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Employed To Serve
Fallen Star
Familiar Pain

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Employed To Serve

Familiar Pain

Release date: 24th April 2025

From Fallen StarTrack 53:02

Metal Music Rock

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About This Track

"Familiar Pain" is a track by Employed To Serve, from the album Fallen Star, released 24th April 2025. The track is 3:02 long. It's filed under Metal. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 7 articles about Employed To Serve.

About the Artist

Employed To Serve

Employed To Serve

Lyrics

Familiar Pain

Better the devil that I've come to know

Than the one I don't

The warm embrace of familiar pain

Shrouds my site

I'm trapped in

Keep having this fever dream

That I've been stranded here

Don't want to be trapped here to fester all alone

But then again

Familiarity just seems so inviting

Make amends with demons

Just go ahead and rip it off

Embrace the pain

I keep falling for the same old tricks

Time and time again

Just go ahead and rip it off

Embrace the pain

I keep falling for the same old tricks

Time and time again

I keep on falling

I keep on screaming

No one cares

I've got to get out now

Before it's all too late

Those demons will bite again

Just go ahead and rip it off

Embrace the pain

I keep falling for the same old tricks

Time and time again

It's time

Me and my demons walk this path that you call hell

Better the devil you know

Let it smother you

I'd rather know the face

Of who is killing me

The warm embrace of familiar pain

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Track details

From Fallen Star

3:022025

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Album

Employed To Serve

25th April 2025

Track number

5

Release year

2025

1Treachery
3:43
2Fallen Star
4:05
3Atonement (feat. Will Ramos)
3:52
4Breaks Me Down

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Employed to Serve — Last Laugh (from Fallen Star)
Employed to Serve — Whose Side Are You On? (from Fallen Star)
Employed To Serve — The Renegades (from Fallen Star) [5:03]
Employed To Serve — Now Thy Kingdom Come (from Fallen Star) [4:30]
Employed To Serve — Whose Side Are You On? (feat. Jesse Leach) (from Fallen Star) [3:59]
Employed To Serve — Brother, Stand Beside Me (from Fallen Star) [4:33]
Employed To Serve — Fallen Star (from Fallen Star) [4:05]
Employed To Serve — Treachery (from Fallen Star) [3:43]
Employed To Serve — From This Day Forward (from Fallen Star) [5:25]
Employed To Serve — Atonement (feat. Will Ramos) (from Fallen Star) [3:52]
Employed To Serve — Breaks Me Down (from Fallen Star) [4:26]
Employed To Serve — Last Laugh (feat. Serena Cherry) (from Fallen Star) [4:09]
Employed To Serve — Atonement
Employed To Serve — We Don't Need You (from Conquering (Deluxe)) [4:59]
Employed To Serve — World Ender (from Conquering (Deluxe)) [4:40]
Employed To Serve — The Mistake (from Conquering (Deluxe)) [3:50]
Employed To Serve — Sun Up To Sun Down (Remix) (from Conquering (Deluxe)) [2:28]
Employed To Serve — Universal Chokehold (from Conquering (Deluxe)) [5:25]
Employed To Serve — Twist the Blade (from Conquering (Deluxe)) [3:57]
Employed To Serve — Mark of the Grave (Live) (from Conquering (Deluxe)) [4:42]
Employed To Serve — Conquering (from Conquering (Deluxe)) [5:06]
Employed To Serve — Exist (from Conquering (Deluxe)) [3:21]
Employed To Serve — Mark of the Grave (from Conquering (Deluxe)) [4:23]
Employed To Serve — Set In Stone (from Conquering (Deluxe)) [4:30]
Employed To Serve — Force Fed (Live) (from Conquering (Deluxe)) [3:46]
Employed To Serve — Sun Up To Sun Down (from Conquering (Deluxe)) [3:31]
Employed To Serve — Stand Alone (from Conquering (Deluxe)) [4:44]
Employed To Serve — Take Back Control (from Conquering (Deluxe)) [3:09]
Employed To Serve — Sun Up To Sun Down (from Conquering) [3:31]
Employed To Serve — Conquering (from Conquering) [5:06]
Employed To Serve — Stand Alone (from Conquering) [4:44]
Employed To Serve — Mark of the Grave (from Conquering) [4:23]
Employed To Serve — World Ender (from Conquering) [4:40]
Employed To Serve — Set In Stone (from Conquering) [4:30]
Employed To Serve — Exist (from Conquering) [3:21]
Employed To Serve — Twist the Blade (from Conquering) [3:57]
Employed To Serve — We Don't Need You (from Conquering) [4:59]
Employed To Serve — The Mistake (from Conquering) [3:50]
Employed To Serve — Universal Chokehold (from Conquering) [5:25]
Employed To Serve — Party's Over
Employed To Serve — Harsh Truth (Relived)
Employed To Serve — Harsh Truth (feat. Stray from the Path) [Relived] [3:42]
Employed To Serve — Harsh Truth (from Eternal Forward Motion) [4:18]
Employed To Serve — Suspended In Emptiness (from Eternal Forward Motion) [3:23]
Employed To Serve — Reality Filter (from Eternal Forward Motion) [4:33]
Employed To Serve — We Forgot You (from Eternal Forward Motion) [4:04]
Employed To Serve — Beneath It All (from Eternal Forward Motion) [3:36]
Employed To Serve — Eternal Forward Motion (from Eternal Forward Motion) [3:49]
Employed To Serve — Dull Ache Behind My Eyes (from Eternal Forward Motion) [3:06]
Employed To Serve — Force Fed (from Eternal Forward Motion) [3:32]
Employed To Serve — Bare Bones On a Blue Sky (from Eternal Forward Motion) [5:39]
Employed To Serve — Sore Tooth Twin (from Eternal Forward Motion) [1:39]
Employed To Serve — Owed Zero (from Eternal Forward Motion) [4:07]
Employed To Serve — Platform 89 (from The Warmth of a Dying Sun) [3:59]
Employed To Serve — Apple Tree (from The Warmth of a Dying Sun) [6:01]
Employed To Serve — The Warmth of a Dying Sun (from The Warmth of a Dying Sun) [6:27]
Employed To Serve — Half Life (from The Warmth of a Dying Sun) [5:26]
Employed To Serve — Lethargy (from The Warmth of a Dying Sun) [4:01]
Employed To Serve — Void Ambition (from The Warmth of a Dying Sun) [3:45]
Employed To Serve — Never Falls Far (from The Warmth of a Dying Sun) [2:41]
Employed To Serve — Good for Nothing (from The Warmth of a Dying Sun) [3:51]
Employed To Serve — Church of Mirrors (from The Warmth of a Dying Sun) [2:39]
Employed To Serve — I Spend My Days (from The Warmth of a Dying Sun) [3:42]
Employed To Serve — I Spend My Days (Wishing Them Away)
Employed to Serve — Memphis Will Be Laid to Waste
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Employed to Serve — Bury Yourself (Deep) (from Greyer Than You Remember)
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Employed To Serve — Tower Mouth (from Greyer Than You Remember) [2:14]
Employed To Serve — No One's Perfect, This Includes You (from Greyer Than You Remember) [2:57]
Employed To Serve — Bury Yourself (from Greyer Than You Remember) [3:00]
Employed To Serve — Watching Films to Forget I Exist (from Greyer Than You Remember) [2:40]
Employed To Serve — Beg for Rain (from Greyer Than You Remember) [2:28]
Employed To Serve — Threads (from Greyer Than You Remember) [2:17]
Employed To Serve — Live Without (from Greyer Than You Remember) [0:59]
Employed To Serve — As Cold as the Rest (from Greyer Than You Remember) [5:16]
Employed To Serve — Greyer Than You Remember (from Greyer Than You Remember) [3:59]
Employed To Serve — Heavy Limbs (from Change Nothing Regret Everything) [1:57]
Employed To Serve — Change Nothing (from Change Nothing Regret Everything) [0:56]
Employed To Serve — Serve (from Change Nothing Regret Everything) [2:46]
Employed To Serve — Perfect Smiles and Crooked Teeth (from Change Nothing Regret Everything) [1:55]
Employed To Serve — No One's Child (from Change Nothing Regret Everything) [2:25]
Employed To Serve — You Looked Forever (from Change Nothing Regret Everything) [2:15]
Employed to Serve — Jonny

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Employed To Serve have confirmed a 2026 UK headline tour with support from Cage Fight

Employed To Serve have confirmed a 2026 UK headline tour with support from Cage Fight

Tickets are available now for all ten UK tour dates.

Oct 24, 2025 • 10:02 AM

Employed To Serve: "We wanted to make an empowering record; it's a battle cry"

Employed To Serve: "We wanted to make an empowering record; it's a battle cry"

As global chaos reigns, Employed To Serve return with ‘Fallen Star’, a rallying cry for inclusivity that proves metal’s power to unite rather than divide.

Apr 25, 2025 • 2:00 PM

Employed To Serve have shared their new single 'Breaks Me Down'

Employed To Serve have shared their new single 'Breaks Me Down'

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Employed To Serve ruminate on burnout with their new single 'Fallen Star'

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Employed to Serve have announced their new album 'Fallen Star', and shared a single featuring Will Ramos

Employed to Serve have announced their new album 'Fallen Star', and shared a single featuring Will Ramos

British metal band Employed to Serve announces April release of 'Fallen Star' album and shares new single featuring Lorna Shore's Will Ramos.

Jan 22, 2025 • 5:19 PM

Employed To Serve have released a new video for 'World Ender' ahead of their UK tour

Employed To Serve have released a new video for 'World Ender' ahead of their UK tour

The band hit the road later this month.

Oct 12, 2023 • 10:21 AM

Employed To Serve: "This is our statement record"

Employed To Serve: "This is our statement record"

Long established at the head of their scene, it's time for Employed To Serve to plant their flag. And haven't they just? With their new album 'Conquering', nothing more needs to be said. But let's try anyway...

Oct 14, 2021 • 10:11 AM

4:26

5Familiar Pain

3:02

6Brother, Stand Beside Me

7Now Thy Kingdom Come

8Last Laugh (feat. Serena Cherry)

9Whose Side Are You On? (feat. Jesse Leach)

10The Renegades

11From This Day Forward

—Whose Side Are You On?

Credits

Credited: Casey McHale, David Porter, Justine Jones, Lewis Johns, Nathan Pryor, Sammy Urwin