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Brokentooth

by DIVIDES

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1.
(So kill your) Radio and serenade the silence Tear your idols off your walls No one’s fighting this revolution for us Turns out dreams are a dime a dozen I finally had the gas to leave But now the price on true passion is rising – Thank god this is who we are. We grew up on a 4/4 rhythm And earned our scars to an electric guitar My therapy comes in waveform In every note there’s a cure (So kill your) Radio and serenade the silence Tear your idols off your walls No one’s fighting this revolution for us Chorus: Speak with conviction for a change Watch these souls ignite Bear your teeth and Carve your name in history It’s tragic how much wisdom is lost amongst the airwaves I’m telling you There’s diamonds in the static But the masses like burnouts Are begging for singles But we’re symphonies And we’re worth more than this Be the bullet and wear your blistered fingers like badges Give your lungs and vocal cords to the cause (Chorus) Yeah we’re just kids Singing about love Or the lackthereof Yeah we’re just kids Dreaming about rock n’ roll.
2.
Your hands shouldn’t be so soft Your eyes shouldn’t be so warm With all the strings you’ve broken And all the pain you know You taught me to love the rain Showed me how to dream fearlessly Carrying such a heavy burden Wherever you are I know I’ll have a place to sleep Warm in your arms As we stumble through our dreams Yeah the ones that tore us apart The ones that make this all Worth fighting for Delilah didn’t love him back But I think we turned out okay And I just hope to god you know The pact we made in my bed Could never tear through The force that pulls me back to you Wherever you are I know I’ll have a place to sleep Warm in your arms As we stumble through our dreams Yeah the ones that tore us apart The ones that make this all Worth fighting for How is it over on the right? I think the stars might align tonight Wherever you are I know I’ll have a place to sleep Warm in your arms As we stumble through our dreams Yeah the ones that tore us apart The ones that make this all worth fighting for
3.
It’s 1:43 in the morning Restless muscles toss my tired bones about As a wine soaked conscience whispers
4.
Echoes Fade 03:35
“I don’t care where you put your mind, You just can’t keep it here.” But seconds pass and thoughts of you are spilling The way light pours in From under a closed door Creating a world of echoes Chorus: The tide will steal our footprints As if we were never there I try to wash you away but There’s always salt in my hair I don’t believe in ghosts but I’m pretty sure I’m haunted The air is thick with absence As I watch the sea swallow the sun Your memories Like well worn graffiti Linger here Long after you left I know you’re still here in pictures In that moment of bright light (Just like I remember) But life had to carry on Between the flashing of cameras (But nothing is) Just like I remember Between the flashing of cameras (Chorus) It’s just an echo The shadow of a sound Cadence of color Left to bleed across canvas You’re just an echo (Chorus) Between the flashing of cameras (You’re just an echo)
5.
We set sail on a sunny day in August We hugged our families goodbye and cried Life’s too short we said to stay at the dock our whole lives We tried to keep that sun in the sky But it fades always The sea swallowed us whole that winter But it’s just pretend I’ll be the sails if you’ll be the anchor Sometimes I just wanna fly away Puffed up with ambition To fleeting for anything meaningful You’re my conscience you’re my lifeline You’re the only thing giving me hope in this whole damn town We sunk down to the ocean floor As the tides raged above You shut yourself in your cabin to drown alone while I gathered our bones I tried to convince you to follow But you stayed, you always stay So we sat there on the ocean floor But it’s just pretend I’ll be the sails if you’ll be the anchor Sometimes I just wanna drag you through the mud Too stubborn and callous to grasp onto anything meaningful You’re emotionless oh you’re boring You’re the only holding me back In this whole damn town Screaming at the ocean never got me very far Praying for an answer, a way to survive I poured myself out to the sea But it’s always been underneath me Eyes trained at the horizon all along, but it’s always been underneath me I’ll be the sails if you’ll be the anchor Sometimes I just wanna slash the rope Yours or mine I don’t care, Grasp onto anything meaningful You’re my anchor you’re my anchor Yet you’re the only thing holding me up in this whole damn town
6.
You said I took your heart with me When I left But I think that means I’ve got a matching set ‘Cause mines still beating in my chest My hair smells like cigarette smoke and cocaine The things you always knew would bring you pain Here I am proving you right With nothing but my red skin and tainted mind My virgin lips will lie to defend my tarnished mind Tell me dear, where is your line? Addicted to that freedom The guilt The shame The inner turmoil that gives way to relief And then pain There’s a demon in me That you’ll never appease But I’d shatter my skull to set myself free She devours my passion Manifests a siren in its place She says you’re wrong She says I’m worthless And he doesn’t wantm e So let’s make him beg She says he’s gone Shes says I’m repulsive And you’ll never forgive me So let’s just pretend She says monogamy is a lie We’re too young to die He never loved you He never will He always will
7.
Alpenglow 03:45
All my life I’ve fought the winter But now I feel the ice inside my veins In every heartbeat lives a mountain And as we ducked under the clouds I watched The late sun rise over The blistered inlet And for the first time in months I felt alive I never thought that Familiar street names would bring me to tears That my favorite color would be Snow mixed with asphalt But here there’s no snow No star on the mountain to guide me Home. I’m not coming back I’m not coming back Without my soul And here there’s no snow No star on the mountain to guide me Home. I was wrong.
8.
Splay 02:59
Sit on your 19 years Yeah, you’re so pure Yeah you’re above us Like a glorified siren Splay me out Dissect my flaws Dance in the dusk of my downfall You of high morality Yeah you’re above your ruin Succumb to your drugs And preach all that you’ve learned Splay me out Dissect my flaws Dance in the dusk of my downfall I don’t hate your rampant promiscuity God knows I’ve seen the ceiling through your eyes I hate your lack of empathy But most I hate that you were right Splay me out Dissect my flaws Dance in the dusk of my downfall
9.
I found a parasite in my gut I don’t know who lives in this soul anymore I will rip you from myself I will cut you from my veins I’ve lost control to specter of ice and cold I’ve been seeing apparitions of a lecherous soul Empty, alone, and drunk on the guilt I found a parasite in my gut I don’t know who lives in this soul anymore I will rip you from myself I will cut you from my veins I might hurt myself trying to cut you out I can’t live in this reality The cold cylinder underneath my jaw Pray that it rips out the last of you I found a parasite in my gut I don’t know who lives in this soul anymore I will rip you from myself I will cut you from my veins You’re not welcome here This is the soundtrack to a slit throat
10.
I’m just so fucking tired I have spent every ounce of breath So I lay on my back And I will myself to be more I’ll water my empty shell with these tears And grow tonight Above these walls And through these doors And prove myself to be right And prove my right to be heard It’s not right It’s not fair Always a hazy vacancy But I can always taste it And I will myself to be enough To fill this abyss inside of us And grow tonight Above these walls And through these doors And prove myself to be right And prove my right to be heard Sprout from limbs and pores Vines and thorns Fill this space Any faults to be found Let the weeds decay and spring Forth in their place ‘Cause I will give everything To find my feet on the ground So I lay on my back And I will myself to be more I’ll water my empty shell With these tears And grow tonight
11.
I wanna be marble Smooth and clean and hard Like the angels in your dreams There’s dirt permanently trapped underneath my fingernails And little red bumps that live on my skin Will the idea outlast my skin When I decompose what happens to my passion? There’s a reason I hold this pen I’m so much more than you can see of me ‘Cause there’s parts of me that belong in you I know you don’t think you’ll be missed I know you have scars no one’s ever seen But maybe you can come to a show Or put your headphones in and be freed Will the idea outlast my skin When I decompose what happens to my passion? There’s a reason I hold this pen I’m so much more than you can see of me ‘Cause there’s parts of me that belong in you I know this ‘cause I am fragments Of everyone I ever knew I wanna cover my skin with all of your voices And use your pain to mask mine If I could I’d cover my skin with all of your voices And use your pain to mask mine Because as long as you’re fighting, I can too

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This debut full length album is a schizophrenic manifestation of the homesick, with crushing verses and soaring choruses to transport you into the mind of people who are truly invested in their passion.

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released August 11, 2015

All songs written by DIVIDES

Engineered/Mixed/Mastered/Produced by Casey Bates

"Echoes Fade" guest vocals by Chris James

"Supersymmetry" guest vocals by Doug Jones

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DIVIDES Portland, Oregon

DIVIDES is a passionate group of young individuals who believe in the power music has to connect human beings. Growing up in Alaska has given the group an unquenched thirst to achieve their small-town dreams, moving them to relocate away from their hometown in Alaska to Portland, Oregon. The band quickly rose above the Alaskan local scene & onto the national stage. ... more

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