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Life Cycle

from Stay for the Ending by District 97

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    Bill Bruford: Quality, expertise and passion - Stay for the Ending is a massive piece, of which District ’97 should feel justly proud

    • The culmination of everything this Chicago-based prog rock ensemble has worked toward in its 15 years of existence.

    • Recorded, mixed and mastered by Noam Wallenberg (Alan Parsons, Mac Miller).

    This new release sees the band significantly upping their game in the areas of composition, performance, arrangement, production and sonics.

    Running the gamut from the relentless thrill ride of the title track to the tender, dynamic ballad ‘Life Cycle’, the album traverses a vast array of themes and musical influences. The songs explore the human experience: unity, division, deceit, obsession, detachment, resilience and transcendence.

    Track Listing:

    1 Stay For The Ending
    2 Mirror
    3 Many New Things
    4 Crossover
    5 Divided We Fall
    6 Life Cycle
    7 X
    8 X-Faded
    9 Deck Is Stacked
    10 The Watcher

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lyrics

Life Cycle (Schang)

Drifting down silently
To black out the sunlight
Every day they assured us, their only aim:
Show us how to live
in harmony, peacefully
Everything began anew

Ghostly memories fade
Of past lives no longer
Relevant to the new world they opened wide
What drives them to give so openly
So endlessly?
When will be the time to know?

It's a question for all
Have they answered our call?
Or are we just nothing but a means to an end?
No more spending our days
Watching time slip away
The only thing that we may lose is our humanity

We have all we could dream
And still we grow restless
Waiting to feel the passion that used to burn
There must be a force
that's waiting to collide with us
Children know but they can't say

It's a question for all
Have they answered our call?
Or are we just nothing but a means to an end?
No more spending our days
Watching time slip away
The only thing that we may lose is our reality

The sun, the sky, the earth
All melt away

Now it's time for you to see
There's a new reality
That's bigger than the both of us combined

We came here to guide you through
The separation of the glue
That held you firmly within space and time

Earth no longer can provide
A home for what you have inside
Unleash what lies beneath your flesh and bone

Transformation for all
Now you answered our call
Your arrival signified our childhood's end
We begin a new phase
Leave behind our old ways
We are one with the beating heart of our humanity

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from Stay for the Ending, released October 20, 2023

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