Bitter Wisdom, by Living Monstrosity

Bitter Wisdom

by Living Monstrosity

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1.	Every Worthless Second 04:49	lyrics
Time I'll never have again Effort; on worthless seconds spent love abundant fades away Life; a resource left to waste I see now your offering was rotten from the start One day you'll fucking choke on lungs black as your heart Years I never will have have back Scour, erase and rot to black Memories, now worthless, snap to dust Scorned, is faith once held in trust Precious time, hopes and dreams, squandered to abyss An aeon black inside your grasp, now loathe to reminisce I see now your offering was rotten from the start One day you'll fucking choke on lungs black as your heart Can't take back Can't return So don't waste the coming years
2.	L'appel Du Vide 05:03	lyrics
I wake as if from dream The precipice before me Concrete water below The void is calling for me The ones who jumped realised half way down That things weren't as bad as they seemed They never needed to drown The overpass at speed A momentary vision Of my self thrashed to dust Free from this freezing prison The pull of wretched black depths Encased in layers of silt A snap of the finger, resigned to dust Embrace the peace of oblivion "I cannot go on My energy lost Forging ahead is impossible Each day it grows worse I must heed the call And plummet myself to oblivion..." Never give up Reach out and touch Cling to the life gifted to you Reach out for help Hold on to hope Shun thoughts of darkness that cloud you A momentary lapse A glimpse into darkness File it away for some other time and retreat from the precipice Ignore the call Ignore the call of the void Do not fall Silence and rise above Fight for your life Fight for your life and stand tall Just ignore Forge through it all Don't give up Forge on!
3.	As Her Cancer Blackens The Earth 08:13	lyrics
No obligation to offer shelter Yet you were taken in and made to feel welcome Hopeless, lost and scared, desperate and alone A naive heart, took you in and gave you home And then all was ruin Then all was death As a vicious tumor Throughout life you spread Toxic now the soil All roots left to decay The fruit of labours spoil In the grip of your wretched plague We were so blind Deaf to your kind For where you go Death follows you Your cancer cold and black Infested branches crack Discoloration boils No growth from tainted soil Blood pours from open wounds By decay now consumed Our love straight to the grave Dead wood now burns away Never to return All traces of you burn Now that you are gone away Free to grow free to be free Carved out, root and stem Transgressions now condemned Conviction strong as oak The fires of truth are stoked Your deceit etched in wood Foul intention understood No remorse, no shame; no doubt Sever and cast you out Never to return All traces of you burn Now that you are gone away Free to grow free to be free The horizon seemed so daunting without you Grounded by my fear, cold and alone The loss of what I thought was a companion Just to learn you were a parasite all along... Hours wasted waiting for a death That would never come Can't be undone All of the life I never lived Because your infection was crippling All of our labour All of our toil Cast aside in the dark And left to spoil Relying on trust From someone desperate and lost A foolish mistake Mistake I'll never make again Hours wasted waiting for a death That would never come Can't be undone All of the life I never lived Because your infection was crippling I will labour And I will toil To create a life that will never spoil Feeding you pity And taking you in A worthless mistake I will never make again!
4.	An Awakening... 01:16	lyrics
(Instrumental)
5.	...To Seek The Burning Sun 03:25	lyrics
Realise Realign Find your purpose Live your life To the forest, through clear air, lets run In desperate, relentless pursuit of the sun So long in darkness, will to live slipped by Pursuit of freedom, life is do or die Here under blue sky make the most of your time Race towards nature and leave worry behind Do not let darkness claw and grasp for control Embrace the burning sun and scorch clean the soul Behold the water as it mirrors the sky So much to see before the time comes to die The world is waiting so don't let life be done Leave behind darkness and be scorched by the sun And... Realise Realign Find your purpose Live your life. So many hours lost to grief and despair No hands to help from others, heartless to care Descending deeper into darkness alone Weight of the mind heavier now than stone Seek out the wilderness Run to the sea Scale the mountains Clean air lets breathe Retreat to the forest In shade now bathe And relish the light Into the dark don't stray Banish the misery And forget the days When it felt like life Was slipping away Conquer your bitterness set yourself free And may all this wisdom let you live your life again!
6.	Shifting Seasons 04:51
7.	In The Guise Of Winter 05:14	lyrics
Bury all that you are under a fraudulent blanket of innocent white Hiding your true colours, posing as warmth, encased in blankets of ice Winter, blankets your soul Winter, black as your soul All of your blood red flags, warning signs covered They were obscured out of sight The bitter warmth of the sun (now) melting your callous walls and revealing your spite. Worthless melting snow Water scours the land Revelation far too late Exposing death and dirt And as the sun thaws, divulged are your true colours Acres of sodden, infertile ground A bloated cancerous form Just like you Never again! The wretched frost of your grasp The naive victims you trapped We see you for all that you are You're merely the scum that gathers and waits, obscured by fresh snow fall. Shatter! Your winter comes to and end as you thaw. Die. Thaw. Die
8.	Annihilation 05:06	lyrics
Annihilate all the worthless memories Annihilate the naive man I used to be I thank you for this gift of obliteration Destroy my innocence and flay from me my hope Prepare me for a colder world Reveal your true self, show me the horrors of this earth I thank you for this gift of obliteration Destroy my innocence and flay from me my hope Now decimate this belief in honesty All trust has been shattered, forging alone I am set free Forced to grow callous to be free For steel hearts will never bleed Through these veins a new life flows Not lived for others, it's my own Strength to survive Horror inflicted upon life And with your cancer carved away All the past mistakes I annihilate Obliterate all of the worthless memories Obliterate the naive man I used to be As I forge on remove my pity As I on forge I will annihilate
9.	You Failed Me 08:08	lyrics
You are so callous and so lost Selfish to the point of disgust You fucking failed me In letting you I failed myself Never again! You tell me from death you were saved By my being there along the way For me it was the opposite You drove me further to decay Absent, your so called empathy And yet you demand it from me Punished again for suffering grief Yet deceivers are left in peace Your heart is black In darkness trapped Lost in a void with little hope of coming back Harsh lessons learned, the truth now known A bitter path walked to find home Let down and beaten all the way As death walks free, all trust betrayed Support from weakened branch, decay Hands (held) out for help beaten away No trust in worthless soothing words When only self interest is served Absent, your so called empathy And yet you demand it from me Callous dismissal, selfish greed The flower of your heartless breed My heart is black In darkness trapped Lost in a void with little hope of coming back This die-back turns the soul to ash An ecosystem set to crash Discoloured gall which strangles hard A twisted burl, eternal scar Your callous spite stunts growth in me All faith in love and trust betrayed I revert back and lose my leaves Starving and lost, a lone dead tree
10.	Bitter Wisdom 12:27	lyrics
I refuse to die! I will survive! I refuse to die! I will survive! How selfish one's succeed Cater only, for their own needs And how the callous reap Sowing only their own seeds These heartless bastards Who let guilty ones walk free Punish the innocent To better serve their needs Set myself free With bitter wisdom A stronger self Carved from hard lessons My soul you won't repress My life you wont dictate I will decide myself Live my own fucking way! - ian take your time and recover well forge alone, reconnect with your life Love yourself more than anyone else For no one will love you as much as they love themselves Time is finite time is precious Don't allow anyone to waste it Live your life for yourself Don't live it for anyone fucking else! I refuse to die! I will survive! I refuse to die! I will survive! I refuse to die! I will survive! I refuse to die! I will survive! Steel heart, in iron cast All trust lost to the past Wounds are lessons; scars that last Wisdom from bitterness! A Place so low One way to go Give yourself hope Build a new home Grow your forest and seed it well Bitter walls keep danger out Use your wisdom to heal and protect Claim your freedom, allow your soul to rest Don't exhaust your life Don't waste your time Don't lose your mind Now is not the time to die Let's go to the forest...

credits

released October 11, 2019

Thomas Hubball - Guitar, Drums, Vocals
Dane Pavitt - Guitar Vocals
Nathan Meigh - Bass Vocals
Mike Foxall - Guitar

Guitars recorded by Thomas Hubball

Drums, Vocals, Mixing, Mastering by Tom Carter @ Riff Factory
(ww.rifffactory.co.uk / facebook.com/RiffFactoryUK)

Guest Vocals on Track 10 by Ian D.G. Bennett (ex-Vulgore)

Photography by Thomas Hubball
Graphic Design and Logo by Dane Pavitt

All Music written by Living Monstrosity
All Lyrics written by Thomas Hubball

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Living Monstrosity Stoke On Trent, UK

Living Monstrosity is an extreme metal band, based in Stoke-On-Trent. They have released three albums and several extended plays since 2014.

Current Line Up:

Thomas Hubball