1. |
Great Dead Heart
04:50
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2. |
Remnants
03:48
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I have a head full of horror
With no way of switching off
Still don’t have to look hard for
The urge to destroy myself
When that urge washes over me
I look in the mirror and tell myself
“You’re not a kid no more.”
But the kid just stares right back
Wondering still
Why nothing’s ever changed
I wear a coat that’s constructed
Out of other people’s words
That’s why the weight crushes me down
As the words keep changing
This ridiculous story
A life to be endured
Until the pages are empty
And the words are all scratched out
The memories attached to me like strings
Or veins running deep in the soil
Connecting all the trees
The remnants of who I used to be
Wondering still
Why nothing’s ever changed
Wondering still
Why nothing ever changed
Nothing seems to change
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3. |
Backsliding Animal
05:48
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Never try enough
Once my efforts disappoint
So desperate to turn
But I know I’m all talk
And if the choices change
That comforting hurt
Is the easier path
For a sinner to walk
I’m a backsliding animal
Always succeeding at failure
I’m a backsliding animal
Always succeeding at failure
I’m a backsliding animal
Always succeeding at failure
I only tell you what you want to hear
Got my alibis
And excuses all packed
Uncomfortable truths
Scheduled to cause setbacks
But I did not lie
I’ve never meant it more
This flesh is just weak
And we all know the score
I’m a backsliding animal
Always succeeding at failure
I’m a backsliding animal
Always succeeding at failure
I’m a backsliding animal
Always succeeding at failure
I only tell you what you want to hear
I’m a backsliding animal
Always succeeding at failure
I’m a backsliding animal
Always succeeding at failure
I’m a backsliding animal
Always succeeding at failure
I only tell you what you want to hear
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4. |
Adrift In
04:50
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Every morning got to get the fire up
Or write yourself another way out
Run for comfort while adrift in dead hours
And hoping for another way out
Every morning got to get the fire up
Or write yourself another way out
Run for comfort while adrift in dead hours
And hoping for another way out
Deafening howls
This is your home
A heart proves out
Rampaging soul
Twisting the words
The luck runs out
A blasphemy
Whispered about
Deafening howls
This is your home
A heart proves out
Rampaging soul
Twisting the words
The luck runs out
A blasphemy
Whispered about
The wasteful lie
Is wasting your tears
Can't wash your skin
Of each terrible year
Over old wounds
Water runs all the same
Haunted by voicemails
That you can’t erase
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5. |
Disentangle
05:56
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Don’t wanna make waves
But I can’t keep still
Can’t control myself
I just want to stop
Can’t rid myself of
These obsessive thoughts
You watch me flailing
Hear me murmuring
I know how it looks
If I could, I would
Unknot myself
Disentangle
Unknot myself
Think my way out
How could it ever work?
Can’t see a way out
Stuck inside these hurts
Dangling on the edge
But I can’t let go
Every nerve and cell
Always focused on
My body flailing
My thoughts murmuring
I know how it looks
And if I could I would
Unknot myself
Disentangle
Unknot myself
Think my way out
How would it ever work?
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6. |
Phantom Settlement
03:57
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In the end there was enough
In the end that’s all it was
In the end we’d had enough
In the end they’re all we want
All the things that never ever were
All the things that never ever were
Paper towns and paper crowns
And days that never happened
Places that we never went
Hours which we never spent
In the end that’s all it was
In the end that’s all we want
In the end you’ve had enough
In the end it never really mattered
All the things that never ever were
All the things that never ever were
This never happened
This never happened
This never happened
This never happened
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7. |
Paroxysm
04:15
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I ran out of space
For confessions
And admissions
The end of this note
Becomes a blur
It’s easy to read
As a desperate cry for help
But truth be told
I’m just letting go
I am resolved
I am committed
I made my choice
I chose my method
I am resolved
I am committed
I made my choice
I chose my method
I don’t have the strength
To continue
And I’m sorry
But living for others
Wears you down
I ran out of better
Tomorrows
Now each new day
Is just a repeat of yesterday
I’ve always known
This would be the death of me
I’ve always known
This would be the death of me
I’ve always known
This would be the death of me
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8. |
Ear To The Wall
03:54
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I never wanted it at all
I never wanted to before
Now all I’ve heard
Is from the other side
I never wanted it at all
I never wanted to before
Now all I’ve heard
Is from the other side
I never understood at all
I never recognised before
But now I know
It’s on the other side
I never understood at all
I never recognised before
But now I know
It’s on the other side
Ear to the wall
I heard you
Lift the body
I’ve got money
Live to be
Half somebody
Up your game
Burn that money
Hateful, awful
Take back in you
Hide the body
I’ve got money
I never wanted it at all
I never wanted to before
Now all I’ve heard
Is from the other side
I never understood at all
I never recognised before
But now I know
It’s on the other side
Ear to the wall
I heard you
Lift the body
I’ve got money
Live to be
Half somebody
Up your game
Burn that money
Hateful, awful
Take back in you
Hide the body
I’ve got money
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9. |
The Fountain
04:26
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Throat
Gut
A fountain
The cut
Oppressive
Oppressive
You’re stifling
Call a skin a skin
Point
Click
Sliced into
The fountain
The fountain
Underneath
Faces sweet
Glistening like meat
Cut
Point
Slick piece
Call to me
Underneath
The fountain
The fountain
The fountain
I don’t want to live
I don’t want to live
I don’t want to live
I don’t want to live
I don’t want to live
I don’t want to live
I don’t want to live
I don’t want to live
With an open wound
With an open wound
With an open wound
With an open wound
With an open wound
With an open wound
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10. |
Knife Of Good Conscience
04:03
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With the knife of good conscience
Buried deep as it can go
You may find that your intentions
Were never honourable
And the smile that you’ve been wearing
Was only ever just for show
The truth you mined was built on lies
That’s why you cannot look into my eyes
The truth you mined was built on lies
That’s why you cannot look into my eyes
Through the cracks in your exterior
A dreadful truth has grown
In your eyes the lack of motive
Becomes unquestionable
As you reach your own conclusions
That you really are alone
So the rest of you betrays the best of you
That you’ve always done your best to hide
Because the rest of you is not the best of you
You’re too afraid to let the world inside
The truth you mined was built on lies
That’s why you cannot look into my eyes
The truth you mined was built on lies
That’s why you cannot look into my eyes
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11. |
Dichotomous
07:19
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Life, I don’t want it
It’s chaotic, anemic
Death, I don’t want it
But it’s coming, I feel it
What do you know?
What can you really know?
What do you know
About life and death?
No, I can’t avoid them
Because I’m stuck in between them
These voices, they cry,
They beg me to die
But I don’t want to die
These voices, they cry,
They beg me to die
But I don’t want to die
These voices, they cry,
They beg me to die
But I don’t want to die
So what’s my solution?
Death, I don’t want it
But it’s coming, I feel it
Life, I don’t want it
It’s chaotic, anemic
I have to go,
But I’m afraid to go.
How can you go
When you’re scared to death?
So I can’t escape it
But I can’t seem to face it
These voices, they cry,
They beg me to die
But I don’t want to die
These voices, they cry,
They beg me to die
But I don’t want to die
These voices, they cry,
They beg me to die
But I don’t want to die
So what’s my solution?
These voices, they cry,
They beg me to die
But I don’t want to die
These voices, they cry,
They beg me to die
But I don’t want to die
These voices, they cry,
They beg me to die
But I don’t want to die
So what’s my solution?
What’s my solution?
This is me,
This is me begging to be stopped,
This is me,
This is me begging to be stopped.
This is me,
This is me begging to be stopped,
This is me,
This is me begging to be stopped.
This is me,
This is me begging to be stopped,
This is me,
This is me begging to be stopped.
This is me,
This is me begging to be stopped,
This is me,
This is me begging to be stopped.
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12. |
Surrender
04:43
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Grief finds you hard
It can’t resuscitate a heart
Or what we hold
Behind the eyes and in our arms
Sorrow will know you
Sorrow will know you
But in the end, although it’s hard,
To love is why you are
If love is forever
Death won’t mean surrender
If love is forever
Death won’t mean surrender
Open your heart
And let it out, don’t keep it in
Tomorrow’s gone
Before it even can begin
Sorrow will know you
Sorrow will know you
But in the end, although it’s hard
Just be the one you are
If love is forever
Death won’t mean surrender
If love is forever
Death won’t mean surrender
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Richey Hackett England, UK
Richey Hackett is a British recording artist and musician from Dudley in the West
Midlands.
He has released multiple albums via independent collective netlabel Vulpiano Records as well as his own label Blue Rose Recordings, formed with fellow musician and friend Stu Johnson. The two also formed new wave pop duo Us Frail Gods in 2020.
He currently lives in Birmingham with his wife and daughter.
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