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by Open Wounds

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1.
Rut 02:03
RUT Leave the house Go to work Every day it’s bad to worse Wear the mask Hide the truth Do what you’re supposed to do Looking back on the past Only corpses line the path Scared to leave the beaten tracks Left to face your own regrets Keep pretending everything’s alright Let them believe you live a perfect life You try to cover up the shit you hide Think we can’t see that you are dead inside Lost in your mind Look for an exit, look for a way out Lost in your mind No map or compass to give you directions Stuck in your life Wasting your days without a sense of purpose There's no more time This wretched life will be the end of you You keep pretending everything’s ok You keep pushing all your doubts away Wishing for a better day You keep pretending everything’s ok You keep pushing all your doubts away Hoping it will get better someday
2.
MAKE IT THROUGH Situation’s desperate It’s never been this bleak Nowhere to find hope Destruction impending On a massive scale No wonder we can’t cope There's no solution The chance is slim That we will make it through No escape, no refuge Nowhere to turn What else can we do… But try and try and try and try Stand up and fight back Stand up and fight... back Situation’s desperate It’s never been this bleak Nowhere to find hope Destruction impending On a massive scale No wonder we can’t cope There's no solution The chance is slim We can make it through No escape, no refuge Nowhere to turn What else can we do… But try and try and try and try Stand up and fight back Stand up and fight Must stand our ground Nowhere to run This is an uphill battle That has only just begun But we’ve got to try We’ve got to try We’ve got to try to make it Got to try to make it through
3.
SHADES OF GRAY All you see is opportunity You always have a plan You say you want to 'seize the day' But you just want to grab all you can You're just a greedy Excuse for a man Nothing but a greedy Excuse for a man All you see is inequality Your world's an unjust little hell Claiming you want to 'kill the rich' But really you just want to kill yourself You're just a bitter Excuse for a man Nothing but a bitter Excuse for a man It's not just 'either/or' There's more than 'against or for' It's not just wrong or right More complex than black and white Don't get me wrong I understand But my conclusions just aren't the same I'm a different kind of man
4.
DECADENCE WITHIN The sickness inside Is slowly spreading outward Can feel it under my skin Eating away at my flesh Gets harder every day To keep the wolves at bay Fighting myself The decadence within Is slowly spreading outward Can feel it festering Eating away at my soul Guess this is my fate It might just be too late Fighting myself I try so hard to let go But the rot has set in, I know This time I'm fighting myself
5.
CHARRED REMAINS Blind with hate Consumed by violence Bombs go off Nothing left but silence Broken bodies Broken minds Streets turn red People die Voids left in their family’s lives Can’t let hatred Win this fight, win this fight Can’t let violence Win this fight, win this fight Can’t let anger Win this fight, win this fight Got to keep our Hope alive, hope alive
6.
THE WOOL OVER OUR EYES Public losses Turned into private gains The rhetoric has changed But the game’s the same Lining pockets And growing fat When the bubble bursts Who’ll pay the price for that? The logic of this system, it is blinding us too Money is the drug and they got us hooked Do what we’re told in order to get paid Never asking questions till it’s far too late Haven’t learned Not in the slightest bit They bleed us dry And we accept it Smokescreens still work Unable to break through And expose to the world How they lie to you The clutches of this system they are shackling us to Money is the drug and they got us hooked Craving it so we can’t see straight They fucked us over and they got away They fucked us They fucked us over And they got away
7.
BACK AGAINST THE WALL Like a deer in the headlights Unable to move Lost so much already Got nothing left to lose A rope around my neck Back against the wall Fell so many times Now unable to stand Dust fills my lungs Face down in the sand A rope around my neck Back against the wall A blindfold over my eyes My back against the wall A rope around my wrists My back against the wall A blindfold over my eyes My back against the wall Noose around my neck And my back against the wall

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OPEN WOUNDS:
Jip Daems-Vocal
Marko Korac-Guitar
Gideon Ferrero-Bass
Laurens Hensen-Drums

Boy Van Egmond is our official drummer now

Rogier Heumakers played bass on tracks 1, 4, 6

Recorded @ studio Mono (Amsterdam) with Nils Feenstra over the course of November & December 2015. Mixed by Nils Feenstra in January 2016.
Mastered by Dan Randall @ Mammoth Sound Mastering

Front cover art by FreakCity

Refuse Records 120

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released March 29, 2016

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