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a house of cards
a matchstick shack
a desolate ruin
built on the quickest of sand

hardly I survive
so hard just to survive
how can anyone
have any control over this life?

you stack whatever mud you find
and take whatever life will give
this is the house in which you live

your foundation’s shot
and your walls are full of rot
if this is all you have
well, you don’t have a lot
a house of cards
a matchstick shack
why not start from scratch

but if I lose this all
how will I defend
there’s the wolves at the door
and there’s cold harsh winds

this is all
all I’ve ever had
and it’s familiar
though I know it’s terribly sad
I see no end and I see no start
so how do I begin

there’ll be no wolves at your door
when you don’t have a door
there won’t be any wolves
when you do not have a door
wolves a the least of your problems

this can’t be how you want to live and die
in this cold-as-shit house in which you can not even stay dry
whatever ashes could make for fertile soil
and all this wood could be turned into coal
so light a flame in your heart
this is how you start

burn it like a fever
burn it like heathen lovers
burn it like the fool's gold
throw away all these useless things
and incinerate centuries of wasted wallowing
rip the blisters on your finger tips
and if there’s only one thing that you do
as you stand on the charred remains of what once was your domicile
believe in lightness

let the blessed wrecking ball into your life
let the blessed wrecking ball into your life
let the blessed wrecking ball into your life
let the blessed wrecking ball

let loose, summon the squad
take-down approach for the lovely lost and all
that we don't need is to lay low
what we need is violent iron to crash down
swaying high on the sound of our burnt-out hallelujah

if this is your life
call down the destroyer
let the wrecking ball in
don’t submit to these feelings
just embrace this
fists first, eyes bright
then release with full abandon
until all has become
the lightness of dust

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from 11​,​5%, released April 19, 2015

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Tijger Salto Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Three-piece post-hardcore/punkband from Amsterdam



Rob de Witte
/// Bass & Piano
Tim Mooij-Knip
/// Drums & Drums
Benjamin van Gaalen
/// Vocals & Synths

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