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SONS EP

by SALMIST

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1.
Tension 03:28
Strip the color from my eyes. Let me perceive nothing. Just silhouettes and twisted shapes. Sight is taxing through obstinate recollection. Pockets empty and sockets hollow. Common sense making profit. You borrow what you cannot keep. Such is life, among other things. Seems coin and conscience hold vitality at bay. Thousands die at that hand of one man's greed. Another hordes scraps and scriptures. Opposing his own Maker to manifest a miracle. An army seeks its identity. Hiding amongst four walls adorned in images. Yet the only one that matters is buried beneath the ribcage. Rejecting their own rejection. Searching for a key that allows admittance to room in which they already dwell. Lost alongside the masses. Watching and waiting for the dead. Self medicating the right with wrong. Deafened by constant ambiance and apathy. There is nothing silent about a scream unless it goes unanswered. Defeated by a lack of faith. Our fears will make us miss more than our mistakes. Dust unseen in a dark room. Get up from the floor you call comfort. Feel the bricks shatter in their place. Wind comes to consume your agony. Lifting your heavy heart and head. Walk from here anew. So bright is the future and the gold in the leaves. Fields of fascinations await the treader. Still covered in black night sky, a multitude arrives. Eyes like suns abiding in sin. Impossible existence awaits darkness amongst light. Yet still we convene, beholding each others scars. Accepting the void plastered to our skin. Speaking as if we are in the right. Eating pig shit to devour the hopes of inheritance. Knowledge of a home becomes a fleeting thought. Arms of a Father at arrival holds no value. For comprehension of oneself matches nothing. Love is empty. Hope is hopeless. Life is lifeless. This tension bears down upon my seams. Becoming torn and set apart. Through blood and teeth. I would rather stand in the ranks of pariahs than with the saved who only seek their own salvations. *Digital lyric booklet is included with Full Album purchase.
2.
Photograph 03:58
Through the black and white you try to hide. Mouth moving. Your words are scarce. Speak up. or must I strain to hear your voice as it fades. I guess it's what you wanted. This is what you wanted. Wanting. Waiting. Not enough. Remove this veil which traps my eyes. I'm screaming your name. How long til I am heard? Your precious face. The painting across the stars. I can't release them from right in front of me. Detours missing. Path is lost. Is this what I wanted? or was it you. The way you move. The echo I receive in my mind. Your heart extended from the frame. Built with integrity from the ground up. I know your foundation. Held in my hands. Beneath my feet. It shall not cease its function. Awake for days I wander this valley. The horizon is all wrong. I can not shape the sky. Nor bring ecstasy to their hearts. My lungs filled. I whisper. Take flight I implore. For bones are in process of breaking. and the heart is fracturing. What better way to enter than through the wounds. The virus. The antidote. Right and wrong. I speak what this is I feel. I'd paint it. Play upon a thousand instruments. Sing amongst the masses. Write upon walls and street signs. If only you could see it. That you are beautiful. My hand is empty, and my heart is full. Would you take this fool. Together, can we start something new. Found in the eyes of many. Ridiculous. But our love shall never fade nor cease nor dim. For in giving you receive. I am taken by you. Confined to a box of white borders. Wanting to break though. and grasp all I love. Holding dearly. I let go. You see me as you walk past. This is suffering. That which makes my day. The ghost hanging on your wall. Paused in the moment. I recollect. I see you dreaming. Reality is far from here. All that remains. Is in where you stand. Oh, memories are a minefield. *Digital lyric booklet is included with Full Album purchase.
3.
Burn 04:01
Once upon a time, these words were warmth. Blanketing my skin. Moving in and out of me, excited. Flames of a four letter word in my chest. It was yours, ironic. That flame shall now eradicate. Burn. All I once knew, severed. Ties chained to my heart's discontent. Wistfully fly away. Scorched tissue. Fabric of emotion. Ink on paper. A portion of you, manifested. upon my tangible reality. Now burns. Your words are ashes. In every sense of the word, meaningless. Memories. The poison in my veins, devour. Finding comfort amidst the thorns. Every rose hides its hurt. Why do I return to this place? Sadistic. The mind is my weapon of choice. Lingering on what once was, past. Where I have been. From your tongue fell such revelries and devotion, conditional. I found a four letter word to be. Holding its own weight in sand, falling. Through my hands. In the now. My eyes fixed in trance. Your words becoming ash, manifest. The burden upon me falls to the floor. My mind's ammunition is depleted. The plastic bag, once suffocating. Has left my neck before damage was done. Meaning to the meaningless. A four letter word is a scar, reminding. I am still here. Beauty surrounds evermore, free. As a bird some say. To fly, to soar to new heights. I let go. The definition of a four letter word. *Digital lyric booklet is included with Full Album purchase.
4.
Lifegiver 04:18
Today begins a war. Awake to the sound of impulse. Her thoughts erratic. Today a choice is to be made. Life or luxury. Cold sweat emissions. A repeated scream, a nine month mistake. Brought her before strangers in white. Intent to salvage a stunted potential. Despite the decadence of fear. Inescapable and relentless, its ploy. Leave him. A boy worthless, alone. Light faded before its time. Eyes held shut. Breathe in him a moment longer. Exhale an ending to vicarious existence. Life and death in unison, I inhale. Sin blankets his skin upon leaving the womb. The whore buried him before the birth. Outlined now, incandescent shame. Never to escape what was made. Abrasions litter a young frail body. Self discovery jots its signature across face and knees. Breaking locks in search of keys. Judgement stood the door at every late hour arrival. Hate became all he could do to salvage a smile. The hairs upon his head reflect the memories within. Outnumbered are the warm and bright. A heavy heart holds no right. His emotions are prone to preconceived notions of a better life. Thoughts of the beginning only begin another violent end. Rambling on in what-ifs and whys. Unbearable injustice. A walking plague. Deafening accusation spews. Threats like a noose to the throat. Sharp edged words bled the soul. As a diamond marks its twin, a heart cuts another. There is no return. Hatred and heresy left her at the stake. Home turns to ash. A mindless mistake. Can a man dig a grave so deep as to come out the other side? An escape. A thought to reconcile, to stay. Gazing the vast night dome over the earth. Dark skies breed dots of distant fire. Face in reflection over raging water. Bones broken carried in the wind. I wanna burn brighter, yet I have no flame. Pry with might the heart's gate. Open wide the arsenal. Give way to change. Down comes the walls. Life gave her. Life gave a child. A mess of misunderstandings and miracles. Two became a flesh now separate. How could I come from such disaster? Logic relishes in ratios and possibilities. Sight knows only itself. Faith fought the shadows. Hope remained inconsistently consistent. A concept with a glimpse of conviction. Truth buried in denial. Veil worn in rejection. A conscience ushers a patient proposal. I can't relinquish my hate. This truth is deceiving. Give me more then what I can see. If worth the pain, worth the life. If worth the grave, then worth the love. Given unaware of reason. Proof is in the breath. Every waking day is evidence of purpose. Regardless of its cause. An Author still writes though He knows the ending. Giving each character its necessity of progression. I'll take the time if you can wait for me. *Digital lyric booklet is included with Full Album purchase.
5.
Vagrant 04:04
A passive glance to no end. Single moments of arbitrary nature. An unforgiving fracture of fate. Grieved and belligerent. A blind boy stares. Inability to sense the urgency. Becoming a redundancy. A hill so small to conquer. Though it's slopes so steep to climb. Breath bears his failure. Lying a way out of every ditch that was ever dug. Belly up and lungs collapsing. Only quickening the grave. Losing sight to the shadows. A past so present in pain. She waits. At the end of every cautious corner. Figure disguised in pouring rain and rituals. Laments fall from facetious eyes. A blind boy fails. A kiss welcomes an end. Atriums fill with perpetual ambiance. Harkening seduction. Remedy shed over woven thread. Vice and victim sever reason from reality. Harsh descent of splinters. Beseeched by need for shelter. Forth to the darkest angles of obstruction. Guilt gestures to crooked frames. Fault forms a nauseous noose. Never again. Declared penance persuades atonement. Damned be his deliberate reclusion. As a river buried beneath abated bridges. A blind boy grieves. Sown seeds flourish as a fool gawks. A break in the bone proves its lesson. Vines of malice secure a stone. Blood for blood and home for home. Isolate a heart enraged and grown. Hate beckons a brother. Together well breed a war. A desolate mind becomes the sum. Ashes run with color. Love never backed down. Surrendered sides and severed ties. A bittersweet stained smile. Restless conclusions tangled within golden fields and blue skies. Torches speak of hope amid the smoke. A blind boy believes. Absent sight reciprocates with taunt. Desire to scorch the veil. False blame invites a light inside. Cleansing tide upon eternal slate. Depth knows not the start or end. Consciousness conforms to idle sleep. A wave convulsed in tidal wishing. Songs rise above outstretched claws. Brave and fading is a lost fear. Collision awaits a dream. Begin again. Aspiring beyond hue and tone. No rest unless a weakness shows. Open wide the eyes unknown. A blind boy sees. *Digital lyric booklet is included with Full Album purchase.
6.
Recover 05:00
Take every other instance away. The mockery and the mob. They desire me to be left for dead. To glorify their customs and reoccurring mistakes. I have many answers, but never the right one. A self guided journey to an endless failure. How do I cease a system that never sleeps? Doubt spits upon me. Guilt will destroy the crystal nature residing within my skin. I've done nothing to inherit your heart. Yet still you offer with an open hand. So what then? After seeing that I am just like the rest. Where does your love come from? How can you see and stay through all of this apathetic decay? By strike or silence I comprehend. Show me what I cannot see. This darkness is deep. I feel the split of the atom, and the cold debris in my chest. Thinly spread strength is all I have left. No flavor or sustenance. Just a means to an end. As of late, I find my conviction at the beginning of a shore. Starting my return to brave the open sea. Feeding off tasteless ideals that were once naive. Light hovers over the deep. A new found courage breathes into me. This was always going to be something I could never understand. By trial and error. Grace and death. I will come back clean. Ready to wait. Building my spirit to soar instead of sink. In faith I will seek. Finding you in every grave I dig. Knock down the caverns walls, for I cannot hide. Open wide your arms upon my conclusion. All in which I need is your attention. Here I am. *Digital lyric booklet is included with Full Album purchase.

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The "SONS" EP is an honest collection of poems, written in unique style and built with boldly simplistic music.

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released September 25, 2012

All Songs Written and Performed by SALMIST (Jacob Worthey)
Recording and Tracking by Nathan Worthey
Mastered by Jeff Hendrick
( www.facebook.com/JeffHendrickMusic )
Produced by Nathan Worthey, Jeff Hendrick, and Jacob Worthey

Featured vocals on "Lifegiver" by Kevin Gentry
(www.facebook.com/anchorage9)
Featured vocals on "Recover" by Hannah Gingrich
(www.facebook.com/HannahGingrichMusic)

Thanks // Jesus Christ, my foundation and friend / My family / Everyone who has stood by me without fail / Dan Smith, for the inspiration and spark / Walt Niccoli for studio space / Nathan Worthey, Jeff Hendrick, Hannah Gingrich, Kevin Gentry, and all who made this record possible / To the list of those who have made my life what it is, a longer list than I could ever type, I love you. //

SALMIST © 2012. All Rights Reserved. Do not copy or reproduce without explicit written consent. Unauthorized duplication punishable under Federal Law. Denver, CO 80204 www.SALMIST.com

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