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Semaphore

by Black Orchid Empire

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1.
Emissaries 00:53
An endless darkness Light steaks the void These are signals you send forth Your emissaries Laser thin beacons of understanding Hailing an uncaring universe Projected in hope to listeners unknown Your fiction Your power Your knowledge Your truth
2.
Singularity 02:52
The pull of the gravity well Spiralling decay No light can escape Silent descent is the Price we pay for life I can see it now Event horizon shroud Black on black on Silent sound There is a way out But it’s way down At the monster’s edge Time answers no one As it circles closer to hell I see the way out But it’s way down The questions we ask of ourselves Unwinding the time of death Our loved ones are lost Captured and bound like a Lie you won’t confess
3.
I know regret like a Friend I held to die I guess I’m cynical And now the wolves are in the Throne room standing by To burn the citadel You were young You never had a chance to Face the sun I hate whatever You’ve become But you should know I’ll never Leave here without you We are animals Slaves to change through Natural perfection Natural selection And now the light cuts out Cause we’re going down It’s unforgivable When the storm wakes up we better Learn to drown Become invisible I was young I never really learned to Bite my tongue And now the smoke will Fill my lungs You know I’ll never Leave here without you We are animals We can’t help holding on To life To life So say goodbye
4.
Motorcade 04:06
Watch them sleep the Cold voice in my head warns There’s no time left for death Just calm your heart Run the rat trap closing the distance Baring teeth you’re tasting the cage No one knows the truth like the victims Only the hangman will remain I’m the monster in your motorcade Watch the system shut down Carve out a constellation in your name Blood is thick on my mind Dance with me now Cut the quick I’ll take my time Slow you down I’m the monster in your motorcade Watch the system shut down Carve out a constellation in your name So sharpen your knives To cut me out I’m a shadow in the hurricane Watch the system shut down I’ll be the monster in your motorcade All the faces of my failure They come for me at night Darkness is a friend to me In silhouette against the light Sharpen your knives Cut me out Cut me out Yeah sharpen your knives To cut me out Cut me out Cut me out Sharpen your knives
5.
Red Waves 03:14
Now look me in the eye and say That you know Just what it takes to throw away What you own I’m like the modern age Made of stone You won’t like this I can bleed Out Cut me Down It’s just a life Try Your knife Now do you remember when I Lost my head? Karma coma that you Left for dead Now you’re hiding from the Skin you shed I got something that’ll Paint you red I will find you in the Undertow Gonna take my time But you’ll never know I’ll wait Watch you burn to nothing Red waves On the wire I’ll wait Watch you burn to nothing We all remain In the fire You’re nothing but a Pound of flesh That I own And I will make you Pay the debt That you owe I’m like a tidal wave Crashing home You won’t like this Look at me Now Till we Drown Into the night Take Your light Karma coma that you Left for dead I got something that’ll Paint you red
6.
Heliopause 01:05
7.
Try not to dream As we lay asleep I hope that we will wake up As the cold receives our signal Cause winter keeps us warm Frozen in her arms Climb inside our tomb We tripped the light too soon Death in the metal cage We will not decay Take in the novocaine As winter keeps us warm
8.
Dust 03:07
As we chase down the sky Oceans above and below I love you for the look in your eye Love you for the first time That this felt like home And I’ve got nothing left to give So help me cut it close to the edge Destruction as a strategy now Together we can race to the end To shut it down I hold you like the Fire at the death of a sun And I know that you’ll Stay until the damage is done Time is finite running down So just count it off Your hands, my hands Wrapped around the throat of death Fade in, phase out Until there’s nothing left but dust Nothing touches the skin Protected we rest in the snow And the garden begins We are fireflies Mist in the wind There’s no reason left to live I got nothing left to give
9.
Faces 03:24
Hey I wonder who made me this cage Synthetically burdened with pain I’ll find you here Entombed by invisible years Consumed with desire to Meet my maker Life died Inside the machine we will survive But how can you sleep All I see is Faces falling No one is born alive So face your calling Abandon the hive Freedom in flight No one is safe Who be will there when you fall Truth Awakens the weapon in you Betray the creator who Made your human eyes A prisoner by design Execute the routine as you Make your murder Through bright eyes With the gallows in sight The cycle will be undone
10.
Death from above Spread your wings All the secrets you held Wait to be found Now we fly Raptor in flight Raid your tomb See my future withheld Take to your grave Flesh my bones Thread me like a needle Programmed to repeat till We can die alone Interstellar angel Light years in the drift will Carry me home
11.
Evergreen 05:01
Death built it’s home On soil and sand Whilst you watch from silver skylines Nothing changes Past the pale Wash our tongues in acid rain Animals are silent now Hate the taste but Keep it down no more Hell is home Wounded raw Your garden grows Suffocating We are the blood In the machine But you are still evergreen Ashes to rust Drown us in kerosene But you are still evergreen We watched the rise Of dying stars Supplicating for your poison
12.
Monolith 03:06
Signals received By invitation Elimination Never felt so good Subject to my Known limitations You’re mine for the taking Obsolescence in my blood You feed the flood But you never lose control Like I can To have is not to hold So hold on tight When I’m alone In darkness and diamonds The secrets in hiding Remind me I’m alive Take your time
13.
Crash 03:13
Wish I could still hear your Voice through the door Now there’s sulphur in the water And my body won’t work any more It’s colder in here I can feel the ragged edges of the Steel where it touches the floor I guess the crash Was worse than the burn Dying is easy but the living hurts The air is crystalline light I see the colours in the spectrum As I watch my world reflect in the ice Won’t reach you in time Now I’m surrounded by the beauty Of the things that couldn’t save our lives And now I can’t reach your hand You’re slipping away But it’s all so beautiful I’m at the gate looking in I guess it could be worse But I never really learned how to swim I want you to know You are in my final thought When everything goes

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released June 12, 2020

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Black Orchid Empire London, UK

Black Orchid Empire create dense, powerful rock music that combines fearless complexity, aggressive heaviness and beautiful, hook-laden melody.

Having played alongside heavyweights such as Biffy Clyro, Editors and Skunk Anansie and with a dedicated, growing fanbase, Black Orchid Empire demand your attention.
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