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Were You Ever Really There?

by So Soon, The Truth

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1.
Wake up It’s Another bait and switch sold our souls For the meaningless It’s a swindle Cash for kiss Purchased cold For the ravenous I’ve been under holding all the time you took from me When you called my name I’d always run to you Needed to refill A growing hole Knew It was poison You gave me what i asked for And all the torment We built our own find peace eluding, The siren sings Wake up It’s Another bait and switch We sold our souls For the meaningless It’s a swindle Cash for kiss Purchased cold For the ravenous I break down Forget my name For once None left to blame. In solace I regress Into that place Alone A cut above A proof high enough Thin my blood Erupt A monster Inside of my gut Says Keep singing Somethings close Says Keep singing Something (you’re) Closer Old soul Trapped in dark place She spoke distract me with something. Old soul With dreams of the empty Imagine me something
2.
Those days are calling I know you’re mine Post haste withdrawing tied tongues told to blur al the lines But my doubt remains where I left it In all the hardest times If I knew I’d meet you Then the all sad songs I sang wouldn’t have a use But they do Stowaway Not what I intended Grow estranged Thoughts rewind Amended In all the hardest times If I knew I’d meet you Then the all sad songs I sang wouldn’t have a use But they do To be shown, apologize Stutter on the words utter out the phrase I’ve been all alone I’ve been lost for days To be shown To apologize Clutter on the floor shutters disarray when I was in the fold I felt out of place To be shown And apologize To Anyone who cares For the real thing
3.
Trying to stay awake Don’t want to say a thing right now Don’t wanna stay in place I gotta take another route if there is another way Can’t let the perfect family down How did i misplace Everything that I was Til now? Swallow with distaste Hoping the scales will balance out Follow a mistake Take all your debts into the ground Hallowed his name He who could never cast you out Crawl to the same place As if there was a doubt Lost my head I find myself hiding From everything Estranged from my own friends And I’m the one To tear it down with a smile Despite what I’m holding I’ll be fine buried under this high In spite of my problems The golden child In their eyes Lit the last bit of wick I’m still here burnt down at both ends Gave everything That’s Left For an an echo of something And I’m the one To tear it down with a smile Despite what I’m holding I’ll be fine buried under this high In spite of my problem The golden child In their eyes Denying til it hurts Defiance never heard Drown in criticisms offered Keep quiet til i burst Drink silence when I thirst Choking on the taste of copper Honestly I’d never speak The words Even when you’re set on leaving Absentee But the chemistry Is preserved Even with my demons clinging You were the salt of the earth
4.
Dead in (Impulse comprised) The eyes Hollow (Uphold your ties) Is it infinite ? What’s been (Until you decide) revised? Absent. (You’ll wonder why) Am I here again? We author another Novella It’s fabricated In fact and fiction The origins ultraviolet But you're still right here shoring up my Doubt All we’ve been given Defines what we’re missing No doubt once I followed Your steps I got led astray Wake up Feel everything you never wanted The substance has just delayed a coming moment To take more assume you’re numb Escaped as always The fall is coming It’s Written on your face to alter the pace We develop We graduated To harder substance The opulent ultraviolence Still leaves me short changed And wired shut my mouth All we’ve been given Defines what we’re missing No doubt once I followed Your steps I got led astray Wake up Feel everything you never wanted The substance has just delayed a coming moment To take more assume you’re numb Escaped as always The fall is coming It’s written on your face In ink and lead How to forget Will moments play unknown to me ? The clock it screams familiar things And I’m content to sleep But are you flesh and bone like me? are you flesh and bone like me? I thought I’d give up everything Thought I’d give up everything It’s not what i wanted it’s just what I needed to see
5.
Second Love 03:37
Can I say enough how To Move? To choose? To prepare for Romantic war? Breathe Free Take root Imbue All to share for Some untold soul Breathe Free I severed all those ties so I was surprised your face lingered on remembering times behind I swore I’d never fall against that first kiss was lights out Oh oh oh I wanted more and more and more It gets better with all the days when you found out why I’d be better off with you alone inside my mind and I say “ I know, there’s been parts of me too hard to swallow” I’ll wait for you Slow down for now Enough to bring you home Slow down for now Don’t want to feel alone Slow down for now Enough to bring you home Slow down for now Don’t want to feel alone
6.
Aperture 03:39
I feel the cold As a voice is lost for all time But nothing is permanent Outside displaced Removed Or Remade Nothing stands in its way I wont receive the oxygen That I need But There’s a light i can see Opened a hole In the sky to the astral and I’m pushing on to a gate So Unafraid so calm until... I remember the words of my mother But they’ve gone to waste They’ve gone to waste Tied together Unearthed by summer I tried to wait But time buries all of us Am I supposed to be estranged from My own? I was afraid , what’s left of my days Juxtaposed to be estranged from my home Stutter words too prolonged, but my heart beat goes on and on Extract blood from a stone Where is a safe place ? My soul has left from its host Extract me from my home How do I keep pace ? I know it happens over and over again I wont receive the oxygen That I need But There’s a light i can see Opened a hole In the sky to the astral and I’m pushing on to a gate So Unafraid so calm until... I remember the words of my mother But they’ve gone to waste They’ve gone to waste Tied together Unearthed by summer I tried to wait But time buries all of us We stumble forward to the point It won’t stop
7.
Old Places 04:30
Old places felt alive I can’t see anyone else here Old brothers, lost in time, I hear them echoing out like Oh I can hear it calling Voiceless in my head Nostalgia flood wiping the sleep Why do I hold To secrets I keep ? When I know I was right there “ I’ve been here before “ One echoed thought In every corridor A monologue That’s not my inner voice bodies Crack like they’re eggs To spill out living force Do they move on or stay sequestered ? I still hear it calling Voiceless in my head Nostalgia flood wiping the sleep Why do I hold To secrets I keep ? When i know I was right there And nobody knows what Awaits After life Nothing Close your eyes And something insides growing Hungry All the time Can’t wait Til we Take the ride There is someone living in this house Someone I don’t see or know about Over ceilings under floors How windows closed can open doors To be cast out Or consecrate if judgement ever comes If god kept its promises they’d all be gone I can feel it calling Voiceless in my head before my eyes Am I’m fast asleep ? The loneliest day Lost in a dream Or a nightmare
8.
The Shepherd 03:24
Monotone counting of the rosary beads have I done enough to make my soul clean? the silence resounding as an echoed retreat you reach for a hand as ground gives underneath Over and over the cycle returns A plagiarist plight With my fathers words Still held at a distance Tight grip to the hurt What comes of a savior who’s flock grew perverse ? As my doubt ensued Got caught looking up too long and hurt my eyes Then a cloud crawled through Showing everything’s a pain till it subsides Something waits Memories Hiding under consciousness Like a snake always charming here to stay Tempting the sinful And the flesh There’s Blood on the asphalt tonight The warrior’s meter and rhyme Open up your eyes Discovering too late There’s only The quickest sand Under your feet Toeing the fault line It starts up again Showing the wrong signs The cause of my sins Tortured by old lines (It flies in the face of this) The telling of past lives (expected of someone) Good book with a bad spine (You’re choice is disgracing it) The blind leading the blind (eternal conundrum) Open up your eyes Discovering too late There’s only The quickest sand Under your feet Every time Every time Make me forget What do we find What do we find Words like “forgive” A note on the wall said dimensions Would leave us divided A reckoning’s coming but who knows who ends up the righteous If lottery wheels author history, then who does the writing? Nothing will change Same song and dance Til the times up
9.
Tie up a rope For the witness Cast out hell have what he’s due They’ll come Cry out for the “innocent” Then say they’ll pray for you Safe Led on my own Without a drop of discontent Switching roles Abuse; apologist Who knows who will find you (Reaching) When you’ve given up (For the lock) Circumvent the struggle (Tie em) Salvage the corrupt (Tie em up) Paid up in blood But the interest Coughed up in shock that ensues They won’t look back At the indigent Carry it all with you They can bind you up turn you to the Hopeless they will wind you up deny you were gaslit They combined you up turned you to the Hopeless they will wind you up deny you were gaslit Trade my plans, for a Vacant hand, protocol Pull away, we fall in place Make my ends, justify Means instead Tried not to lose my head, but I’m Drowning in the shallow end What’s left of the warning? Attrition compelled Contempt for the morning, Sedition is quelled, for good. All color drains out Leave only black and white there Impermanent sounds How do you carry ? Take control of my own Make this house to a home Intentions alone I separate the want for something I could never have And grow Erase the thought of my self loathing Let go Trade my plans, for a Vacant hand, protocol Pull away, we fall in place Make my ends, justify Means instead Tried not to lose my head, but I’m Drowning in the shallow end
10.
Unkept 05:27
Will it come tonight ? A secret unkept. what’s growing inside Well I’ve been avoiding it (But I know) Take it as you want Out of context if this is too much Then you missed the point of it (It’s simple) What we want is always changing And we’ve got to follow So we hunt who knows if anybody gets Tomorrow And these husks are always aging Every day more hollow Can I push all of This aching down inside a bottle? whether it’s right or not Back into the light Awake cold and wet From anesthetized To powder keg coffee shakes (Plateaued) Hasten through the day The Heart owns the head From giving a fuck To dreaming my cares away (Implode) What we want is always changing And we’ve got to follow So we hunt who knows if anybody gets Tomorrow is And these husks are always aging Every day more hollow Can I push all of This aching down inside a bottle? Whether it’s fair or not You never bargained for this life Have we been growing apart? Apart. For a long time Drunk from a punch Like a fistfight Has it been growing too hard? Too hard It’s the wrong time Sweetness have you Strayed? I see it Only now that we’ve been diverging That we’ve been.. Too late, Too soon, Too much of something good, Did we miss our moment Did we miss ours ?

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released February 7, 2020

Peter Huizar - Guitar, Vocals
John Del Villar - Drums
JD Schwarz - Guitar, Vocals

Bass performed by Mike Sahm

All songs written by So Soon, The Truth

Produced by Mike Sahm at DreamAwakeAudio Studios in Portland, Oregon during July of 2019.

Artwork by Hugo Perez

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So Soon, The Truth Houston, Texas

Houston, TX post-hardcore/experimental outfit, So Soon, The Truth, consists of JD Schwarz (Guitar/Vocals), Peter Huizar II (Guitar/Vocals), and John Del Villar (Drums). The band moves between ambiance and surging aggressiveness. Trading blows of raw emotion and technicality, SSTT aims to balance chaos and elegance ... more

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