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RORY ROLLINS

Old Grim Fairytales

Artist: the BlackStone co
Label: Fat is Life
Release Date: 26-3-2022
Genres: Electric Folk, Progressive, Rock/Metal
People: Marc Bohren // Quentin "BigMan" Baïsset // Ben Benoit // Fred Augugliaro

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Tracklist

1. Leaving my soul
2. Burns and ashes
3. Abyss of Time
4. Lost Horizons
5. Berçeuse
6. Bye bye...

Lyrics

Leaving my soul

Down on the ground
Wondering why
I count the stars and start to cry
I’ve been defeated
I feel rejected
Is there no one to help myself
I’m feeling sorry
Down & disgusted
I wanna blast my brain and die
Time for a change
To rearrange
The things I hid inside my head

Push my strength to the limit
Learn how to use it
Set the power on
Leave this soul for another one
Leaving My Soul

Capture my pain
Cease to complain
Injustice is worst than everything
I fall in doubt for the last time
My vengeance will blow away my pain
Transition comes
Bad to the bones
Forgive the past and all I’ve done
Control my strength
Full power’s set
I’m gonna be another man

Push my strength to the limit Learn how to use it
Set the power on
I’m leaving my soul

Burns and ashes

Remember when we were down
Staring at the sea,
Wondering "Will they see the ghost in me?"
And this is where we rise
Looking for a crowd.
Comfort and ease,
Ain't it fun to contemplate the one who bleeds?

Ouh ouh
I'll never bend for you
Ouh ouh
I'll never break for you
Ouh ouh
I'll never beg for you
You try in vain to label me
I'll be the poison in you

Angry for dumb surprises!
Swap the burns for ashes,
Turn a hope to pieces
and water into ice.
Compensate for nervous breakdowns
With senseless screams.
I sail by anger over seas

Ouh ouh
I'll never bend for you
Ouh ouh
I'll never break for you
Ouh ouh
I'll never beg for you
You try in vain to label me
I'll be the poison in you

Abyss of Time

I must say goodbye my dear
In this life we won’t meet again
But don’t worry I have no fear
I’ll be walking in the garden
Look at me passing the doors
And sing a sweet song for me
As my eyes can’t see you anymore
Your voice will always reach me

Search in the abyss of time
Cry for me and you’ll be strong
I’ll be yours ‘till the end of time
And my soul for ever will be young

My fall ends now
I’m so sorry
That our mind did never meet
To much to get across honey
You know what makes my heart beat

Search in the abyss of time
Cry for me and you’ll be strong
I’ll be yours ‘till the end of time
And my soul for ever will be young

Lost Horizons

So it seems
we're locked in a dramatic dream,
living another tragedy
and the great fall of everything.
Oh my child
You’re about to reach the other side.
You gotta keep on rollin now
and feel alive
And I’ll be on your side

Lost horizons
Behind a shade of grey
Today we have a new world to celebrate
A Universe within your hands
Lost horizons
Behind a shade of blue
The shine is gonna come back soon
A Universe I’ll lead for you

Hold on
Dream on
The land is full of heroes, dead and frozen
Calling from hell
Now my child,
You’re about to live a better life
You’ll never be alone
‘Cause I stay by your side
And the Sun will shine so bright!

Lost horizons
Behind a shade of grey
Today we have a new world to celebrate
A Universe within your hands
Lost horizons
Behind a shade of blue
The shine is gonna come back soon
A Universe I’ll lead for you

I'm the pain
I'm the anger
Scream it out into the dark I'm the Hell
I'm the Heaven
I'm Black and White
Feel the flesh and your bones!
The blood is muddy now! Hear my voice!
And the Old Grim Fairy tales...

Lost horizons
Behind a shade of grey
Today we have a new world to celebrate
A Universe within your hands
Lost horizons
Behind a shade of blue
The shine is gonna come back soon
A Universe I’ll lead for you

Lost horizons
Behind a shade of grey
Today we have a new world to celebrate
And you will see the tears of shame
Lost horizons
Behind a shade of blue
The shine is gonna come back soon
A Universe I made for you

Lost horizons...
We have a new world to celebrate!
Lost horizons...
The shine is gonna come back soon...

Berçeuse

Instrumental things, let your brain imagine what the voices are trying to tell you...

Bye bye...

Life and breathing
I want a place for me and you and them
To rest...
Live in harmony is not a crime for me
Why believe in
The words and lies and the writing on the wall?
Oh Lord!
Leave this world with me baby,
you know you will...
‘Cause this is the end of a long way
I will reach the top for you,
Sleep again into my arms!
Play again
The game you’re looking for
When you’re sad into your mind
When you’re sad into your eyes
Let me go...

I will reach the top for you, Sleep again into my arms!
Play again
The game you’re looking for
When you’re sad into your mind
When you’re sad into your eyes

Let me go...

About Album

“Old Grim Fairytales” is the second album by the BlackStone co in EP format, released on March 26, 2022 in digital version only.

Recorded between July and November 2021 in the band’s studio and mixed by Marc Bohren and Evan Simon.
The EP is built around 5 original songs and an instrumental track used as an intro to the last song.

The musical style of “Old Grim Fairytales” is deliberately and radically different from the band’s first album  “Betrayed” – mixing acoustic, electric guitars, piano, vintage keyboards, strings and harmonica with progressive melodies and arrangements thus showing another facet of what is the BlackStone co.
For this EP, the band called on Fred Augugliaro who managed the writing and the arrangement of the keyboards, thus bringing a particular color to the songs and the final touch of Old Grim Fairytales.
The harmonica part on “Bye bye” is played by Pierre Brindjonc – co-author of the title in 97 with Marc Bohren.
The first track – “Leaving my Soul” – is an acoustic version of a track from the 2019 album “Betrayed” specially re-arranged for the EP.
The songs Burns and Ashes, Abyss of Time, Lost Horizons and Bye Bye were written between 1997 and 2011, recomposed and rearranged by the band, the lyrics are personal tributes with themes dealing with introspection, loss, state deranged mind, hope…

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