Spillways Lyrics
Through benediction
You tried to rid your mind of malediction
But through all this time you try to peel it off
And it's such a ride
Your desolation
Led you into this vile incarnation
Of consummated bliss I know you need it now
To make you feel alive
[Pre-Chorus]
All your faith, all your rage, all your pain
It ain't over now and I ain't talking about forgiveness
All your faith, all your rage, all your pain
It ain't over now
[Chorus]
It's the cruel beast that you feed
It's your burning yearning need to bleed
Through the spillways
(Spillways)
[Verse 2]
You keep a casket
Buried deep within, you try to mask it
But fall back in sin, you wanna shake it off
But you're stuck inside
When stripped of rags of skin and spine
Human decay, Corpus Dei
Terminally dispelled
And it's such a ride
All your faith, all your rage, all your pain
It ain't over now and I ain't talking about forgiveness
All your faith, all your rage, all your pain
It ain't ovеr now
[Chorus]
It's the cruel beast that you feed
It's your burning yеarning need to bleed
Through the spillways
Through the spillways of your soul
Through the spillways
(Spillways, spillways)
[Guitar Solo]
[Chorus]
It's the cruel beast that you feed
It's your burning yearning need to bleed
Through the spillways
Through the spillways of your soul
Through the spillways
Through the spillways of your soul
Through the spillways
Through the spillways of your soul
Through the spillways
Through the spillways of your soul
About
Impera’s third track, “Spillways” is a dancing track, hardly inspired by a lot of the 80s pieces. Tobias told Metal Hammer about the song:
This is an elegy for the darkness that most people have inside. When you have a dam, spillways are the run-offs so the dam won’t overflow. That darkness inside us needs to find its way out.
Q&A
Find answers to frequently asked questions about the song and explore its deeper meaning
Tobias Forge:
In “Kaisarion”, we have the en masse, frenetic, frantic buzz of being in a group. In “Spillways”, we have a very internalised pressure that builds up to the next song, which is a distant call that ends up being a voice in your head—the insulated person who’s being communicated with from a higher power. That’s loosely how we move geographically between these three songs. If the leads remind you of Brian May, that’s because I like stacking solos and adding harmonies, which automatically puts you in Brian May territory.
—via Apple Music
