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The Within Death

by Gaffer Project

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    The Within Death is our second studio full length record with 13 songs divided by a 3 act structure. Though there is no storyline carried through the whole album, the attempt was to make an album that visits each of the steps of Joseph Campbell's "Hero of A Thousand Faces" or Hero's Journey.

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1.
Begin With 03:23
29s Begin with truth held self evident, 34s until revelations sustain. 37s Until status quo irrelevant, 40s by learning to grow or just remain. 44s Begin with truth held self evident, 49s until revelations sustain. 52s Until status quo irrelevant, 55s by learning to grow or just remain. 59s by learning to grow or just remain. 1:19 In self righteousness lazily garbed Justified by privileges I’ve reaped As judge and jury draw conclusions thus dealing in hang man’s compassion 1:45 God is good, though I’ve much to learn of the clairvoyant. God is giving, though what I need is usually not what I want. 2:17 Is there no common ground here? Do we instead carve it from Virginia clay? Am I the tree eating its own fruit? Unable to share and unable to plant more? Manipulate those around me? Seek only those that I can get something from? 2:50 There is joy in the music, community and travel. There is life in the savior, that stayed the hand suicidal. Circle the garden again, chipped plow and broken spade. Circle the sun once again, wasting years, nothing made. So it goes… So it goes…
2.
Breath 03:39
With both hands I move to hold my tongue Standing in silence, too quiet to speak of good things but the turmoil it grows worse inside of me. I sit and wait for the day break And wonder if I’m just wasting my time. My even flow, my thoughts, provoking though, The angst inside of my mind. I swear there’s comfort there, Though I chase them away again. Oh yee of little faith. When the flowers decide not to grow. Remind me how brief life will be That my days are fleeting My entire life is but a moment; at best, we are but a breath The more I thought about it, the hotter, the kettle got, igniting a fire of words: Reminding me, all that I’m not. We are but moving shadows, in our busy rushing to nothing. Killing ourselves, but for money, Not knowing to who it's going. I swear there’s comfort there, In the one who holds the sparrow. Oh yee of little faith. When the flowers decide not to grow. Remind me how brief life will be That my days are fleeting My entire life is but a moment; at best, we are but a breath
3.
To Refuse 01:38
It doesn’t make sense to go. No, you probably shouldn’t go. What if they’re right? What if I fail? What if I lose sight? What if it’s not real? In a life lived between new lows, why even bother? Why try to change? Oh God, I believe, help me in my unbelief.
4.
We would greet each other as Ragamuffin. Sitting in a lonely Kansas diner enjoying his favorite sundae, I would endure every stomach pain. I would listen and hang on to every word spoken and unspoken. Watching the movies in his eyes just sitting here hoping to pray together and if so lucky, cry together. The tears shed would belong to others. The broken, wobbly kneed Those just barely hanging on. Who are Ragamuffins that know they are just a beggar at the door of God's mercy. We beat to the same out of tune drum we walk the same crooked steps. God loves you as you are and not as you should be for no-one is as they should be One time through no words I would bring my heart so transparently it bleeds on the table of our booth. A beating heart broken and beat up like his. It would look desperate and wounded. I would embrace him in my arms and whisper, "well done, good and faithful servant".
5.
Through 01:33
Hell in front and hell behind Leave behind my comfort and my home, this forest is all that I have ever known And though it’s likely we go unto our doom, we must march on.
6.
Trails 03:31
With tonight’s event closure and our ice-cream consult When faced with failure, to its face we revolt. Get sick in Arkansas and throw up in Tennessee It’s just food for thought as we go to bed hungry. A life in a backpack and our loans subprime Circularly we backtrack in just six months time My hopes in their hands as my hands pay the bills uncertain five year plans transmission be thy will Try to write new records but content to play favorites Igniting into rose colors as fears fuel future failure It was there that I met you in the eye of the storm You gave me a refuge you gave me a home No Damascus roadside but the father I needed A place I could hide where I am superseded My heart, my love, my day, with eyes of eternity With brother Holliday we shoulder the journey The comrades that grew communities stronger Friends believe in you even if you no longer. Out there on the road two thousand miles from home your body’s getting old feeling tired and alone Not really a silhouette but not exactly healthy Not buried in debt nor monetarily wealthy. Is this what we’re to be is this truly our fate Controlled by conspiracy fueled by anger and hate. Trying to be brave is made painfully clear We approach the cave my heart is made of fear.
7.
Remind me how brief life will be That my days are fleeting All we know left behind for the truth found inside My entire life is but a moment; at best, we are but a breath
8.
Now their harvest gone, the husks of yesteryear stand in the way What can’t be overwintered, the plow can’t allow to stay. With nitrogen and carbon, with potassium and calcium. Work to enrich soil, with the love of mycelium. Rooted in foundation, their countenance bathed in light Trust and understanding, may we see beyond sight. All I’ve loved left behind, in search of something more. As a lover in the night, you knock upon my door. That we would welcome that daily dying. Only the dead survive! Rise in the morn, and set with the moon. Life is the gallows, love is a noose. Fear not created, only creator. That unmade hands, would unmake us. Tread not in falsehood, walk in the truth. All must be broken, to birth a-new. When all else dies, hope survives.
9.
10.
Embrace friends made out there through miles of road and strife though I thought I’d never see this in my life No mansion but a place to abide though I thought I’d never see this in my life Behold we seized a piece of the truth Revelation in knowledge of You Loneliness be-fore I met My beau-ti-ful wife though I thought I’d never meet her in my life Always dancing in my brain always questioning why though I thought I’d never see peace in my life
11.
Once upon a time, in a land that time forgot
 I danced on white slabs with marble toes parental reprimand states those as grave plots
 outside the methods pleasant grove
. Now a days I wonder who will dance over me
, all dressed in their Sunday best
? A bit on the nose, but so it goes with allegory 
 of the innocents we’ve all since laid to rest. Which would you rather be? 
 The branches or the roots of the tree? 
 Are you selfish or selfless with your love? 
 Are you being held or holding others up? When you’ve lost your way in the pines planted by prisoners of war, wait for the the rows to align to find the way back to Carvin’s shore. What is that feeling when you drive away 
 as a loved one speck disintegrates? Hands in rearview sway good-bye. Forward, we venture neath the breathless sky.
12.
Return With 02:37
All my life I’ve been building this old tombstone on my own Back and forth I pile on a little more, a little more, of regret. Digging through the hell fire I’ve been born again but not yet released Been set free, but still I hold dearly to my old chains, of regret.
13.
The Elixir 02:32
Those we laid to rest, are still with us. I’ve buried too many loved ones before their time. So believe me when I say that “I love you”. All regretting what more that I could have said. Please believe me when I say that “I love you”. Looks at all you’ve done Look at what you’ve become Look at all you’ve done Look at all you’ve become Look at what you have done Look at what you’ve done End with truth held self evident, in hope revelations sustain. Now status quo irrelevant, Learn love and not just remain

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releases May 1, 2024

Writing credits: Jordan Doyle, Christian Holliday, Ricky Gentek (Songs 1, 2, 6 & 13).
Studio credits: Christian Holliday, Jordan Doyle and Joe McElroy.
Recording credit: Joe McElroy
Guest vocals: Jay McElroy and theLionhearted.

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Gaffer Project Roanoke, Virginia

Jordan Doyle - Bass/Vocals,
Kyle Saunders - Drums.
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