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The Earth Will Eat Today

by Steady Hands

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1.
Back from Hell I thought I'd absolved my sins I've done my time Trying to be honest But every time I turn around to speak they say "To be clear is wrong" Grey is the shade of white I wear But I'm more transparent than ever Take these eyes I use them to judge you all But closed the sound Is purely unjudgable The devil lies in the details Of things we've all chosen to miss God forbid a single mistake Would ever go unnoticed Honesty is honestly a policy I can't keep The things I take, take back from me Karma's a filthy whore who lies in wait while you lay down to sleep I stand alone In desolation All my fears and sorrows Left me in isolation So I cry out, "I am nothing" I look at myself, and I see nothing Nothing worth saving I know I've hurt the ones I love But I can do nothing I would if I could, I would change the past But I can do nothing I have no control As I survey the wreckage of things yet to come I'm reminded that these things cannot be undone And I can see ever more clear that nothing Nothing can save me No more hope I stand alone in desolation My fears have kept me in isolation And I can feel it, deep down in my gut That there is no hope, there's no hope There's no more
2.
Lone Wolf 02:58
I am the last of a dying breed A single soul, the remaining seed All my family has gone away You left me here to fend for myself alone “Oh how proud of you they must be” Oh how proud, to leave me here alone Empty as the day I was born Empty as the day they put me back in the ground I am the lone wolf in a pack of lions I am the lone wolf in a pack of liars and thieves, cowards and cheats So come deliver me All my friends have failed me And all my hope is gone All my friends have failed me It always turns out wrong Not a single soul, in heaven or hell, above or on hard ground below Knows the pain or sorrow that I now feel Growing inside what’s left of my soul You were never a friend to me Oh how proud of me they must be To watch as I stumble and fall No one’s there to lend a helping hand No one’s there to pull me back up to stand All my friends have failed me And all my hope is gone All of you have failed me This time I know, I won’t last long I am still standing But I have got here on my own
3.
Champion 04:34
A different number Every day The same habits in different ways What will it take this time? Some cash, a bill, a bribe, or a dime? When substances take over your mind It's hard to substitute the strength that you'll find When that warm, brown, liquid enters your veins Sneaks up your spine, straight into your brain It started out so innocent The first sip can be too much But once you've been thrown, out on your own Where else can I turn to, where else can I go? So can you tell me how to help my friend? Can you get him his fix? So can you tell me how to help my friend? Can you get him his fix? These rocks we walk on Are only as strong as we let them be But we all know our feet are As frail as his sanity Oh champion, where do you reside? Hidden by walls, covered with lies Oh champion, when will you return? When hell freezes over, but likely never So can you tell me how to help my friend? Can you get him his fix? So can you tell me what addiction is? Is it the crawling in your skin? Is it the will to give in? I've given up on everything But the chains around my arms Are chains that set me free
4.
I’m sorry has never cut it since, since the day you chose to leave us Because you couldn’t handle this I feel like leaving too, forgetting all of this But the images burned in my head will haunt eternally I have seen the dead They walk the earth with smiles on their faces Thinking nothing of the time that they have all been wasting Then I remember you full of hope and hatred Loving only yourself ‘til you did yourself in All the things I never said eat me alive because you never said goodbye And all my mistakes, they keep me awake and wondering how I could have changed things Sometimes I think back to that hopeless night and I am alone Walk down that empty hallway to that cold apartment where your body lay Lifeless and empty, as if some sort of thief A body snatcher taking from me I enter the room where you took your last breath, and I find the note folded on the bed I know what’s coming but still I have to read The last will and testament of the willingly deceased “I took my life because I cared about you less Than the pain inside my body, my soul my heart and head And I’d ask for your forgiveness if I thought it could change my fate But I’ll burn in hell for my sins and I don’t regret a thing” And that was all you wrote A short and painful note I may remember different or embellish it too much But time never heals a thing The days all cloud my judgment But the words scrawled on the paper Could never say enough to fix what you did You selfish low-life No chariot No saving grace The seraphim have abandoned me No chariot No saving grace No seraphim to come take me away
5.
Taps 03:40
Goodbye my friend I hope you are well I’m sorry our time has run out There’s so many stories left to tell About our battles, losses, and victories too My tongue hurts with the words I never said to you You left us burning, yearning And dying to know more But you’ll take that with you too I know it wasn’t your choice This is unfortunate timing It always is This is unfortunate timing And I can’t bear the thought of this We put the dead man in the ground to keep him away And now he’s gone, he’s gone, he’s gone for good The earth will eat today We put the dead man in the ground to keep him away The shell of a man who walked the earth just the other day We put the dead man in the ground to keep him away Laid to rest his debts all his mistakes His warmth and memories We put the dead man in the ground to keep him away But I still see his face It seems the older I get the more that I lose my friends Sent them to walk their own path and off they went I hate myself for my mistakes, the words of hate They were only mine to hear So this is how I remember a friend held once so dear

about

The Earth Will Eat Today is a summation of the entire first year of our career.

It was written between February and September of 2011 and recorded between October and December of 2011.


Recorded, produced and engineered by Chris Galvez out of Red Cord Studios in Rockford, IL

Mixed and mastered by Joel Wanasek out of JTW studios in Hubertus, WI

Cover art photography by Pez Brige
Cover art edited by Carter Daniels

Special thanks to Jimmy Martinez for recording drums.

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released December 25, 2011

Visit: www.facebook.com/steadyhandsband

Thank you to everyone, from the bottom of our hearts.

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