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Our Demise

from A World On Fire by The Five Hundred

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OUR DEMISE

I remember reading a paper about how people can pass away simply because they've given up. Life has beaten them and they feel defeat is inescapable.
It was a study by researchers about the “clinical markers” for 'give-up-itis', a crude term used to describe what is known medically as psychogenic death. It usually follows a trauma from which a person thinks there is no escape, making death seem like the only rational outcome. If not arrested, death usually occurs three weeks after the first stage of withdrawal.


The researcher quoted: "Psychogenic death is real. It isn't suicide, it isn't linked to depression, but the act of giving up on life and dying usually within days, is a very real condition often linked to severe trauma."

It’s a subject matter that triggers thoughts, perhaps analogously, that we are experiencing a societal or ecological version of this. We have given up on ourselves, and we have just accepted that this is the only, inevitable conclusion, to fade away, wide-eyed and hopeless.

As a society we swing from the opposite ends of the pendulum, of environmental activism, which society bizarrely labels as ‘extremism” to the flaccid apathy of “middle-of-the-road Joe Public”, who questions whether any of this is even real. We don’t need two polar opposites to war with each other, we need the middle ground to get the fuck in the water and learn to swim.

We haven’t decided if this song is about fighting on or giving up… I guess we’ll let the listener decide…

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OUR DEMISE

Millions of mouthless dead
Empty words ring through my head
How the fuck will they ever know
When blind eyes don’t see the tears flow

With dark thoughts
Of shame and malice
Smile at them from the door
With a poisoned chalice

Show me a sign of life
Is anyone left alive?
We’ve seen the darkness of our demise
Show me a sign of life
Is anyone left alive?
We’ve seen the darkness of our demise

Sing sorrow, immortal spheres
A glory that shines upon our tears
Out of mind, out of sight
A rage that burns long into the night

Let them paint our graves
In white and red
We screamed to be free

When the cowards fled

This is our war, we’ll never tire
Our armies march, to their darkest day

Show me a sign of life
Is anyone left alive?
We’ve seen the darkness of our demise
Show me a sign of life
Is anyone left alive?
We’ve seen the darkness of our demise

Wide-eyed and helpless
My cradle, my fortress
Wide-eyed and helpless
My cradle, my fortress

Show me a sign of life
Is anyone left alive?
We’ve seen the darkness of our demise
Show me a sign of life
Is anyone left alive?
We’ve seen the darkness of our demise

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from A World On Fire, track released June 4, 2021

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The Five Hundred Nottingham, UK

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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