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Waking Life

by Lost Trees

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1.
Stagnant 04:50
Life cycles are unwound, weighing the frame down It’s always running to me when I am nowhere to ever be found Light spilling over years of an uninvented pride Stay blind and never die, I’ll see you tomorrow at the same time Thinking everything will change when I close my eyes is so far off the mark, and now I’m left in the dark In my head there’s a riot, on the surface is silence, who ever feels so Settle and sink in, into the instant Take time to stay for an artist to pay his respects to the hollow world Meddle, you’ll never remember feeling dead, another illusion Forget your beveled conduit, you would be a better bet It’s all on the line Chasing better days as a pattern unravels into reading the same page If I could waste away, I don’t think a thing would change A fire starts inside my head, and the deafening sound of collapsing will go unsaid In my head there’s a riot, on the surface is silence, who ever feels so, who ever feels so Who ever feels so lifeless The clock ticks a second closer to empty Settle and sink in, into the instant Take time to stay for an artist to pay his respects to the hollow world Meddle, you’ll never remember feeling dead, another illusion Forget your beveled conduit, you would be a better bet It’s all on the line Chasing better days as a pattern unravels into reading the same page If I could waste away, I don’t think a thing would change The first step is the hardest to make The first breath is the sharpest you’ll take The next ones you’ll not be afraid, so step up Life cycles are unwound Stagnant, motionless, shedding life like a bleeding wound I’m chasing better days, as another dream dies because we tried to stay the same If I could waste away, I don’t think a thing would change When will I end my stagnant ways
2.
Sonder Eyes 03:54
Bride the great divide (the confines of being human) 
In attempting to revive the wires that bind us
 The vast expanse will ever last, drifting into unconsciousness 
A steadfast act, to shatter the trance Our kind will advance, this is your chance
 All according to plan 

Let go of the cards you hold close to your soul
 Reflections of I, wandering in time
I wasn’t ready to die 

An unbalanced act or a broken back, a gift from above
 The earth itself will sing 
We all live or die in a timeline that’s being shared worldwide
 Crack the glass and look through the window in me

 Waiting in line for my ticket to thrive
 Lose my nerve, polish me to a shine In a warmer world where we could fly, we would see ourselves in the same blue sky 

A network of what we once felt, an unmissable collective guilt
 Waiting for a sign we never ask why this grand endeavor called life 
It’s not so black and white 

Falling to the earth from a perch of inanimate thoughts and whispers
I will search far beyond myself for a way to realign

 Bridge the great divide
 The concept of feeling alive is so hard to define
 Until you see through sonder eyes

 How do I find a way to see this world through your eyes? Cause I’ve been so blind to the vital thoughts trapped in your mind Still waiting for a sign to bring compassion to this empty life A journey out of sight, chase the light Traveling we decide to embrace this communal machine that connects our minds
 The complexity of life will shine even in the darkest nights

 The plight of life, to fight, to die, to realize
 Waiting in line for my ticket to thrive 
Lose my nerve, polish me to a shine In a warmer world where we could fly, we would see ourselves in the same blue sky

 A warmer world 
If a warmer world is what we desire
 |Through sonder eyes We must see ourselves through sonder eyes
3.
Disconnect, by design I inherently renovate my mind
 Find a new place to be unsaid
 Recollect, I’m cutting corners like it’s going out of style
 Find a new place to share your dread

 Follower, don’t tread this barren place
 Be aware, of your surveillance state
 Finisher, an appearance innate, be free of the weight, and accept your fate

 A functional me, I will find what I seek
 Five stages of grief
 Refine my eyes, sweating out the hate
 How could I have missed the signs 

I awake to this mess that I have made
 Animate by a native fate
 They say that’s just how it goes and I find that I am living more in control than
 the voice behind my eyes 
Isolate, Regenerate

 A winding path of the blueprints of past
 Release the poison that has filled the cracks 
Time to find a new place to die so when I revive I’ll be purified

 Oh, set me ablaze, and watch me decay into the void
 Calibrate, frozen recovery state, once I’ve thawed I won’t be the same A crumbling ego will face its’ demise 
Reconnecting my body and mind 

I can’t believe that this used to be me, wasn’t adding up to what I could be
 Never doing, always thinking, in retrospect I have always been free

 I awake to this mess that I have made
 Animate by a native fate
 They say that’s just how it goes and I find that I am living more in control than
 the voice behind my eyes
 Isolate, Regenerate
4.
Source Code 04:23
Digital dreams taking the shape of a better life on the other side of the screen
 Elevate me, pull my focus from the feed Blurring the lines between what you think you want and need 
it’s not safe for you to breathe in the fantasy

 So sever the ties, the matrix cries as I reevaluate the crime
 There’s blood on my hands and it must be mine cause there’s no other users in my sight

 The world will turn on you 
A glitch you can never fix Can’t calculate the cost of what was lost
 Defenses down my whole world is now unsound

 Oh, I’m not about to crack the code
 If I am alive, I would only try to follow my own light Otherwise I’m just another broken line Another lesson taught by those unversed, we always expect the worst
Will you fold to the insecurities of getting old? 
Did you really think that there’s no reason to dig for gold? 
You don’t have to swallow all you’re told 

Paint a better picture of yourself, don’t conceal the monster that you’ve become
Your existence erased

 Born of a web, I’m not acquainted with regret 
i’m not sure if I’m alive or dead 

Answers have gone unsaid 
An unfamiliar face without as much as a name 
Another defect in the machine

 Another lesson taught by those unversed, we always expect the worst
Will you fold to the insecurities of getting old?
 Did you really think that there’s no reason to dig for gold?
 You don’t have to swallow all you’re told 

Cause you’ve been counting off time and one day you’ll see you could have been living outside Deconstruct our affinity Tension bending my mind, am I awake or just online? 
Urgency or complacency, a tug of war with reality

 My essence is blending in with the bunkered down and the colorless
Your existence erased
 If I am alive, I would only try to follow my own light Otherwise I’m just another broken line Another lesson taught by those unversed, we always expect the worst
Will you fold to the insecurities of getting old? 
Did you really think you could wake up once your soul’s been sold?
 You don’t have to swallow all you’re told, cause you’ve been counting off time
 Another lesson taught by those unversed, we always expect the worst
 Otherwise, I’m just another broken line, I’m not sure if I’m alive or dead
 Did you really think that there’s no reason to dig for gold? 
I’m not about to crack the code, not sure if we’ll ever grow old 

Sever the ties, the matrix cries
 There’s blood on my hands, and I guess that’s fine 
cause we’ll be alone if we lose this fight
5.
Moirai 03:26
A house built without any doors, knocking on walls, unearth the floor
 A foundation found upon a fictitious cosmic lore
 A past mind of mine has been here before, or so I’m told
 Has our entire narrative been automated at the core?

 I am walking on a tightrope suspended above my fear and doubt
 Lining my reasons up, with another believer casted out
 Sinking beneath the space between the truth and what I read
 The things I believe, it’s all been written out for me 

A celestial draft that’s lacking elegance, a maze lain at my disdain
 An ongoing fight to make the best of it, when will this end? 
If you’ve been up there all along, oh, if you’re so strong 
 Why don’t you come down from your tower and just sing your solemn song 

Clarify 
Buried beneath our lies is a life worth living, a purpose defined
 The whole worlds a stage, and the cast will play their parts without a doubt about their lines
 Are we supposed to believe that we are just destined to die?
 I don’t think that the answers we so desperately search for are found up in the sky

 Can you feel a heartbeat in me? Cause lately I’m not sure I believe in destiny 
I wonder what would happen if I walked away from the life you chose for me

 Centered beneath the sun, I will wake up, clawing out of your reach I have abandoned the thought of a God that looks down on us with love,
and a foolproof plan for each of us I’m not waiting for a sign to exist, when all I wanted was my own chance to resist

 A celestial draft that’s lacking elegance, a maze lain at my disdain
 An ongoing fight to make the best of it, when will this end? 
If you’ve been up there all along, oh, if you’re so strong 
 Why don’t you come down from your tower and just sing your solemn song 

I put my life in your hands and I was met with the fallacy within
 I’m not sure why we have to kill ourselves for the sake of a game we won’t win
6.
You’re living out of phase A shattered memory It’s been a violent chase, you’re too far gone to save, so I’ll be on my way 
Sure didn’t take long for you to forget my face 
So I’ll reflect in disbelief, of the damage you’d leave
 You’re a shell of yourself, I must bid you farewell

 I’m not so sure there was a lesson to be learned in your vanishing act
The vessel you were no longer fully intact, a lost cause, in fact I’ve found no reason to drown under the weight of the task of the destruction of your mask 
Oh how I want to believe that I could set you free
 What a shame, and I have forgotten the meaning of love In regards to your selfish and vacant soul But now I am gaining ground If this is how you wanna spend your waking life
 Then who am I to tell you what’s wrong and right? 
As a phantom has taken your place I’ve been watching you wither away
I will not participate again in your games

 Focusing, break away from a desolate place of tainted memories 
A living travesty
 Engage in a battle with a walking disease You come and go as you please, with your whole life just outside of your reach 

You have been lost in an infinite dream
 I have detached myself from your dependency
 Your shadow has vanished from the depths of me If this is how you wanna spend your waking life 
Then who am I to tell you what’s wrong and right? 
As a phantom has taken your place I’ve been watching you wither away
I will not participate again in your games
 Existing out of phase If I had followed you through my waking life 
You’d have lead me to the dark, a forgotten psyche



credits

released October 16, 2020

Lost Trees

Jonny Fereday - Vocals

Austin Hayes - Vocals/Keys

Imran Malik - Bass
Jerry Gauntz - Drums




All music written by Lost Trees

Guitar parts written by Morgan Lee


Produced by Morgan Lee, Jonny Fereday, and Steven Williams

Vocals recorded by Randall Karriker

Vocals edited by Alan Reitman

Mixed and mastered by Shawn Christmas

Artwork by Carol Aldrighi 

Additional vocals by Andy Cizek (Track 2)


Special thanks - Jesse Hash and Andrew Wells

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