And Yet

Cold in Berlin

August 27th, 2012

14 tracks

49:03

And Yet

Cold in Berlin - And Yet - 01 Take Control

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Cold in Berlin - And Yet - 01 Take Control

Cold in Berlin

Honey wanna bloodbath? Give me a call Fuck you like a lazer if you take me home Bright like a furnace light up your soul Love you like a loser leave you alone This is how she takes control This is how she takes control This is how she takes control This is how she takes control She wakes up early and takes a cigarette From her pack of cigarettes She’s not ready to face the day yet She goes back to bed with a book She’s been doing this for days now been doing this for days now been doing this for days now who gives a fuck? Baby need a hero to drag me home Fuck you like a furnace light up your soul Love you like a lazer watch you explode Leave you like a loser leave you alone This is how she takes control This is how she takes control This is how she takes control This is how she takes control She wakes up early and takes a cigarette From her pack of cigarettes She’s not ready to face the day yet She goes back to bed with a book She’s been doing this for days now been doing this for days now been doing this for days now Who gives a fuck? Metal in my blood good Metal in my blood tastes sweet Metal upon my tongue Metal upon my teeth Metal in my blood good Metal in my blood tastes sweet Metal upon my tongue Metal upon my teeth This is how she takes control This is how she takes control This is how she takes control This is how she takes control She wakes up early and takes a cigarette From her pack of cigarettes She’s not ready to face the day yet She goes back to bed with a book She’s been doing this for days now Been doing this for days now been doing this for days now Who gives a fuck?

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Cold in Berlin - And Yet - 02 And The Darkness Bangs

Cold in Berlin

It’s four in the morning the phone box calls to me If I phone you now you’re certain to know it’s me I will not sleep when the lust is rife in me I will walk bare foot to the sea And the darkness bangs Your face is the moon and the darkness calls to me I will not sleep when the angels torture me Strong is the man who holds onto lust in me I will find peace beneath the sea And the darkness bangs Brave is the woman boiling in blood of me Strong is the man who holds onto lust in me Weak is the child cry the lungs of me Wild is the wolf who howls in the heart of me And the darkness bangs Inside of me Loud is the wolf who howls in the heart of me Loud is the wolf who howls in the heart of me Wild is the wolf who howls in the heart of me Wild is the wolf who howls in the heart of me

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Cold in Berlin - And Yet - 03 The Witch

Cold in Berlin

The witch went crazy on me one day turned the whole sky black Not a word I’d sing or say would ever make her change it back And while the witch was I played at practicing those skills I lack And the madness comes and the madness comes and the madness comes with the dawn And the madness comes and the madness comes and the madness comes for us all The world went crazy on me one day everybody turned their back Not a word I write or pray would ever make them come back And as my heart was away a played at papering over the cracks And the madness comes and the madness comes and the madness comes with the dawn And the madness comes and the madness comes and the madness comes for us all The madness grows The witch is huge like mountain The witch is wild like sea The witch is supernatural All claws and scales and teeth And we are damned Her love is huge like mountain Her rage is wild like sea Her spell is supernatural All claws and scales and teeth The witch is huge like mountain The witch is wild like sea The witch is supernatural All claws and scales and teeth

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Cold in Berlin - And Yet - 04 Brick By Brick

Cold in Berlin

Fuck me into feeling I’m so quickly bored It’s a joke you think you’re leaving when I’m so clearly yours So starting with your big mouth let’s review all clause Brick by brick they wall her Brick by brick they wall her Brick by brick they wall her But I’ll knock them down again Shock me into feeling I’m clearly bored You fuck me when your dreaming But that’s behind closed doors So starting with my small toe I will become yours Brick by brick they wall her Brick by brick they wall her Brick by brick they wall her But I’ll knock them down again Do you sleep at night? Do you sleep at night when the voices rise? Do you feel alright? Do you feel alright when the darkness rise? My weak heart was never enough My weak heart was never enough My weak heart was never enough My weak heart was never enough

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Cold in Berlin - And Yet - 05 The Visionary

Cold in Berlin

Down in the field where the angels roam Sat the girl not twelve years old Hundred men and a hundred more Willing to die for what she saw Oooh ooh oh ohhhh Time when the king was awful bold Down in the field where the angels fall Send for the fire to burn her soul Search through the dirt for the visionary bone Oooh ooh oh ohhhh Joan Send for the fire to burn her soul Send for the fire to burn her soul Send for the fire to burn her soul Send for the fire to burn her soul Hundred men and a hundred more Willing to die for what she swore Bring out the fire to send her home Never was a visionary quite like Joan Never was a visionary quite like Joan Send for the fire to burn her soul Hundred and a hundred more Never saw power like her before Never was a visionary quite like Joan Send for the fire to burn her soul Hundred and a hundred more Never saw power like her before

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Cold in Berlin - And Yet - 06 Roll On In

Cold in Berlin

They take your eyes They bite your cheeks Undo your veins They crush your feet And it’s a lie to say your lost And it’s a lie to say your love Roll on in roll on in roll on in They take your eyes They cut your tongue Peel back you skin They drain your lungs And it’s a lie to say you love And it’s a lie to say you lost Roll on in roll on in roll on in It’s the itch you cannot scratch It’s the itch you cannot scratch It’s the itch you cannot scratch It’s the itch you cannot scratch And still they come Still they come Still they come Still they come Still they come Still they come Still they come Still they come Roll on in Roll on in Roll on in

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Cold in Berlin - And Yet - 07 Love Is Shame

Cold in Berlin

He’s my man super hero Twist my love leave me zero Your powder man sell me nothing Your power man leave me nothing Love is shame He’s my man once my hero Twist my lust leave me zero Your fingers man got me quaking Your fingers man got me shaking Love is shame Take it off take it off I am nothing Peel it off peel it off I am nothing Love is shame

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Cold in Berlin - And Yet - 08 John

Cold in Berlin

There will be times there will be good times When the sunrise of your body make me think There will be friends nights misremembered I forgive them every bottle that I drink Cold flesh in the bedroom Vodka down the sink John could write this better I don’t dig the way he thinks Don’t ring me out Don’t ring me out It is the bloodstain on your body makes me hold onto this doubt Don’t ring me out There will be time there will be bad times When I filled up the corner with mistakes There will be dreams dreams misremembered And the nightmares chase me down though I’m awake Dead flesh in the bedroom Bloodstain down the sink John could write this better I don’t dig the way he thinks Don’t ring me out Don’t ring me out It is the sunset of your body makes me hold onto this doubt Don’t ring me out Just want one more cigarette Just want one more cigarette Just want one more cigarette Oh they want me to be ready but I’m not ready yet Just one more thing to regret Just one more thing to regret Just one more thing to regret Oh they want me to be ready but I’m not done yet Dead flesh in the bedroom Vodka down the sink John could write this better I don’t dig the way he thinks Don’t ring me out Don’t ring me out It is the sunset of your body makes me hold onto this doubt Don’t ring me out

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Cold in Berlin - And Yet - 09 The Lie (Single Version)

Cold in Berlin

Crawling on my hands and knees I’ll suck you up your sick disease I hate your lustful magazine Your politicians lie to me I’m 20nothing begging please I’m worshipping your TV screens In awe of all your movie dreams I’m begging baby end me please I am the lie am the lie am the lie am the lie You made me Crawling on your hands I’ll fuck you up your sick disease Your intellect is nought to me Your TV dreams they lie to me I’m worshipping your movie queens I hate your lustful TV dreams I hate your stupid magazines I’m 20nothing begging please I am the lie am the lie am the lie am the lie You made me Crawling on my hands and knees You suck you up your sick disease I’ll rape your glamorous movie queens I’m begging baby end me please I’m louder than you’ll ever scream I’m darker than you’ll ever dream The most powerful woman you’ve ever seen is crawling on her hands and knees I wanna see your children bleed I wanna see your children bleed I wanna see your children bleed Or get down on your fucking knees I am the lie I am the lie I am the lie am the lie You made me

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Cold in Berlin - And Yet - 10 Whisper

Cold in Berlin

You’ve got a moment to give up her host You’ve got a whole life to count up the cost You wanna fuck her least that’s what you said You push her face down down towards the bed But the woman won’t beg No the woman won’t beg No the woman won’t beg For what’s hers And you can whisper And you can whisper And you can whisper Please You’ve got a minute at the very most You’ve got a whole life to big up the boast You wanna leave her at least that’s what you said You wanna fuck her but she’s better dead But the bitch won’t beg No the bitch won’t beg No the bitch won’t beg No the bitch won’t beg For what’s hers And you can whisper And you can whisper And you can whisper Please The woman won’t beg Oh the woman won’t beg No the woman won’t beg For what’s hers Oh no she won’t beg Oh no she won’t beg For what’s hers And you can whisper And you can whisper And you can whisper Please And you can whisper And you can whisper And you can whisper Please And you can whisper And you can whisper And you can whisper Please

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Cold in Berlin - And Yet - 11 And Yet

Cold in Berlin

Midnight crawling worship the stars I don’t give fuck where you are You’re mine tonight And yet Old man Wilson penning the poem Its old man Little who’s got my soul I don’t care so much about winning these days And yet And yet I want your disease Your sickness sweet Twist inside of me Let me worship your dreams I am not my own I am not my own I am not my own these days Pack up your shit get into the car I don’t give fuck where they are they’re mine tonight And yet Old man Wilson finished the novel Its old man Little who drops me home I don’t care so much about screwing these days And yet And yet I want your disease Your sickness sweet Love the taste of your grieving Love you stalling my breathing I am not my own I am not my own I am not my own these days I can’t eat or sleep without you Pills don’t stop my dreams about you Every song I sing’s about you I can’t be or not without you Black and blue yet here I am Black and blue yet I am standing Black and blue yet here I am Black and blue yet I am standing Black and blue yet here I am Black and blue yet here I am Black and blue yet here I am Black and blue yet here I am

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Cold in Berlin - And Yet - 12 thewolvesaregoingtokillyou

Cold in Berlin

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Cold in Berlin - And Yet - 13 And The Darkness Bangs (Heretics Remix)

Cold in Berlin

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The Witch (Heretics remix)

Cold in Berlin

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‘Translators for our imploding society’ was how Artrocker described CiB’s debut ‘Give Me Walls’. Awarding it album of the month and later an album of the year. Since it’s release the band watched London burn in the 2011 riots while writing and rehearsing their follow up in the basement of a church in Rotherhithe.

Bidding a found farewell to the East London Post-Punk scene CiB have imbibed the best of the 1980s 'Our Band Could Be Your Life' albums from the fledgling alternative scene. Swans, Shellac and Sonic Youth from the US. And from the UK the chorus, reverb and delay pedals of Bauhaus, Joy Division and The Jesus and Mary Chain.

Showcasing an incredible vocal range vocalist and lyricist Maya broods, purrs and screams at the state of the world and her place in it. From the harshest growl to the softest coo in the space of a chorus, one song in a higher register, the next in a lower one. We wonder who they are going to compare her to now?

The drums remain as solid as ever with pounding overdubs locking tight to future classic basslines. But it's the scale of the sound that announces itself. Haunting vocals over massive drums. Driving bass versus eerie guitar lines. If 'Give Me Walls' was dark and spiky, 'And Yet' promises to be darker, heavier, slower, faster, better.

Cold in Berlin broke of out the east London scene to play Offset festival, tour in Europe and share stages with bands as diverse as The Chapman Family, Diary of Dreams and Mater Susperia Vision. Still skint, heart broken and living on the fringes of society and acceptance, it is clear that alternative cultures romantic vision of DIY purity is no longer an option. And Yet…