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Sometimes It's Us

by DeclarationAD

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1.
Spent 02:03
I’m a spent force, lungs are bursting Trying to outrun my mind Under a banner of self-reliance I raise a flag to show my pride I need no-one, don’t come near me I can stand all by myself Walk around me, a weaker species I’m so far above the rest I need you to know how much I don’t need you I need you to see I’m stronger on my own You stop listening and I’m alone again Suddenly I find I’m not so confident Only when I am alone can I see all the brokenness inside of me And now I find that these tattoos and piercings cannot cover up The little boy that I’ve been trying so hard to hide We need each other, we need to stand together The myth of the independent man is spent and gone
2.
Shut your mouth, speaker of falsehoods Celebrating a soldier’s fate Put away your signs and slogans Your unyielding need to spread your hate You trade the cross for the sword The embodiment of selfless love Stamped upon a banner of malice Abuse horrific, against the message I despair you claim to represent us They see your venom They turn away And I wouldn’t blame them I feel the same And at the death of the hateful man More hatred spewed in eulogy The cycle continues unabated No-one will love their enemy You trade the cross for the sword It catches me as much as you Wanting to see some punishment I lower myself down to his level And I fail to love my enemy I know that I should Love my enemy But it’s so damn hard I’m failing every day
3.
Mental Hell 03:08
Your mind betrays you It’s a prison cell Every thought a stab-wound Your mental hell Driving you inward Convinced that you’re worthless No-one understands it So you’re tempted to end it If you don’t speak Nobody will find you And what will it come to With no-one to hear you Your mind betrays you It’s a prison cell Every thought a stab-wound Your mental hell But silence robs us all And the price is high When you’re dying inside And your friends can’t tell Fill your lungs to speak Open up your mouth Emancipate your life From a burden deep inside Emancipate your life From what fear would have you hide Emancipate your life From a burden deep inside Your mental hell
4.
Bare your morals, build your case to Claim your actions measure up to Lofty standards so you can say You have shouldered none of the blame But sometimes it’s us in disgust at ourselves Acting in a way that we would condemn Sometimes we are the ones breaking hearts and promises Acting against our moral compasses And I hate excuses I’ve made for myself How do you move on? When sorry seems so hollow When your pious act is hard to swallow Can you hope to be better tomorrow?
5.
Better Man 03:06
She lies and says she’s in love with him The hold he has on her breaking her spirit A man holding on to a world he controls To be his queen she becomes a prisoner in it Too many women settling for the ones With a fat wallet and yet a thin conscience Outward suave faces and dapper attire Inwardly corrupt and abusive in essence Oh God, make me a better man A man to stand above these evil ways Oh God, make me a better man A man who knows how to love Oh God, make me a better man A man who gives without needing to take Oh God, make me a better man Living free of these vindictive games Can’t find a better man when all that’s going Are scumbags thinking of only one thing Themselves, their own pleasure, and nothing more Bending others to their malevolent will And it won’t change while we do nothing While we take no steps to show the world The way a woman is meant to be treated They’re more than objects or a notch to be won
6.
Belonging 02:17
Jaded crew, the old and the new They disagree, controversy So much fighting over who belongs in this community Hardcore laws, metalcore flaws Straightedge trends, all these dead ends Grab for belonging and hold on tight Who decides who is right? When they don’t belong inside these walls And all you point out are their flaws You should’ve seen it coming Your little empire crumbling So are you happy now? Fight it out over the internet Never understand what lead us here You have made your bed now lie in it So are you happy now? Set yourself up as the judge And watch as it crumbles to dust Dust
7.
Questioners 02:30
Question everything That’s the mantra that they feed to me Their skepticism seems enlightened Their confidence breeds security They sweep you up in force of word So you will never see Biases smuggled in under A cover of objectivity Who will question the questioners? Who will expose the biases? The position of neutrality Is a distortion of reality Ignorance is the brush They smear us with so carelessly Define my thoughts by their position Making themselves the authority And the masses drink it down Without an ounce of inquiry It’s easier to just accept Some straw-man laden fallacies How will they feel when you put them through The questions they insist on asking Of everyone except themselves? Their immunity is not consistent
8.
04-14 04:31
In a moment of honesty, showing transparently My flaws are too real to deny Horrified and reeling, flee from the light Flee to the darkness, my scars try to hide A writhing mess, a broken soul Covered in the routines I act make me whole Pretend nothing moves me, nothing is wrong But just beneath the surface, I know Heart in my hands, I’ve wandered and strayed Held it to the winds and watched it decay Drunk from a fountain of carnal desire Rejected joy for the cruel comfort of mire Lord let me see, let me see and be seen Seen without fronts, veneers, disguises I long to be seen and known as I am To uncover my scars, the black soul I’ve been hiding I cannot hide though I try I cannot hide from the Lord at my side All of the apathy, excuses I’ve used I don’t want to want them, I want Spirit and Truth Soli Deo Gloria Forevermore Soli Deo Gloria Nothing shall ever come before
9.
Turn the tide on commercialised thinking We can be more than what they’re pushing Look the part to fulfill your heart Behind the trends right from the start Monuments to our magnificence A lifestyle chasing opulence But when so many are hungry Are we not ashamed at how we chase money? It owns us It owns me While we chase the good life The poor are cast aside My salary my security Lip service to equality leaves me empty A problem too big, and I’m so small I grasp at straws, never change at all But I refuse to let cynicism reign Reject narcissism, I won’t turn away Even the smallest drops move the oceans And we’re splashing against a system so broken I won’t flow with the tide that serves only itself And assigns you value based on your wealth
10.
Enfleshed 01:58
Hope for the hopeless Is what you stand for Love for the unloved Redeem and restore And for too long we put you Atop an imperial scheme Forgetting that you were a person With hands and feet like me You’re not a hammer for the pious To beat down the unholy You walked among the lowly You forsook your glory We want to see you As the man who used his hands Who touched the souls of lepers With dirt under his nails We dress you in the robes of your accusers We break your body for our own agendas But I want to weep with you beside the tomb And I want to walk with the lost Like you showed me to When I am lacking heart and feeling loss I lift my head up to my saviour hanging on that cross
11.
My yoke is easy and my burden is light Though you will face trials of many kinds I am beside you in the darkest night And I will be with you in the renewing of your mind These horrors, they try to bring you down But I have overcome by laying down my crown Feel the pain and know it is mine too And I am never far from your soul’s deepest wounds When I have nothing left, be my strength When I fall, when I fail, lift my head Grace of God, see me through, see me through Peace be with you

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We wrote an album. Then we recorded it. Then other stuff happened that we didn't do so that it could be an album. Now it's here.

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released June 18, 2015

Produced by TKO & Declaration AD
Recorded & Mixed by TKO
Assistant Engineer Hamish Anderson
Recorded at STL Audio, Wellington NZ
Mastered by Collin Jordan @ The Boiler Room, Chicago USA

All songs written by Declaration AD except:
Spent, Belonging, Questioners – written with Hamish Dobbie
Better Man – written with Steve Woolley & Tom White

Guest vocals by Jai Aronsen (True North) & Jordi Zonneveld (One Outs)

Gang vocal crew – Jai Aronsen, Cam Brennan-Belworthy, Sam Blyth, Glen Ellis, Frank Grieve, Dana Henwood, Troy Knott, Mike Lewis, Hamish Morgan, Emma Plewinski, Hayley Rosser, Jonny Sarich, Vasely Sapunov, Helen Sapunova, Connor Shaw, Lesley Wild, Jordi Zonneveld & Declaration AD

Drums provided by Jacob Randall
Bass Amp provided by Hadleigh Coffey

Art direction, layout and design by Sam Coates
Concept photography by Lesley Wild
Band photo by Grace Gemuhluoglu

Declaration AD is –
Dan Drower, Dave Morrison, Kirk Hodgson, Sam Coates

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