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It Can Not All Be Roses

by White Fields

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    10-song album on white vinyl. released via powertrip records in 2018
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1.
There it hits – this smashing cold I hear the ground creak from her steps My eyes fixed onto this saving door - I lower my eyelids It’s all freefall from here Deadweight speeds me towards healing Waiting to burst on the very bottom Waiting for a feeling Caught in a cycle The devil sleeps right next to me Still waiting for my blood to fill my coughs I’ll never find more love I’ll just wait till it ends I’ll get what I deserve And if this is how it ends today At least I died through love Let me die by love Die from love I’ll never find more love I deserve no love I feel like being locked in Like I was caught in amber You are dancing to our deathtune - darkest sun shines late December Sweet innocence This sinking feeling This isn’t love – I’m being owned (but) I’m rather this than being alone
2.
I’m done with expectations They don’t get me anywhere I’ve seen too many of you Change behind familiar faces This life where being low is the new high And every high means a new low When keeping up with representation Changed every bit of you In love with misery (and) always aware of that If you call this a living I’d rather be dead Don’t tell me I’m the soulmate you were seeking Sometimes I hate to share the air we are breathing Summertime sadness and you’re ten miles high Winters’ cold and you’re waving life goodbye winter’s cold – you die. still swallowing these pills down they go with a glass of brown (your) eyes look terrible sinking like a stone sinking like a stone Your words cut like razors (They) cut their way inside my head Try to reconsider all of this In the face of death.
3.
Beneath this descent I’ve built up on my demise I could have tried and killed All that was strangling me with such a permanence I was given the mindset of headaches The beauty of let-downs All your words of profoundness will fade Trust this: ‚No human being is just itself alone’ So sick of searching for peace I’ve had it seized too many times See with all my dreams of dying I killed the chance of rest in life (as I) contemplated what I was worth I’d always answer for myself Living in a mirrored state of time I’m wishing myself away I kept a silent smile Knowing nothing turns back time Revision is heroin to bliss Only the worst would do just fine And from the bottom of it all I would just stare and watch me fall A spit-sealed mouth and there just goes his: „It can not all be roses“ This world keeps moving I swear And life hits harder the more you prepare All imperfections in completion Stuck in the silence of my reflexions To kill the chance of rest in life Wishing myself to a grave I'll find relief when it closes „It can not all be roses“ Please know I never tried I felt comfortable within the barriers of my mind Every word of your advise Just fed the silence growing from inside
4.
Resilience 03:15
A dying seizure in your eyes Hollow stares that reflect mine Your shaking body pale and lost This crumbling wall was built by time You would not in a thousand lives Live up to what you’re told was right I missed out on my part in this mess Resilience as a state of mind. If the reason for our existence Was to question the non-existent Why should we even try A glass-shaped laugh at the value of a life The inherent fear of a big dream Can’t be swallowed down a throat I still hear ice-cold metal From the inside of your coat And you wave goodbye Man, you’re waving life goodbye As if time would heal all wounds And (as if) contributing pays off I’ve seen her desperate eyes - uncounted tears of loss. And I swear there comes a day When they ask you and you say: I did as I was told (Now I’m) desperate, fucked and old. All the tragedies untold I fear it hits you when you’re old When your deathbed sheets unfold And nothing turned to gold.
5.
And I – I’m tired of the sadness inside Let me love for a night I’ve been screaming these old songs I’ve been chased away from life And I’m getting it back In the word of love Life’s becoming awkward My dreams are of warmth and comfort understanding struggles Which have thrown me into the sunsets I don’t scream with hate It’s been carved in my face It’s the coming of age I’ve been carried away And now I am sacred to hold To be taking control Love dies when it loves alone I don’t feel The way my heart once felt inside You’ve been getting this all wrong (Well) Don’t believe me when I told you I don’t see what life has taught you I sank in loathing – into the morning after Please don’t try and teach me anything I’ve been burying myself deep inside my head In my dreams I'll (still) end up dead I sing this song To make myself aware of what’s to follow Humble steps into an agony Don’t blame me when I fail I owe this to myself
6.
I feel like I have lost an old peace one I found in my own sadness What I mean is: There’s no fear Once you’ve ended to be restless I think I’ve lost my old ways The ones that built a capacity of bleakness What I mean is: There are no tears Once you fall in love with weakness Love fought all my battles for me The ones that I got beaten in shaped armour for a new one In my dreams I have died I died without a chance to say goodbye I died a million deaths at night To stay alive during the day Every morning after a lot of feeling hit a lot of concrete I always thought I do not deserve the ground that is underneath my feet To the bleakness of all my masters of that war I can’t compel the dark side of my spirit Cold hearts killing without a thought on time I can’t say that I was never in it.
7.
Eyes can not see the meaning of me The brighter the light, the darker I seem I’m stuck to your feet They depict us from every side never alone nothing you can learn we sleep and we rise we turn when you turn Carry me away (I’m) caught in a slipstream Consuming cold be with me You nourished your fears I darkened your way You wandered in hate To see if I stayed We literally are the sickness of this world That has lost its sense for love in a million turns We all are having these demons beg for sin We are this planets’ Hell Within No we can’t be lost We are always by your side They are a part of us Shadows oh so vile Shadows don’t die They grow by time
8.
Funeral Moon 03:42
You enter the realm of spiritual guidance (you) float like colours on stained glass A prism of your best and your worst – completion pinned to earthly pleasures by deadweight alone in the coldest of your days you stare at a dying sun as our spirit is transcending to a funeral moon merely I believe in what I feel this righteous part of nothing that has brought me to my knees and it’s to find myself down there (that) I got to know which way was up And to be part of so much hate Taught me how to love Merely I believe in what I do This righteous part of everything I’m not doing this for you In mesmerized thoughts sacred You’ve been making this heart fonder I don’t feel like world's ways crushed me I might just never have belonged here In every decay There’s a testament of worth Nothing will stay forever We are learning this from birth See I will try and give As much as I can give And if it is getting my best I still might find some peace In the end all I need to say In all matters of respect If it was I burnt all bridges I never planned on going back I’m never going back
9.
Cycles 02:27
I see the ashes of who I used to be And I don’t feel anywhere near It’s like watching dead autumn leafs Fall from the branch of a tree To rot and start over again To cycle their way up ahead All loss will lead to inherent growth New starts that cherish the old I meditate about time as a process towards decay when I think about my past I wish my memories away But that’s the lesson I will learn World’s ways don’t work in separate terms Still when I think about it all I’m overstrained just by its turn Never satisfied Always horrified At one short glance I saw death in his eyes This circle is closed Within the exchange of lives
10.
These words are taking a while You let your breath sink in search of time Short tales of wisdom that prove that this is you You know it has got to be down there I see the pain in your eyes While you dig for your own life This disconnection of body and mind The fear of forgetting who you are. I(hate to) see you question the great man that you lost inside To see you lose yourself Back when you taught me All the things you know of life I’m so glad I could listen back then For me you still are Embodied wisdom eternally I couldn’t care less you named „red“ „green“ still I hope That you will not forget my face That I’ll stay a part of your self Please hear that you are loved thank you for your guidance Please know what you are worth I hold your hand in silence In the blankness of your search You’ll find fragments of our way The scattered bits of heritage My highest goods today And I know that it will hurt The deafening sound of silence Let me take your hand Let me be your guidance

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released May 12, 2018

Guitars, bass and vocals recorded by Georg Cotta
Drums recorded by André Hofmann at Hofmann Studios
Mix and master by Georg Cotta

Artwork-photo by Sarah Storch
Artwork-design/layout by Daniel Ehrlich

Guest vocals in to die from love by Steffen Pelzel (Drenches)
Guest vocals in to fall in love with weakness by Martin Lange (Empty Handed)

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