Get all 4 The Black Flash releases available on Bandcamp and save 25%.
Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Remain in Darkness, Object Permanence, I Must Crush You, and The Black Flash.
1. |
Prelude
01:46
|
|||
2. |
Spinal Tourniquet
04:00
|
|||
|
Silver apparition
Chemical reaction
Protect the page from the light
As the world becomes clear
And evident to your eye
As the potions adhere
What was once
In your mind
Now you cradle
Between your fingers
Don't let this moment go by
Take action, freeze time
Before these images solidify
Take time to breathe
Anxious disposition
Terminal apprehension
I can relate, empathize
See the pain you disguise
Impermanent as we are
We become immortalized
What was once
In you mind
Now you cradle
Between your fingers
Panic blooms
And subsides
Take your shot
And freeze time
Capture with your photographer's eye
Only my good side
I'll hold this pose
If you'll dim the lights
My essence belied
Focus your lens one last time
Your subject beautified
Ignore the defects
Expose shadows and light
Again and again
|
||||
3. |
Remain in Darkness
05:35
|
|||
|
Silver apparition
Chemical reaction
Protect the page from the light
As the world becomes clear
And evident to your eye
As the potions adhere
What was once
In your mind
Now you cradle
Between your fingers
Don't let this moment go by
Take action, freeze time
Before these images solidify
Take time to breathe
Anxious disposition
Terminal apprehension
I can relate, empathize
See the pain you disguise
Impermanent as we are
We become immortalized
What was once
In you mind
Now you cradle
Between your fingers
Panic blooms
And subsides
Take your shot
And freeze time
Capture with your photographer's eye
Only my good side
I'll hold this pose
If you'll dim the lights
My essence belied
Focus your lens one last time
Your subject beautified
Ignore the defects
Expose shadows and light
Again and again
|
||||
4. |
Kentucky Christmas
03:56
|
|||
|
Where were the tastemakers
When you wanted someone new
Where were the hot knives
Where were the holes to crawl into
Where were we when this started
Who have we turned into
What were you looking for
In an empty hotel room
Turns out the vacancies
Were the things you couldn't do
Now when you're feeling this way
I'll keep an open mind
Life will beat you down
And wear you out
Blindsided
Where are the vampires
Now that our blood is turning blue
Where are the tourniquets
For the spines we never use
What becomes of our hearts now
They've got nothing to do
What are you wearing
Now that your skin is showing through
Woke on a landslide
Nursing your temporary wounds
Hang up your hangups
And I'll do just the same with mine
Life will beat you down
And wear you out
Blindsided
You are still a fixture in my mind
Though you're not so easily defined
I've no choice, accept your command
If I do, will you take my hand
Am I misinterpreting the program
Is it impossible to understand
Wasting my time
Down on my knees
I submit to every last demand
So what will it be
|
||||
5. |
||||
|
Feeling strange
Too many symptoms to explain
I'm such a selfish guy
If you're in pain
So am I
I've done wrong
And waited far too long
Ingest your remedy
And feel the same either way
Faith healer
Dope dealer
I've been too shy to speak my mind
I've been too nervous
I've been apprehensive
I think about potential lives
And the mind wanders further
If I let it
And I let it
Faith healer
Dope dealer
When I think about the life I left behind
Have I been misguided
Wool over my eyes
Growing up lonely
She saved up to say goodbye
Baby got lucky
Got paid on her maiden flight
Time's been kind to that child
But it's never enough
She'll weather any old storm
If you treat her right
She belongs not to the world
But to golden light
Empires fall at her sight
But it's never enough
Savor each opportunity to reunite
All of the moments
You lingered and realized
She represents all you're denied
Is it ever enough
Swallowed a lie
My own supply
Believed that I need to find
Overabundant delight
To do what I like
Forget what is right
Justify, rationalize
Take what I need to get by
Eyes on the prize
Prioritize
Faith healer, dope dealer tried
Nothing but her gets me high
|
||||
6. |
Victim of the Century
06:37
|
|||
|
When will your fantasies end
When will you learn
The closer you inch toward flame
The hotter you'll burn
Leave your excuses
And your misdeeds at the door
One way or another
There'll be blood on the floor
An end to vanity
An end to war
To rid this disease
Make your amends
Or get down on your knees
Pack up your things
Say your goodbyes
And make your peace
Do this in remembrance
Of all you've passed over
For where your feet fall
Your legacy follows
As sure as the shit
That stays stuck under your toes
As sure as the lipstick stains
All over your clothes
You'll be her martyr
She may love you even more
There's only this one small thing
That gets to me
Victim of the century
Victim of the century
Your mantra is, it wasn't me
Convince yourself, condemn the rest
Your problem now, there's no one left
Victim of the century
Victim of the century
Your fantasy is collapsing
Your whole life was a fallacy
Your problem now, there's no one left
To blame for it
You beg and plead for it
Get on your knees for it
Offer your life
Beg for it
Beg
|
||||
7. |
Moral Objectivism
04:37
|
|||
|
I entangle my obsessions with themselves
An intangible knot
For some future version of me to unravel
And I'm sure I'll miss the point entirely
I don't like to feel like I've lost control
I don't like the thought of letting anything go
But when I find myself a heart of ice
And squeeze tight
I know I'm only gonna melt it
These are the deluded ravings
Of a man in thrall
I am an open book so loosely bound
That the pages leave a trail behind me
As they fall
And so I offer only
Take what you want from me
And I still fear the day
That your love walks away
I never intend to make
A mess of things that comfort me
I never believe
That I could fuck it up so expertly
But I'm still the same guy
That I was the last time
When I crossed the wrong line
Made a choice to define
My self-esteem upon a lie
I don't like it looking like I look back at all
I don't like to think the things I think about
Are impossible
But it's always something
Never leads to nothing
Never becomes what I had in mind
But maybe that's alright
These are the warnings
I should have given myself months ago
The holes in the plot
That I could never reconcile
Nor rationalize
As though they meant anything at all
Just be patient with me
Ease my anxieties
So I won't be afraid
When your love walks away
May you have everything that you need
May your dreams become reality
Be authentic, sophisticated
Be elusive
Be elevated
Hard to say what's on your mind
So it's easier to lie
Maybe that's the bottom line
Crossed again and again
When do you stop this
When does it end
Enigmatic
Stay complicated
Unencumbered
Be liberated
Bind your hands to the wheel
And let nothing more
Slow you down
Give no warning
But be the storm on the sea
See yourself
Strong as I do
And let no man
Weaken you
Your existence
Makes something greater of me
You've the right to
Never speak apologies
Believe only
Nothing you do is in vain
Maybe that's the bottom line
Believe only
Nothing you do is in vain
Be forever
One who makes the tiger tame
|
||||
8. |
Thirst
03:58
|
|||
|
Faced with uncertainty
When no one knows for sure
All of these outcomes are possible
All of these worlds can be yours
Lies
You promised us change
But it's never enough
Stare right down the barrel
You taught us to run from
Dumb luck brought us this far
And now it's fucking all that we've got
Take the shot
Faced with the gravest threat
You and yours have ever known
Take what you want, never satisfied
Take all you need, there's enough
Thirst
The deepest of oceans
Could not fill your cup
Flee, free from the justice
You taught us to count on
Distrust, blame us
I hate to say it
But each other's all that we've got
Too much tendency
To place the onus
On that which you
Cannot even see
Do what you want with me
Silver tongue
Velvet glove
It's all done
Blame society
Do what you want with me
Do what you want with me
Now you're handing out a thing
That was never yours to give away
All our patience running out, now
While you're begging us to stay
Deaf, blind, idiotic
Slaves to the paradigm are we
Thirst
The deepest of oceans
Could not fill your cup
Flee, free from the justice
You taught us to count on
Dumb luck
I hate to say it
But each other's all that we've got
|
||||
9. |
Brush Fire
04:13
|
|||
|
Shall this be our eulogy
Optimistic threnody
I disengage
From that type of sophistry
I rearrange
And revisit internally
Send your page
Deliver these missives to me
Read aloud
Enriched by your pedigree
Finally
You count in time with me
Just as we've agreed to disagree
Save your third degree
For the withering
And corroded leaves
Of your family tree
Steel yourself
Betrayed by your blissful countenance
Decomposed
Was never a way to live
Realize
I'll never discern this precedence
All the same, I'll give it a try
Ornamental effigy
Carbon-based anatomy
I'm unconcerned by the optics anyway
Do what you will
With my blunt duplicity
Plant your gaze
On somebody else's greenery
Set ablaze
The brush that you've overgrown
Finally
You see the enemy
Just as real
As your envisioning
You have made your case
I'm no longer fazed
Rules we've disengaged
Written on your face
Free myself
From all the beleaguered anguish
And just embrace
All of the uncertainty
Recognize
Although it disheartens to no end
These are just delusions of mine
|
||||
10. |
A Smarter Home
05:36
|
|||
|
This is how the universe ends
Heat death, erase
And let all the animals
Sleep forever in equilibrium
Interchange
Yesterday
And tomorrow
But today
Silence your screams
And save your breath
A smarter home
In tune with your death rattle
The modern-day equivalent of value
Is settling for lesser things
As what you need
Burns around you
The last umbilical shrine
Decays and wastes away
Starless unsettling night
Gravity waves penetrate
To douse this flame
And end the impractical mind
It's had its time
Silence your screams
And save your breath for the blind
Passage of time
Night eternal
Cold immortal
Heat death erase
Atoms displace
|
||||
The Black Flash Portland, Oregon
Progressive rock/metal from Portland, OR
If you like The Black Flash, you may also like:
supported by 4 fans who also own “Remain in Darkness”
An awesome musical journey to lose yourself in
go to album
supported by 4 fans who also own “Remain in Darkness”
The entire album draws me in and allows my mind to wonder of at the same time.
go to album
Throwing mathcore, emo, and ambient into the mix, Estonia's Kaschalot push progressive rock's multitasking approach to its limits.
go to album
The Long Island metal band's third album etches arena-sized hooks into their jagged compositions, deftly balancing experimental and poppy inclinations.
go to album
Blue Record (Deluxe Version)
by Baroness
featured on Bandcamp Radio Sep 15, 2023
go to album
featured on Bandcamp Radio Sep 15, 2023
go to album
featured on Bandcamp Radio Nov 12, 2013
go to album
