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And Everybody Died

by Leper

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Opening 04:48
[Instrumental track with ad-lib vocals]
2.
It’s been years I’ve traveled the sand Most of the time the only prints I see are my own I’ve heard it said that’s when I’m carried But on the downswing it always seems This does not apply to me Here I hang from a thread - choking, strangling - see a wounded mouse Blindly follow, filled with doubt and despair too dark to mention Desperately trusting The First Whom I cannot see Surely You have not led me this far to abandon me unto death But with my waking eyes I see my whole world crashing down around me I have not forgotten where You’ve led me from So even though it seems I’ll lose everything I value Still I will not curse You Here I hang from a thread - choking, strangling - see a wounded mouse Blindly follow, filled with doubt and despair too dark to mention Desperately trusting The First
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I’ve been wrong more than I’ve been right Fooling myself painted with pride Angels of death darkness and light Kissing my forehead Beautifully tasted their dreams - sown shut my eyes What do you want from me? Mongrels and goats They were the golden hooks in my nose Fall on my knees Lift up my face No longer deny Wonderful grace You make me cry - with one drop of blood What do you want from me? You took my hate replaced it with love You took the coal that healed my tongue You took my death replaced it with life You drove out the horrors that possessed my mind You showed me peace when I had none Shown me forgiveness forgot what I’d done You gave me the sky You gave me the sea Take what You want from me
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On the prowl again You’d hear something growling from the shade if you’d listen Fierce malicious malevolence to deny thy forbearance Lovers of fear and superstition After all there’s something sinister about everything we love Elusive as any fox - far more dangerous Desperate struggle to maintain humanity But if you quarrel with one of them remember to watch your step At a half past twelve he will come back to kill you where you stand The nature of a beast is to behave as a beast But the nature of redemption is to allow yourself to be changed
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Words of malice Burn and break Sarcastic needles like a mouth full of blades Cut me down to lift yourself up You better watch what you say Showing no discretion Left with no resolve Do you really think you gain respect If your words destroy them all? Digging ever deeper The hole that you’ve been living in Keeping yourself isolated Aggression your defense Priding yourself on just how well you speak your mind You better watch what you say Has your tongue been tamed? Are you a perfect man? Have you truly been redeemed Of all the pride and arrogance? Try so hard Still no one’s impressed You better watch what you say
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Lins (Lick) 04:35
Behold and see that nail-scarred hand reaching out to me, should I take hold? Maybe I should scream, maybe I’ll just take a chance You might prove Yourself to me You have been my hiding place You have led me into grace Rescue me out of the flames of hell that seek to lick the back of my neck I have trusted You - You have never failed When Satan tries to rape my mind, let it be he who fails In all my trials through and through You’ve delivered me When the enemy comes in like a flood Lord lay my enemy at my feet You have been my hiding place, You have led me into grace Rescue me out of the flames of hell that seek to lick the back of my neck
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I would behold You but they will not let me be For I would long to be the way it used to be Within a folded blind a lie of constant make believe In them find ecstasy the deeper that we sink The faces are so soothing and pretty, petting my eyes Why are they always talking? They are the stain in my eye Delete the history and still they block my view I cannot escape the digitizing swoon Angelic form to cloud the window mock and tie And only One can wipe the stain out of my eyes Have I become the pretty picture of distress?
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I’ve got this voice inside my head I can’t help but want to tell you what it says Even though I don’t think that you really want to hear it and I’m sure you’ll roll your eyes instead I don’t want to tell you what to think And I would never treat you like a fink If I try to pass off my opinion for a fact wouldn’t that make me a liar and a thief And if I’m going crazy I’d like to take you with me So don’t look at me like I’m completely nuts I can assure you that I’m certainly not I’m sure I look like some hysterical fool But love is He and He is love So if I’m going crazy I’d like to take you with me No one in the world can shut me up Because I know I didn’t make it up My life was broken and blown over where it stood So mere confession’s not enough Once upon a time we all were lost Raised by the power of the Cross and to the perishing it’s all just foolishness and life to those who understand the cost If I’m going crazy I’d like to take you with me
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The emperor made speeches claiming to want peace Carried in by tanks and bombs and crushed beneath his feet Killing what compassion that he may have had Taking out the criminals and ravaging the land Suing his own people to fund his little games Of Indians and cowboys that no one wants to play Do you even see them? Do you even care? Do you even hear them when they cry out in despair? Consider now the price the missionary pays Caesar has his law and we’re expected to obey Even when it contradicts the laws of love and charity St. Theresa’s been arrested and they’ve thrown away the key So who cares about religion they don’t want it here We can’t alleviate their pain, we’re not allowed to wipe their tears So forget about the past propaganda's we were fed Before we found out on our own They made up everything they said Patriotic blindfold - defend yourself or die! Kill your enemies, kill their children And your ruler takes the prize Do you even see them? Do you even care? Do you even hear them When they cry out in despair?
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I was alone when You came calling A deep dark hole where I had fallen My mouth was bleeding from an image so obscene And yours was blended as you drew me from those things Things that I thought I’d loved Quicken pulse and pierce the skin Poison kiss and scarred within Deep within Your eyes I’ve come to find lovely depression Denied Hang me on your symbol where a dose of love will burn Begging begging let me rest I’m so weary of this curse Monster that I am I have not been rejected So I gladly surrender what I was not forced to give Quicken pulse and pierce the skin Poison kiss and scarred within Deep within Your eyes I’ve come to find lovely depression Denied
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When I lay down to sleep they used to torment me Always there always whispering in my ear always poking and touching and nagging ‘Til the fear washed over me driving me from my bed Oh those terrible fingers I feel those fingers I cannot see them get out get out
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Darkness darkness constantly creeping in Beneath the nail behind the eyes and underneath my skin Malice malice malice is where it begins Judgment grace and mercy is where it will end I keep on sinking - committing another crime I keep on sinking - committing another crime Death death death is all that I have Wicked wicked wicked is all that I am Love love love is what I will seek Truth truth and to understand what it means I keep on sinking - committing another crime I keep on sinking - committing another crime
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I’m in love with this day And all the subtle shades of white and blue and gray And the voices of the crows echo through the stones that mark those peacefully at rest I’m in love with this day The crows have all come out to play And there’s nothing much to do but to sit and think of you and those demented things you say Too much is not enough when my whole life is wrapped up in you I’m in love with this day Shadows cast across the way I was once a lonely shade Admiring hopeless rays ‘til I finally found the way I’m in love with this day Despite the crows with you I’ll stay Let the world lose its mind a child’s heart is thine I love you just the same Too much is not enough when my whole life is wrapped up in you I’m in love with this day The crows have all come out to play And there’s nothing much to do but to sit and think of you and the funny things you say I’m in love with this day Despite the crows with you I’ll stay Let the world lose its mind a child’s heart is thine I love you just the same Too much is not enough when my whole life is wrapped up in you
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Go on kid get out of here You're just in my way I don't see you I don't hear you Nothing that you say I'm too busy living my life You just drag me down Here's a dollar, maybe two Now go find something else to do I see them every day With holes all in their clothes Dirty faces, matted hair Snot runnig from their nose I wonder what they had to eat I wonder where they sleep Glue bags, porn, and suicide The devil sells you cheap Litlle children in the streets All day, all day I wonder where thay play All day, all day Behind the velvet curtains Kids act out what they've seen All caught up in TV shows And fashion magazines I wonder when they talk to dad I wonder what he'd say If he knew Jill was pregnant And little Jack was a gay They say God lives in the sky Does he really care? Maybe he's got lots to do Don't want us in his hair But I can tell you firsthand He took me in his arms God don't beat his children Or leave them all alone

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Death is unavoidable. It claims everyone and instills many with fear and dread. Yet children, having no understanding of death, have no fear of death. They are content to live out their lives sitting on the floor coloring, never giving death a second thought. Jesus insists that we live as children, free of fear and without dread. Death was never the end of the story, only the interlude, the turning of the page. So let us not fear the things we cannot control; for in the end, everybody lived as they chose to live... and everybody died.

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released June 1, 2009

Skot Shaw: vox, guitars, synth, drum programming
Otto Jensen: bass
Guest Musician: Hilde Bialach (cello on "Primul")
Produced by Leper
Recorded and Mixed by Ed Bialach
Mastered by Trevor Sadler at Mastermind Productions in Milwaukee
©&℗ 2009 Grrr Music (ASCAP)

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Hundreds of years ago, Leper emerged from the cold clay of a long-forgotten grave in a forested fog somewhere between Skotland and Sveden. The pulsating rhythm from within the tomb still in the chest, the now-breathing creature –reanimated, stunned, staring down – remembers.... how a lifeless wretch lives again. ... more

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