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1. |
Chewing Gum (Live)
04:00
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There’s a little piece of you
Tangled in my hair
Get it out, get it out, get it out, get it out, get it out!
I don’t want it there
There’s a little piece of you
Clawing at my ribcage
Let it out, let it out, let it out, let it out, let it out!
It needs to be saved
Hell no
Mother you’re wrong that fucker’s not gone
He’s here in my bed, dying
Rotting away, just smell that decay
While you’re all asleep I’m crying
There’s a little piece of you
Still catching on my ribbon
Get it off, get it off, get it off, get it off, get it off!
Cos I simply don’t love you
Not again, not again, not again, not again, not again!
I’m not broken
Hell No
Mother you’re wrong that fucker’s not gone
He’s here in my bed, dying
Rotting away, just smell that decay
While you’re all asleep I’m crying
He has locked me up
Punched air holes in this box
Left me in this cage
Left me here for days
And I can’t find signs for an exit
Collectively we find
A person can’t survive
Without an ounce of love
Without an ounce of woe
Mother you’re wrong that fucker’s not gone
He’s here in my bed, dying
Rotting away, just smell that decay
While you’re all asleep I’m crying
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2. |
Roaming Soul
02:14
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Knocked down for the last time
Stood up for the first
I gave you my best days
You gave me your worst
Filled my case with memories
Possessions and clothes
I closed the door on all that misery and I
Step out into the cold
Cos I’ve cut myself free at last
My hands are no longer tied
Cos I’m a roaming soul
Hitching a ride
Black clouds hang above me
I think that it might rain
I turn around and see your shelter but I
I Carry on all the same
Cos I’ve cut myself free at last
My hands are no longer tied
Cos I’m a roaming soul
Hitching a ride
And I’m hitching a ride
And I’m hitching a ride
And I’m hitching a ride
And I’m hitching a ride
And I won’t turn back
Cos I’ve cut myself free at last
My hands are no longer tied
Cos I’m a roaming soul
Hitching a ride
And I’ve cut myself free at last
My hands are no longer tied
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Cracked
03:34
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I can’t get enough
Of all your drugs
That’s why I’m so weak
You’ve poisoned my blood
With your dirty substances
Now I’m done
It was meant to be
A way to make a little space for me
And now it’s gone a little too far
I’m stuck and I don’t know where you are
This place is so strange
I can’t find a way
back to my home
There’s nothing to do
except think of you
and all of my pain
It was meant to be
A way to make a little space for me
And now it’s gone a little too far
I’m stuck and I don’t know where you are
I hope I don’t meet
You ever again
For the rest of my life
That way I can stay
Clean so I can
Get away from here
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4. |
Soldier
03:47
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So I’m sitting here obediently
Waiting for orders patiently
And I know I’m not to move from this seat
You don’t need to tie me down don’t wanna be free
I am your soldier I come to serve you
But I’ve been a good boy/girl I don’t deserve you
Oh I salute you
I’ve faced up to my fate, attempted escape before
Oh I salute you
You don’t need to sound the alarm, I’m not gonna run anymore
So down behind my back and up through my feet
Extracting the poison you claim to beat
I can accept now fighting only ends in pleas
How can I protest when you’re stronger than me?
I am your soldier I come to serve you
But I’ve been a good boy/girl I don’t deserve you
Oh I salute you
I’ve faced up to my fate, attempted escape before
Oh I salute you
You don’t need to sound the alarm, I’m not gonna run anymore
Now that I’m worn you don’t want to wear me
Now that I’m torn you don’t want to tear me
Now that I’m done you’ve had your helping
But I’m desperately used, no good to anyone else and
I am your soldier I come to serve you
But I’ve been a good boy/girl I don’t deserve you
Oh I salute you
I’ve faced up to my fate, attempted escape before
Oh I salute you
You don’t need to sound the alarm, I’m not gonna run anymore
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5. |
Outrageous
03:17
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I wanted to put myself in your position to figure you out
So I took a chainsaw to my skull and extracted my brain out
And something I found out in this exercise is you are alone
I wanted to think like you thought to answer some of the “whys?”
So I took a blindfold of denial and bolted it to my eyes
And what I saw was something I’d not known before that you are alone
See those pretty eyes, can be pretty green
See that pretty mouth, can be pretty mean
This boy is, this boy is outrageous
I tiptoed around you like a ballerina ‘cause I was naive
But you made me murderous, viciousness showed itself in me
Yeah it drew out a venom I’d not known about ‘cause he was alone
Yeah he took it out on me
And I took it readily
Whilst surviving this attack
I soon learned how to battle back
See those pretty eyes, can be pretty green
See that pretty mouth, can be pretty mean
This boy is, this boy is outrageous
I won’t say that I know myself anymore
And I won’t say that I can be repaired
But I know I’ve learnt from the trials that I was made to endure
Now he won’t cross me, I’m angry, and he’s the one that needs to be scared
See these pretty eyes, can be pretty green
See this pretty mouth, can be pretty mean
This girl is, this girl is outrageous
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6. |
The Vice
02:47
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Oh neglect me my dear
My brambles grow thick in your absence
So next time you try to cut me down
Your blades will blunten on my branches
You wound the vice one turn too tight
Too much pressure makes a lesser fool out of me
You bent the bars one inch too far
Now they’re gaping, I’m escaping
Who needs a key?
I’m long gone
Oh insult me my dear
And like a sponge I’ll absorb
But when I’ve soaked all I can hold
On your head like a rain cloud I’ll pour
You wound the vice one turn too tight
Too much pressure makes a lesser fool out of me
You bent the bars one inch too far
Now they’re gaping, I’m escaping
Who needs a key?
I’m long gone
And you’re gonna cry like a mourner and
I’m done cowering in corners
Slowly and surely I saw through your sordid sob stories
I’m long gone
You wound the vice one turn too tight
Too much pressure makes a lesser fool out of me
You bent the bars one inch too far
Now they’re gaping, I’m escaping
Who needs a key?
I’m long gone
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7. |
Beware
04:27
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I snagged myself on your barbed defences
And my chainmail unravelled as if woven from wool
And so to lead by example I had to get out before I was trampled
So heed my warning and steer well clear
Beware, please beware
If you’re gonna get involved with her then tread with care
‘Cause that girl is trouble, take it from me
My flesh was scored by your thorny branches
Now the patchwork I’m tailored from is ripped at the seams
And the threadless warning flags waved as though the wind was mad
But I chose not to notice and got caught in your snare
Beware, please beware
If you’re gonna get involved with him then tread with care
‘Cause that guy is trouble, take it from me
And you’ve left your mark, girl
A blot on my page
I would Tipp-Ex you out but that only hides the pain
Well you’ve left your mark, boy
You’ve bulldozed my walls
I could build them up brick by brick but they never stand quite as tall
Beware, please beware
If you’re gonna get involved with her/him then tread with care
‘Cause that girl/guy is trouble, take it from me
Beware, yeah
Oh yeah
Beware, yeah
Oh yeah
Beware, yeah
Oh
Beware
Cos that girl/guy is trouble, take it from me
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8. |
Deficiency of You
04:28
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Withdrawal symptoms begin to occur
And shaky vision begin to blur
I find myself wanting to scream out loud
And spurt violent outbursts resulting in fear
The need to cry is so overwhelming
I'm vitally missing vitality
I can feel my skin is drying
And my heart has slowed the blood
That it should be supplying
And I think that I am close to a place
Where my spirit is dying
Due to deficiency of you
I am electronically blowing a fuse
And if I was a piece of machinery, oh
My cogs refuse to move
And Billy has lassoed my horses
Their pins are bowled by thread
And everyone knows that a cure
For a horse with a broken leg
Is a shot to the head
I can feel my skin is drying
And my heart has slowed the blood
That it should be supplying
And I think that I am close to a place
Where my spirit is dying
Due to deficiency of you
Come home to me
Bring back the world
Take hold of me
Before I am cold
I can feel my skin is drying
And my heart has slowed the blood
That it should be supplying
And I think that I am close to a place
Where my spirit is dying
Due to deficiency of you
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9. |
Stand to Attention
05:19
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Sick from the smell of the fire I disintegrated
Into an urn full of life
Full of passion of the wrong kind
And my only option was fight
“Go, you will march” I was told, I was laden with a gun
And I knew of a plan
And I knew my point of contact
And empty handed I can’t come back
And though I knew my mind was consumed
I had no where I could run to
So I’d hide behind enemy lines
And though I was free to leave whenever
I knew that if I endeavoured
Through the fences I’d be caught defenceless
They are only human
Like you and I
So who are they to tell us who to be?
And why do we follow them
And cry when we stand to attention?
I should have screamed
Should have clawed
Had I not been in the midst of a fight, of a war
Had I not been in the searchlight
Had the smog not blurred my eyesight
And I had a bullet had a gun
But victimised my courage gone
And had I made it out the other side I wouldn’t have a place to hide
They are only human
Like you and I
So who are they to tell us who to be?
And why do we follow them
And cry when we stand to attention?
And they shot and they hit and things I can’t live with
Are pushing me harder to grow
But had I not been through this
I wouldn’t be witness
To a strength many can’t claim to know
They are only human
Like you and I
So who are they to tell us who to be?
And why do we follow them
And cry when we stand to attention?
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10. |
Soundproof Box
03:38
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Life is hard living as a ghost
When all I try to do is touch you
My fingers disappear into you
I must be shouting into
A soundproof box
Where nothing can be heard it’s locked
I’m wasting my last breath
Into a soundproof you
I’m so close I’m moving your hairs
By breathing onto your skin, that feeling
But you brush away the sensation
A frown, I’m disappearing
Into
Into
Into
A soundproof box
Where nothing can be heard it’s locked
I’m wasting my last breath
Into a soundproof you
And you’re never coming back
You’re never coming back
You’re never coming, oh
Soundproof box
Where nothing can be heard it’s locked
I’m wasting my last breath
Into a soundproof you
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Dust is settling on my eyelids as I sleep
Tar is sliding down the window through which I see
Somehow its blacker than these piano keys
I think I’ve lost the ability to see
I’m so cold through all these clothes
I’m crushed to a pulp, on this whisky I gulp, pour pills down my throat
Unlock me I mean you no harm / Far too risky to feed you with bare arms
Bite the arm that feeds me real food / Wait your turn you’re greedy I hear you
How do you expect me to tell the truth / How can I protect myself from you
Trust belongs to you / Trust is for fools
Don’t disguise yourself I’m easy led
Don’t pretend you’re drunk that whisky’s down your dress
And I know those pills are aspirin for your head
An obvious fact ‘cause if they weren’t bitch you’d be dead
Well I’m sick of this now, you’ve crossed the line
Look at you, you state, wipe the tar of your face and the dust from your eyes
Unlock me I mean you no harm / Far too risky to feed you with bare arms
Bite the arm that feeds me real food / Wait your turn you’re greedy I hear you
How do you expect me to tell the truth / How can I protect myself from you
Trust belongs to you / Trust is for fools
How can you ask me to trust you again?
Did I ask you to trust me at all?
How can you tell me you don’t want me back?
I don’t want you around me at all
Unlock me I mean you no harm / Far too risky to feed you with bare arms
Bite the arm that feeds me real food / Wait your turn you’re greedy I hear you
How do you expect me to tell the truth / How can I protect myself from you
Trust belongs to you / Trust is for fools
Trust is for fools
Trust is for fools
Trust is for fools
Trust is for fools
Trust is for fools
Trust is for fools
Trust is for fools
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12. |
A Brand New Me
03:59
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For centuries, we have been at war
But this is where the battle ends, and I have won
And yes you may, raise awareness to
The damage I'm to mend, and what you've done
But I know that you know the truth
And I know that you know comeuppance coming after you
So I will lie defeated here
And though it may take many years, you'll come clean
I will cry repeatedly
But I'll come out the other side a brand new me
A waiting game, and though I cant sit still
I'm sure that you are in more pain, as you've the guilty plea
And you can claim, upon your mother's life
That you are in the clear, the jury'll pin the blame on me
But I know that you know the lie
And I know that you know there's details you cannot deny
So I will lie defeated here
And though it may take many years, you'll come clean
I will cry repeatedly
But I'll come out the other side a brand new me
So hide my little sheep
But do you hear me howling at the moon when you sleep
I'm a restless soul
And I'll creep around your house until the stories all fall out of all the closets you've been hoarding them in all the years
I will lie defeated here
And though it may take many years, you'll come clean
I will cry repeatedly
But I'll come out the other side a brand new me
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Crazy banter and mental health
Grey matter against myself
Constantly unwanted skin
Unfortunately holds it in
I loved you and you fucking let me down
You've given me a bush to beat around
And I
Could have died
I have never been a battle ship
I've just been carrying cargo
So maybe that's why I feel
So sunken
You should have saved me
You should have saved me
Left like a lightbulb
Off, no switch, in a dark room
You should have saved me
You should have saved me
A child in a sea cave
Watching a tidal wave
And what's the point when I drink to drown?
And where's the light when the power's down?
I loved you and you fucking let me down
You've given me a bush to beat around
And I
Could have died
You stood and watched 'em make me walk the plank
Knowing I was tied to a cannonball
So maybe that's why I'm going
Overboard
You should have saved me
You should have saved me
Left like a lightbulb
Off, no switch, in a dark room
You should have saved me
You should have saved me
A child in a sea cave
Watching a tidal wave
Cold, cold, cold change
Cold, cold, cold change
Cold, cold, cold change
Ah
Ah
You should have saved me
You should have saved me
Left like a lightbulb
Off, no switch, in a dark room
You should have saved me
You should have saved me
A child in a sea cave
Watching a tidal wave
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14. |
Anchor of Us
05:15
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I took to hand mortar and land
To undermine a fundamental tune that I had sung for you
But prerequisite you knew to fit
A secondary hurdle when at worst it was a curse you knew
That I’d wanna ‘scape to the towns tell everybody
I’d been the face of a break out
But you won’t let me run away
Your hold unfolds and still I stay
Under the anchor of us
I am a child and I
Must be crazy cos I’m still in love
You talk to me just like I’m free
But burden isn’t binding it’s a mindset in a time when I
I don’t know how I forgot the motion to walk
But action is reaction in a mind that I am finding lost
So just like the dead I’ll be still
Until the ticking tells of a time when I will leave
But you won’t let me run away
Your hold unfolds and still I stay
Under the anchor of us
I am a child and I
Must be crazy cos I’m still in love
Holding on ‘til the traces are gone
Holding on to embraces of non-existing arms
You won’t let me run away
Your hold unfolds and still I stay
Under the anchor of us
I am a child and I
Must be crazy cos I’m still in love
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Volunteer
04:21
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Wait for a day when you're not relevant to the part
I'm playing, I'm playing
And it's not a game when you know that your chances are slim
For winning, you're winning
In all honesty you are undercutting everybody
Lean on the door you're the easy find they're looking for
In all honesty you're a mess
In my mind I guess I am a volunteer
The scientist in you is testing except something wrong
And everyone around our table
In hush voices says "it's too late she's already gone"
Yes it's a shame but you're missing the point I am fine
Reliving, reliving
And yes I'm ashamed but the milestone is wandering far
And I'm running, still running
As matter of fact you're the bible with a violent impact
Matter of fact you are blind
In my mind I guess I am a volunteer
Here out of choice
In my mind I guess I am a volunteer
Screaming with no voice
My spade is heavy lord I cannot dig anymore
I'm in for another win, pick up your cards off the floor
And I'm feeling the pull to the door to the door to the draw
In my mind I guess I am a volunteer
In my mind I guess I am a volunteer
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16. |
Just a Book
02:56
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There's a scroll you've yet to read out loud
Get rolling, rolling, rolling, rolling out
Rolling out the red like blood spill and I will be
Holding, holding, holding, holding on
Say what you need to
Your stones cannot bare like threats of a snare
So tear up these words like they're meat for the hungry
The 'nobody told me's
These words, nobody ever hears
Just a book to be read
Waiting on the seabed
Under the weighty waves
For years
To the press we'll take it shave off slim pay offs for
Turning, turning, turning, turning out
All the leaves of all the tree breasts we use for the chests
Now burning, burning, burning, burning
Our candles both ends but
Are you not tempted? Empty and rented
Looting your temples and making example
Pack-like to handle and
These words, nobody ever hears
Just a book to be read
Waiting on the seabed
Under the weighty waves
For years
Call, call them out
From under the decks of wrecks and I'll bet you all
They'll be loud
Louder than thunder but silent in slumber
These words, nobody ever hears
Just a book to be read
Waiting on the seabed
Under the weighty waves
For years
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17. |
Stampede
02:55
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Not gone back, back, back
Not gone back with that knife I see
To invade my chest, break me at my best
Tear up at me
But I will not function
I don't live life for loving you
I can solve a puzzle,
I can make me money,
I don't need to be approved by you
Stampede
As we
Sleep
Your attack won't make a surface scratch on me
Cat like claw, claw, claw
Gums out, roar like you mean to bite
Raise that chest plate proud, got to belt it loud
Stir up a fight
When you di'n't spit your words
From that black tongue that barely taste
I am running faster
I've been storing ammo
Little do you know an ambush awaits
Stampede
As we
Sleep
Your attack won't make a surface scratch on me
You haven't lost me
I won't be forgotten
I'll drive you like cattle
So heed
Stampede
As we
Sleep
Your attack won't make a surface scratch on me
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18. |
After a While (Live)
03:45
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With no-one on my team your heartbeat came knocking and knocked me off my feet
Your pennies took by thieves, your running jeans ain’t stopping, understandably
And you once told me I’d regret
It hasn’t happened to me yet
So maybe I’m immune to your hundred yards of sad
maybe I’m immune to that disease you thought you had
But you never learned how to speak to, to me
And after a while, a smile is not a smile
Cos kisses turn to tears
And when you bought your past you bought many, too heavy, and lumbered to defeat
And when you paint you scrawl and when you speak you drawl, ill at ease to understand it all
And you once told me I’d lament
we drew partions in cement
Well I guess I took it hard but I said I’d persevere
I guess you heard me say that and I guess it hurt to hear
But you never learned how to speak to, to me
And after a while, a smile is not a smile
Cos kisses turn to tears
After a while, a smile is not a smile
Cos kisses turn to tears
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There he sat his flaxen hair now flat
Cos out of the light and under hat
Like you took my hand you took it back
For something to hold like putting the cold to match
I can be kinder but stronger to drop so don’t you stop
I’ll be a changer
But you’re pushin’ out the light ‘til you’re in the dark again
You wear this cloak to bathe to bed
You’re under wraps afraid to shed
Pushin’ out the light ‘til you’re on your own again
Pushin’ out my love
Singing like a dove says ‘who’ and why am I?
‘Cause I’ve been a door and nothing more
When you’re out of love could you care that I’m not dry?
Water to spare and plenty more
I can be softer but harder to stop so keep the slow
I’ll be a changer
But you’re pushin’ out the light ‘til you’re in the dark again
You wear this cloak to bathe to bed
You’re under wraps afraid to shed
Pushin’ out the light ‘til you’re on your own again
Pushin’ out my love
You’ve been a spoon-fed since you were a kid
All I wanna know is why it is
You’re pushin’ out the light ‘til you’re in the dark again
You wear this cloak to bathe to bed
You’re under wraps afraid to shed
Pushin’ out the light ‘til you’re on your own again
Pushin’ out my love
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20. |
Leather for Hell (Live)
03:10
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Well my feet are burning and the clock don’t seem to be turning
It seems to take an hour to put one foot in front of the other
And now is the world spinning when I get the feeling it’s falling asleep
I’ve been trying to see the light but every smile, it hurts
I’m a raring bullet in a box of empty shells, go on!
Pull the trigger pull it, bite the pin then leather for hell run
At the mouth I’m foaming
At the bit I’m champing
Won’t you raise the gates love? Give it a try
To waylay this aching my finger are shaking, my knuckles are breaking
I’m walking the blade of a dagger and picturing all of the pieces
I’d shatter to
If this is the show, well I’m hoping that falling’s a ‘no’
But it’s better than this
I’ve been trying to see the light but every smile it hurts
I’m a raring bullet in a box of empty shells, go on!
Pull the trigger pull it, bite the pin then leather for hell run
At the mouth I’m foaming
At the bit I’m champing
Won’t you raise the gates love? Give it a try
Euthanasia is gonna save ya
It’s the kindest thing to do
And you don’t know it yet
But every time you take that breath
Ten thousand other people suffer
‘Cause they feel the way I do!
I’ve been trying to see the light but every smile it hurts
I’m a raring bullet in a box of empty shells, go on!
Pull the trigger pull it, bite the pin then leather for hell run
I’m a raring bullet in a box of empty shells, go on!
Pull the trigger pull it, bite the pin then leather for hell run
I’m a raring bullet in a box of empty shells, go on!
Pull the trigger pull it, bite the pin then leather for hell run
At the mouth I’m foaming
At the bit I’m champing
Won’t you raise the gates love? Give it a try
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