This recording and A Thousand Ambassadors are from a 2011 rehearsal at Sanctuary Studios in Vancouver the night before what we expected to be our final show (it wasn’t.)
The live arrangements for these two songs in particular brought out a totally different energy from the material and were staples of the band’s live shows over the years.
lyrics
Here is the ashpit of wounds, this bruising shell sings
A lone morning beast surreptitiously burnt out
And left to cracking modes. It is here, this infant hour,
That each child is brought to bear, charged with self-doubt
And I doubt, I doubt every wave and every drop.
The staggered tigers in grand forests still stop
And look and say, “we are speechless, we are speechless.”
And there is horror and there is murder, caress
The glands that shake the black cat’s bones.
These pretty things
Have lost their façade, though beauty does still remain,
A shining face divinity crutched, its glow scant
Upon the scarred earth
That I clearly eat in vain.
Though slaughter is horrid upon this birth I feign,
Blood and ecstasy move withal, oh, I am slain.
credits
from Ends,
released August 15, 2017
Adam Veenendaal: Vocals, lead guitar
Steve Hanker: Bass
Rob Freeman: Drums
John Lucas: Rhythm guitar
Produced by Adam Veenendaal
Music written by Adam Veenendaal
Lyrics written by Alex Kennard
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