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Bloodied Moon

by Tal Cohen-Shalev

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1.
The Bells have rung The deed is done Here's to the race that is never won There's puke and bloodstains on the wedding gown What the wisest know even fools can see That misery and fools love company The hoards are at the gates And they're coming down The grace of God from which you fell Conceals a snake that in you dwells There are monsters there Where sailors dare not go But the king of tides cast them ashore Things you thought were not there before But now you know them, brother, way too well The heavenly gates are closed to me But the devil has a key Big dreams are going to cost you But regrets are always free What you seek ain't what you find The voices that won't give you peace of mind They tell you not to bother anyway But the bloodied moon will turn the tide A storm is coming No use in hiding It's a goddamn horror show and you can't rewind
2.
Do as they say, it'll be OK But what have you show at the end of the day? Your best years are behind you and time don't forgive The choices you'd have made in a life better lived The imbecile is king, but no one shares the blame We all know the game is rigged, but we play it all the same History's not repeating; it's going in reverse Be thankful for the gifts you have From here it just gets worse Revolution, get your kicks Burn it down, and now it's fixed It's off to the Promised Land we go Sanity is disappearing The arc is full, but no one's steering The flood comes with the cawing of the crow It's a goddamn mess from cradle to grave We've gone up to space and then back to the caves It's the winter of man now the ice is cracked Taking one step forward and two steps back The ocean's worm, the earth is flat And now your mind is wrecked It's heads I win and tails you lose Now, what did you expect? They're sharpening the pitchforks and the finger's on the switch The cause du jour is just for sure Rejoice, now burn the witch! You've swiped away your sorrows now you're standing on the brink The abyss is staring back now It'll take you 'fore you blink Comfort and confusion claimed your daughters and your sons 'Cause World War 3 is bound to be In zeros and ones Revolution, get your kicks Burn it down, and now it's fixed It's off to the Promised Land we go Sanity is disappearing The arc is full, but no one's steering The flood comes with the cawing of the crow
3.
Walk around your neighborhood If it doesn't make you question things Then it probably should The pervasiveness of people How they're up to no good By now it should be well understood It wasn't always so But times they change, you know Now you've been bought and sold The young and the old We've chased away the sun Now everything is cold People are blind poisonous, cruel and unkind They're out of their minds Say it if you want I've heard it all before The same old song You say I'm wrong But everybody seems to know the score Messing with your head Each day you find it harder getting out of bed And everything is rotten to the core People are blind Gluttonous, vain, unrefined They're out of their minds It's hard to fake a smile I'm tired of pretending I'm not sick of all the noise and rot There's too much aggravation You see no end in sight The rats are jumping ship And it's a never-ending blight There will be hell to pay So welcome to an age of degradation and decay Just go the fuck away
4.
Reality is all too real Money talks and how you feel Don't matter in the grander scheme It's everywhere you look Dissolution by the book When they sell you on an old man's dream My little toys show me what I never knew I need It's filling the void, you see The beast is getting hungry And you know it has to feed It's everything I want to be Dopamine for breakfast It's the cure and the disease Why, it's really hard to tell Empires have fallen in times so much like these Walking hand in hand through hell You've created your own prison And you'll never be released You've only got yourself to blame The fox is in the henhouse And it's planning for a feast The beast is much too strong to tame Dopamine for breakfast It's the cure and the disease Why, it's really hard to tell Empires have fallen in times so much like these Walking hand in hand through hell You've created your own prison And you'll never be released You've only got yourself to blame The fox is in the henhouse And it's planning for a feast The beast is much too strong to tame
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Desolation 03:50
Tables have been turned It's plain as day to see No lessons have been learned The future's not what it used to be It's only me It's not the sun, but yet Something's burning in the sky Everybody's talking They seem to just blow sand in your eyes They're only lies When all is said and done You're left with nothing but your name It's funny how the pages turn I'm changing, but it's more of the same Nobody came Heaven knows the sky is closed Let's call it for the night The angels have nowhere to go It's out of mind, but not out of sight You know it ain't right
6.
Your party dress was clinging to your thigh As you bent to fix your stocking Glasses full of spirits Reflected in your eye as you were talking Men are all the same They have you, then they leave Drinking goes down easy when you're feeling used The midnight air was cool Gleaming skyline like it's 1920s old Paris No one was around The party had died down Allow me, Mademoiselle I'd like to set you free Your mother was a dancer She danced for lonesome men Who came at night to drown in their libations Your father was a reckless man With fancy for the road as inclination Was he an honest man or a gambler passing by? Do you think of him when you're alone at night? The midnight air was cool Gleaming skyline like it's 1920s old Paris Let me be your angel And save you from this town You'll thank me, Mademoiselle It's better to be free You lit your cigarette And crossed your legs for me While city lights sang you a final lullaby Your running makeup echoed by The raindrops on your window 'gainst the the moonlit sky Was it hard to get through the ether laden night With only loneliness for warmth When all the men have gone? The midnight air was cool Gleaming skyline like it's 1920s old Paris Soon there'll be no pain Please don't make a sound Forgive me, Mademoiselle I had to set you free
7.
Answer me this What do you say When the world you once knew is rotting away? The future is grim, and the past is still here It's yelling at you when you look in the mirror You can die on this hill, but really, what for? We're rats in a maze Nothing's in store Body's too weak to drag through the muck May as well say it We're pretty much fucked Nero did play as the empire burned So I'll play when it's tumbling down There's hope in the ashes for good things to come Next time around Your TV compels you to buy till you bleed With cash you don't have for things you don't need Armies of drones obey the commands of wolves wearing suits According to plan You chase the illusions, but that's what you crave The land of the free, but the land is depraved Minds are diseased The world is insane Sodom is back It's Gomorrah again Nero did play as the empire burned So I'll play when it's tumbling down There's hope in the ashes for good things to come Next time around From destruction comes need for rebuilding In darkness there's love for the light When these rotten foundations come crumbling The fire will lead us tonight

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released February 1, 2024

Written, produced and mixed by Tal Cohen-Shalev.
Mastering by Pete Maher.

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Tal Cohen-Shalev Israel

Israeli-American artist Tal Cohen-Shalev has defied classification by creating music beyond the predefined notions of his genre. From his 2009 singer-songwriter inclined debut Heartaches and Ashes to 2023's nihilistic doom and gloom electronica of Sodom is Back, he has constantly pushed the boundaries of his genre into a stylistically ambiguous and unique pastiche of sounds, textures and styles. ... more

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