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Drifter

by Lesser Men

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1.
Wave Walker 02:42
'Till death do we part/ But that’s not nearly enough/ For I will be with her/ Even after we are gone/ She left/ She left/ My co-dependent/ My life, my bride/ When I was home, she would fight it/ But when I was gone, she would invite it/ My darling didn't try to carry on with her life/ But the sadness became too much/ And depression got the best of her/ The wife of a merchant sailor/ Followed her husband to sea/ Leaving the same port he had departed/ She slowly walked into the waves/ Even as they crashed at her face/ Soon submerged she continued on/ She would swim to him or she would drown//
2.
Thanatos 03:03
So I sailed on/ I tried to forget her face/ But it wasn't that simple/ And I struggled every day/ I then lived in denial/ Turning to blame myself/ And for a while/ I tried my best to erase her/ But she enveloped my thoughts/ And consumed the dark parts of my mind/ I searched for an escape/ And the sea brought me comfort/ So I sailed on/ But it wasn't long/ Until I felt her absence/ And I tried to take my life/ I held the blade to my wrist/ Purposeless, I pushed it in/ The memories came flooding back/ Her empty casket buried alone/ But my soul clung to my body/ And I grew old in age/ I’ve been sailing/ For quite some time/ Waiting to leave this place/ Waiting to see her face/ With no crew, no crew/ I will see her soon/ No crew, no crew/ I will see you soon/
3.
I awoke on the shore of a river/ When I noticed a light in the distance/ So I approached that faint glow/ To find a man with a lamp in his outstretched hand/ He stood on a vessel/ Held afloat by passed men’s souls/ And he turned to me/ So with the voice of the deceased/ He then spoke to me/ About death and eternity/ Of the way men live and die/ And how their death reflects their lives/ And as I went to reply/ He saw an absence/ And he sent me away/ He sent me away/ So I wandered the stones of the shore/ Until my feet grew weary/ Haven’t I waited long enough/ I’ve already lived my life alone/ I was void of tongue/ I was just a coin away/ Oh god, I was so close/ He then spoke to me/ About death and eternity/ Of the way men live and die/ And how their death reflects their lives/ And as I went to reply/ He helped me aboard/ And we cast away/ We cast away/ Just a river’s distance from your embrace/ I can almost taste your breath/
4.
I put everything I am/ And everything I have/ Into finding someone/ Who didn’t have the decency to consider me/ Before she took herself/ From the rest of the living world/ I put all I am/ And all I have/ Into finding you/ Into finding you/
5.
Drifter 04:45
I know it’s almost forlorn to hope/ I’ll find you in this stream of souls/ But I rarely did give up/ And I hope to the gods that I won’t/ So I walked to the shoreline/ I stepped into the current/ I feel the spirits swimming/ I can feel their torment/ As they break at my ankles/ We exchange 400 years/ I’ve started to think differently/ You left me above/ With no reason to live/ You left me alone/ And caused all of my grief/ You drifted away in your agony/ Choosing to spend your eternity/ Sinking in your own sorrow/ But then again/ You were my everything/ Earthbound and otherwise/ But then again/ You were my only love/ And I had no other choice/ But to search/ Here I stand in the river Styx/ Celestial beings wash over and under me/ And I feel your essence/ Oh, how I’ve longed for this moment/ For hundreds of years/ I can see you drifting/ Into stagnant water/ I fight my way to you/ But the tide pulls me under/ I stand at the rivers’s fork/ Watching your soul depart/ Shall I join you in your suffering/ Or shall I suffer alone/ Alone/

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Debut 5-song EP from Lesser Men.

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released January 11, 2014

Written and performed by Lesser Men.
Recorded, produced, mixed, and mastered by Mike Moschetto of The Office Recording.
Artwork and design by Robert DeMayo.

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