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Royalty
04:39
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You walk up to me, your eyes glued to the horizon
You don’t seem to see anything worth looking beyond
What lies just in front of you has to obey your rules
Anyone who dares to raise their voice must be a fool
This is obviously no member of the royalty
Everyone make way, everyone stand still
You have no business here, you’re not one of us, this is our will
All you lesser men and all you humble girls
Don’t you dare step inside our own private world
Try to do the same, try to claim our rights
You will be stepped upon, swept out of the rug, out of the light
We are born this way, we are royalty
You cannot fake what it takes to be just like me
Make way, stand still
This is our will
Stand still
Make way, stand still
This is our will
Stand still
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2. |
No Matter What
04:49
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Everyone has gone
Back where they are missed by someone
And you're alone
This truth you just found
Breaking the silence all around
Without a sound
Lights keep flickering
But you don't notice anything
No bells ringing
In your absent mind
There may be something of this kind
But you can't find
No matter what you tell yourself
You can't think of anything else
There's nothing you can do
With no one around you
Now there are only
Shadows that prey on the lonely
Eventually
No matter what's right
It's useless to start up a fight
Turn off the lights
No matter what you tell yourself
You can't think of anything else
There's nothing you can do
With no one around
No matter what you tell yourself
You can't think of anything else
There's nothing you can do
With no one around you
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3. |
Nothingness
05:21
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There is a kind of emptiness
You never reach when you expect
Things to be done by someone else
Now everything that you ignored
Is not out of sight anymore
Everyone’s knocking at your door
No wiser than the rest
You try to do your best
And be the one to make it
You feel so out of place
Can’t seem to keep the pace
If you could only fake it
You have the choice to float or sink
It’s not as easy as you think
When everything is dark as ink
No one is going to help you then
Sometimes you just have to pretend
So you can make it until the end
No wiser than the rest
You try to do your best
And be the one to make it
It all falls into place
At the end of the race
And no one’s gonna take it
When you dive into nothingness
You either step out of darkness
Or crumble in a complete mess
I just have no advice for you
It will not take the same things to
Get you out of what you’ve been through
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Don't Let the World Know
05:39
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It’s a pain to see how they made you be
What you didn’t want to
And it’s even worse that you were the first
To believe that it was true
What you called a lie that you wouldn’t buy
That you would always push back
You’ve been leading your life like a walk in the dark
Not knowing where was the next turn
Or if you’ve got to run
It’s not what you had in mind
Don’t you let it bring you down
Don’t let the world know
Exactly what you have in mind
Now the lights are gone and you’re staying home
No point to get out there
Don’t have what it takes, don’t want to stay awake
In the end it’s all fair
Should you close the shades, everything would fade
Nothing more to remember
The face in the mirror wouldn’t look much wearier
It’d be the same as always
Nothing more to say
It’s not what you had in mind
Don’t you let it bring you down
Don’t let the world know
Exactly what you have in mind
It’s not what you had in mind
Don’t you let it bring you down
Don’t let the world know
Exactly what you have in mind
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5. |
It Never Ends
04:51
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Like a spiral of darkness
A descent in humility
Once you take a step
Into mediocrity
It never ends
It never ends
Over and then under
And back again
Over and then under
You settle for the lies
You settle for the pain
You settle for an endless burning rain
No consolation there
No sense of honesty
No way to regain your own unity
This is what you can't escape
This is what you agreed to
Just accept this fate
Just accept it's true
It never ends
It never ends
Over and then under
And back again
Over and then under
You settle for the lies
You settle for the pain
You settle for an endless burning rain
No consolation there
No sense of honesty
No way to regain your own unity
Over and then under
And back again
Over and then under
It never ends
But then it does
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6. |
Xenoblastic
04:04
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Faces emerge from every direction
Shapes and sharp angles take their positions
Edges ordered in perfect symmetry
Reveal the underlying chemistry
Is it all it seems?
Do I die in your dreams?
Is it all it seems?
Do I die in your dreams?
Witness the defects and dislocations
Undefined boundaries and slight compression
Processed and defined by outside constraints
Impurities invade grain after grain
Is it all it seems?
Do I die in your dreams?
Is it all it seems?
Did I ever die in your dreams?
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Zankerfeld Paris, France
Zankerfeld is my solo project, in which I write, play and sing mostly everything, though more people are being involved
lately.
I used to be a member of Mond/green, The Skeletonz and Naphta.
In my spare time, I play guitar for Alex Le Play and for Olivier Rocabois.
I hope you will enjoy those songs as much as I enjoyed recording them.
(Picture by Cathi Mini)
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My first real band, hard-hitting rock and roll with future members of Backbone Party
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