Singles

2013-Present:

Wolfboy (2013)
Young Nero (2014)
Wintertide (2014)
BAIT DOG (2018)
deadweight (2018)
Sheet With No Ghost (2020)

Partial Lyrics:

“(HAND-SHY, CHASING HIGHS)
(CAN YOU SEE MY FANGS AND STILL TAKE ME IN?)
(STRUNG OUT STRAY IN AN ALLEYWAY)
(SELL ME ON THIS HEROIN[E])
There’s strength in you that’s changing me
Unmuzzled, I’ll both bark and bite
Take off the leash, give this wolf back his teeth
And I’ll prove that this dog’s worth the fight
(THROW MY OWN BONES BACK TO ME)
(I CAN REBUILD MYSELF AGAIN)
Cut my hair in the bathroom mirror
And let me know I’m not alone
Help me replace slamming dope with music and hope
And teach me what it means to be at home.”
- “Wolfboy” (2013)
→written by: Anarchy

—

“They always told me to count my blessings
Tried it once, I think I learned my lesson
I’m shit with numbers and it’s depressing
I’m all sin-guilt and no confession
When I was young they called me unworthy;
Unsalvageable, dirty, human sacrilege
Those throwing stones forgetting they were the culture that birthed me
AND IT ONLY TAKES A CHILD TO RAZE A VILLAGE”
- “Young Nero” (2014)
→written by: Kato

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“Oh, my wayward stray north star above,
my moon-stained raven; storm-dark dove,
let the waves not clip your wings
Gannet-plunge; claim both sea and sky
call my ship to your sunken harbor, I’ll
join you in showing them how the siren sings
So stake your claim
on wake and swell,
On my heart and bleak spired stone;
Be my beacon and we’ll feed fleets to the sea
and call the carnage home
Daughter of Melpomene—
You paint your wounds with salt and shame
But even birthed by the Muse of tragedy,
Surrender’s flag need not be your name.
Rebuild yourself with pack ice
white-capped waves and frothing surf
Bleached bone hag-stones; corpse-pallid truth:
fallacy and prophecy and all of Eris’ mirth
You may bear Demeter’s curse;
I’m not one to till the fields but to salt the earth
So let me sing with you, lyre-bird
if they deem us monsters, then let’s freeze the seas to glass
Take this winter’s mirror to them and let their prayers amass
I swear I’ll be the tide to you; the power to your song
Together we can shape the world,
put right where we were wronged
So stake your claim
on wake and swell,
On my heart and bleak spired stone;
Be my beacon and we’ll feed fleets to the sea
and call the carnage home
Part the waves or raise them,
you know I’ll brave the brine
Salt my lungs but don’t leave our song unsung;
if you can’t write your verse, take mine.”
- “Wintertide”, single (2014)
→ Written by Kato

“I snip the filters off my cigarettes but I’ll leave all of ‘em on yours
so that you can ash them on my chest ‘cause baby I love it when it burns
I’m drinking til my vision mists
putting cigs out on my wrists
I grit my teeth and clench my fists
come out bloodstained from every tryst
self destructive for my lovers’ schadenfreude
ripped apart and paranoid,
I’ll still count as wanted even if you want me dead and I’ll do whatever it takes to fill the void.”
- “BAIT DOG” (2018)
→written by: Kato

—

“Sick of living my life like I’m always wrong
another crossed out line in another crumpled song
Second-guessing’s been getting the best of me
Every correction another misdirection
sending me back down these dead-end streets
These days I’m afraid I’ll find myself drinking Neon
Doing whatever it takes to chase out the dark
End up injecting my veins with fluorophores
Desperate to have some source of light in my heart
I don’t want my soul to be vantablack
To absorb all light and give nothing back
But I’m a drain on my friends and they can’t catch a break,
It feels I have nothing to give; I just fucking take
I think my dad was right all along, I can never belong
And all that I am is a fucking mistake”
- “deadweight” (2018)
→written by: Kato

—

“I’m begging her to tell me,
What’s a wolf without its teeth?
What’s a tiger sans its claws?
What’s a god without belief?
She stares, uncomprehending
and replies, “Just no threat to sheep.”
She hears my laugh ring hollow and I see the outreach in her gaze
Spare me all your sympathy, you’ve got to know I’ll never change
(I can never change)
My friends are all around me but they still seem so far
I whisper, “What am I without my anger?”
They ask, “What are you without your scars?”
I think I might be nothing...
(I think I might be nothing)
I’m nothing
I’m nothing…”
- “Sheet With No Ghost” (2020)
→written by: Kato