Behold! The City

Spirit Filled Hardcore band from Canada

Lyrics for “SEEKERS

LYRICS

RESUSCITATE

May my life justify your death, I want to sing but I have no breath.

I’ve run out of metaphors for this destruction, there’s only symptoms of disease. A rotting heart bleeds with toxins, slowly and surely killing me.

Well every breath that I take, I suffocate a little more. And every step that I take seems to the grave, I know what is in store.

I deserve those flames that you burned in. I sent you to your death, and you went smiling.

There are no more substitutes, for this medication, just duplicates of release. An open heart ready for reconstruction, so reach your way in and rescue me.

I need to be set free, because I am drowning, I can’t find the surface, rescue me.

Resuscitate me, open my lungs, I will breathe again, I will breathe again.

DEAD FUTURE

There comes a time, in every man’s life, when he decides, to kill his dreams or keep them alive.

If home is where the heart is, then my heart is out at sea, being tossed from wave to wave, I hope it will drift back to me.

There is a choke, at the top of my throat, where the truth wants to be said, but I’m too scared to speak.

Don’t let your heart be troubled, believe in me.

You say I’m destined for greatness, from what is see I’m not even good. I didn’t think I could ever doubt this, but now I know that I never should.

If home is where the heart is, then my heart is out at sea, being tossed from wave to wave, I hope it will drift back to me.

I waste so much time here, doing the things that get me nowhere. I have a lot to do, and a lot to prove, with more than apathy to lose.

MEMENTO MORI

When I look into your eyes, all I fear inside of me will show itself to you. I just need a little time, to put myself together, and do what’s best for you.

I never thought I’d see the day, where I don’t see you around, I hope that when you see me, from way up there, that I make you proud.

Remnants of history dissolving before my eyes, pieces of so much that once defined a life.

I hope that I’m doing as good a job as you thought I would, but I know that I still have a lot to learn.

I have a lot to learn (You know I have a lot to learn, but I have to start somewhere.)

When I look into your eyes, all I fear inside of me will show itself to you. I just need a little time, to put myself together, and do what’s best for you.

I don’t know.

I will not waste one second more, I refuse to live for myself, I will live with grace in mind, I will make use of this place in time, I will live for other people, I will not waste one second more, because life is too precious to lose, from here on out, I will live for truth.

I won’t waste one second more, I refuse to live for myself, I will live with grace in mind, I will make use of this place in time.

But I have a lot to learn. (Because this life is too precious to lose, from here on out I will live for truth.)

GRAVE ROBBERS

When I die, they will look for me in my grave, but won’t find me there.

When I die, they will place a stone above my head but I won’t care.

I will not, rot or decay, I will spend forever with the king of kings, and they might think I’ve gone, and death will take my body, but one thing is for sure, I will have life.

Death has no power over me.

Because my king already died. He was beaten, he bled, and was crucified.

Don’t look for me in my grave, cause you won’t find me there. I will never die.

RADICALS

We will not suffer from modesty.

Look into our eyes and you’ll see a fire, listen to our hearts and you’ll hear passion screaming. Can you hear our hearts screaming? Our hearts are screaming.

We will not fall like they fall around us; we will not fall subject to corruption. We will stand above the rest. Society doesn’t want us, and we don’t want it.

This is a revolution, this is re-constitution, this is a sovereignty, this is a prophecy.

Look into our eyes and you’ll see a fire, listen to our hearts and you’ll hear passion screaming. Can you hear our hearts screaming? Our hearts are screaming.

THE VIGILANT FEW

You can trust in us to be standing in the gap.

When all else is failing and the world is falling around youlook to us to be standing for the broken.

I don’t think that you see what exactly you’ve been made to be. We are all guardians and we will fight to defend this generation.

We will not face this alone.

We are the ones, the children of light, we do not fear death and we thrive in the night. We are the ones who your monsters fear. Their blood spills when we draw near. When we draw near, their blood spills

We are not built on struggle, we are built on victory.

So stand with us if you want to change the world, cause we will stand when there is no one else. We are the vigilant, the vigilant few.

SARAH’S SONG

She enters the room, and feels all their eyes falling on her, remembering the mistakes she’s made, creating a person that she hates. She hates herself, because they hate her.

She sees the other girls. If only she had their figure, if only she had their words.

Then life wouldn’t be so bad. Then she wouldn’t feel alone. But she’s the one who made the bed, she’s the one who dug the hole.

So she dreams, about a place far off, a different town with different friends. She swears to herself that she could make the right impressions, if she could start again.

But she doesn’t know:

She doesn’t know, that there is one out there who sees her beautiful.

She doesn’t know that there are eyes that don’t search for her skin.

If only, her eyes were bluer, if only, her stomach was flatter, if only, her legs were longer, if only, she could be stronger. She wants to be stronger.

Don’t settle for nothing, you can have everything. You can have it all.

FOR THE SEEKERS

Come home to me and be satisfied.

Come home to me and you’ll be fine.

Can’t you see all of my pain and all of my struggles God?

Allelujah


Winter tour with Corpus Christi and Conquerors

We’re really excited to announce that this December-January we’ll be on the APOCALYPTOUR with Corpus Christi (Victory Records) and Conquerors across USA and Canada!

Dates:

December 26th - Terre Haute, IN — THMV
December 27th - Indianapolis, IN — The Hoosier Dome
December 28th - Fort Wayne, IN — Broadripple
December 29th - Goshen, IN — The Note Venue
December 30th - Steger, IL — Another Hole In The Wall
December 31st - Kalkaska, MI — Kalkaska Civic Center
January 1st - Detroit, MI — The Rack & Roll
January 2nd - London, ON — TBA
January 3rd - Peterborough,ON — TBA Venue
January 4th - Toronto, ON — TBA
January 5th - Buffalo, NY — Broadway Joe’s
January 6th - Canton, OH — The Auricle
January 7th - Columbus OH — Crossroads Church
January 8th - Newport, KY — Thompson House 

Single. Album. Tours.

Hey everyone!

Since the last time we updated this a lot of new and exciting things have happened!

1) We recorded our full length record in Rockford, IL! Later this summer it will be released through Red Cord Records!
We’re super stoked on how the record is turning out and cannot wait for you to hear it!

2) Our single “Memento Mori” drops June 1st! Visit www.facebook.com/beholdthecity for more details!

3) This summer we’ll be on a bunch of tours supporting this recorded as well as playing places we’ve never played before check it out!

Cross Canada tour with BATTLESHIP!

US tour with Inhale Exhale, Phinehas and Righteous Vendetta!

Please pray for safe travels and hopefully we’ll make it close to where you are!

God bless,

-Behold

PREDATOUR UPDATE

OK so im a few days late. I’ll try to give a quick recap. FIRST night was in toronto. We played at a venue called The Devil’s Cellar which was quite an interesting place. Stars and circles everywhere……. ;) anyway we had a great set, everyone had a good time, and someone bled on Corey’s case. cool.

Saturday night we played Air Raid 20 in Barrie. If you dont know what Air Raid is, its a huge christian rock/pop concert that the radio station Life 100.3 does every year. This year, we were asked to open which is sweet cause that means we were the heaviest band to ever play air raid.. and we generated a GREAT response! It was the biggest show we ever played! (400+ kids) We had a great time and were blessed with the opportunity to speak and pray with a bunch of different kids! 

Then we played in Brampton at the All Stars Bar and Grill with The Vegas Wake Up and others! It was really good show, we were probably the heaviest band present, but we still had a good time. After Brampton, we played peterborough. This was DEFINITELY the best show of the tour, everything just felt sooo good and we had an absolute blast!

Yesterday was a day off, which we spent sleeping, walking, doing laundry, and then we went and hungout in a jazz bar downtown Toronto. The musicians there completely blew us away. We met a subway musician who played us the spiderman theme song, which made me think i could run on the walls. I was wrong.

Tonight we play Oshawa! See you there!

Jake

UPDATE

WOW, we haven’t updated this thing in a while! If anyone even cares, here are some recent news.

1) We released our brand new single “The Vigilant Few”. So stoked on how it turned out! Thank you everyone for your kind words.
Link: http://youtu.be/_YPtl1tkEOM
Download it for FREE: http://www.mediafire.com/?8gi6gi59in33a9r

2) We’re planning on recording recording a full length record this spring. And unfortunately due to certain things, we need to come up with $1000 by January 31st! So if you would like to donate AND get free merch then you can do that here: http://www.gofundme.com/beholdthecity

3) NEW MERCH! We’re going to be printing lots of new stuff for you guys. Check it: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=332482960117370&set=a.181696321862702.44060.107463199286015&type=3&theater

4) We’ll be announcing a few tours shortly! Stay tuned here: www.facebook.com/beholdthecity

Thank you for all your support!

We love you,

-BTC

6 days

There is only 6 DAYS left until we release our single “The Vigilant Few”!
We absolutely cannot describe how stoked we are for you to hear this tune!
To record this this single we went back to Kent Sheehey who recorded our first EP “Kings & Cowards” that was released summer of 2011. This time we took our time to really polish every little detail. Anywhere from guitar tone to just listening to the mix for days on in our cars. We really wanted to make sure that it’s gonna be the best product that we could deliver as a band at this point. After the mix was done we sent it away for mastering to Troy Glessner who mastered albums for huge bands like: Underoath, August Burns Red, Norma Jean and many more.
Now there’s 6 days left until you’ll hear the final product.
Our upcoming full length album that will be released in 2012 is gonna have essential sound as “The Vigilant Few”. Hope you dig the direction that we’re going!

Love you all
And please spread the word

-Igor

“The Vigilant Few” event page

So as you probably already know we recorded a new song last month! This tune will appear on our full length album that’s coming out summer of 2012!
If you want to hear/download the song for free please attend the Facebook page event! Here it is: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=235035753226942

Please share this event page and add your friends to it!
We really appreciate all your support and love!

-BTC

Recording of our latest single

So last week we’ve been recording our latest single “The Vigilant Few” that will be on our newest full length record. We went back to producer Kent Sheehey for the 2nd time after recording our EP “Kings & Cowards”.
Knowing how recording works with past experience it allowed us lots of room to experiment with the sound. Spent hours on guitar tone, bass tone, vocals and etc. We’re super satisfied with the sound that came out in the end. In a lot of ways this song is 360 degrees the other way from what we’ve done before. With that said we are so excited to show this to you! Seriously you have no idea.
On December 24th we’re releasing this song for FREE download. So stay tuned and come out to a show to hear “The Vigilant Few” as well as other new songs.

Peace!

We are stoked to announce that on December 24th we’re releasing a brand new song “The Vigilant Few”. We are in the studio right now doing pre-production for our upcoming full length album! Everything so far is turning out so good! Get stoked :)

We are stoked to announce that on December 24th we’re releasing a brand new song “The Vigilant Few”. We are in the studio right now doing pre-production for our upcoming full length album! Everything so far is turning out so good! Get stoked :)