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Embrace

by Crafter

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1.
Worth 01:59
Is there anything worth fighting for? strangled by fear, half-collapsed to the floor In love with hatred, ambition cloaked in vanity We are shells of the kids we used to be Useless and distracted, afraid to maintain the world that fell at our feet We may have stumbled but it has to mean something to us. Caught in the rapture between hope and fear- I’ll stay right here. I walk to the ridge where the nightmare reappears her secret dances in my ear: “We’re lost out here, broken in spirit, willing to kill the nothing that defines us.”
2.
“Get in the car,” he said, “and I’ll take you home.” you’ll wander all those roads where boys buried souls like bones unable to love, robbed of trust, unsure what to hold onto When sorting through the rubble a generation was buried in I didn’t want to be the one standing on the bridge With hands locked and face pressed against the fence Staring at the underpass wondering where time went And what we could have said to avoid the rooms we were lured into Standing in darkest halls searching for a light so radiant And still we strive to be good men despite it She’s convinced I tried while I wonder: if we did enough to quell the storms that surged in all of us Outwitting the homes that shook beneath your feet I had everything. You had nothing. You can rest easy when I drag you here And at night when you’re locked in the backseat by the tracks on memory lane with your head in your hands, facing what was taken and what shaped that anger Foolishly running into the arms of the absent I hope you remember that dignity begins in the hearts of the kids Though I dodged the hands I’ve longed to break since back then believe me when I say for all our sake It wasn’t theirs to take. It wasn’t theirs to take. Forever restless: this is our home So take care of each other because we are all we have.
3.
I don’t recognize this place anymore A cold wind blew in when I closed the shutter We held the world in broken glass Obsessed with madness What a life we had back there Time makes loneliness of the years Did you know you can’t go home again? So climb out of the basement you’re hiding in Put out your cigarette and walk home from the apartment There is a world outside these walls and it’s changing beyond our grasp Your father’s gone and not a God like we once thought While your mother is face down on the sidewalk you inherit the habit that kicked her mind to the gutter And the rain floods in where the drought began To teach us that every home we’ll ever know is broken And you’ll be drenched to the bone when you fail to outrun it They slam the back doors and turn the keys These roofs are levees that no longer contain the rage the walls caved and families gave in Those dented walls mark domestic insanity I went the same way, fell over your boots in the back room, wondering: if there’s an antidote, prepared for a life without purpose, peace, or hope But we found hope, we found vision despite miles of paved blank pavement There is a world outside these walls so unhinge your heart and let us go Your sons and daughters are free to search this out on their own We’re where we need to be. Just let us go. Every home we’ve ever known is broken.
4.
They told us to give up, We can, we must rely on patience to carry us away from the storm Holding close what brought us together Sifting mortar lines, yearning for a pulse I saw something change in you when your head hit the window pane our throats tore open, I put my feet back on the pavement Our blood too hot to idle as the waves they weakened your knees Your spirit waned and you said so clearly to me: “I’m lost, my friend, in the echo of an old embrace I’m not sure of anything, too content to run down every street, rattling gates in the hopes that someday I’ll rearrange the misery” We can, we must, rely on patience to carry us out of the storm Striving for change, kicking up the dirt Coast to coast with six years to learn: I’ll stay right here in this roadside ditch And when the sun paints my face I’ll press the pen to the page ‘Cause these roads are far too blank and I’m unwilling to die with my bones so straight It was no choice to leave Lift yourself from this defeat Our hearts were built to roam.
5.
Unsaid 01:12
This may be the last bus I step off as i bid farewell to a long run We used to laugh when our legs braced the sand turning up the songs when I went two decades deep I longed for stolen pages and harnessed back floating like tumbleweed across the tar with an eagerness to know if I could raise myself from inaction My brothers told me that we’re all the same Less alive these days, honing complacency Unable to see the time we cast away
6.
In Passing 01:07
“Keep moving kid, you’ve got a lot to learn” I refuse to stand still. The early days crushed the foundation of our souls. “I stand on the shore and struggle to breathe, stuck in a loop of memories Of hiding under bridges, escaping the sinking sun. Please give me relief.” Some day I’ll beg you for that memory We can’t leave her there, deserting compassion while diverting the blame All too proud of the arrogance we maintained.
7.
I’m climbing out of the trench I once stood in Choosing direction- a new path to lead us away From the depths of violence that led the jaded to say: “Someday you’ll see when you’re not so young and naive” I’ll unclench these fists when I am ready to see What it means to heal and how it feels to be redeemed Setting free a flock of blocked ideals starved of the young for all those years We’re old enough to kn0w it There resides a fire awaiting the spark in all of us Shown the ideal that guided hearts through the dark Lost little boys shuffle towards the door with bags packed, eager for the world What broke you, broke me just the same For all the young and hungry lost on the old and wounded And those too tired to lift their heads from the dirt Like dogs who forgot how to dance in the rain We’ll watch those years wash away There resides a fire awaiting the spark in all of us Shown the ideal that guided hearts through the dark Those lost old men are running scared The tail-tucked wolves they thought they had to be (what is it you thought you had to be?) I see you standing on the edge of the earth I saw you looking for a way out of the hurt I am standing here with my hand extended I will wait right here with a mind pried open I am standing. I am waiting.
8.
Crossroads 03:28
At these crossroads we either beg or strive for a better life ahead That shell-shocked vision, captivating when youth was stolen Nurturing an awareness of who I am and what I will need to believe If i am going to survive this world with the slightest flame To guide us through the forests of disbelief It must’ve rattled your skull when the market fell Jeff’s wife ran out and he put a shell through his mouth It’s a hell of a thing where men go to die The theatres are now a terrain undefined But in this need for self-reliance I’m dodging gutters, motel run-off needles and stumbling twenty-somethings where our daughters tuck their skirts while avoiding the alleyways So if peace was anything, it was a song It was the last word in that defining verse It counted for something, it picked our heads up from the floors And was never in the passing trees, swaying wires or new england leaves, the blood and the bruising in Chicago streets It was found in you and me while we questioned everything, never to surrender truth and decency Maybe next year when the van leaves us stranded it will all make sense to us Somehow it all makes sense to me.
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10.
Embrace 02:46
Why are we running from the arms of history? Brown noosed for nothing, complacent- we became Unwilling to lend our hands to love Where we failed to cut loose the chains In the hopes that someday we’ll rope the flag to high mast and shine We’ll see the names carved proudly in concrete Someday is always yesterday There was no peace in closed fists Or resolutions spoken by old men on Main Street recalling mistakes made when they were young rambling on about the world they once knew unable to see the one we aim to create embrace, create, embrace, embrace There will be time to lie still in the grave Waiting on something to save us from what it is we became Apathetic and divided, unwilling to see sameness, perfecting the role of enemy Now we watch from the edge of this precipice, utterly ignorant misled by newsreels that preyed upon our distance. We chose wars by accident When we lost an ideal that once left us in love with the world So I ask: Are we still capable of love? Are we incapable of love? Embrace. Create. Embrace. Embrace.
11.
You watched him turn blue on the floor She was a stone in that chair You stumbled from the porch, screaming, knees burrowed into grass You never were the same but you and me are the same We harden hearts to simplify the emptiness this world creates We shield our souls to winds that sting the skin We put up walls to block what we can’t understand I needed you to stay young. Stay young with me. To hold the last of our humanity in a sea of empty seats We harden hearts to simplify the emptiness this world creates. Stay young with me. You wanted a better life for me He died a poor man and we waved to him in passing Smoking on the porch, toothless in grin You may not see him again but I’ll be home again. Loneliness bites like a spider in our sleep. I wanted a better life for you.
12.
The ridge became our stage tonight The lights ignite decay and the blight Below are broken windows and the boarded walls From 04 in Baltimore to trailer parks in Arkansas Where working families were torn apart How do we end this divide and the fatigue of infinite uncertainty? I can’t promise a brand new start Since we molded bars that locked us in We were just kids in search of the ends of the earth Pushing back with an iron heart the oceans that rose to set us back and apart. I’m not willing to give up on us And bury every lesson that took years to uncover In the persistent pursuit of truth for long enough we’ve lived in hell That way of life is gone, nothing’s the same I’m not sorry for what I couldn’t do alone So stand with me and learn to sing we’ll trace handprints on the brick we left blank Making use of what it is that remains No longer waiting for our lives to meet that end. We can’t stop searching. We won’t stop searching for a better life ahead. I am ready to learn.

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released May 8, 2017

All songs written by Crafter
All lyrics by Kyle Taylor- except parts of “In Passing” written and performed by Jess Nyx

Embrace was recorded in December 2016 and January of 2017
Recorded, Mixed, and Mastered by Adam Cichocki of Timber Studios in Bayonne, New Jersey
Art direction, layout, and design by Dalton Lampro

Vocals – Kyle Taylor
Guitars – Dylan Lampro
Bass – Kyle Petty
Drums – Jerad Neville

Crafter is Kyle Taylor, Dylan Lampro, Tylor Harrington, Tyler Mazza, and Jerad Neville

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