Cloisters

by Cowardice

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about

"Cloisters" is the first single off of the upcoming double album from Cowardice titled "Atavist"

Written and performed by Cowardice

Cowardice is:
Julian Cardazone - Guitar
Nick Zwiren - Guitar
Stephen Edwards - Bass
Chris Ward - Drums
Mark Guiliano - Vocals

Additional vocals by Kate Parker

Recorded by Scot Moriarty at Backroom Studios
Mixed by Scott Evans at Antisleep Audio
Mastered by Magnus Lindberg at Redmount Studios
Presented by Burning World Records & Riff Merchant Records

lyrics

Why
Must we tolerate

The asphyxiation
The distance

The restraints
They bind us with
And the cells we abide

We pass by
Without a word
As we circumambulate

It’s simple and quiet
To shelter inside
But it comes with a price

We may humble our minds
And conquer desire
But we are alive no less

They coldly spy
With despotic eyes
And scan for impieties

When they moralize
We internalize
Their odious rhetoric

And all the while
These zealots and tyrants
Sap their flocks of vitality

Their empty lives
Cheap and vulgarized
By their condescension

As we are deprived
They privatize
and deflect those who question

Look deep inside
you remember the lies
you only supress
the memory

It’s simple and quiet
To shelter inside
But it comes with a price

We may humble our minds
And conquer desire
But we are alive no less

They coldly spy
With depositic eyes
And scan for impieties

When they moralize
We internalize
Their odious rhetoric

And all the while
These zealots and tyrants
Sap their flocks of vitality

Their empty lives
Cheap and vulgarized
By their condescension

These are our lives

These are our lives

These are our lives in the cloisters