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D-Day
03:02
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D - D A Y
(jericho)
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Change with the tide, just so I don’t drown
Soak up the rain in case of drought
All over signs of impending doom
So I just lie and prepare in my room
People outside, begging for death
Running around as they scratch off their flesh
Looking for ways to distract my mind
Can’t quite ignore all the screaming outside
Can’t breathe, can’t breathe
Can’t breathe, can’t breathe
Can’t breathe, can’t breathe
Can’t breathe, can’t breathe
Still I’m waiting, not forsaking words I once felt like debating
Fears I swallowed and dismissed for being far too pessimistic
Till the angels pierced the sky, their fury burning with the fire
Of a thousand suns at once, the walls of Jericho came falling down
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2. |
If You Never
03:10
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I F Y O U N E V E R
(tiny triggers)
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And when should the push become the shove?
And should I rely on myself?
And when should I stop pulling these tiny triggers meant for someone else?
And is it too late to join the club?
Or would I just fail at that too?
And should I just give the fuck up?
Something tells me it's something I won't do
Do what you can, and just try just to try
And if you never get there, well then lie and just lie
And say you'll turn it around before you die
If you never, in time you will
And when should the push become the shove?
And should I rely on myself?
And when should I stop pulling these tiny triggers meant for someone else?
And is it too late to join the club?
Or would I just fail at that too?
And should I just give the fuck up?
Something tells me it's something I won't do
Do what you can, and just try just to try
And if you never get there, well then lie and just lie
And say you'll turn it around before you die
You'll turn it around before you die
Do what you can, and just try just to try
And if you never get there, well then lie and just lie
And say you'll turn it around before you die
Turn it around before you die
Turn it around before you die
Turn it around before you die
If you never, in time you will
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3. |
Take Your Leave
02:44
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T A K E Y O U R L E A V E
(king of cups)
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Hey old man, you falling tired?
Your faithless lovers look beside
The king they crowned will sleep in dirt again
Hearts weigh heavy on the throne
When god can't speak to claim his own
And soon the subjects will revolt again
You have eyes for it, it it
He's in Debt to it, it, it
Hey old man with furrowed brow
They told me I deserved the crown
Now hand it over perhaps I'll let you live
You want it all until you have to start believing
You'd like the power but you know that it's deceiving
You come unarmed and you expect to leave here breathing
Now shut your mouth
And take your leave
You want what's mine?
Get in line you motherfucker
Or save yourself
and get out
You want the crown?
Get in line you motherfucker
Or save yourself
You want it all until you have to start believing
You'd like the power but you know that it's deceiving
You come unarmed and you expect to leave here breathing
Now shut your eyes and take your medicine
You want what's mine?
Get in line you motherfucker
You're right on time
Come one
Come all
I know, I know
I know
I know your side
I told my side
I know the king you crowned will sleep in dirt again
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S C E N D
(invisible gods)
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by some mutated contract
we buy this broken dream
we gain a short admission
to sell off everything
send
send
the savior of us all
your scapegoats are the sacred
your pilgrims are the purge
their mission manifested
to kill and rape and scourge
send
send
the savior of us all
send
send
the savior of us all
we give them right to own us
we buy from them our lives
our children made the debtors
forever paying tithes
DID WHAT YOU TOLD ME TO
we live our lives in boxes
with little glowing screens
we fill our blood with toxins
so we can deal with things
and sometimes more than often
the bitter masks the taste
the fruitless failed reflection
"what if it's all a waste?"
send
send
the savior of us all
send
send
the savior of us all
fuck your savior
invisible gods do nothing
now raise your voice and raise your fists
for your children’s sake
stop defending
the ones who’ve made you suffer
no one will save you but yourself
make no mistake
fuck your savior this and savior that
it’s always been in your hands
remember you whored it out
to a bunch of greedy fucks
but don’t you worry
nothing’s forever
the time of kingdoms is over
it’s time to take back the pound of flesh they took from us
raise your fists up high
raise them for all the reasons why
there’s no savior you will have to save yourself
raise your fists up high
raise them for every dirty lie
there’s no savior for the ones who made this hell
raise your fists up high
raise them for all the reasons why
there’s no savior you will have to save yourself
raise your fists up high
raise them for every dirty lie
there’s no savior for the ones who made this hell
let us pour our heart out to greater things
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5. |
Paper Thin
03:19
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P A P E R T H I N
(lashes upon lashes)
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Everything is black and blue
But it's nothing but a bruise
I can try to keep a few
Or I can heal if you should choose
Leaving soft come hither clues
Just another clever ruse
Break me in I’ll follow you
I will fall in love with you
Everything comes pouring through
With the final lash or two
I am paper thin for you
I am opened up to you
See me leaking out
See me coming undone
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6. |
Bystanders
04:57
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B Y S T A N D E R S
(cor cordium)
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Won't you save me
Hold me gently
I have suffered
Lift me upward
Stuck in the riptide
Smile by the wayside
Help me I'm drowning
Wave barely frowning
Can you hear me calling
Hold me up I'm falling
Feign me a rescue
Thought I should test you
Went as expected
You unaffected
Can you hear me calling
Hold me up I'm falling
And my lungs are filling
Was the past worth killing
Don't act like you ever
Don't act like you ever
Don't act like you ever
Don't act like you ever
You never showed up to save me so
I guess I'll just have to let you go
I thought that I knew what friends were for
You don't got to save me anymore
(I'll forget you)
You went and you left me all alone
One day you will reap what you have sown
I'll sing it until it's set in stone
I still got my goddamn microphone
(I'll forget you)
You never showed up to save me so
I guess I'll just have to let you go
I thought that I knew what friends were for
You don't got to save me anymore
(I'll forget you)
You went and you left me all alone
One day you will reap what you have sown
I'll sing it until it's set in stone
I still got my goddamn microphone
(I'll forget you)
(Can you hear me calling)
You never showed up to save me so
I guess I'll just have to let you go
(Hold me up I'm falling)
I thought that I knew what friends were for
You don't got to save me anymore
(I'll forget you)
(And my lungs are filling)
You went and you left me all alone
One day you will reap what you have sown
(Was the past worth killing)
I'll sing it until it's set in stone
I still got my goddamn microphone
(I'll forget you)
Apropos, the saint should show
As soon as I stand on my own
Apropos, the saint should show
As soon as I stand on my own
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Cradle
02:51
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C R A D L E
(headland)
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I hear you calling me
Calling me to the cliffs
The rocks below they scream my name
So all I can do is follow
And I hope it's something grand
And I hope it's so much more
And this didn't go as planned
But then again, then again
I hear you calling me
Pulling me under with you
Your waters beg for my release
So all I can do is swallow
I hope it's something grand
I hope it's so much more
This didn't go as planned
But then again
Your divine plan
So ill conceived
I can't believe
And I want to believe
Leave me alone
I seem alone
I'm not alone
And I could never be
So I await
An empty slate
A chance to be
More than I could ever be
This world I know
I must forget
Leave my regret
And let go
Kill it all away
Forget yesterday
Forget how the sun will
Rise another day
Rise another day
Rise another day
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8. |
River Of God
04:57
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R I V E R O F G O D
(the fountain)
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Take the cup fill it up Lift it up to the sky
Praise invisible gods for unforgivable lies
Tilt it back and wake me up from the animal dreams
I’ve been hibernating dreaming of unspeakable things
And from the sludge we crawled on phantom limb to get to Her place
And in defiance sprouted tongues so we could have just a taste
Every swallow every drop recalling things in my mind
That built the clot built the knot in the base of my spine
Full of come give me some share with me just a sip
Any chance to betray betwixt the cup and the lip
And for the sinner for the simpleton who drank from Her banks
The everlasting urge to fall down on your knees and give thanks
It is He who gave his sons a poisoned muscle to flex
Who bore the daughters who would swallow it right up to the neck
And for the blood the seed the poison She will give in return
A tiny piece of every son Her body happened to spurn
And should She let me close enough to cut away all Her strings
With Her compliance I would do the most unspeakable things
When all is said and done and all the fires begin to fume
Take the viscera that almost formed to bone in Her womb
And at Her side we’ll consummate the life we happened to live
By boiling all the children lost for gifts that She has to give
And every book they ever wrote to speak to us of Her charm
Should be forgotten once we choke upon the first sign of harm
All the things, all the things, all the things that She said
Now washed away and sinking silently to rest at Her bed
Every war every drought every capital built
Another stitch into the fabric of a blasphemous quilt
An even farther cry is what we came to try to attain
The immortality and knowledge that we’ve sought all in vain
And we run and we climb
And we scrape and we scale
And we beg and we bite
And we fight and we fail
What we were what we've been
What we kill what we carve
What we choke what we cut
What we steal what we starve
Just a glance just a taste
Just a sip just to see
Just to say I was there
Just to want just to be
When we writhe in denial
When we find where She lay
When we drink from Her womb
Will we know what to say?
When we open our skin
When we let Her seep in
When we’re born once again
Oh in the River of God
What our Father forbade
With the tip of his blade
When we fall when we bathe
Oh in the River of God
With our enemies slain
When we open the vein
Will we come once again
Oh in the River of God
What our Father forbade
With the tip of his blade
When we fall when we bathe
Oh in the River of God
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9. |
The Sinking Anthem
06:41
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T H E S I N K I N G A N T H E M
(many waters)
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Your mission's compromised the moment that you lay the plans
I count the tired yarns you spin yourself on just one hand
And with all the time you're wasting I could write a thousand songs for you
If music spoiled your mission that would be one more excuse
Your "will"'s will turn to "might"'s
In spite of time's relentless melt
Your "maybe"'s justified
By all the lies you tell yourself
But rest assured my friend,
In time you will
in time you will
in time you will
in time you will
in time you will
in time you will
in time you will
The cadence of these words will dawn upon a greater man than you
And he will change his mind to find the way of getting out of this is through
And with nothing learned and unconcerned you'll shrug responsibility
But you are well aware that this is not what you were born to be
Your "will"'s will turn to "might"'s
In spite of time's relentless melt
Your "maybe"'s justified
By all the lies you tell yourself
But rest assured, in time you will
I've been treading water, barely staying up
Tending to the broken hearts, and emptying the cups
I've been standing in the quicksand looking up
"In time you will" has been the sinking anthem long enough
Kill the fallen angels
Kill the ones I long to be
I've let Mr. Hyde decide for long enough
Broken glass and bloody knees and suicidal lust
All the faces photos seem to show beneath the dust
Wasted youth, unspoken truth, and traces of disgust
"Sorry, son, but could you hold this till your time is up?"
"Well, I've been been carrying the weight for long enough."
In time you would, in time you would, in time you would give up
In time you will
In time you will
In time you will
In time
Kill the fallen angels
Kill the ones I long to be
Call:
Give me what I'm owed and all the weight will seem to fall away
Response: Getting what you wanted doesn't mean the weight will fall away
Call:
Give me everything and all the weight will seem to fall away
Response:
Give up everything and all the weight will surely fall away
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10. |
No Amends
03:50
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N O A M E N D S
(the turning point)
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Nothing works
Nothing hurts
Wasted words
Wasted words
The will is gone
Help yourself
Free yourself
No one else
No one else
The love is gone
Tie loose ends
Kill your friends
No amends
No amends
No amends
The fear is gone
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The Ugly Facade Texas
We live our lives in boxes, with little glowing screens. We fill our blood with toxins, so we can deal with things. And sometimes, more than often, the bitter masks the taste. The fruitless failed reflection: what if it's all a waste?
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