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The Devil and The Lion EP

by The Devil and The Lion

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1.
Intro 02:34
i used to love this town i used to pray with both feet on the ground i have reason to believe that reason doesn't mean a thing. we used to run around this town naked and carelessly that's how we made these friendships that's what made these friendships sink i don't give a damn what you think i don't care what you see cause i don't keep secrets and secrets don't stay with me
2.
pace yourself, you're tired body's gonna let go before you reach the end, you're dying peacefully peace is not how your church explained it losing your insides and drowning in it believe me when i say i won't let you die cause you don't deserve these places these people i've seen wait til i tell god about the shit you've been up to cause your lungs shake with the fear of what might really happen when you finally let go you sang softly and i sang harmony cause we're both gonna die real soon i saw lights flash in through the blinds i know your savior's coming i know your savior's here you knelt down, your knees sank in the floor my arms around your shoulders i followed you down the things i do for you your knees sank in, melted through the floor i followed you down
3.
Over the Sea 04:17
where does the movement start? i must confess i'm still waiting in the loneliest of parts and their shooting stares at me like i'm the enemy over the sea, who did you raise them to be. if my mind could beat, it'd beat steady with my heart it wouldn't give up well sometimes i don't feel like i have the right to where you around my neck if my neck was a stage then it would break with every wrong line i'd say and we'd collapse over and over again you picked me up like a stepped on seashell that once was beautiful i swear i'll find the most brilliant stars and i'll reel them in just for you and when the darkness begins to cave in i'll be standing on the edge of the world for you my god your eyes they got so quiet choking in silence children laughing at failures and attempts to reconnect to live again attempts to fight for something, attempts to see the end i swear i'll find the most brilliant stars and i'll reel them in just for you and when the darkness begins to cave in i'll be standing on the edge of the world for you my god
4.
a part of me that you seem to possess scares the shit out of me scares the beat right out of my chest my god i've really missed out she won't tell your secrets but she doesn't know as much as me i still know your reasons, your reasons metal on my skin where it don't belong i was born into addiction, i was born with a weak set of bones but i don't blame my father, he's a victim just like me i don't blame my father, he's the christian i could only dream to be they stay for the best part, when i wake up half conscious when i wake up half-alive you're the first thing on my mind how does my memory serve me where is my memory gonna take me cause i can't count mistakes but what good is the number when the number's digging my grave they remind me of the things that i'll never have the court systems reminds me of the things you'll never have
5.
Ghost 05:29
i saw a ghost today, who i seem to recognize through his eyes i saw everything his eyes had seen visions of children and war, things i'll never believe i saw his daughter today she had bruises wrapped around her body i kissed each spot i could find and i asked 'would you please forgive me?' i made him angry, made him go crazy i can see it in your body don't lie to me, i know the whole story when i came over your mom was weeping i could see each single tear was another lie i went to your room just to find you naked lying on your bed, motionless dead i made him angry, made him go crazy i can see it in your body don't lie to me, i know the whole story
6.
In the Dirt 05:23
i heard you died in your grave waiting for an escape from the ghost of that man who you were too afraid to save we keep our feet off the ground in case you're wondering i hold my head below surface to mute your screams cause i can't find any reason reason enough to fight for the good cause it's not the cause i don't trust i thought i forgot what you looked like i couldn't picture you in my head i never knew what you looked like you were just an image sleeping in my bed filled with grace she turned off my mechanical heart and i felt you for the first time and through god and through sin i saw where you live in the dirt with the roots and the worms tell me do you get lonely? tell me does it hurt? do you remember when i was your father when i told your secrets and you refused to love me
7.
when you look at me, what do you see? a child getting older, a man to be? when you look at me, what do you see? blessed food on my table? that'll never be you said i was made to inspire i can change lives if you change me wake up to my portrait, wake up to my face i could care less, i could care less. i read about your kind in magazines, read myself to sleep, your prayers aren't coming my way, that don't mean shit to me you're ripping my words from me, ripping the skin off of my bones, it's all i've got to live by, you're a thief stealing everything i own. you said i was made to inspire i can change lives if you change me wake up to my portrait, wake up to my face i could care less, i could care less.
8.
Blankets 04:08
eyes from the floor, we made memories last my eyes on the door, i saw explosion after explosion i'll explode into you ghost from the floor, they keep these memories alive ghost in the car, i still feel your presence it's reaching from these hands to god it's ok when i hear your cries echoing after mine i kept these sins alive for such a long time i had her blanket covering my eyes that was a sin in itself i had her body on my mind i hope you felt the change felt that wave like the devil on it's prey i felt the flame did you feel it to? lets take a drive through time clear the smoke and the fog and remember to pray before we crash this car this is the most we've got bloody pavement doesn't taste like life to me we've got to turn this around silence and a prayer sound good to me
9.
The Thief 04:32
faith and regret, i'm finding answers in your body i can feel god's presence in your skin fight for the wreckage, my body's wrecking into pieces but i swear my heart's intact if i make more mistakes than progress will you promise to let me know i don't have any room to make mistakes with you i've got my hands tied and i hope they stay tied, tied to you look into to my hands, show me where they've been you've been stealing my past since i met you a thief in my heart, taking everything i am or the bad things i used to be don't think for one second that i have lost my gaze every minute spent with you is a minute i refuse to look away it's ok that i'm making you cry as long as you're still safe on the inside so sing, please sing for me so sing, please sing for me

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The Devil and The Lion is:
Grayson Venters
Brandon Wilks
Matt Bundrick
Tyler Morris
Kerrick Breen

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released January 1, 2009

Grayson Venters - guitar/vox
Brandon Wilks - guitar
Kerrick Breen - guitar
Tyler Morris - bass
Michael McFadden - drums

All tracks Produced and Engineered by Nathan Hussey except tracks 1, 4 and 7 Engineered by Michael McFadden.

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