Walking Into the Wind, by Dead on Both Shoulders

Walking Into the Wind

by Dead on Both Shoulders

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9 tracks, 42 minutes, this album took four years to see the light of day in its current (and final) form. Plus you get yourself a nifty little digital booklet I cooked up, along with guitar and bass tabs for "With Your Help"

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1.	With Your Help 05:38	lyrics	buy track
I set afoot inside this maze This life within itself unreal I can hardly believe my eyes At the chaos I see in this place I will take myself down With your help, I will plunge I am the one who watches But who is the one who sees? Am I blind to what's around me? Or am I blind within myself? These fire-resistant bridges Burning holes inside my brain Collapsing over all that could have been And now I am led astray Will I ever reclaim myself? Let's uncover what might be concealed
2.	The Right Choice 06:12	lyrics	buy track
Seems like eons ago The purely incidental crossing of our paths Oh, how we've come from there In stride, tongue tied, do we dare? Stop and think - is this what you want? Shall we weigh the options, give it some more thought? Of course, this is the right choice No wrong to be found here It just takes a little time On a spiral staircase Is this merely a world of black and white? Is it too late to be stumbling through the details? And yet, here we are, again behind the bars of indecision We now have to recalculate In stride, tongue tied, do we dare? Of course, this is the better choice What were you thinking? We all have our lapses, just sleep knowing you got it right this time
3.	Intervene 01:30		buy track
4.	Always Living, Never Awake 05:17	lyrics	buy track
Uphill both ways only goes so far Gravity will have its time And what a time it will be When you can no longer skate around it Denial - A necessary evil All's well that ends well And for the rocky middle? Pray there's no fork in the road Don't thnk and don't choose Don't act or emote Lend yourself a cold shoulder So that you might have two Your threshold is limitless As is your capacity to ignore Always living, never awake Do not think, do not act Ignorance is the absence of fear But it just takes one piece of the puzzle To slaughter what had been bliss Who will open your eyes? Will anyone have the courage To wage war on your shield of indifference? Gravity will have its way Wait for the fork in the road
5.	To Follow 03:20	lyrics	buy track
I ask you to realize what you are doing I ask you to realize what you're doing to yourself Feel around and try to find the greater importance Slowly being awoken to what is truly happening here I will regain focus Find the greater importance Lest you fall Do I allow myself to follow? I pull away from this constant indecision Both sides untrue I stray from my system of thought To tell myself it has not changed
6.	What We Hold Dear 06:26	lyrics	buy track
Exploding into the very thing I have dreaded To the point where I can no longer maintain control The ever-changing rhythm of what we hold dear Beats around our minds 'til we're bleeding in the brain Sure, self-sacrifice is a given in this case But how many bouts until we call game? Discretion is escaping me now I'm flat on my face and I cannot see the water I've slowly been climbing down, but now I've lost my grip And I plunge Self-sacrifice is a given in this case But how many more bouts can I take? Exploding into the very thing I have dreaded To the point where I can no longer maintain control Do I have what it takes to keep up with what surrounds me? Stoical, I must be, to ensure that we don't lose it All these days I've spent unknowing That the past is bound to repeat itself All these hours I've spent cogitating If this keeps up, this stoical face will fail You have died Hours pass, you're alive, and I can't believe my eyes Discretion escapes me now, my vision is blurred beyond reason I can't do this any longer and now I am Exploding into the very thing we have dreaded A masterpiece A caucophony A masterpiece Swallowing the dissonance that this will bear
7.	Discrepancies 06:21	lyrics	buy track
Is time dwindling away? Or have we yet to begin? The time has come for me To be pulled away The dead can only wait But I will not return And I can only wait Objective in this space Cleanse my thoughts Restore a sense of rationality Forget What was; forget what could have been The discrepancies between the reality and the dream I've finally caught myself Denial will no longer reign Now that I can see myself I know what this can be I look at where I've come from And I'm leaving it behind Discrepancies will haunt me I will not be sent to where I was It's time to swallow my notion of unthinkable The dead can only wait But I will not return And I can only wait Objective in this space
8.	The Secret Intensity of Everyday Life 06:47	lyrics	buy track
Why has this come to an end? How is it that this has come to be? This mental freedom's being taken from me As what I had just escaped crashes back down It's always worse when you've just woken up When you touch ground, i doubt you will like what you see Leave me here I cannot stand to watch the clock The seconds going slower and faster all the same Now that I'm back on my feet, I can't help but sit down Since we can only save one, who will it be? The secret intensity of everyday life is catching up with me As much as I'd hate to thank you It's not because I think you're wrong And who's to say you'd want to hear it anyway? Leave me here I cannot stand to be surrounded By all the ones who passed through my mind And though it was a short time It decided what will become of this Now we must think, and we will choose It's time to act, and we will emote "How fast we grow" is what they say But we will be the judge of that And though we may never speak again And though I might be sorry for what I did And while I was there for your dying day If we do speak again, it's no love, no hate
9.	Diverge 01:07		buy track

about

Part one of a two-album-long series, this record is the release of a variety of feelings and circumstances. Fear, doubt, self-loathing, friendships and relationships going sour; from an in-the-moment perspective (save for the opener, "With Your Help," which serves as the protagonist's mental recollection of the events, inviting himself to jump back in).

This album was originally released on 29 January 2013, but with updated production and redone vocals, has been re-released on 27 December 2013.

credits

released December 27, 2013

Tristan Zemtseff - lead and rhythm guitars, bass, drums, engineering, mixing, mastering, composition, lyrics, artwork
John Henry Levin - additional composition
Austin Ramsey - additional engineering and production