Battle Scarred

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lyrics

Battle Scarred

In dawn’s cold silence, still we lie.
A gulf between us, ten miles wide
Alone, we two, in the grey light,
Locked together for all time.
What is done, is done to death
And what’s been said is what’s been said.
The smoke clears and the wounds are dressed,
The lines are drawn again, entrenched.

The pattern’s set,
The wheels grind on,
The ruts wear grooves into the bone.
We play our parts
And shoulder arms
With shrapnel in our hearts,
We’re battle-scarred.

Walled up in these living cells,
The children we were once: are still.
Branded by the white, hot fire
Of pain, familiar, alien.
Seared beyond the skin, the scars
Seeping poison to the heart,
Ineradicable hurt
That taints our response to the world.

The pattern’s set,
The wheels grind on,
The ruts wear grooves into the bone.
We play our parts
And shoulder arms
With shrapnel in our hearts,
We’re battle-scarred.

The ghosts that stalk and haunt our lives,
The buried “us” from former times,
The cowering child with tear-tracked face,
It cripples us with confused rage.
The walls we raise to keep us safe,
The minefields laid that hem us in,
The cold, steel armour of our life
Is what prevents us living it.

The pattern’s set,
The wheels grind on,
The ruts wear grooves into the bone.
We play our parts
And shoulder arms
With shrapnel in our hearts,
We’re battle-scarred.

credits

from Silvaticus, released April 27, 2015
Music and lyrics © 2013 Damon Maddison

James Manley-Bird – vocals
Paul Bate – guitars
Jef Streatfield – guitars
Damon Maddison – bass
Nathan Maddison – drums

Recorded at Factory Studios, Bristol, May 2014.
Engineered and mixed by Scot McKenzie for USB Productions.
Mastered by Colin Bennun at Stooodio Mastering, January 2015.

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Silvaticus Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Ex-Hydra Vein band-mates Damon Maddison, Nathan Maddison and Paul Bate team up with ex-Plan A guitarist Jef Streatfield and former Eternal Torment vocalist James Manley-Bird to bring the metal!

The first album was recorded between the 10th and 24th of May, 2014 in Factory Studios, Bristol, the UK and tasters from the sessions will be available online shortly. ... more