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Times of Clarity

by RISE ABOVE

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1.
Time 03:10
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yeah we went to war, then headed home searching for treasure, searching our trove gambling our lifespans with rats wearing top hats the bourgeoisie rite begins the system’s capricious and our eyes will deceive us, oh no oh yeah, we’re god damned believers nothing has changed, the clemency fades and this, right here, is something we can’t escape time after time, time after time i‘ve realized this is worth defending everything you say, everything you do aren’t you tired? i’m tired of you and you can beg and apologize the polarized is the normalized time after time, time after time i’m back in the same spot as dawn brings the day i’ve said it before but the constant remains the die is cast and i am are surrounded by lies your lies, black eyes with forgotten pasts we are fading to grey, it’s the same you promised me colors it’s still all the same and as the hands point downwards we keep headed east i’m a pawn of hours, and this is our disease time after time, time after time i‘ve realized this is worth defending everything you say, everything you do aren’t you tired? i’m tired of you and you can beg and apologize the polarized is the normalized the normalized is the polarized time after time, time after time i’ve realized this is worth defending this is our disease
2.
Augury 02:33
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catch the rabbit, slay the bait burn the corpse incinerate mine, of which that i inhabit fill it up with everyone who’s steady waiting for the world to end destruction, your actions are to be condemned and i won’t pretend that you‘re unable to withstand you’d better run for cover now join a cult instead, fulfill your augury borderlines are turning white what did you think, honestly? everyone is waiting for their sentiment everyone goes blind before they see the end i’ve got rocks in my shoes that won’t come out but how’d they get there in the first place? i don’t know, maybe i’ll go blind before i see the end? maybe we’ll be born again when you descend? militant, your actions are to be condemned but we won’t pretend that you’re standing in quicksand dissonant, your actions are to be avenged but we won’t pretend you’re unable to withstand i am, i am, i am destruction forever you’ll be catching the rabbit, slaying the bait burning the corpse, incinerate
3.
Down 03:31
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yeah, we all want a piece of heaven but we are stranded right here together begging inhabitants of hell: there’s no escape i know this road will take us down in flames in distress, we're a mess our lies wearing thin we're not here to begin our eternity oh my god, this is our wake-up-call and our backs are turned reliant against the wall with our brittle bones against your sticks and stones but the devils’ tongue will never break me now that you’ve went and led us to our graves will you explain these tears of sorrow? alright you know they take our lives for granted and i beg you, be relentless they will be the ones to crawl while we’re watching it fall, backs to the wall and you, with our brittle bones against your sticks and stones but the devils’ tongue will never break me now that you’ve went and led us to our graves will you explain these tears of sorrow coursing through my veins? it’s never-ending so fold your hands and pray that god descends we’ll take no chance, there’s no tomorrow, no now that you’ve went and led us then fold your hands and pray now that you’ve went and led us then fold your hands and pray oh, god, descend now that you’ve went and led us then fold your hands and pray no inhabitants of hell lead us to your graves let us be relentless we’ll slay the devil’s tongue watching them crawl, backs to the wall they will be the ones to fall
4.
Heights 01:20
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i’m shaking hands so i can reach new heights now the waiter’s here, and i’ll pay my price styx, the end, immortalized splintered fists at the last stop: blight primordial dust in the air i’ll share a beer with lumiere the willow tree, to me endear, will waste away and disappear slowly count to three delay, aiming for the hindmost place flash the lights, am i in your sights? last chance to remember, spite praise the days, adore the night kill them, kill the parasites take your pictures, fake your smiles glaze them in formaldehyde slowly count to three delay, aiming for the hindmost place
5.
Blue 00:47
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so tell me all about your favorite routines i guess the shattered clocks have finally stopped i’m ready to leave the tap is staled with an acquired taste your life’s a waste, your life’s a waste kill us with your broken hearts
6.
Throne 02:30
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without the flag, you can bet you’d get it but borderlines don’t protect your killing admit the failure and skip the trailer now, wash your hands because i spit are you feeling it now, incised in doubt? pile them on, but, man, i’ve lost the count of all the prayers and all your heirs born and bred, you’re all squares no, it’s not the way you said it, i just can’t relate you’re living in a world that’s flooding, filled with hate i’ve lost it, you’ll have my head and i’ll stay down until i’m hugging dread we’re living in a world where you are playing god but you’re not showing mercy, you’re just cold at heart and i’m still found on the muddy ground with all the reasons we are beaten down house of glass, yet you throw the stone keep it quiet, blood feather, fear the throne in the end, our lives are yours to take are you heaven sent? or just a fake, instead? but in consequence, we forge our own defeat because the vile will not miss a beat in the end, it’s hard to stay awake are we heaven sent? or used to play pretend? the coincidence will lead to our deceit because the vile will not miss a beat fear the throne
7.
Phoenix 02:45
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yeah, you fuel the fire surrounding me i can’t reject it, i used to be, but now i see tell me are you bold enough to face the flames? share the same fate? find yourself the victim? helios will fear my name yeah, spreading my wings phoenix from pyre, it starts from within every single day a personal cliché crash into the sun and watch me burn ah, well, i said this storm would pan out the way i planned it so grind thine bones and feed it before i kill it every single day a personal cliché crash into the sun to see myself outdone i’m soaring high above this cloud of smoke a fire you can’t choke i embrace these flames around me sear my skin and catch me burning and you say they don’t belong but you can’t tell right from wrong these flames are here to stay yeah, on the zenith, set to lead the way in case of altercation, sit back in admiration i’ve hurt the sun, i burned the sun, i’ve earned the sun because we’ve set this bar as a memoir and we’ll burn the sun again, and again, and again every single day a personal cliché crash into the sun to see myself outdone i’m soaring high above this cloud of smoke a fire you can’t choke i embrace these flames around me sear my skin and catch me burning
8.
Savannah 02:18
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fight it, you fight it, we fight it, i fight me i fight it, you fight it, we fight it i fight me i’m drying out in the western savannah will you help me, please? i’ve got a case of going bananas when my roots go below the green so, press on these boats against the current while we’re caught inside the storm yeah the sun burns off my leaves in the shade oh, how i hope the wind me sway send me back over the eastern montanas with a rescue fleet and i’ll buy a hot springs colada the cycle is complete you know they say it gets better? yeah, yeah, yeah, i know the drill i’ve become a promise collector and there’s no other pill oh, i want to go away for a while but it won’t make the concrete sprout i fight it, you fight it, we fight it, i fight me so, press on these boats against the current while we’re caught inside the storm oh, those lies are just the truth you choose to see we won’t go down with you
9.
Clarity 05:08
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come, be my clarity i’ll be your guide and if you’ll try to change my destiny i’ll revolt, i’ll revolt, i’ll revolt indeed, my heading is set my debt, i collect, i collect i collect my due before the storm arrives: an unending tide they’ve built a world of pain and sorrow will you meet us at the edge because this story seems too lateral i feel the pieces falling through i’m longing for the truth might be harder to pretend the discoveries have made us change our views the picture’s coming true i‘m longing for the truth i am the final form of your control i came with the storm and i am i am your nightmare before the storm arrives: an unending tide they’ve built a world of pain and sorrow will you meet us at the edge because this story seems too lateral i feel the pieces falling through i’m longing for the truth might be harder to pretend the discoveries have made us change our views the picture’s coming true i‘m longing for the truth will you meet us at the edge because this story seems too lateral i feel the pieces falling through i’m longing for the truth might be harder to pretend the discoveries have made us change our views the picture’s coming true i‘m longing for the truth
10.
Sirens 04:37
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stone cold interest in feeling alone you light the storm but i’ve left the harbor to find your soul the worst signs, the black flags the fine type, the sandbags deep in the fire, but i am paralysed i‘m caught on the broadside, horrified thundering sirens tighten the cord around my neck your eyes are blinding unable to focus, losing myself surrounding the static the red has taken hold, i let it go don’t wake me up at all still remains up for days, holding out uncrowned, above, around i’m a mess held together by gravity you see survival of my inner peace standing on the precipice dear awakened daughters, save me because i just want to live thundering sirens tighten the cord around my neck your eyes are blinding unable to focus, losing myself surrounding the static the red has taken hold, i let it go don’t wake me up at all because i’ve been searching for directions for a way out of here they always take the fall instead being burdened by fear and i can taste the gold, the firestone the wretched whole, defining tones i’ve got faith in the unnatural so bittersweet, i’ve lost control within
11.
Lights 02:34
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i’m waiting for the sun to set, and i’m drying the white lies blank eyes, charred ties defying ties that i’ve carried a lifetime the fine lines that we took outside to bend the fire’s spreading and my body is sulfur take it all, we go asunder the mire’s bedding but my body’s repenting so breathe it in it’s not fair, i was born to fade away i’m counting down the days until i’ll decay easy come was easy gone it’s not fair, you don’t stop the come of age an honorary plague has prepared the way paid for all the things we should’ve betrayed and the moon is changing phase the four ride to find another prey if i took my time i’d get a frostbite oh, i would rather evaporate in the sunlight the fire’s spreading and my body is sulfur take it all, we go asunder the mire’s bedding but my body’s repenting breathe it in it’s not fair, i was born to fade away i’m counting down the days until i’ll decay easy come was easy gone it’s not fair, you don’t stop the come of age an honorary plague has prepared the way it paid for all the things we should’ve betrayed it’s not fair to linger on when most of us have withdrawn but we’ll take the fall hoping we will see the break of dawn and all the things you touch, they fade to grey and rust it’s all rehearsed, so shake my hand and find me in the dust yeah
12.
Shadows 01:59
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as their shadows are unveiled i was put to rest, but i am feeling awake there are still beaches intertwined catch me when i’m blinded goddess, goddess, goddess, cowardess through the snow i have regained control unknown gravestones as i sink below the mire i can feel my veins rewire i’m bathing in the filth of my infinite desires tell them to stay i've been yearning to speak in haze i don’t know, i don’t know i don’t know, i don’t know this moment is still in frozen collapse our time, it has passed, the covenant lasts and my final mistake was to give it all back i gave it all back i gave it all back i don’t know, i don’t know i don’t know, i don’t know i’m aboard on a train, stuck in the wrong track through the wreckage i’ll find my way back
13.
Fate 01:26
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the chaps on my lips are revealing the truth is i cannot forget it but now i am healing dissent from our bed sheets my fingers are crossed i am up to no good pour salt in my wounds her story revolts me sedated instead to find what i’m searching for i’ll sleep when i’m dead don’t call me a sinner for i am your saint trapped inside my head pretending i feel it again i need a new blend write letters of solitude i can’t escape it they’ve run around oh, what a fate you defy blame it on faults in my eyes you know that i feel what i feel i feel like it’s time to get real her stories will break you but it will not make you turn around and run scorch in the sun forcing my hand and my futile remains i’m coming apart i will see you in hell
14.
Doom 04:51
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we’ve built these walls, suffering inside dividing threads i wish i rode a different note and fell asleep on feather beds overarching catatonic state of life in disbelief but what i’m trying to say is that i cannot free the thief tell me, what’s the pay-off? have you been bought, or are you lost to disobey? soldiers in their right, shades endure the night we cannot fix their frozen clocks to date take me across the sea, across the water conceal my dust aside and brand the crown of mayan thunder because we’re damning, on the run we've seen the forest and the trees i’m fortified to see the sun, where we find our peace will we be relieved? they’ve got a tether for the hands who are in need take me, i’m afraid we’re going under separate my dust aside of mayan thunder prime again when we depend accost, divide, i see the end: apocalypse and we descend, to no surprise, as they are ascending are you standing on the edge of our demise? souls of the forgotten methodologies unleash my rage we must convey the paranoia through our arteries enlist our fates, prescribe our hate and i fell into the darkness when it rained time after time after time after time i care

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Times of Clarity is the anticipated debut album from Norwegian hardcore punk band RISE ABOVE. External delays, a pandemic, member changes, and one broken drummer arm ultimately culminated in this 14-track (?) apocalyptic colossus releasing on the 26th of August 2022. Ready your ears for 43 minutes of fine-tuned noise, catchy melodies, intertwined lyrics, and explorative fringes. “Times of Clarity” is a roller coaster of sound from start to finish.

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released August 26, 2022

Produced and engineered by Esteban Munoz
Recorded at Tune Park Studio in Bergen, Norway
Mixed and mastered by Dag Erik Nygaard
Performed by Bendik Hildebrand, Cato Nystøl, Håkon Nygaard, Roy Nystøl, and Thomas Holler
Additional performances by Esteban Munoz and Eivind Nyhammer
Lyrics by Thomas Holler

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