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Nothing Works Vol. 2: Hymns For Useless Gods

by The Earth Below

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1.
Brave Noise 03:53
I was just on my way To sign myself up for the race I’d swallowed every bit of my pride Punch drunk red on hate I’m ready to face the day Face the day I’ve seen the light Burn through my side Every little thing will fall apart The house you haunt The lives that you touch You’ll call out to anything that’ll lend an ear Broken body Broken words Brave noise I’ll make a brave noise
2.
Crimson Gold 04:28
The bloated belch of a summer Memories of a past From the bottom of a river Unearth your shrine I’ve been dead Dead forever In the middle of a riddle Drawing lines in the sand A crooked trail of slither Run down your spine I’ve been dead Dead forever A fork-tongued mirage A drowning voice Asleep like a plague Halo of worms You’ve fallen from grace Right down to your grave Your god’s on the take he price for a stake in Crimson gold By your throne Crimson gold I’m your own
3.
Come To Me 04:23
I’m waiting here patiently In your garden Wild roses bloom in deceit Slowly bleeding all over The cobblestones in my dreams Dead leaves floating in a pool of nectar Set me ablaze in your scarlet fire Come to me With the flush of a flaming night Hold me close Let my heart ignite Black and blue deep inside Come to me I woke in a fever daze Drowning in your Lingering ruby lips Slowly bleeding all over In a velvet embrace Fallen embers reignite desire Swallowing me in your moonless sky
4.
Abydos 04:40
The wind blew new shapes Out of the Dead gods among us in Abydos Grains of sand like fire Clung onto the marrow The tomb of a god Undisturbed Entwined in the horn of the Ibex Gates unlock like hair Draped in a veil of sorrow Like an ooze Out of the sacred swamp Flakey dermis Dusty bones Gaping wounds Behind a shred of thorns Flakey dermis Dusty bones The scream of the night Howl unheard The stomp of a gap in the silence Words unlike my own From a place beneath the hollow A Ka Du A This is the hour A Ka Du A Come alive
5.
Outside the night Damned in endless sleep A sun eclipsed Blazing underneath I feel a wave crashing over me Blue moon entombed by her tenderness Blackened blood born Slave in chains To the rhythm of pain You’d better learn how to move To the rhythm of pain Pale earth embraced Crusted crumpled wing Agents of dawn Under darkness sink I feel my way through the misty haze A strange deathly grace feel upon her face I know I’ve made mistakes To the rhythm of pain You’d better learn how to move To the rhythm of pain Scrape away the tears
6.
Far away On a distant land Light years from home All alone With a carving stone In a pile of dirt of my own I’m dreaming I’m screaming I’m drifting I’m changing hue I’m yearning Unconcerning I’m learning Something new About you Emptiness Filled to the brim Frozen through and through Like a river Like a storm Blue forever In bloom I’m creeping I’m crawling Marauding I’m changing hue I’m yearning Discerning I’m burning Turning blue Waiting on you
7.
You’re not alone now that The pain you feel is real You’ve suffered all your life Every night you lay awake Every embrace Has a place On this shrine of shame You’re not alone You’re not alone The night gathered around all my fears To drown all the little worms of midnight In the palm of her hand Tides of Venus run red river high Moulding the crest of the flood under her feet Beneath an endless sea You’re not alone In perpetual prayer You’re not alone Tarred blood caked the night sky Casting a long vacant shadow In a puddle of rain Jaws clench shut tight on a wire Tearing a hole through a desperate prayer No more dreams tonight I’m burning hymns I’m on my knees I’m building worlds Spreading disease You’re not alone
8.
We drifted apart Like strangers at sea Chasing the rain Asleep on the wheel Come over now I need a helping hand I never knew that I’d need a second chance Splayed across the mirrored glass In hopes that our mistakes Will wash away I’ll find a way Into your arms Again In emptiness Delusion erodes all But you

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Rolling Stone India Top 10 albums of 2020
rollingstoneindia.com/10-best-indian-albums-of-2020/

“There’s an intangible yet real force, a transcendence, about Nothing Works Vol 2… which makes genre classification, and supposition about who will and won’t like it, thoroughly irrelevant. It’s a generally gorgeous, often uplifting and powerful body of work.” - Ghostcultmag.com

"It’s got a genre-bending sound, not necessarily metal or rock but surprisingly really good." - Indy Metal Vault

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released April 10, 2020

Deepak Raghu on vocals, drums and percussion.
Ramanan Chandramouli on guitars.
Leslie Charles on bass.

All music and lyrics by Deepak Raghu.
Lyrics for 'Come to Me', 'Strangers at Sea' by Deepak Raghu and Gayatri Hariharan.

Recorded by Mrinal Anand at Stained Class Productions, Bengaluru.
Mixed by Leslie Charles.
Mastered by Brad Boatright (Audiosiege).

Additional guitar arrangements by Ramanan Chandramouli.
Additional instrumentation by Leslie Charles (electric piano, organ, tubular bells).

Cover art and song illustrations by Gayatri Hariharan.
Cover layout by Deepak Raghu.
Inlay layout by Deepak Raghu and Anoop Bhat.

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