BLACK | LAKES - Avarice

“Avarice“ by BLACK | LAKES Join our BLACKLIST community and order your copy of 'For All We've Left Behind' over at Spotify - Released Credits: Director: Matthew D'Urban-jackson - Director of Photography: Nathan Claridge Editor: Will Preston Recorded & produced at Longwave Studios by Romesh Dodangoda - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lyrics: I hide behind the smile As it is tearing me apart The seasons may have changed But every day remains the same Force-fed fear now for far too long Can’t discern truth from lies As time deteriorates The anchors break from my disguise You will not get the best of me Our futures sold as slaves Infected by the gluttony But we can’t eat money With every dying day We’re left screaming into the void Enamored by decay And blind to all that we’ve destroyed Portraits of our own sins Obscured behind our vacant eyes False idols preach upon A congregation of denial screaming into the sky You will not get the best of me Our futures sold as slaves We’re smothered by the luxury but we can’t breathe money What's left to save We've killed the dream Left to decay A whisper to a scream Only when the last tree has been felled As the last oil burns We will illuminate the truth We’re far too late to learn We can’t eat money and we can’t breathe money and we don’t bleed money You will not get the best of me Our futures sold as slaves We trade our souls for legacy but we can’t bleed money We can’t eat money we can’t breathe money we don’t bleed money No, we won't beat money ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Follow BLACK | LAKES Official site - ​ Facebook - ​ Spotify - Instagram - ​ Twitter -