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(Recognition)

Sweetheart?! Can you hear me?!
Because in all of the days, and weeks, and months since I’ve seen your face, I still have yet to grow accustomed to the pain and loneliness I found now in this broken place. In this God forsaken "Valley of the Shadow of Abandonment", I hold a longing memory of a cold, forgotten sentiment. Long since buried beneath the rotting compost and ever shifting, ever sinking sediment. It forms my soul into a garden, for which I pray my heart remains a nutrient rich, growth enhancing element and spreads throughout the soil to grow once more the love that once stood brilliantly in the grandeur of its reverence. Love that now lays trampled under the feet of a greedy pervert with sticky fingers and lusting eyes. A vicious thief that sought relief in planting seeds within the space between my lover's thighs! And if my soul has always been this beautiful garden that held the contents of a fragile heart, then the soil has now hardened to unbreakable marble in a failed attempt to keep it all from falling completely apart. I have since tried to put up walls and scarecrows to keep these inevitable enemies from making their way over to me, but as you once feared, I let Fear draw close within the fading facade that I now know as boundaries. She brought along a familiar friend I remember you said, close to the end, that you had found a fear in thinking I might find, so I closed my eyes and compromised it all to feel the creeping hands of Bitterness that began to lurk within my mind. I let her whisper lies and lullabies, as she told me she loved me again and again. And even if her luring eyes may simply be disguise, at least I know she never gave her body to the lusting of another man. Honestly, how many soft glances and empty words did it take for him to convince you to abandon all the beauty we had sown?! Because from now on with every choice you make, I pray you feel the weight of leaving me to tend this garden all alone! All I ever did was try my best to fully love you, even though it seems I failed you in the bitter end, but now it seems my walls will stand above you, in between us, so my heart can take its roots in better soil with the hope that it can fully mend.
(But we both know it's not that easy just to move on from one of the greatest loves you’d felt you'd ever known. Somewhere deep inside, I kneel in dirt and mud and dig to find a lone surviving seed of hope
that I could use to bring me home. And pray to God that love could flourish once again if planted in the remnants of the soil where it had grown…)

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from Absolution (& Redemption), released June 25, 2017

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theLionhearted Allentown, Pennsylvania

theLionhearted is an alternative/indie/emo band from Allentown, Pennsylvania. Whether by sole member, Richie-Pete Ares, or with the help of some friends, theLionhearted aims to bring a deeply emotional musical experience to share with anyone willing to come and be a part. ... more

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