Tracklist
 01 | A Story Of Life, Love And Death | 6:48  |
| 02 | Freaks! | 5:21 |
| 03 | A Story Of Life, Love And Death (instrumental mix) | 6:33 |
| 04 | Freaks (instrumental mix) | 5:08 |
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Lyrics
A Story Of Life, Love And Death
[INTRO]
Thirty years ago the final war began.
At the beginning it was just one more war between two nations,
But slowly it turned in a global storm of chaos, devastation and death.
[SECTION 1]
WAR!
Bleeding horror!
Apocalyptic race!
Day by day!
Doomsday!
Never it’ll stop,
No hope,
Only my death is my rest
The hell is no place for a kid
What I did!
[SECTION 2]
When you live in hell,
A piece of love is Eden
Yesterday she and I felt like gods;
Today, rats…
So wretched rats
[SECTION 3]
Vile. Week. Insane.
There is no change
Tears!
Welcome my son
This is the world I have spun… for you
Act of love
Sadistic thorn
Fears!
[SOLOS]
Die my son!
[SECTION 4]
My son,
Hopeful source that I’ve dried up,
Every gift, every thought to live
You, who were once my own will
Forgive
These hands full of your blood and my filth,
All my blame, all my sins and shame
Please, forgive my so awful being
You don’t deserve all this pain
Which would be reserved for all the bad men
You don’t need to be corrupted
By the madness of the world’s greed
[SECTION 1, REPEAT]
WAR!
Bleeding horror!
Apocalyptic race!
Day by day!
Doomsday!
Never it’ll stop,
No hope,
Only my death is my rest
The hell is no place for a kid
What I did!
Freaks!
[SECTION 1]
You! Hey!
Look at my face!
Look up, stop your phone,
show you have brain!
Raise your head
and look at me again, vain
Try to face up because…
You’re a freak!
I said… freak!
Big dumb smile
Shooting up!
Lost-looking eyes
Finger tic!
Fear of missing out
Watch again!
Your smartphone,
your cage!
[SECTION 2]
Raise your head
Try to raise your fucking head
Try to behave yourself, you’re a fake
Of what you were,
What you could be
All day wasting your time
Waiting for one more chime
Don’t you feel all that shame?
Phone addiction is your name
[SECTION 3]
Life is what is
happening while you are watching your screen!
Raise your head, look at me!
Talk to me now
Wake up and show me you are not a zombie!
Rise up!
Rise up against the nonsense!
Try again!
Argh!
[SECTION 4]
Obey the word of the herd!
Prey just taking your phone
Bend down, your new god has come
Yeah!
What kind of human being
are we creating today
giving way to the decay?
[Bridge]
Just try to face up again!
Reduce your consume!
[SECTION 5]
Don’t you know how to enjoy
the real world?
All of you
are a peripheral of your phone?
Why don’t you try to see
all the disease?
Freaks! Freaks! Freaks!
A lot of freaks! Hey, look at me!
[Bridge + CODA]
Okey, don’t look at me then
I’m giving up
I’m tired of you
Let your phone to control
even your soul
I leave!
Details
First release in July 2015.
This is the third and farewell (at least for a long time*) recording of Cautiva, my technical and progressive thrash metal project in which I play all the instruments (guitars, bass, drums programming and vocals), in the style of “one man band”.
[ *In 2022 I released a final additional track, “I Am The Omega”, and I closed definitely the project ]
Of all my projects, Cautiva has probably been my favorite one, so wild and technically excessive, but it’s very very demanding in time and energy, so I decided to put a long parenthesis in 2014, maybe even forever… Then I had in mind to start to work in a new period -and probably long- of electronic exploration and I thought it would be a good moment to finish with Cautiva recording some new music. Though this recording was the farewell of the project, I never discarded the idea of recording something else in the future (a track or something like that)… This was real when in 2022 I released the final additional track “I Am The Omega”.
For this EP, “The Archangel Of Omega”, I initially wanted to record 3 or 4 songs, but finally the number was 2. I tried my best with both songs and they were so complex that I needed a lot of time to finish them. On the other hand, I wasn’t lucky in the recordings and I had a lot of problems of hardware, software, health (voice)… The process of work was awful and after finishing the second song I said “it’s enough for me!”; I decided at all not to record more tracks for such a f*cking EP. Hahaha!
I have wanted to release each song in two different versions: original version (with vocals) and instrumental version (without vocals of course, but also slightly different).
Not many minutes of music, but if you like Cautiva, I think you’ll like this stuff. I tried to transmit the purest essence of the project.
Artwork by Georgi Georgiev and José Travieso.
This EP was remastered in 2020 and digitally re-released in a new edition.
You can download and get this EP on Bandcamp.
Cautiva’s «The Archangel Of Omega»
(EP, 2015)
Third release and farewell (for a long time) of the technical and progressive thrash metal project. The essence of CAUTIVA taken a bit more to the extreme. Not for all the ears!
