The Neuromancer
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The Neuromancer is the fourth studio album by William Control. Preceded by a lyric video for Illuminator, the album was released on April 4, 2014 through Control Records, and was produced and engineered by William Control. It was recorded at Control's own Hell's Half Acre studio in September/October 2013, mixed by Ryan O John, and mastered by Alan Douches at West West Side. All lyrics are by William Francis. The single Revelator was also released in April, and accompanied by a video. This was followed in May by a second single, Price We Pay]. The album had been scheduled for release in late 2013, but was delayed in order to make it the best it could possibly be.[1]
Track listing
All tracks are written by All tracks written by William Control and Kenneth Fletcher.
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "Introduction" | 1:13 |
| 2. | "Adore (Fall In Love Forever)" | 4:54 |
| 3. | "Revelator" | 5:00 |
| 4. | "Price We Pay" | 4:46 |
| 5. | "God Is Dead" | 3:40 |
| 6. | "The Filth And The Fetish" (features vocals by Ashley Jade) | 5:37 |
| 7. | "Illuminator" (features vocals by Andy Biersack of Black Veil Brides) | 4:13 |
| 8. | "Passengers" | 3:13 |
| 9. | "The Blade" | 2:56 |
| 10. | "Love Is a Shadow" | 4:09 |
| 11. | "Where The Angels Burn" | 6:54 |
| Total length: | 49:00 | |
No. Title Music Length 1. "Introduction" 1:13 2. "Adore (Fall In Love Forever)" 4:54 3. "Revelator" 5:00 4. "Price We Pay" 4:46 5. "God Is Dead" 3:40 6. "The Filth and the Fetish" (features vocals by Ashley Jade) 5:37 7. "Illuminator" (features vocals by Andy Biersack of Black Veil Brides) 4:13 8. "Passengers" 3:13 9. "The Blade" 5:08 10. "Love Is a Shadow" 4:09 11. "Where the Angels Burn" 6:54 Total length: 49:00
Trivia
- B-sides included London Town (Alternative Version) and The Promise (When In Rome cover)
- The spoken word part of Illuminator takes inspiration from Anais Nin's preface to Henry Miller's novel Tropic Of Cancer. [2]
Lyrics
Introduction
Stranger we become through the blurred lens of violence.
Visions drained of color and sound.
Sometimes, I don’t recognize the monster looking back at me,
and in the mirrors of my own sanity I try and gracefully look away as often as I can.
An outsider in my own skin,
a deteriorating sense of hope and all the music I have ever heard
erased from my memory forever.
Lost. I find myself wandering the halls of regret
not knowing what door to open,
or what staircase to fall down.
Hush. Eerie silence in the dawn of a new world,
it ends abruptly and I can hear the sound of gunpowder exploding
from shells and glass shattering all around me.
Sinew on fire, muscles bleeding out of time,
and there’s an unfamiliar woman sitting next to me
in a car that I don’t remember falling into.
A melody is blaring through my insides, shattering me awake.
Wailing and shaking, we are driving on the curb of my own mistakes and I fear,
this may be my last night on earth.
Adore (Fall In Love Forever)
Your beauty shocks, I am depraved
The criminal glance you shot my way, these oceans waves
Will consume us
The road to hell is paved with one intention, my love
Your vicious sky, I can’t be saved
Lascivious way you spoke my name, these carnal waves
Will consume us
The road to hell is paved with one intention, my love
Get down on your knees and pray
Get down on your knees and say 'I adore you
I need to exist in your world, my love'
Where do the angels lie?
In the comfort of your night
Where do the angels lie?
Visualize
I want to close my eyes we can fall in love together
I want to feel that perfect velvet rose forever
I want to close my eyes we can fall in love together
I want to taste that perfect velvet rose forever. Forever.
Your beauty kills, I’m still depraved
The criminal way you spoke my name these carnal waves
Will consume us
The road to hell is paved with one intention, my love
Get down on your knees and pray
Get down on your knees and say 'I adore you
I need to exist in your world, my love'
Where do the angels lie?
In the comfort of your night
Where do the angels lie?
Visualize
I want to close my eyes we can fall in love together
I want to feel that perfect velvet rose forever
I want to close my eyes we can fall in love together
I want to taste that perfect velvet rose forever. Forever.
You look inside, you can’t deny the sea is black and the sky is bright we are ethereal, fall in love forever
You look inside, you can’t deny the sea is black and the sky is bright we are ethereal, fall in love forever
Revelator
From Hell, the violence of life, the pain we must endure
From Hell, the violence of life, the finest cruelty
How does it feel, knowing that the dead surround you, not suffering?
How do you smile, in this graveyard of lonely boxes and exile?
From Hell, the violence of life, the pain we must endure
From Hell, the violence of life the finest cruelty
How does it feel, when you press your skin against my skin, in the darkness?
I see you smile, my hand wrapped around your throat in style
All we feel is fear
We will fall to the violent sins in the night (We fall we fall into the night)
We will fall to the violent sins in the night (The neuromantic boys are here)
We will fall to the violent sins in the night (We fall we fall into the night)
We will fall to the violent sins in the night (The neuromantic boys are here)
From Hell, the violence of life, the pain we must endure
From Hell, the violence of life, the finest cruelty
You say I am a child of god
Some claim the devils hand
Oh Lucifer, what have you done to this man?
We will fall to the violent sins in the night (We fall we fall into the night)
We will fall to the violent sins in the night (The neuromantic boys are here)
We will fall to the violent sins in the night (We fall we fall into the night)
We will fall to the violent sins in the night (The neuromantic boys are here)
We fall, we fall into the night
I gave my heart you gave me fear
We fall, we fall into the night
Neuromantic boys are here.
We fall, we fall into the night
I give my heart you give me fear
We fall, we fall into the night
Neuromantic boys are here.
Price We Pay
Mode of operation, the last temptation, to run and hide
One sensation, the final damnation, the soul divides
And your putrid heart is kept from loving
And you’re doomed eternally to lie
The price we pay for living
Fuck your veiled surprise
The price we pay for loving
I love the pain in your eyes
Mode of operation, the final damnation, the love, the loss
A brazen complication, the last domination, the soul, the cost
And your putrid heart is kept from loving
And you’re doomed eternally to lie
The price we pay for living
Fuck your veiled surprise
The price we pay for loving
I love the pain in your eyes
Price I pay for living here in Hell I’m not forgetting
How my soul divides
Price I pay for living here in Hell don’t call it sinning
I love the pain in your eyes
God Is Dead
Lovers and sinners
Suffering hate
Imagine a world without pain
Lovers and sinners
Suffering hate
Imagine a world without me
Why are you so damaged, so broken, so completely repellent?
In the absence of a personal Jesus kills, all the love we built
Why are you so damaged, so ugly, so completely disgusting?
In the absence of a personal will to lose, all the love we felt was true
A personal god you choose
Lovers and sinners
Suffering hate
Imagine a world without pain
Lovers and sinners
Suffering hate
Imagine a world without me
Hate me, hate me, Hell won’t even take me
Damage of life, the damage is you
Hate me, hate me, Hell won’t even take me
God is dead, the sacrament
Hate me, hate me, Hell won’t even take me
Damage of life, the damage is you
Hate me, Hate me, Hell won’t even take me
God is dead, the sacrament is true.
Why are you so damaged, so broken, so completely repellent?
In the absence of a personal will to lose, all the love we felt was true
The picture you despise
A personal god you choose
The picture you despise
Is you
Filth And The Fetish
Closure in the comfort
A stranger's bed at last
Closure in the comfort
You can take my flesh
I don’t want your pussy
I want your body bruised and bloody
I want your sorrow
A pain you can love, a hurt you can swallow
She says, tie the rope tighter
She begs, the lashes grow brighter
Here we live on the razor's edge
Slash my heart to bits someday she says
Closure in the comfort
A stranger's bed at last
Closure in the comfort
You can take my flesh
I want your violence
I want the freedom in the pain
I wear the moniker like armor
In the whipping haus I can be anything
'Please Sir, tie the rope ready'
'Please Sir, crash the whip heavy'
Here we live on the razor's edge
'Slash my heart to bits someday,' she says
Closure in the comfort
A stranger's bed at last
Closure in the comfort
You can take my flesh
Here we are in the midst of our own passionate adventure. The lies, the lust, the pain, the trust. Here we can choose to lacerate and butcher all the sorrow deep down inside of us, and really live. Wake up and glance back into the shadow of the sun. Somewhere beneath the shade of violent rays and a perfect cunt. Take me to the gallows, take me to the velvet temple cut in two, can you suffer? Can you suffer like I do?
You are the filth, you are the fetish (I can suffer I can suffer stay with me)
You are the filth, I am the sadist (I can suffer I can suffer stay with me)
Illuminator
I’m a lover in a great disguise
I’m a stranger without stranger eyes
I’m a charmer sensationalized by the world around me, the world decides
I’m an angel don’t believe the lies
I’m your darling, yet still despised
I’m inside you mesmerized at the world you see through
Have you guessed my name?
I wanted pain, hear the sound
I wanted hurt, take me down
I wanted love, but all I feel is your hate
I’m a lover in a great disguise
I’m no stranger don’t act surprised
I’ve been fucking since the dawn of time
I am the liar, the god of this age
Say my name
Lucifer
I wanted pain, hear the sound
I wanted hurt, take me down
I wanted love, but all I feel is your hate
I wanted pain, hear the sound
I wanted hurt, take me down
I wanted love, but all I feel is your hate
All I feel is hate
Look at your demise and understand this. Life is just life and death will bring us all together someday. You will strip away vestures of a culture filled with hate and art then restyle your durable skeleton form, which has been disintegrating and transforming before your very eyes. The scars will be burned away, the scars left by the cruelty of life’s surgeon and it will recreate you through and unblushing savagery of your own talent. William. You will reveal a capacity to shock, to startle lifeless ones from their profound slumber, rousing them from their lethargy with a refreshed awakening.
Hate
Hate
All I need is love
All I feel is pain
All I need is love
But all I feel is your hate
Passenger
Dear love
I know we’re estranged, like passengers, on an old rotten train
Oh love, please come I’m insane, like travelers drowning in shame
Curse this wretched anger and hurt
Surrender all the lonely and hurt
Or is this just a ruse, shall I keep this hate to use?
It’s so hard, to say no to you
Dear love, I know we’re estranged, like passengers, on an old rotten train
Oh love, I know we’re estranged, like animals, high on cocaine
Curse this wretched anger and hurt
Surrender all the lonely and hurt
Or is this just a ruse, shall I keep this hate to use?
It’s so hard, to say no to you
The Blade
New faith, the scandal of pride, the ugly life you live
New faith, the battle inside, to find your true submissive
Turn your heart to stone
Take my crown of thorns
We can suffer together
We can suffer alone
New faith, the semblance die, the ghost of all your crimes
New faith, the battle inside, to face your fear forever
Hold me closer to the blade of life
Turn your heart to stone
Take my crown of thorns
We can suffer together
We can suffer alone
A new faith won’t set you free
A tattered lie and a desperate plea
Love Is A Shadow
You want to abuse me
I want to be used by you
I want to seduce forever
You want to abuse me
I want to be used by you
Love is ugly only stupid people suffer forever
Love, love is a shadow and game we play alive
Love, love is illusion and game we play at night
Break my skin, take my heart and die
You want to abuse me
I want to be used by you
Love is ugly only stupid people suffer forever
Love, love is a shadow and game we play alive
Love, love is illusion and game we play at night
Break my skin, take my heart and die
You’re the queen of crimson suicide
The queen of my despair
Where The Angels Burn
I self-destruct, panic dreams and violet skies and a lonely bed, I lie in
Oh please instruct, all alone aside from my image, the deepest waves I drown
I feel like a fool, like a madman fighting cancer
I feel my abuse, a drug addled victim, I understand him
Somehow I’ll be there, in the flames of my own failure
Somehow I’ll find you
Stranger we become
Through the gates of iron sin
Would I chase you down to Hell?
Would I give up everything for
Stranger we become
Through the gates of iron sin
Would I chase you down to Hell?
Would I give up everything for love?
I self-destruct, silence of the anger and I’m left alone
I feel like a fool, like a madman fighting demons, pigs and effigies
I feel my abuse, a drug addict nothing, I understand him
Somehow I’ll find you, in the flames of my own failure
Somehow I’ll be there
Stranger we become
Through the gates of iron sin
Would I chase you down to Hell?
Would I give up everything for
Stranger we become
Through the gates of iron sin
Would I chase you down to Hell?
Would I give up everything for love?
Make me strange
Where the angels burn
Take me away
I’d give up anything
Make me strange
Where the angels burn
Take me away
I’d give up anything for you
My euphoria turns to stone. Fists and rage and sorrow cannot bring me back to the glory that encapsulates your memory within my seething heart. I stood at the gates of Heaven and spat into the face of St. Peter and told him to fuck himself. That was a laugh. That place, 'Heaven' will never exist for me as long as you are not there standing by my side. I can dwell in the confusion of my experience or I can try and live out my days in anguish. Either option, I lose. If I want to return to the sunshine of the living, I must cross an ocean of hate to get there, and a culture of enormous sorrow stands in my way. But you’re worth enduring the worst of life’s creations. Your love, your forgiveness and tender touch, I would set myself on fire a thousand times for just five more minutes of your magnificence against my skin. I am unfocused. I don’t want people to like me. Nothing matters except dying a thousand deaths and receiving the simple pleasure of holding you one more time. I don’t have a clue how to find you, but I know that somewhere in the sunlight of the spirit you are there guiding me home to your bosom. We really are just made of iron and bone. Held together with weak skin and easy to open veins. We have been created from dust only to live and love and get shoved back into the dirt. My beloved. I don’t have any idea how I am going to find you, but I will. Somehow, in the smiling graves of our ancestors and with every ounce of energy in my bones, I will find you.
All My Love
All My Love
All My Love
Credits
Photography and artwork: Kenneth Fletcher