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Everything Came To Light

Joyful Forfeit

July 18th, 2023
4 tracks
14:26
Everything Came To Light
Everything Came To Light
I'll Come Back To You
0:00
3:05
I'll Come Back To You
Joyful Forfeit
You came to me in the waking hours And you've been telling me for a while That what you say goes So I fold I'm inching away from the cautions and loss The only help for me I'll turn away 'Cause the truth comes around Hardly I circle the drain 'Cause it's in the way And I'm living in this hollow entity I'm holding my arms in the way And hoping it all makes sense in the end 'Cause I'm Wasting my time 'cause I've always been let down Deserving the harm I think I should've learned by now The bitter and cold is the taste that I'm used to I'm plummeting down Again and again like I want to Alone, alone, alone in the dreadroom In the wake it started to make sense And all the awful things were evident But when you come around I'll offer half of me to you So if you You want me to I'll keep an act They won't see through Tell me the heights that I'll leap to So when I crash, I'll come back to you I circle the drain 'Cause it's in the way And I'm living in this hollow entity I'm holding my arms in the way And hoping it all makes sense in the end 'Cause I'm Wasting my time 'cause I've always been let down Deserving the harm I think I should've learned by now The bitter and cold is the taste that I'm used to I'm plummeting down Again and again like I want to Alone, alone, alone in the dreadroom
3:05
Animals/Monsters/Thieves
Joyful Forfeit
I feel this is the truth And this is my answer to every move I’ve made I’ve sown every stitch to an attitude I’ve been here so long it feels like lying if I’m honest with you Bad intentions haunting dreams It’s pouring the tears and the guts right out of me Hand over hand we ride Toward the funeral pyre tonight I could die in your arms and go cold In the blink of an eye When did we ever decide This is what we would always be? Animals, or monsters, or thieves? Or something in between? Did we lose our way? Now constantly stumbling all the way Did you leave our hearts in the arms of our yesterdays? ‘ Cause I’ve been here so long it feels like lying if I’m honest with you Bad intentions haunting dreams It’s pouring the tears and the guts right out of me Hand over hand we ride Toward the funeral pyre tonight I could die in your arms and go cold In the blink of an eye When did we ever decide This is what we would always be? Animals, or monsters, or thieves? Or something in between? Deceit laid low You gotta find a way out of here The feeling’s gone I thought I’d let you know Deceit laid low You gotta find a way out of here Half lost, drifting off to misery Hand over hand we ride Toward the funeral pyre tonight I could die in your arms and go cold In the blink of an eye When did we ever decide This is what we would always be? Animals, or monsters, or thieves? Or something in between? Animals, or monsters, or thieves? Or something in between?
4:02
Under The Ice Again
Joyful Forfeit
Too much gone? You’ve lost more. You’re taking all the wrong things and making a home So move along and rot in the sun Your blue forebrain will always let you know That you can look wherever but you’re always stuck being alone And who can make it better if you’re only told you waited too long? It’s pulling you under the ice again Glued to the wreck, you’ve been waiting since Albeit less than the weight in your head And hoping your life will live again While stretching it way too thin It’s pulling you under the ice again You hang onto your best excuse And hide your shame in your combat boots You built your life then you bombed that too Derailed despite you never wanting too Missed on every shot and now you’re left without a place to run And you know second chances never work out Better than anyone It’s pulling you under the ice again Glued to the wreck, you’ve been waiting since Albeit less than the wait in your head And hoping your life will live again While stretching it way too thin It’s pulling you under the ice again You can look wherever but you’re always stuck being alone And who can make it better if you’re only told you waited too long? It’s pulling you under the ice again Glued to the wreck, you’ve been waiting since Albeit less than the wait in your head And hoping your life will live again While stretching it way too thin It’s pulling you under the ice again It’s pulling you under the ice again
3:45
Please Don't Change
Joyful Forfeit
Please don't change 'cause I can't seem to handle this anymore Please don't change Soon after the burst that flashed in my eyes Coupled at the same time I fell inside Hell and bliss merged Then everything came to light How the task of forever Is all in my mind We're an ending from the get-go A grip that needs to let go A sound that never echoes A sound that never echoes So why try to hold on to these things that never mattered? When I'm so convinced the passing of time will only prove an Ending from the get-go A grip that needs to let go A sound that never echoes A sound that never echoes
3:34

The debut EP, released July of 2023

Credits

Music written by Kody Stieve & Tom Conran

Lyrics written by Kody Stieve

All instrumentation performed by Kody Stieve


Guitar, Bass, and Vocals recorded at True Level Studios

Drums recorded and engineered by Matt Weber at The Gradwell House 

Recorded, Produced, Engineered, and Mixed by Tom Conran

Mastered by Dave Downham at The Gradwell House