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The Benbecula Tree

by Megalomatic

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1.
Theme 02:00
I can’t feel this movement But I can see it in your eyes Just enough to understand it But never to comply Tied to my feet, tethered to my soul I’m showing face, but I am so cold There’s something in the ground beneath our feet There’s something in the air
2.
We can live like this To try and pass it on To see just how impossible This could be I think there’s a chance we can run I think there’s a chance we can get away From these anniversaries Stain these pages Traverse across the years Traverse the ages These anniversaries Stain these pages Traverse across the years Traverse the ages Overwrite the marks To try and try and try To overcome the scars Repetition brings I think there’s a chance we can run I think there’s a chance we can get away From these anniversaries Stain these pages Traverse across the years Traverse the ages These anniversaries Stain these pages Traverse across the years Traverse the ages These anniversaries Plague these pages This is finite but we are… Overstaying our welcome, our welcome here This is finite but we are… Overstating our purpose, our purpose here This is finite but we are… Overstaying our welcome, our welcome here This is finite but we are… Overstating our purpose here
3.
Disclaimer 05:48
Smiling Wretched eyelids hiding Trauma, mask despair From the fickle cords within your throat This carpet like gravel This consequential voice in our heads Passed down through generations And generations to come Your mouthpiece drip feeds you all Piece by piece your head will roll Held together by a thread Held together by a sinew thread Pulling the strings Pushing limits I’m warning you now You can’t stop this There’s a dread on your own in the dark In the middle of the night It sounds false but it follows you everywhere Take broken pieces of an otherwise perfect home More often than not it’s illusional Hanging By a Sinew Hanging by a single sinew thread Pulling the strings Pushing limits I’m warning you now You can’t stop this Save yourself The trouble, the guilt Brave yourself Embrace yourself
4.
I pick my own pockets To check weak pulses Expand these bad habits If I don’t see progress My mind is a cult Every motion I swallow emotions I’m following pride I’m following pride They say it’s all inside your head But this mind sees everything In every word I’ve read Collapse in on myself Knocking crutches I’m shattering temples I’m scared in the daylight My mind isn’t cold Every motion I follow emotion I’m following pride I’m following pride They say it’s all inside your head But this mind sees everything In every word I’ve People with distorted faces Shadows falling down the stairs It used to show me hope People with distorted faces Shadows falling down the stairs But now it makes me sick They say it’s all inside your head But this mind sees everything In every word I’ve read They say it’s all inside your head But this mind sees everything I can see everything
5.
Displacement In solitude Arrangement In plain view Come closer to my side Where the air reeks as prophecised Compare Why don’t you see for yourself? This displacement In servitude The ailment In the crops we grew You’re summer From a distance Uncomfortable at an arm's length Compare Why don’t you look for yourself? Despair Why don’t you see for yourself? You say Why don’t you seem like yourself? And I smile as I cry Why don’t I feel like myself? I don’t feel like me And you say Why don’t you seem like yourself? And I smile The red The great unknown The black The cold alone The red your eyes see when closed Represents Great unknown The black your eyes see when closed Shrouds you in, cold alone You say Why don’t you seem like yourself? And I smile as I cry Why don’t I feel like myself? I don’t feel like me And you say Why don’t you seem like yourself? And I smile This displacement In solitude This arrangement In plain view In plain view
6.
Etch 01:36
7.
Am I bigger than the sum of my surroundings? Or does this define me? I am now encouraging the fallout of this To be brought on swiftly I am yours Consistency Control Control The pedestal you stand on slowly crushed into my shoulders It pushed its way into my spine now I can barely Stand This will never break you this will only leave a void Filled only to be ripped out again in time I am your consistency I am your control I am yours Consistency Control Control We can survive But not like this We are alive We don’t quite fit Because we are cystic in nature Ever growing Ever throbbing We are thriving We are writhing I am your consistency I am your control I am yours Consistency Control Control
8.
When you catch your breath Explain Explain yourself When you catch yourself out Explain your motive clearly To me I could not tell Your entrance was a wound Until it came out from my spine You’ve known me At the best and worse Neither seems to phase you The middle was just an error Confusion I could not tell Your entrance was a wound Until you start to phase me out Slowly phase me out Mean no harm but miss the mark I was a glutton You couldn’t even muster A single measly bite You’ve known me At the best and worst Neither seems to phase you The middle was just an error Confusion I could not tell Your entrance was a wound Until you start to phase me out Slowly phase me out Mean no harm but miss the mark I was a glutton You couldn’t even muster A single measly bite All that I cared for I forced it down your gullet You spit it all back up in spite Of yourself Of your indecisive nature Your necessity to seek respite You are stuck in your self righteous Indecisive nature Your necessity to seek respite Your injuries appearing lesser When you catch your breath Explain this motive to me clearly You are wasting all your power On the thought process involved in Keeping you
9.
Sketch 02:31
10.
I am coated in open wounds But these scars are Born of complacency but not intention And so it may seem We couldn’t bury this all at the depth of our seams So it will come to pass So it will come to pass With a... TASTE SOUND Let it all go Out Let it all come to the surface and hit you in stages A taste Smell Sight Sound Let it all go Out Let it all come to the surface and hit you in stages A TASTE SMELL SIGHT SOUND I am coated in open wounds I am covered in open wounds I am coated in open wounds And I will hit you in stages And so it may seem We couldn’t bury this all at the depth of our seams So it will come to pass So it will come to pass
11.
Witness Passerby Vacating the passages in my mind Hindsight Point of view Presented in front of you This might take some getting used to This might take some crawling in the dark This wretched worm Finds its tail Bringing this all To an end This wretched worm Bites its tail Bringing this all Full circle WItness Passerby Vacating the passages in my mind Hindsight Point of view Presented in front of you I feel what I see This light it washes me In a warmth unbeknown to body Were you present? Were you struggling? Were you grasping rope to get along? This wretched worm Finds its tail Bringing this all To an end This wretched worm Bites its tail Bringing this all full circle Witness Passerby Vacating the passages in my mind Hindsight Point of view Presented in front of you All we have lost In this pain Will come again Admire the view And choose how to live Felon Sitting by the fire Roasting on the flame We are all the same Villain Watching from up higher Arrogance untamed We are all the same We are not the same I’ve been growing empathetic in my life I’ve been far from copacetic in my time here I’ve been growing empathetic in my life I’ve been far from copacetic in my life here, time here Witness Passerby Vacating the passages in my mind Hindsight Point of view Presented in front of you All we have lost In this pain Will come again Admire the view To choose how to live This wretched worm Finds its tail Bringing this all To an end To an end

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released May 20, 2022

MEGALOMATIC are
Craig McKenzie - Guitar, Vocals
Jamie Barnes - Drums
Ben Reffin - Bass Guitar, Backing Vocals, Synths, Percussion

All tracks written and performed by MEGALOMATIC
Lyrics by Craig McKenzie

Produced by Ben Reffin

Recorded by Ben Reffin and Jake Bhattacharya
Recorded at The Cottage, Loch Fyne
Vocals recorded at Techniche HQ

Mixed by Mark Roberts
Mastered by Ed Woods

Piano on track 6 performed by Craig McKenzie
Strings on track 8 arranged and programmed by Brian Connor at Jenius Studios
Additional orchestral programming by Andrew McAllister
Artwork by Joe Lomax
Logo design by Sam Mortimer

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Megalomatic Glasgow, UK

Powerful, progressive, face melting riffs packed full of passion and controlled emotion.

Glasgow, Scotland.

Jamie Barnes-Drums
Ben Reffin- Bass Guitar
Craig McKenzie- Guitar/Vocals
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