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Employed To Serve
The Warmth of a Dying Sun
Half Life

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Employed To Serve

Half Life

Release date: 18th May 2017

From The Warmth of a Dying SunTrack 95:26

Metal Music Rock

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About This Track

"Half Life" is a track by Employed To Serve, from the album The Warmth of a Dying Sun, released 18th May 2017. The track is 5:26 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

Half Life

Never realised how much I took my life for granted
BITTER
This shadow won't shift
Rain clouds that never burst
HINDSIGHT

Nothing grows in the shade
Fragments of my life just burn away

Hollow, jaded, a heart with no hope
Part of me is missing, can't you see?
Half life

Don't you dismiss the way I feel
I CAN'T run away from my thoughts
I wish the ground would swallow me
Curse the clouds that have followed me

Desperate for normality
A shred of consistency
Everyday is worse than the last
Every time I reach forward my hands rot away
Revealing delicate nerves where skin used to be
Please let me live again

I've been searching in the dark
For the other half of me

Composed with a stiff upper lip
And yet dying on the inside

Nothing grows in the shade
Fragments of my life just burn away

Hollow, jaded, a heart with no hope
Searching for the other half of me

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Track details

From The Warmth of a Dying Sun

5:262017

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Album

The Warmth of a Dying Sun

Employed To Serve

Track number

9

Release year

2017

1Void Ambition
3:45
2Good for Nothing
3:51
3Platform 89
3:59
4Lethargy
4:01

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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 — Familiar Pain (from Fallen Star) [3:02]
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 (feat. Will Ramos) (from Fallen Star) [3:52]
Employed To Serve — Treachery (from Fallen Star) [3:43]
Employed To Serve — Whose Side Are You On? (feat. Jesse Leach) (from Fallen Star) [3:59]
Employed To Serve — Fallen Star (from Fallen Star) [4:05]
Employed To Serve — From This Day Forward (from Fallen Star) [5:25]
Employed To Serve — The Renegades (from Fallen Star) [5:03]
Employed To Serve — Brother, Stand Beside Me (from Fallen Star) [4:33]
Employed To Serve — Now Thy Kingdom Come (from Fallen Star) [4:30]
Employed To Serve — Atonement
Employed To Serve — Twist the Blade (from Conquering (Deluxe)) [3:57]
Employed To Serve — Set In Stone (from Conquering (Deluxe)) [4:30]
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 — The Mistake (from Conquering (Deluxe)) [3:50]
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 — Sun Up To Sun Down (Remix) (from Conquering (Deluxe)) [2:28]
Employed To Serve — Conquering (from Conquering (Deluxe)) [5:06]
Employed To Serve — Universal Chokehold (from Conquering (Deluxe)) [5:25]
Employed To Serve — Force Fed (Live) (from Conquering (Deluxe)) [3:46]
Employed To Serve — Mark of the Grave (from Conquering (Deluxe)) [4:23]
Employed To Serve — Exist (from Conquering (Deluxe)) [3:21]
Employed To Serve — Mark of the Grave (Live) (from Conquering (Deluxe)) [4:42]
Employed To Serve — We Don't Need You (from Conquering) [4:59]
Employed To Serve — World Ender (from Conquering) [4:40]
Employed To Serve — Mark of the Grave (from Conquering) [4:23]
Employed To Serve — Conquering (from Conquering) [5:06]
Employed To Serve — Stand Alone (from Conquering) [4:44]
Employed To Serve — Universal Chokehold (from Conquering) [5:25]
Employed To Serve — The Mistake (from Conquering) [3:50]
Employed To Serve — Set In Stone (from Conquering) [4:30]
Employed To Serve — Exist (from Conquering) [3:21]
Employed To Serve — Sun Up To Sun Down (from Conquering) [3:31]
Employed To Serve — Twist the Blade (from Conquering) [3:57]
Employed To Serve — Party's Over
Employed To Serve — Harsh Truth (feat. Stray from the Path) [Relived] [3:42]
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Employed To Serve — Suspended In Emptiness (from Eternal Forward Motion) [3:23]
Employed To Serve — Beneath It All (from Eternal Forward Motion) [3:36]
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 — Harsh Truth (from Eternal Forward Motion) [4:18]
Employed To Serve — Bare Bones On a Blue Sky (from Eternal Forward Motion) [5:39]
Employed To Serve — Reality Filter (from Eternal Forward Motion) [4:33]
Employed To Serve — Force Fed (from Eternal Forward Motion) [3:32]
Employed To Serve — Dull Ache Behind My Eyes (from Eternal Forward Motion) [3:06]
Employed To Serve — Eternal Forward Motion (from Eternal Forward Motion) [3:49]
Employed To Serve — We Forgot You (from Eternal Forward Motion) [4:04]
Employed To Serve — The Warmth of a Dying Sun (from The Warmth of a Dying Sun) [6:27]
Employed To Serve — I Spend My Days (from The Warmth of a Dying Sun) [3:42]
Employed To Serve — Good for Nothing (from The Warmth of a Dying Sun) [3:51]
Employed To Serve — Never Falls Far (from The Warmth of a Dying Sun) [2:41]
Employed To Serve — Void Ambition (from The Warmth of a Dying Sun) [3:45]
Employed To Serve — Church of Mirrors (from The Warmth of a Dying Sun) [2:39]
Employed To Serve — Apple Tree (from The Warmth of a Dying Sun) [6:01]
Employed To Serve — Lethargy (from The Warmth of a Dying Sun) [4:01]
Employed To Serve — Platform 89 (from The Warmth of a Dying Sun) [3:59]
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Employed To Serve — Bury Yourself (from Greyer Than You Remember) [3:00]
Employed To Serve — No One's Perfect, This Includes You (from Greyer Than You Remember) [2:57]
Employed To Serve — Watching Films to Forget I Exist (from Greyer Than You Remember) [2:40]
Employed To Serve — Greyer Than You Remember (from Greyer Than You Remember) [3:59]
Employed To Serve — You Looked Forever (from Change Nothing Regret Everything) [2:15]
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Employed To Serve — No One's Child (from Change Nothing Regret Everything) [2:25]
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Employed To Serve — Perfect Smiles and Crooked Teeth (from Change Nothing Regret Everything) [1:55]
Employed to Serve — Jonny

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ExistConquering
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Force Fed (Live)Conquering (Deluxe)
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Mark of the GraveConquering (Deluxe)
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Mark of the GraveConquering
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Mark of the Grave (Live)Conquering (Deluxe)
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Employed To Serve have confirmed a 2026 UK headline tour with support from Cage Fight

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6Never Falls Far

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8Church of Mirrors

9Half Life

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Credited: Jamie Venning, Justine Jones, Richard Jacobs, Robert Back, Sammy Urwin