The Bleak Picture | Silent Exit (Taken from Shades Of Life)

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Second single taken from Finnish doom/death duo The Bleak Picture´s second album Shades Of Life, out on the 27th of June 2025 via Ardua Music.

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LYRICS

Perfected manners
a shallow smile
With a distant look
Continuing to another day

Another grin to fake
Another scar to hide

The rain pours down with pain
The fever aches her soul
As she waits for a new dawn
Only to find the sun in a void

The woe in her heart takes over
the days go from dark to black
Hope, her mischievous friend
Turns petals to razors
Water to mud

The stage is set for silent exit
These rooms are empty, only ghosts by her side
A droplet of water, sounding like a scream
Something not even Lethe can erase
In chains, she handed the knife to a clown
Now the greyhounds bark in the yard

For what end does she keep the flame
Struggling to smile ‘til tomorrow’s tail
Her words of dusk linger
In the cold morning mist
Mingling with Spring’s dust

What peace may come with Demeter’s touch
Gone will be with her longing and grief
Nightmares come again;
In all shades of life, they creep into her mind

The moonlight uncovers
The footprints at the door
Welcome, desperation
Through a vortex of time
Deep from the ground, from high above
This unique blend of dismay

Distraught by summer’s end
The cycle begins again
The fever is getting higher
Soft wailing carried away by the wind
Nothing left but a burning straw
And a crooked smile

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Recorded on several occasions between 2023 and 2025.
Instruments were recorded at BST Audio, and vocals at SFP Audio.
Produced and mixed by J. Hänninen.
Mastered by Javier Fernández, Spring 2025.

All music by J. Hänninen.
All lyrics by T. Ruohonen.

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