The title track of Algiers' thunderous 2020 release There Is No Year is an anthem for the ages, helping to set up the narrative arc of this album of waiting for the sound and fear of the sound. (All the lyrics for this album were taken from an epic poem Franklin James Fisher wrote called ‘Misophonia...
[Verse 1]
Now it's two minutes to midnight, and they're
Building houses of cards
It will spiral out until the day we all fall
While the enemy's all around us, and he
Slowly tears us apart
It will spiral out until the day we all fall
We're getting ready for the sound
[Verse 2]
This self-consuming contradiction
The more it turns the more we just deform
But either way, you can't look in my dark room
To bloom like a rose in the mouth of a gun
We're reaching out in order to get shot down
While the world around us just implodes
With new names for "God" and "country"
With new words for every song we sing
[Refrain]
And it's only to get shot down, hey
And it's only to get shot
[Verse 3]
I don't care if the whole world is burning, oh Lord (all men obey)
There's certain things I forgot I should fear, hey (all men obey)
Keep on screaming till your kingdom crumbles (all men obey)
It won't stop until I'm sure you hear, hey (all men obey)
I'm moaning on the floor for your forgiveness (all men obey)
But here they coming, the four winds blowing
And four horses, I hear 'em coming
Sh, we're gonna start over there
And we'll spiral out singing now
[Refrain]
And it's only to get shot down
And it's only to get shot down
And it's only to get shot down
And it's only to get shot down
And it's only to get shot down
And it's only to get shot down
And it's only to get shot
There Is No Year was written by Ryan Mahan & Lee Tesche & Matt Tong & Franklin James Fisher.
There Is No Year was produced by Ben Greenberg & Randall Dunn.
Algiers released There Is No Year on Fri Jan 17 2020.