1 |
Charli XCX |
"Gone" |
single |
Don't give up yet. |
2 |
KÁRYYN |
"YAJNA - Edit" |
single |
The water in your shoes and the bile in your throat rise, |
3 |
Jadu Heart |
"The Omen" |
single |
and the racists and typhoons take heart from our weaknesses, |
4 |
Josie Pace |
"Fire" |
single |
but apocalypses are not a complacent force |
5 |
Secret Treehouse |
"Do You Remember" |
single |
to be invoked by victors on technicalities. |
6 |
Vivian Girls |
"Sick" |
single |
We are sapped and blurred, |
7 |
Lingua Ignota |
"IF THE POISON WON'T TAKE YOU MY DOGS WILL" |
CALIGULA |
but not denatured or yet divided from our power. |
8 |
PitchBlack |
"I Spit Blood" |
All Black |
Do not give up yet, and hold this axe for a second, |
9 |
Moljebka Pvlse |
"An Emptiness of Language" |
Komoku |
or a night of wordless labor. |
10 |
Diocletian |
"Nuclear Wolves" |
single |
Darkness and atomic structure rebel, |
11 |
Eviction |
"Terusir Dari Tanah Sendiri" |
single |
and you bear their sigils in your eyes in the moonlight. |
12 |
Ars Veneficium |
"A Thousand Weeping Angels" |
In Death's Cold Embrace 2 |
Anthems are the noise of crumbling temples, |
13 |
Plague of Carcosa |
"Crawling Chaos" |
Ocean Is More Ancient Than the Mountains 2 |
and if you're going to hold that axe, |
14 |
Burning Witches |
"Wings of Steel" |
single |
you may as well hold it above your head. |
15 |
Brocelian |
"Speed of Light" |
Guardians of Brocéliande |
We pass through paradise with the windows up, |
16 |
FAKE ISLAND |
"Throw Down" |
Throw Down +2 |
uncertain even to ourselves whether we're more impatient or distrustful, |
17 |
Voodoo KungFu |
"Mongolian Stallion" |
single |
but sure we don't want to die the way these people live. |
18 |
Frozen Dreams |
"The Night of No Tomorrow" |
Rising from the Ashes |
Look at their finite houses, |
19 |
Fear Of Domination |
"Dead Weight" |
single |
and the way their streets are named after dead people and lead to graves. |
20 |
Tigersclaw |
"The Fallen Queen" |
single |
Other people's origin myths reek of inevitable defeat, |
21 |
Xiphea |
"The Cave Of The Golden Rose - Part I - The Prophecy" |
single |
and their deep caves of muttering about entrapment and sulfur and cloves. |
22 |
Twilight Force |
"Dawn of the Dragonstar" |
single |
But once a year, when the sunrise aligns with the narrow gaps between your fears |
23 |
Sabaton |
"The Future Of Warfare" |
The Great War |
and your grimmest lessons, |
24 |
SoulHealer |
"Don't Shoot the Dancing Dwarf" |
single |
you can see the way back out. |
25 |
Freedom Call |
"M.E.T.A.L." |
single |
Stand up, walk out, don't give up yet. |
26 |
Andromida |
"Dissimulation" |
single |
It's never half as simple as they want you to believe, |
27 |
Valis Ablaze |
"Neon Dreaming" |
Render |
or a tenth as dark. |
28 |
Prison Religion |
"EFT" |
single |
If you're going to hold that axe above your head, |
29 |
VIKING_DEATH_TRAP.EXE |
"FUCK_YOU_HOLD_KJÆFT" |
single |
you should probably wear this helmet. |
30 |
LION |
"生而非凡" |
single |
All of these temporary heights are rogue provinces |
31 |
J |
"the Beginning" |
Limittless |
of the void or the sun, |
32 |
LACCO TOWER |
"若者" |
single |
asserting a moment of self-determination |
33 |
NOTHING TO DECLARE |
"Another Light" |
single |
and spending it on capes and insignia. |
34 |
Mary's Blood |
"エイム" |
CONFESSiONS |
We are teams disguised as cultures, |
35 |
Mashiro Ayano |
"Glamorous Sky" |
Get Over / Confession / Glamorous Sky 5 |
waving axes as flags, or flags as axes, |
36 |
Soraru |
"幻日" |
ワンダー |
and trying to make the faces we would make if the difference mattered. |
37 |
Mrs. GREEN APPLE |
"インフェルノ" |
single |
It does matter, of course, |
38 |
AIRFLIP |
"Meaning" |
single |
that and truth, |
39 |
DAY6 |
"For me" |
The Book of Us : Gravity 6 |
and either should be enough, but even together they are not. |
40 |
LAMP IN TERREN |
"White Like Me" |
single |
We have attributed color to blankness, and so never see ourselves as blank. |
41 |
Miyuu |
"Exceed" |
HERE COMES THE SOUND! |
We need to start over, but it's so hard to let go. |
42 |
RADWIMPS |
"Celebration (Movie Edit) [feat. Toko Miura]" |
Weathering With You |
We need to reach this moment perfect, to divest ourselves of all of these factions. |
43 |
TFBOYS |
"我的朋友" |
single |
It's hard to dance with an axe, |
44 |
Stitched Up Heart |
"Problems" |
Problems +2 |
but if you're going to dance with an axe, |
45 |
18th & Addison |
"Leeches" |
single |
you better have a river in mind for this blood. |
46 |
Ariel Beesley |
"Palm Springs" |
Palm Springs +1 |
We need to start over, but we cannot tear ourselves away from what we have loved. |
47 |
Amaral |
"Bien Alta la Mirada" |
single |
We are dragons just under the surface of our skin, |
48 |
The Menzingers |
"Anna" |
single |
coiled in circles in an empty room, |
49 |
Field Mouse |
"In Blue" |
single |
trying to forget the rules of spaces we still inhabit. |
50 |
Cariño |
":(" |
single |
If you can learn to dance with an axe, |
51 |
Black Gryph0n |
"Letdown" |
single |
you can no longer be held apart by partitions. |
52 |
Astari Nite |
"Dearly Beloved" |
single |
There is love in your teeth and hope in your hands, |
53 |
Wreck and Reference |
"A Mirror" |
Absolute Still Life |
and if you can learn to see yourself in each of these other faces, |
54 |
Karliene |
"The Beating of Her Wings" |
single |
you can rend yourself from any nominal destiny. |
55 |
Cantus Levitas |
"Windkreis" |
single |
These winds are encircled systems, |
56 |
Elevation Worship |
"No Se Detendrá (Won't Stop Now)" |
Aleluya (En La Tierra) |
but never closed, because there is nothing real above us. |
57 |
Rheostatics |
"Rearview" |
single |
There are ways, and all the ways are ours. |
58 |
La Beriso |
"Inmortal" |
single |
The axes we have held, the racists will not raise, |
59 |
Murdok |
"Niña" |
single |
and thus this war-posturing ends when we lay the last one down. |
60 |
Marathonmann |
"Totgeglaubt" |
Die Angst sitzt neben dir |
In the right light, one day, we will be able to read the words on the surface of the metal. |
61 |
Leander Kills |
"Csak te - 10 év" |
single |
They say something about peace as a function not of security but of direction, |
62 |
Gay Paris |
"Sleep Armada" |
single |
in runes from a language designed for curses by saints. |
63 |
Visions |
"Traces" |
Temples |
They speak of grace in a cryptic argot of resistance. |
64 |
MEMBA |
"Inevitable" |
single |
They say "This is perfect, and that's how we know it is finished. Tomorrow we start over |
65 |
Zanda Zakuza |
"Love You As You Are" |
single |
with nothing but what we have broken." |
66 |
Helalyn Flowers |
"Tetrachromatic" |
Tetrachromatic |
We have dreamt with these same axes, so long before you, |
67 |
Jo Blankenburg |
"Autocracy" |
Sacrosanct |
about everything that in the moment seems to part before blades. |
68 |
Aleksi Perälä |
"FI3AC1927010" |
Presence |
You dream that the edge will cut our voices into silence, |
69 |
Nightcore Dreams |
"Dancing on My Own (Switching Vocals)" |
single |
but it hums around our heads with every intended motion, rings harmonic in our circulation with the slightest loving touch. |