Track By Tracks: The Promise Of Plague - The Earth Above A Grave Beneath (2025)

1. Vomit Running Through My Veins:

This song is about identity collapse. The lyrics frame depression as a physical infestation rather than a psychological one. The song’s emotional core is the tension between self-hatred and the illusion of happiness. The implication is that every moment is a lie. It's the sound of someone that only exists through collapse.

2. Dead Mistake:

This track confronts the suffocating weight of failure and the people who revel in those failures. The “old crime” and “dead mistakes” symbolize mistakes long buried but constantly exhumed. It examines those brief moments of compassion, pushing the idea of resilience even as it is rejected. The song becomes a fight between the desire to move forward and the shackling chains of the past.

3. One Line Poem:

This song is about the annihilation of self-worth. Hollow mornings, a world dead, the slow march through a life that feels already over. It's about walking alone, convinced you’ve never truly lived, moving toward your “grave” as if life itself has been a prolonged, pointless delay. It implies that emotional invalidation can be as destructive as physical harm, leaving a permanent hole in the self that cannot be filled.

4. The Earth Above, a Grave Beneath:

Is about existential erasure. It’s about being surrounded by a world stripped of meaning. Everything is framed as decay. The title "the earth above, a grave beneath” suggests being trapped between two forms of death: physical collapse and the inner collapse of identity, severing any sense of agency. The implication is that this isn’t just suffering; it’s the feeling of being extinct while alive, reduced to an “empty ghost” whose dreams have no place in the world.

5. My World Is Better, Darker:

This song is an embrace of self-punishment and emotional retreat. It’s the belief that you deserve this suffering. It’s about seeing the “darker world” as a more fitting home than any attempt at healing. The sunset becomes a symbol of surrender, not closure. There’s a memory of being someone of worth, but that version is gone, replaced by a cold, empty shell. The implication is that despair can feel safer than hope; It’s someone who rejects rescue, convinced that leaving everything behind is the only honest path. It’s self-exile.

6. Of Sorrow:

This is a portrait of self-condemnation set in a world where everything, hope, dreams, identity, has turned to dust. A symbolic graveyard of failed hopes, walking on “broken glass” while carrying the weight of the past and the chains of doubt. Every metaphor reinforces a single idea: they exist, but life has already ended for them. Nature itself mirrors the decay: withered leaves, dying trees, frozen suns. Internal collapse has become the entire environment; sorrow isn’t an emotion but a habitat. A ghost in a dead world, trapped indefinitely in a life void of possibility.