Archival Lives

from The Carbon Date EP by Actor|Observer

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Every face
Tells a tale
And the lines from his
Form a path that leads
From his mouth
To his eyes
Maps traced through time
Every wince, a window
Revealing new roads
Implementing the flesh
As tales untold

And I know all your new friends
Will read your face like a book
They’ll see where you’ve been,
Judging by the way you look.
And they’ll see what you have done.

Was it worth it
To desert this
And leave it all behind?
(I hope you)
I hope you
(I hope you)
I hope you find something
That makes it worth your
Time to be alive

Cold long years
Etched in stone
Tied to ropes hung
From his shoulders
In knots he surely tied himself
Weighed him down
As he trudged on
Dragging the stone
Through our home
Marring everything
I’d ever known

Can’t you see, you were never
Meat to be that man
You were never meant
To have tied your past
Around your hands.
Carbon date the bones you wrought
You dug it up but there’s not burying it now

Was it worth it
To desert this
And leave it all behind?
(I hope you)
I hope you
(I hope you)
I hope you find something
That makes it worth your
Time to be alive

Carved our names
Into that stone
You bare the weight
Of all the lies
That you have sown
I know you care
And you worked hard
But you used lies to mix the mortar
Never speaking from the heart

Was it worth it
To desert this
And leave it all behind?
I hope you learn!

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from The Carbon Date EP, released August 7, 2011

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Actor|Observer Boston, Massachusetts

Bred from the once thriving Boston hardcore scene of the early 2000’s, Actor Observer are the embodiment of bold sincerity and relentless determination. They use every live performance as an opportunity to draw out the raw and vulnerable feelings that isolate yet bind us all. Their debut full length Pareidolia, released in 2018 on No Sleep Records, is followed by their newest single “Cargo Cult.” ... more

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