Tombstones

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"**Tombstones**" is an October Noir song included on their second album *Thirteen*, released in 2019. "Tombstones" is about the death of corporate soulless entities whom their only purpose is to drain from their “slaves” in order to gain a life of infinite money, power, and success. The first track begins with a sample recording of clunks sounding like heavy hollow metals are banging together in a repeated pattern along with wind and howl to give them a feeling of strolling through a cemetery thinking the dead are going to pop from their graves. Hence the aforementioned feeling, the canto is named "Dreaded Stroll in the Cemetery". The soft guitar strumming in this canto as well as in verses were played by Troy Lambert, the only track on this album where he is credited.

Following the first canto, the second canto named "No Way Out" has haunted doom riffs with keyboards that could give them depressed and gloomy feeling. It is about having no way to escape from being buried in the grave. The third canto titled "Corruption" has more hardcore sound and it's about the corrupt behavior that sent them to the grave. Tom Noir sings a high-pitch voice in this canto.

This song lasts 9:12, but lasts 8:08 on CD. The first canto lasts 90 second on the digital edition, but was reduced to 45 seconds in an effort to fit on the CD.

## Lyrics

**[Canto I. "Dreaded Stroll in the Cemetery"]**

[Instrumental]

**[Canto II. "No Way Out"]**

Snuff out the last of hope

No way out of this alive

Now consecrate

the definition of insane

A foolish lie

driven to paralyze

These morticians dig themselves another hole

oh, another hole

Show me the second face

The spirit that longs to strike

and illustrate

broken backs for a paradise

The tongues of gods

defy laws and morals

Fed from the trough until we're fat enough to slaughter

oh, to slaughter

[Incomprehensible]

**[Canto III. "Corruption"]**

Granted title to display power

Deception tactics of corruption

Hear not words of pragmatic resolve

9-1-1 please send the coroner

[Incomprehensible]

No contempt lurks in your grey palettes

Not black or white nor even pale colors

Judge, jury, and executioner

Play it tough until you're found cornered

## Personnel

* **Tom Noir** – vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards, writing, engineering, samples, mixing, mastering, production
* Troy Lambert – additional guitar
* Daniel Stickz Bryant – drums

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3. "Trinity"
4. "Alpha Omega"
5. "Exhume"
6. "Silicon"
7. "Deep Woods"
8. "Vertebra Seraphim"
9. "Feel Heart Love"
10. "Beautifool"

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3. "Spellbound"
4. "Little Drummer Boy"
5. "Symmetry"
6. "Black Light"
7. "Lavender"
8. "The Veil"
9. "Her Dark Embrace"
10. "Cauterize"

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3. "Reverence (Make You Love)"
4. "Effigy"
5. "Wine"
6. "Persephone"
7. "Serendipity"
8. "Wanderlust"
9. "Cradle the Monster"
10. "Wisteria"
11. "Sistinas"
12. "Proverbs"
13. "Goodbye Black Bird"
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2. "Endless Lonely"
3. "A Halo Hung from Horns"
4. "Forever Haunt"
5. "Deja View"
6. "Summer to Autumn"
7. "Clench"
8. "Tourniquet"
9. "For Honor"
10. "Flash Paper Matches"
11. "She's Gone"
12. "Winter"

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