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A​\​VOID

by 51 Peg

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1.
A Void 03:46
The feel The taste The sound The place The memory The tragedy The atlas on your back The scene of the attack
2.
No Ctrl 04:50
You’re fine Everything is an energy shift and a weight to be lifted You’re mine That’s the reason you were ever fine in the first place You’re bleeding It’s a wonder you’re alive cause you thrive on a fuck and a beating And everything’s an opportunity when you’re a finely tuned opportunist You win when you wiggle out of the way Decide Would you rather be hard of hearing or seeing or tongue tied Here is the selection Choose the one that whets your appetite You win when you wiggle out of the way Wrestling me free of happiness health and home I’d hate to see how we handle these things alone Incite What you can with the hand of a man who is deeply divided You’re mine When the depths of division distill the deception Seceding Would belittle The Throne Of The Hive but inspire the tribe Cause everything’s an opportunity when you’re a finely tuned opportunist March to the rhythm of the sinking sand You hold the heart of another in your own hand If we could breathe for each other you would understand That I can breathe in twice as hard as a normal man And hold out twice as long
3.
There’s another nothing not happening here And here is another place Celebrate the something sucking your soul And stealing the smile from your face They compliment your great anxiety Coordinate your coast to luxury And when you get accustomed to the speed of things They add apostrophes Listen to the sounds in your head Cause you’re nothing more than an antenna And if you had the sense to be dead You’d be closer than anyone ever came before There’s another frequency licking the air And listening to your life You’d better not belabor what’s righteous and fair They’re not Gonna tell you twice They’d really rather rip you right in two Than ever cop to what they plan to do And when you let them lift you up and dust you off the reckoning ensues Before you turn into a device You’d better run for your life They’re coming quickly with a new technology knife To cut you open and see what’s inside And to harvest your pride And to make it all their own All their own
4.
Regret begets regret We get what we want when we are circumspect Don’t you be too soft to come correct Or direct We would behoove ourselves to aim below what we expect We’re coded in time I would say we’re flying slightly blind When gold presides and production slides and we fail to react We fall behind and we become blind to manufactured facts They take a slice to find out what kind of beast our blood attracts I hope our necks are nimble enough to circumvent the axe Pursue review eject We’re all soaring eagles ’til the plane is wrecked Don’t you let pollution take effect And don’t forget Pollution is part of the reason we marvel at every chromatic sunset
5.
Acceptance 04:31
6.
Prying Eyes 04:04
Intentional delays are displays that we hope to erase in case of invasion Cause we don’t have the heart to hold the line Your reflection isn’t accurate Your mirror isn’t true To see the end of awful is to see the end in full A nightmare seen with open eyes is better than a dream The hole that you've been trying to fill is Letting out the steam So when you’re old and grey and decay has taken form and face Don’t retrace Don’t complain You never had the heart to hold the line You never had the strength to do the time Curtail the pleasure by difficult measure Pop the top and release the pressure Letting out the steam For interloping prying eyes It’s time to go to school You can’t see the mess we’re in so FUCK THE GOLDEN RULE! No one turns and runs in the direction of a scream The hole that we’ve been trying to fill is Letting out the steam
7.
Super Spy 05:19
Festivity never fares so well when faced with refusal to learn I voluntarily stay in hell so I can watch you burn I document every crime you commit and I’m keeping impeccable track of it Every little crack will soon be sealed I’ve got a tragedy trowel No need to move the lips when you can orate with only eyes And if you could read my mind you’d see it’s planning a big surprise Planning a wake for the wasted hours Planning a wake for the wasted lives Sweetening up what is sick and sour Settling up with a friend of mine I should have prayed for the day I should have opened up my mouth and made great waves I should have given OKs I should have reached out with both hands and given shake The hero’s solution has come into play It’s the greatest solution solving today When the light of the moon resembles the sun You’ll get a hem and a haw from everyone At least you got to hear what I had to say Even if I never had the chance to play The game Never you mind the infractions behind you there’s no use rewinding the tape Don’t try to put an elaborate spin on The truth you can never escape You’re not saving face Your heart is out of place The hero’s solution has come into play It’s the greatest solution solving today When the light of the moon resembles the sun You’ll get a hem and a haw from everyone At least you got to hear what I had to say Even if I never had the chance to save The day
8.
Night Things 05:25
A pestilence is playing the field The hole you’ll fall into has been drilled A little laser lights your location The station to be razed Beneath your feet will soon be far above This we do because you dare to challenge the way we choose to love LOVE Let’s not let the weapon fly too far It’s cool with me if you chose to be the way you are Paralyzed by the posture of things Tied to a stake and given wings The struggle only serves the location The station to be razed Without what we were hoping you would do It’s certain death if you decide to face the melee which ensues If I could rule both worlds I’d grab a little bit and take it off of your shoulders So separate these words From the ones you heard before that made you colder I wish you well Your stories only tell Of how your heroes failed I wish you fell But I wish you well
9.
This is the final time This is the final rhyme Regarding what you mean to me and Calculating what should be This is the final time This is the final time I know I only speak to you in times of doubt and trouble And for all the time that’s in between I try to keep it subtle I’m sorry my subservience so synchronously waivers But when I fall I call on you my parachute and savior You are the reason why I won’t spread my wings too wide And I pilfered all my purity for pride I guess I never thought I’d ever have to make decisions So final and so ferrous and devoid of any vision Deregulating reasoning Regaling in revision I invoke the just in case clause to avoid a cold collision Your God can be love again Love again and nothing more Sum total of knowledge Of all who were before Accelerated natural selection Take away our boundaries and we’ll choose a new direction So I guess it’s time I bring you up to speed Here is a heart that never has a chance to bleed And though it tears me up I must concede Still I am wan to let you plant your seed Because I barely ever brave the weather by the book I think it’s time I turn a page and take another look My optimism ails me My escape is well in sight My religion really looks more like the switch than like the light You took them all away from me so early I place the blame between my bouts of faith A symphony so sour and so surly I wish I knew the way to lift the weight Your God can be love again
10.
Cat Scan 03:25
11.
Only blink if the itch is more than a normal human brain can bare When you supersede their creed their credibility crawls on its knees Ignore them patiently Endure negotiations raging seas And may the deadliest diseases drain directly into history I can’t believe You could ever be so mean I’m watching your betrayal on a video screen Your humanity is melting right in front of me And dripping through the spaces in between What is now and what used to be Only sleep if the length of slumber is shorter than their attention span If a god can stay awake then certainly this monster can Ignore the urge to feed Cause they’ll come back and beg repeatedly They have the deadliest diseases creeping through their veins like little thieves There’s no room for pride When you’re trying to stop a drawn out suicide There’s no room for pride
12.
Death March 03:34
Despite your discerning features The little laconic creatures Of the world that you just took over Are beginning to become sober Disciples are the first detractors When they find out their saviors are actors You forgot to figure in the human factor In spite of your best intention You’ll drown in your own invention Think of your leave as suicide prevention With hate regulating your reason Your rhetoric sounds like treason Better hide all the guns before pig hunting season
13.
Zero Zero 04:47
The pulse quickens The tension thickens The goal is to blow the roof off this old and indistinct religion I think the reason we turn to this is clear We can’t be trusted our thoughts are adjusted to how we deal with fear Below the flow of hot metal’s glow is where I long to see you God bless the cold aluminum wings that lift you up and free you And I will not fear When your heart’s not here Cause your hands are there And your head is clear This power extension Is vermin prevention Our bellies are full We’re ready to rule And regulate your vision I think the weight of the weapon makes it clear Your ill-gotten power will certainly sour Unless you let us steer
14.
He contacted me and we got together on two or three Points of contention, in regard to your ascension Into a place that defines obscurity All your rhetoric runs aground Without a soul to save And when we wish to be larger than life We come back from the grave We can choose to see Whatever side we perceive to be worth our being And in prevention in regard to your intention I think your time would be much better spent on a lesser catastrophe History is unreliable It’s viable to believe That every word we’ve been fed since the day we were born is poison At least we bleed in a similar way when we can’t always bleed the same Carrying on and corrupting the cause under one common righteous name I’ve had it with hearing of how we’ll be living when He hobbles back to reign You sever your ties with your GOD when you sever a vein
15.
Crawl back hide your face You don’t wanna show it here anyway By reason of all of this treason and trickery Sit up straight raise a glass Pay a little homage to an imperfect past To the light that lit your way And when they ask Where you got your mask Don’t A\VOID the task Of telling them the truth You took it from the light Without a proper fight To hide the many faces of your youth So when your dirty little thoughts start to simmer Take your dirty little finger off the dimmer When unsolvable problems begin to figure Keep your dirty little finger off the trigger Reel back write your will We’ve been looking for a little pest to kill By way of betrayal and beckoning bravery Stand up tall turn around Tranquilly tiptoe off this hallowed ground By the light that lit your way I’ll shine it bright I’ll hold it right So you don’t stumble On your way out Who turned the light on? Who lit your way? I bet you think of me every day And it probably pains you to think that way I’ll never relieve you of having no words to say What’s mine is mine every part Like a shooting star through your heart Burning up on reentry and sending you back to the start The price you pay Arrives today So please get out of the way
16.
The Void 02:56
The turn of phrase The word The sound you swore you never heard The distance at your insistence begets a beautiful thing destroyed The least you can do is see this all through and try to traverse the VOID…

about

Over the course of many years, forces both internal and external can come together to erode a band. The necessities of daily life slowly take precedence over creativity and it becomes easy to settle into a routine. Hollowed out gradually, there comes a point of realization that some things may have been forgotten: the excitement you get from writing a great song is just as important as any creature comfort and that playing a show to a live audience is more exhilarating than the endless cycle of binge watched dramas on television. But once time slips by, it is close to impossible to gain back what has been lost, and the story often ends here.

Fortunately, for 51 Peg, the stars aligned and an opportunity presented itself in the form of an unexpected offer to do a reunion show in 2016. With their singer Jeff Sargent relocated to Arizona and the rest of the band (now including keyboardist Tim Phillips in place of Jaime Nish) remaining in the Baltimore, MD area, they put together a set of their previous material from Strange Appointments (2000) and Esc\Ctrl (2004) and pulled off a successful come back show. This was an eye opener not only in the fact that people still wanted to hear 51 Peg, but that it was also possible to function even with Jeff located 2,000 miles away.

The creative fires now stoked, and with 14 additional years of experience and technology at their disposal since their last release, the band decided to begin working towards a new album. Not knowing what this new configuration of the band would sound like but with grandiose albums such as Nine Inch Nails’ “The Fragile”, The Cure’s “Disintegration”, and Pink Floyd’s “Wish You Were Here” in mind the ideas quickly flowed. The result is a musically diverse 16 track album that is inspired by what came before and provides a glimpse of what is yet to come.

With newest member Tim providing a new edge from his synthesized perspective, guitar player Carlo Pizarro taking a prominent step forward in the bands overall sound, and drummer Brian Fasani anchoring everything while now also contributing his own synth ideas for the first time on a recording, the groundwork was laid for Jeff to provide the emotional content that 51 Peg is known for.  Lyrics of loss, change, heartache, and self reflection provide  an “homage to an imperfect past” and take the listener on a journey of catharsis. A bid for connection between themselves and the audience, A\VOID is a true collaboration of the band across time and space.

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released October 23, 2018

Brian Fasani - drums \ synths
Carlo Pizarro - guitars \ bass
Jeff Sargent - vocals \ additional synths
Tim Phillips - synths \ bass

All songs written and produced by 51 Peg

Mixed and mastered by Tony Correlli at The Deep End Studio (Baltimore, MD)

Vocal sessions produced by Marcus Davis at Triple Wide Studios (Tucson, AZ)

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51 Peg Washington, D.C.

51 Peg are a dark synth rock band, influenced by Depeche Mode, NIN, and more. Named after the extrasolar planet 51 Pegasi.

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