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Artwork by
Aelia

Go Home And Cry

Pull The Strings

Released by Hauntology Records
March 3rd, 2025
8 tracks
29:09
Go Home And Cry
Go Home And Cry
Snowladen Sepulchre
0:00
1:42
Snowladen Sepulchre
Pull The Strings
1:42
Clockwork
Pull The Strings
Tiny cogs That’s what we are Here in this web of corporate sadism Look to the moon See it’s gloom It shares the instinct of the one who looms Into work Aspirations go to die Except the ones Who can’t be made to wear the suit and tie Just as the clock strikes 10 The bearer of the curse will grin Aspirations now have grown Too large for containing their hope It’s the center falling out The last will and testament Like clockwork we will break away And fight for new destiny Gods, that’s what we are Restrained into the lives that capitalism begs Well, we beg to differ Well, we see another way Tiny cogs That’s what we are Here in this web of corporate sadism Look to the moon See it’s gloom It shares the instinct of the one who looms Just as the clock strikes 10 The bearer of the curse will grin Aspirations now have grown Too large for being restrained It’s the center falling out The last will and testament Like clockwork we will break away And fight for what we love Another way All these years Hard work killed My dreams of more Well more is nearer now than ever
3:58
Inundated
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In the back of the mind In the front of the line Always asserting themselves Never understanding Oblivious and shielded Living in an alternate dimension All the while, I was waiting on you To listen to my music and think that I’m cool There’s nothing I can even do now There’s only how I treated you badly There’s nothing I can fucking do now Take my life or I’ll die of overthinking Break it down slow I promise you will understand Break it down slow I guarantee you’ll see the plan Back of the mind At the flip of a dime A policy of mistrust Is what we have in this busted fucking nightmare The end’s slow How I wish I could skip to then Hell is a hammer being swung at my face And you kicked it on the way A delusional state of mind Can only get you so far Only get you so far There’s nothing I can even do now Take my life or I’ll die of overthinking Break it down slow I promise you will understand Break it down slow I guarantee you’ll see the plan I guarantee you’ll see the plan In the back of the mind I’ve been spending time Growing and tending myself Nourishment needed like hell
3:39
Adventus
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We ascended in multitudes And inherited the earth We were given everything Except the ability to choose All my recitations And all my hesitation To wax and wane poetic About the state of everything This world is on fire And I am just a man Who sees in a 10-foot radius at max How I’d like to just sit here and make music forever Consumed with the creative cause But that cause is not useful to anyone but me Plain and simple, this I see So we’re told we should aim up Or we will bring it down The rest of the world connected One bad actor can chain react, and it can be you Have we gone too far? Have we made our comfort too normal? Is this the last straw? Think of the mess that we all make All my recitations And all my hesitation To wax and wane poetic About the state of everything This world is on fire And I am just a man Who sees in a 10-foot radius at max How I’d like to just sit here and make music forever Consumed with the creative cause But that cause isn't useful to anyone but me Plain and simple, this I see Plain and simple, this I see This I see
4:24
Aurum Ruunt
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Summer has come I’m on an overnight train Watching pouring rain blow sideways Crescent moon hung Peering through overcast skies, through the lightning I gazed upon it The air it clung to my skin like cobwebs clinging to a corner And a premonition told me that things were about to change It’s a gold rush I feel the weight of my tools on my back as I step off the train now I will find my worth in the hills, in the western soil, mark my word It’s a gold rush And I’m not going back empty handed Summer has gone Nights growing colder as I trek out westward, with nothing to my name In the moon’s glow Not much like once I remembered, in my time the rock had grown hateful Taking in my surroundings The land was taken over by the prospectors there before me But the greed crept up my spine It was over in no time It’s a gold rush I feel the weight of my tools on my back as I step off the train now I will find my worth in the hills, in the western soil, mark my word It’s a gold rush And I’m not going back empty handed I will find my worth in the work that I work, I will pull it from the earth The restless, rolling slopes Will be my claim to riches And when my spoils come I’ll hoard them til I’m young no more This is sure Die with my golden wealth
3:10
Mag's Medicine
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Stir this broken bitter brew Cure him of his crippling flu Arouse him from his slumber Please, I beg of you Don't let him succumb to this ailment You're the only stop for miles Lend a hand to the weary And let him drinketh from your busom The healing power Is what he needs now Your caring touch Will restore him Mag's medicine The only thing I need The only thing I need The only thing I need Stir this broken bitter brew Cure him of his crippling flu Please, I beg of you Heal my friend, and heal me too We've no means to repay you Just show us some mercy Let us kiss the ground you walk Your healing power Is what he needs now Your caring touch Will resurrect him Mag's medicine The only thing I need
2:40
Cucullati
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The most chilling thing I ever saw Figures in the woods, beckoning us all And when I awoke, I approached them Wandered out of my bedroom, and then Oh, it's been taking over Mind control I don't know how it happened Like ancient cathedrals, I was drawn, but I was scared Their presence so haunting, but I felt better there In the woods, we gathered 'round We were adorned with the very same clothes The hunt began Stronger now with my blood-clan Oh, it's been taking over Mind control I don't know how it happened Take me deep into the woods Where I will never be seen again Lead me to my untimely doom 'Cause I don't have anything better to do No Lead me to my untimely doom 'Cause I don't have anything better to do Oh, it's been taking over Mind control From within slumber
2:48
Go Home And Cry
Pull The Strings
There is no light left in view There is only chaos, no truth I guess I’ll go home and cry again Right there in front of me Shot in the head On the street In broad daylight No remorse or commonality This is just an example Of what we have in store This is just a reminder That things are dark for sure Just look out the window If you have a home Just feel the prison bars closing in around Why can’t I look away I need a respite from the dark sway Oh, the weight of the world pressing down upon us all Wake me when the nukes have gone off Hell is paid for every day By innocent bystanders The debt is growing much too tall For anyone to pay off For anyone to pay off Why can’t I look away I need a respite from the dark sway Oh, the weight of the world pressing down upon us all Wake me when the nukes have gone off Oh the land of the evil And the home of the dead It’s a far cry from what’s in your head I don’t know much more than I used to know But I see through the veil of the circus show I've got no excuse Barely got skin in the game Just want to live to see the day Wake me when the bombs drop Then I can go without peace
6:48

This follow-up to 2023's Relinquish The Light is a step removed from what Pull The Strings used to be. Clean vocals are front and center now, instead of buried in the background. Genre fusion is far more apparent. The spirit of the project remains the same, however.

Credits

All music and lyrics written and performed by Alan Brucke

Mixed by Gabriel Yadon

Mastered by Hanging Puppet Audio