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The Way They Are

by Another Approach

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Scarytale 05:59
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Verse: I’ll tell you a story Enthral you one by one with spectres, crime, anomalies ‘til you become undone A vivid adventure That you’ll take part with me From the safety of your homes I’ll satisfy your plea Pre-Chorus: See the bloodstains on the walls Excitement for anxiety, wonder-stricken you’ll want to flee Chorus: You called for me Now dance with me Forget all concern, the past will return When you breathe in the ashes of fear-fuelled patricide Purge it all Just heed my call History recurved For the story you deserved Will you hear my scary tale? Fiddling with your mind Turning friend to foe Synapses collapse As I describe the scenario Eyes open up in awe Tension starts to build A sick rush of adrenaline That could get us all killed Pre-Chorus Chorus Act II: Remorse Crushed by tides of time Nothing left of our spark divine Covered by a layer of dust Destruction caused by a lack of trust Chorus II: And we drown in remorse, while reality tells Of a species all made up of empty shells This new anxiety, born out of war Fills our addicted minds, with excitement no more Chorus II
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Electric Love 07:37
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Open eyes in numb fixation suck in this pure sensation It’s been so long since I have felt you touch me Wake up and think about you can’t sleep at night without you I steal away from work to get you anywhere! Try to get away sometimes find a familiar feeling like the one I lost but I resign and I give in to you Tell me that you need me! The only one I trust Engulf me with electric love! Have you heard of love at first sight? Gave me all that I’d never find Plant a need in my young mind And lead me slowly, lead me slowly, slowly astray Gotta get immobilized, desensitized in each and every way When you feed me lies and then disguise your abnormality So has this now become my way? I cannot feel my own hand touching me! I doubt that we were meant to be When you take me slowly, make me lonely, lonely apathy Try to get away sometimes find a familiar feeling like the one I lost but I resign and I give in to you Tell me that you need me! The only one I trust Engulf me with electric love! Electric Love! All that remains, Is my last desire As I’m sitting here, locked up in my own room contemplating the praised but boring reality A flash of light rushes across the walls The urge to invoke a world so colourful, plentiful and twisted with just a single twitch overwhelms me So I give in But they refuse to show me the way they are! Have you heard of love at first sight? Gave me all that I’d never find Plant a need in my young mind And lead me slowly, lead me slowly, slowly astray Gotta get immobilized, desensitized in each and every way When you feed me lies and then disguise your abnormality So has this now become my way? I cannot feel my own hand touching me! I doubt that we were meant to be When you take me slowly, make me lonely, lonely apathy Try to get away sometimes find a familiar feeling like the one I lost but I resign and I give in to you Tell me that you need me! The only one I trust Engulf me with electric love!
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Today 04:02
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Slow it down, slow it down make it fade away In a way, in a way a line must be drawn drawn today Go around, go around on this looping road There’s no end, there’s no end as long we pretend I’ll just stay Turn the clock, month to year it all passes by You’ll be you; I’ll be me but what do we become today? Maybe your light can guide beyond now but it casts shadows on today Now tomorrow seems so hollow Maybe it’s always been this way? Can you tell, can you tell who really drives my smile? Feeling bland, feeling bland has become the only taste Just repeat, just repeat give it back to me all the same, all the same but tomorrow a perfect yesterday Maybe your light can guide beyond now but it casts shadows on today Now tomorrow seems so hollow Maybe it’s always been this way? Slow it down, slow it down Make it fade away In a way, in a way a line has been drawn drawn today
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Still Alive 09:54
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Hey, Hey, Hey! Do you remember me? Your oldest friend They all say, we are doing fine the oldest lie Look at yourself You turned into someone else Looking at myself reaching for a turning back Hey! (4x) I’m still alive under your heel I’m the engine of the burning car you steer I’m still alive Oh can’t you see Your unsustainable exhaust is burning through all of me! Hey, Hey, Hey! I am warning you The oldest threat I understand that I can’t compete top priority Look at yourself… Hey! (4x) Refrain (I’m still alive) Listen up! Your mother’s calling hear her crying Blood-thick tears, they are falling In need of drying Violence, rage, newspapers front page Whips and lashes, trees turned into ashes Innocent creatures slaughtered, nobody really bothered Growing children fall, no one hears their call How can you squeeze everything into your last breath hoping that there is more to have! Wake up, prepare! You’re my rightful heir I’ve been your dream but you made me become your own nightmare Soon we’re standing at the brink of extinction wishing for one more sunrise Try and tell your children tomorrow was sold to yesterday We’ve been doing wrong and that bond so strong drags us down with her What did we expect from fighting imagined lines in real wars and the compromise we reach is to tear the world apart We’ve been doing… Many times we’ve lied to ourselves while teaching others how to help resting on possessions that come and go to dirt We’ve been doing… Could we only go back would that help? or would we only find another road to hell? We’ve been doing wrong and that bond so strong makes us responsible Looking at myself this is my challenge I’m still alive under your heel I’m the engine of the burning car you steer I’m still alive Oh can’t you see Your unsustainable exhaust is burning through all of me! (2x)
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Rain of Tears 06:34
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In this pour of salt and pain attempt to flee from my escape In the shadow of the sun I found myself and came undone And I’ve seen it all before it’s just the way that things must go It’s what I get from all those years A rain of tears A roar of silence fills my head when I pardon through a threat Take the reins off of me I’m in charge, I am free And I’ve seen it all before it’s just the way that things must go It’s what I get from all those years Falling on the spot right where your cheek left mine wet echoes from distant times And if they dry at all might leave a nasty scar It’s up to you to carry on defy the rain After the storm I rise anew feet on the ground, prepared to fall I close my eyes and look forlorn even the clouds are moving on And I’ve seen it all before it’s just the way that things must go It’s what I get from all those years Falling on the spot right where your cheek left mine wet echoes from distant times And if they dry at all might leave a nasty scar It’s up to you to carry on defy the rain
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Moratorium 06:15
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It must be hard on you Now you see things as I do Labouring harder at the verge of despair But everyone tells you that it is just fair I don’t see What you promised me If you keep spinning me I won’t fit into society A believer is a coward unable to spot That everyone follows his own selfish plot Don’t show me What I can’t achieve Led by nothing I found the same Compromise will make you tame Embrace the mediocrity An Illusion of security But I see it everyday True love fades away So what is there to stay? If it is not you It’s not supposed to be a race And we’re allegedly the same Now you spread your wings and fly But careful if you break them you’ll die Circumspection has been learned Perspective changes, tables turn And only one conclusion to draw The cynic is right after all So I gave in To a future grim Led by nothing I found the same Compromise will make you tame Embrace the mediocrity An Illusion of security But I see it everyday True love fades away So what is there to stay? If it is not you And when the mirror shows you Its objective truth And you’ve become the one That you feared that you would You don’t feel like you’ve failed But still you regret It’s a result of all the Choices that you get Deaf for my own words My life is a mess I can’t restore Alone in a place That I once called my home On a mission to perdition I feel paralysed Doomed in a world That left me consumed God, help me! Led by nothing I found the same Compromise will make you tame Embrace the mediocrity An Illusion of security But I see it everyday True love fades away So what is there to stay? If it is not you
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Ocean 08:39
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Brought me to the edge of and endless ocean I don’t know what it means You say, “Jump in and get in motion defeat those waves and streams” Dive to the ground look at the sunlight from below watch the surface glow Dive, dive, dive the bottom’s reaching out swim, swim, swim I’m not going down In the middle of your deep blue sea the weather changes suddenly a storm shows up, the sky turns black I look behind; there’s no way back waves are smashing me around I’m drowning, I’m passing out Dive, dive, dive the bottom’s reaching out swim, swim, swim I’m not going down As I’m slowly sinking stop the struggle for air the masses that supress us dissolve again up and down back and forth the endless cycle’s turning me to stone Oh I know There’s so much going on Up on the shore where I left you Not for the better but for another year or two In the end I’m coming to get you I will not give up on this ‘till I know every single drop let the waves come, I’ll destroy those cliffs lead me to your hidden spots I wanna get to know you better so let’s dive together Now I’m here waiting for you to take my hand to dive together in my underwater land Dive, dive, dive the bottom’s reaching out swim, swim, swim I’m not going down Come with me, in my underwater land!

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released April 1, 2021

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Another Approach Winterthur, Switzerland

We are Another Approach, a progressive metal band based in Winterthur, Switzerland. Our music is
defined by reconciled opposites: quiet instrumental parts lead into hard hitting breakdowns, slow
and intimate vocal passages give way to fast-paced, screeching guitar-solos and atmospheric
synthesizer sounds set up catchy melodies. ... more

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