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Architects

Damnation

Release date: 9th November 2018

From Holy Hell
Track 5
4:09
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'Damnation' by Architects is a 2018 metal track from the album 'Holy Hell'. The lyrics frame suffering as both a condition and a choice, asking whether desperation turns people into creatures crawling in the dirt, or into lonely preachers hiding their beating hearts. The song weighs warning against fate, with lines about sowing and reaping, and ends up insisting there is “endless possibility”. It also toys with the idea of hope as confinement, turning moral pressure and bleak imagery into a kind of grim resolve.

"Damnation" is a track by Architects, from the album Holy Hell, released 9th November 2018. The track is 4:09 long. It's filed under Metal. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 11 articles about Architects.

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Lyrics

Damnation

We suffer to survive
Are we desperate creatures crawling in the dirt?
Or are we lonely preachers hiding our beating hearts?
We sow the wind and reap the storm
Don't say you haven't been warned

No future's written
There's endless possibility

We suffer to survive
If hope is a prison, then maybe faith will set me free
We suffer to survive
Am I just a victim drifting in the raging sea?
We suffer to survive

If a kingdom resides behind my own eyes
I've got to catch the stone and cradle the wave

Damnation is just a daydream away
But still, we carry on
If I'm God in disguise, praying for the rain
And if our demons decide, then is this all in vain?
We sow the wind and reap the storm
Don't say you haven't been warned

It's time to confess
I haunt this flesh
I answer my own prayers
I bid my own despair

No future's written
There's endless possibility

We suffer to survive
If hope is a prison, then maybe faith will set me free
We suffer to survive
Am I just a victim drifting in the raging sea?
We suffer to survive

But still, we carry on
There's a lesson in this, what I resist persists
And damnation is just a daydream away

If hope is a prison, then maybe faith will set me free
We suffer to survive
Am I just a victim drifting in the raging sea?
We suffer to survive

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Track details

From Holy Hell

4:092018
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Album
Holy Hell
Holy Hell
Architects
9th November 2018
Track number
5
Release year
2018
  1. 1Death Is Not Defeat
    3:45
  2. 2Hereafter
    4:16
  3. 3Mortal After All
    3:40
  4. 4Holy Hell
    4:14

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    • Credits

    Production & Engineering

    Writer
    Dan Searle, Josh Middleton
    Lyricist
    Dan Searle
    Composer
    Dan Searle, Josh Middleton
    Producer
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    Drums
    Dan Searle
    Guitar
    Adam Christianson, Josh Middleton
    Vocals
    Sam Carter
    Additional Vocals
    Améle Searle-Desbiens
    Bass Guitar
    Alex Dean
    Digital Audio Editor
    Joe Hamilton, Jordon Popp, Robin Adams
    Mastering Engineer
    Ermin Hamidovic
    Mixing Engineer
    Nolly Getgood
    Programmer
    Dan Searle
    Recording Engineer
    Nolly Getgood, Peter Miles
    Strings
    Parallax Orchestra, Will Harvey
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