Blaze Bayley - Surrounded by Sadness/The face of.../Letting Go.../Comfortable...

These four songs mostly address the loss of Bayley's wife and the struggle he and the band have had in the music world.
Surrounded By Sadness, the first acoustic song since the band changed their name, starts a four song run-in, as the last songs on the album are thematically connected. As stated in the sleeve notes inside the album cover, the last four songs follow the four steps of dealing with personal tragedy: loss, pain, grief, and acceptance.
Promise and Terror is the fifth studio album by English heavy metal band Blaze Bayley, released in 2010.
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00:00 Surrounded By Sadness

Forsaking every other thing
Leaving uncertainties behind
From the loneliness and the dark
I came into your light
No more sadness surrounding me

My heart is beating its last beat
As I am breathing my last breath
For what I could not live without
Has gone and will not come again
Sadness surrounding me


03:59 The Trace Of Things That Have No Words

Nothing can numb this pain, nothing can fill this void
Nothing can heal this wound, nothing can hide this scar
Nothing is what I have, nothing is all that's left
Nothing is what I am, if I am without you
Looking down at my feet, why do they move at all?
Looking down at my hands, why do they work at all?
I hear the words I speak, why can I speak at all?
If I can't speak to you, why can I speak at all?

I won't give up this pain, the pain of what I lost
I don't want to be healed, why do they even try?
Pain is all I have left to tell me this was real
Pain is the only thing left I can feel

My scars I show you know, my scars
They prove my life was real, my scars
Here on my face, here on my arms
Lines from a play, you were the star
You see them now, you see my truth
The way I lived, I lived for you
These scars proved my life was real

Now you can see my face, now you can hear my words
Now can you understand how I traced out my world?
Why must I face this life? Why am I here alone?
Where did the future go? Why am I here alone?

My scars I show you know, my scars
They prove my life was real, my scars
Here on my face, here on my arms
Lines from a play, you were the star
You see them now, you see my truth
The way I lived, I lived for you
These scars proved my life was real


09:39 Letting Go Of The World

Everything I love has been taken
I wonder what reason I have to live
Desperately I have searched for a meaning
Is it now time for me to let go of the world

The future that I began to believe in
Seemed so certain, I thought it was mine
That was where and how I would be living
A complete human being with a soul
That was only a dream in a nightmare
And the nightmare is where I now live
Empty life, empty hours without meaning
Hours of madness that make me let go of the world

The revelation of my transformation
Is both a shock and a comfort to me
Leaving behind their conventional wisdom
Their rules that govern the way I should be
The narcissist and the father believing
That they should be worshipped and obeyed
By the lost overwhelmed and bewildered
But for me it is time to let go of the world

Why should I live by rules that I did not make?
So that people I don't know will accept me
I don't care who they are
These hypocrites preaching all of this nonsense
Reject me, they don't know who or what I am
I don't care who they are

Fight, kill, fuck eat, fight, kill, fuck eat
I just don't care who they are
Fight, kill, fuck eat, fight, kill, fuck eat
I just don't care who they are

Letting go of the world
Letting go of the world

Letting go of the world
Letting go of the world
Letting go of the world


16:11 Comfortable In Darkness

I let go of the world
I let go of the light
Then I fell towards memories of the dead
To the blackness I fell
I was lost, I was scared
And alone with the memories of the dead

Every single step I fear to take
No light at all and no end in sight
I must find my way
I must find my way

Now that I'm living here
And there's nowhere to go
Speaking to me are memories of the dead
How to cope and endure
And survive all of this
I must listen to memories of the dead

And if that's true, is all of this in my head?
If it is I can choose
What I think, what I feel
These things I fear are only real in my head
Now I found the choices I can take
I choose to rule my fear and not to break
I will master my own darkness

There is no step that I now fear to take
The world within me, is mine to create
My fate is in my own hands
Now I understand

How it can be, how I can see, how I can find a way
To be comfortable in darkness
To be comfortable in darkness

Victory of myself, by myself over me
To be comfortable in darkness
In darkness