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Real Like You
04:39
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With a bag of dust and time to kill
Wasted away in search of cheap thrills
As morning breaks and we're coming down
We start another day in this broken town
What we knew in the heat of the sun
And tried to keep secret from everyone
What we knew from May to September
Could never survive the cold of winter
Am I as unimportant as this silence makes me feel?
When you're all that makes me real
And all the things I want to say
Are only words that get in the way
When I just wish I was real like you
There always something here to remind me
In every picture and memory
I'm not getting to grips with moving on
Or coming to terms with the fact that you're gone
Am I as unimportant as this silence makes me feel?
When you're all that makes me real
And all the things I want to say
Are only words that get in the way
When I just wish I was real like you
Thorn in my side
The guilt I bear
Realising that no-one's there
Like an open wound
That will never heal
It makes me real
Am I as unimportant as this silence makes me feel?
When you're all that makes me real
And all the things I want to say
Are only words that get in the way
When I just wish I was real like you
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Storms Inside
04:05
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You're stuck in your head and these four walls
The streets are running rivers again
There's no shelter from it all
You ask if the rain will ever end
But there's a storm inside
And the water's creeping up
You wait and hope it subsides
But you can't hold back the flood
That condemns you
And overwhelms you
Stripped away
There's nothing to hide
But you can't calm
All the storms inside
You'll take any comfort you find
Or any kind light so you can see
You long for the spark that died
To fill the gap where your life should be
But there's a storm inside
And the water's creeping up
You wait and hope it subsides
But you can't hold back the flood
That condemns you
And overwhelms you
Stripped away
There's nothing to hide
But you can't calm
All the storms inside
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Time Machines
04:11
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I don't know what's good for me
Sometimes I feel I've just swapped poisons
But without these pills and remedies
I'll be dragged back
To people I've already been
I'm my own worst enemy
Doubting if the breakthrough's going to come
What if I had kept on hiding
You'd be none the wiser
If I'd just kept on smiling
All of these reminders
Are myriad time machines
The memories that come to mind
Are footprints long since left behind
In the end all things recede
But moving on is too good to believe
I don't know what's best for me
I sometimes think I do this on purpose
Maybe I think that I need the rain
Just to pretend I can wash it all away
But it's hard, when nothing stops the pain
I always have to convince myself
The best thing to do is ask for help
Fears for my life scared me half to death
But it's too late when you find there's nothing left
All of these reminders
Myriad time machines
The memories that come to mind
Are footprints long since left behind
In the end all things recede
But moving on is too good for me
All of these reminders
Myriad time machines
The memories that come to mind
Are footprints long since left behind
In the end all things recede
But moving on is too good to believe
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4. |
Inside The Jar
04:43
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Out on a limb knowing I'm wrong
All the days seem to drift into one
You see the veil, you see the surface
But you can't tell what's going on
So I bite my lip, I bite my tongue
Hide the truth about what I've become
Script to forget, a script to remember
How to behave in front of everyone
Take all these words
This piece of dust
Breathe it in
In the sour air
Inside the jar
Of a blank stopped world
Catch it all on film
To rewind and repeat
To pause and hold
'Til they get what they want
From their suicide doll
You need advice but there is none
No-one knows what's to be done
It's best to think the worst is over
Best not to hope in case worse is to come
Take all these words
This piece of dust
Breathe it in
In the sour air
Inside the jar
Of a blank stopped world
Catch it all on film
To rewind and repeat
To pause and hold
'Til they get what they want
From their suicide doll
I am, I am, I am
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World Slow Down
03:34
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We're scratched at the surface
Only to reveal
The very things we've always
Wanted to conceal
And all of those moments
We wish we could catch
The times when time meant nothing
Have gone by in a flash
Wish I could make the world slow down
Enough to keep you here somehow
You take all the light when you are gone
Leaving me to face the dark alone
But I can't make the world slow down
I can't seem to live in the now
I try to stop the past from breaking through
I turn around, the future's coming too soon
With no sense of balance
I get easily tripped
So eager for you to believe in me
I easily get tricked
And all of the questions
That I never asked
And all of the answers
That stayed beyond my grasp
There's only an echo
When I call your name
My better judgement
Knows it's all in vain
The force of impact
Takes away our breath
Try to hang on but life and time
Pushes us closer to death
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Sour
04:53
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I lie awake in my bed
And I hear your voices screaming
I hear a break in the noise
And then one of you leaving
Have you forgotten me
Or do you think I that can't hear you?
And in the palm of my hand
There's a line broken in two
The days turn into weeks
And the truth that I'm learning
Is always dragging me down
To where all that anger's burning
You try to make it up to me
But it's too much too little, too late too
And you should know by now
Nothing's fixed with "I love you"
Sour, you made it all sour
Sour everything you leave behind
Has all hope been erased?
What future will I face?
But right now even trying seems like a waste
Why do you force me to choose
When every choice means I lose?
Can't you see I've still got so much growing up to do?
And through the time that has passed
I still find that moment haunting
Waiting for the sun
But never getting to the morning
You know that making the call
It might not do any good
But in the back of my mind
I just wish you would
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7. |
How We Heal
04:24
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These aren't the unpolished diamonds
That people will claim as theirs
These are the shards of broken glass
That still hurt, though no-one cares
The corners that never round off
The edges that are always rough
No-one said but everyone knew
That I was just your pity fuck
Nobody's innocent
We're all guilty by degrees
Now I guess we've both been used
Is this how we heal?
These are the shoes that never fit
The couplet that never rhymed
These are the choices that never got made
Chances lost 'cause no-one's tried
If you're troubled but beautiful
You'll never be alone
Everyone wants to share your pain
But the rest of us are on our own
Nobody's innocent
We're all guilty by degrees
Now I guess we've both been used
Is this how we heal?
To think we've learned our lesson
To think we've come out better
Couldn't be further from the truth
Is this how we heal?
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8. |
Fake
04:03
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I'm alone you don't care
Can you ever care too much?
Alone in our separate worlds
But these bubbles never touch
You won't notice I'm gone
But it's a straw for me to clutch
But if I didn't know better
You could put it down to beginner's luck
But the only things that I feel
Are anger and emptiness
Put on a brave face
So you can't see I'm still a mess
I can't do what you ask of me
Or do what you want me to do
I'm too scared to try
But I can fake it for you
You said you wanted to talk
But you didn't have the time
So what you really meant
Was that I don't have a space in your life
The only time I exist
And you have to acknowledge me
You only hold out your hand
To push me further out to sea
And it's never been clearer to me
That I don't mean anything to you
I wish I could be something more
But it's the best that I can do
I had such low expectations
You didn't fail to let me down
Everything you needed to say
Was said without a sound
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Suffocating Me
04:53
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I'm breathing again
Using up your oxygen
And everything I ever dreamed
Is further away than it's ever seemed
Each reminder turns out to be
Another stranglehold on my memory
I can't ever pause and reflect
When your hands are gripping my neck
Can't you see you're suffocating me?
I'm trying to move on
And in time the shame, it will be gone
But all the things I want to do
Are eclipsed by the things I have to
Each memory I recollect
It's just ghost for haunting the next
But I'll never be free at last
When my mind is chained to the past
Can't you see you're suffocating me?
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10. |
Domino
03:08
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You wish you had the time to think
The past is in your mind
But neglect the present
And you'll leave the future behind
You were so lost in thought
You equated life with pain
But then you found God
So you'd never have to think again
Is there more to life
Than just your own?
Can we make mistakes?
Can we live and learn?
Can we love and hate
When we fall like dominoes?
You'll never reconcile the world
With the picture in your head
But when you meet you find
That it's only you instead
We're all slaves to our machines
To devices we think we own
More connected than ever
But never more alone
Is there more to life
Than just your own?
Can we make mistakes?
Can we live and learn?
Can we love and hate
When we fall like dominoes?
It's a contradiction to me
When all we want to do is grow
Just not into these twisted forms
That we all learn to loathe
Is there more to life
Than just your own?
Can we make mistakes?
Can we live and learn?
Can we love and hate
When we fall like dominoes?
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The Silver Bayonets London, UK
The Silver Bayonets are a London-based rock band whose loud rock guitars blend with vocal harmonies and pop hooks to produce
melodic, often anthemic, and very addictive power pop.
2020 sees the band releasing a steady flow of 9 brand new tracks which together form the ‘story arc’/concept album “Unfolding” to be released as the band’s third full studio album.
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