Cautiva's «Fire, Walk With Me!»
Format: EP/demo
First Release: January 2008
Label: Abracadaver Music
Composed: Winter 2005/06; Spring-Autumn 2006
Recorded: Autumn 2007 – January 2008; Autumn 2006 (guest vocals)
Performed by: José Travieso – guitars, bass, drum programming and vocals; Sergio Rubal – guest vocals
# Tracks: 5 Length: 25:03
Tracklist
 01 | Take No Prisoners (Megadeth cover) | 3:30  |
| 02 | Fire, Walk With Me!* | 7:00 |
| 03 | Love / Hate (Dream Of A Blackened Nightmare) | 8:40 |
| 04 | Intro for «Shadow Of A Lost Dream» | 0:54 |
| 05 | Shadow Of A Lost Dream (Coroner cover) | 4:59 |
*main vocals by Sergio Rubal
Previews
- Fire, Walk With Me! (excerpt) 0:37
- Love/Hate (Dream Of A Blackened Nightmare) (excerpt) 0:23
- Shadow Of A Lost Dream (Coroner cover) (excerpt) 0:46
Lyrics
Take No Prisoners (by Megadeth)
Got on chance, infiltrate them
Get it right, terminate them
The Panzers will, permeate them
Break their pride, denigrate them
And their people, retrograde them
Typhus, detriade them
Epidemic, devastate them
Take no prisoners, cremate them
Going to war, give’em hell
D-Day, next stop Normandie
Beginning of the end
Whe know how to and sure as shit we’ll win
War is peace sure man
A retreat for the damned
A playground for the demented
A haven for those who walk his world
Bereft of heart and soul
Love and war they say all is fair
Take his life
But won’t take his hair
Your body has parts your
Country cab spare
By the way son here’s
Your wheelchair
He once had to be all he could be
Now he’s nothing for no one nowhere to see
Funny thing, he’s like you & me
It’s funny thing, a funny thing
Tears streak his solemn stare
Abondoned for wreckage nobody cares
No one knew what would happen there
No one spoke no one even dared
Don’t ask what you can do for your country
Ask what you country can do for you
Take no prisoners, take no shit
Take no prisoners, take no shit
Take no prisoners, take no shit
Take no prisoners, take no shit!
Fire, Walk With Me!
Corruption is my only friend
Welcome to Entropy
Deception was my misery
What I was I hate!
HATE!!
Broken, inner world
You gave me agony
These feelings, this lost control
Where did die the hope?!
Falling stars on a blackened tide
Withering my life
Silence, damned sorrowful
I’ll never find the calm!
[CHORUS]
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Hell is stronger than heaven
Your kingdom has been come
Fire crushes Love, Hate is Peace
Cold all surround. Fire, walk with
Me
Fire…
…Fire…
…Fire
Walk with me!!
Fire…
…Fire…
…Fire
Walk with me!!
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Unconscious dream of a dying bird
Still I fly in a lie
The nightmares are my atrophy
What unpieced my wings!
SICK!!
Sickness, bastard love
I spit at our faces
My guilty. Oh, yes, I was
H’w long will last this storm?!
[CHORUS]
Fire, walk with me!
Fire, walk with me!
Fire, walk with me!
Fire, walk with me!
Love / Hate (Dream Of A Blackened Midnight)
Love, why are you crying?
Forget it and rise like a bird
Oh, love, don’t cry me, please
Hate, don’t let me falling down OUT!
Sweet Moon,
Why are y’u crying me?
Don’t cry me, please
Forget everything,
Nothing lost control
Nothing did die,
Love,
Fly with my wings,
Forgive you, please,
Don’t be afraid,
Everything will change,
Listen, dear sun:
Why her light must be disappeared when you are brighting?
Why her tears have to continue filling the sea?
How many millions of years more?
How millions more?
How many more?
How millions more?
[CHORUS]
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LIAR!
BETRAYER!
Your tongue spit PISSES!
FECES!
Look at yourself and
Take them and
Eat them!
Now…
(FUCKING!)
BASTARD!
You promised me LOYALTY!
WHEN?! WHERE?!
I give you my heart!
Take it and
Help me, please!
I can not control
My feelings!
Help me, please!
Now…
(LIAR!)
BETRAYER!
We are the failure
Of true love!
You and Me!
Our misery! Look
At yourself!
At myself!
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Sweet Moon,
forgive me, please,
I don’t know about me
Forget everything,
Nothing lost control,
Nothing did die,
Love,
Weak and forlorn love,
Rise high and strong,
Don’t be afraid,
Everything will change,
She will
I can not bear how I hate your beautiful face
Lying you stole my soul and we are going to hell
Kill yourself and let me in peace
Kill yourself, please
Let me in peace
Kill yourself, please
[CHORUS]
Shadow Of A Lost Dream (by Coroner)
I don’t know what’s going on
I don’t know what’s happend to you
Yesterday we were one
And now I don’t know what’s your name
[PRE-CHORUS]
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Standing in front of a wall
Hitting it with my fists
But you can’t hear
‘Cos we’re so far apart
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I’d like to understand
What’s going on deep in your mind
Why you’ve destroyed the spell
And how you can be so cool ’bout that
[PRE-CHORUS]
[CHORUS]
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I see you smile it’s like a punch in my face
Can’t you feel my bleeding heart
Is that you who’s standing next to me
Or just a shadow, of a dream I lost
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[CHORUS]
I don’t know what’s going on
I don’t know what’s happend to you
Yesterday we were one
And now I don’t know what’s your name
[PRE-CHORUS]
[CHORUS]
Details
January 2008. First release of Cautiva, a technical and progressive thrash metal project in which I play all the instruments (guitars, bass, drum programming and vocals; except for guest musicians in very limited cases), in the style of a “one man band”.
After finishing my previous work («De Luces y de Sombras», 2003) I composed some piano-based music, but eventually lost interest in making music and left it all behind for a while. At the end of 2005, I started again, with very limited activity and as a completely transformed musician: I switched from piano to electric guitar, and from minimalism/romanticism/experimentation to thrash metal, a music style I had loved since childhood. It was a completely different story!
In 2007 I moved to Granada (I had previously lived in Cádiz) and wanted to record some cover songs (as a way of learning and seeing what I could do recording at home) and some of my own material (as a way of showing my music and trying to create a band in this new city). This EP was the result. And I made so many mistakes… :-/
I suppose the biggest problem was my change of perspective around the project. When I was recording the songs, I didn’t want a polished work —just something to show in my attempt to form a band—, but once I finished, I was so motivated by composing and recording that I immediately started working on more music for a new album and began to forget my initial idea of the band. As a result, the sound wasn’t good; my music wasn’t mature enough; the project didn’t show a clear direction or aesthetic, moving between thrash, progressive, groove, experimental music, etc.; my vocal lines were terribly sung most of the time; and so on… On top of that, I had absolutely no knowledge as a recording engineer, so I made obvious mistakes. And moreover, I didn’t have the right equipment to record anything properly, and in any case the technology back then wasn’t advanced enough to credibly record a metal album at home and in-the-box (all this thing about home studios in metal and one-man bands was just starting at the time)…
If I had polished this work for a few months, or if I had released it simply as a demo, then it would have been fine. But I made a mistake releasing it as an EP. Anyway, not everything was wrong: there are some interesting ideas and good parts, and it set the direction toward my next album (Cautiva’s «Human», 2009), which I am very proud of.
Tracks #1 and #5 were composed by Megadeth and Coroner respectively.
Main vocals on track #2 by Sergio Rubal. José L. Cabeza (co-author of some pieces on the «Música para una Guitarra sin Voz» EP, 2001) collaborated on this song by recording a guitar solo.
Lyrics in tracks #2 and #3 by José Travieso.
You can download and get this EP on Bandcamp.
