Golden Castles - Minotaur

What a beast could hide?

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02. Living In The Under (04:00)

No lead single do disco, a banda se aprofunda na mensagem da dignidade de um minotauro: quando tentamos encontrar alguma luz, mesmo estando no fundo do poço. Eles expoem seus defeitos, vícios e concluem que mesmo alguém em sua pior fase merece ter uma vida. Leia mais sobre o hit aqui.



The prophecy says
The devil knows masks
You think you're misleading but... the devil knows rats
Under the dome I climb
A knight fouding his way
But I know to love you I must be man enough

Hell no, hell no
Well, this time I don't feel like I matter
Oh no, oh no
Now I'm high, I'm drinking over my failures
I hope, I hope
You can try stay a little longer
Is there life living in the under?

Nothing arrives, so nothing hurts
State of mind, you lost control
I won't go that far
Cause life doesn't distance us from us
I'Il be in dark
The more you know, the less I matter

Alright
Under and under, more it kills me inside

Hell no, hell no
Well, this time I don't feel like I matter
Oh no, oh no
Now I'm high, I'm drinking all my lessons
I hope, I hope
You can try stay a little longer
Is there life living in the under?

Oh no, oh no
Now I'm high, I'm drinking over my failures
I hope, I hope
You can try stay a little longer
I need life living in the under

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03. Kevin (04:20)

Dando sequência com o segundo single do projeto, é em Kevin que a narrativa do pai e filho começa, se misturando com a do minotauro. A música é uma carta, repleta de culpas e aprendizados, e com muita coisa pra dizer. É um pop alternativo denso, com uma letra longa e profunda sobre querer o bem de alguém. Leia mais sobre o single aqui.



It's your day and I wrote you a letter
It's not always that we do ten
I can't send to you, I never
I wouldn't give you hope again
One day I'll know what's better
Maybe when you're a grown man
Got some advices, does it matter?
Life is one shot and one chance

Ooh, oh
I have so much to say
Maybe I'll try this summer
It's the first step I take

I want to share you all I've lived
You choose if your life is a dance or a battle
And like me
Don't waste your time avoiding the pain happens
And all that you know, all that you hold
For them this shit just don't matter
But you won't give up
You wanna be more than just Kevin

Have you lived your first romance?
Always knew you would be forward
Have you ever felt like caught up?
Never let them you disappear
I was slow but you are faster
I've become a blur so far
But, Lord, you made me feel important
Like I had a purpose to try

Ooh, oh
Why so sad for that age?
Maybe I'll try this summer
It's the first step I take

I want to share you all I've lived
You choose if your life is a dance or a battle
And like me
Don't waste your time avoiding the pain happens
And all that you know, all that you hold
For them this shit just don't matter
But you won't give up
You wanna be more than just Kevin

You're loud and strong, you breathing and you let me go
You're on your own, I got a reason to pray at night
"Thank God that you're alive"
And now you grown, there's nothing you need to keep
That door is closed, and now I'm locked out of your life
"Thank God that you're alive"

If I was your hero I would choose your fights
Hard but them you know only the strongs survive
You've got bandages and pimples but there's a brave heart
Living for some meaning, you will find inside

And you choose if your life is a dance or a battle
And like me
Don't waste your time avoiding the pain happens
And all that you know, all that you hold
For them this shit just don't matter
But you won't give up
You wanna be more than just Kevin

You're loud and strong, you breathing and you let me go
You're on your own, I got a reason to pray at night
"Thank God that you're alive"
And now you grown, there's nothing you need to keep
That door is closed, and now I'm locked out of your life
"Thank God that you're alive"

Oh, you're loud and strong, you breathing and you let me go
You're on your own, I got a reason to pray at night
"Thank God that you're alive"
And now you grown, there's nothing you need to keep
That door is closed, and now I'm locked out of your life
"Thank God that you're alive"

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04. I Am Your Moon (03:13)

Em uma base toda de violão e explodindo com uma bridge com guitarra, a quarta música do álbum fala sobre o sentimento de estar vinculado a alguém e de depender dessa pessoa. É um paradoxo entre se sentir sozinho, mesmo vivendo em função de alguém.



How can I be alone and I still see you in every place?
How can I still see your marks in every step I take?
I could never watch the aftersun as that same way
I was so used to you completing every sentence I say

Alone
I never felt so alone
I don't match with vulnerable
I never felt so alone

And now I am your moon
I can't stand away from you
Far away, but close to you
When I spin for you
Everything in me is true
We just function like earth and moon

I've been wondering about all this time I just waste
The solitude I felt from the moment I tore this page
And I saw you in all those sad songs that I related
Another day, another hour, no apology

Guess every chance was every thing I hided
I don't know if I was sparing you or me
Guess every chance is every thing I find
Every tiny piece that brings you back to me

And now I am your moon
I can't stand away from you
There's a orbit, but there's no you
And when I turn blue
It's my way to be close to you
We just function like earth and moon

♫

Now I'm on the moon
Can't stand away from you
A orbit, but no you

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05. Serial Killer (02:39)

Nesse pop-rock, GC mescla a nova sonoridade com a antiga ao falar de trauma geracional. A música fala sobre repetir as mesmas atitudes dos seus antepassados e fazer de tudo pra quem não repitam as suas. É uma letra bem ilustratativa, mas incisiva em sua mensagem: não é porque temos marcas que precisamos deixar naqueles que amamos.



Saw your mother at the bowling, and she takes a strike
I always feel so small beside who can shine
While I was in control, I thought "oh, she's fine"...
I yelled at her and that was the first and last time
A reckless mind, yeah
Sometimes my worst behavior is all I find
I feel out of time, my dad would be proud
In distort like a serial killer

It's all in my mind, it's all in my mind
It's all in my scars, the man that I hide
I'm broken in his lines, but you won't
Tell me you won't
It's all in my mind, it's all in my mind
It's all in my scars, the man that I hide
I'm broken in his lines, but you won't
You're on your own

This is what I meant to be
That's all my remnants
Wish I was different, the hero I never had
You can't hold on to my steps
Let me go before you 'came a serial killer

It's all in my mind, it's all in my mind
It's all in my scars, the man that I hide
I'm broken in his lines, but you won't
Tell me you won't
It's all in my mind, it's all in my mind
It's all in my scars, the man that I hide
I'm broken in his lines, but you won't
You're on your own

Tell me you won't
Tell me you won't

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06. Yellow Light (03:11)

A partir dessa música, começa uma trilogia com alguns outros pontos de vistas que aprofundam essa história. Nessa, vemos a perspectiva e os conselhos de um diabo. A música brinca com isso: o instrumental com sinos, a voz baixa e arrastada e a mensagem principal. Se for pra ser orgulhoso, use-o da forma certa.



You're ambitious and too big for this room
Faster enough, you didn't even see the autumn
Too mooded, with no space to breath
Spring is one step, be strong

How much you stuck into
In yellow light
How much you waiting for
For a sign
There will be no miracles
We're wilds
You're caught at the semaphore
Of your life

Demons hate details, they love your pride
Well, keep it going
Guilt hold us don't matter why
But what you could be is not who you are

How much you stuck into
In yellow light
How much you waiting for
For a sign
There will be no miracles
We're wilds
You're caught at the semaphore
Of your life

How much you stuck into
How much you waiting for
There will be no miracles
How much you stuck into
In yellow light

It should ends, it should move
Cause you danced how you could

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07. Austin (02:47)

E aqui, a resposta de um filho para o pai. Austin é tudo que Kevin não é: é simples, curta e direta. O filho não tem muito a dizer, mas parece tão fragilizado quanto o pai. As duas letras se complementam.



Say how
How did you followed for a straight line
There's doubts
I've been saving them for all my life

How you're on me?
You were never in my heart, in my blood
In my sleep
You're just the Austin
You lived for you
Until I looked for your piece
I'Il be free

Hometown
I made my own music, you said it, I'm loud
I'm wild
I'm used to cross all the margins and footnotes

I wasted my dreams
Your fortune I craved has lived inside me
And Austin
You don't need to thank God, I survive 'cause I need

You don't need to thank God, I survive 'cause I need
You don't need to thank God, I survive 'cause I need

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08. Weightless (02:59)

A trilogia termina com a perspectiva e conselho de um Deus (mas pro GC, que é ateu, essa música também fala da própria consciência). O nome diz por si só: viver sem peso é uma vantagem. Deixar a raiva e ter um olhar mais racional pras situações pode melhorar tudo, inclusive a forma que você se sente.



All quiet on the trenches
Send the soldiers back
I can't give you peace
But I can give you a chance
Oh

Hey, you can be weightless
Won't you exploded too much?
Won't you mad enough?
Stay, at least put an end
Won't you exploded too much?
Won't you mad enough?

You're collapsed and then
Fades on your sunbeams
Oh, there's nothing left here
You don't need more ten years

(The sky's voice is ordering you to end this shit)
(The sky's voice, oh fuck, God doesn't even exist)

Hey, you still afraid
Haven't you been saved too much?
Won't you mad enough?
Stay, at least put an end
Won't you exploded too much?
Won't you mad enough?

Hey, you still afraid
Haven't you been saved too much?
Won't you mad enough?
Stay, at least put an end
Won't you exploded too much?
Won't you mad enough?

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09. The Pump (02:48)

Com produção da banda histórica Shadows of the Night, essa música é uma scream anthem e fala sobre ainda precisar de uma motivação pra viver, precisar de algo que faça o coração bater de emoção. Só sobreviver não é suficiente: é preciso viver e se entregar também. A letra fala sobre como os Golden Castles abriram mão de ver a felicidade como um prelúdio, e só começaram a aceitar a vida como tem que ser: arriscada e emocionante.



I might be scared that all things will change again
But I'm sure, they probably will
I might think have lungs and a heart is not enough
Cause I need the pump to have something to feel

I might think I never was breathless at all
But flying is harder than it should
I'm not ok in be another screaming speck of dust
Cause I need the pump If I will live with you

Cause the blood runs but the thoughts still
I might want the luck but I want something real
Want something real

'Cause I need the pump
I need the pump
I need the pump

I need the pump
I need the pump
I need the pump

You might think you resurrected something in you
You're might be afraid to happiness be a prelude
'Cause sooner or later in life, the things you love you lose
So I need the pump to have something to choose

I need the pump
I need the pump
I need the pump

I need the pump
I need the pump
I need the pump

I need the pump
I need the pump
I need the pump

I need the pump
I need the pump
I need the pump

I might be scared that all things will change again
But I'm sure, they probably will
I might think have lungs and a heart is not enough
Cause I need the pump to have something to feel

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10. nine fm (03:27)

O conto do pai e filho se encerra na penúltima música do disco, em outra música curta, mas que fala bastante. Com referências de Caleb Roth e backing vocals em quase toda a música, a letra diz a realidade: nós nunca estamos realmente longe de quem nós amamos. O que é parte de nós é e sempre será.



Table for two
Back to life
Sing on nine fm
In my car
And I saw you, everywhere
'Cause at the end we're never apart

(Hmm, hmm) at all
(Hmm, hmm) at all
(Hmm, hmm) at all

I feared you, I feared again
Differences change, but don't end
You still my dream, still my hope
You win for me, I'Il win for us (Ohh)

(Hmm, hmm) for us
(Hmm, hmm) for us
(Hmm, hmm) for us

We can dance our life with eyes closed
We never left each other at all
We can dance our life with eyes closed
We never left each other at all

Hmm, hmm
Hmm, hmm

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11. Odissey (06:49)

Nessa história, não é o herói que termina com uma odisséia, mas sim o vilão. Ele é a figura que morre no final e se torna história. Simbolicamente, a música representa o fim da banda, mas também representa resiliência e a forma que nos encaixamos no mundo. A forma que queremos ser vistos no final, independente das decisões certas ou erradas que tomamos ao decorrer da nossa história.



So I walked into that maze
Isn't where a minotaur should stay
So intriguing, made of glass
Who would say this was just one step

There were no medals at the end
Those high castles were made of sand
But disillusionment marks a start
You're lighting up the horror, filling the hollow
You'll find life here

You'll find life here
You'll find life here
You'll surviving here
Cause there's no past tense, you can, you do

You'll find life here
You'll find life here
You'll lay your head here
Cause there's no almost, you can, you do

Now I like dialing on the phone
Oh, perspective is a bone
Weaves the conquests and the shames
Brings the color to these things

So feel the soul, it's never late
You're lighting up the horror, filling the hollow
You'll find life here

You'll find life here
You'll find life here
You'll surviving here
Cause there's no past tense, you can, you do

I'm the meaning to be spared
I'm the hero to be stared
Now I won and died with an odyssey
'Cause I am

I'm the meaning to be spared
I'm the hero to be stared
Now I won and died with an odyssey
'Cause I am

I'm the meaning to be spared
I'm the hero to be stared
Now I won and died with an odyssey
'Cause I am

You'll find life here
You'll find life here
You'll lay your head here
Cause there's no almost, you can, you do

I'm the meaning to be spared
I'm the hero to be stared
Now I won and died with an odyssey
'Cause I am

I'm the meaning to be spared
I'm the hero to be stared
Now I won and died with an odyssey
'Cause I am

I'm the meaning to be spared
I'm the hero to be stared
Now I won and died with an odyssey
'Cause I am