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The abstract escape

by Lying Figures

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1.
Locked in a cell Cold as night Somewhere in the right side of my brain I count every drop of water Expelled from the faucet Lulled by the groans of my companions Of misery One thousand personalities Occupy every nook of my skull Today the first one is taken In the room of tortures A sinister room With a smell of sulfur Where throne the jaws of anxiety We place the unfortunate Under the press We turn the crank The chin between eyes We evacuate the corpse The second one is coming All the night long We empty my sick brain There is still a lot of people To eliminate Let in the following one Locked in a cell Cold as night Somewhere in the right side of my brain I count every drop of water Expelled from the faucet Lulled by the groans of my companions Of misery One thousand personalities Occupy every nook of my skull After 999 deaths I am the only one left behind Am I sane now? They opened my skull To see if there was somebody Am I sane now? I hear someone Knock at the door Of the right side Of my brain Am I sane now? Am I sane now? When would I leave this hospital Of 1000 deaths
2.
No eyes to see No mouth to cry (Where am I?) No ears to hear Death is coming (Who are you?) In an endless corridor Wheelchairs are dancing On a stabbing rythm Introduced by the song of starving ravens On the ground, the fragmented mirrors Reflecting pale gloomy lights Thrown onto the cracked walls Deformed shadows No eyes to see No mouth to cry (Where am I?) No ears to hear Death is coming (Who are you?) It's in this hospital That they tore my soul away The engineer sent his servants To make me discover ecstasy by blood Their claws of steel kiss my flesh And draw valleys on my body My tendons torn off I can't struggle any more Tormented soul I sink and drown myself In a darkness of horrifying hell Enjoyment in pain! No eyes to see No mouth to cry (Where am I?) No ears to hear Death is coming (Who are you?)
3.
Lost in empty spaces I try to find an exit Out of my brain A city of ghosts Surrounded by ruins Chaos in my mind Faded memories A dying past Which haunts my soul I can hear The sound of silence A horrible song for a dead spirit I'm not alone inside my head Am I mad? The mother of madness Feeds me with Milk of insanity The other me Is fighting me Can you see the thing in my room? An entity Raven-haired I see my eyes behind the mirror I'm lost in me Who am I? A subconscious war without victory I'm not alone inside my head Am I mad? Fight with your mind I'm the voice in your head Which leads you to kill When enemies are friends Who is the evil? I'm not alone inside my head Am I mad?
4.
The mirror 05:17
There's nothing behind the mirror Except a life of loneliness Take the hand of the devil And join my hell Locked in a crypt House of god over your head You're looking for the truth Based behind your machines Your rational mind Blinds your perception of the unreal There's nothing behind the mirror Except a life of loneliness Take the hand of the devil Rejoin my hell Roaches block the doors Soulless people oppress you There's no escape You can't back down Find the unconceivable Or you will be damned Drink the green seed Blood of the anti-god Contaminate yours Build an army A message from the future Floods their dreams Let me in your fleshless body And take control of your rotten soul The time has come I am the prince of darkness The master of lying figures I am the prince of darkness Cross through the mirror and join my hell
5.
Why you offered me to this world, which is not mine I don’t know why I still breathe I observe the void, infinity I’m searching for meaning in sterile ideas Which rot my brain and feed my despair I write a note on a torn piece of paper As a will which will benefit nobody I am a foreigner Among the saints A madman imprisoned into a pristine white cell Without doors or windows Something written on the wall As an ultimate enigma “There was a hole here, It’s gone now” I have nothing to leave, Madness an inheritance? No! This dear old friend will accompany me far beyond my death In my dreams, I cut out the tongue of innocents To keep them from flooding the world with their utopian ideas I am a foreigner Among the saints A madman imprisoned into a pristine white cell Without doors or windows Something written on the wall As an ultimate enigma “There was a hole here, It’s gone now” I Want the world to suffer as I suffered To remove any hope of right-minded people I want to stab myself in the eye To travel only in my thoughts I'm tired of flying behind falling stars To catch only useless dusts I dream about a world in flame Where the deafening sound of cries Will drown out that of mine Then the silence I am a foreigner Among the saints A madman imprisoned into a pristine white cell Without doors or windows Something written on the wall As an ultimate enigma “There was a hole here, It’s gone now” Dreams start to wither away But the papers will stay A river of ashes Flows into my veins And annihilates any reflection Where do my thoughts die ? Paper will imprison my memories I'll put it in the hole If I can find it...
6.
Waking up, trying to breath, no air. This place looks familiar to me Remembrance of a misted past flashing my mind, something's wrong Surrounded by shapes of nightmares. It's cold inside. They're watching me, they laugh at me In the corner of the room, they wait for any of my moves to judge Their distorted fingers pointing at me, they speak I can't hear them, prisoner of silence, reduced to nothing Yelling and screaming with no sound, headache tormenting me Weight of guilt is hard to handle, where is it from They know but they won't tell Unable to think, unable to remember My thoughts grow darker, I want to wake up Each breath is pain, I slowly suffocate They keep me alive, they want something I can't give They're all around me now, no more escape Their distorted fingers pointing at me, they speak I can't hear them, prisoner of silence, reduced to nothing Yelling and screaming with no sound, headache tormenting me Weight of guilt is hard to handle, where is it from A thing I can't hide anymore Must be admitted Crashing here with those demons I live with Each night since that day I try to forget This pain added to the others, I reach the edge of sanity It is time to accept, they come closer, Like friends and family, the shadows are devouring me No more fight, they drown me into the fire No need to struggle, guilt will soon be gone Pain washes me, I finally fall deeper (bis) They know but they won't tell Unable to think, unable to remember My thoughts grow darker, I want to wake up Each breath is pain, I slowly suffocate They keep me alive, they want something I can't give They're all around me now, no more escape
7.
The heart is frail  Filled with nails The lights goes down  Like they always do Remove the black, Supress the self The hands seems pale Can't hold the fail The lights goes down As they always do I want to feel How I used to feel Remove the black, Supress the self I want to feel How I used to feel I am the prisoner ( and the doors and the walls ) I am the warden ( and the boots and the sneers ) I am the lies ( Bitter and sour ) I am the thruth ( Bitter and pure ) Bitter and sour Bitter and pure I can hold if you hold I can try if you try What's left of me Can feel the lack What's left of you Has turned to black I want to feel How I used to feel I want to feel How I used to feel
8.
Zero 07:18
Give them the consumed landscape Give them the abstract escape Give them anything you want But give them something to want Take back the consumed landscape Take back the abstract escape Take back anything you want But is there something you want? The lonely crowd reaches out Selfishly for itself Shards of loneliness Tune in and drop out Prospectors of the new low Yearn for Zero Prospectors of the new low Crave for Zero The future never was The beauty is frail The colours fade away Isolation within the throng Have you heard of the burial of time? Discreetly running amok Like a silent Ragnarok Have you seen the great withering? Can’t seem to remember Is there anything I miss?

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The Abstract Escape, debut album 2017

1 - Hospital of 1000 deaths
2 - Tormented souls
3 - Monologue of a sick brain
4 - The mirror
5 - There was a hole here, it's gone now
6 - My special place
7 - Remove the black
8 - Zero

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released May 7, 2017

Recorded, Mixed & masterised between May 2016 and January 2017
By Pierre 'Gorgor' Schaffner at Studios de la Forge, Dombasle s/Meurthe, France

All Music and Lyrics by Lying Figures
Artwork by Cindy Roth / Matthieu Burgaud

Executive production by Rain Without End Records

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Lying Figures Nancy, France

Lying Figures is melodic death/doom from east of France.

Sometimes melodic, sometimes brutal but always heavy and oppressive, their music is inspired by tortured art as well in music, cinema or literature.

From Saturnus to Katatonia , from the band deploys a universe in which madness and melancholy are dancing together.
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