1. Bleed 5:23
2. Pandora 3:51
3. Jyhad 4:36
4. Naked 3:50
5. Complicity 2:52
6. Heal 5:03
7. Delirium 4:55
8. Lexicon 4:29
9. Numb 3:49
10. Deadauthor 4:57
total time 43:45


Bleed

As I cradle what you told me to
Still defined by wounds that grow in you
Opened ashes bleeding as you die
I never felt besides, I only lied

Have I forgiven you, I forgiven you
Am I becoming you, I becoming you
Will I grieve for you, will I die for you
Have I forgiven, am I becoming you

Create a focus for my decline
...your drifting fine
I cannot bleed for you, I cannot cut your lines
Another... to push deeper as we die

Have I forgiven you, I forgiven you
Am I becoming you, I becoming you
Will I grieve for you, will I die for you
Have I forgiven, am I becoming you

You cannot touch me now
I cannot hurt you
Do you bleed with me
Do I grieve for you

Have I forgiven you, I forgiven you
Am I becoming you, I becoming you
Will I grieve for you, will I die for you
Have I forgiven, am I becoming you


Pandora

Seamless as it lingers
In a fractured lie
If it ends without pain
Will I feel deprived

Lie in wait for me
Keep it where it's safe
Lie in wait for me
End it all again

Tip of the box to suffer
Open nothing new
Tip of the box to suffer
Tell me to

Tip of the box to suffer
Open nothing new
Tip of the box to suffer
When you tell me to

Made it night together
Seemed more right that way
Sat there dreaming yet again
To see what you'd say

Lie in wait for me
Keep it where it's safe
Lie in wait for me
End it all again


Jyhad

Watch with fascination
We slice old scars again
Bleached by love that dreams
Of passion
Of afterlife

Tear the flesh
Steal the scent of innocence
Conceive a lust
That betrays its ignorance
Make me die with you

If I die would it make you love me
If I live would it make you kill me
Make me die with you

And we stagger in our pain
Love and death and slagging jesus
But nothing said

Seems neverending
Feigning ignorance
Neverending
Eternal tedium


Naked

Worship the corpse of a crucifix
Embrace the blood of your god
Enduring pain of an effigy
Inspired by our love

If I fall at your feet
Would you heal my wounds
If I saw you suffer
Would you die for me

Naked saviour promise solace
Take refuge in your flesh
Tragic king will you bleed with me
Forgiven your righteousness

If I fall at your feet
Would you heal my wounds
If I saw you suffer
Would you die for me


Complicity

Another beat of my dead heart
With no-one else to hear
Consume indifferent breath
My anger killed by hate
Life pushed open now
Far too blind to feel

Time can wait for me
Silent words that seem to hear
Time can wait for me
Promises complicity

Time can wait for me
In my complicity

As we fall so far together
Torn by what we've been
Will you pray forever
For your divinity
We cried in tune together
With lies from yesterday

Time can wait for me
Silent words that seem to hear
Time can wait for me
Promises complicity


Heal

My conception
My life beginning as I bleed
Breathe in anger
Breathe the hatred as you need
Feel so empty
I watch another world collapse
As the other, it seems so real

The victim eternal with no other feelings
You wear your filth well as it drips
With your bleeding
Spilling your life and your filth
On your hands
Wash it away with the love your pretend
Tearing at meaning corrupting with healing
Drifting decline as it clutches for feeling
Spilling the life and your skin on your hands
Wash it away with the love you pretend

Bleeding the words as they crave for denial
You are holding my words
As they crave for denial
I am bleeding the words as they crave for denial
You are holding my words
As they bleed
They bleed for you
Spilling the blood I have made
And have shown for you
What does it mean if I offer my sins to you
Innocent to the end of this imposed tragedy
Broken wounds caught in my dreams
I gave up dying for my sins
Broken wounds caught in my dreams
I gave up dying for my sins


Delirium

Touch the skin as it turns to dust
As the anger fades into words again
Lingering like a stolen god
That threatens to destroy our sin

Forever nothing, desire deceived
Bleeding skin, congealing disease
Wash the filth as it buries your sin
Forever nothing, desire deceived

Pacified by decaying pain
Inspired in this apathy
Feel the dream of delirium
Consume the figure of a stolen god

Forever nothing, desire deceived
Bleeding skin, congealing disease
Wash the filth as it buries your sin
Forever nothing, desire deceived


Lexicon

Suffer like you told me to
This blood sells well
Draped beneath a useless shroud
The misery pays well

Too many reasons to pretend
This pain is real
Too many words repeating words
Lines of lies again

Tear the face and eat the flesh that burns
Feel dead suffering
Tear the face and eat the flesh that burns
Feel dead suffering

Like kills the hate of innocence
That seemed so safe
Strips away the precious words
Destroys naieve despair

Suffer like you told me to
This blood sells well
Draped beneath a useless shroud
The misry pays well

Tear the face and eat the flesh that burns
Feel dead suffering
Tear the face and eat the flesh that burns
Feel dead suffering


Numb

As I turn away
From fragmented lives
I can feel an answer
In the clutch of lies
As I search so blindly
For what you call truth
I can feel an answer
Even though it's you

Silence me, needlessly
As I fall again
Silence me, needlessly
As I fall again
And we forget how I lied for you
What you promised me
And we forget how we came so close
When we lied so well


Deadauthor

Speak again
Kill me even more
Will I hear you
When you're dead
As you move
So uncertainly
Need to feel
That you know
Still inside my head
Love that bleeds instead
Cut the words away
Still inside my head
Killing hate again
Cut the love away

If I seem to find the way
Belief enduring pain
Still beleive it's you
If I need the pain too long
Will I think it's really me
Start to die again
As I crumble at your voice
Will you finally beleive it
You nearly killed me
If I showed you my belief
Will you finally forgive it
You nearly killed me


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Line up





David Dando - Vocals, guitars, bass, programming
Martyn Lear - Keyboards, programming

Special thanks to:
Adam Ganderton - Backing vocals on Jyhad, bass on Complicity and Lexicon
Tess Ganderton - Backing vocals on Naked, Delirium and Numb





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Info



Recorded and mixed at soundgate studios, July-August 1996
Produced by Adam Ganderton and Eterne
Engineered by Adam Ganderton

Band contact: Eterne, 20 River Terrace, Port, Mid-Glam, S.Wales, UK
Candlelight records, Box 328, High Wycombe, Bucks HP156TV, UK
Design and layout: Cheryl Moore





Review



The music on Deadauthor is kind of hard to describe. It lies somewhere in the doom sector I think, with keyboards and a drumcomputer. Vocals are clean, and guitars are kind of basic. Guess it's a sort of industrial doom or something. Anyways, it sounds very nice. It's varied enough and with the unique sound it doesn't get boring.

Rating: 7.5 out of 10


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