new album out on March 21st on Alternative Tentacles
The Last Steps Of Man Unkind
Written and Produced by Ani Kyd Wolf and Marc L'Esperance
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Ani Kyd Wolf
Photo by Joe Koonz 3
Ani Kyd Wolf is a Canadian Metis vocalist, musician, director, writer, producer. She started the film company Sugar Skull Films in 2010 and has been creating various multimedia projects ever since. Ani has been in the entertainment industry for over 30 years, starting her career out and continuing as a musician and vocalist.
MUSIC
Ani Kyd has been a member of the Alternative Tentacles roster since 2005 and in 2016 she became Ani Kyd Wolf.
She started out in the 1990’s as the fierce lead singer for the punk band Rumble Fish, then guitarist and vocalist for the grunge style female fronted group Spank Machine with Gerry Jenn Wilson. Ani has played in various bands in the Vancouver area for over 30 year and in that time has played with some incredible musicians along the way, Gene Hoglan, Byron Stroud, Brian Goble, John Card and so many more.
Ani played guitar for THOR in the early 2000’s and is on THOR’s 2003 album “Triumphant” as well as being in many of THOR’s videos.
She has sung back up vocals on a Jello Biafra album or two and in 2005 she released her first album on Alternative Tentacles called “Evil Needs Candy Too”. She then released two more albums “Past Demons” in 2011 and “ Entangle” in 2014. On Aug 15th 2023 A.T. released Ani’s fourth album, the 30 year old recording of Spank Machine “ Spank You Very Much”. This was a tribute album to the late Gerry Jenn Wilson. “The Last Steps of Man-Un-Kind” is Ani’s 5th album on A.T. This powerful album was co-written and co-produced by the diverse and talented Marc L’Esperance. Many great guest musicians including Canadian bass guitar legend Don Binns and award winning indigenous singer Sandy Scofield grace this album.
In April of 2023 Ani was invited to play acoustic guitar for Ministry on the Ministry / Gary Numan / Front Line Assembly tour. Ani’s other projects include BOOTS with Al Jourgensen and Royal Strays with Don Binns and Don Short produced by Dave Ogilvie.
VISUAL MEDIA
Since creating her film production company Sugar Skull Films in 2010, Ani Has created music videos, series concept reels, pilot episodes and short films. She received a shout out in Rolling Stone Magazine for her work on the Jello Biafra videos in 2022.
As a Producer she has a keen eye for successful content and a huge network of contacts. August 2020 she was a producer on the biopic drama “THE SILENT NATURAL” with director DAVID RISOTTO. As a consulting producer she continues to move talented content creators closer to their goals on multiple projects by connecting the dots and creating bridges for them with distribution and development services. As an Executive Producer she has developed content with AARON NORRIS, SHEREE J WILSON, TIM RUSS, JOHN A RUSSO, JELLO BIAFRA and many more. In 2024 she was an Executive Producer on the western feature THE NIGHT THEY CAME HOME written by John Russo and distributed by Lionsgate.
In 2023 Ani helped create Jello Biafra's podcast "Renegade Round Table" with co-producerAnne Marie Anderson.
As a director she has directed dozens of music videos, TV / series pilots, episodes and shorts films. Some Industry professionals have stated that Ani’s unique vision draws from a diverse palette from multiple platforms of the music and entertainment industries, giving her a perspective rare to come by. Ani’s hard tenacious work ethic, depth of knowledge and strong female perspective makes her work as a Director invaluable to a project.
In 2024 Ani directed, produced and edited award nominated music videos for Stephen Hamm, Art Bergmann and Joy Thieves.
Marc L'Esperance
Photo by Marc L'Esperance
Marc L’Esperance is a Vancouver multi-instrumentalist, producer, engineer and photographer.
With a career spanning 30+ years in the Vancouver original music scene his list of production and performing credits is extensive, crossing multiple genres. Some artists with whom he’s collaborated in the studio include Cuddle-Core trailblazers Cub, Western Swing masters Ray Condo & The Ricochets, the inveterate and beloved Nomeansno (as well as NMN offshoots The Hanson Brothers and The Show Business Giants), Chamber Punk pioneers Submission Hold, Art-pop treasure Veda Hille, Paul Pigat, The Deadcats, Po’ Girl (with Alison Russell), Juno award winner Alpha Yaya Diallo, Robert Sarazin Blake, Jesse Waldman, Ani Kyd Wolf and many many more.
Marc grew up in Victoria BC and from grade 5 to grade 10 was able to study the violin in the public school system. Self taught on electric guitar starting in 1983 he formed his first original music band ambitiously called We Don’t Do Much in 1984 with Chris Buck, bass (later of Shovlhead) and Ken Kempster, drums (later of Shovlhead, Nomeansno, Show Business Giants). All three were very new at their chosen instruments but they were inspired by the music and energy of the numerous all-ages punk shows that were regularly presented in Victoria. Seeing local bands The Neos, Dayglo Abortions, Red Tide, Nomeansno, Jerk Ward and out of town bands like The Subhumans, Really Red, The Avengers, Black Flag, Meat Puppets, Dead Kennedys, DOA etc etc etc stoked the flame of creativity and inspired their drive to play music. We Don’t Do Much did a number of shows around Victoria from 1984-1985 playing their original music all written by Marc. Unusually, an instrumental punk trio, they did perform a few shows with on-the-spot improvised vocals from Michael Thorne (later of Sludge Confrontations). Cassettes of WDDM basement rehearsals that Marc recorded with 2 mics were passed around the scene, but sadly they never released anything officially, thus living up to their name.
His next band, 5 On A Date were booked many times at the popular music club Harpos and opened for notable out of town acts (like DOA, Art Bergman & Poisoned, The Animal Slaves to mention a few), and put out a couple cassette releases (as was the custom at the time) selling them in local record shops. Sales fully skyrocketed into the many dozens of copies. The first effort was a Tascam 4 track production resulting in a cassette EP but the sessions for the second full length release gave Marc his first taste of working in a real studio. The band socked away all their opening spot pay from the numerous Harpos gigs to fund some proper recording sessions at local studio Downtown Sound. That cassette release and the experience of mixing the songs helped Marc get in the door as an intern at famed Vancouver recording studio Profile in 1988 after he left Victoria for the big city early that year. By 1989 he was working as a second engineer at Mushroom Studio and a few years after that was chief engineer at Lemonloaf Studio, where he engineered for many of the great bands previously mentioned above from 1993-2001.
Marc launched his own studio in 2001 and is now on studio version 4 having been renovicted (an all too common Vancouver experience) 3 times since the first iteration. Since then he’s also made a name for himself as a versatile drummer and studio multi-instrumentalist. He’s toured with many bands as a musician and as a FOH mixing engineer and these adventures have taken him across Canada and through Europe, the UK, Ireland and the USA.
In 1994 Marc met Ani Kyd Wolf through working with Vancouver’s heaviest band at the time, Tankhog and she encouraged him to pick up his electric guitar again (having put it aside for a few years to focus on playing the tenor saxophone) They quickly banged out a couple of fun songs for the band she had at that time, but a bit later they wrote many more serious efforts for the group Ani Kyd and Her Band of Champions which was active from 1995-1999. Some great players were in that band including Jimmy Sigmund and Brian (Wimpy Roy) Goble on bass, and punk drumming legend Jon Card . Some of the songs they wrote were released on Ani’s first Alternative Tentacles release “Evil Needs Candy Too” (2005). They next collaborated in 2013 when they combined Marc’s music and Ani’s vocal powers on the track ‘Put The Lies Away’ for the Entangle EP, also released through AT. This recent collaboration was sparked early in 2022 when Ani suggested to Marc that he should write some material for them to start a new project and a few months later a burst of creativity resulted in the riffs that were the foundation of the 14 track album ‘The Last Steps Of Man Unkind’. It’s worth noting that the opening guitar riff used in the song ‘Put The Gun Down’ was stolen from a We Don’t Do Much composition Marc wrote in 1985! He continues to operate Heavyosonic World Headquarters and perform live and on recordings with Jesse Waldman and the Stephen Nikleva Band.
Ani Kyd Wolf's message about the album
I am honoured and proud to have created this beautiful and thought-provoking album with my good friend and writing partner Marc L’Esperance. In the 30 years that we have known each other we have experienced many up’s and down’s in life that have helped us grow as friends and songwriters.
For this album we weaved different emotions through powerful music and lyrics. We spent over two years piecing the perfect elements together that reflected how we felt about each song. Marc spent priceless time and energy building the sound and giving these tunes life before releasing them to you. Another dream of mine came true during the making of this album. I got to work with my favourite bass player
of all time, Don Binns. Don has a powerful and unique style that I have loved for over 30 years. Having him be a part of this album and these songs gave the music a quality that I could only have wished for in the past.
We are also grateful to have received some invaluable contributions from some talented musician friends who really added to the depth of the recordings: Stephen Hamm’s piano/organ/synth sounds, Terry Russell’s power drums, Peggy Lee’s brilliant cello, Jesse Kyd’s precise metal drumming, Toby Dika’s punk trumpet, Jello Biafra’s evangelist rant, and the spine-chilling vocals of Sandy Scofield.
The lyrics on the album are my expression of what I see and feel. As I watch society and watch how people hide behind their computers/phones, developing opinions and points of view based on misinformation, I watch the divide in human kind grow bigger and more angry. I see war used as a marketing tool. I see tailor-made newsfeeds geared towards the vulnerable and under-educated. The pain and suffering of the world used to push a political agenda. The masses scrolling through mindless social media platforms because reality is too much for anyone to bear. Buy, buy, sell, sell — sandwiched between those perfectly adjusted news headlines; the articles molded to make the viewer react. I watch the world fight over whose god is more powerful.
Love is a beautiful thing, but religion destroys minds. It strips away humanity with rules that separate
us. God is sold as a product to keep people in fear, not as a vehicle for love. These are my views on war, organized religion, and the con-artists that sell it. This is what I see as I lose my mind watching the world destroy itself.
I feel that we are in the final stages of human life on this planet, the last steps of mankind. And I feel that the reason we are headed there is because man is unkind: unkind to the planet, unkind to each other, unkind in general. These are the last steps of man-unkind.
Review by By Erica Ostrowidzki PhD English Literature (McGill University)
With the release of her new album, The Last Steps of Man—Unkind, Ani Kyd Wolf taps into the contemporary apocalyptic zeitgeist of our times. In collaboration with her writing partner, Marc L’Esperance, Ani and Marc have produced 14 songs that are bound to produce a visceral, gutreaction. The lyrics are original and evocative like the best poetry and will surely resonate
with listeners. By turns, the tone of the album is dark and ominous (“War” and “The Last Steps of Mankind”) and hyper and frenetic (“I Am an Evangelist” and “Cyanide), which capture the feeling of angst as we pass a turning point in history.
It is tempting to call the album a political album, for the album is an eloquent indictment of our times by treating such themes as war, gun violence, the current ecological holocaust, sham posterity preachers, narcissistic lying politicians (Trump?), the violence of America, etc. Yet the album also includes an array of other songs, some of which might be termed “love songs,” yet it is a powerful kick-in-the stomach kind of love, such as “Cyanide” and “Broken Hero,” the latter speaking of the tragic circumstances of loving a partner who’s addicted. While it is difficult to categorize any song as occupying a single defining genre, the song “What If” possesses the elements of a love song that recall the resilience and survival
of a love which endures throughout the years. Other songs strike a different note, such as “Movie Monsters” which evokes the pop cultural archetype of an axe-wielding killer that bespeaks of a fear that is terrifying yet seductive. To add
to the diversity of themes, the song “Sickness” testifies to the harrowing experience of addiction.
The shade of Marilyn Manson appears in the album yet in a nonimitative way, for Ani’s powerful vocals and lyrics express the moral,
as expressed in “Us Sinners,” and political concerns of our times just as Manson expressed the nihilism of an earlier age. As well, the music on the album contains a subversive edge and emotional nitro-glycerin that will appeal to
those who need more than the sterile anodyne
of commercial culture and the nauseating pablum of pop music. The music brings to the foreground Don Binns consummate bass playing, which functions as the strong central vertebrae in each song, and Ani’s voice that is a flexible instrument capable of hitting those raunchy grinding notes as well as reaching higher melodic
regions of music characteristic of a classically trained voice. In “Us Sinners,” Ani belts out the bluesy song with her deep basso voice to the accompaniment of a classical hard rock guitar and wailing of a harmonica; in “America,” Ani sings a ballsout “elegiac” song about the gun violence overrunning the country.
Along with the fluency and versatility of
the musical composition of each song, Ani demonstrates her remarkable vocal range in “The Flowers Are On Fire and “Put the Gun Down.” Interwoven throughout the heart-thumping
beats and melodic structure of the music are the instrumentals performed by other notable artists, such as the virtuoso harmonica performance by Marc L’Esperance in “Us Sinners,” the plaintive violins played by Marc L’Esperance in “What If,” the jazzy trumpet section performed by Toby Dika in “I Am an Evangelist,” the drums played
by Jesse Kyd that drive up the frantic tempo in “Cyanide,” and the synth played by the inimitable Stephen Hamm in “Put the Gun Down.” Adding their own special magic to the album, Jello
Biafra, as the Evangelist, injects his unique and adrenaline-driven mania into “I Am an Evangelist” by singing the background vocals, whereas Sandy Scofield plays the hand drum and performs the background vocals in “Highway of Tears” which
is a soulful and haunting lamentation that drives home the message of the song; and, appearing regularly throughout the album as guitarist and vocalist, Marc L’Esperance lends his voice to
sing the always on-point background vocals
in “The Last Steps of Mankind,” “Wildcard,” “Sickness,” “I Am an Evangelist,” and “Cyanide.” As the last song on the album, the powerhouse song “Highway of Tears” might be said to be the signature song that laments the murdered and missing Indigenous women who have tragically vanished on the infamous “Highway of Tears” in British Columbia, which is encapsulated in the line repeated in the chorus: “Never to be seen again.”
“The Last Steps of Man—Unkind” is an often musically nuanced album, and therefore warrants careful attention to each one of its parts, but
the rewards are great for the avid listener. All
in all, The Last Steps of Man—Unkind is a timely album whose urgent message invites the listener to share in the roller-coaster ride of emotions inspired by our contemporary era and gives voice to what many of us may feel but have not expressed.
Review by Jason Pettigrew - Freelance Journalist former Editor-in-Chief of Alternative Press Mag.
Ani Kyd Wolf's The Last Steps Of Man-Un-Kind is completely driven by attitude. What's key is that she avoids a lot of the tired feminine tropes—coquette pop, tough metal-bitch posturing, blues-wailing mama—to deliver songs with both brazen authority and controlled seething, all while remaining accessible. More than just a vocalist, Wolf is a bona fide harbinger of things to come—sonically and politically. Expect your consciousness to be rocked. And rattled.”
album lyrics and credits
WAR
The Last Steps of Man Unkind
War we see it but on the social mania
War we feel it but only through the media
War we live it but through a glass square cage War we build it on the backs of poor we enslave This is war the chess game
Lives devoured and nothing will ever be the same War we drive it through the black gold we crave War we need it to build the fear and keep us slaves War for fuel, war for power, so many graves
War we see it but on the social mania
Yes it’s war
And they all died
Go back inside and hide behind your device
Take my advice don’t think twice
because war is not very nice
Here we are in the same place
Years don’t matter we are still here
We will never be free until we learn to agree
Sadly it’s too late
Click, like, subscribe, click, like
War we drive it home in a body bag
War ships leave the docks with lowered flags
Yes it’s war
Set aside all that you love
Plug yourself into the abiss with nothing to risk Take a side and root for your favourite lie
Ani Kyd Wolf - vocals
Marc L’Esperance - guitars, drums
Don Binns - bass
The Last Steps of Man Unkind
The Last Steps of Man Unkind
The straw that broke the camel’s back
Broke it so long ago
Greed rules the things we must face
With sad days right ahead
Is there time for the human race
Darkness covers (x4)
As we take these steps
The last steps of mankind
To a future we are blind
To a future we are blind
These are the last steps of mankind
These are the last steps of mankind
Fools run the world
Playing games with our lives
Corporate seeds of sick demands
With their evil plans
Darkness covers (x4)
As we take these steps
The last steps of mankind
To a future we are blind
To a future we are blind
These are the last steps of mankind
These are the last steps of mankind
Ani Kyd Wolf - vocals
Marc L’Esperance - guitars, drums,
backing vocals
Don Binns - bass
Wildcard
Won’t you watch me as I ride through time Yes I love you but only on your dime
You the people
Left with all my crimes
Someone warned you
But I am gone before you find them out Narcissistic wildcard
Gaslight the way
Follow me, lead the sheep away
From anything you say
This is a righteous law
Help me help you let me show you
Help me help you I will show you
Watch me as I destroy your mind
It’s the same thing that happens every time
I convince you of all my pretty lies
Then you trust me
But it’s only your demise
Narcissistic wildcard
Gaslight the way
Follow me lead the sheep away
From anything you say
Help me help you let me show you
Help me help you i will show you
Help me help you let me show you
Help me help you i will show you
Ani Kyd Wolf - vocals
Marc L’Esperance - guitars, drums,
backing vocals
Don Binns - bass
The Flowers are On Fire
Not away in a distant land not so far away
Shadows of our former selves as we keep the burning at bay While we watch in disbelief as the oceans warm away
The flowers are on fire / The flowers are on fire
The forest is on fire with heat that could melt the stones
The moon cries as she watches us
Desert flowers burn in the heat
As the desert grows to devour us
where the warming oceans meet
The flowers are on fire / The flowers are on fire
The forest is on fire with heat that would melt the stones With heat that would melt the stones
With heat that would melt the stones
Rising sea levels, warming oceans, melting glaciers
and heat waves that devour us
Not an ancent time when the air we breathed was pure Greed creates a thick film in our lungs
that we simply can’t endure
Toxic water klling us
Who can we trust
The flowers are on fire / The flowers are on fire
The forest is on fire with heat that would melt the stones Forever poison in our veins, plastic will be our legacy Lasting till the end of time
But who can we trust
The flowers are on fire / The flowers are on fire
The forest is on fire with heat that would melt the stones With heat that would melt the stones
With heat that would melt the stones
Rising sea levels, warming oceans, melting glaciers
and heat waves that devour us
Ani Kyd Wolf - vocals
Marc L’Esperance - guitars, drums,
backing vocals
Don Binns - bass
Greta Thumberg - samples
Put the Gun Down
God doesn’t give you the right to bear arms and fight Against who ever you like God doesn’t make it right
Put the gun down / put the gun down Put the gun down / put the gun down
No one should be afraid
of another’s deadly rage
Children should be safe
not lifeless and wounded
Bodies drenched in blood
on the school room floor
Destruction of life and so much more Mama don’t cry fight back, fight back Mama don’t cry fight back, fight back
Put the gun down / put the gun down Put the gun down / put the gun down
In the good old U S of A
Where it’s still too dangerous to be gay Thousands die of gun violence
Your laws aren’t heaven sent
Put the gun down / put the gun down Put the gun down / put the gun down
Ani Kyd Wolf - vocals
Marc L’Esperance - guitars, drums, moog
Don Binns - bass
Stephen Hamm - synth
Broken Hero
Kiss kiss kiss it all better
Live live live at your own risk
Life life life goes on
Love love love no one knows what it is You can run your life late
Push the edge and test your fate
You can run your life amuck
You can be the one I fuck
You can be my not-so-super not-so-action broken hero
Broken hero
Kiss kiss kiss it all better
Live live life at your own risk
Life life life goes on
Love love no one knows what it is
You can be my sick man,
you can be my druggie with a plan
We can live our life destitute
Beg for change, beg for food
You can be my worst nightmare,
you can show me that life’s not fair Kiss kiss kiss it all better (x4)
I can watch you waste away
What a shame some will say
You can be my biggest regret
Sit and wish we never met
Be my not-so-super
not-so-action broken hero
Ani Kyd Wolf - vocals, guitar solo
Marc L’Esperance - guitars
Don Binns - bass
Terry Russell- drums
Us Sinners
Lord have mercy on my soul
I’ve been down this road way too many times
She hides her bottle in a brown paper bag
Waves of guilt at the bottom of each sip
Once she cried tears of joy
Now she can’t remember when
Have mercy on us sinners have mercy on us now (x4)
There’s no redemption for sinners like us
He searches through the garbage can
For last night’s bad dream
Showers off that damaged body
A dirt that just won’t come clean
The lady at the sunday service
Who wears the tight dresses
To catch the preacher’s eye
Believers who shed a fake tear
Pushing their beliefs out of fear
Have mercy on us sinners have mercy on us now (x4)
Theres no redemption for sinners like us
Ani Kyd Wolf - vocals
Marc L’Esperance - guitars, drums, sax,
harmonica, backing vocals
Don Binns - bass
Stephen Hamm - piano, organ
Toby Dika - trumpet
Sickness
I am no stranger to you, sickness
Your smile deep within
Your sweet taste
You pull me near, sickness
After our time
I cannot face the world
Nothing is mine
Itching scratching demons
Trying to break free
Obsession takes me
Habits won’t let me be
Sickness lays beneath the surface
like a demon
Waiting to break the skin
You pull me near
Empty sadness
A sleepless place I dwell
Created storm I face
Down a bitter well
Itching scratching demons
Trying to break free
Obsession takes me
Habits won’t let me be
Itching scratching demons
Trying to break free
Obsession takes me
Habits won’t let me be
Ani Kyd Wolf - vocals
Marc L’Esperance - guitars, violins,
backing vocals
Don Binns - bass
Terry Russell - drums Peggy lee - cello
I am an Evangelist
I am an Evangelist
God is just a marketing tool / watch me as I fool his people As they flock together / capture them with the word
I can do no wrong
Come closer, hands on your TV, buy salvation through me I am an evangelist / you are on my list
I am an evangelist / you are on my list
To profit from
Buy me a jet soIi can fly free / no taxes to hold me back
My church is gold / my soul is sold but not to god
Sip the wine, eat the bread, but you will never know what’s in my head Fool you until I am dead
I am an evangelist / you are on my list
I am an evangelist / you are on my list
To profit from
Are you lonely? Depressed? Crushed under mountains of debt?
Well give everything you have left to me
Shiny gold, slicked-back hair, smile so wide
Big white teeth to bare, millions to hide
Fly my jet to salvation, oh yes I’ve lied
I am an evangelist / you are on my list
I am an evangelist / you are on my list
To profit from
Can you feel that power? Can you feel that divine light?
I can feel your hands reaching in for yhose credit cards
If you have forty dollars I know you got four hundred dollars
If you got four hundred dollars I know you got four thousand dollars And we need all of you to put down ten thousand dollars
And you will be saved from witchcraft, homosexuality
We have to save our schools from people learning anything
We have to save people from becoming so smart
that they won’t give their money to me
I am an evangelist / you are on my list
I am an evangelist / you are on my list
Ani Kyd Wolf - vocals
Marc L’Esperance - guitars, drums, sax,backing vocals
Don Binns - bass
Stephen Hamm - piano, organ Jello Biafra - evangelist
Toby Dika - trumpet
America
Movie Monsters
I am an Evangelist
Because the colour of his skin would decide If he was to live or was to die
School books and a bullet proof vest
Shots fired and you know the rest
No one is bullet proof
We’re all living in a meat suit
America America America
Shots fired and you know the rest
No one is bullet proof
We’re all living in a meat suit
Unarmed shattered youth
Not one of us is bullet proof
America America
Shots fired and you know the rest
No one is bullet proof
We’re all living in a meat suit
America America America America
Ani Kyd Wolf - vocals
Marc L’Esperance - guitars, drums
Don Binns - bass
Cyanide
Movie Monsters
Movie Monsters
The poison of your rotting mind
Seeps in my eyes and makes me blind
The kiss of your vicious lips
Takes me down, my heart it rips
And not by rabid dogs I feel devoured
but by my love for you
Pain I empower
Twisted sick love / twisted sick love
The loathing of your toxic heart
Divinely elegant and ripped apart
And not by rabid dogs I feel devoured,
but by my love for you
Pain I empower
Worlds divide / worlds collide
You’re a lie twisted inside
Cyanide cyanide
Cyanide cyanide cyanide / dead inside cyanide And not by rabid dogs I feel devoured,
but by my love for you
Pain I empower
And not by rabid dogs I feel devoured,
but by my love for you
Pain I empower
Cyanide cyanide cyanide / dead inside cyanide The poison of your rotting mind
Seeps in my eyes and makes me blind
And not by rabid dogs I feel devoured,
but by my love for you
Pain I empower
Ani Kyd Wolf - vocals
Marc L’Esperance - guitars, bass, backing vocals
Jesse Kyd - drums (recorded at Lambert
Studios by Jason Hamilton in Belleville, ON)
Movie Monsters
Movie Monsters
Movie Monsters
They say that movie monsters don’t scare me anymore Not werewolves or skulls beneth the cracks in my floor Scary monsters can’t harm me anymore
Cause I left for dead the mummy that left holes in my door Who is the one that swings the axe
Who is the one that swings the axe
Who is the one that swings the axe
It’s me, yeah me, it’s me
The blood that flows through my heart is cold Don’t eat my flesh it tastes like sin
I have become your worst fear again Can’t bite me, i am already dead inside Who is the one that swings the axe Who is the one that swings the axe Who is the one that swings the axe
It’s me, I am the fear you see
It’s me, I am the fear you see
It’s me, I am the fear you see
It’s me, I am the fear you see
Who is the one that swings the axe (x3)
Ani Kyd Wolf - vocals
Marc L’Esperance - guitars, drums, vocals
Don Binns - bass
What If
Highway of Tears
Highway of Tears
Heal our shattered bones together and our souls
Time passes, my love, and I am still here
As time ages our bodies and I am still here
I am still right here
Your smile has a few more cracks in the paint
But the light shines through
A whisper from the past colours your hair grey
I am here, I am here to stay in some way
I am here, I am here to stay in some way
Those lips have told me you love me
So many times, so many times before
Those eyes still look the same to me You are still you to me
A whisper from the past colours your hair grey
What if? What if? What if? What if? — We built that dream What if? What if? What if? What if? — We built that life What if? What if? What if? What if? — What if we did What if? What if? What if? What if? — What if?
A sip from your cup of time
As my strength slips away
But I hold you the same as I ever did
I am here to stay
In every way, my love
Your smile has a few more cracks in the paint
But the light shines through
A whisper from the past colours your hair grey
Ani Kyd Wolf - vocals
Marc L’Esperance - guitars, violins,bass drum, vocals
Highway of Tears
Highway of Tears
Highway of Tears
She says goodbye to her baby girl
As she walks away down a highway
Full of tears rivers soaked in blood
Now she fights for rights that should just be
Never had a chance
Drenched in violence
Life discarded
Now a ghost in a horrible dance
Never to be seen again
Never to be seen again
Never to be seen again
Never to be seen
Never to be seen again
Young but her innocence was taken away
Last seen on that highway
So many gone, many lives lost
Now all in a dance for a ghost
Never to be seen again
Never to be seen again
Never to be seen again
Never to be seen
Never to be seen
Never to be seen again
Ani Kyd Wolf - vocals
Marc L’Esperance - guitars, drums, violins.
Don Binns - bass
Sandy Scofield - vocals and hand drum.