Through Fire All Things Are Renewed
Greyscale Records
(2022)
1. Gates of Hell
2. Pure Fear
3. The System is Racist and Oppressive
4. Blade of Truth
5. Angels at Your Feet, Devils in Your Head
6. Time Waits for No One
7. Bloom
8. A.P.M.D.
9. No Justice
10. Motherland
11. Coward
12. Ten of Swords
13. Through Fire
Credits
Vocals - Sam Crocker
Guitars - Matt Livingstone
Guitars - Kevin Cameron
Bass - Luke Manson
Drums - Jai Morrow
Music written by Antagonist A.D.
Lyrics written by Sam Crocker
Recorded and mixed at God City by Kurt Ballou
Assistant engineer Zach Weeks
Vocals on ‘No Justice’ and ‘A.P.M.D.’ Recorded by Lance Prenc
Guest vocals on ‘Ten Of Swords’ Recorded by Christopher Vernon
Additional lyrics on 'Ten Of Swords' written and performed by Matt Honeycutt
Mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege
Artwork by Patrick Galvin @ Hollow Bones Studio
1. Gates of Hell
Can you hear them? Can you see?
The screams for help? The misery?
They're banging on the gates of hell, endlessly
I see corruption, I see fear
I see no justice here
What does it take to wake you up?
Millions of lives lost isn’t enough
You feel the pain, but you lack the heart
It's about time you woke up
What does it take to wake you up?
Millions of lives lost isn't enough
You feel the pain but you lack the heart
It’s about to time you woke up
Can you hear them? Can you see?
They're banging on the gates of hell, endlessly
I see corruption, I see fear
I see no justice here
What does it take you to wake you up?
You're just so fucking guilty
You can't fucking see it
Can you hear them? Can you see?
They’re banging on the gates of hell
Bang bang bang bang bang
Bang bang bang bang bang
They’re banging on the gates of hell
Bang bang bang bang bang
2. Pure Fear
Have you seen the face of fear?
(The) true depths of despair?
Tasted helplessness?
Felt the true cold of the abyss?
Felt the weight of the chains of the world
Wrap around your back?
Felt the devil grip your throat?
And the angels breath on your neck?
It stared straight through you
To the bottom of your soul
Smothered you down
To the lowest of the low
Cold sweat, deep breath
Pure fear
Hate, shame, regret
Anxiety’s a demon you can’t forget
I’ve been broken
I’ve been shamed
Now I’m strong (but) I’ll be broken again
I will feel true pain
But I will be king again
It stared straight through you
To the bottom of your soul
Smothered you down
To the lowest of the low
Low
To the lowest of the low
Cold sweat, deep breath
Pure fear
Hate, shame, regret
Anxiety’s a demon you can’t forget
Cold sweat, deep breath
Pure fear
Hate, shame, regret
Anxiety’s a demon you can’t forget
I will feel true pain
I will be
I will be king again
I will feel
I will feel true pain
I will be
I will be king again
I will feel true pain
I will be king again
3. The System is Racist and Oppressive
The schools aren’t safe
Prejudice is ingrained
It’s violence
It’s aggressive
They become scared of difference
They become scared of change
Hateful thoughts are violent and oppressive
So fuck your prejudices
And fuck the system
And fuck you
You racist cunt
There’s no place for hate
You're just too dumb to see the truth
Oh and it angers you
As it should
You hate what you don’t understand
You hate what you can’t comprehend
You're scared, so you panic and you fear
Misinformation led you here
Scared men pass their fear
Through generations
It’s violence
It’s aggressive
The system is scared of difference
The system is scared of change
Hateful thoughts are violent and oppressive
You fool
You fool
You fools
You fools
Fuck your old gods
Fuck your tradition
Fuck your sexism
Fuck your racism
Your words and thoughts are violent
So don’t be surprised when the world responds with violence
Blind man, blind man
You choose not to see
Blind man, blind man
You're just playing the fool
4. Blade of Truth
You can’t see this misery
So don’t justify it to me
Fuck you
Liar
Blood boils deep dark red
It spilt on the floor
Won’t you slip in it
Fall on your fallacy
The blade of truth
Wants to set you free
Eyes crossed
Throat slit
Science, hunger, the thrill of it
Taste the blade
Pray for me
Taste the blade
Pray for me
Blood boils deep dark red
It’s spilt on the floor
Won’t you slip in it
Fall on your fallacy
I want to burn
The old traditions down to ashes
I want to burn
The old traditions down
Down
Down
Down
Down
Down
Down
5. Angels at Your Feet, Devils in Your Head
I can’t trust my vision
My ears deceive me
My head keeps spinning
The same fucking questions
What am I made of?
What hurts me?
What makes me?
What will break me?
One hundred angels at your feet
One thousand devils in your head
What keeps your heart from stopping?
What keeps your lungs from closing down?
I can’t trust my vision
My ears deceive me
My head keeps spinning
The same fucking questions
Poisoned tipped
Bad intention
I swallowed it all down
One hundred angels at your feet
One thousand devils in your head
What keeps your heart from stopping?
What keeps your lungs from closing down?
What am I made of?
What hurts me?
What makes me?
What will break me?
Break
Break
Break
I won’t break
I won’t break
I won’t break
I won’t break
I won’t break
I won’t break
I won’t break
I won’t break
I won’t break
6. Time Waits for No One
Run, run, run as fast as you can
Time waits for no man
Over and over and over again
Cursed to repeat your mistakes without end
What the fuck have you done?
You sold your soul for nothing
You'll never wake up
You'll die in your sleep
No answers
No questions
Nothing
So you run, run, run as fast as you can
Time waits for no man
What the fuck have you done?
Time waits for no one
You can’t see the truth
That it’s all just there to blind you
You can’t see the truth
That the problem lies inside you
It’s you
What the fuck have you done?
Sold your soul for nothing
So you run as fast as you can
‘Cause time waits
Time waits for no one
7. Bloom
The candle that burns twice as bright
Only burns for half as long
And there’s nothing inside me that makes me want to quit
There’s nothing there that doesn’t think I’ll conquer it
Oh but the voice screams
I’ll never be fine
The flower blooms
Just to wither and die
The nail that sticks up always gets
Smashed the fuck back down
And there’s nothing inside me that makes me want to quit
There’s nothing there that doesn’t think I’ll conquer it
Oh the candle that burns always gets
Smashed the fuck back down
The flower blooms
Just to wither and die
What a beautiful life
What a beautiful lie
Lie
What a beautiful lie
8. A.P.M.D.
Did you see the buildings burn?
Their monuments turn to dust?
Do you see the future in the rust?
I want to watch it fall
Lead the pigs to the slaughter
They cursed us all
We are doomed to choke on the ashes
Of yesterday's empires and their actions
I want to watch it fall
Lead the pigs to the slaughter
They cursed us all
Cursed
Us
All
All men are pigs
All pigs must die
Did you see the buildings burn?
Their monuments turn to dust?
Do you see the future in the rust?
I want to watch it fall
Lead the pigs to the slaughter
They cursed us all
They cursed us
All men are pigs
All pigs must die
All men are pigs
All pigs must die
I want to watch it fall
Because they cursed us all
I want to watch it fall
Because they cursed us all
All men are pigs
All pigs must die
All men are pigs
All pigs must die
9. No Justice
If I could
Then I would
Turn back the day
The world opened up to me
I refuse
The gifts
Of clarity
The curse of empathy
Oh the shame and the guilt
Oh what have we built?
It's rotting from its core
It's the rust and the fade
It's the way it was laid
It was never built to last
Save your breath
Don't wanna hear a blind man reciting old man’s madness
Save your breath
So let me be free and not privy to your blandness
I am my own king
No slaves, no masters
No gods, no prisoners
No rules, no border
No!
Don't wanna hear a blind man reciting old man’s madness
Save your breath
So let me be free and not privy to your blandness
I am my own king
I am my own king
No slaves, no masters
No gods, no prisoners
No rules, no borders
No excuses, no doubts
No war, no lies
No gods
It's just us
Where's the justice?
It's just us
No justice
It's just us
10. Motherland
If I said it’s like I never left
I’d be lying through my teeth
Older and wiser
I’m ashamed of the younger, dumber me
I dug my own grave
‘Cause I was too scared to walk away
I didn’t leave enough time to make amends
And it will never, ever be the same
But I
But I didn’t want change
It was never gonna stay
I couldn’t see that way
And now it will never, ever be the same
When I left something fell
And now this part of my world
Is broken forever
And it will never ever be the same
But I
But I didn’t want change
It was never gonna stay
I couldn’t see that way
And now it will never ever be the same
If I could tell you one thing
It probably won’t get easier but try
If I could’ve told you something
Then I could have changed our fucking lives
Now hell is all we get
We live with our regret
11. Coward
Still screaming, still fighting for change
Our voice for the voiceless
The imprisoned the enslaved
Tell me!
Tell me!
What choice did they make?
Tell me!
Tell me!
What stand did you take?
Just another coward
With your head hung low
I know you can feel it too
I can see the guilt inside of you
When did you become
Just a coward
With nothing to stand for
You have nothing to live for
You’re just a coward
Just a coward
Still screaming, still fighting for change
Our voice for the voiceless
The imprisoned they're enslaved
Just another coward
With your head hung low
I know you can feel it too
I can see the guilt inside of you
When did you become
Just a coward
With nothing to stand for
You have nothing to live for
You’re just a coward
Just a coward
Coward
Hang your head!
Does it burn?
Does it fill you with rage?
Because it makes my fist clench
When I see your face
Coward
Hang your head!
And forget every word of truth that's been said
12. Ten of Swords
[feat. Matt Honeycutt of Kublai Khan]
When I open my eyes
I am barely awake
I try to leave but I always stay inside my mind
I love so much it hurts my heart
And when the lights go out
I always hear my doubt
I've lost my fucking mind
I'm stuck inside
I've lost my mind
And I don't want to be here anymore
I try so hard to pretend
That it doesn't hurt but it hurts so much
How can I feel so strong and be so fucked
When I close my eyes I can't sleep
A train wreck great tragedy
I'm running I’m nothing I'm suffering
I'm holding on to something
I'm drowning and slipping and slipping and drowning
And I don't want to be here anymore
I try so hard to pretend
That it doesn't hurt but it hurts so much
How can I feel so strong and be so fucked
I will push through
With strength
Divide my pride
Dissect my mind
I will push through
Through you
Destroy you fucker
Bust that bitch through the floor board
We swing first thing oh lord
Bang out one through ten swords
Nine lives no more for you cowards
13. Through Fire
Walking down endless roads
Chasing answers no one knows
When I look to the sky, it falls
There’s nothing there to save our souls
And if there was, I beg you strike me down
For I have sinned
I can never forgive my past transgressions
When I look to the sky, it falls
There’s nothing there to save our souls
And if there was, I beg you strike me down
For I have sinned
Through fire all things are renewed
Strike me down
Strike me down
Through fire all things are renewed
When I look to the sky, it falls
Through fire
Through fire all things are renewed
Through fire
Through fire all things are renewed
Through fire
Through fire all things are renewed