Advents' latest single "Silk" showcases the band's signature technical skills and emotional depth, featuring a surprise collaboration with Mikey Garrow of Savage Hands. The track moves through intricate timing changes and the lyrics carry an authenticity that make it feel like someone actually lived this. The scream towards the end feels sharp and smooth while the clean vocals flow seamlessly throughout the entirety of the song. You can feel the music as you travel through the song with the beats flowing through the dynamic soundscape. None of it feels forced. Garrow's contribution adds a positive complement to “Silk” and the song's vision. The production quality, which Advents has become known for, elevates every element of the song, allowing the lyrics to shine through in seamless harmony.
According to the band, the lyrics were crafted with specific intentions in mind, “The story centers on a relationship that ends in mutually assured destruction at the hands of one of the people involved. There’s a lot of blame and resentment involved, and a will to end everything on their own terms. It carries a standoff/“last man standing wins” vibe, except no one is actually left standing.
It’s a song about keeping score, replaying everything that has happened between these two people, making the other person relive and continue to witness the mess the entire time, and then destroying it. If the situation is going to hurt the person setting the fire (referred to in the lyrics), it’s going to hurt the other person watching it happen as well.
Ultimately, these are two people who lost themselves in each other and, instead of walking away, decided to see the worst in one another until they both withered away because of it in the end.”
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Full Song Lyrics
Tell me how we will never grow
Your planted seeds of doubt leave you on your own
Pull me into the afterglow
Enshroud me in your web
Now you’re not alone
Are you the one under the gun?
Now have your say before it’s done
A final show for everyone
If you're afraid
Don’t look away
As I set fire to this bed that we made
I'll lay in shame
You’ll curse my name
I’ll bathe in the ashes as you fall out of frame
Don’t you look away
You believe the low is all we know
Keep holding on to my mistakes
Not letting go
So lie straight to my face
Your words leave a bitter taste
The low is all we know
If you're afraid
Don’t look away
As I set fire to this bed that we made
I'll lay in shame
You’ll curse my name
I’ll bathe in the ashes as you fall out of frame
Don’t you look away
We’ve lost our way
Bleeding in vain
Take all your pain
Stand there in shame
Don't look away
Let it all burn
‘Cause now I’m controlling the flames
Don’t care at all
My heart you slaughter
Oh, how you’ve lost your way
It ends today
Don’t look away
Oh, how you’ve lost your
Oh, how you’ve lost your way
If you're afraid
Don’t look away
As I set fire to this bed that we made
I'll lay in shame
You’ll curse my name
I’ll bathe in the ashes as you fall out
Ashes as you fall out of frame
Take the blame
I’ll bathe in the ashes as you fall out of frame
Don’t you look away
