Chelsea Wolfe - Abyss [2015]

CARRION FLOWERS we learned how on our own never needing help from you reaching out with eyes closed we felt the light, it taught us to grow (hold, hold, hold on) creatures of habit, carrion flowers growing from repeated crimes the afterglow in full bloom slow and relentless, we’re after you hold on to the pain of love taken from you a plague (hold, hold, hold on)

Chelsea Wolfe: vocals Ben Chisholm: guitar, programming Mike Sullivan: guitar Dylan Fujioka: drums

IRON MOON a dead sun, a pale glow upon the walls I feign to know we bear no fruit, no flowers, no life and we get sick but never die become an echo resounding “let go” my heart is a tomb my heart is an empty room I’ve given it away I never want to see it again I go to him in paths of dreams in bed awake with shadow beings they crawl inside and wait with me the creatures here become machines walk with me to a place of trust death will no longer silence us my heart is a tomb my heart is an empty room I’ve given it away I never want to see it again and all your words could save me but keep your love away from me in all the worlds decaying is there place that’s safe for us? my heart is a tomb my heart is an empty room I’ve given it away I’ve swallowed the iron moon moon, moon

Music co-written by Karlos Rene Ayala Chelsea Wolfe: vocals Ben Chisholm: guitar, bass, keys Dylan Fujioka: drums Ezra Buchla: viola, vocals D.H. Phillips: lap steel

DRAGGED OUT baby, they don’t want you they only want to tear you apart they believe if they drink you they’ll be like you it’ll never end the drag will keep on coming dragged out in the weather dragged out in the madness dragged out in your loneliness sometimes I wanna lose my mind, lose myself sometimes I wanna lose my mind, lose myself to something to someone else won’t you take me down I’m so tired, I’m so tired dragged out in the weather dragged out in the madness dragged out in your loneliness

Chelsea Wolfe: vocals Ben Chisholm: guitar, bass, keys Dylan Fujioka: drums

MAW where are you where are you where are you where are you in the maw shattered teeth underneath a dripping tongue I’ve been waiting in this silence while you’re sleeping until you believe where are you where are you in the maw in a world so dirty intoxicated a life of tears in the maw a world in a daze none can be trusted in the mouth of the beast I’ve been waiting in this silence while you’re sleeping until you believe I’ve been waiting in this silence I’m on fire, I’m on fire

Chelsea Wolfe: guitar, vocals Ben Chisholm: keys Dylan Fujioka: drums Ezra Buchla: viola Mike Sullivan: guitar

GREY DAYS how many years have I been sleeping? nobody ever said I was alive why does everything feel so unnamed? the poison inside helps me along grey and holy you said it was the first time like the morphine you take it all away pretend it’s ok the grey days lost inside the River Styx I don’t know where to run no hunger, no fever, no loss, no wager could wake your mind how many years have I been sleeping? how many hours did I throw away? why does everything feel so unnamed? the poison inside helps me along grey and holy you said it was the first time like the morphine, you take it all away pretend it’s ok the grey days

Chelsea Wolfe: vocals Ben Chisholm: guitar, keys, bass, programming Dylan Fujioka: drums Ezra Buchla: viola Mike Sullivan: guitar

AFTER THE FALL nothing will keep us apart I said nothing will keep us apart I know that you’ll find me there after the fall I know that you’re waiting I know that you’ll find me there after the fall I know that you’re waiting ready to run chasing the sun I can’t wake up scream and run don’t let them win nothing will keep us apart I know that you’ll find me there after the fall I know that you’re waiting I know that you’ll find me there after the fall I know that you’re waiting ready to run chasing the sun I can’t wake up scream and run don’t let them win nothing will keep us apart go on, drive into the morning never give up never give in

Chelsea Wolfe: vocals Ben Chisholm: programming, keys, guitar, bass Dylan Fujioka: drums Ezra Buchla: viola

CRAZY LOVE crazy love, it’s not you I fear you let the devil in you hold him near crazy love, when did the war begin when will it end when will it end crazy love and I don’t want to live without you I don’t want to live without you crazy love, where is our home look at the place we’re in the hell we left it in can we forget ourselves can we forgive can we afford the years, my lovely friend crazy love I don’t want to live without you I don’t want to live without you I don’t want to live without you

Chelsea Wolfe: guitar, vocals Ben Chisholm: keys Ezra Buchla: viola

SIMPLE DEATH simple death feels infinite compared to the end of it all dark, dark world dangerous religion and all we have left to learn empty within, empty without surrounded and estranged sometimes I don’t know if I’ll find the answer or if I’ve ever asked the question some nights I know I’ll find the answer in silence I hear it cry lost and alone in confusion I’m screaming but I can’t wake up

sometimes I don’t know if I’ll find the answer or if I’ve ever asked the question some nights I know I’ll find the answer in silence I hear it cry lost and alone in confusion I’m screaming but I can’t wake up ..the end of the beauty of it all

we looked around and all was dead our rotting bodies so deeply in love empty within, empty without but a voice keeps on whispering: blue haze white light a desert storm midnight the roads become rivers the water starts to rise let me swim I’m so scared to find..

Chelsea Wolfe: vocals, guitar Ben Chisholm: keys Dylan Fujioka: drums Mike Sullivan: guitar

SURVIVE you said you won’t break my heart unless you do you said you won’t fall apart until the end did we travel all this way just to survive did you stay another day? we could survive all the sinners and the saints move in the same direction they walk in place until the end ramble on this barren place we call our home dreams of endless landscapes morphing, in love

Chelsea Wolfe: guitar, vocals Ben Chisholm: bass, keys Mike Sullivan: guitar Dylan Fujioka: drums

COLOR OF BLOOD a hunger never satisfied I can’t keep you off my mind dancing, moving, passing time lost worlds and endless nights I held you at a distance then so I could keep you sacred now I watched the veins under my skin moving, changing from blue to red those colors battle to repent fighting some kind of punishment for loving you the deathless tell me go on, stay low grow old and let your hair grow in sleep there is no sorrow slowly prolonging a cruel fate for loving you they hear everything they glow with their own light they sing out your name a thousand times a night generations of sadness inbred and under fire in a thousand languages a word for this desire for loving you

Music written by Jesse K. Phillips Chelsea Wolfe: guitar, bass, vocals Ben Chisholm: guitar Mike Sullivan: guitar Dylan Fujioka: drums

THE ABYSS watch your thoughts in the dark they’ll drag you down to the deep blue sea stare it down, the abyss run away, run away from it snuff it out at the wick run away, run away from it with broken hearts, how could we fear anything for a thousand years when I move it pulls me closer when I swim it drags me under when I dream it steals my wonder set me free from my slumber stare it down, the abyss run away, run away from it it hurts to love when I remember we were born unto chaos when I move it pulls me closer when I swim it drags me under when I dream it steals my wonder then sets me free from my slumber

Chelsea Wolfe: vocals, piano Ben Chisholm: guitar, keys, piano, programming Ezra Buchla: viola

CHELSEA WOLFE ABYSS // SARGENT HOUSE SH140 // Produced & recorded by John Congleton in Dallas, TX. Mastered by Alan Douches. Cover painting by Henrik Uldalen. Photographs & layout by Ben Chisholm.

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