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The Fourth Wall

by Projections

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1.
The Listener 01:25
2.
Something is different A ghost town where dance halls would stand This drag doesn’t feel good And all I know seems to be falling I never questioned Is chemistry left in our romance Because I don’t need to We still have legs enough to dance, dance Is this what you meant when you said That we’re not in a place where we belong Because even if I’m the last man standing I know I’m right being so wrong Call it denial But I don’t think that I should leave yet This isn’t revival We aren’t done; we still have time left How can I be wrong Where is everyone Is this whole thing gone Cause we built it, woah oh I put everything Into every word I sang To see it all decay Cause we didn’t built it all To watch it fall Is this what you meant when you said That lions are chasing us down And I’ll run ‘til I feel so weightless I’ll run ‘til I feel so weightless
3.
I think I get it now Actually, I think we all do We all know enough about ourselves We’ve spent years’ worth of torment and energy Thinking about thinking about thinking And trying to understand those thoughts. Those jumbled messes And maybe we’ll transpose them, Maybe we’ll find a surface In the depths Of our selves
4.
Simple Seed 03:40
We are the ghosts This is an afterlife We need a new start This seed will grow in time We are alone here Our paradise has faded away We stand as watchmen We reminisce about the glory days So introverted We’ll never see the damage we made By doing nothing By being stone and watching the graves I tried so hard to leave The best of me To be the simple seed To grow in peace I’ll plant what I’ve learned Inside the earth To finally know rebirth Become something that’s worth its weight in mistakes Until I feel it in my bones That we can call the dead the living And after all these years We’ve redefined our home [I really do think that I get it now There’s something…someone…everyone...missing here It’s just us The last remaining ghosts Haunting a graveyard where there’s nothing left to haunt but our own minds And who really cares how much I know about myself anyway There’s not even anyone here to share that with]
5.
Eden 03:58
The scene – is in the dead of night Or at least that’s what it seems The trees – they cover up the sky I can’t see through the leaves The thorns – they send me stumbling My body hits the floor The war – my mind erasing me I don’t know what to do anymore And here’s what I thought I’d never say That I have been fighting everyday I’m calling for you Eden’s gone astray I call your name, but there’s not I call your name but there is no one around These lost refrains, no they don’t Don’t make a sound I try to find myself in what I already know But something tells me that won’t be enough anymore I will be great But I know I have to make a sound I need a minute just to breathe I can’t seem to find the air Fatigue is overwhelming me I don’t have energy to spare
6.
Rome 04:35
We see the sun, we feel the heat Making shadows of our enemies Just the three of us, a daunting task Set upon this bridge, no turning back This is where we take our stand We’ll hold the line, we’ll save their lives If we fail there’s no tomorrow If we die then Rome will follow The fight goes on endlessly As the sun fades to the sea Tired men make their retreat As we remain, with unmoving feet This is what they’ll all remember We’ll hold the line, we’ll stay alive If we fail there’s no tomorrow If we die then Rome will follow If we fail There’s no tomorrow If we die here Rome will follow The captain stands dead to rights Far behind enemy lines Overwhelmed, he turns his head And gives the order: blow the bridge.
7.
I think I get it now I’ve spent enough time looking at myself from new angles I understand myself enough I think we all do Our minds have been stuck memorizing the way that every single synapse pulses and pounds Creating these currents…this energy All culminating in a surplus of fucked up souls with infinite ways to describe just how indefinitely lost we all really are I used to think this was a prison, but it’s not This is an afterlife We did this to ourselves Our wounds are both self-inflicted and self-reflexive Our words are these stale emotional confessions But they can be more They have to be more.
8.
Dreams 04:05
Dreams that keep me up at night Dreaming of a better life Restless dreams that plague my mind Anything to see the morning light I am locked inside my own head And at quite a moment – trapped inside my own bed My head bleeds with the time that I’ve spent trying I’m dying to understand the thoughts That influence these nightmares Night terrors Not afraid, but I’m right there And then the fright tears All the seams of my life bare But that’s fine At least I’m getting through the night But as the hours step aside and let thoughts overtake your mind Then you’re left with the same questions And stuck on the same methods They say that you’re sane – yes But they can’t even address The war goes on My thoughts fight a paragon My dreams unchecked, unknown I brace for a marathon The kind of a battle that rattles the core of my mind And in time, I will find that I’m in the eye of brainstorm The pain’s strong Because I’ve lost track of myself My mental shelf life expired I am in this hell I can’t control my own dreams Do you know what that means? I’ve seen my fantasies turn against me And honestly I’m afraid Fucking terrified The things I fight all day Are what come out at night And I can promise you that my dreams Are what keep them alive And so I sit Desperately awake And hoping that they’ll die Dreamer, do you know the answer Dreamer, stay alive Dreamer, do you know the answer Dreamer, find the sunlight
9.
This is not a race against time We’re fighting from the inside Against the souls and soldiers of past lives The remnants of an empire We will rise…tonight We will rise…alive This is what happens when the house blows you down This is where we’re left Without the ears to know we’re making a sound Just the lost anachronists But this is not a call to resign To our temporal confines Pulled apart and left a sacrifice The product of a divide This is what happens to the ones made of stone While the axis spins Too rooted deep in all the places they’ve known Now the lost anachronists We are, we are the lost anachronists We are, we are the lost anachronists This is what happens when the house blows you down The lost anachronists.
10.
I fought homelessness for so long For years a placeless ghost Using walls of layered thickness To stray from the bare bones Stripped down I’ll search the rubble I haven’t dug this deep before These hands are far too clean to know What they are looking for But this is my wreck, and nothing will go unturned As I dig into the rubble and pieces of bridges burned These unused hands carry everything they can Then I’ll finally know; maybe then I’ll understand I fought homelessness for so long For years a placeless ghost And ideas I haven’t sold are What’s left of my aging soul I’ve fought homelessness for so long For years a placeless ghost But I finally found the answer I’ll stop searching and build my home My own, my own home This is everything Everything to me
11.
I think I get it now This is not a repackaging, not a rephrasing, not a revolution This is rebirth, redefinition Because we’ve still got energy left Enough to look around, to understand that we’ve fallen, and to scatter the ashes of who we used to be And rebuild This might be the same old world But look at it with different eyes Eyes looking outward, forward To the pulsing tides of our surroundings This world is old for now, but soon it will be nothing like it once was Because maybe we don’t get it. But I do.
12.
We stand with waning hopes and weary hearts We live as remnants of a world that has passed us by Living through memories that never part Watching in silence. We don’t know if we’re alive As the seconds play, all the legends fade And the old refrain, what a golden age We don’t know how to live outside the past Existing in a never-ending yesterday But it’s time to see That the world is changing And the introverted ones like us Are the ones that will be left behind I can tell this is the turning point and I don’t want to fade away like those in the past I won’t be another stranded voice, no I will stand and make this moment last There’s something more here And I don’t fully understand the path I choose But what should I fear When I got nothing to lose We used to paint ourselves and all of our faults Creating nothing more than pictures on the wall We thought ourselves to be internal artists Spending our words forgetting the departed But now, take a deeper breath, let it find a way Just like brushes can, to another space Maybe we’ll learn a different kind of truth We speak the loudest when there’s nothing left to lose.
13.
I felt this way before For years my thoughts were acting Reacting As though my brain were in itself the world And this is where it turns Endlessly without days And no way To understand what’s in the grey But I’ll never lie in a restless mind I’ll never lie with the words that I always failed to find I can exist outside my head Let me exist outside again I can exist outside my head Let me exist outside my head again I’ve felt it all unfold Despite my greatest efforts And lost words These hands and what they’ve broken hurt I’m not too far gone To go back now
14.
Sunlight 04:56
This is where we are now Striving for a second chance and Living day by day Lost in retrospective glances Set the plans in motion We will learn our past mistakes and Turn our thoughts to actions Laying plans for our escape So here we go again now We’re living on borrowed time We’ll never know what’s yet now We’re waiting for the sunlight Here we go again now We’re tired but still alive We’re letting go what’s left now And waiting for the sunlight We are everything that You’ve ever known but in name alone Severing tradition And putting ourselves where we don’t go As the borders fade we See what we can now inherit Drawing on surroundings The sunrise becomes more apparent We are everything that you’ve ever known We aren’t anything that you’ve ever known
15.
Apricity 03:16
We’re given a fresh start The rebirth is almost completed now With life back in our hearts What’s left is to know that it’s about Making something important A symbol for those that we left behind Unbreakably solid A monument showing we survived Wake up, you’re alive Open your eyes And see everything another time This is your second chance at life Being lost is so close to being found Being lost is so close, so close, so close
16.
We went back to a familiar place Where the memory occurred And put our feet in the same spaces They stood all those years before We’ve grown tired since that day With the burdens that we brought And darker lines upon our faces Trace the battles that we’ve fought Look at how far we’ve come And how far we’ve yet to go Visions of what we’ve done They pass with a fading glow There’s a fire burning in our eyes We had lost it for a time When the war had seemed so hopeless Broken men we stood side by side There are few survivors now We can’t count we the ones we lost But we will never feel so empty Memories keep us hanging on We have all been stung by the men of war There is no known cure The prognosis begs for terminal But we won’t rest or seek withdrawal Oh, it begs for terminal But we won’t rest or seek withdrawal

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The debut album of indie dance group Projections.

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released December 16, 2014

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Projections Baltimore, Maryland

With pop-punk inspired melodies, electronic and pop instrumentals, and a theatricality all its own, Baltimore's Projections brings a new and unique edge that draws on the influences of each of its members. Their debut album The Fourth Wall accomplishes that goal beautifully, showcasing their new sound in a way that’s authentic and self-aware while maintaining a fun and relatable feeling. ... more

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