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Castle Bravo
05:56
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I'm a picture of tranquility
Concealed facade of placidity
But one sudden instability
Turns my calm into calamity
One mistake
Something is unspeakably wrong
I have allowed just one mistake
Now see my chain reaction awake
Crisis my mind begins to create
My dread uncontrolled will escalate
One mistake
I am calm and, I am serene
Just like Castle Bravo
Witness to my excess reaction
Panic over my grand illusions
Feel my uncontrolled radiation
Now as my fission turns to fusion
Then I see
Bones through flesh
Blowtorch on my face
I'm not calm no, I'm not serene
I'm the king of disaster
I'm a walking catastrophe
Just like Castle Bravo
All it takes is one mistake and
A bright flash
Fills the sky
Feel the heat
Don't forget
I shine bright on halcyon days
When I cannot
Contain my reaction
Oh well I am
A second Hiroshima
One mistake
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2. |
Prompt Critical
06:02
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Bad day at SL-1
One catalyst 'til reaction
What's left to control
How close? Prompt critical
Shit day at SL-1
One call, one decision
Neutron control
Steady hands, prompt critical
After I've had my meltdown
And you've scraped me off the floor
Bury me in a lead lined vault
So I won't contaminate you anymore
One last straw
One decision
How long 'til I break?
How long 'til I react?
One mistake is all it takes to break me
One moment is all it takes to lose control
One moment is all it takes and I'll remove control
Last day at SL-1
One quick malfunction
Release control
So long, prompt critical
After I've had my meltdown
And you've scraped me off the floor
Bury me in a lead lined vault
So I won't contaminate you anymore
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3. |
Demon Core
06:05
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Warm to the touch I am
Nothing goes as planned
My mind is never still
I am fissile material
Just one mistake will
Send me critical
Blue light blast of heat
Mental ill turns physical
Why do I have to be a nuclear cowboy?
Why'd I wake the sleeping dragon fuckin' with my demon core?
Now I've gone and done it well I guess that does it
I'm fucked
Rage and stupidity
Increase criticality
Be wise don't be close
I radiate an acute dose
Just one mistake will
Send me critical
Blue light blast of heat
Mental ill turns physical
Why do I have to be a nuclear cowboy?
Why'd I wake the sleeping dragon fuckin' with my demon core?
Now I've gone and done it well I guess that does it
I'm fucked
I have been a fool and lost control
Damned you to be bathed in my blue glow
My brain not my heart that's made of stone
Failure I could not leave it alone
I'm fucked
Oh why could I not leave it alone
Failure I could not leave it alone
I'm fucked
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4. |
The Noose
04:17
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Ignorant
Young man thinks
That the world is
Safe for him
Simple choice
A sure thing
Naivety
Does him in
Bought the rope
Did not know
It was a noose
Now I'll choke
Panicking
Fear sets in
Shelter erodes
Young man sinks
Bought the rope
Did not know
It was a noose
Now I'll choke
When I bought that rope
Oh I did not know
It was a noose I would wear
Around my neck
Bought the rope
Did not know
It was a noose
Now I'll choke
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5. |
Photon Sphere
03:22
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Came too close
Did not see
Relentless
Grip on me
I hopelessly
Chase my tail
Constantly
Struggling
Endlessly
Forever
At light speed
Time stops for me
Never sink
Never free
I'm trapped on the photon sphere
Cannot escape from here
Circling Endlessly
Feeling the gravity
Can't outrun
My abyss
No escaping
I am just
Surviving
Sisyphus had to keep pushing his boulder
I'll fly above my abyss and grow older
I'm trapped on the photon sphere
Cannot escape from here
Circling Endlessly
Feeling the gravity
Obliviously
Pulled in dragged deep
Can't break light speed
Einstein mocks me
I'm trapped on the photon sphere
Cannot escape from here
Circling Endlessly
Feeling the gravity
I'm fucked by this gravity
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6. |
Phantom Noises
02:56
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Phantom Noises
Auditory dread
Echoes in my head
Heard but cannot see
Sounds that panic me
Lay awake in bed
Sonically prompted
Cold sweat covers me
Hearing misery
Phantom Noises
Now I'm tormented
The silence is dead
Ghostly sounds haunt me
Erodes sanity
Searching I'm obsessed
Phantoms stay shrouded
All that's left for me
Painful memory
Phantom noises haunting me
I've been hearing the sound
I've been pacing round rooms
I've been pulling my hair
I've been tight in the chest
I've been fearing the noise
I've been biting my nails
I've been echoing dread
I've been holding my breath
Phantom Noises
Phantom noises haunting me
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7. |
I Drowned in Drips
05:34
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My crypt
My shame
I hear
The rain
Dripping
Leaking
Upwards
Creeping
Punished
Detained
Stuck with
This pain
Anger
Loathing
There's no mistaking
I'm not escaping
I drowned
In drips
Slowly
Surely
Water passed my feet it crept up without fail
With each inch it rose my coffin gained a nail
Survived
Breathing
Relief
Fleeting
Though the rain may cease
I still wait and weep
I drowned
In drips
Slowly
Surely
Water passed my knees it crept up without fail
With each inch it rose my coffin gained a nail
Water passed my neck it crept up without fail
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8. |
I Will Fail Again
09:46
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Each time I fail I may not rebound
Every fucking failure's sure to slowly wear me down
Each step I take only goes Planck's length
Progress costs half my life and my last ounce of strength
Learn to live with failure you may grow
But as years race by you may still have nothing to show
Pray for pleasure, learn to expect pain
Endure, sustain, suffer each day they all feel the same
With certainty time will flow
But success is never owed
Choose what's worth suffering for
Only one thing is for sure
I will fail again
Failure is needed it need not be fair
Does realisation outweigh the despair?
Dragging myself to the finish line
Should have dug a hole to lay in maybe save some time
Bleeding, sweating, chasing what I crave
What's the fucking point when we're all heading to the grave
Guess I don't learn
I'm just stubborn
Not sure why I try
With certainty time will flow
But success is never owed
Choose what's worth suffering for
Only one thing is for sure
I will fail again
Again
Time flows and I will fail again
Nothing is owed and I will fail again
Suffering for one more failure again
I am sure that I will fail again
I will drown
In a sea
Filled with tears
From my failures
Bury me
Fill my grave
Cover me
With my failures
I grow strong
But weary
Moving on
From each failure
I will fail again
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Lord Kinbote Perth, Australia
Lord Kinbote is based in Perth, Western Australia and stubbornly grinds away at songs day by day and note by
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Blending rock, metal, blues, grunge, doom and whatever else you feel you might be hearing, Lord Kinbote wishes for your ears to feel the same misery and panic that he does.
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