| "Hounds to Hamartia" | |
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| Song by Poets of the Fall | |
| from the album Jealous Gods | |
| Released | September 19, 2014 |
| Length | 5:06 |
| Label | Insomniac |
| BPM | 109 |
| Key | D |
| Producer(s) | Poets of the Fall |
Hounds to Hamartia is the eighth track on Poets of the Fall's 2014 sixth album Jealous Gods.
Lyrics
A single kiss for your treasure
There just left at your door
Life has shown you no pleasure before
Double cross for a symbol
Name your rosary beads
You will nurture the fable till it bleeds
Bleeds for your love
No more tragic love for sale in the crooked gallery
High on acid love gone stale seems like fantasy
Just like magic Hubris leads, leads its hounds, hounds to Hamartia
What you eclipse makes your measure
What you leave reaches for you in your stead
Taking flaws for a gamble to get ahead
No remorse for the trouble spread
In the revolution
No more tragic love for sale...
Hit or miss you'll be playing
Paying your dues cos you need the game all the same
Fame draws you like fireflies to the flame
Play all on red
No more tragic love for sale...
Trivia
- The word "hamartia" is spelled in numerical code on the front cover of Twilight Theater.
- As stated at the end of the track, the instrumental used in Hounds to Hamartia was originally from the first version of Late Goodbye, with Marko confirming in interview that there was also a third at-that-point unreleased version.
- The third version of the instrumental is suspected to have been used for Hello Cabaret due to heavy similarities and a line from Standstill: "Oh, the first hello. To the late goodbye"
- The line "No more tragic love for sale in the crooked gallery" may be a call-back to "The images they sell are illusion and dream" from Illusion & Dream.
- "Double cross for a symbol" carries a double meaning - betrayal over ideology, or a Cross of Lorraine.