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Greater Than This

by Etienne Carstens

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1.
hold on like you said you will keep feeding the vision take on an extra dimension bury yourself in beautiful faith until it all becomes real when the walls start to peel here we are chasing the mist the promise of something greater than this tear your heart out for me tear your heart out for me read through the bloody burns you're not done yet son not until the darkness is gone one of these days you'll be king you're destiny's last dream and fate will rest serene here we are claiming the crest a simple urge living greater than this tear your heart out for me tear your heart out for me tear your heart out for me tear your heart out for me
2.
low to the ground a small vibration starts and ears and eyes cannot behold earth ripped into bits black and red pulses through atop his throne a devil sits your lives are obsolete and sad perfect mutation of me and now here we are at last to start the next journey screams cut to silence no breath could be heard for one moment nothing was misplaced water rose with intent boiling and glowing red as the last words ever were said to have witnessed your existence was difficult to bear through yet I shall truthfully confess even I am not as evil as you
3.
Walking 04:28
close to home a shadow sprung reminded me of what went wrong his reach ignited set alight the eyes visions of me hardly fighting there was one at shadow's end who crept with hands swollen where's that man I once knew who's decree use to began this is the life that I'm walking into I will not rest because I'm still holding out for much more this is the light that I'm walking into it shows me how I am going to get to you close to home a shadow sprung reminded me of what went wrong his reach ignited set alight the eyes visions of me hardly fighting there was one at shadow's end who krept with hands swollen where's that man I once knew who's decree use to began this is the life that I'm walking into I will not rest because I'm still holding out for much more this is the light that I'm walking into it shows me how I am going to get to you
4.
The Basics 04:05
just back away give me a little room these emotions betray keep clear of me I need to be enveloped find my dignity this is is isn’t me this is a travesty this is isn’t me this is is isn’t me no sensibilty in this wake I have become a man who never sees a thing it should be me facing none learning again the basics in this rust I built my home a place to hold my tricks it should be me all alone getting to know the basics close the gap fast cut to the core filter through the trash dig on through fingers go cold when a face starts to show this is is isn’t me this is a malady this is isn’t me this is is isn’t me no humanity in this wake I have become a man who never sees a thing it should be me facing none learning again the basics in this rust I built my home a place to hold my tricks it should be me all alone getting to know the basics in this wake I have become a man who never sees a thing it should be me facing none learning again the basics in this rust I built my home a place to hold my tricks it should be me all alone getting to know the basics
5.
Labourer 02:35
6.
Destroy 03:58
a soft stare of sympathy silk tears so delicate a touch with rich melody to paint me less intricate with blood you study me pecking at me until I am raw got me bare and I can't flee that's when you sink in the claws it burns to think that this was all a ploy that I was nothing more a man you could destroy but here I am standing still looking back at you now how did you become so cruel that it's hurt you wish to sow and nothing makes more sense when searching for the truth that once you were prey to worse that made you into this wraith it hurts to think in pain's the only way that broken is where we fit a life for someone to destroy it burns it hurts
7.
Reality 04:00
tastes of dust in here are you alright you seem to slowly wither just lift your face I need you don't lose any more faith hush hush hush hush don't tell me to hush hush hush hush this reality is lost to me everything seems so heavenly this reality is wonderful downward in bliss I spiral where did you went distant and far who was your assailent think it is best if we help and play emotional chess rush rush rush rush don't you tell me to rush rush rush rush this reality is lost to me everything seems so heavenly this reality is wonderful downward in bliss I spiral
8.
Fall 04:51
one more step again I try to take but this body shakes it’s hard pressing on when you can’t look up knowing you will drop silence these wounds they chip away flesh can’t walk to this march silence these thoughts I can’t think anymore this body is raw I know my next fall will be my last and this body will erode in sand I know I will stumble once more that then I will be done with my war I've got no hold I'm starting to slip even with spit and whip all pass me by and I keep fading back breaking silence this heart let it lose its love turn me cold and tough silence this voice which aches and trembles calling for fumble I dream of a day I lay down to concede and not even crawl when the weights turn me into stone so that there's nothing to do but fall
9.
Purge 04:35
here the tomorrow child lies buried from defiance eyes rot in floods here we fell together once no truth or penance shades of shame some end I hope comes to poison air to the lungs some day I hope I live to see words a god would give I am the one to judge your lives I am the one who’s sent to choose I will be the father who decides I will purge your woes crawled out of comfort men of tethered men in legion curled in mutilation ripe with infection constant hell would we know it’s here would it rip sands to sheer would it breathe in the suffer to speak what so matters I am the doom you so very need I am the voice of your silenced heart I will free those off which you feed I will purge this Earth
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11.
Tore 03:57
I tore at the seam I'm left undone failing deception lived in your mind had it all to me a strange entity let me in I'll follow you home play to your metronome abuse me bend me torture me caress me love me worship me all of me for you you are everything to me I tore at the ribs can’t cage the will mutation critical inside the fight there's no resisting nothing to bring you own me never to be the same nothing close to vain deny me lure me insult me adore me hold me cherish me all of me for you you are everything to me
12.
Will I... 06:27
can you see me clear do you share this face or the body that I wear not to steal a moment merely hoping for a sign to cure me of this wonderment lately the days linger some never come to pass can't seem to get better did this man not find a tale to tell or live why did he get left behind I'm so tired and so weak so lonely I can scream so destined to be sick thinking what I could’ve been will I ever be enough will I survive this journey or should I lose this life just to set it free for reasons I don’t get it finally takes me in long after the game was played why did this mind not rest left rotting on the verge not one to call closest the plains grow hollow gust and dunes stare red giving me a one-man show it never gives up at all to paint me a drowned man that wallows in turmoil I'm so small and naive some footprint in the sand on each day I weave further into the damned will I ever shed this filth will I face my enemy or should I lose this life just to set it free
13.
Protector 04:05
I've been looking down on you you're so fragile so beautiful you never seemed to learn what lay inside beneath the fight rest now you're here with me rest now you're here with me I will share myself with you of earth you are no more come close hold on tight we'll sail away and just forget no more done with wait you're the only one I want to protect of all the places I could be I would choose here with moment rare so many dreams I had of you it ends right now oh what a show wake now you're here with me wake now you're here with me we will rise from sun and space to each other's warm embrace look up we are one our new lives have just begun here in stars you're kept you're the only one I want to protect come close hold on tight we'll sail away and just forget no more done with wait you're the only one I want to protect

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released February 10, 2016

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