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Sink or Swim

by Epimetheus

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1.
I'd walk a thousand miles to free myself from the pain of your silence I've strained to hear myself scream out to you time after time I know all too well that good things come Not to those who wait, but to the ones who refuse To be beat down and shattered This is my emancipation From this empty life I will prevail over the apathy At least within my mind To assail your precious thoughts To put my words in your head To believe my words will carry on After I am dead I will refuse to be A footnote in history I will not allow myself to drown in the violent storm This is my emancipation From this empty life I will prevail over the apathy At least within my mind To assail your precious thoughts To put my words in your head To believe my words will carry on After I am dead I will not be held under the waves of shame and mediocrity and in this life, when I'm given the choice I'll be damned if I don't choose to swim
2.
One nation under our insolence We refuse to open our eyes We live in the Heart of America Where we are always right A banner of misplaced devotion To thee I pledge my life We are the Heart of America and we will never die The republic of gratification Will fall at the hands of its denizens The blistered hands of the new generation Will be the death of common sense The fire is rising and everyone else ignited the flames We are the key to releasing the water As every faction claims One nation under our insolence We refuse to open our eyes We live in the Heart of America Where we are always right A banner of misplaced devotion To thee I pledge my life We are the Heart of America and we will never die Condemn like you breathe Before you have to compromise, don't sleep Go forth, spread your hateful words Diversity is a disease that will not be tolerated God bless America Our greatest enemies are within our borders Our greatest enemies are within ourselves One nation under our insolence We refuse to open our eyes We live in the Heart of America Where we are always right A banner of misplaced devotion To thee I pledge my life We are the Heart of America and we will never die Such evil done with these hands We'll destroy all our brothers, they'll fight us no more Such lies spoken with this tongue To deceive all the people, think freely no more We beg the frauds to lead us A nation ruled by masochists We live our lives Lie to lie God bless the land of hypocrites One nation under our insolence We refuse to open our eyes We live in the Heart of America Where we are always right A banner of misplaced devotion To thee I pledge my life We are the Heart of America and we will never die
3.
In the cold autumn night A thousand times we've been the players in this twisted scene and The stage is set and the script will be followed down to the word But stop the tape Our little actress has yet to discover Just how the movie ends and here our movie ends Let's keep this our little secret This is the time Cover up your tracks, revise your lines Lay on your back, time after time Put your faith in every lie Was this not what you wanted? Or does the pain come with the sun When you lie awake inside your bed, but you're the only one Oh, don't feel bad you gentle curse Life is preparing for the worst But you won't face this on your own Loose girls like you don't die alone You never go to bed alone Oh, the taste of the lies that drip from the tongue of daddy's little girl Your god sees all, and father knows the truth within your world So shed your tears How could you not see how this story ends? I've left without a care You're left without a friend We'll see you in church
4.
Such a finite time Chipping away at the days in our lives Seconds press on Waging a war that is already won and we live our lives Imminent endings stuck in the back of our minds We are told to look the other way Through each passing day We are taught to waste away As the ever present clock ticks on We are forced to ignore it We will pick up our feet and we will trudge on With newfound importance and one day we'll fade One by one our atoms fall away and when I finally close my eyes I will know pride in my life It's always pressing Every moment ends abruptly The darkness threatens and reduces us to nothing As time crawls on We will wait in fear for the end to come Inevitable We will say goodbye to the sun Oh god, all we have is not enough Hold on to everything you've ever loved As the ever present clock ticks on We are forced to ignore it We will pick up our feet and we will trudge on With newfound importance and one day we'll fade One by one our atoms fall away and when I finally close my eyes I will know pride in my life
5.
As I walk these streets Surrounded by others Who can't seem to notice the world outside of their vision I scream to the silence Of millions of people Refusing to listen But that's how it goes We only pay time ti the people who deal in the trade Of the words we want to hear So this is where we draw the line Is this where we reach the end? We'll kick our brothers why they're down So they'll never stand up again Is this how we live our lives? Is this our line in the sand? Have we all been drafted in The war against our fellow man? This is not the life I choose I refuse to live my life in opposition of The people around me My words will carry out through the air In the hopes that they'll find An ear willing to accept them I will scream it loud So this is my ear I will not stand for the endless dismissal of common existence So call me a communist Call me an idealist It's insane to believe that these lines in the sand can control our opinions Yet it happens every day We'll destroy til we decay So as we watch our world burn Do we fill ourselves with pride As everything outside our comfort zone Finally goes to die? I won't go on with my head under sand Though I've watched it die before I know the light will shine again This broken world is in our hands We've turned our backs on fellow man
6.
My love I hate you more than you'll ever know My heart Beats for what I despise the most I pledge my endless devotion To the shadows of your hallowed past I fell in love with a mirage I fell in love with a mask We all spend so much time destroying each other We all live our lives against one another We've all been beat down and broken We should be in this together So my love, I'm begging you to change Or you'll find yourself gasping for air I can't bear to see you this way But I know that you'd never care I'll walk away I'll say goodbye To you, my life Oh darling I can not just watch you die I know that I can't save you I still have to try I'll burn down anyone who strikes against you I can not let you die After all we've been through So my love, I'm begging you to change Or you'll find yourself gasping for air I can't bear to see you this way But I know that you'd never care I'll walk away I'll say goodbye To you, my life My love So all the scene kids who have nothing to prove, let me see you move
7.
Left Behind 04:00
Oh A lonely cry in the night Shouting "Somebody save me" She can't force herself to go on and we all know tonight We all feel her pain Now the time for a savior has passed But others like her can be saved We'll lend out our hand to a friend So that they might live another day She put her faith in a new chance at life She put her thoughts to a life in the sky She left our own cold world only to find That there is no kingdom up in the sky We scream "How could she feel so alone?" Then we cut others down to the bone Cause its too hard to make ourselves change and help the others to hold on til May Oh Tell me, why are you sorry? When we were the ones in the wrong We were the ones who were blind We let you suffer so long Please rest easy Free from the pain of your life and know that you will find love In the people that you left behind She put her faith in a new chance at life She put her thoughts to a life in the sky She left our own cold world only to find That there is no kingdom up in the sky We scream "How could she feel so alone?" Then we cut others down to the bone Cause its too hard to make ourselves change and help the others to hold on til May It's all our fault She put her faith in a new chance at life She put her thoughts to a life in the sky She left our own cold world only to find That there is no kingdom up in the sky We scream "How could she feel so alone?" Then we cut others down to the bone Cause its too hard to make ourselves change and help the others to hold on til May
8.
I've waited so many days So patiently For the words to come and As days turn to weeks These nights without sleep There's nowhere to hide I've no strength to run I've sat here waiting Only to find Moments replaying over again in my mind I see them so vividly Torturing me every time I still remember Every day is burned in my mind The words that you said are etched in my head These scars will fade with the passing of time and I remember the long nights Little white lies of a future that I couldn't see The nights when you saw the stars and thought Their light could shine in me As I struggle through each day without purpose I hope you know every pain in my bones was worth it My mind has written the words that hit me the hardest My body houses a lie where you think my heart is Every word in my heart is a weight on my tongue Each passing moment I am a serpent I feel so hopeless I feel so worthless The worst has only just begun You've already won I guess it's funny how the years pass and come to mean nothing The moments spent laughing in the dark To shake off the fear of what we couldn't see So the days will crawl on Burying history You were right to be afraid I was wrong to believe
9.
The words in my head are inside of my gut I will scream them out loud until my body rots I have written them down These words are my crutch I'll shout them to you cause its all that I've got These words are my essence But lately I fear That as loud as I shout These are words that nobody will hear No one uncovers their ears No one is listening Is this really worth it Or am I just screaming out to no one? This is not my purpose I was not meant to dwell in the silence I will scream my lungs out I will break the chains that hold me down I will rise above this all Or keep on going till the day I die Until we die I will not be defeated By the uncaring minds of my fellow man I am far beyond my failures I will fight til I reach the end I will live until I deserve more Than to die in obscurity There is nothing on earth with the power To bring me down to my knees Am I doomed to go unanswered Or live my life alone? I can feel the fear infecting me It seeps into my bones So I'll fight the pain and scream out loud until I hear a sound These words will be my weapon This scene is a battleground And everyday I'm told That I'd be better off if I would sink Let the water crash down over me Lay to rest these broken things But I stay treading water Head above, through thick and thin I will turn my back on you and I will Force myself to swim Am I doomed to go unanswered Or live my life alone? I can feel the fear infecting me It seeps into my bones So I'll fight the pain and scream out loud until I hear a sound These words will be my weapon This scene is a battleground

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released August 27, 2013

All music and lyrics written by Will Hartle, except "Left Behind", music written by Will Hartle and Brian Eldridge.


Will Hartle - Guitar, bass (tracks 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 9), vocals (track 6)
Jacob Lowy - Vocals
Brian Eldridge - Lead guitar, bass (tracks 4, 6, 8), clean vocals, drum programming


Produced, mixed, and mastered by Brian Eldridge.

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We're like all of those bands with the tween fans that play hip hop at their metalcore shows, except way sadder and way angrier.

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