We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

It's Hard to Speak Through Chattering Teeth

by The Will to Survive

supported by
/
  • Streaming + Download

    Purchasable with gift card

     

1.
Straining out the sediment, sifting out the gold No matter how small My worth counted out in pennyweights That's what friends are for And suddenly, I think about all of this time spent alone And how I thought that it was good for me But it wasn't at all, where I once was well-made filigree I just fell apart like poorly done soft soldering We belong with our brother's arms holding on so we're never alone (That's what friends are for) Never go to where my eyes can't see, to where I can't be (That's what friends are for) And when you lose everything... (That's what friends are for) Thoughts of being without anyone who really knows me Have kept me wide awake I mean, I knew I was getting lonely, I didn't know that I was getting fake I never thought I would ever say that I have drifted much too far away
2.
Do you recall the name of the flaw or law that you broke When you trespassed against me Well I do When you were a child, you though you could just go it alone My son, my boy, well now we're older and you've caught on We are frail, and that thought is hard to bear Because it's all just a little bit broader Than the shoulders on your father's coat Which you seem to have outgrown And you, you should have believed in me believing in you But you grew too heavy for me to hold And I, I would have trusted in you like you trusted in me But your arms were never there to break my fall Because it's all just a little bit bigger than you and me And that damned light at the end of the tunnel is so hard to see When you were a child, you though you could just go it alone My son, my boy, well now we're older and you've caught on We are frail, and that thought is hard to bear You're a shell of a man, like a shell in the sand With no pearls to pawn, you're a motherless fawn And a colorless dawn You're a faceless crow to the people you know You get lost in the flock, like the gears of a clock Just part of the machine
3.
Dim the lights so I can hide And still see your face, I drop your clothes like they're weights I hold you close and lie through my teeth, but it feels so true I thought that I was playing you, but my heart was playing me (Oh my God) Stay with me tonight and we'll figure out things in the morning I love you now, though I didn't start out With the honest intentions that I've got now You are just like a dream to me With your hair all amuck and your eyes just waking up Lock me in your stormy eyed stare and I just fall apart But that's exactly what I've always wanted (Oh my God) Stay with me tonight and we'll figure out things in the morning I love you now, though I didn't start out With the honest intentions that I've got now x2 Up the stairs I carry you and with whispered words I fill your head with lies Through the frame and down the hall, into the room Where your innocence dies x2 I swore I would not, but I'm not the man I thought And though you played the angel, I saw the lust in your eyes You led me to lead you where you wanted this to go And now I think you were more the devil than I Up the stairs I carry you and with whispered words I fill your head with lies Through the frame and down the hall, into the room Where your innocence died
4.
So stray from the lightning storm and wade through the muck of us And hold on to what you know before it leaves
5.
Make my way wise and blameless Curb my tongue and teeth when I am impetuously shameless With you as my fortress, of whom shall I be afraid Soft spoken words will get you deeper For swords that clash against me will meet my armor Everything is missing... just shades of grey in a tapestry Fire me as clay and glaze, that I'll grow stronger For in the hands of the architect, I'll neither stray nor wander Sand me down, oh carpenter, remove my stain For a tiny seed choked by dust and weeds, send the rain Plagued by heat and gnashing teeth, I never meant to fall this deep
6.
In This Room 04:12
Set me a course from which I will not stray And I will light our path forever if you stay I know it seems long, the night with all it's dark I still have these troubled dreams, where the shadows keep us Apart love, no it's not enough, my hunger is endless I'm starving for you And if you can't trust even in spite of us Just break it all to pieces in the name of past love The things you lose are the things you always break But I could be the stone to withstand your crashing wake But if you choose to dismiss my good intent Then we may never know the life we might have spent Never apart love, no it's not enough My hunger is endless, I'm starving for you And if you can't trust even in spite of us Just break it all to pieces in the name of past love I watched your expression change in the span of a flutter of a hummingbird's wings My heart, it broke, as your smile dropped at the mention of my romantic intentions And my face burned in shame as I watched you frantically scramble for a graceful way to bow out But if you'd give me a chance, God just something more than a passing glance I'm torn apart love, no it's not enough My hunger is endless, I'm starving for you And if you can't trust even in spite of us Just break it all to pieces in the name of past love
7.
You were sitting there wishing you were someone different somewhere else Didn't you think that might hurt me, because it did You were sitting there pulling out every single strand of your hair as I stared at the ceiling from the floor Everything that I have left was meant for you You were trying everything you could to try to get under my skin Well my skin goes miles deep, so try again I don't know who you've been seeing but it sure as hell's never been me Because I'm not the leaving type, not this time Yell at me, call me a bastard and scream like a banshee If that's what it takes for us to talk it out, call me what you will You've been living like a secret keeping all your trappings stowed away inside, like you were something you had to hide Not this time Everything that I have left was meant for you He was a man of wanton lechery And his corruption settled down in your heart, unseen and unheard And now his puppet strings make you speak his wickedness to me You were everything I thought I wanted but you let me down It's sad to think that though we stayed in the same home I was still alone, left with nothing but the songs I sang "It takes awhile to grow anything" And now I've got someone that you could never be I see you're nothing but a broken version of She who never takes my love as nothing more than amnesty My one regret is that it took me so long to leave
8.
We saw a light from our campfire So we walked through the trees to see what we could find We found ourselves at the summit And on this mountain we found ourselves Until I saw that you had gone without a word Right before I'd had the chance to say I'd have done it all for you, but we didn't follow through We said a lot, but nothing got through But I did it all for you, your daughter too We said a lot, but nothing got through You took away my faith, my faith in everything that I came here to make All you gave me was a kingdom who's walls were destined to fall And though it's said and done, I hope you know That I did it all for you but we didn't follow through We said a lot, but nothing got through I swear I did it all for you, your daughter too We said a lot, but nothing got through
9.
(untitled) 07:35
I am not unforgiving, like a storm with gentle hands I am not in pecking order, an unfinished thought, a half completed verse Spoken out loud, it's a hard idea to get across A window stained with soot and rust Will I refine before I find it's time To be marked by a stone engraved with names Spoken like a bright new star that somehow is always waning A false display of grace so easily washed away Like a sheen of actor's makeup, which he uses to further his trade Lines and lines of over-dramatics, well scripted yet poorly played The life you'll never know was the life you always had A bracelet made of gold and grass If I could only speak through these chattering teeth.... What if my judgements are not the virtue that I thought? I saw your bet and anted up It seems your pockets don't go as deep as you once thought You see, I've got more character than I let on, or so I thought Run away, all I'm good at is running away Spoken like a bright new star that somehow is always waning A false display of grace so easily washed away Like a sheen of actor's makeup, which he uses to further his trade Lines and lines of over-dramatics, well scripted yet poorly played Don't speak so unrefined Don't waste your voice on wasting any more of my time Do you even think past things like turning every little petty pile of sand Into a mountain of all the stupid problems that are caused By the waves of discontent with the lives you can't figure out how to live But maybe my judgements are not the virtue that I thought... I felt alive when my heart wouldn't start I didn't have the patience for another day Weary with time, I blew out a sigh And stubbornly drifted away Tell me it's a sickness, a temporary madness Tell me that you'll make sense tomorrow
10.
··· 06:22
We started slow and slowly built From a flame into a fortress We gathered speed, we gathered strength From a raindrop into a tempest So take me as I am As a friend, a lover lost beneath the weight that buried him But soon, as winter falls, I will be alone and alone to blame And when the day came for you to leave, my back's never been so bent By the weight of reality Come to me and I will always come to you If you take me as I am As a friend, a lover lost beneath the weight that buried him But soon, as winter falls, I will be alone and alone to blame Right from the start, how was I to know? x6 That you would take me as I am As a friend, a lover lost beneath the weight that buried him But soon, as winter falls, I will be alone and alone to blame

credits

released June 22, 2014

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

The Will to Survive Harrisonburg, Virginia

--------TWTS---------

Adam am Vox/Guitar,
Austin eats Guitars,
Ben plays Bass,
Drumming by Nic.

------------------------

Smashin' your eardrums since '11.

contact / help

Contact The Will to Survive

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like The Will to Survive, you may also like: