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THE SUM OF OUR SCARS

by WET THE ROPE

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1.
This city is fucking dead. The buildings are reduced to rubble. The trees are charred to ash. Our throats are choked with bile. You lit the match. Is there one blade of grass to prove that I’m still here? I’m coming after you.
2.
Paulk Effect 01:50
You’re a charlatan. Shilling pain disguised as comfort. You are the reason I don’t believe. Descended from a long line of sick fucks. You’ve got your scripture, we’ve got our codes, but it all means nothing to you. Fuck your god. There is no redemption for you. Your history is your undoing. Make your peace.
3.
We don’t choose our inspiration. It burns through us like bullets from the sun. We wear it both as a badge and a noose. This malignance, it drives our actions. This malignance, it moves through me. When we die, we leave a flame. Do it now. Your life as a true expression of this fury; every bone rebelling against itself. We move through this together.
4.
I promise to ruin you.
5.
Dressed in suits around a cold table. I know there is little truth to be found. Never want to be here again. No beauty to be found. Transcripts of abuse and pain. Lives in chaos. Every breath is a concealment. There is no victory, only endurance. Nails cutting skin. Words don’t come back.
6.
We are born with guns glued to our hands. Triggers depressed, always firing. My hands are in your mouth. It’s just a matter of where we point them. There are always victims. You made the choice to aim for the head. It’s coming back at you. My aim is true. I know my target, I’m locked in on you.
7.
I’ve looked it in the eyes. It put it hands through me. I don’t recover, it’s written all over me. Scrape inside my skin. Every step is a record of a scar. These pieces of glass, they place us in our present. I am what... We are what we’ve made.
8.
It Ends Here 02:20
Awards and accomplishments are just a mask. Trying to cover for your impotence. Turn that knife inside you narcissistic fuck. To reach inside a fucked up mind that must destroy to stay alive. No more victims
9.
A house of mirrors, a house of cards. An heir to an infinite line of predators. Position yourself as a savior. Educate to gain power. I’ve got nothing left to lose. Deceive, deceive. This is not over.
10.
Wrap ourselves in a moment, and it’s gone. Never again. A two-bit shuckster with a pocket full of shit. Cut the lines. It’s not obtainable. There will never be…
11.
I’ll sew your mouth shut with a rusty needle to keep the garbage from infecting the air. I’ll cut your hands off to spare the world from your poison. Disasters, they can only live so long. There is no learning, only shifting. It’s all a facade. But there is no heart to cut out. It’s cold, dead, already on the floor. It’s time to walk away. Sleep well.
12.
I’ll leave this bag of shit right there beside the road. It’s all for you. I’m through, it’s over. The system failed. The punishment was a farce. We have rewarded the wrong things. Bred ourselves for defective lives. Forced their food down our throats. You are a commodity of this world, to the nines in acceptable costume. The epitome of just how we’ve failed. Fuck this place, I’m done. Burn it all. Burn it all. Burn it all. Burn it all. Burn it all. Burn it all. Burn it all. Burn it all.

about

Basic tracks were recorded in January 2016, at The Dock in Sacramento, CA by AJ with some help from Lance Jackman.

Lead vocals were recorded in January and February 2016, at Musicol in Columbus, OH by Keith Hanlon.

Backing vocals and some other stuff was recorded in March 2016, at Panoramic House in Stinson Beach, CA by AJ.

AJ and rest of us mixed the songs from March to June 2016, at Panoramic House and at AJ’s house in San Francisco, CA.

AJ flew to Sweden in July 2016, and mastered the songs with Eric Broyhill at MonsterLab in Stockholm.

John Conley @blkbrix handled package design and photography with our input.

Digital download comes with PDF containing lyrics and additional artwork.

credits

released February 14, 2017

AJ Wilhlem
Nick Frederick
Chris Sanders
Scott Torguson

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