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Without Light It Never Heals

by From Every Ruin

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1.
Death is Present 04:19
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Where once was love Now only loss A frayed and tattered reckoning Now Strewn across When Death walks in The room it's like Hair stand on end You're in the fight Death is always present Following in silence Such heavy footsteps falling Keeps coming forward eyeless There's no more running this time The price that all men pay You may see tomorrow But he will have his day Rain down in ashes To dust we return Send me off easy To sleep that I've earned Someone somewhere is filling shovels up with you're collapse Holes dug in barren ground for coffins built on selfish acts Death is Present Can't you feel it calling Inside you all the time Now that the sky is falling Your fear is blurring lines Can't stop the tide that rises Won't stop the night that comes Death brings us no surprises What are you hiding from? Rain down in ashes To dust we return Send me off easy To sleep that I've earned
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This Dying Light 03:46
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There's a fight to the death Inside of you right now An unflinching conflict You are the means of destruction And the road to peace What will you do when you fall? Do you claw your way back? Or just return to dust? Which wolf do you feed? No one walks away whole But you can walk away Dying from the word go Don't waste your light today There's no such thing as safe This life will kill us all It's what you make of it What's done before the fall What you make of this Dying light shines through Heavy shadows fall Right Behind Done in darkness will Always find the dawn What shows itself is Rarely kind What you see as wrong or right Gets filtered through this dying light This is a good day to die It doesn't have to be No need for a goodbye Said much too easily What you make of this Dying light shines through Heavy shadows fall Right Behind Done in darkness will Always find the dawn What shows itself is Rarely kind What you think never ends Is gone before you know Hard to find a light that shines Beyond this crushing low You're always looking for answers That are hard to find Don't look outside yourself They're all in your mind What you see as wrong or right Gets filtered through this dying light Don't let this dying light get the best of you You are your own worst enemy Don't let this dying light get the best of you
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The Highest Low 03:40
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Breathe the smoke from the burning Sinner Got you choking now Shield you eyes from the blinding light of the Angel Got you kneeling now Draw back an arm to throw stones From your throne Now you're alone the fall from The Highest Low Devil's dance in the pocket of the rich man Got you begging now Tone deaf ears on the blind man Broken feet got you crawling now Step right into this new reality c'mon In the hollow screams That the nightmare brings There's a waking breathe on the other side On the other side Draw back an arm to throw stones From your throne Now you're alone the fall from The Highest Low
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Good as Gone 03:51
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Welcome the new sanctimony The rotting face of a brave new world Fresh hosts of old acrimony Of what we proudly hail unfurled Set loose and breathed in to being A fresh hell as yet unseen Allegiance to what you're not seeing Bathed in glistening unclean LIVE WITH IT Why is all this happening? DEAL WITH IT Why is no one listening? GET OVER IT You said help was coming OR DIE WITH IT, DIE WITH IT, MOVING ON Can't you hear us calling? Why is all this happening? LIVE WITH IT Why is no one listening? DEAL WITH IT You said help was coming DIE WITH IT, DIE WITH IT, MOVING ON Can't you hear us calling Good as gone and scared as hell By the dawns early light What you fear no tongue will tell Cause the truth don't sit right Look on the face of our Mother A torch upheld but no light shines Backbite and damn one another A narrow view of the same old grime Talk hope but practice exclusion As we think so shall you do DEAL WITH IT Why is all this happening? LIVE WITH IT Why is no one listening? GET OVER IT You said help was coming OR DIE WITH IT, DIE WITH IT, MOVING ON Can't you hear us calling? Why is all this happening? LIVE WITH IT Why is no one listening? DEAL WITH IT You said help was coming GET OVER IT, DIE WITH IT, MOVING ON Can't you hear us calling? Good as gone and scared as hell By the dawns early light What you fear no tongue will tell Cause the truth don't sit right
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Withdrawn 04:42
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Tread lightly here Where blood was shed And guilt flows like wine Hold to the fear Silver paid for silence In an age of screams A tongue that's held In turning cheek chews on Wasted time On weathered page The tables set for violence In a time of peace In these imperfections I've seen the face of God With each resurrection I feel more withdrawn The eye that sheds A tear of joy is plucked from the face of grief A hallowed song Raised to all ears but Self righteous men can't hear In these imperfections I've seen the face of God With each resurrection I feel more withdrawn In the darkest hour We may lose our voice But we'll never lose or way In these imperfections I've seen the face of God With each resurrection I feel more withdrawn
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Born of Kings 03:42
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Unholy slithering underneath All of life's debris An olive branch extended to And through those on their knees Why do we crawl along the ground When we were promised wings? Why do we suffer hand to mouth When we were born of Kings? The blood that flows downward Thickens and breaks The fruit from the vine This crippling obsession flies loose And eats through pages of time Why do we crawl along the ground When we were promised wings? Why do we suffer hand to mouth When we were born of Kings? Fall to your knees, Fall to your knees At what you can't . . . Fall to your knees at the feet of What you don't understand Behind the trumpet's scream Electric skies cry out for the last time Why do we crawl along the ground When we were promised wings? Why do we suffer hand to mouth When we were born of Kings?
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Precious Hills / Always Free 07:08
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Conflict gave life To blood spilled on this soil Freedom took the shape of war Beauty undenied While under foot black lung Coughs up another soul I can't see much of heaven From down here on the floor Almost isn't good enough anymore In these precious hills Where I laid my heart away I find comfort still Through the longest days I can't see much of heaven From down here on the floor Almost isn't good enough anymore Bloodshed washed away with Sweat from all our brows Dig deeper into what lead Us to falling down No time like the present To scrub away our past Our hearts black with dust beat Down to second class Hear the musket blast Feel the conflict rise Taste the discontent See it in our eyes Feel the groundswell Dig another pit See our blood and swear Rise up out of it I've almost seen heaven Past the things that hold me down But hell seems closer to me now The golden throne has given No care or help as such Just keep taking money They love us very much Stickpin plague rages No hands reaching down Only weak excuses As they drive us in the ground I've almost seen heaven Past the things that hold me down But hell seems closer to me now Hillsides disappear when There's money to be had Keep your people unaware Then it won't seem so bad It's time to take our motto Into our own hearts It's what makes us different That sets us apart Always Free We Are Always Free
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Encomia 04:28
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Damn your eyes So they may see the empty spaces Beyond red flame glows The weight of sleep A crowning halo A song of thorns becomes The coffin's prayer Synthetic as it all may seem Killing snakes with a fiery hand Sermons ring with a faceless trinity On the wings of the flesh we're buried in We sing a song to those lines drawn in our sand The deadman's hand Drops down the dollar full of blood In the ugly truth Where we can watch it burn The congregation have Run short of amens There are no flowers left For this your dying day I hear it all flooding in again And it recedes as quickly as it came Killing snakes with a fiery hand Sermons ring with a faceless trinity On the wings of the flesh we're buried in We sing a song to those lines drawn in our sand May these prayers and broken lullabies we sing Never fade away
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Grief Eternal 03:33
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Body of mine Body or ours Won't take the strain No time on the clock Go to the light Set it alight And burn it down It must be fucking stopped Sever the head from the snake It's the only way When the body's born again It'll be born, born of flame We are marked Left for dead Left behind We're withered but we're here We are marked Left behind But we're here Die by the tongue Live by the sword That's the way it is in this grief eternal Live by the tongue Die by the sword That's the way it is in this grief eternal Sever the pain from the hate It's the only way Scatter your words away Into this unforgiving place We are marked Left for dead In the grief eternal We are here Left behind Grief Eternal
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Until They Call Us Home 05:00
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Keep calm Don't breathe a word of it You can't kill What you can't see Just lie so still They'll tear the walls down When it's safe to come out Just stay here until Until they call us home we'll stay Six feet from the end of days All you see is what they're selling They know more that they're not telling Keep calm Don't breathe a word of it The fear lives In fever dreams And your tired mind Re-emerge stronger than you were before Until they call us home we'll stay Six feet from the end of days All you hear is what they're selling They know more that they're not telling Distance makes the heart grow cold All you see is what they want you to see And all you hear is lies All you want to know is what they hide But they're not telling you Anything, anything, anything Stop buying all the fear they're selling you And think for yourself
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Clarity 07:08
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These are not words But open wounds that I've laid bare For all to see but none to feel Below the dirt A fractured truth is lying there Without light it never heals Of course it hurts A heart worn out in open air A little cracked but not broken It's not a curse It's not a shame that I don't care After all it's done and gone Don't say a fucking thing to me Your words can't fix what's broken I've had a gut full of this No quarter moving forward Take your hands off of me You never saw this coming Clarity set me ablaze And now your world is burning Laying down that cross I've carried Jumping off the bridge I'm burning There's life outside these four walls still I can't feel a mother fucking thing Self-Loathing leads to indignant space Running head-long into my own tomb Laying down that cross I've carried Jumping off the bridge I'm burning Let pieces fall where they need to Scattered into workable chaos Step into this new freedom with One foot on purpose the other in the grave Laying down that cross I've carried There are no more bridges to burn There are no words Just open wounds Cut into the outside They may see but can you feel [SPOKEN WORD] Pick up your damn suffering and bare it Try to be a good person so you don't make it worse That's truth, the terrible things people have done to each other You cannot even imagine it, it's so awful You don't want to be someone like that, do you have a reason to be? Yes, you have lots of reasons to be God, there's reasons to be resentful about your existence You and everyone you know is going to die And there's going to be a fair amount of pain along the way A lot of it is going to be unfair, no wonder you're resentful But act it out, see what happens You make everything your complaining about infinitely worse There's this idea that Hell is a bottomless pit Because no matter how bad it is some stupid son of a bitch like you Can figure out a way to make it a lot worse, so you think What do you do about that, well, you accept it That's what life is like, suffering, that's what the religious people Have always said, Life is suffering Who wants to admit that, well just think about it So what do you do in the face of that suffering You try to reduce it, start with yourself

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"Without Light It Never Heals" is From Every Ruin's debut album. Musically written from a place of new found sobriety, then being crafted and finished lyrically during the initial stages of the 2020 pandemic. This album is a combination of healing and self-growth through sobriety and change, and the confusion and fear of the pandemic.

From Every Ruin went through ups and downs during the process of recording the music with Mark Benincosa, then shelving the project due to the pandemic, to then re-recording/producing/mixing themselves. It was a very long learning process, but one that ultimately became extremely rewarding.

The recording of this album (and formation of the band) brought Jared, Aaron, and Hicks back together after years of not playing music together since their Hell Forged Hands days. And in a way, From Every Ruin is the continuation of what Hell Forged Hands would/could have been.

"Without Light It Never Heals" is the first part of this new chapter.

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released August 19, 2022

Recorded, Mixed, and Produced by Jared Ward via Iron Bobcat Studios
Additional Recording by Mark Benincosa

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From Every Ruin is a Metal/Rock band from Clarksburg, WV and New Alexandria, PA. The members have played music together on and off for years in other bands. Most notably Hell Forged Hands, Snakebite Sermon, and Sadwater. From Every Ruin is the culmination of all those projects and influences. ... more

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