Afear

Bullets in a Burning Box' First Studio Album.

Songs

Abaddon Threads  download
Acannabinum Unfold 
Acetylene in Matryoshka 
Aepypterus Red H 

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Lyrics

1. Aabalsamifera Flaw


Resurfacing
Old me
Shards of half hearted motives
Rediscovered
Now a leaky faucet of non commitment
Once ago the water set full blast
Ice cold
Peace of mind
Without a drip
Just a thought away

Shards of a broken man
Gathered together
Melted down
Refined and born new
Pure in heart, a whole
With integrity
Lies, facades, roles, failures, charades
Erased
Only looking glass reflections
Of present truth

Now or never
Never ever maybe, sometime or sure
Sure as it
The age old wit
Will bring to now
A careless laugh
A heartfelt flutter
Alive in spontaneous bursts
Of coincidental humor

Lies, facades, roles
Shards of a broken man
Melted down, full blast, ice cold
Peace of mind without a drip
Just a thought away

Mountains stand apart
So steal the sea

Now or never
Forever free

2. Aarons Rod


Barest
With the clothing
The enlightened one
Shoulders
Nothing but a ki flow
Foot past
In the sand another printed foot
Foot slow
Mindful of the wind and berries
Ascending
The desert humpback mountain half
Hot rocks
It is only nine thirty
Sit down admiring the cacti
Stay here pondering the palm trees

Romance
Waiting for
Rah

Romance memories
Black eyes witnessing the cover
Kiss the dragon flies
Humping for the link in
Memories outside
Waiting for the bliss sky
Cover salivating
Praying that the link in

Blissful
Sun is baking
Cover, pull away from face
Kiss the moon completing one
Link in snail shell world
Memories of the pin pricked sky
Smoldering
Sand spinning through the vortex
Warm lips continuing poise
Soft down
No trail for the fresh

Waiting for Rah
Amon Rah

3. Abaddon Threads


You were the
Embodiment
Of what was
Real
I am
Lost
Without you
My fear vies
Rights to decree
Freedom
From your
Comfortability
And I am lost

Circling
Self mazes
Questioning
Your authority
Over my uncomfort
My growth
My yearning
For life
Existential
Experiencing
You and me
Our physical link
Has torn at me
And begged me
To drop
Sink my blanket
Watch it fade
Torn and dropping
Drop

Slowly
Pieces of myself
I find, I had lost
In self denial
I rise
Unperfected
Shivering
With eyes of an infant
Pure in focus

4. Absinthium Flow Ring


Happy hour is your sucking thumb
Watch the world it fades
Around your spark
Your god is in the toilet singing
Chants of deeds done on a ship shore
For sure we see you as a stow away
Herald seeking solace in the foliage
Jumping jacks up high on headlands
In the tree sap pouring
More is less than necessary
In the universe that lies outside
Your monkey cage
Charming
In the tree I see a little woman
Loving her attempts to
Find me in accordance
With the busted negativity policing
Driveways are for yelling
I think that I will stay here

Killers in the wings of people
In their cages breaking bars
Is hard to imagine when you sleep

Flower of unfoldment
Every mind is one mind

Taking leaves to bed with
All of wholesome holes hey
You could be the one that
Marks the page a strong way

My life is a splinter dug inside
Your mind deep holy beggars
Far from the truth inside them

Making love to new sun existential
Outright running blades before guns
Bullets on the night side

Fight, monkey, fight
Fight your way to the top
Seek, something inside your spirit

5. Acannabinum Unfold


I am up in the tree
Can you hear me?

Flower of unfoldment
Every mind is one mind

Seek, monkey
Seek

6. Accession Budding


Dropping
Vines and fruit from the top
Wearing sunglasses inside

7. Acetylene in Matryoshka


Of course
It is all a lie
What they told you
Listen to the clear
Path is not the broad one
Expected of you
Light your way
With the chamber inside
It is a cave
It is outside
It is a wall turned
Inside out

Pyros help me light your box
Guard the wind
Other hand like an arrow
Pierce the fold within

Help me burn the box
Russian dolls off the blocks

You are that fills
Need in my reality
Fingers run through the mane
Brush away all my pain
In my dreams I forget
In my dreams I forgot
A tiny golden book
My fragile burning box
This is my execution
This is my rebirth

Step outside
The role you have come to know as life
Ask yourself why

8. Aelimifera Stacking


Bullets
Step outside
Ask yourself why
Love low

9. Aepypterus Red H


Yes
The little red h
Showed up and shot the horse
And no one cried
Because that day evil died

Valhalla
I am coming

We are the ones that
Earned the dough
Earned the right to
Feed our

You take what is mine
While I am hypnotized

10. Aleatory Ode


Stuck in static
Something is wrong
Take an ice pick
To your liquid frozen
Master is out heating
Brittle bones up
Slavery still exists today
Come on
My bomb is on your shelf
It is a combination of
East and west
It is a job
Look up, the rut surrounds you
Slaves endlessly
Punching in

I am a man
You are a woman
In America we are all mutts
We laugh and drink
Because we know it is monday soon
Forget we are all mutts
There has got to be
Something higher
Above the rut

Bust out

Our boss has
Our balls hooked
On a line
Weighted by a dollar bill
It does not matter whether
Black or white
We are all enslaved by
Almighty greenback

To all my animals
In the jungle
If you want to be wealthy
Read a book
If you want to be happy
Crystalize dreams

11. Alyrata Let Go


Let go
Deeper now

Lakes hold secrets
Gold came from rivers
Dull knife
Sharpen yourself
Here is a whet stone
Repeat let go, deeper now
Mantra
Socket of the soul
Plug out for a time

Choose to
Let go of your name
And all the events of this life
Choose to
Let go of expectation
Failure and success

12. Anomie Deeper Now


Fly eye
I fly
Life
I

Cut the nets
Of conscious thought
Deeper
In the well of mind
Leave your bucket
Way behind

Honest questions asked
With hand raised
Got me kicked out of my high school youth group
Glad I am for that day
The beginning of my disillusionment
Caused me to seek for myself the truth
The rocks to lift my winged feet
Now I see clearly reality as it is
Not as I want it to be
And all along this road
I see milestones of great minds
That have gone before me
And question the great spirit I do
For wisdom to surpass

13. Aphasia Leaf


I am like a leaf!
Floating on
The winds of one
Spirit wide
Caught the flow
Continuum ride
Pulled by
The Source

Now I cast my visions
In the mirror pond
Paint the ways in
Which I feel
The flow pulling
Hear the sounds
At the bottom of the sea
Stroke a mural
Of the me
I can be

14. Apostasy Maestro


Etched groove
Sound of a record sitting
Impressed maverick
Painted rock walls of my cave
With twenty first century doormat
Please wipe your soul
And remove your patterns
Standing is easier than moving

Socked
There has got to be more above the edges
Enter styles, aural originality
Confidence brim
Natural charisma, a body of fire
Lines erased
Thinner splashing on my rock wall
And spilling over you

Graybeard spins
Night ink dripping
Covering bodies coveting
The orange illuminate
Accept the call of the coyote
Thump heart thump
Walking stick tap, tap
Pass a piece
Rock flakes clinging to hand
Flaming wood surrounded beings by
Smooth face rapt
All ways chews lonely roads for breakfast
Unshackle, morph, get bigger shoes

Rage against the trend
Stop, quiet before the mighty habit
Silence, rewind the ball, scrub off eyes

Mark my words
I will empty my mind of strip malls
Torn jeans, twenty two inch rims
Divorces, suburbs, distant emotions
I am the hero win the war
Against consumption
I will recite words to myself, intimate
I will unlock my charisma
I will unleash my confidence
I will rein state my vision

Inside, deep in the well of mind
Stored in the back, way in the back
So far inside
Some magic exists in these chambers
There is a light, a contentment
A greater purpose knocking on my heart
It is what keeps the beat

So close up windows, shutter
Tornado is coming
Hurricane Me
Tear my life apart
Destroy every physical possession
Let me forget it all
Sever me from the past
Empty my mind
Reset, like a child
No prejudice, courageous, bold
Master of One

Greatness wrapped in bacon
Follow the tune of this piper
Let the eyes of the tele vision
Close wink
Turn on the stars
Dilute city light
Darkness reigns over confusion
Gradually clear
Day by day more open
Connecting with others
... Really connecting!
Laughter springing from dry lips
Emotions welling from a dry heart
Stake driven in the desert
Water burbling, blub, blub
If ever there is a use for the word more
Here, now over dust
With our connection

Lips, heart

Shards of a globe reassembled
Unity seemed so scarce
You shall never see me act like a monkey
Pissing in the piss spot
Dropping rinds and fruit from the top
Wearing sunglasses inside
Erecting a fence around my plot
Drawing invisibly around my country

15. Axiom Oblivion


Flea riding elephant
Divorce fad fanatic
Limit observer
Slow death taster
Time abuser
Spirit ignorer
Hater of simple
Hoverer seeking land
Swimmer wanting to stand
Dreamer never waking, walking
Side stepper of canyons
Maker of cannons
Greeter when sad
Justifier, odorless
Glad seemer when mad
Imitator, prideless
Universal truth ignoramus
Intender, spineless
Johnny in the plain gus
Dross collector
Fame infector
Mother nature
Has a disrespectful child
Sorry excuse for wet or wild

Inter mission

Lakes hold secrets
Gold came from rivers

Dull knife
Sharpen yourself
Here is a whet stone
Repeat let go
Deeper now
Mantra
Socket of the soul
Plug out for a time

Space out again
And you might stick that way
Heck, I would stick you on a shelf
Leave you standing pretty
For the neighbors
Smack the rock like water
Carve our sound deeper into the etches
Just sit and wait for death
Wait to be taken to the next level
Gotta plug another quarter

Death and fear are so easily overcome
Chooser for another life

Have you called the crow to your window?
Have you allowed tax against your will?
Have you copied a tattoo?
Has your heart been wrenched?
Has your face lines of time wasted?
How many times have you cried uncle?
Have others spat in your shadow?
Have currencies cracked?
Their whips across your back?

See.... the key exists
Buried under a flat rock
Where currents current trout
Flow and flux
Listen to my subtext
And outrights
Favor wisdom over experience
For the reaper reaps
Quicker than tea steeps
And lovers love is a feat complete

Might is still right
Just like it has always been
Weights, pain, stress
Extremes exist for developing strength

What if there is?
Another dimension to your three?
Is time in your quiver of dimensions?
Is luck?
Can you forge luck?

What does it mean to be raped?
What is the purpose of a pirate?
Can you balance on one toe long enough?
Tell me, Jaded... What are you best at?
Can you flip?
Twist your body in joyous distortions?
Can a single rope hold you?
Mightiest of the might of might?
In every death there is life borne

They are all wrong
The ones who said life is a circle
Untrue
Life is a spiral
Out or in
Your answer speaks sounding a populace

Hell influenced me
And thankful I am for its seed
Killers, we should all give thanks for
See my words float into space
Hear the snap
As these thoughts convert to energy
Feel our motives take substance
And you will see
That right is wrong to the devil
And right is wrong to the masses
The monkeys
Madness
Lost for lack of

Mark well the language of the weak
And stoke the one inside you
Who loses sanity
And forsakes the trend
Embraces alacrity
Sucks nets for pockets of personality
A dubious endeavor

This is how we go
One day, one say, far
And whispers in the village...
Fear and loathing in Villageville
Father, mother, sister, brother
Stand to test mettle
And meddle with weakness
Expound strength
And off the extra goes
And lighter one can swim
Through particles of anything
And out and onward and outward
This section of the spiral goes
And fossils swing through thickets
And muscles bend to make to make
So one goes
Beyond towers
Beyond pain
And through the thickest
The heart of oneself
Oneself the jungle
Jungle the hider
Hider of chambers
Chambers of destruction
Destruction construction
Destruct construct
Destruct construct construct

You are here!
Possibility stems from impossibilities
Enraged, then slain

Green can mean many things
Greed, weed, money, newbie
Plug another seventy five cents
And the head will speak again

Strife begets
So does love
Become like sand
Talk of friendship, entertain your self
Master nothing in a blaze of something
For worth welling from value
Welling from pain
Welling from impressions
Welling from hope breeds fear
Trust me
Joke all, Garret in France
Maestro of Oblivion
Lord of Time
Warper between Worlds

Look to the source
Your personal why
And discover the impetus
For these babbles

Something steals over
Trees over the ridge when sitting
Pondering in the heat I speak
Morsels, limbs, urine is drinkable
Diluted at first
See anything really is possible
Plausible ideals scream
You and I are one at the knee
Freely I claim this
Prove this from the super conscious
One by one
Yummy dried corn cakes crumble

Twenty six disillusionments click
And blend again hope and energy twixt

Here I say
And stand
Believing
Coursing through veins
Power and blood
Kings and paupers
Holding dominion over reality
Miles from London
And ages from the future
Ms. Taking not the past
Eating enough
Letting the flame touch not the bud
And burning it still
Current moment endless always

So softly she speaks
Like water at first, then rain
Pattering on your doorstep
On which I would spit
Like a nine year old camel
Back riding hump
More is less necessary in times like
Sex

You think I am a man
A man I am
Standing on the crown of a giant
Standing on tall temples
Standing on empires buried
Standing on faith
Standing on actions wrought
At a price
Bought

So gradual is true change
Burning greed in the heart of a star
Climbing over low fenced self esteem
And all the trappings of American life
That fortune favors is fable
Misguided guises of court
Making laws meant to be broken
Take this token and resume play
Turning the wheel of another life
Like Lucifer mutinous

So readily dismember
The secrets I told you daughter, son
This message
Will not self destruct in five seconds
For no thing do you ever forget
Way the back store
Sells freely these secrets
And the chamber is really a cavern
Is really outdoors

There was never such a thing as indoors
And that links all dualities
And there your fingers grip dirt
And roots like the tread of
Your footprint grips rock
And fallacies all erode
At the foot of the hill above the rut
Holding
The rise of the sun

16. Ayrie Inside Out


Holding
The rise
The rise of the sun

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Press

"The difference is about an atmosphere which grows on Afear .. the originally simple track of every instrument becomes complicated to split in a moment and find its own way cleaned up once again."

"This fight amongst the vocals, guitars, bass and beats create an original and well composed mixture."

"The songs .. touch some other mind spots .. kind of schizophrenic aspects but there's a genius in schizophrenia. - Fabryka Industrial Rock

About

Afear, Bullets in a Burning Box' first full-length album, is a collection of 16 experimental / industrial-rock songs.

You might like it if you're a fan of Nine Inch Nails, Rob Zombie, Marilyn Manson, Dope, Orgy, Beck or Puscifer.

The album is self-produced. It was released on December 11th, 2007.

Credits

Bullets in a Burning Box is:

  • NMW - Vocals, Lyrics, Guitars, Beats, Production, Art

Recorded in NMW's mobile studio in Seattle, San Francisco and random parts of Oregon. Additional mastering by Mark Johnson of Blue Jay Productions and Jason Steele.

Thanks

Thanks to Kjohnn, Franchise, Bink, Beau-Dean, Sleepy, Slim Sammy, Benke, Matthew T, Lioness, Ma, Dadums, Naomi, Brokin Sticks, Dave & Mikaila, Billy, Big Chad, Bree, Brad, Bill Schneider, Tiggles, Big Sis, Alissa, Rev. Justyn Scott, Janet, Sarah, Jason, Chris and Collin.