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Sauvez-moi De L'Enfer
01:23
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Sauvez-moi de l’enfer.
Sauvez-moi ce soir.
Save me from hell.
Save me from myself.
I checked in, I checked out of Morristown Memorial Hospital;
Through the glass doors, I wasn’t thrown.
I saw the flames. I saw the mass.
I am blessed; evil at my side.
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Nausea
05:25
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When the prodigal son picks the skin off his teeth
he licks the top of his lips. he says you are what you eat.
He takes a Cadillac drive through the Tennessee fires,
a swig of whiskey and rye, the moon reflects in his eyes.
I used to be the mayor of this city,
and all the girls, they look so pretty
but I used to hate myself, oh.
I still hate myself.
And all the members of my committee and all the angels and prayers of pity
won't save you from yourself no, when you hate yourself.
(Shut your eyes and you'll burst into)
Flames in his breath whenever he speaks.
He's got the top of the world at the soles of his feet.
He's a bargaining man, he's got a lucrative hand,
he's not part of the Bible, the Torah, or Qur'an.
I'm a man who fucks with fire, and I'm a man who sleeps with liars,
but I don't come from Hell, no. I wasn't raised in hell.
I never felt so damn inspired than the holy day that I retired
and I summoned Hell, oh. You're living in Hell.
God scorched the fields and dried the lakes.
I should've left but chose to stay.
Man kills man, but can't kill me.
High noon; the light gets chased by dawn
I threw my Caddy into park
Put the top down and watch them burn.
I watched the trees burn in flame, I hear the buildings give way.
I feel the tremors set in, I smell the sulfur burnin'.
I thought the radio died, but somehow it survived.
I tried so hard not to cry, they played American Pie.
Don McLean knew of the darkness, and the sadness of time.
I remember that song as a kid, and how I was affected.
Everyone feels estranged in this world, everyone is connected.
I didn't know much of Buddy Holly, I always thought it was Oswald.
I remember my mom used to sing it, to put me to sleep.
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Darkness
04:39
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Darkness, oh hell
I look into a mirror and
A mirror, I can tell you
Darkness and hell
I think until I’m blind girl
Then darkness I could sell you
Love me
Just love me, darkness
Darkness, oh hell
She screams out from her bedroom:
“Hosanna in the highest!”
For darkness and hell
I’m climbing up those stairs girl,
So I can claim your nightgown
And love me
Just love me, heartless
I made a plea with Satan
For sins not worth committing
I was out in early Summer
I made some cash and bounced
I sold xanax
I sold ambien
I made dreams come true
I slowed the devil down
I’m that ghost
In your home
Defendant of the physical
Shaken to the bone
For holy hell
Holy hell
Holy hell
Holy holy
Darkness, oh hell
She waits under my bed sheets
So darkness she can sell me
Honey and hell
I wake her in my work suit
To make her want to fuck me
And love me
Just love me, heartless
Skipped from New York City
To Morristown in New Jersey
I woke from a bleak nightmare
Shaken at my bones
Captured by a ghost town
Stuck in unemployment
Stalking local graveyards
Looking for a home
I’m that ghost
From next door
Lurking in the floor boards
For a body I can own
Holy hell
Holy hell
Holy hell
Holy, holy
Darkness oh hell
["Twin Peaks" sample]
"Through the Darkness of future past
The magician longs to see
one chants out between two worlds,
'Fire walk with me.'
We lived among the people.
I think you say, 'convenient store.'
We lived above it.
I too have been touched by the devilish one.
A tattoo on the left shoulder.
But when I saw the face of God, I was changed.
I took the entire arm off.
My name is Mike. His name... Is Bob."
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Trazodone
04:53
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I eat my trazodone and go to bed
Wake up in the morning with holes in my head
My friend's a doctor
He tells me I'm fine
As long as I don't eat 'em all of the time
There's a man
In my dreams
He's silhouetted by the dawn's soft gleam
He lights a smoke
He shows his teeth
He tells me "Son, I'm the devil you feed."
Here's the problem with the devil though
I guess I just don't believe
His eyes burn red and admits a grin
He asks "Son, will you follow me?"
Then the man's face starts to change
All of a sudden he looks just like me
Somehow I've seen this all before
Exactly where I'm not so sure
Or is it when?
I couldn't say
Time and space tend to disagree
Then I wake
From my sleep
I floss the trazodone from my teeth
I take a shower and I comb my hair
I trim my beard then I look in the mirror
And I almost can't believe my eyes
My mouth opened wide, paralyzed in fear...
Oh look at the martyr
He burned himself alive out of sheer cold terror
Some claim it was murder
They saw the devil in his bed with his lover
You all hate a martyr
You hate the bed you're sleeping in and all its horror
Her motive was murder
Well, I'm the ghost that's haunting you forever and ever
You're right my heart it was a desert
You're right you're love was the drink
I wouldn't take one goddamn sip so I could die or go to sleep
No, no, no
So she burned me like coal
'Cause killers like her, they don't never let you go
I love the worst kind of criminals
The kind that eat your heart
The kind that steal your soul
Oh look at the martyr
He burned himself alive out of sheer cold terror
Some claim it was murder
They saw the devil in his bed with his lover
You all hate a martyr
You hate the bed you're sleeping in and all its horror
Her motive was murder
Well, I'm the ghost that's haunting you forever and ever
Laying there with a ghost in my mouth
Andy tells me to spit her out
Oh Luar, I want to spit you out
Laying there with the ghost in my mouth
Andy tells me to spit her out
Oh Lord... I want to spit her out
Everything that you said to me
All the words that you said to me
Everything that you said to me was make believe
Just make believe
Everything that you said to me
All the words that you said to me
Everything that you said to me was make believe
Just make believe
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Sad Stanley
07:22
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If there's one thing I can tell you, you've got to remember
your heart, your health, and your hands.
She'll crawl up the wall.
She'll tear you apart limb from limb.
So it's best to be wise and stand your own ground.
If you look away,
She'll smell your black fear, make your soul face the mirror to reflect your death in your face.
Don't you recognize what you put in your mouth is the same fucked up shit everyday.
Spit it all out and take a look in the mirror
The darkness, it won't fade.
You're a part of this sinking,
this dying, this wretched world we all gave away.
Don't let her know, don't let it show.
You ruined the earth just for her.
Where is she now?
I wish I knew.
The beast and the battle befell.
The felons, the villains, your friends are the victims of Hell.
You'd shoulder the weight of her final days.
You wish you could hold her hand,
but she loves a man, a despicable man,
and on doomsday, you're all alone.
Feed me some more, just feed me
just feed me time.
The ground opens up and swallowed us whole,
Christ won't recognize all your soft moans.
While it's all happening, you hope that she's dreaming about when she was a kid.
Happy and sweet
the way it should be
in Heaven supposedly.
Where is she now?
We're a part of it.
This whole bloody town, as it gets burned down.
And it's safe to say, if we all had our way
we all do things the same.
Without objection,
this holy intervention
is just a sad extension of
all the things we lost, all the things we gave.
We all say: "Save me from Hell"
Save me from Hell.
Save me from Hell.
Save me from Hell.
When the ground split open wide and swallowed us all whole,
the earth was turned to smelling salt to wake the beast below.
I saw my body disappear, I felt my soul turn cold.
But I remember loving her a long, long time ago.
I wonder if we'll find each other in the bowels of Hell.
And she'll save me from Hell.
Save me from Hell.
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Remember the sound when my phone hit the ground
When you cursed out my name and you said that you never loved me
But I thought you were joking so I asked you again and
You said it again like there wasn't a first
And you paused with a silence so I'd know for damn sure that you were not joking
You really never loved me
I thought about what wasn't talked about
And I thought for days and I thought out loud
And I thought to myself I wish I never met you
I always knew the banshees sang for me
And Seraphim would never rescue me
I fell in love with a younger girl
Her small sharp teeth with her hair in curls
From Jersey to Scranton at least twice a week
It was hell on the band but never bothered me
I did it all because I wanted to
Under the pretense that you loved me too
I couldn't argue when you wanted to leave
I wanted you happy, I thought that's all you need
I offered my soul, I was just so tired
Now these pills won't help me fall asleep
These pills don't make fall asleep
My hell is a lonely place
But I'll never forget your face
Everything that I want to change
Reassures me that I won't be saved
These pills don't help me fall asleep
These pills won't make fall asleep
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Trophy Scars Morristown, New Jersey
Post-whatever, psych-soaked blues. Est. 2002, NJ.
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