We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Years of Silicon

by A Hope For Home

/
  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      $4 USD  or more

     

1.
Futures/Past 07:25
We once held time within our bones, but it all gave way when hope turned to stone. Reaching out, and looking back. The calm never lasts We disappear into the bloodless now, always approaching, but never here. And hope waits on forever. Somewhere where love and anger have their place. Like knives to cut, like flames to burn all that stands in our way. We’ve turned away, we’re caught in the wind. Yesterday has returned again. It’s calling forth, the storm from before. The wreckage mounts, there’s wolves at the door. We’re speeding up, We’ve slowed to a crawl. We’ve lost all sight of something else at all. But as it comes undone, we’ll finally see Our futures past, will set us free Between the weight of yesterday And the uncertainty ahead, consider all who’ve departed In this storm of progress, even the dead will not be safe! Without a now that promises a future better than what’s been
2.
They force compliance as we breathe in the new air But a new day is dawning, a new age for them to fear They suffocate every fire. And I’m tired of watching lights go out. While speaking with silver tongues , they extinguish our hope with their boots on our necks. Years of blood, Years of lead And now we look on as thousands stand shoulder to shoulder with the agents of decay Soon, all will witness the final death throes of a world that was built on destruction and pain. Our lungs were lined with lead, our flesh decayed But now we live inside machines, our blood will never flow the same way Once lined with lead, now our flesh decayed Inside machines now, our blood will never flow the same way They suffocate every fire and extinguish hope, years of silicon go on and on and on… Come set fires of hope Years of Silicon Still, this cycle of pain once forged in iron is now in our veins. So call them forth, to make whole what they stole. Call them forth Call them forth To make whole What they stole What’s been left for us that's not fodder on which they feed? What's left for us? Where is their reckoning? Awaken the reckoning for everything that they have tried to hide. What’s left for us? Where is retribution? We are the reckoning of this new age! Call them forth! Call them forth!
3.
Unlit Beacon 12:08
They told us love would bridge the gap But lately I’m not in the mood. They sold the straight and narrow path But lined their pockets with gold and blood. And so I’ll close the door. My eyes fixed lower than before. Because we’re all we have. Once all our fictions are lost, and time regained We’ll stand up tall, we’ll break our chains. And on that day we will see there’s nothing else. No space beyond; just you and me. I see now We’re all we have Wash away all of this, and all illusions die With eyes fixed lower still, I see clearly now I once reached for heaven but fell embraced in flames. Water filled my lungs, I've never been the same. Now I have broken bonds to finally feel free to redefine our hope In all uncertainty I see now that we are all we have Wash away all this, and all illusions die. I see now that we are all we have.
4.
In this dark world of cement and wires We sing a canticle for our languished hearts: Beneath the stones, another world! So remove the cancer, and cut the lines. Everything that we’ve known is crumbling And now we see: Beneath the stones, another world! Unhook our veins, and bleed again! So we can feel again: indignation draped in hope See again: all that's been buried and all we’ve lost Bleed again: untether now from eternal toil untether now from eternal toil untethered now from eternal toil and bleed again We’ll remove the stones, one by one, over and over again until it’s finally undone We’ll speak with stones, many voices as one, over and over again Until it’s finally undone

about

YEARS OF SILICON was produced by Tanner Morita in Charlotte, North Carolina.

credits

released September 2, 2022

Written by A Hope For Home
Produced, Mixed, and Mastered by Tanner Morita
Artwork by Jakub Blank
Video by Matthew Ellis

Years of Silicon was recorded between May 2020 and August 2022 in Charlotte, North Carolina, Vancouver, Washington, Portland, Oregon, Phoenix, Arizona, and Providence, Rhode Island.
©2022 A Hope For Home

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

A Hope For Home Portland, Oregon

bummer tunes

Portland, OR

Nathan Winchell
Matthew Ellis
Daniel McCall
Eric Gerrard
Lance Taylor
James McGaha

contact / help

Contact A Hope For Home

Streaming and
Download help

Report this album or account

A Hope For Home recommends:

If you like A Hope For Home, you may also like: