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AGONY

Nothing makes you come to terms with your own mortality more than holding your child in your arms for the first time.

When I first held her, the stark realisation that one day I'll be gone, and I have to prepare this human for life when I am no longer there to protect her. That hit me like a brick wall, and it scared the shit out of me. At a moment when I should have been the happiest man on the planet, I felt the black dogs walking behind me.

The song deals with the Agony of anxiety and depression, a recurring theme throughout my lyrics, because, guess what? It's been a recurring theme throughout my life. If you don't face it and confront it head on, it can swallow you up. Sometimes it can creep on you because of external factors... Sometimes it is of my own making. If I don't sort my shit out, I can effectively become the architect of my own self destruction.

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AGONY


Let's get it set straight
There’s really no more time
You held my feet up to the flame
And watched the lies just bleed out
The memory of you
Emerges from the night around me
White knuckled, oh so desperately I hold on to you

The ceaseless agony
Pushing me back
And pulling me
Relentless tragedy
Tearing the life
Out of me
The ceaseless agony
Pushing me back
And pulling me
Relentless tragedy
Tearing the life
Out of me

Wrap me in your sweet embrace
When I’m lost and alone
My darkest hours
Lead me to a place of suffering
I hold onto a memory
Just don’t forget me
When I’m gone
White knuckled, oh so desperately I hold on to you

Am I the architect
Of my own destruction?
Am I the architect
Of my own destruction?

The ceaseless agony
Pushing me back
And pulling me
Relentless tragedy
Tearing the life
Out of me
The ceaseless agony
Pushing me back
And pulling me
Relentless tragedy
Tearing the life
Out of me

My darkest hours
Lead me to a place of suffering
Suffering

The ceaseless agony
Pushing me back
And pulling me
Relentless tragedy
Tearing the life
Out of me
The ceaseless agony
Pushing me back
And pulling me
Relentless tragedy
Tearing the life
Out of me

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from A World On Fire, released July 30, 2021

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The Five Hundred are a five-man musical wrecking machine dedicated to pulverising eardrums and rattling bones across the metal landscape. Dealing in an array of down-tuned riffs and barbed hooks, the UK/Gibraltarian quintet unleash an avalanche of crushing groove and belligerent aggression, broken up by some searing leads, haunting vocal melodies and devastating, earth-shaking breakdowns. ... more

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