Proving Grounds

By Stolas

On Allomaternal

Released on November 7, 2014

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[Verse: Jason Weiche]

The Hunter wakes and feels hungry

Neglecting time will kill the weak

No medicine will come of rain

Craving wonder in a mystery

Out of arrows, so she plants the seeds

A solid promise to feed a need to worry

[Chorus: Carlo Marquez, Jason Weiche]

Hands that come alive

Grasping at the tree line

Hands free of all care

(Hands that guide the knife)

Take what you want and discard your vices

What will you sacrifice to live this way?

Betraying the distance, you better stay out

[Verse: Jason Weiche, Carlo Marquez]

Take what you want, discard your vices

What will you sacrifice to live this way?

The melody invisible at the moment it’s first witnessed

So just breathe, I can't with so much air alive

To grant life the weak can only see

[Chorus: Carlo Marquez, Jason Weiche]

Hands that come alive

Grasping at the tree line

Hands free of all care

(Hands that guide the knife)

Take what you want and discard your vices

What will you sacrifice to live this way?

Betraying the distance, you better stay out


[Verse: Carlo Marquez]

Her mouth is stitched

With roots the earth refused to keep

She speaks escape in every place we sleep

Her hands, soft skin

A cure clawing for disease

The serpent with its tail between its teeth

Her eyes made bright

With candles hewn from careful bones

The wax, it wanders, winds her throat

Her breath is so loud, oh

Her mouth is stitched

With roots the earth refused to keep

She speaks escape and now

I can't leave her, flying out all on her own

You see the trembling on the ends of her wings?

Because of you, it’s been shaking so consistently


[Verse: Carlo Marquez]

Leave behind the ghosts

Leave behind the fires of home

Every ounce of hope

Is lost in the steps that we don’t know

Leave behind the ghosts

Leave behind the fires of home

[Outro: Jason Weiche, Carlo Marquez]

Every ounce of hope

Hands that guide

Hands that guide the sharp edge

Sharp edge will turn towards the rope