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4 Song Demo

by American Nightmare

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  • 2000 Demo Picture Disc
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Available as a 7" picture disc for the first time and limited to 500 copies.

    These four songs make up the first American Nightmare release, a demo of raw Boston hardcore released at the band's first show on Feb. 11, 2000 in Portland, Maine. The release changed hardcore instantly, veering from the traditional positive, community based lyrics of fast hardcore to an inward, personal and depressing perspective.

    Recorded in 1999, the demo was originally self-released on cassette and then issued on 7" by Malfunction Records and has been out of print for the last few years.

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1.
A cold world is one where you think hope's alive Where "friends" aren't really "friends" Where love can't survive A cold world is one where life takes your life Where day after day is a fight after fight This-World- Has-Made- Me-Cold (But I know) You've got to break your back To hold your ground And bones will heal So I'm standing strong. It hurts It breaks It kills It takes We’ll fight We’ll win We won’t give in
2.
Please Die! 01:15
I won't go Because I've been there before And it took twenty years to pick my face up off the floor I'm not "sorry" if "things" aren't "the same" But sleepless nights are hardly worth the cheapness of your game And if you know what I mean then live for yourself Because life is too short to waste it on somebody else There was a time, and I swear that I cared... I got burned And now I walk with this fist in the air I don‘t care what they say They're not the ones who have to live with the pain Black Heart Breaking, Broken Bonds I should have known all along Don't talk to me I'm as deaf as I am blind Thanks for making me cheap And thanks for wasted time
3.
When we were young, We thought the days would get better Today I talked myself out of ending this I've been out chasing silhouettes Losing frozen smiles to the thawed regrets And all the way home 'I could see your breath though we looked dead' I'm so far from here.. We laughed, Our time is running thin But I always knew how the end would end I never said I'd stay to the end Fuck you, fuck all of you You'll never know what I wanted to say Those words are as dead as the air I breathe Life is just a big second guess A broken staircase of mistook steps You can trust me, it's not okay
4.
Never thought the world was going to end Always knew I'd come across your face again Still healing broken hearts and holding broken bones Singing ‘Taps’ off-key and breaking quiet phones You don’t know what you’ve got until you're left all alone See the strain in my bloodshot eyes I'm a hollow box, empty as your lies And I know I can't live Because the price that I pay will be the love that I give Nothing hurts like that look in your eyes Fuck the day I thought love was more than a lie I only die every day Sit alone count the ‘no's’ of the yesterdays Those seven days sure made me weak And when I’m dead and gone (Shed a tear, bless my memory) But I can’t go on All I want in these dying days is a breath of fresh air, and some sanity But nothings ever good enough, so I'll take a sad song sure enough The feeling I'm feeling is a feeling I've felt for far too long The feeling I'm feeling is a feeling I've fought for far too long

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The first American Nightmare release, a 4 song demo of raw Boston hardcore released at the band's first show on Feb. 11, 2000 in Portland, Maine. The release of the demo changed hardcore instantly, veering from the traditional positive, community based lyrics of fast hardcore to an inward, personal and depressing perspective.

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released February 11, 2000

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American Nightmare Boston, Massachusetts

Wesley Eisold
Josh Holden
Brian Masek
Alex Garcia-Rivera
Jim Carroll

Est. Boston 1999.

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