong and precious soul.
4.
So alone when I had peeled myself out of my shell Longing for a shape that would free and calm me down. But as the secretion dripped off so did the lust. All the same! All the same with me! As every eye piercing at me - even my own - Slashes off a part of my totality. I pluck out my eyes, become blind for determination And let my thoughts create a self that does not yet appear. All the time. Oh, these eyes are just Good enough to see the lack of sense That I‘m forced to prove All the time. And every glimpse at life is just another blind distraction. But all the while I just keep waiting for the next attempt to lose this truckling pace and oust it with a meaning, A way to exercise my thoughts And make the world appear From within my skull. But in between I‘d rather turn myself into a fish And swim through influence To rest this weary head. Thoughtful eyes are bound to see Sense that I choose at liberty. All the time. We follow shadows To their source And name this shallow Thing its cause. Our earthed eyes don‘t see Root to leaf. They leave out what we Can‘t conceive: That behind this nexus Shines the sun. When we get to the Core of things No word will Help to describe This pure existence! How sad we can‘t Meditate, Lose ourselves And become One with this Timeless truth! We just follow shadows Hoping to Be on sunlight‘s Speechless trace. Tumbling on in Solitude In this form- and shapeless Endless maze.

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released December 20, 2014

Joonas Roscher - Drums
Felix Werfel - Lyrics, Vocals, Bass, Guitar
Leo Fischer - Guitar
Alexej Wieber - Guitar, Vocals, Synthesizer


Music written by Blatant Lupus

Recording, Mixing & Mastering - Robert Fischer & Lukas Rimbach

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Felix Werfel
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Alexej Wieber

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