Pavement Graves from Enemies EP by Father of Lies

If you thought we'd gone full Iommi mode with Sleepwalking then Pavement Graves will slap you back to reality like a dip in a frozen lake

Originally this track was going to be called Wolves and Elements and lyrically it pulls no punches, it lays bare the violent neglect underpinning Britain’s homelessness crisis. a stark portrait of lives erased by cold, austerity, and public indifference.

Homelessness isn’t an inevitability—it’s policy failure, Dead bodies on our streets aren’t just statistics—they’re people with histories and ties that were stripped from them by successive governmental polices more obsessed with punishment than prevention Every one of these deaths is preventable. If you can walk past a body on the street and feel nothing, that’s the real sickness.

This song is for the lost, but it’s also a battle cry for the living: we either look after each other, or we rot together

Tracklist

2.	Pavement Graves	4:15

Lyrics

Sleeping in a doorway out in the cold No real of growing old
Branded a burden, exiled from sight, still blamed for their blight
Failed by silence, eaten by frost another name another lost
Another person dies on our streets
Just another dead body. human meat

It's happening right in front of your eyes. j
Just another failed future. when somebody dies
In the abyss of our society this could be you this could be me
Somebody's father. somebody's son
Somebody's daughter someones mum
somebody's first love. somebody's friend.
That's no way for a life to end
Just another person left to bleed
Just another dead body this city won't heed
fallen through the cracks of a cruel design.
they could be your they could be mine

Systemic support no longer there
A broken system that doesn't care
Failed by the government
left to fight the wolves and elements
Cycle of abuse Amped up to ten
No surprise that it starts again
Human parasites they bleach and drain
Blame the victim deny the pain

Just 2 pay checks from the gutter
2 paycheques from the street
Erased from public consensus
but never from our grief
Can't blame decisions when options are few
when life's rigged what can you do
When your stripped of power robbed of voice
this was never a lifestyle choice
No wonder you numb what feel inside
there's no shame in needing a place to hide
No wonder you need to make your feeling s dull.
No wonder you want to get out of your skull

in this world of neon and chrome
we live in the cracks this is our home
The only heart is the streetlamp that flicker and fail
We're wrapped up in old headlines we're coughing up hail
devoured by silence beaten by the frost
We don't have a name we're just another loss
We are the dust in your mirrorless home
As you walk on by scrolling on your phone

No fixed abode no hunger of rain
Our resident postcode of pain
We are your ghosts we curse your name
Another body rotting in the rain
Pavement graves unmarked unseen
Pavemnet graves silent screams
Pavement graves beneath your feet
Pavement graves where us outcasts sleep

Credits

from Enemies EP, released December 5, 2025
Sid - vocals
Jonolithic -guitar
Denn Fett -Bass
Toby -Drums ,

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