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Damage Stories

by Rebuild/Repair

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lol "words"
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I never let go of my youth I never left that hospital room Not long ago I laid, destroyed In pieces, placed apart A monument Of crumbling stone In fields, so long forgotten Twenty years of restless sleep I lie awake each night just trying to breathe
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Asleep through the seasons The wind and the soil chain my bones to the earth And my dreams bring the comfort of home Lacerations make porous, the fabric That separates bodies From dirt, from the rain and the snow Falling farther behind As each step slips, it rearranges designs A new generation, dreaming Patterns form in the eyes Displace the shame and ignorance I buried inside The sound of liberation, screaming Old lines trace to the river that would have carried away my burdens Out here in the real, reopen the old wounds The weight of my sins crushed me Twisting and turning The landscape disorients and comforts, Bereft of intention or reason or hope The horizon extends to infinite And merges my soul To the concrete, the sky, and the void
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Pay No Mind 02:12
Head down, smoke screen Why can't you see? You pay no mind Makes me want to Open your eyes, asleep at the wheel Can't you taste that smog on your breath? Sight without vision, trudging through darkness Can't you feel that fog cloud your head?
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Damage Story 04:41
A pact of blood and skin between From youth to distant scenes Figures integrate in wavering connection The blood and skin conceal Disfiguring secrets These lies are damage stories The broken pieces forming A new truth in union Their hearts are slowly beating That sweet redeeming feeling Now short of breath What modest means reveal Desperate hearts conceal Lost consequence Transgressions swing like hammers The blood and skin reveal The fractures underneath
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Agoraphobia 02:51
This room is violence breeding The noise is suffocation Each word's context is treason In here I'm barely breathing Trapped in this broken body Paranoid and surrounded My mind creates oppression Increasing disconnection The air in here is sickening The panic building My body screaming to escape Relentless The impulse of violence Of fight or flight An unresolved conflict Paralysis of mental and physical
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Confused I mark my targets Broken windows breathing plastic I sweat at night The fever fuelling Thoughts of selfish desperation Confused I walk among them Sleeping dogs in burned out shelters Their teeth would break On bones and body Mine would feast on salt and soil Mind's not right, it feels right Can't make sense of hindsight Nowhere left to go Down beneath the twilight Confused The mourning wakes me Every step in violation The guilt recedes But every heartbeat Fills my throat with blood and hunger Confused Like bleeding children Damaged without frame of reference The signs all fade But the consequences Rid my thoughts of form and focus now Living in losing seasons Paying the price for hubris Laid out in discordance Every breath exhaling Every urge and thought gives way And lies
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With every quiet movement With every beat, things slip away The patterns change but the colours stay the same Bereft of causal guidance Adrift on oceanic shame The band keeps playing, the hall is empty Reverberations of memories Like prison walls and gates The music fades but the beat keeps playing on My body's moving while the rhythm changes My voice keeps singing while the sound's extinguished The sound and motion of intentions die And the deepest passions hide the most dangerous lies The weeks and days are slippping The music keeps on skipping Old melodies, through broken glass, play on We live in separate places But we share the same mistakes Across the miles our song remains the same Reverberations of memories Like prison walls and gates Along the way, they're singing And though the band keeps playing on The words get lost between the noise The meaning's disappearing Each chord, a memory Each string that's struck is deafening I'm crushed beneath the weight But sound is still escaping
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I told you lies Your trust in me was absolute What could I do? I couldn't face what I'd become I should have walked away but I couldn't die alone I dragged you down to save myself but it would never be enough These two betrayals A crumbling foundation They'll bury me in concrete Encased in my mistakes I should have walked away but I couldn't die alone I dragged you down to save myself but it would never be enough
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Streets paved with blood and silver One thousand miles to go Church-stadiums mark the landscape Preaching contempt for the different and broke There was a brief state of panic My eyes went wide I saw the pillars of the landscape Describe the shame of the times In the shadows of cathedrals The bells rang out To turn the plight of a people Into a silencing vow I saw the end Of reason and doubt In solemn towers And pious mouths Resources spent In praise of lies Monuments standing On those that died A hierarchy of corruption and hatred Claims connection to a knowledge divine Sustained predation on the hungry and helpless Belies a motive of a terrestrial kind
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A cross-eyed disguise A staggered gait and cheap slacks couldn't hide Lascivious intent can't abide The empty space in the wallet Rent paid with bad cheques To keep the liquor and food and cheap sex The source, cause, and the cure still depress Don't look away, it's useless My hands remember The feeling of my veins Curled up and knotted Around the paths of my brain Bad breath Cigarettes The smoke drifts in an acrid caress Pulling tight on the strings and the stress The puppet danced with the temptress Crossed lines Apologise A routine and a painful reprise Just keep singing the same old lies Keep smiling
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Undecided Their bones would fail to heal Their recollection warped by their injury A language formed of failed revolutions Describes a peace and consequence derived from years of sleep And we would be apart for decades Our time may never come But we would never cease The winds would break the waves The clouds would call the sleep The time would wash away the thoughts we'd never dare to speak Ethereal This timeless ritual Reconstructs the form of modern truth They preach the gospel of purchased liberties And when we go to bed we dream of memories of grief And we would cross the bridge together And in defiance of the spirit of the times Our breath would slip away In the wind upon the waves Silent The winds will speak The voice of generations in desperate release These decades spent in quiet grief Disrupt the rhythm of a dreamless sleep
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Consumed The husk remains The body A feast the same The windows Would bring the eyes The meal would Bring appetites A pattern The id's driven feeding The rats will feed upon the grey The wolves will feed upon the prey We'll be together when the cycle starts again The wicked wings of troubled sleeps will pry the heart away But in time the hunger and the heat will call it back again A transgression repeating A promise unspoken Two hearts unbroken Two graves, a body between them A promise, unable to keep them A pattern The id desecrating
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With the teeth surrounding the fabric of my bones Gnawing into the memory of the times I spent alone Letting go The guilt would hold my throat from the ground below Letting go I'd leave those days behind for the years to come Peeling skin from scars and sleeves The old marks recede Climbing over the tops of the mountains to move the stars from the skies to the seas

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This album almost killed me.

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released November 30, 2014

Randall - Vocals/Strings/Pedals
Kelly - Drums/Vocals

Engineered and mixed by Rebuild/Repair in Edmonton, Alberta
Mastered by Jamie Sitar at Outta Town Sound in Gonor, Manitoba

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2011-22. Nothing of value was lost.

There is nothing to look forward to, nothing to be proud of, and no reason to exist.

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