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Albanian Forest
09:05
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Ripped from my body
Less than the meanest ghost
Green light rebounding, impossible mortal demise
Something has broken
I am a disembodied mind
Smothering veil between me and my enemy's cries
Ah, pain beyond pain my friends
My once-distant Boggart is clutching at my hand
Seeping and slithering into waking sense
As my body blows away like sand
Fled from the sleeping town
No longer a man, nor even a snake
Uncanny beast in a sapphire crown
Leaving rats lying dead in my wake
All the hidden fragments of myself
Can't save me from this living hell
All my servants will not seek me here
What good are followers without fear?
I, the greatest of all
Just a name fading into the dark
Like all who've come before
Nothing sets me apart
My future is gone
This is the first time I've ever felt
Like forever is too long
Clinging on to what I always said
There's no extremity worse than death
But I'm chained to a ruined life
Burned and blasted 'til I haven't the strength to die
One more moment, and now the next
Time means nothing, an endless stretch
One more second, and now the next
No direction, just one second less
I force myself on sleeplessly
Surely the faithful will come for me?
Day bleeds into night, and night dissolves in day
And in the shadows my hope is fading away
To an Albanian forest
Where I'll look for a place to hide what's left of me
Albanian Forest
Where I'll drift on the wind and contemplate revenge
Albanian Forest
Where I'll curse my faithless slaves' apostasy
Albanian forest
Where I'll wait for the tide of fate to rise again
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Useless
05:01
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You think I'm too stupid to know
Or too frightened to tell
Non-entity that fetches and carries
An unthinking animal
Servant by birth
Not like the boot-licking creeps that the Dark Lord keeps
I didn't choose my masters
Self-punishment is nothing to me
I'll spill your dirty little secrets to the Chosen One
Pure blood keeps you safe
In a perpetual childhood which you took from others
Using fame you did nothing to earn
While all below you suffer
Dropping names like a pile of gold
Into the hands of powerful weaklings
Weaponised fragment of soul
To bring back the days when your life stood for something
Are things not the same?
And is he to blame?
You won't hurt him again
Harry, my friend
Your privilege is standing in society's way
I'm gonna check it for you
It's not easy standing up to you
When I was raised to always follow orders
To do the bidding of bad Dark wizards
Is a terrible thing without getting some payback
I am the mystery pain in your ass
Double agent to an army of three
Stopping you in your tracks
There's no forgetting your crimes against us
And one day you will suffer the consequences
All tyrants fear those they oppress
Fate came for your master and it's coming for you next
Are things not the same?
And is he to blame?
You won't hurt him again
Harry, my friend
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3. |
Howl
07:41
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Out of sight and out of mind
Kindness isn't for my kind
Transformation comes again
Intoxicated by the pain
Once I ran with the Marauders
Once I felt like I belonged
But the friends who were like brothers
Are two of them dead and gone
The black dog lives to stalk my dreams
But he is dead to me
Now I just let the world spit in my face
Too ashamed to speak
The lashing branches cast a shadow in the night
The moonlight burns tormenting circles in my eyes
And the red mist rises around me
Dragging everything human about me beneath its tide
The cycle never ends
Wolf to man and back again
And they drive me out and turn away
And I howl
But nothing keeps the beast at bay
Servants of the Ministry
Shrivelled and spayed by sanity
Pathologising greater souls
Wasted lives of self-control
In my own land a refugee
An alien in my own body
One more undeserving deadbeat
One more drifter for the scrapheap
Distrusted by my kin
Rejected by all others
Always moving never still
Fleeting lull then I'm discovered
And they drive me out and turn away
And I howl
But nothing keeps the beast at bay
Wolf to man and back again
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4. |
King's Cross
11:22
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Where is my pain and terror now?
The world has gone away
Blazing light is all around
Somehow I know this place
This platform set me free, it was my escape
To a world where I belong
Now one last time I've come to board that train
And tonight it will carry me on
Something there, beneath the bench
Is struggling to draw breath
Its flesh burned black and flayed red
Every inch a scar
All hollow cheeks and bulging, twisted joints
But is it weakness or a treacherous path
That leads a life to this point?
The darkness inside can't be blamed on a broken home
Our paths are alike but just one of us is lost
Does the husk of the boy who murdered and tore his soul
Still think eternal life is worth the cost?
As our journeys end and our final steps are converging
Under the arches of King's Cross
A face I know, a voice I've longed to hear
Though it led me here to die
The eyes of brightest blue that mask the steel
Of a cold and deadly mind
The man who saved my life so many times
Who wielded me like a sword
Let the weight of vengeful rage carve a sickening furrow
To the heart of Voldemort
Come and take me far from here
Into the warmth and light of Death's dominion
Where I will have my mother near
And my father's end no longer drives me on
I can't give up now
But I want this to end
I've laid down my life to save my friends
I was frightened of death
Now I'm tired of war
Going back is the hardest choice of all
In my mind the task to do
And in my soul the face of a red-haired girl
Shut my eyes against the truth
But I still hear screaming from our falling world
Dumbledore is telling me of the time
When he ignored in his midst
Grindelwald
Then a girl lay dead upon the floor
Chances missed to quell a wicked mind
Will have consequences
I will learn from your mistake
I will go back to the darkness and pain
Existence drifts apart beneath the billowing steam
Stone and iron unmade
Fading from my sight like a forgotten dream
Is it real or in my head?
I will not fear coming back this way
When my purpose in life is served
And next time around I'll board that train
Greeting Death as an equal I depart this world
Come and meet your destiny
Come and stare into oblivion
Come and meet your end in me
Come and finish what you began
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Gyantess London, UK
Originally called One-Eyed Witch, Gyantess started in autumn 2014, combining long-time Harry Potter fan-ness with a love of grunge and stoner rock, and heavy recreational Wrackspurt use. It was meant to be an exercise in not taking music so seriously all the time. It failed. ... more
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