Alll those failed attempts
Against reality's glare
Patience only gets one so far
We'll fail by design
With no lack ofmotive
Rising in vain
Against the same blank wall
Go release yourself
From the clutches of hope
And get locked up in the same old circle
Disintegrate
Disappear
Dissipate
You were just a shadow of your past
Incinerate
Emulate
Elevate
You're starting to care less with every chance
I'm ready now to accept my fate
And bleed the tears I'll never understand
Arm your words
With shards of nails
Disintegrate
Disappear
Dissipate
You were just a shadow of your past
Incinerate
Emulate
Elevate
You're starting to care less with every chance
The universe is yours
Even if it's an empty one
Your words are yours
Even if they're blank
The truth is yours
Even if it lies
And your time is up
Pull me closer to the sun
Until the armor melts away
Into your twilight
Now I know just what it's like
To see the world through your eyes
And how fast you use it up
All that human clay keeps reaching for your frame
Until it fills
All the cracks inside you
I can't understand it when you say
Their colors are so bright
And then they dim and you're on the ground
And when your consciousness comes back
Spitting up and calling out
There will be no shadows
Over you
And you'll scream:
What have I done; With my life
Give it all back; It's over
Won't be enough; To save me
What a tragedy!
And I will give it all up
Give it all up; So you could
Give me a chance; To hold you
Won't be enough; Won't be enough to save me
What a tragedy!
Now you're up and running from yourself
As the streetlights flash ahead
But they will lead you nowhere
Feel the skin starting to burn away
As your internals beg to stay
But you speed up anyway
All the strings you're tied to
Are pulling so much harder than before
But you can't cut through them
Even if you broke free
The shock would tear you apart
But you're way past caring now
Glowing frozen in that light
All your features so laid out
There'll be no shadows over you
As the twilight fades to black
Under the flood
It always seems so bright
Beneath the murky tides
The cities glow untouched
Under the flood
Their faces, frozen blank
No one to tell me why
The waters always on the rise
And I look back
Where we started
Had come so far
To lose it all
To the abyss
And as I hang on
I'm sure that soon I'll know
Just what it is like
Sinking slowly
Into the depths
The hands still clutch
The swollen faith
That brought them all down at once
Oh, what an ending to a wasted life
Under the flood
We never got that far
The sheets of rain blew past
All our attempts to calm it down
Under the flood
They said the earth cleaned up
All of the stains we brought
And all the roots we tore out
Under the flood
I hope you're happy now
I can't wait
To stop breathing for your human mass
When I'm dead
I hope the planet wipes
Every trace of my existence on this wretched ground
But now it's cooling down
And I look back
Where we started
Had come so far
To lose it all
To the abyss
No escaping it now
Time's up
I'm finally free at last
Sinking slowly
Into the depths
I'm so detached
I've got no faith
Just a fading blank thought
They swarm, whenever you're on
For others, they swarm without an on or off
Self-sufficients breed best always on
Ignore, but bioforced never to bypass a swarm
Overfed the self with their faith, tried to tear it all
But could not, it all stayed on
Strapped myself to the faces that'll never give me
anything more
On or Off
On or Off
Somehow I always turn it off
I'd rather live a lie that's always on
Upright
They form their walls
They had their eyes carved out
To lead their own
They've got an iron vision
And they only make room
For those self-sufficients who never choose
Upright
They all grind on
My own internals scream that I won't fit their mold
But they're so self-sufficient
They're bred so well
That I just wanna smash through and pretend I'm them
and now:
Uptight
They've all just stalled
Their eyes all upon me
Waiting to swarm
Now I'm a self-sufficient
I've built myself well
But they will never swarm,
Oh they will never swarm
But I have no complaints, no
I made a promise I could never undertake
This corner always served me well
But I...
I can't beat the swarm
Get ahead, get a life, get a face, get anything
Are we the living
Or are we the dead?
Do we keep ticking
Or do we dig graves?
They say it matters
Which path you choose
But we see clearly
That either way we lose
I am the living
The living dead
I don't regret it
It's just the way it is
Let the stars
Guide the fools
To their destiny
But I'll stay living
All my clever words had run out
I'm just scraping bottom now
I'm not really here and you can't hear this at all
But it feels like I belong
None of this seems like it's wrong
I'm just doing my job while you do yours
So make me stare at your bright and busy days
But to me they don't mean shit
So breed to death, my love
You don't exist at all
And even if you did
I wouldn't care at all
Because you are the standard
You were my last excuse
I'm one in a million
I have everything to lose
And don't try to reason
You'll burn up in atmosphere
Cause you are the standard issue
Yea, you are the standard issue
I should really get out more
'Cause all you people make the world go round, yea I
know
But everytime I do it's just a maze
And you're light years away
And you're light years away
And I have no one to blame
Except me and this head
So breed to death, my love
You don't exist at all
And even if you did
I wouldn't care at all
If there is a hell
It filters through its neverending shades of green
And when it turns on those rains
it mutes it all to grey
If there is a hell
Its only life support is an idle screen
But to unplug is to spill a restless world at unset
knees
If there is a hell
It always stares back through the same new cracks
And its every face seems worn and stale and overplayed
If there is a hell
It rings through wires and into my head
It asks me where and how and why I just don't try
But how can I explain
When all I've been is blinded
These words do talk
These heads do turn
But yet it's probably worthless
I'm not the one
I didn't want this
And whether it's chemical, emotional, physical
It doesn't mean shit
If there is a hell
There must be a heaven
And if just once
It shined right through
Perhaps I'd try
But it's only there
So the mind can fake it
And it seems that
All its innocence
Has all but drowned
And sometimes it calls
Through the submerged distance
And as its glimmers
Fade to black
The depths seem undone
But the only way to dive
Is through their engines
And while they always take the plunge
I've learned to stand aside
And leave them to collide
Since
I'm not the one
I didn't want this
And there is a hell
This is for myself, as selfish as it gets, and the only
thing that I have
left
But you don't understand, 'cause you're the standard wave
You got your balance down, but your vision is so plain.
The pictures in my head are great! I prefer them over
you.
There's nothing you can do or say, to make me ever change
the way I am.
I'm the one that let you in, and you walked all over me,
so thanks for
everything
Well, that was my mistake, and now I'll have to pay
So I'm selling all these dreams, just so that I could
stay
And watch it fade away, into all this grey
I can do so much but you've all got me caged.
Tell me, things will always work out
We are really on your side! It's alright! We feel your
pain!
Too late, all is said and done now
Go ahead and make the calls, no one's home.
Searchlights
Awake the night
Blasts rip open
Scores of faceless masks
Afterburners
Scorch the charred remains
A shattered dawn
Looms above the waste
Blackened sun
Poisoned hope
Distant dreams
Forever lost
Distorted figures
Crumble to ash
Corroded structures
Dismember the past
Thermal heat
Scorches skin
Vision lost
Another corpse
Falls beneath
Nuclear fires
Blaze through concrete walls
Cities burn
No escape
From this final world
A final collision
Free from pain
Tormented shadows
Remind of the slain
Wasted skies
Bury all hope
A nuclear flash
You've reached it
The final frontier
The grid is behind you
Yet the mind is blank
Encoded sunsets blind you
The centuries fade to seconds
Deleted time refusing shelter
Memories of skylines rising, falling
Descent towards a final core
A human hope poisoned from the skyline.
Withheld to ease the backward march
Faith eclipsed by ignorance
Deleted time refusing shelter
Lost in a dream
Don't know which way to go
If you are all that you seem
Then baby I'm movin' way too slow
I've been a fool before
Wouldn't like to get my love caught
In the slammin' door
How about some information--please
Straight up now tell me
Do you really want to love me forever oh oh oh
Or am I caught in a hit and run
Straight up now tell me
Is it gonna be you and me together oh oh oh
Are you just having fun
Time's standing still
Waiting for some small clue
I keep getting chills
When I think your love is true
I've been a fool before
Wouldn't like to get my love caught
In the slammin' door
How about some information--please
Straight up now tell me
Do you really want to love me forever oh oh oh
Or am I caught in a hit and run
Straight up now tell me
Is it gonna be you and me together oh oh oh
Are you just having fun
You are so hard to read
You play hide and seek
With your true intentions
If you're only playing games
I'll just have to say--bye bye bye bye bye bye bye bye
Do do you love me
Do do you love me
Do do you love me
Do do you love me ?
I've been a fool before
Wouldn't like to get my love caught
In the slammin' door
Are you more than hot for me
Or am I a page in your history-book
I don't mean to make demands
But the word and the deed go hand in hand
How about some information--please
{Chorus cont.}
I've been a fool before
Wouldn't like to get my love caught
In the slammin' door
Are you more than hot for me
Or am I a page in your history-book
I don't mean to make demands
But the word and the deed go hand in hand
How about some information--please
You can bend your knees
I won't hear your pleas
I'm not here to cure
Your selfish ways
So don't you follow me
I'm not the one you seek
Once you're spitting teeth
Maybe you'll finally see
There is no disease
Except the one you breed
It made you who you are
And now you're chasing it
Wish you could burn the bridge
And start without it
But it's in your blood
To fail so miserably
So stay on target
And ignore their screams
They'll keep burning
As long as we exist
Never thought you'd be the victim
Always made it sound so simple
Now it's all gone and there's just one thing
Left to prove your existence
So stay on target
Now you're underground
Are you satisfied?
The rubble raining down
Will be the only sound
As the flames burn past
All that you thought was life
Don't you stop and think
How it could of turned out?
Just know there's no disease
Except the one you breed
It made you who you are
And now you're chasing it
Wish you could burn the bridge
And start without it
But it's in your blood
To fail so miserably
So stay on target
And ignore their screams
They'll keep burning
You'll have to dig through the cold hard ground
To find people like me
They don't make them like this anymore
I'm an obsolete machine
So say goodbye to those empty faces
and run to the fields
And start digging the cold hard ground
In hopes you'll find me
Yea start digging
You've been digging for days and nights
Not finding a thing
You can barely see in this fog
And don't realize that I'm right here
I've been watching you work so hard
Trying to get to me
But I don't wanna ruin it for you
You are right and I am wrong
I could argue but I love your confidence
So I'd rather not compete
And accept my own defeat
It's easier
But just because I don't talk back
Doesn't mean I'm in the dark
It's just that talk is cheap
I would rather pay the cost
Put my ego into songs
That speak
"You talk about love
You talk about dreams
But you're just all simple machines to me
You say you got trust
It's not gonna last
'Cause you're just a simple machine to me"
I don't think you are convinced
Maybe somehow I have missed the point in this
Everyone keeps marching past
Telling me
"Get back on track
You're ruining this"
Well it's too late for me
All I got to keep this going
Is your distrust in me
And I could care less
Fuck all my friends
No one will be there in the end
I'll die alone, but free
But before I fade away
I can still give you a taste of tragedy
And don't deny it
Just embrace it
You can't hold back the tides
See me rise up one last time
Let the wind blow me to shards
I hope they cut right through me
Blind existence
Second wave deployed
Final distance
Transports fading into blinding light
Surface melting
View distorting within mind
Paths erasing
Leaving traces beyond sight
As the cities crumble into burning light
Can you see
Can you see
As the skies turn inward over vacant eyes
Can you see
Can you see
Inside the clouds
Concrete shifts
And I recall
Before the skies were
Strapped to the detonators
Before the lights all
Dimmed in their simulators
Before I saw them all as cheap imitators
They said:
"Don't tell me what to do
Don't tell me what to choose
Just know I will never ever lose
Or even burn up
That is impossible
I followed all the rules"
"But give me all the tools
And tell me what to use
And I will know exactly what to do
That's what I'm here for
Everything's possible
And I just can't get enough!"
And now I'm here
And they're all back where they're supposed to be
I know they fail to see the irony
As they repeat it all around
I love the way they fold around you
I love the way you're understood
I know I'll never get inside you
I know I'll never get it through
I love the way they fold around you
I love the way you prove me right
And now I'm gone
So don't remind me
Feedback surge
Probe injected
Data flood overloading neural circuitry
Trodes on
Pulse is racing
Neon grid expanding into binary grey
We run through wires, disguise in screens
We blend in patterns of input streams
We trace our pathways, dissolve in beams
We breach through cores on static wings
Pressure starts
Ice below you
Shockwaves tumble, pulling
down the consciousness
below the circuits
Noise sets in
Nervous system failing
Locked into eternity
forever looped in frames
We run through wires, disguise in screens
We blend in patterns of input streams
We trace our pathways, dissolve in beams
We breach through cores on static wings
Sky collapsing over static spheres
Underneath the blackened cores
Static waves are flowing
Trapped beginnings burn the vacant light
Interchange the silent beams
Stained in silent whispers
All deforming
I took a long hard look at your face today
But it wasn't really yours at all
Yea, I've seen it before
It's the same old swarm
You all wear it the same
You're just a preset
And you don't even know it
So keep spinning along
And when you want it
You let everyone know it
It's not really like you have a choice
You're just upbeat, confident, confident, confident
Upbeat, confident, yea!
They say don't judge a book by its cover
Because there's always something new to discover
Well that's bullshit, it's all upfront
I can tell by the way I'm being ignored
And I think it's funny how I'm being myself
And you're telling me that I'm somebody else
When I don't want it as bad as your wave
So stop telling me that you can all relate
And all the stereotypes that I hear are true
And I just can't wait to apply them all to you
And don't listen, don't think this through
But just know that I'll predict your every move!
So stay upbeat, confident, confident, confident
Upbeat, confident, yea!
Shallow passion
Always wins
And shallow fashion
Always leads
And if you
Don't believe me
Then turn this off
'Cause I wrote
All this shit
The towers crumbled to the void of ignorance
Images all split to frames
Forever burned to memory
The seconds never fade
A future frozen in a flash
A false beginning
All the hope denied
Unfocused faces cover screens
All exits blocked from inside
Inhuman faith against the plight
The rubble forces all the sorrow
To rise into a hate-filled sky
A systematic rupture
Who let a reason so misguided
To let the innocents tumble down
The choice of ignorance will strike those down
Amidst their icons of decay
No ruins left on which to pray
And yet the purge won't end in silence
On your knees
Are you praying
For this world to set you free
On your knees
Are you praying
For the concrete to forgive your tears
Marching forward
Blind with rage
Faces strapped to tubes
Devoid of human flesh
Fire blindly into
growing walls of steel
Retaliation starts
Helments melt into this concrete smear
The end is brightest
When the withered hands
are reaching for the sky
Their fading cries deforming
As the shockwaves rip the stars apart
Still alive
Barely crawling
Hands blown off
Limbs torn away
All shields breached
Decimation rising
Red sky falling faster
As the wave deletes your fears
Annihilation
Swept the ruins away
The tubes that once clung to the melted flesh
Have frozen
And crumbled on the mud of broken faces
The end is brightest
When the withered hands
are reaching for the sky
The end is brightest
I wake up everyday and it feels like death
I'm sure that you can all relate
But while you think it's tragic?
I think it's great!
I'm getting farther than all of you combined
And I'll pretend
There's nothing out there
And no, my words have no effect
I'm just so different!
Nothing applies to me
You can't fill me up
And if I'm wrong
Then I am faceless
And if I'm right
Then I belong
But there is no difference
Nothing applies to me
These are the best days of my life
I am the second coming of nothing at all
I predict things that never come true anyway
And it'll never happen for me like it does for you
I'll just work myself to death and that'll be the end
You know, I wish I could stop
Wish I could stop (x14)
I wish I could stop it all
And I'll pretend
There's nothing out there
And no, my words have no effect
I'm just so different!
Nothing applies to me
You can't fill me up
And if I'm wrong
Then I am faceless
And if I'm right
Then I belong
But there is no difference
Nothing applies to me
These are the best days of my life
These are the best days of my life
Deluded whispers
Burned out memories reprise
The silent resentment
Sinking over vacant eyes
The skyline ruptures
Past the barriers of sight
Inverting silence
Into streams of tainted fright
Climb into your concrete hole
Forget this
Deep inside the truth awakens
Pulling you away
Hey human
Do you see the grid expanding
Hey human
Do you hear the static rains washing your blood away
You say you want to live this life forever
Walked straight for the longest time
Never looked at that exit to the other life
Kept it airtight, lost all sight
Although all I ever had to do was stay blind
As well as stay down
The eyes are open now and I'm screaming towards the
ground
Slammed back onstage now where I will mime
Through a broken jaw
But I forgot again, just my imagination
Out of touch with reality again
Where the outer surface never rises
From the nukes
That implode and pass, that implode and pass
Even though eventually they'll throw off the mask,
Reveal the insides and every past
To an empty night when all the flesh
had crawled back into the stale light
They've spent their lifelines
On making sure I reach their landmines
If I had a life
I Probably wouldn't notice
If i had a mind
I Wouldn't let it choose for me
Well the sun's nailed up now
The swarms all loose now
Preparing in full force to climb their ladders up
While their engines drill the skies down
As long as it takes to build that armored skyline
Under which I've dried up
While waiting for the ocean's rise
To sweep it all away somehow
To the carefree glow of the grey sand
Where the blueproof tide unwinds its grasp
To the paper shores' sway of an ion sky
But now the stillframe skips over and back
And all folds away into these cartboard blinds
And then I hear the voices whisper: "Give it up"
I Said:
Give it up this isn't what you wanted
Now just give it up this isn't what you wanted
Give it up, this isn't want we had in mind
You had your life to live
Now tell me what to do
I've got no life
Here's a beat
It is a solid beat
And no one's paying attention so I'm free to speak
Something passionate will work real well
But I am bored so bored, yeah, it's easy to tell
But I don't mind that it's the same old shit
'Cause innovation's really hard to sell
So come on!
Well its the second verse now
And I really like how this sounds
It's got all the right elements that I like
It's that four / four on the floor
That keeps me moving all night long
And that chord progression
I've heard it before
It's the same one in every song
But this message
Really throws me off
I can't sing along to this at all
Get it through
I'll never get through to you
I'll never get through to you-ou
I'm too wide
Get it through
I'll never fit like you do
I'll never fit like you do-o
But you're too blind
So shut up and swallow!
Don't mind me
I'm just another face
Just turn your head and I will be replaced
And don't you worry, I am all alone
But you'll never understand
You'll never understand
You'll never understand
You'll never understand
You'll never understand
Get it through
I'll never get through to you
I'll never get through to you-ou
I'm too wide
Get it through
I'll never fit like you do
I'll never fit like you do-o
But you're too blind
Get it through
I'll never get through to you
I'll never get through to you-ou
I'm too wide
Get it through
I'll never fit like you do
I'll never fit like you do-o
But you're too blind
So shut up and swallow!
Get it through
Get it through
Get it through
Get it through
I've said it all before in so many words
And I'll say it all again
Until the meaning is lost
There's nothing to untangle
It's all upfront
I'll say I'm leaving again
But I'll come back for more
And it feels like I've been
Falling forever
While their fields of love
Have looked on amazed
That I had
So much time
So much life
But nothing has given way
And they'll use up
All that I've given
And turn it
Into nothing I'd miss
Until I'm out of time
Out of life
But they don't seem to mind
It's all the same
I've said that I've been falling
But I kind of lied
It's all just in my head
I don't even use it that much
So stop your listening
And leave me be
But I forgot I let you loose
And now you just can't get enough
Out of me
And it feels like I've been
Falling forever
While their fields of love have looked on amazed
That I had
So much time
So much life
But nothing's going away
And they'll use up
All that I've given
And turn it into nothing I'd miss
Until I'm out of time
Out of life...
Whatever, I don't care
It's all the same
Faced the crowd
In a blind mirror
Skull smashed headfirst
Against this wall of inner need
I knew this fall
Would send it all down towards the lights
And they will question once more
From their unscathed towers
I'll answer
Go on and force
Your one-bit truth until the end
I'll swallow every bullet
That rips through the hull
A sheltered life crawls forward, vomits
And folds around twin blades
I pull it back like last time
Yet it never cuts through all the way
I always have to take it hostage
Whenever I feel
I find no way to begin
It always bled from within
They fed the dreams so it could rip
I've grown content in this dream
I'll let those others take and give
Whenever I feel
There is no way to begin
I've grown content in this dream
I'll let those others take and give
And if I had
Leaned forward and let their downpours mask
Preburned fields growing supports for a future set in
past
Every reflection would lie and every breath would climb
blind
Toward their shallow corpse of a self-lit sky
And just its weight would be enough
To send it all off the edge towards that same undecided
mind
Towards that self-absorbed conscience that only screams
So predictably
"Someone burn me an exit"
Stormed their black-rise tower looming past
Drove them all out into a corner
Of the memory gridmap
Airlocked and silenced, I kept holding back
Finally burned them all alive
Before cutting off my own blood supply
I knew they had it bypassed to a bloodthirsty human
mass
That infested with a false promise of a chance
I glanced away
And the tides swept past me
Wherever you've run
And whatever you've built
Stop
Open your eyes
And realize
Conditioned knowledge
Arranged through screens
Controlled emotions
Aligned through dreams
Repressed desires
Maintained by fear
Imprisoned faith
No will to flee
The order is issued
Enforced by steel
Compliance required
The transfer begins
Assembled and numbered
Assigned to cells
Injected and wired
Reality fades
Chorus:
We'll
Program your thoughts
Program your dreams
We'll
Program your lies
Program your thoughts
We'll
program your thoughts
program your lies
program your dreams
program your lies
program your thoughts
program your dreams
program your thoughts
program your lies
Awake at last
All thoughts are clear
A strength is present
The walls disappear
You stand surrounded
Feel no constraints
New blood is flowing
Through artificial veins
* Chorus *
The sky is burning blue again
A blinding light protects the gray
A stainless shield against the wind of change
A rising grid expands beyond
Converting stars to perfect form
Cornered
Teeth scraped along the walls
Jaw frantic in protest
Scarred hands jerk like last breath on a string
Along the floor,
Spilled eyes all fixed on a frozen heaven
Staring down black eighty feet through a ripped 'scraper
Waiting for a hell to rain down from the longest iron
wings
Because all the faith in this world has crawled up
Just between these swollen ribs
Sprouting nails and wings and worms and lies for those
who take
The lights below
You know they'll bleed forever
Get back as the cores blow
You wanna rip the system
You wanna break through
But you're so disconnected
Who gives a shit about you?
All your problems
Are not just going away
But your're not changing
So keep on grinding your shit
You've got so much indifference
There's more every day
And there's just so much building
You wanna rip right through your lungs
But nothing's clinging
And all your choices are up
So just drown in your mess
And shut the fuck up
Clench your teeth
Claim me
It should have been easier
Always waiting on you to believe in me
Claim me
I should have gave in to it
But instead I kept chasing a broken dream
The hands are crawling
My head is stalling
I can't remember
Why I'm stranded here
The sea of faces
Keep switching places
They're getting louder
And I hear them:
Claim me
This should of been easier
Always waiting on you to believe in me
Claim me
I should of gave in to it
But instead I kept chasing a broken dream
All is quiet now
Not a single breath of air
Not a shadow in sight
Just a cold dark haze
And I know
I deserved all this
Always feeling that I am nearer but
It's always too late
Nothing's clinging and I'm not feeling
It walks in circles all the time
Different mind
It claws the walls with bound hands
and tries to climb this shell that grew inside
It keeps correcting all its non-existant
flaws while it pretends they're gone
It knows the mind that's keeping track
of all mistakes that ever made its life
Sometimes I can almost reach the sun
Yet, the distance
Is blinding
It walks in circles all the time
Different mind
It keeps repeating all its goals to make
the purpose seem so worthwhile
It inputs air into the lungs just so they
see that it pretends to breathe
It ran the circle one last time
One last time
Abandoned all these faces
living in the dreams
that emptied out its cries
It climbed the wall on broken hands
until the edges pulled apart
Revealing all the same divides
Annihilation
Consumer nation
We're headed towards extermination
What else are we supposed to notice?
Mass corruption
The greedy bastards
They're getting away
With genocide
We better do something right now
Let's all pretend we're changing the wolrd
By burning flags and hating authority
But when the skies turn
We all burn down just the same
Let's all pretend that we're in control
And know exactly what we are headed toward
Just wait 'til you crawl
Under the corpse of your lost cause
We are all dead now
And no one saved us
We're gonna blame you
'Cause you're alive somehow
I warned you, and now it happened
You're saving face now
You're covering up now
I knew you'd do this
You're gonna pay the price
I'm gonna expose you big time
My words have no meaning to you
You interpret as you please
I know that you pretend to care
But there's nothing you will miss
And if you think this isn't about you
Well I'm sorry, 'cause it is
But all you wanna do tonight
Is get caught up in youth
And maybe you're impressed
With everything I do
But I don't give a shit
I don't give a shit
I'm just being used
So all you idiots can
Go and breed to death
I just can't wait to get you all out of my way
My metapohors didn't work so I'll just say it straight
and plain
I'm not that good with affection
Or with getting inside
But you just force it down so hard
That I wish I could just rip the tension right out of
my lungs
I know you're still impressed
With everything I do
But I don't give a shit
I don't give a shit
I'm just being used
So all you idiots can
Go and breed to death
Here I'll sell it to you:
Their heads on backwards
Decisions frozen in vain
The fate grows colder
Illusion of power prevails
No conscience left
They'll die to resurrect their fallen
As long as the faith holds
The outcome will never change
Cut them off from the tubes they feed you
In to keep the worms from crawling out
Faith on concrete
Their meltdown is as predictable
As all these strings they pull
To keep their faith in line
Face down
The mind rips open
This is the last impression
That I'm going to make
So you should pay attention
'Cause everything's making sense
So much sense
And now I'm going backwards
This is the first wave
I'm at the end of the start
And I'm everything that I've made
Yea all I've made
This isn't getting deeper
Just repeating itself
I've heard it all before
But didn't catch a word you've said!
But you're not impressed
So scream back at me
Attention
I've got these four limbs and a head
And I demand attention!
I've got nothing to lose
So much to gain
Attention
There's nothing out there
But myself
And I demand an answer
I've got so much to give
So much to take
I guess I'm too dependent
On what you say
So I'm completely detached
From what I need for myself
(Yea, my demands are great!)
But I don't have a system
That works real well
So now I'm stuck in a frame
Trying to push you all away
It's not going too well!
So give it up for those
Who have no one to blame
And fit so well
Into these boxes that you've made
I'd love to put myself away
But you'd have no one to blame
Attention (x6)
Attention
I've got these four limbs and a head
And I demand attention!
I've got nothing to lose
So much to gain
Attention
There's nothing out there
But myself
And I demand an answer
I've got so much to give
Enforcer:
Post
Nuclear
Surface probe
Scanning for
Life signs
All either dead
Or praying for
the next impact
Couldn't rise
Past all these
sworn perimeters
And besides,
All their wars
Were just cheap breeding contests
And unearthed
Their ripped jaws still screamed:
Survivor:
Awoke to find the sky below a swollen ground as it all
lifted up
I heard no voices in this storm and even as they
overburned,
I've never felt more alive
They built me well against this dawn until
They led me through their righteous armored gears
And as they grinded on, I realized that I've swallowed
whole
The corpse of my belief
Yet still...
I Am all armed and ready
My faiths all strapped
The Bloo d runs colder
The Days drain past
I go on
I'm ready for war
Except,
Raised flags and all the pride you spit
Will never make an impact
I'm still all armed and ready
This mind is all torn
They ripped this faith off, they'll have it ready to
blow
I'll go on
They're still praying for war
Enforcer:
So let them
Praise their swarms
And worship their every
Impact
While they
Grind their wars
And Sell them to every last
Perimeter
They have bred
Beyond all hope
Of a resolve
Let their jaws
Rip into their last
We are the standard
We are your last excuse
You're one in a million
You have everything to lose
And don't try to reason
You'll burn up in atmosphere
You're running out now
You've led them through your tired edge again
They know you're mourning now
Your every selfish loss was an excuse to up your gain
Bring down the walls
On yourself
On yourself
Rise up and question now
I'm just suprised your vision is so set in doubt
And I know... I am so over now
Too used to being buried in a shallow light
Gone blind
But the damage is done
And I've left their sky
Too overwhelmed in this light
And I've just realized they're right
I just can't handle this life
Just leave me inside and let me say (to myself):
"In your light hangs a suicide,
And I wish you cared"
But you brought down the walls
On yourself
