Uploaded April 2016 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
Memoir is the second single from the Viscera EP.
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Lyrics
I was hopeless, chained to vice after vice and I defied you until I prayed you would just let me die. I was finished and slept in grave after grave and waited buried, but the end I deserved never came.
The wrath that I was owed poured on your blameless son, for every song I’ve sung still it seems senseless.
The righteousness He owned, free to us wicked ones. I fit it in my lungs but it leaves me breathless.
You were fearless, and took my shame upon shame and as I yielded you were crushed by the weight.
But It was finished when by grace upon grace hell was silenced as you stepped out from your grave.
The wrath that I was owed poured on your blameless son, for every song I’ve sung still it seems senseless.
The righteousness He owned, free to us wicked ones. I fit it in my lungs but it leaves me breathless.
Since the first time you spoke it, I've been winded and gasping for air. I can barely repeat it. I believe but I don’t understand how for all of the violence and rebellion that heaves in my chest, You could call me forgiven, and restore every last wasted breath.
Hell go on and rage, whatever you may say my G-d, He speaks for me and I'll not be ashamed.
Hell go on and rage, you can't change a thing. My G-d, You speak for me so I'll not be ashamed.
Memoir is the second single from the Viscera EP.
facedown.merchnow.com/collections/my-epic
iTunes: geo.itunes.apple.com/us/album/viscera-ep/id1094814346?at=10l7e8&app=itunes&uo=8&at=10l7e8
Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/0HowPCaKsP1sJL2T2eMEoe?si=ZoAVLqU7SDCEgum0snwwvA
Lyrics
I was hopeless, chained to vice after vice and I defied you until I prayed you would just let me die. I was finished and slept in grave after grave and waited buried, but the end I deserved never came.
The wrath that I was owed poured on your blameless son, for every song I’ve sung still it seems senseless.
The righteousness He owned, free to us wicked ones. I fit it in my lungs but it leaves me breathless.
You were fearless, and took my shame upon shame and as I yielded you were crushed by the weight.
But It was finished when by grace upon grace hell was silenced as you stepped out from your grave.
The wrath that I was owed poured on your blameless son, for every song I’ve sung still it seems senseless.
The righteousness He owned, free to us wicked ones. I fit it in my lungs but it leaves me breathless.
Since the first time you spoke it, I've been winded and gasping for air. I can barely repeat it. I believe but I don’t understand how for all of the violence and rebellion that heaves in my chest, You could call me forgiven, and restore every last wasted breath.
Hell go on and rage, whatever you may say my G-d, He speaks for me and I'll not be ashamed.
Hell go on and rage, you can't change a thing. My G-d, You speak for me so I'll not be ashamed.

![BLOODLINES Holiness Cries OFFICIAL VIDEO
Title track from the new Bloodlines EP Holiness Cries out now on Facedown Records.
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Director/Videographer:
Toby Canning @ FilmCo
Produced/Mixed/Mastered:
Richard Wicander @ BlackBookSound
LYRICS w/ annotations:
Holiness Cries
Holiness cries, “I’m contradicted!
Patience and mercy have been despised.
Goodness grieves in agony!”1
For purity weeps when holiness cries.
Holiness cries from a secret within.
Our flesh embodies the life form of sin.2
I’ve been a slave to the screams of my mind.
Our vain desires of the wandering eye.3
I need to know You’re right here with me.
It’s crawling back I need to seek Your face.
When I look away, I see what’s in my head.
I need to know You’re right here with me.
I’m running back and now I see Your face.
Will You deliver me? With You I find my rest.4
I feel it creeping back again!
My error left me, and I feel the terror grow.5
I’ve turned to weeping what was meant for joy.
Deliverance (We need deliverance, I need deliverance!)
From our wandering eyes.
Why do I do the things that I hate?6
The sharp bite gives agony.7
Why do I do the things that I hate?
Please, Lord, deliver me!
Purify my way according to your Word.8
For I can do all things through Christ!9
Will You deliver me?
With you I find my rest.
1. Holiness, among the other attributes of God, cries out to the Father for justice in an anthropomorphic dialogue. Jesus willingly answers their cry by going to the cross, bearing all, and satisfying all – Isaac Ambrose. (1658). Looking Unto Jesus. p. 399.
2. Galatians 5:19-21
3. Psalm 119:37; Matt 18:9.
4. Matthew 11:28
5. Dante Alighieri. (1308~1321). The Divine Comedy 1: Hell [Canto xxxi – 39]
6. Romans 7:15
7. Dante Alighieri. (1308~1321). The Divine Comedy 1: Hell [Canto xiii – 101-102].
8. Psalm 119:9
9. Philippians 4:13
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