Josi
The whole album is an absolute banger! It brings me back to the very small and sweaty club in Hannover. Love every second of the record and am looking forward to when it arrives.
Favorite track: Bare My Soul (Live at Privatclub, Berlin 2022).
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When all's been said and done
And another day's begun.
When the lines go on and on
And all you've got is gone.
You've doused yourself in sin
And the daylight's creeping in.
When the shadows start to grow - oh!
Maybe it's time to go
Maybe it's time to go
Maybe it's time to go.
When all's been said and done
No distance left to run.
When the emptiness arrives
And there's nowhere left to hide.
When it's stacking up inside
From the corners of your mind.
When the teardrops start to flow - oh!
Maybe it's time to go
Maybe it's time to go
Baby I've got the monsters
Baby I've got the monsters
Baby I've got the monsters
Baby I've got the monsters
Again.
Baby I've got the monsters
Baby I've got the monsters
Baby I've got the monsters
Again.
Maybe it's time to go
Maybe it's time to go
Baby I've got the monsters
Baby I've got the monsters
Baby I've got the monsters
Baby I've got the monsters
Again.
Baby I've got the monsters
Baby I've got the monsters
Baby I've got the monsters
Again.
They're creeping up
Again.
They're creeping up
Again.
They're creeping up
Again.
They're creeping up
Again.
My heart is an empty vessel
Drifting out to sea
I try my best to be
What you want me to be.
You can try and help me
You could drown me gently
You could tell me all of the things that
I want you to say
And you
You could walk away
Empty handed.
I hear running water
Hear you knocking on the door.
I spent an hour or more
Just lying on the bathroom floor.
You can try and help me
You could drown me gently
You could tell me all of the things that
I want you to say
And you
You could walk away
Empty handed
The wave that came has broken
And the void has swallowed me
A door before me stands ajar
I thought I'd run but I'm not free.
You can try and help me
You could drown me gently
You could tell me all of the things that
I want you to say
And you
You could walk away
Empty handed
What darkened pathway brought us here?
Our primal instincts drove our fear.
Released, we were lost in an instant.
Love made us blind despite our resistance.
Do we go back in time again?
See who was wrong and who's to blame?
We fell into routine and madness
Overly burdened with all of our sadness.
Release these strings I feel
Let, go this unrelenting wheel of fate.
Drowning in these moods
So well-defined but
I cannot be without, you
Making worlds in my head
Aching, still chasing
Dreams that you made for me.
What motion sickness grows inside?
Overexposed and still denied.
Reprieve made us colder and distant
Lost in our thoughts despite your insistence.
Do we go back in time again?
See who was wrong and who's to blame?
We fell into routine and madness
Overly burdened with all of our sadness.
Release these strings I feel
Let go this unrelenting wheel of fate.
Drowning in these moods
So well defined but
I cannot be without, you
Making worlds in my head
Aching, still chasing
Dreams that you made for me.
I cannot be without, you
Making worlds in my head
Aching, still chasing
Dreams that you made for me.
I'm too afraid to put down in words
All the thoughts I've been keeping
On the tip of my tongue for too long.
And you're too scared of being alone
To be by yourself
Long enough to feel fine
In your own skin.
But I see you've moved on
A little too fast
For me to believe
You've left the past behind.
I'm just another boy
With a bruised ego
Who can never let go
Of something he didn't know
He had at the time.
Isn't it always the same?
I'm too afraid to put down in words
All the thoughts I've been hiding
In the back of my mind for so long.
You say a year is plenty of time
To be by myself
Long enough to feel fine.
In my own skin.
But I see you've moved on
A little too fast
For me to believe
You've left the past behind.
I'm just another boy
With a bruised ego
Who can never let go
Of something he didn't know
He had at the time.
Isn't it always the same?
But I see you've moved on
A little too fast
For me to believe
You've left the past behind.
I'm just another boy
With a bruised ego
Who can never let go
Of something he didn't know
He had at the time.
Isn't it always the same?
Stephen said why not write something
That’s not so deep and meaningful?
But the truth can be so,
Tragic and beautiful.
Blythe said she could never
Tell anyone just how she feels.
How will anyone know when,
She caves in and it all gets real?
I want to bare my soul -
In a way that no one can.
In the hope that
some of you might understand
How it feels
To be so alone.
To be so alone.
To be so alone.
Cassandra said she’d lost the plot
When she stopped the car to drop me off.
I watched her disappear
Her face reflected in the rear-view mirror.
Sophie woke me in the dead of night
To tell me how her dad had died.
I lie here in the dark but,
Now there’s nowhere left to hide.
I want to bare my soul
In a way that no one can.
In the hope that,
Some of you might understand
How it feels
To be so alone.
I want to bare my soul
In a way that no one can.
In the hope that,
Some of you might understand
How it feels
To be so alone.
I need a break from this vampire town
It sucks my blood and leaves me to drown
In a lover’s bed I might rest my head
But don’t go thinking I’ve left you for dead.
The wind blows around these tired feet
That push me always down a one way street
You know I love you all I need is time
What’s yours is yours and what’s mine is mine
And I know that we, will always be friends
And I know that we, will always be friends
And I know that we, will always be friends
And I know that we, will always be friends
I wrote you a letter there’s no need to reply
I’ll be the one who always swallows his pride.
I believe in destiny, I believe in fate
I believe it’s never going to be too late
And I know that we, will always be friends
And I know that we, will always be friends
And I know that we, will always be friends
And I know that we, will always be friends
Please don’t tell me, you think it’s too late.
I’m not ready, to accept this fate.
The seas will rise, to reclaim the land
And we’ll realise, we are still so small.
Peace be with you, when the lights go out.
Hearts are heavy, overcome by doubt.
Seas will rise, to reclaim the land
And we’ll realise, we are still so small.
Ooh, we run like tears through the flood of
Holy rivers.
We run like tears through the flood of
Holy rivers.
Please don’t tell me, we can not prevail.
Heaven help me, if we are to fail.
Seas will rise, to reclaim the land
And we’ll realise, we are still so small.
Ooh, we run like tears through the flood of
Holy rivers.
We run like tears through the flood of
Holy rivers.
We run like tears through the flood of
Holy rivers.
We run like tears through the flood of
Holy rivers.
We run like tears through the flood of
Holy rivers.
We run like tears through the flood of
Holy rivers.
We run like tears through the flood of
Holy rivers.
We run like tears through the flood of
Holy rivers.
Take me
Contain me in your womb
Don't give me room to breathe.
Suffocate me
Reinstate me in you.
I am falling apart, I am
Falling apart tonight.
Just imprison me and
Shower me with light.
Choke me
Envelope me inside
I know you see through each disguise.
Swallow me
I cannot cope with life.
You said there's too many people
On this earth anyway.
And we're not going to get
Very, far if we run away.
Consume me
Consume me with your love.
Rejuvenate me
Come and take me away.
Consume me
Consume me with your love.
Rejuvenate me
Come and take me away.
Break me
Rebuild me your own way
I have been this shape too long.
Disintegrate me
Invigorate me anew.
You said there's too many people
On this earth anyway.
And we're not going to get
Very, far if we run away.
Consume me
Consume me with your love.
Rejuvenate me
Come and take me away.
Consume me
Consume me with your love.
Rejuvenate me
Come and take me away.
Consume me
Consume me
Consume me
Consume me
Consume me
Consume me
Consume me
Consume me
Stay close to your television tonight
Wrap your arms around its cold, dull light.
‘Cause it’s a low, lonely time to be alive.
It’s a low, lonely time to be alive.
Tell me how many people do you really know?
How long will it be before they go?
I don’t know...
It’s a low, lonely time to be alive.
It’s a low, lonely time to be alive.
Everything you do will be erased.
The moment that you leave, you’ll be replaced
And you won’t know.
It’s a low, lonely time to be alive.
It’s a low, lonely time to be alive.
I’ve been waiting for something
That never comes.
And everything of any worth’s been done.
And I’ve been living in here
With mediocrity, surrounding me.
And I’ve been living in fear of disappearing
No one hearing me.
It’s a low, lonely time to be alive.
It’s a low, lonely time to be alive.
It’s a low, lonely time to be alive.
It’s a low, lonely time to be alive.
For all your doubts I will be strong.
The more you put me through
The more, I will belong to you.
And I long to be free from this apathy.
I'm sick of playing mind games
In your basement flat in Chelsea.
So tell me what you want from me
And I promise I will be
More than you need.
At the end of Hollywood Road you fell apart.
You could blame the cocaine,
You could, blame an empty heart.
But I long to be, long to belong.
I long to be, long to belong.
So tell me what you want from me
And I promise I will be
More than you need.
There is no substitute for love
No feeling
Tell me when you’ve had enough.
There is no substitute for love
No feeling
Tell me when you’ve had enough.
There is no substitute for love
No feeling
Tell me when you’ve had enough.
There is no substitute for love
No feeling
Tell me when you’ve had enough.
There is no substitute for love
No feeling
Tell me when you’ve had enough.
There is no substitute for love
No feeling
Tell me when you’ve had enough.
There is no substitute for love
No feeling
Tell me when you’ve had enough.
There is no substitute for love
No feeling
Tell me when you’ve had enough.
All of my dreams have flown away
All of my ambition with the wind
Now you’re here.
I never thought I would be satisfied
With anything I had
Now I’m not so sure.
I waited so long for you
Now you’re here I don’t know what to do
With you.
I went hunting for love
When I thought I’d lose.
I meant to shoot down a dove
Shot an angel instead.
And now she wakes up every day and she invites
All of my demons to play.
Fade in fade out like a musical
Rhythm and rhyme in time
Our heart beats sing
Just to remind you we’re still alive in here.
I waited so long for you
Now you’re here I don’t know what to do
With you.
I went hunting for love
When I thought I’d lose.
I meant to shoot down a dove
Shot an angel instead.
And now she wakes up every day and she invites
All of my demons to play.
Well I love her, I hate her
I abhor her, I adore her
Just the same, just the same
Just the same, just the same.
Well I love her, I hate her
I abhor her, I adore her
Just the same, just the same
Just the same, just the same.
Scared of losing touch
If I really mean that much
Why pretend that you love him?
Don't call me out the blue
When it's clear that I still do
And you know he knows it too.
Going home alone
The only love I've known
It's always been you.
It’s always been you.
Tell me it's not real
Tell me he doesn't make you feel
The way I made you feel.
If you care for me at all
You'll hang up when I call
You'll clear me space to fall.
If you give I will receive
And despite what they believe
It's always been you.
It's always been you.
It’s always been you.
When you're feeling alone
And you're colder than stone
Call me you know...
It's always been you.
about
Empathy Test's first live album, recorded live, on their 2022 headline tour of Germany. No overdubs, no autotune or pitch correction, just the raw recordings mixed and mastered by non-performing producer member, Adam Relf.
credits
released September 23, 2022
All songs written by Isaac Howlett and Adam Relf except Monsters (Howlett, Relf, Marson, Lopez) and Skin and Making Worlds (Howlett, Relf, Marson). Live keyboards by Oliver Marson. Live drums by Christina Lopez (tracks 1,4,6,10,11,12) and David Leisser (tracks 2,3,5,7,8,9). Recorded by Philip Frech (Augsburg and Munich), Juan Felipe Rehm (Berlin) and Henning Thurow (Hamburg). Mixed and mastered by Adam Relf. Front cover photograph by Dagmar Urlbauer.
London (UK) based electronic pop group. As heard on MTV Catfish, Luis Miguel on Netflix, KCRW, BBC Introducing, Clash, Idolator, Line of Best Fit, Earmilk, PopMatters and many more.
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