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The Perfect Violence

by Mezzotint

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    First pressing of 'The Perfect Violence', our debut album. Recorded together but apart in lockdown isolation and fizzing with mythical pop culture references and gothic dreams...A self published, defiant and dreamy introduction to a band that invite you to dance wildly in the night with the dark old things.

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1.
The Dark Garden 05:31
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I hoped that my eyes would catch you Framed in bright moonlight and laughing A black ball gown sweeps the floor Skimming curves You hungrily watch my hips sway I drink you up Will you walk with me in the dark garden A living ossuary entwined and never parting Will you dance with me in the dark graveyard This love requires no breath This love must defy Death You sing ‘Cara Mia’ to me Locking eyes Kisses like moths dancing up my arm I offer up my neck blood red lips smiling In our home the children scream as they run around with knives Will you walk with me in the dark garden A living ossuary entwined and never parting Will you dance with me in the dark graveyard This love requires no breath This love must defy Death This love must be forever This love must never rot This love requires no breath This love must defy Death We tango beneath dead stars Melt into a perfect amorous chimera I lie with you in life my love Nothing changes in death I reach for your hand it’s still there Will you walk with me in the dark garden A living ossuary entwined and never parting Will you dance with me in the dark graveyard This love requires no breath This love must defy Death Will you walk with me in the dark garden A living ossuary entwined and never parting Will you dance with me in the dark graveyard This love requires no breath This love must defy Death This love must be forever This love must never rot This love requires no breath This love must defy Death Will you walk with me in the dark garden A living ossuary entwined and never parting Will you dance with me in the dark graveyard This love requires no breath This love must defy Death
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I Bite My Tongue 04:37
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I bite my tongue Until it bleeds I fight myself It feels sewn in I shock myself To make my heart beat I hoped to be good But I see you scream All you ever wanted was someone to love All I ever needed was someone to trust I was built to love you So why do you run Yes I was built to love you So where have you gone I run after you But never find home They chase me away I shiver I roam I shock myself To make my heart beat I try to be good But I see them scream All you ever wanted was someone to love All I ever needed was someone to trust I was built to love you So why do you run Yes I was built to love you So where have you gone You never meant to throw her in the lake You didn’t know what it might take You carried her all the way back home You didn’t know that she would break All you ever wanted was someone to love All I ever needed was someone to trust I was built to love you So why do you run Yes I was built to love you So where have you gone All you ever wanted was someone to love All I ever needed was someone to trust I was built to love you So why do you run Yes I was built to love you So where have you gone I was built to love you So where have you gone I was built to love you So where have you gone Where have you gone Where have you gone?
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To Dance With You 04:34
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We lay together But you don’t feel me Except in the drop In room temperature That chill in the air That kisses your bones You start to shiver Need to warm yourself And step into the day I follow you outside And I evaporate Flit into the shadows I pick up dry leaves And I can make them dance In the street In the street just the way Just the way I long to dance with you I brush my hand against your face And see the tiny hairs On the back of your neck rise I will wait for you forever In the corner of your eye Until the day the dead rise Sometimes you hold Your breath And I convince my self That maybe you have seen me The ghost of my heart flutters Into a whisper of a blush I brush my hand against your face And see the tiny hairs On the back of your neck rise I will wait for you forever In the corner of your eye Until the day the dead rise I pick up dry leaves And I can make them dance I pick up dry leaves And I can make them dance In the street In the street just the way I long to dance with you In the street In the street just the way I long to dance with you I long to dance with you
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I Run With Them (And They Run With Me) 04:20
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You left me in the dark In the middle of the forest I guess you hoped that I would languish there and die? But haven’t you heard the stories? I’m telling you They found me And now I’m running with them And they are running with me This wolf pack won’t forget I hope you’re fast upon your feet And you once told me that anyone who knew your real name had power over you… Hey, don’t steal Ursula’s lines man, that’s not fucking cool But that’s not the only thing you’ve stolen is it? That skin you wear is powerful Now Bjorn wants it back! He says you don’t deserve it any more Not after all the things you’ve done! So now we’re coming after you We’ll chase you half way round the earth No more howling at the moon The spells you cast no longer work I wanna taste your fear upon the air I want to see you running, running over there No more wasting time No more useless howling No more howling at the moon No more howling at the moon We’re gonna tear right into you I’m gonna crack your ribs wide open It’s still beating I sink my teeth in I wanna feel your blood running down my chin Every ebb of dark sorcery disappearing No more benefit of doubt Wanna see it all wash out No more hiding from your cruelty No more howling at the moon Were gonna tear right into you You don’t have me by the throat no more My hearts still beating I sink my teeth in Its still beating I sink my teeth in No more howling No more howling No more howling at the moon
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Amazon and Achilla 04:48
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I am so far from home You carried me Long over the sea You gave me a new name A price to my bones Gave me the short blade I am so so far from home From everything that I used to know I used to be free I used to be me I am so far from home You broke me down And formed me anew You made me your fighting puppet Uber marionette Pass me the short blade I am so so far from home Forgetting everything I used to know I used to be free I used to be me Amazon and Achilla Beat their shining Brest plates In the blinding sun Right now its death or glory Worked up into a scream The best woman must win Amazon and Achilla We trained together In the blinding sun Right now we bruise and we batter Our hearts both not in it But only one can win Amazon and Achilla Run circles round each other In the blinding sun It should be death or glory But out of respect The best women were done We threw our helmets down We threw our helmets down We threw our helmets down Gave ourselves up to the crowd Don’t Cry Jugular Cry Mercy Please Don’t Cry Jugular Don’t Cry Jugular Cry Mercy Please Don’t Cry Jugular
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I Was Human Once 03:37
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I feel so tired I can’t remember a time when I felt any thing else Eternally exhausted I care for nothing and no one not even my self I step out of my house The moon is high Put one foot heavy In front on the other Numb in my solitude When did I die I need to escape This awful half-life I was human once With memories and love and excitement in my heart Now I am Nothing I have nothing good and no one not even my self I approach the shoreline The moon is sinking Plant one foot heavy Beside the other The sky turns rosy It must be time I kiss goodbye To this hollow half-life I turn my face to meet the rising sun I finally feel for the first time in so long I turn my face to meet the rising sun She is so bright and burns fire into my smile Yes was human once With memories and love and excitement in my heart I think of you my love As I turn to dust and the wind lifts me up on the morning I turned my face to meet the sun
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Sledgehammer Annie 04:51
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I get into the car and drive Go into the mountains to hide I left you behind just like you asked But now you wont leave it in the past Everything was in your control You needed me to be your biggest fan When you had me you changed your plans You put a sledgehammer in my hand But you bloodied your own stumps We never said it out loud But everything was wrong I put on a brave face I never said it out loud But the whole goddamn thing was rotten It isn’t your Misery its Mine How dare you paint me As Sledgehammer Annie I run away deep into the tall pines How dare you paint me As Sledgehammer Annie I get into the car and I drive Go into the city and thrive I thought I’d done just as you asked Yet still you won’t leave it in the past No longer caught in your control You needed me to be your biggest fan But when you had me you changed your plans You put a sledgehammer in my hand It isn’t your Misery its Mine How dare you paint me As Sledgehammer Annie I run away deep into the tall pines How dare you paint me As Sledgehammer Annie It isn’t your Misery its Mine How dare you paint me As Sledgehammer Annie I run away deep into the tall pines How dare you paint me As Sledgehammer Annie
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The Perfect Violence 03:31
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These little deaths I offer them to you As they add up Tell me what you’ll do Will you tire of the throes, My slowly closing eyes Or escalate, escalate, escalate It’s too late to make a change Now I’m bound up in your chains The perfect violence We scream in silence And if I fatigue If I am done with you Do I cut you up Oh, Tell me what you’ll do Will you try to hold on, Or will you let me go Bury me, bury me, bury me Shadows in the veil, We hunt in the moonlight Then we dance in eternal decay It’s too late we made the change Now I’m coursing through your veins The perfect violence We scream in silence We scream We scream We scream We scream The perfect violence We scream in silence Would you like to make the change? I’ll hold my breath you wrap the chains The perfect violence We scream in silence We scream in silence
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Her Lovely Face 04:34
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The sun comes up And I lay here The sun goes down And I stay here When will you come and end this I can no longer pretend this This dressing gown Is no more than My funeral shroud I am no more than this The moon rises Swings her lovely face around I can’t find comfort I despise it Her kisses cold upon my frown This dressing gown Is no more than My funeral shroud I am no more than this A self isolating bride I take a flame to my own gown And this self isolating bride Will sit and watch it all burn down When will you come and end this When will you come? I can no longer pretend this I can no longer Pretend The moon rises Swings her lovely face around I can’t find comfort I despise it Her kisses cold upon my frown
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The End Of Days Is Here 07:04
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I was long dead And loving it Until you came along You made my heart Beat beat beat And I hated you For doing it I was damned to hell And loving it Until you came along You gave me back My poets soul And I suffered For having it Now I’m Running Through Blasted streets Poor Sunnydale I’ve come a long way love Since I crashed Through the sign Into your night We lit fires And we haunted My crypt in secret And in spite We pulled apart We came together We howled wildly In the night I didn’t know how to love Till it was too late I didn’t know what it was Until I went too far I’m glad we came through it We’ve both been to hell and back And now the end of days is here And I will fight with you my dear I run to be by your side I trade in your soul for mine The world needs a champion You were mine The world needs a champion Hell needs a life It’s my time It’s my time Its Mine I wanna see how it ends You told me You loved me At the very end I know That you don’t But it was nice of you to say. I watched the world Start to crumble in One last look and you ran Get on the yellow bus My love I’ll close the Hellmouth with a smile And now the end of days is here And I will fight with you my dear I run to be by your side I trade in your soul for mine The world needs a champion You were mine The world needs a champion Hell needs a life It’s my time It’s my time Its Mine I wanna see how it ends I watched the world start To crumble in One last look and you ran Get on the yellow bus My love I’ll close the Hellmouth with a smile

about

Written and Performed by
Gemma Abbott : Vocals
Lewis Walker : Lead and Rhythm Guitars
Chris Saunders : Guitar, Bass, Programming

Mastered by Lee Carter at The Old Workshop, Halstead Essex

Recorded at Various Places Around Essex
Mixed at the Haunted Cottage, Bocking, Essex

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released April 6, 2020

Thanks To : Lee Carter, Jim Howard, Charlotte Searle, Lolly Garwood, Lucy Weekes, Ian Lane, Jack Burley, Stafford Glover, Ana Ospina, Deedee, Mabel, Tilly Atherton, Molly Dog, Mike Robert Lee, Wes Stubbings, John Hewson, Elinor Rowlands, Sammy Carlton, Rob Saunders, Chris Houghton, Mums and Dads, The Barnetsons, The Addams Family, BBC Four (Bettany Hughes), Bram Stoker, Charles Dickens, Buffy, and of course, all the children of the night, what music they make.

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