Spoken:
After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea
during the time of King Herod
wise men from de east came to Jerusalem and asked
"where is the one who is born King of the Jews?
We saw his star in the east and we have come to worship him"
Lord we have traveled far
torn and weary guided by your star
there before us the living King
halleluiah his praises sing
Herod with a evil plan
kill the babies
came his bold command
he tried to alter God's holy plan
God has saved him
the son of man
Behold the lamb of God
the mighty King of God
the chosen one of God
behold the lamb of God
the mighty King of love
the chosen one of God
Three Kings from a distance come
bearing gifts for the only one
shout to heaven sound the drum
tell the nations
the Lord has come
Behold the lamb of God
the mighty King of God
the chosen one of God
behold the lamb of God
the mighty King of love
the chosen one of God
He came to bring us his peace
he came to bring us his joy
to bring us love
Behold the lamb of God
the mighty King of God
the chosen one of God
Behold the lamb of God
the mighty King of God
the precious lamb of God
Behold the lamb of God
the mighty King of God
the chosen one of God
Spoken:
And so the wise men the shepherds
the ox and the lamb
the angels above
all rejoiced at God's command
as a star shine from heaven
this new King to adorn
on that very first Christmas
when Jesus Christ was born
There was Christ in the metal shell
There was blood on the pavement
The camera will make you God
That's how Jack became sainted
If you die when there's no one watchin'
And your ratings drop and you're forgotten
If they kill you on their TV
You're a martyr and a lamb of God
Nothin's gonna change
Nothin's gonna change the world
There was Lennon and the happy gun
There were words on the pavement
We were lookin' for the lamb of God
We were lookin' for Mark David
If you die when there's no one watchin'
And your ratings drop and you're forgotten
If they kill you on their TV
You're a martyr and the lamb of God
Nothin's gonna change the world
Nothin's gonna change
Nothin's gonna change the world
Nothin's gonna change the world
Took three days for Him to die
The born again to buy the serial rights
Lamb of God have mercy on us
Lamb of God won't you grant us
Nothin's gonna change the world
Nothin's gonna change
Nothin's gonna change the world
Nothin's gonna change
Nothin's gonna change the world
Nothin's gonna change
Nothin's gonna change the world
Nothin's gonna change the world
If you die when there's no one watchin'
And your ratings drop and you're forgotten
If they kill you on their TV
You're a martyr and a lamb of God
I hear voice of many people
I hear a voice like mighty thunder
Singing Hallelujah for the Lord He reigns
Singing Hallelujah for the Lord He reigns
Lamb of God, Holy
Lord You are Holy
Lamb of God, Holy
You are Holy
So let us be glad, let us rejoice
And let us give honor, glory to the Lord
And may every tribe and every tongue
Gather and sing praises to the Holy One
Lamb of God, Holy
Lord You are Holy
Lamb of God, Holy
You are Holy
Returning to solace
So sweet like honeysuckle on the tongue
The sound of silence blesses my ears
Enveloping like the earth I will one day lie in
Metropolis is bad to wither the soul
Roaring concrete and steel washes you in blood.
So let you point and laugh
Provincial ain't so bad.
Take me back down to where I belong
To rust in rivers.
I do not covet any man's life
I know my place all to well
One man's paradise is another man's living hell.
To each their own
Generations ago made this place my own
The roots are deep and strong
Carry them wherever I go.
Never wanted your approval
Never wanted your acceptance
Never wanted to be anything but me
Never wanted to be anywhere but here.
Carry me Southeast bound home
To speak in defense of our good name
Lay me to rest with my kin
In the ground of God's country.
Lash out at any who would smear you with hate
Deify no one, Never crawl ashamed
The past screams injustice on Southern night wind
Whips Manacles Chains Musket balls
A dark history never forgotten
Only misconception remains.
Speak in defense of our good name
The blood of kin grants absolution
I'll join them soon enough kin the ground of God's country.
Never wanted your acceptance
Never wanted your approval
Never wanted to be anything but me
Never wanted to be anywhere but here.
The hour of wreckoning draws near
Judgment day is here and gone
Sweetly she draws me into her arms
A liquid embrace to chase the day way.
Sedate Numb Deaf and Dumb
Stumbling into solitude.
A clouded judgment day is fueled.
Take me under your black wings
Mark my words and remember me.
So sweetly she shucks away at my time
So sweetly she draws me nigh
Closer and closer towards never ending sleep
Spin the bottle
Kiss only the bottle.
The dark mistress of many, beholden to none
Slips a ring of needles around your arm in an engagement
Eternal engagement
Never consummated.
Take me under your black wings
Mark my words and remember me.
Destroyer of senses.
So take as needed for the pain
Another gray morning dawns across an ashen sky.
My sweet demoness beckons me
Ever again and again and again and again.
The dark mistress of many, beholden to none
My sweet demoness beckons me
Ever again and again and again and again and again.
Take me under your black wings.
Jacked up on the taste of self-destruction.
Watch the broken common man
Drown his sorrows at unhappy hour.
Dirty and sweaty
With just enough to get by.
Calluses on his hands calluses on his soul
Hard-boiled son of a bitch
Scraping away on the down hill grind.
It's a means to an end, a mean end for most.
Death and domestication ends in shattered hopes
Can't see the hand at the other end of the leash.
Turn and bite.
Turn and bite the hand that bleeds you dry.
Throw yourself a bone, no one else will.
Compromise leads to self-loathing
Money the excrement of labor.
And you don't get to keep shit
Except politics and power trips
and a bad breath down your neck.
I know
For I have toiled in the halls of the mighty
And not received a teardrop in a bucket.
Motherfuck it.
The world doesn't owe me a thing
But you do (Motherfucker).
The world doesn't owe me a thing
But you do (Motherfucker).
So crooked when you die
they're gonna have to screw your ass into the ground.
As life slowly unravels
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Rise above, extract your life.
Will you look within
Then turn around and bite?
Day by day the mask suffocates your life
Is this any way to live?
No fucking way.
The hour of greatness draws near
Judgment day is here and gone
Sweetly she draws me into her arms
A liquid embrace to chase the day away.
Sedate Numb Deaf and Dumb
Stumbling into solitude.
A clouded judgment day is fueled.
Take me under your black wings
Mark my words and remember me.
So sweetly she shucks away at my time
So sweetly she draws me nigh
Closer and closer towards never ending sleep
Spin the bottle
Kiss only the bottle.
The dark mistress of many, beholden to none
Slips a ring of needles around your arm in an engagement
Eternal engagement
Never consummated.
Take me under your black wings
Mark my words and remember me.
Destroyer of senses.
So take as needed for the pain
Another gray morning dawns across an ashen sky.
My sweet demoness beckons me
Ever again and again and again and again.
The dark mistress of many, beholden to none
My sweet demoness beckons me
Ever again and again and again and again and again.
Take me under your black wings.
Jacked up on the taste of self-destruction.
So goddamn easy to write this
You make it spill on the page
So drunk on your self, self-righteous
The laughing stock of your own fucking stage
But I ain't one to call names
Or throw stones in a house of glass
You try me
This is a motherfucking invitation
The only one you could ever need
This is a motherfucking invitation
You try me
Just one time, you got a reason
Heard you had nothing to lose
A blind preacher for the pin-eyed congregation
It must be easy to lose
But I ain't one to call names
Or throw stones in a house of glass
You try me
This is a motherfucking invitation
The only one you could ever need
This is a motherfucking invitation
You try me
You can tell the same lie a thousand times
But it never gets any more true
So close your eyes once more and once more believe
That they all still believe in you, just one time
This is a motherfucking invitation
The only one you could ever need
This is a motherfucking invitation
Just one time
This is a motherfucking invitation
You try me
Just one time, you try me
Just one time, you try me
You try me
A sacred cash cow with sickly tits
Dripping temptation for hypocrites
Tone deftly beaten, the prosperous
Endlessly stating the obvious
Caught in your words, sever the cord this time
Somebody's told me this will
Face me once as I leave all that I despise
Face me as I unleash this hate refined
Indict the blameless, transparent designs
Pathetic and shameless, crucified
A legend in his own mind, enthroned by lies
A deep blackened valley floods its demise
Caught in your words, sever the cord this time
Somebody's told me this will
Face me once as I leave all that I despise
Face me as I unleash this hate refined
Face me as I leave this all far behind
Face me as I unleash this hate refined
One bloodstained life now infested with plague
A lamb lies with maggots blinded and betrayed
One bloodstained life now infested with plague
The lamb lies with maggots, the cold floated with rage
Face these eyes, hate refined
Privileged, a chosen few
Blessed with our time in hell
Witness a divine vision, the day we all fell still.
Rapture of the dying age, a shattered hourglass
Wrath of the warring gods and so this too shall pass.
It's only getting worse, not worth a moment's regret
Each dawn another curse, every breath a twisting blade
What will be left behind in the ashes of the wake?
An ill wind blows this way, the edge of the envelope burns
Forbearance and my vengeance, payment for you intent
Fear and death in the wings, in thrall of those fallen from grace
Petty is as petty does, witness the mass disgrace.
God forbid you read the signs, watch for meanings between the lines
Gehenna has now arrived, no hindsight for the blind.
Your trust has been misplaced, believed the lies told to your face
Became another casualty and now it's too late.
You finally made it home, draped in the flag that you fell for.
And so it goes
The a shes of the wake.
Broken, broken in will
Your past is leaving, disappearing misery saves
Choking, pain is a thrill, rage is instilled
Compassion's a cage
Forgiving the father
Read the story of my skin
I'll be the martyr
Falling from his grace again
Stronger, sooner or later we crawl our way back
Into our favorite hole
Troubles swallow the savior
A violent way to his highest goal
Forgiving the father
Read the story of my skin
Tell me more about the man I should have been
I'll be the martyr
Falling from his grace again
Falling from his grace again
This is where the end begins
The end begins
Falling from his grace again
Falling from his grace again
Spoken sideways and indirect
Without a single word left unchecked
And by your own admission no one is ever above suspicion
Defenses never to be let down
The lies readily abound, gaping jaw tightly wound.
In your desolation
Still searching for nowhere
Desolation
In your desolation
Still searching for nowhere
Desolation
You're living in nowhere. Smoking gun, cause and effect
Paradise lost, a beautiful wreck And to you I solemnly swear
All I ever wanted was away from here All that for nothing,
What a fucking waste of time
I only took what was rightfully mine Seek and you shall find.
The dying man might take you with him
Until then I'll split the difference
All that for nothing, what a fucking waste of time.
I'm gonna take what is rightfully mine.
All that for nothing, what a fucking waste of time
The dying man might take you with him
I swear to you I'll split the difference
You may tremble before hell's gates
You may watch as the heavens fall
And you may shake the hands of fate
You may heed the siren's call
And you may reach every golden shore
Or just repent in the heathen
And you may dance in the sins of the world
You may sleep in the cradle of eden
Betray your prophets, dead seeds buried deep
An army of men will prey on the weak
And you may walk through the river run dry
You may strike down the giant with stone
And you may never again speak a lie
Confess every sin ever known
Or you may drink from the infidel's blood
As your civilization collapses
You may rejoice in the cleanse of the flood
And stare into the face of apocalypse
Betray your prophets, dead seeds buried deep
An army of men will prey on the weak
You will not comprehend
Or find words that will describe
The will of God and men
Who tell you why someone died
Betray your prophets, dead seeds buried deep
An army of men will prey on the weak
Betray your prophets, dead seeds buried deep
An army of men will prey on the weak
Lay waste torn asunder weak and lost in the past. Obfuscates the self mind,
ripped it away. Cobwebs and motes in the eye of the sun god. I think not,
serpent get thee behind me. Eradicated your somnambulant enigma. This field
has lain fallow, won't erode, won't soak up the sediment from your poisoned
mind. No, I won't soak up your misery, won't soak up your weakness, won't
soak up your banality. Taste vanadium, wide awake realizing what you've
done. Taste the frost, you chose your own death you know that you choose
well. I hate myself but not as much as I hate you. Tear yourself down.
Violence, a natural reaction in a society
Whose advances are limited to its new technology
Different only in the current mode of destructive intent
Data has replaced real life in this world
No hope for the stop of progress
Inevitable bio-link implant
Will replace the feel of human touch
All memory surrogates downloaded
Bought and sold, no true sense of self
Impending sensory death looming near
A number, this is what you've become
Life digitized itemized commodified
Our father thy will be done.
I have denied this life it's worth
I will not be the victim.
Sickness to you my master
Here's to getting worse
Hope it kills you faster.
Show me how it hurts to rot from the inside out.
This vigil burns
Until the day our fires overtake you.
Our father we forsake you.
Blessed be his name
Nothing now the same.
Ask me why I hate
Why I've prayed to see the nation that I loved disintegrate
And gladly give my life
That revolution regenerates.
In honor of the strife of those who've died
In generations before for your blood stained glory
I reject you
I deny you
I defy you to continue.
I am the ones and the zerosthat control commerce and file you silently far away.
I am the children starving in the gutter bellies full of unabated poverty.
I am nihilism no future base instinct realized environmental collapse.
I am life.
I am the corpse of decency crucified on a post of greed and moral decay.
I am man.
Submit and surrender unto Ceasar what is his rightful due.
Complete oppression no catharsis in emphatic contempt for all of life.
I am man.
Somewhere between an excuse and a lie,
You found something that you believe.
So proud, I guess I can't imagine why,
Three cheers for what we used to be.
Pathetic. Wasted. Soulless. Compromised.
Sleep-walking the mind field.
Shit talking, it crumbles around you.
It comes back around.
Somewhere between delusion and denial,
You'll drown in your own sympathy.
Profound, at least you thought so at the time,
A ghost of who you used to be.
Pathetic. Wasted. Soulless. Compromised. [x2]
[x2]
Sleep-walking the mind field.
Shit talking, it crumbles around you.
It comes back around.
The sore on the edge of your mouth it
Mirror the ones on your arm of black tar
You've known the ripping
And I've seen you pissing your condition into the dirt
I know you don't want to live in the dirt
You want to know nothing but dirt
You know you can't beat weakness
Kill the flux, stretched to breaking an obscene canvas
On a stretcher of parasitism
You piece of shit I won't say your name but I will say this
Fuck off and die, sooner the better
You've shot out your eyes but I'm seeing
That you cannot feel anything of worth
Know that you've pissed life away
Lost in your narcotic dreams
Heart pumping futile shit through your veins
Why does it bother? I want to punch in your
Sunken face and see your dusty blood smear through
The air in a polluted crimson arc
As the leaves fall yellowing like aged paper
Thoughts turn acrid and curl like cigarette smoke
Rising from a butt ground out on my arm
Step into this decay and experience dissolution
Crucified on a plank of cruelty
Crucified on a plank of apathy
Immobile for the cold duration
Huddled in isolation, to sleep the winter away
As the leaves fall yellowing like aged paper
Thoughts turn acrid and curl like cigarette smoke
Rising from a butt ground out on my arm
Step into this decay and experience dissolution
If there was
A single day I could live
A single breath I could take
I'd trade all the others away
The blood's on the wall
So you might as well just admit it
And bleach out the stains
Commit to forgetting it
You're better off empty and blank
Than left with a single pathetic trace of this
Smother another failure
Lay this to rest
Console yourself
You're better alone
Destroy yourself
See who gives a fuck
Absorb yourself
You're better alone
Destroy yourself
I'll chain you to the truth
For the truth shall set you free
I'll turn the screws of vengeance
And bury you with honesty
I'll make all your dreams come to life
And slay them as quickly as they came
Smother another failure
Lay this to rest
Console yourself
You're better alone
Destroy yourself
See who gives a fuck
Absorb yourself
You're better alone
Destroy yourself
See who gives a fuck
See who gives a fuck
See who gives a fuck
Failure
If there was a day I could live
If there was a single breath I could take
I'd trade all the others away
Whine, whine, whine
How can you afford to throw me those looks
When you haven't pulled the bloody wool
From over your eyes yet?
How can you say those things to me
When you haven't pulled the boot of the past
Out of your mouth?
Tepid morals personality set
For easy calibration knowledge of importance paramount
Marooned a suicidal caste deal
With isolation grease the wheels chameleon
Sliding through social strata and yet you still whine
Your conviction is merely iconographic
[Instrumental]
Welcome home to my reality.
So you taste yourself every time?
bitter must be your pleaure
This your swan song I'll sing for you.
I'll cut the words from your mouth
You'll never speak my name again.
Locked up and sold the fuck out
Don't think you won't see me again.
It'll come back three times
Once in the name of deceit
Twice for your malice
Three times when I take you away.
This is a homicide daydream
I won't waste my hate on you.
All that you've claimed not to be
Has now come to define you.
It'll come back three times
Once in the name of regret
Twice for your envy
Three times when I take you away.
Turn on my heels
And spit apathy on this bridge you have burnt.
Feast on my own blood
I'll drain myself to sleep.
I'll rise from death to knife this beast
These last regrets the one I keep.
It'll come back three times
Once in the name of deceit
Twice for your malice
Three times when I take you away.
Ripped out all the options
Busted broke still drunk
On hubris and the night from the night before
Mechanically destroying the self, pushing
Annihilate, live in the vernacular
Deconstruct through alcohol
Pacify with the liquid placebo
Flat line of the cranium
My only wish to destroy
You just met the last motherfucker
Who truly does not give a fuck
We are in this world, not of it
Spreading like vermin, the last, last of the breed
We are in this world, not of it
Spreading like vermin, the last, last of the breed
Screaming
Screaming into an urban wind
Broken glass asphalt undertow
Trash blows down deserted streets
This organism will survive
Turn on all the lights and punch them out
All four burners going, pile it on fire
Metal sparks in the nuclear box
Fist through a window pane
And our broken coffee cups litter the kitchen floor
Smoke rolling across the ceiling
Suck down the bride's champagne
And swallow a few more sleepy ones
Pass the bottle to none and swing from the gate
Speak in the name of suffering as loud as it gets
Knuckled holes in everything spittle
And love fling into a crying eye that runs away
A dead dog in the street nothing brings a slain king back
You'll never know the bittersweet smell
Endless mornings cut by the dawn razor
Whipping the nightmares to a froth
Endless questions with no answers
No replacement for what's been lost.
Lost.
Everything suffocates in the dust of the past fortunes squandered
The empire of lies to whom you pandered
Suffer a self-imposed exile, taste the bitter fruits of denial
In the presence of greatness the humble can only bow.
Frost on the breath of life
Empty of warmth or light
Full of nothing but deprivation
Eternal winter.
Tell me a lie with the best of intentions
Mute in the age of mass communication
Dark days lead to darker nights
Frozen, out of time.
It dies for blessed ego, the once mighty laid low.
Frost on the breath of life
Empty of warmth or light
Full of nothing but deprivation
You taught hate, I'll teach you fear
Open the eyes, kill despair
You cannot squeeze the life from me
Son of a bitch, I'm going to rape you.
Picking crumbs from the beards of others, futile organisms with no spine.
Human lice with no spine slips into a neural wreck of humanity's rot. Trust
ripping away, dying. Your breed is weak, the taste of strength bitter to
your palate of doubt. A remnant of what was, once left, a relic you pissed
it away. Your breed is weak, a thing so weak. Mutual downslide into
mediocrity, you knew better but you pissed it all away. Weak.
A shallow little jackal of a man posing as a hawk.
Conniving opportunist
Lease the blade the gun the bomb in the name of justice.
A violent panacea for what ails the nation
In advancement for the pig.
You'll not wrest the truth from my hands
Eyes never closed clarity.
Clamped down in a grip so tight on ordinary horror.
Peering through a curtain of blood.
Retribution or vengeance it matters not which
As long as the pig stays on top of the ladder of bone his father has built.
Ashes to ashes to the dust
Eaten spiced with ambivalence.
The nation swallows it all whole
Weakened by their collective neck in the noose.
Commerce brings war
Jihad has come to both sides.
Eye for an eye fire for fire
Raining death as the towers crumble.
This will never end.
Left without a choice
By the fiscal elite
War is set in motion by higher powers.
A pissing contest for the unknown.
Left bankrupt we all die inside.
As a couple jumps hand in hand to their death.
Wrapped in swaddling lies and laid in a dumpster
Spoon fed shit doesn't even turn their stomachs.
Gaping mouths yawn for more abuse
Someone needs to tip the nest.
The pig ascends
As I sink deeper
Seething misanthropic
Waiting for my death.
The human condition is inherit claustrophobia.
Compression of my space made complete.
I would rip out my own entrails by hand just to be alone.
Inanity rolls total through this sphere.
Ostracized for clarity of vision.
A dream unrealized of solitude that I should decend into autonomy
and know the pain of fellowship no more.
I feel nothing but a lack of space.
Paradox of socialization results in duress.
Rife with hostility, what has caused me so much hate?
Humanity. Exterminate with extreme predjudice.
I'm a monster so don't walk my way
Don't trust my smile my teeth are like knives
I'll drag you down and suck you dry
Don't laugh at my jokes, the punchline is murder
Don't enjoy my touch, every caress hides a choke hold
I'm only happy when I've ruined everything I see
Believe everything you've ever heard about me, suck it up
If you see me coming don't stop, just turn and walk the other way
I will not lie about what I have done
I will not lie about what I will do to you
Smothered under your affection
Solitude an acquisition
Symbiosis turned parasitic
Now I'm starting to regret this
Dying to be alone
Bleed me as I'm dying to be alone
A weight on my back, a noose around my neck
A clot in my veins, a worm in my gut
A weight on my back, a noose around my neck
A clot in my veins, a worm in my gut
A weight on my back, a noose around my neck
A clot in my veins, a worm in my gut
All this and more are you
Please leave me alone
I can't breathe air from your mouth
I can't move in your embrace
I need avoid in my life
But you've taken all the nothing
I can't breathe air from your mouth
I can't move in your embrace
I need avoid in my life
The knowledge that seeking
The favor of another
Means the murder of self
This is the resolution
The end of all progress
The death of evolution
It bleeds all life away
Silence speeds the path
To the streams of solace
That run so few and narrow
Brooks that babble
The sounds of torture
The sounds of torture
You will one day rise
To flood the banks of the chosen
This is the art of ruin
This is the resolution
The end of all progress
The death of evolution
It bleeds all life away
It bleeds all life away
Setting the path of Philadelphia
I will show you, all that I have mastered
Fear, pain, hatred, power
This is the art of ruin
This is the art of ruin
You want to blame me for the way you hate yourself
You think you can find who you are in someone else
Criticize who already found their positioning
You've got a long way to go
So go and weave your tale of woe convincing yourself it's all
You're so set to fail
Somewhere you finally lost your way
Only yourself left to betray
A needless hippie repairing your despair
You take great measure to appear like you don't care
The decision and persuasion must deceit thee properly
You lost it before you began
So go and weave your tale of woe convincing yourself it's all
You're so set to fail
Somewhere you finally lost your way
Only yourself left to betray
Only yourself left to betray
So go and weave your tale of woe convincing yourself it's all
You're so set to fail
Somewhere you finally lost your way
Only yourself left to betray
Somewhere you finally lost your way
Only yourself left to betray
The path I set out on took a turn
When the axis shifted
This is not the life I envisioned
What's done is done
The crime is committed
Now the beast has come home to roost
He returns with blood on his hands
Caught in the trap of meeting
The laws of supply and reprimand
My blood is boiling.
I can't feel my own skin
Though I can see it crawling
Can't expose all these sins
But I can see them falling down.
There's no escape from building tension
The pressure valve has been refitted
A lost plot in constant revision
A rising storm that's never abated
You can't know enough 'til too much
The envelope is decimated
Too far gone now to reverse my course and be subjugated
And my blood keeps boiling.
This is a labour of hate.
This is how I choose to survive
The only way I know to exist
The road is hard and the cost is high
But I was built for this,
I've held the hand of God and I've sang the Devil's song
And when it comes my time no tears are gonna fall
But some will light the fire And some will mourn the one
Left longing for the ire of their departed son.
Oh lord have mercy thank God you're gone
Here's to the end, thank God you're gone.
They finally shoved you in the box they could never fit you in
An empty cell forever locked So much for best intentions.
But some will load the gun And some will hone the knife
Some will raise the fist as they recall your life.
We've waited for so long, thank God you're gone.
I've held the hand of God and I've sang the Devil's song
You'll never erase the past or regain what's lost
Whoever appeals to the law against his fellow man
Is either a fool or a coward, whoever cannot take care of
Himself without that law is both, for a wounded man shall
Say to his assailant, "If I live I will kill you, if I die you are forgiven"
Such is the rule of honor
Broken the paradigm an example must be set
Invoke the siren's song and sign the death warrant
This is what has been wrought for 30 pieces of silver
The tongues of men and angels bought by a beloved betrayer
I am the result, what's better left unspoken
Violence begins to mend, what was broken
You've been talking, I've been all ears
Words meant to dwell in darkness shall never see the light of day
Words can be broken so can bones, execute the mandate
Mouth full of dirt your name is removed from the registry
St. Peter greets with empty eyes then turns and locks the gate
I am the result, what's better left unspoken
Violence begins to mend, what was broken
You've been talking, I've been all ears
Omerta
Cheaply venal, stupidly verbose
A slip of the tongue, a slit of the throat
Six feet under with no marker
Keep my name from your mouth forever
Free speech for the living, dead men tell no tales
Your laughing finger, will never point again
Omerta, Omerta sing for me now
[Digipack bonus]
[Verse 1]
A moment in time worthy only of solitude.
A stranger not meant for another to see.
Are we the abandoned?
Are we the deserter?
Lived in the night so his wickedness way.
The faces light up their screens,
as the wealthy cash in on the war.
The body counts rise, the ratings will soar.
Another deceiver.
The liar, the patriot.
Counting the lies and keeping the score.
The score.
[Pre-chorus:]
Look at the light based on faith that deserts you.
You are the hunted, the victim, the prey and the fallen.
[Chorus:]
We die alone.
[Verse 2]
A lamb in the line has been lead to the slaughter.
Another to join all the ghosts from before.
(Join all the ghosts from before.)
Another believer, another casualty.
Can't tell the way out from a drain to the floor.
The floor.
[Pre-chorus]
When the walls fall around you is when you begin to find
That the depths you have found have become now too hard to climb
You reconcile your pain in the loneliest refrain
And crawl tied and bound to the one thing you can't leave behind
And start over again This insurrection
The same reflection. Perpetual
And start over again and again and again and again
This insurrection.
A broken voice without a word to live by
Eyes slammed shut watch the world go by
It should have been way better than this
You can't anticipate the things that you miss
And how long til you let it go
Master unreality Nothing to show and in the end
Top of the mountain of nowhere
First in the line dying to get back there
You can't get back there.
First in the line to catch a glimpse of the shrine
The closest we ever got to divine
Hate, falling three feet to the ground
Face down on the cold floor of a well oiled SF, pigsty I met my one true love
Feel youth crushed somewhere between concrete and boot
Another victim of the lower hate
You are not my God, you think this is funny, don't you, pig?
How the helpless freak squirms beneath our state sanctioned soles
But what is he laughing at?
There was nothing padded about a wagon full of mace
Rotator cuff hyper extends behind my back
Ribs cracking beneath a rain of
Sticks and heels falling down like the rain outside
Oh yeah, bitch, I'm gonna remember your face, your name, your number
And when I crawl out of this hole I'm going to make you all mine
Flickering lies glazed cornea creating cerebral corpses
A senseless data overload a prime time hypnosis bow to idiot box
Self-induced anueretic sty waves flat line
This is a mean and cold town,
I hate this fucking place.
Watch the rats as they all drown,
Dying slowly day by day.
Decrepit and falling down,
Cesspool of human waste.
Swallow profit in deep now
In death you'll finally know the taste.
There are no souls left here to save.
Forgotten, lost angels, long disgraced.
You fucking hypocrite,
But hooks in lips they do not lie.
Compassion served not on your plate,
How many of them have you watched die?
I can't sing you a happy song,
I can't write you a sing-a-long,
The only catchy hook I've got,
Is the one in my bleeding gut.
Burn it down
Burn it down
There are no souls left here to save.
Forgotten, lost angels, long disgraced.
Dead stares, dead eyes,
Choked hopes and vacant minds,
Blank words, blank lives,
The end result of endless lies.
There's no angels here,
To get lost in the first place
Jackhammer a fault line,
Pray for earthquakes.
Mulholland's on fire,
And my cig started it.
'92 should have burnt this fucker down,
We're here to finish it.
I'm not impressed by much here,
Much less what you have to say.
Don't give a fuck who you know,
I just want to leave this hellhole
Know that you mean nothing to me,
Nor the lies that seep from your teeth.
Won't piss on you if you're on fire,
One more self-important liar.
Burn it down.
Burn it down.
There are no souls left here to save
Forgotten lost angels long disgraces
Burn it, burn it
Burn it, burn it
Burn it, burn it
Virginia death threat, Virginia creeper vine.
The hands that feed intent, choke the purpose of this time.
Take all that you can give, and I will make it mine.
No care for what you've spent, even fool's gold has its shine.
Never held down, never restrained.
Virtue's foot to the throat, free of broken chains.
Thus always to tyrants,
Laugh at the conquered, the victims now betray.
And in this Commonwealth,
There's merely a common concern for self.
We those lies to be self-evident,
As the dividends will reflect.
And in this Commonwealth,
There's merely a common concern for self.
The coffers have long run dry.
Never held down, never restrained.
Virtue's foot to the throat, free of broken chains.
Thus always to tyrants,
Laugh at the conquered, the victims now betray.
The victims now betray.
[x2]
Like a bull in a china shop,
But the shelves have all been cleared.
A thief in an empty vault,
The sheep already sheared.
A screen door on a submarine,
An eagle with a broken wing,
Hope in a dead man's dream,
The sound of a bell that will never ring.
Everything you've ever begged me to be
Could never have meant any less to me
Everything you've ever asked me to say
Is so far away from the truth
So far away from the truth, so far away
Fake Messiah
Stitches sewn in your eyes
Fake Messiah
Prophecy now denied
Over and over and never again
Defending your insignificance
Useless intent hidden behind your back
A coward's ways, you're not of us
So far away from the truth, so far away
Fake Messiah
Stitches sewn in your eyes
Fake Messiah
Prophecy now denied
Fake Messiah
Open up my eyes wide
Fake Messiah
Prophecy now denied, denied
Generation failure
Suspended in irrelevance
Slit you wide open
Just to see what you're made of
Just to see what you're made of
So far away from the truth
Fake Messiah
Stitches sewn in your eyes
Fake Messiah
Prophecy now denied
Fake Messiah
Open up my eyes wide
Fake Messiah
Prophecy now denied
Messiah
Fake Messiah
So inevitable another lie another reason to justify
Tearing it down
Honesty such a novelty so we king ourselves with a plastic crown
Casualty of a daydream nation
Close acquaintance, no relation
Search & Destroy
Dignity we left laying along the way
To everyone's dismay
Predictable cliché
Kindred enemies
The walking dead
Living a lie
Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?
So unavoidable another fight sell the ticket and crash the ride
Burn it down
A legacy of brutality
So caught up in the process of weeding out
The chopping block starving for a neck
Pointing fingers and stabbing backs
Never question, conformity
The big take over under way
Much to our dismay
A lucrative display
Perpetual decay
Left to destroy themselves
Yet somehow still alive
Battling for the best position, posturing for recognition
The best days thrown away
In an age of quarrel
Butcher the memories.
Blood of all you had to lose
I can feel your fear and weakness
I see my own in the mirrors of your eyes
Caught into a corner, hopeless
Near death ahead and truth behind
There's a bad storm blowing in
And most of us won't make it
The wreckage of your past
Means nothing now, forsake it
The memories cripple you
You're torn apart, your dumb mistake
It only fell apart 'cause you let it
Blood of all you had to lose
Pick up the pieces with your broken hands
It only fell apart 'cause you live in it
Blood of all you had to lose
Pick up the pieces with your broken hands
Well, there's those that do
And those that just do talkin'
We're all going through hell
Let's burn or keep on walkin'
The bigots sink their ships
And fuel death riding the wind
Right now it's do or die
How will you choose to live?
The memories that ruined you
You're torn apart, your dumb mistake
It only fell apart 'cause you let it
Blood of all you had to lose
Pick up the pieces with your broken hands
It only fell apart 'cause you live in it
Blood of all you had to lose
Pick up the pieces with your broken hands
You'd best release self-pity
Locked in devastation's throes
The noose awaits you swinging
A blade of malice cuts the rope
Hostility ensues, no attempt to repent
Your struggles vindicate the illest of intent
It only fell apart 'cause you let it
Blood of all you had to lose
Pick up the pieces with your broken hands
It only fell apart 'cause you live in it
Blood of all you had to lose
Pick up the pieces with your broken hands
Watch the broken common man
Drown his sorrows at unhappy hour
Dirty and sweaty with just enough to get by
Calluses on his hands, calluses on his soul
Hard-boiled, son of a bitch
Scraping away on the down hill grind
It's a means to an end, a mean end for most
Death and domestication ends in shattered hopes
Can't see the hand at the other end of the leash
Turn and bite, turn and bite the hand that bleeds you dry
Throw yourself a bone, no one else will
Compromise leads to self-loathing
Money the excrement of labor
And you don't get to keep shit
Except politics and power trips
And a bad breath down your neck
I know for I have toiled in the halls of the mighty
And not received a teardrop in a bucket
Motherfuck it
The world doesn't owe me a thing
But you do, motherfucker
The world doesn't owe me a thing
But you do, motherfucker
So crooked when you die
They're gonna have to screw your ass
Into the ground
As life slowly unravels with nothing to show
But your wasted time and dust
A thousand points of lies falling
On the deafened funeral eardrums of the blind masses
Rise above, extract your life
Will you look within then turn around and bite?
Day by day the mask suffocates your life
Sermon sung me slow to sleep
Faster if I had a choice
With every breath another death
Still so in love with your own voice
Idle threats to hide regrets
Excuses serve to bide the time
Cover tracks, double back
We summon silence so divine
Greeted with a thundering
absence of applause
Choke on your own words
Lies are venom in your veins
Burn from the inside
And never speak my name
Jesus complex, gag reflex
Trigger happy redundancy
No thrill, no chase, no saving grace
Hypnotic in monotony
Loaded with a salt rock shot
You say you're everything you're not
What might have been is all you've got
From here and now you're dead to me
Greeted with a thunderous
absence of applause
Choke on your own words
Lies are venom in your veins
Burn from the inside
And never speak my name
Nothing will ever erase
Or undo your disgrace
A lonely self-embrace
They've long forgotten you
Still cling to what it was
A lost and hopeless cause
Forever mourning your loss
They've long forgotten you
Murdered slowly in minute
increments of time
Pissing up a rope
Another moment passes by
Choke on your own words
Lies are venom in your veins
Burn from the inside
She's a slack one, born of greed
Speaking endless words, long and empty
A beggar who still wants to choose
A dethroned queen still demands her due
If you want something for nothing
You take what you get
A virgin *** in a dirty wedding dress
Scream for salvation, beating on death's door
But just be careful what you wish for
There's a blood stain on the ceiling
But you're the only duck in the shooting gallery
Trying to look out a bricked-in window
Your destiny lies in the alley below
Trying to see yourself in a shattered mirror
When all else fails, she holds you with broken arms
There's poison in her veins but the *** comes for free
A quick fix for all that you think that you need
Scream for salvation, beating on death's door
But just be careful what you wish for
The 'Patron Saint Of Fools' answers all your requests
She's all yours now, so deal with it
She's all yours now, she's all yours, all yours
All yours now, she's all yours, all yours
All yours now, she's all yours, all yours
All yours now, she's all yours, all yours
She's all yours now, she's all yours
You whore, deal with it
All yours now, she's all yours, all yours
All yours now, she's all yours, all yours
She's all yours now, she's all yours
Deal with it
There's no shoulder left to cry wolf on
You're tied in knots that can't be undone
No more warnings will fall on deaf ears
You lied too many times, now no one cares
No one cares, no one cares, liar
No one cares, no one cares
An empty promise with a heart of tin
Her crooked smile beguiles and it draws you within
The hope for something more, all that you wish for
A kick to the head and a boot to the door
Chasing a dragon in a lady's clothes
A paper trail ends in choking smoke
But you know you lit the match yourself
Play the burning cards that you dealt
Scream for salvation, beating on death's door
But just be careful what you wish for
The 'Patron Saint Of Fools' answers all your requests
She's all yours now, so deal with it
She's all yours now, so deal with it
She's all yours now, so deal with it
Broken, broken
Broken, broken
"We killed a lot of innocent civilians.
To us every civilian in Baghdad was a terrorist.
They said 'they are now in civilian clothes' that makes everybody free game,
But if they came in our perimeter, we lit 'em up.
And when we would pull the body out, and when we would search the car, we would find nothing.
This took place time and time again. No harm, no foul, that's OK, don't worry about it,
Because this is a new type of war, this is an eradication."
"I honestly feel we're committing genocide over here,
I don't believe in killing civilians, and I'm not going to kill civilians for the United States Marine Corp."
Gee, I wish it was ten o'clock
Come on, baby, it's time to rock
I'm so glad I've got you here
Makes me happy when you are near
(Ooh whee)
This feelin's killin' me
(Aw, shucks)
I wouldn't stop it for a million bucks
(I love you so)
Come on, baby, now don't let go
Thunder, lightnin', wind and rain
(Don't let go, don't let go)
Keeps on poundin' inside my brain
(Don't let go, don't let go)
I'm so glad that I can see
(Don't let go, don't let go)
You've been keepin' on next to me
(Don't let go, don't let go)
(Ooh whee)
This feelin's killin' me
(Aw, shucks)
I wouldn't stop it for a million bucks
(I love you so)
Come on, baby, now don't let go, oh yeah
(Ooh whee)
This feelin's killin' me
(Aw, shucks)
I wouldn't stop it for a million bucks
(I love you so)
Come on, baby, now don't let go
One day, baby, you'll quit me yet
(Don't let go, don't let go)
I'll be cryin' and sad, you're bad
(Don't let go, don't let go)
There's one thing I'll never stand
(Don't let go, don't let go)
You goin' out with another man
(Don't let go, don't let go)
(Ooh whee)
This feelin's killin' me
(Aw, shucks)
I wouldn't stop it for a million bucks
(I love you so)
Come on, baby, now don't let go
Come on, baby, now don't let go
Don't let go
Don't let go
Don't let go
(Don't let go)
Don't let go
Don't let go
Don't let go
(Don't let go, don't let go)
Don't let go
(Don't let go)
Don't let go
Don't let go
(Don't let go)
Don't let go
Store-bought attitude and spit,
A sugar-coated piece of shit.
An instant rebel, just add greed.
Another useless commodity.
Broken glass and a broken jaw.
Lies are told in a southern drawl.
Poor-house poverty's your schtick.
The real thing would kill you quick.
Rise, again we will rise.
Rise, again we will rise.
Blood and fire used to fill the night,
Burnt and drowned by our very lives.
You missed a sinking boat by years,
Dollar signs, crocodile tears.
It's over now and long has been,
Those days are gone won't come again.
Another name crossed off the list.
The real thing would kill you quick.
Rise, again we will rise.
Rise, again we will rise.
There's nothing for you to fight against,
You're so unreal it's evident.
You'll never be one of our kind,
This ain't yours, fuck you, don't try.
(This ain't yours, fuck you, don't try) [5x]
This bridge was burnt before you could cross,
You reap the benefits of what's lost.
Go home son, hang your costume up,
A goddamn insult to the rest of us.
A thousand-yard stare across the south,
A fully belly and a lying mouth.
Mamma's boy plays heretic.
The real thing would kill you quick.
Rise, again we will rise.
Rise, again we will rise.
[x2]
Fuck you, don't even try.
Fuck you, your time is nigh.
Fuck you, I've had enough.
All the fucked up things trap and punish me I cannot explain my problem.
Kill my hopeless life I cannot be hypnotized. You owe me.
Push aside the veil to welcome in the visitors.
Eyes like halogen illuminate the soma peering out of spherical night mask.
Paleolithic subconcious icons lumber through dreamscape archetype of archangel.
Terror and Hubris- infants painted gauze peer through murky jars;
soon I'm wearing the skin of the morning star.
Green locks my name fills an empty banner.
Frank, what have you gotten me into now?
I am not afraid to speak my heart and mind it cannot be saved sell me over.
Fuck your hopeless world, I am blacker than the sun.
Tragedy. Have you seen the speedy, yes?
Bleeds through the sleep onto the page. I'm sailin'...
Now you've got something to die for
Now you've got something to die for
Infidel, Imperial
Lust for blood, a blind crusade
Apocalyptic, we count the days
Bombs to set the people free
Blood to feed the dollar tree
Flags for coffins on the screen
Oil for the machine
Army of liberation
Gunpoint indoctrination
The fires of sedition
Fulfill the prophecy
Now you've got something to die for
Now you've got something to die for
Send the children to the fire
Sons and daughters stack the pyre
Stoke the flame of the empire
Live to lie another day
Face of hypocrisy
Raping the democracy
Apocalyptic, we count the days
We'll never get out of this hole
Until we've dug our own grave
And drag the rest down with us
The burning home of the brave burn
Now you've got something to die for
Intrinsic rot, traces of future
Your past will rise haunting you again
Tonguing the glue stamp seal of your fold
Cased in forests of black steel rod
Vines of nerve float downstream
Sections of horror
This is something you must never do again
Falling spiral down
You know not what you are looking for
But it will find you anyway
I've confessed this disease to you
Handed you a key to control
Fuel for your malicious intent
Punish me for my failure
Dissect my faith, twisting my trust
Archaic methods transfer through well in the face of mass denial
Bitterness fuels the mode for the escape of mediocrity
Stepping the grate, shattered nerves ground down
To a glass edge, carrying me away
Bloodletting a favorite, game of solitaire
A suicide mission destined to fail
A moving ladder to climb, taking me away
All of this comes crashing down.
Cornerstone's gone
Sleepless.
Hopeless.
No end in sight.
Ink well has run dry, fill it with blood of the scribe.
Rest comes easy to the guiltless
The vampire laments as he prays for the sun.
Doom, despair, tragedy are the tools of the trade.
Cut to the bone, rob the grave
Unearth the stone, lay to waste
Defile the tome, rip the page
Strip mine the vein, lay to waste.
Frayed at the edge, flat lined.
The anvil cracks.
The hammer relentlessly comes down.
A new pariah is born.
Chastisement lays you down to sleep, tucks you in with bloody kisses
Gifts of nightmares bitter sweet.
Type A negative shuts me down.
Catch phrase will be the death of me.
This is, not what you came to see?
What, are you not entertained?
Climb the walls 'til nails bleed.
Rip the hair, tear the seams, break the glass.
Head in hands, bell tolls endlessly
Seize the darkened day, there's only Hell to pay.
And no left to see this prodigal return.
Sweet apathy's black toll, you'll mourn the traded soul.
I'll dig a deeper hole, sanctity a breath away.
Just a breath away.
Blacken the cursed sun,
You're not the only one.
To have sunk so far and low,
There is no tomorrow.
A tragedy on display, a sickness for all to see,
I will kill this part of myself that I hate
And that I see in you.
It was always mine anyways,
There's somethings you can't take away.
I choose not to feel a thing,
Sanctity a breath away.
Just a breath away.
Blacken the cursed sun,
You're not the only one.
To have sunk so far and low,
There is no tomorrow.
Blacken the cursed sun,
Blacken what's yet to be done.
Blacken because now you know,
There is no tomorrow.
You're just a breath away. [x2]
Better to die quick, fighting on your feet,
Then to live forever, begging on your knees.
Begging on your, begging on your
Begging on your knees
Can we still be saved?
Hell, no!
Does your God hold a place for us?
Hell, no!
Is there time to repent?
Hell, no!
Will we rise from the dead?
Hell, no!
Can these sins even be forgiven?
Hell, no!
Is there still hope for us?
Hell, no!
Were we ever even alive?
Hell, no!
Is any of this even real?
The fiends have gagged a generation of pacified fools
Bound by our greed a nation enslaved as corporate tools.
Arise and RAZE the legacy of their lies
To realize that this in itself is an ascension
Towards the day we revolt.
oh, watch the seeds you've cast away take hold
War will be born.
Rejoice, the age of the fall has begun
We'll dance as the palaces burn.
A shot gun blast into the face of deceit
You'll gain your just reward.
We'll not rest until the purge is complete
You will reap what you've sown.
My redemption lies in your demise.
In such a world as this does one dare to think for himself?
The paradox of power and peace will destroy itself
To know the truth and live in fear of no man.
To realize that this in itself is an ascension
Toward the day we revolt.
oh, watch the seeds you've cast away take hold
War will be born.
Rejoice, the age of the fall has begun
We'll dance as the palaces burn.
My redemption, redemption lies in your demise.
Rejoice, the age of the fall has begun.
The dark crow man sits and stares into the oblivion into cold into nothingness;
it's snowing in his mind.
He's created himself in his own image.
Lust held for him means naught,
a knock on the door brings no smile to his cruel lips;
the welcome in a woman's eyes holds nothing for him.
Alone on his haunches the hair raises on the back of his neck.
His dead eyes pierce the night.
As his gaze falls down on the city it fills him the method ascertained, conviction.
He knows what to do and moves to commit the deed.
There's nothing new under the gun
Cognitive dissonance
Wallow in sardonic fear while your will breaks like glass
Throw on the blinders, ignore the signs
Sink ever deeper, swallow the lie.
How far did you think that you could run?
You crossed the last meridian
As life passes you by.
Outside the fishbowl looking in
Clarity to bear witness
Oblivious and obstinate
And you're a fucking mess.
Seal all the exits, tie your own hands
Burn all the bridges, head in the sand.
How far did you think that you could run?
You crossed the last meridian
And it's all coming down now as the clock ticks on
Your life is passing by.
Awaken.
Singing the same tired old song
Predictable and somnambulant
Suffering from terminal uniqueness
When will you awaken?
Shorn of apocryphal pride
The locks falls predicting strife
Cranium exposed
Denial of aesthetic
Push it [Incomprehensible]
All of this burnt to ashes
All of this torn to rags
I don't know what the fuck have I become?
Synapses snapping mortality decimated
Breakdown whiskey shifts hate into overdrive
Realizing it's murder, murder, murder of self so clean
I don't know what the fuck have I become?
Hand reaches out, desecrates impunity
Ripping away foundation's identity
Replacing with shame
Transgression mythologized
Indiscretions immortalized
Anger inflamed with dry rot
Pushing towards severance
What a bloody mess
Visiting dark sites unknown
Grief lands like a ton of brick
All of this burnt to ashes
Gone.
Shoot me straight for the sun
I wanna be the only one left
Misdiagnosed Condition
Burnt beyond recognition
Sink her straight through the floor
She's not breathing anymore
Choke in this atmosphere
Nothing will be left here
How light could be our darkest hour?
None will be left when they come
To collect their blood debts
Accounts will be dry, binary vessel
Full of nothing but dust
A vicious lust for control has turned us
Into pawns for the faceless kings
Shed rivers of blood turned the color
Of their lucre greed
Fiscal commandments impel
And we will obey
Blindly
Fury of, fury
The fury of the sun has passed
Into the hands of men
Whose hands were already too full
Of abused strength and anger
Of abused strength and power
Down, chemical sacrament,
Blasphemous prayer.
Deliver me from this so serene apocalypse
Just make me fucking numb,
Deaf, blind and fucking dumb.
Return to sacred sleep.
This could be my requiem,
And I'll feel no pain.
This could be my requiem,
But don't bury me too deep.
Drain infected brine,
Sickened cesspool shell of mine.
Strap up the hands of time,
And push the soul into the vein
Just make me fucking numb,
Deaf, blind and fucking dumb.
Return to sacred sleep.
This could be my requiem,
And I'll feel no pain.
This could be my requiem,
But don't bury me too deep.
[x2]
Sink, suffer, self destruct.
Rise, stronger, reconstruct.
Dispose, discard, deny.
Blank stares from broken men
So withered from the poisons they can't remember when
There were once honest reasons.
It's all a lie, it died 100,000 miles ago.
Pretending I'm still here.
Justify what I've become, sanctify what I've become.
Amazing disgrace... (how) sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me.
Better lost if this is found, best blinded never to see.
The race to save face, nothing now is what we meant it to be.
Pretending I'm still here.
It's a system now, intertwined.
Take your place in the line to be ground by the gears of the masterpiece.
Betrayal.
Suffered consequence
It's been so long since any piece of this made any kind of sense.
You anoint the king, I'll burn everything down to ashes.
You giveth, I taketh away.
It's a system now, intertwined.
Take your place in the line to be ground by the gears of the masterpiece.
You always needed people like me
Directions for your fingers to point
A crooked dealer's blaming spree
I'm guaranteed to disappoint
You're weak and scared and cutting raw deals
But fortune always favours the bold
I'll bet it all and crush your bluff
I'll never yield nor ever fold.
And I won't shoulder the blame.
I am the one who's left to take the fall
I fight the constant undertow.
You always needed a distraction
A target for the stones that you thrown
To draw attention to your actions
I'm tailor made so lock & load
Oh, you're telling tales
You spineless coward
Your word's not worth it's weight in shit
Back against the wall, belligerent.
I won't shoulder the blame
So high and mighty
But when the bottom drops out
You're gonna find me standing where you left me.
Deal the last hand, let the cards fall where they may
From your castle made of sand you're looking down at me
So high and mighty
But when the bottom drops out
The dark crow man sits and stares
Into the oblivion, into cold, into nothingness
It's snowing in his mind
He's created himself in his own image
Lust held for him means naught
A knock on the door brings no smile to his cruel lips
The welcome in a woman's eyes holds nothing for him
Alone on his haunches the hair raises on the back of his neck
His dead eyes pierce the night
As his gaze falls down on the city it fills him
The method ascertained, conviction
Witness shame's parade, the pain of blame repaid
It's fucking hopeless accusations and denial
Hopeless, demon of another day
Colorless, stoned, solid gray
Emptiness, of promises I made
So faithless, the tenants long betrayed
Walk the faded line, cursed crawl of time
Silence, the only promise ever kept
Familiar touch, a ritual to numb the cut, salvation in vice
Anguish is realizing what could have been, but never was
It's emptiness that fills the cup devotion in the method of my fall
Pointless, futility continuing
Endless, flowing corrupted vein
Walk the faded, cursed crawl of time
Walk the faded, cursed crawl of time
Silence, the only promise ever kept
It's fucking hopeless
Hopeless, hopeless, hopeless
It's fucking hopeless
Pray for blood,
Pray for the cleansing,
Pray for the flood,
Pray for the end of this nightmare.
This lie of a life can as quickly as it came dissolve.
We seek only reprieve and welcome the darkness.
The myth of a meaning so lost and forgotten (forgotten).
Take hold of my hand,
For you are no longer alone.
Walk with me in hell.
Pray for solace,
Pray for resolve,
Pray for a savior,
Pray for deliverance, some kind of purpose.
A glimpse of a light in this void of existence.
Now witness the end of an age.
Hope dies in hands of believers.
Who seek the truth in the liar's eye.
Take hold of my hand,
For you are no longer alone.
Walk with me in hell.
Walk with me in hell [x5]
Take hold of my hand,
For you are no longer alone.
Walk with me in hell [x3]
You're never alone [x5]
The dirty lord of the manor surveys his filthy domain
Too many nights raising hell worked a little all too well.
Constructed a monument to denial and excess
Sunk so low, crawled so far back there's nowhere left to regress.
If these walls could talk, they would tell a horror story
Never-ending winter, violence and infidelity
Shadows fall through broken panes
Careless words that are filled with hate
Just enough to keep it together, never enough to make it work.
All the tongues here are forked.
We are a hailstorm of broken glass, follow the path of least expectancy.
A huge stinking pile of sick, pile it higher and higher.
Light the match, start the fire.
Level this place until nothing is left and take us with it.
Surroundings are irate.
Crack of dawn brings naught but pain.
Resentment steadily grows.
Laughing in the gallows.
Full throttle determined to fail, pedal to the metal asleep at the wheel.
We are the lucky ones, welcome home.
Poisoned nerves and a bloody antidote
Violence is not an aberration, it's a rule.
Dying beyond the pale.
Your beatings will continue until my morale improves.
I don't hate you, I'm just removing an enemy.
Remorse is for the dead, my enemy.
Humanity's a failed experiment
Walking the path to extinction
Spinning its wheels endlessly
Grease them with oil when you ring it out
Humanity's a failed experiment
Walking the path to extinction
The earth will shake and the waters will rise
The elements reclaim what was taken
What was taken
The skyline is set ablaze with regret
Ashes cover a falling silhouette
The city will reap what it sowed, what a night
Watching as whole city burns
Blindly consuming mass manufactured faith
Mankind is a festering parasite
Blindly consuming mass manufactured faith
Mankind is a festering parasite
Relentlessly draining it's host dry
Nailing belief to a cross of genocide
The elements reclaim what was taken
What was taken
The skyline is set ablaze with regret
Ashes cover a falling silhouette
The city will reap what it sowed, what a night
Watching as whole city burns tonight
Only after the last trace comes
And the last drip of poison
Only after the last finch is caught
Will you find that money cannot pay hatred
When everything becomes irrelevant
When the sky tears open
Fire rains down, fire rains down
The fourth world comes to an end
Push the button, light the match
Feel the bloodlines detach
Cross-hairs in the evening light
I said it once the city burns tonight
The city burns tonight, tonight
The city burns tonight
The skyline is set ablaze with regret
Ashes cover a falling silhouette
The city will reap what it sowed, what a night
Watching as whole city burns tonight
Can the pestilence
Within you be bled out
May I have the honor
Of this amputation?
Know that you have made an enemy
To show you the meaning of indignity
I live now solely for the pleasure
Of your slow decay
Feel the pain of vengeance burn you
Soon you shall know silence, silence
With trembling hands
You'll beg for mercy
I'll show you none
I'll show you none
Purified by my hand
In this my world in this my world
It is salvation
Your futile existence draws to a close
The public wants what the public gets
Lazarus himself wouldn't rise into this world
Decry relativity damned petulant
For seeing through a Trojan horse
Full of Zyklon, while Judas' coffers overflow
What? New world
(Dis)
Order is nothing new
Choking on poison air pouring whiskey
Into crescent moon lacerations
Time to bite the hand that beats
Teach our children well, teach them to kill
Global jihad for a thousand years
Sanctified our blood spills
Sutured with commodities
Iron fist in silken glove ripping away autonomy
Replacing with a placebo
Realize that our wounds will never heal
The sins of deliverance
The eyes of the patriot fixed through the scope
The unknowing tyrant walks to the rope.
It's where murder is justice that martyrs are made
A one gun salute for the new independence day.
They'll hallow your name
They'll hallow your name for your sacrifice.
The sins of deliverance.
"So let the wicked perish in the presence of God."
(For your sacrifice)
The sins of the father atoned by the son
Confessions of commitments broken
A nail driven for every one (of them).
It's where murder is justice that martyrs are made
A one gun salute for the new independence day.
They'll hallow your name
They'll hallow your name for your sacrifice.
You are the cause, I am the effect
Created in hatred, a noose for your neck.
The eyes of the patriot fixed through the scope
The unknowing tyrant walks to the rope.
They'll hallow your name.
For your sacrifice.
They'll hallow your name.
Sacrifice
Sacrifice
Sacrifice
I just got the news today you were dying,
Hot Damn! We're already partying.
But please, before you have to leave,
Let me tell you a few last things.
Suffer unto me
Indulge my every need.
I don't want to meet you halfway
I've always despised that fucking place,
Suffer unto me
Indulge my every need.
I'm not offering you my way
I'm kicking you down the fucking highway.
[x2]
Get one thing straight from the get-go,
I truly don't give a fuck about you
I never have and I never will,
Each day you breathe it's more time to kill.
Fuck Your World Up (Goddamn!)
Your last breath, I'll take it now
Your last breath, I'll take it now
Your last breath, I'll rip it away
And haunt your dreams in your final sleep
You've been wishing in one hand and shitting in the other
You see which one filled up first
Your number's come up
And it sure as hell ain't a lucky one son
[x2]
Get one thing straight from the get-go,
I truly don't give a fuck about you
I never have and I never will,
Each day you breathe it's more time to kill
I saw the world through the lens of a pinhole camera
I saw nothing
I was..blind
In-between a black hole and a supernova is where you'll find me
Imploding and expanding simultaneously
No longer mind
I've been running away for so long
when I finally caught myself, there wasn't much left
the scripts last page is blank
and the medicine..is gone
A sick bastard, a twister of dark matter
On a heavier trip than you can comprehend
A tornado, trying to mend the life thats shattered
Waiting for nothing, to begin
A flat-line my insides are turning out
King me is killing me x2
I keep walking past the places I was born in
Now the faces are blank shiny and dead
I don't recognize a thing I can't recall them
A closed book, that I can never, never read again
A flat-line my insides are turning out
Now the lights fade, this part of war starts now
King me is killing me x4
Killing me
All of that is ending now for I have arisen
Survive myself somehow (today in prison)?
I'm trying to live desire to see the day
I swear I'll never sleep again I am no mans slave
I (wanted)? the fog to lift
But i was living in a cloud
Nostalgia is grinding the life from today
The present always dies and future memories
And king me IS killing me
Cut wide open and bleeding to death for all to see
King me is killing me x4
He's killing me
No, no, you won't kill me
No, I won't let you kill me
1,2,3
Do you remember when work was bond?
A fading promise in the light of the dawn.
Barren December, under a falling sky
The end of days and a reason to die.
Obliteration never looked so divine.
Holding your breath for the moment in time
You lived through hell, now you're trying to die
Your skin is healed but your bleeding inside.
Shots fired just to numb the pain
There's no one left to save.
Night blind, on the shining path.
Ghost walking in the aftermath.
Hypnotised 60 cycle hum
The broken cadence of a distant drum.
21 to 1, I'm liking the odds
A blood junkie with a lightning rod,
A dirty rig and a heavenly nod,
And still you wind up nowhere.
Obliteration never looked so divine
Holding your breath for the moment in time
You lived through hell, now you're trying to die
Your skin is healed but your bleeding inside.
Shots fired just to numb the pain
There's no one left to save.
There's no one left to save.
There's no one left to save.
You chase the dragon but it followed you home
You lost your fevered dreams and broken hope
Desolation never looked so divine.
Promise yourself for the very last time
You lived through hell, now you're trying to die
Your skin is healed but your bleeding inside.
Shots fired just to just to numb the pain
There's no one left to save.
There's no one left to save.
Ohhh, there's no one left.
A fever dream
There's no one left to save.
Shots forever end the pain.
Then you wake
Heart kept in the body bag, pathetic
Picture framed obituary faded in the attic
A shadow of someone you used to be
You've seen so many in this way
They swore you'd never become the machine
A long forgotten memory
Everything you ever wanted
Everything you never had
Everything lies forgotten and dead
Everything turns to nothing
Another day, another turn from the grave
Is it worth everything that you gave?
What a beautiful way to waste away?
Consumed by dependency
A lesson in despondency
A long forgotten memory
And then you wake
Everything you ever wanted
Everything you never had
Everything lies forgotten and dead
Everything turns to nothing
And then you wake
And then you wake
How quickly the master turns into the slave
Slowly succumbing with every dying age
Everything you ever wanted
Everything you never had
Everything lies forgotten and dead
Everything turns to nothing
[Incomprehensible] of the opal banded finger
I will throw you into a concentric mental decline
I control your elation, I control your emotion
I take as I wish memory, clothed in a raiment noir
I take you under my black wing
I take you under my dark wing and nurture
You in hate to dwell forever in a Maison Blanche
Lyrics:
A thousand Romes are set aflame
A thousand Neros sing their own refrains
Narcissus improved & enhanced
He gloats while backing in his arrogance
Conceit & pride are going viral
A globe that's reached it's critical mass
A pixilated downward spiral
Fixated on the looking glass.
Chorus:
An endless temple, a shrine to your vanity
To worship yourself in the cult of me (in the cult of me)
Just squeaking wheels in a fuck machine
High resolution lies fill the screen
The lowest common dominator
Propaganda pitched by petty dicatators.
Chorus:
So what's the measure of a man
Lost in shifting digital sands?
And what's the standard supposed to be
When nothing is as it seems?
You've trapped yourself inside this temple
Enraptured by your vanity
A sacrifice to your own image
The river I'm bound to be found in,
A rope chosen bound for the hang,
When I'm blinded I think I see everything,
Convincing myself again.
This god that I worship,
This demon I blame,
Conspire as one, exactly the same,
It's exactly the same.
Descending,
To never recover the pieces,
To all that we've lost,
Recover the pieces lost,
The pieces to all we've lost.
I shudder to think of the consequence,
It's blasphemy simple and true,
The tragic protagonist torments,
Convincing myself again.
This god that I worship,
This demon I blame,
Conspire as one, exactly the same,
It's exactly the same.
Descending,
To never recover the pieces,
To all that we've lost,
Recover the pieces lost
Chopping lines in international sand
Feeding blood junky habits of the elephant man
Quenching his thirst with black water rising
Executive outcomes on a burning horizon
Yeah, motherfucker let's take a ride
We're rolling route Irish, someone's got to die
Trick or treat, it's IED's so roll the dice for me, please
'Cause it's near 8 miles of pure luck with more bang for Sam's buck
Guaran-fucking-teed, someone will bleed
Guaran-fucking-teed, someone will bleed
Privatize to conceal all the lies
Big business is boomin' like it's the 4th of July
No need for all the formalities
Jump the kangaroo courts and plant the lynching trees
Yeah, motherfucker let's take a ride
Running red lights into a green zone, someone's got to die
Hidden Aegis, nothing here to see, so load the dice for me, please
And let's snort the bottom line crude cashed into refined
Guaran-fucking-teed, just sign the deed
Guaran-fucking-teed, someone will bleed
Someone has got to die
Ours is not to reason why
Ours is but to do if the pay rate's right
Black liquid assets fuck the Mujaheddin
Paint their picket fences red with the American dream
Lay the hammer, hammer down, get the job done right
Jacked up and clocked in into a fire fight
Covert reactions and you never saw me
A glass parking lot in the American dream, yeah
They all die
Oh, fucking murder
Guaran-fucking-teed, someone will bleed
Guaran-fucking-teed
Oh, lay the hammer, hammer down, get the job done right
Jacked up and clocked in into a fire fight
Covert reactions and you never saw me
Once upon a long night after a hard cry
Somewhere in Bethlehem
A baby graced the silence sweetly he's crying
I am Emmanuel
Then angels gave him music, shepherds gave reverence
And a message to the land
A widow held him cherish the God
Who became a man
But oh, Lamb of God, oh, Prince of peace
What tribute shall I bring to worship Thee
I have no gold to lay at Your feet
So Lamb of God I offer me
Can You see the wise men? A star did guide them
Searching all the earth
Till they found the one child the very godchild
Who ruled the universe
Did they know the lady's little baby
Was God in fully man
And everything they gave him he himself
Had made with his hands
But oh, Lamb of God, oh, Prince of peace
What tribute shall I bring to worship Thee
I have no gold to lay at Your feet
So Lamb of God I offer me
I bring You all my hopes
I bring You all my dreams
I give You all my soul
My min and all my strength
I wrap them all inside
My heart to give to the
And I come
O come let us adore Him
O come let us adore Him
O come let us adore Him, Christ
Oh, Lamb of God, oh, Prince of peace
What tribute shall I offer Thee
I have no gold to lay at Your feet
So Lamb of God may I offer
I have no gold to lay at Your feet
So Lamb of God, please let me offer me
Lamb of God
Sweet Lamb of God
Light of the world
Holy One
The Name of Jesus
Sweet Name of Jesus
Rock of salvation
Messiah has come
And we lift our praise
With humble hearts we raise
A song of hope and thanks
Wonderful,
Counselor,
Mighty God,
Prince of Peace,
Emmanuel,
Morning Star,
King of Kings, and
Lord of Lords
Lamb of God, you take away,
the sins of all, the world
Miserere nobis
Bread of life, You take away,
the sins of all the world
Miserere nobis
Agnus Dei, You take away,
the sins of all the world
Your only Son
No sin to hide
But You have sent Him,
From Your side
To walk upon this guilty sod
And to become the Lamb of God
Your gift of Love
They crucified
They laughed and scorned him as he died
The humble King
They named a fraud
And sacrificed the Lamb of God
Chorus:
Oh Lamb of God, Sweet lamb of God
I love the Holy Lamb of God
Oh wash me in His precious Blood
My Jesus Christ the Lamb of God
I was so lost I should have died
But You have brought me to Your side
To be led by Your staff and rod
And to be call a lamb of God
Chorus
Oh wash me in His precious Blood
Your only Son
No sin to hide
But You have sent Him,
From Your side
To walk upon this guilty sod
And to become the Lamb of God
Your gift of Love
They crucified
They laughed and scorned him as he died
The humble King
They named a fraud
And sacrificed the Lamb of God
Chorus:
Oh Lamb of God, Sweet lamb of God
I love the Holy Lamb of God
Oh wash me in His precious Blood
My Jesus Christ the Lamb of God
I was so lost I should have died
But You have brought me to Your side
To be led by Your staff and rod
And to be call a lamb of God
Chorus
Oh wash me in His precious Blood
King of all the earth and every age
All creation waits for You, and trembles at Your name
Surrounded on a throne of endless praise
Fire and lighting flash from the glory of Your face
And I sing to You:
You are holy
You are worthy
You are holy
You're the Lamb of God
How do I dare approach
This Holy One
The One who was and is.
Was and is to come
The world and righteousness and mystery
We've only just begun, just begun to sing
So I'll come broken through
The blood of Your son
And I'll kneel before You
You are holy
You are worthy
You are holy
You're the Lamb of God
Blessing and honor,
And glory and power
To Him who sits on the throne
Blessing and honor
And glory and power
Forever to our God alone
You are holy
You are worthy
You are holy
You're the Lamb of God
You are Holy Lord
Holy God
