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Mastodon - High Road

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Album: Once More Round the Sun
Released: 2014

High Road Lyrics

You let the wind take us down
You let the storm come and wipe us out
I saw the fox stomp you out
I saw the ocean come take you under

I have my bullet stuck in your mouth
I have you screaming for your last breath, yeah
I shoved the boat deep inside
I still waiting for the devour

You take the High Road down
I take the ground below you
You take the high road down
I take the ground below

You are the one nobody likes
You are the plague that was brought here by rats
I like to hunt you, lets fight
Watching you fade out and never come back

You take the high road down
I take the ground below you
You take the high road down
I take the ground below

You take the high road down
I take the ground below you
You take the high road down
I take the ground below

Writer/s: WILLIAM BREEN KELLIHER, TROY JAYSON SANDERS, WILLIAM BRENT HINDS, BRANN TIMOTHY DAILOR
Publisher: BMG Rights Management
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High Road

Guitarist Bill Kelliher wrote the music for this song, composing the riff on a James Hetfield model ESP, whilst drummer Brann Dailor penned the lyrics. Kelliher recalled to Artist Direct : "I was sitting in my hotel room in Luxembourg because we had a couple of days off there. It's a very simple, easy, and heavy riff. I didn't think it would catch on with anybody else, but Brann was like, 'I hear some really cool vocals there!'"

"It just blossomed into this huge six-minute song with cool leads," he continued. "They're not solos, but leads in the middle of the song I put together my song. It's something I worked really hard on."

Mastodon - Tread Lightly

Mastodon - Tread Lightly Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Once More Round the Sun
Released: 2014

Tread Lightly Lyrics

Thru the ages
All the weary and the blind
Facing the unknown
Off the venom
A center our lives
Knowing not your own is unwise
And I will return for more
The light will lead you ashore

Paralyzed by
Paralyzed by
Paralyzed by thorn inside

To the angel
Breathing on me from the right
A guilt you'll never know

From the devil
Staring from the left hand side
Souls to animal
Recede your eyes
Sulk in disgust

When there is doubt look to the obvious
And I'll decide what you will pay
Changing your mind seals our fate

Paralyzed by
Paralyzed by
Paralyzed by thorn inside

Open your eyes
Take a deep breath and return to life
Wake up and fight
Fight for the love and the burning light

Open your eyes
Take a deep breath and return to life
Wake up and fight
Fight for the love and the burning light

Writer/s: TROY JAYSON SANDERS, WILLIAM BRENT HINDS, BRANN TIMOTHY DAILOR, WILLIAM BREEN KELLIHER
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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Tread Lightly

The song's title is an allusion to the TV show Breaking Bad. Guitarist Bill Kelliher told Loudwire : "That guy's [Walter White] life is crazy. You take a walk in one of our shoes; this past year there's been a lot of crazy s--t behind the scenes for each person in our band. Just our personal stories and it's just kind of cathartic to get the lyrics out about another year as a band, as people. We've persevered."

The song opened both Mastodon's Once More Round the Sun album and their 2015 The Missing Link tour. The band penned the track in January 2014, while they were up in Franklin, Tennessee putting the LP together.

Bassist and co-vocalist Troy Sanders told Artist Direct about the song. "I really gravitated towards that one from a lyrical standpoint, because I was able to craft what I thought were really powerful and appropriate words," he said. "It stems from something very dark and personal amongst myself. We like to mask it with metaphors. I remember personally feeling a sense of accomplishment in terms of what I did lyric-wise and vocally on the song. I really believed that one stood out to me amongst the whole album."

"Listening back, it had all of the elements of what we do," Sanders added. "It's not the heaviest. It's not the fastest. It's not the most epic. However, it's like, "That song is strong enough on all points to be the opener of the record!" Sure enough, it became that way."

Mastodon - Ember City

Mastodon - Ember City Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Once More Round the Sun
Released: 2014

Ember City Lyrics

You walk with boundless grace
Think old thoughts from yesterday
All being lost in the fire
You wandered and lost the way
Someone's always left behind
When the door of life closes

And you were slipping away
What do I say to you?
What do I say to you?
And if I want you to stay
What do I say to you?
What do I say to you?

This moment I take for you
Think of all we didn't do
All seeking answers from this
Hope to come out alive
Standing still my hands are tied
Our eyes open up to the sky

And you were slipping away
What do I say to you?
What do I say to you?
And if I want you to stay
What do I say to you?
What do I say to you?

And you were slipping away
What do I say to you?
What do I say to you?
And if I want you to stay
What do I say to you?
What do I say to you?

Writer/s: TROY JAYSON SANDERS, WILLIAM BREEN KELLIHER, WILLIAM BRENT HINDS, BRANN TIMOTHY DAILOR
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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Ember City

The song title implies someone encircled by dimming personal prospects. Bassist Troy Sanders told Kerrang! magazine: "This is the first song I wrote lyrics for on this album, so in that sense it reminds me of that specific period of time."

Mastodon - Diamond In The Witch House

Mastodon - Diamond In The Witch House Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Once More Round the Sun
Released: 2014

Diamond In The Witch House Lyrics

Wide is the line
Separates the rivers from the dirt
All the while I wonder who's the one

Within the one and only eye (we all stood cut free)
Within the one and only eye (we all stood cut free)
Within the one and only eye (we all stood cut free)
Within the one and only eye (Self-blinded to see through the veil)

Can you see there's a child
Standing idle by us in this mess
Who am I to cause this emptiness

Willing the sea to cleanse my soul
Of all that I've been
To bring me free to this clarity
Clarity

Trouble rolls in
As the tides, they twist and make the turn
Pain subsides
And sweeps across the earth again

Willing the sea to cleanse my soul
Of all that I've been
To bring me free to this clarity
Clarity

Within the one and only eye (we all stood cut free)
Within the one and only eye (we all stood cut free)
Within the one and only eye (we all stood cut free)
Within the one and only eye (Self-blinded to see through the veil)

I'm standing deep in these waters
Bleeding free and bent
To drag us onto the new visions
Only loss fills my void
Only loss fills my void
Only loss fills my void

Only the void connects me
With these mountains
Of dust, blood and soil
The stones born in the flames of truth
Demand a sacrifice
A sacrifice
A sacrifice
A sacrifice

Don't just bleed us and leave us to ourselves
We will return so deeply harmed
And we will shatter you
And we will shatter you
And we will shatter you

Writer/s: WILLIAM BREEN KELLIHER, BRANN TIMOTHY DAILOR, WILLIAM BRENT HINDS, TROY JAYSON SANDERS
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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Diamond In The Witch House

Neurosis lead singer Scott Kelly returns for his fifth cameo with Mastodon, singing on this 7-minute album closer. Bassist Troy Sanders commented to Kerrang! magazine: "He's been on other albums of ours, but the part he does on this gives me absolute chills when I listen to it."

Mastodon drummer Brann Dailor told Exclaim! magazine that Scott Kelly picked the song. "He gravitated to that more," Dailor said. "He basically said, 'I love this track, I'm feeling it, I can kill this one.' So we said 'have at it, go kill it' and he did."

Mastodon described the song in the press release as focusing on "the fragility of responsibility."