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Bear the Weight

Bear the Weight has gone through a few different structure changes since we first formed the skeleton for the song back in 2019, but contains one of our collective favourite choruses. Lyrically it is one of the conceptual on the record; it is written from the perspective of one of thousands of workers, working on a building / structure of massive scale against their will. They are merely a number, and the only thing to relieve them of their duties is death - however they know they will only be replaced by someone else, so to prevent someone going through what they have experienced, they continue. ‘We bear the weight, to defend the man who would fall in your place’.

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Bear the Weight

Strip me to my core
Close these vacant doors
Just to be sure
We’ve been hollowed out
Knees and heads bowed
Then drowned in our doubt
Lies come from their mouths Just you wait ’til the world falls apart
We bear the weight
To defend the man who would Fall in your place at the hands Of a king who is lost
See how we’re bled dry?
The sky runs red tonight
Veins torn open wide
Alone is how we die
They consume
Blood spills from the open wound Cut too deep to start to heal The only thing we’ll ever feel
Try to make the moment last Even when they break your back This might be the only time You’ll know you’re alive
We bear the weight
To defend the man who would Fall in your place at the hands Of a king who is lost
The view of the horizon
Must be nice from up inside The ivory tower
So sit and find watching
Though eyes so blind that
Nothing ever could go wrong
We bear the weight
To defend the man who would Fall in your place at the hands Of a king who is lost

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from Dancing in the Face Of Danger, track released February 16, 2023
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