If Nightmares Could Sing
by The Voices
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Prison Of Fear
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Prison Of Fear
02:16
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No one, just no one,
did you understand?
No one can help you!
You're alone,
you're alone in all this
and nobody can help you,
nobody loves you,
nobody wants you,
you're alone!
Submit to this prison of fear
enwrapped by everlasting darkness,
sadness and despair.
Every hope is burning
before your very eyes
and the ashes they leave
are taken away from your hands
by the cold winds
that freeze your heart.
Close your eyes.
Close your mind.
Reach your inner sanctum:
it is your only protection
against the evil outside.
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Anxiety's growing and growing,
anxiety's growing inside.
And I don't know what to do now
while I'm drowning in a sea of tears,
I still don't know what to do now.
I won't be able to regain my life
while I'm escaping from this suffering,
I won't find peace until I end my life.
A constant worry for what could be
the next disaster that is happening,
I can do nothing, I just wait and see.
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Sweet Illusion
03:11
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Anxiety's growing and growing,
anxiety's growing inside.
And I don't know what to do now
while I'm drowning in a sea of tears,
I still don't know what to do now.
I won't be able to regain my life
while I'm escaping from this suffering,
I won't find peace until I end my life.
A constant worry for what could be
the next disaster that is happening,
I can do nothing, I just wait and see.
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Soulles
03:47
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Anxiety's growing and growing,
anxiety's growing inside.
And I don't know what to do now
while I'm drowning in a sea of tears,
I still don't know what to do now.
I won't be able to regain my life
while I'm escaping from this suffering,
I won't find peace until I end my life.
A constant worry for what could be
the next disaster that is happening,
I can do nothing, I just wait and see.
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Anxiety's growing and growing,
anxiety's growing inside.
And I don't know what to do now
while I'm drowning in a sea of tears,
I still don't know what to do now.
I won't be able to regain my life
while I'm escaping from this suffering,
I won't find peace until I end my life.
A constant worry for what could be
the next disaster that is happening,
I can do nothing, I just wait and see.
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To Nowhere And Back
01:43
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Instrumental
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March Of Slaves
03:00
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Anxiety's growing and growing,
anxiety's growing inside.
And I don't know what to do now
while I'm drowning in a sea of tears,
I still don't know what to do now.
I won't be able to regain my life
while I'm escaping from this suffering,
I won't find peace until I end my life.
A constant worry for what could be
the next disaster that is happening,
I can do nothing, I just wait and see.
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Abyss Of Hate
03:19
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I'm descending the abyss
of time immemorial.
Welcome to this place
where only burning hate
can be found,
stay down in this place
and feed on the hate,
so profound.
Feed on suffering and
turn around.
I live in this place
where nothing else than hate
can be found,
I belong to this place
and feed on the hate,
so profound.
Turn around and escape
from the abyss and
never come back to this place.
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What I Hate
03:35
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I'm descending the abyss
of time immemorial.
Welcome to this place
where only burning hate
can be found,
stay down in this place
and feed on the hate,
so profound.
Feed on suffering and
turn around.
I live in this place
where nothing else than hate
can be found,
I belong to this place
and feed on the hate,
so profound.
Turn around and escape
from the abyss and
never come back to this place.
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Far Away
03:19
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Demons of the past
chase you, as you run;
you are running fast
and try to turn around
and you escape, far away,
to horizons never seen.
Time, no more waiting,
time, I need more precious
time.
No one can decide
who I am anymore.
I need more time,
more precious time,
to run, far away.
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Oh, they say I am insane.
Oh, but I don't fuckin' care!
All this because I hear
the voices in my mind,
everytime;
they tell me what to do
and I comply,
everytime.
They do this everyday
and everynight.
Die, or obey to the voices inside!
Die, or obey to the voices
commanding you to kill.
Reject any free will
that's left inside your mind.
React, let your animal instinct
guide you to the fight.
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Let's Not Pretend
02:51
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Breeding madness and pain,
spreading insanity,
we are victims and guilty
of our own suffering.
The plague of mankind
will come soon to an end,
we are doomed to extinction
and we know it.
Let's not pretend
that we don't know it.
Let's not pretend
that we don't fear it.
Let's not pretend
we don't deserve it.
Let's not pretend
we didn't know it.
This is the end,
let's not pretend!
Well, that's a nice way to end another album... I suppose... thank you for listening. Cheers!
Look, the stars are shining,
we're finally dead.
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about
"If Nightmares Could Sing" (2020 - Masked Dead Records) is the third album made by The Voices. After a strange and original debut, a weird and ethnic second album, The Voices comes back with another album and this time it's spooky time, since this release is all about nightmares.
The formula of this one-man project is the same: making music using only voice and without vocal effects (other than reverb, mixing and mastering... obviously!), breaking all limits and rules - and perhaps even decency - creating this Experimental Avant-Garde A Cappella.
In this third album there's The Voices managed to keep the weirdness high, with an eye for the rhythm, a lot of vocal styles - focusing on the most extreme ones this time - and techniques (even very exotic ones) mixed with irony and creativity. The influences are various: here you can find ethnic music, extreme metal, rock, dark and industrial, dance, spoken, ambient, space, jazz, classical music and other ones, mixed in unpredictable ways.
This album is a nightmare made music in The Voices style, there are different kinds of bad feelings and sufferings: fear, anxiety, delusion, depression, rage and so on... The first part is a rapid succession of these nightmare, until the last track, "To Nowhere and Back", that is an "instrumental" made of voices only, following the ironic tradition, that somehow lowers the pressure introducing a funny weirdness. In the second part the point of view slightly changes and insanity brings new hope in those nightmares: "March of Slaves" is perhaps the most extreme song here, followed by "Abyss of Hate" that begins in a sad way and then becomes histrionic. There are bad nightmares that harass our protagonist who finds shelter in madness: suffering becomes a separate entity so our protagonist can look it in the face, understand it and, finally, be ironic about it. There's no use in arguing about the glass being half full or half empty: just drink all you can and make the best of it.
This was made with invaluable guests: Giulio Franco with a choral part in "Anxiety's Mantra", Matteo Antonelli scream and growl in "...While You Can" and Laura Lasagna scream in "(They Say) I Am Insane!".
The formula of this one-man project is the same: making music using only voice and without vocal effects (other than reverb, mixing and mastering... obviously!), breaking all limits and rules - and perhaps even decency - creating this Experimental Avant-Garde A Cappella.
In this third album there's The Voices managed to keep the weirdness high, with an eye for the rhythm, a lot of vocal styles - focusing on the most extreme ones this time - and techniques (even very exotic ones) mixed with irony and creativity. The influences are various: here you can find ethnic music, extreme metal, rock, dark and industrial, dance, spoken, ambient, space, jazz, classical music and other ones, mixed in unpredictable ways.
This album is a nightmare made music in The Voices style, there are different kinds of bad feelings and sufferings: fear, anxiety, delusion, depression, rage and so on... The first part is a rapid succession of these nightmare, until the last track, "To Nowhere and Back", that is an "instrumental" made of voices only, following the ironic tradition, that somehow lowers the pressure introducing a funny weirdness. In the second part the point of view slightly changes and insanity brings new hope in those nightmares: "March of Slaves" is perhaps the most extreme song here, followed by "Abyss of Hate" that begins in a sad way and then becomes histrionic. There are bad nightmares that harass our protagonist who finds shelter in madness: suffering becomes a separate entity so our protagonist can look it in the face, understand it and, finally, be ironic about it. There's no use in arguing about the glass being half full or half empty: just drink all you can and make the best of it.
This was made with invaluable guests: Giulio Franco with a choral part in "Anxiety's Mantra", Matteo Antonelli scream and growl in "...While You Can" and Laura Lasagna scream in "(They Say) I Am Insane!".
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released January 22, 2020
Published by Masked Dead Records in a total of 25 copies.
All music, lyrics and most of the vocals by Paolo Ferrante.
Vocal guests: Giulio Franco (track 2), Matteo Antonelli (track 5) and Laura Lasagna (track 11).
Original paintings by Zdzisław Beksiński; layout, editing and adaptation by Paolo Ferrante.
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Paolo Ferrante.
Published by Masked Dead Records in a total of 25 copies.
All music, lyrics and most of the vocals by Paolo Ferrante.
Vocal guests: Giulio Franco (track 2), Matteo Antonelli (track 5) and Laura Lasagna (track 11).
Original paintings by Zdzisław Beksiński; layout, editing and adaptation by Paolo Ferrante.
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Paolo Ferrante.
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