1. |
World On Fire
03:23
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Down in the valley of the devil
Runs a river like a silver thread
There is a man in the water
Laying scripture on his daughter
But she doesn’t mind cause she’s long since dead
Breathe in the air tonight
Scream for a world on fire
Under the moon sits a beggar with some dust
And a rusted spoon
A burning feather gives him tether to the end
That is coming soon
Breathe in the air tonight
Scream for a world on fire
What do you want
Just give me everything that keeps me terrified
What do you need
All the pain it brings is justified
What will you do
I’ll do anything
But in the meantime
Burn it down
Out in the shadows with the sinners
Kneels a woman with a cross to bear
She just pretends that the end is never coming
But she’s first in line and it’s almost there
Breathe in the air tonight
Scream for a world on fire
What do you want
Just give me everything that keeps me terrified
What do you need
All the pain it brings is justified
What will you do
I’ll do anything
But in the meantime
Burn it down
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2. |
A Young Girl With Wings
02:21
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On a warm Halloween
A young girl wore a coat of green
Beneath her eyes, slightly wild
Hung a most bewitching smile
But as the sun sank to the ground
Her brilliant smile turned upside down
Her coat of green turned midnight black
And leathery wings grew from her back
She spread them wide and tore through the night
And those who witnessed died of fright
But there was one who wasn’t scared
A tall thin fellow with long black hair
He adored her wicked wings
They made him think of devilish things
So he called the young girl to the ground
And her angry lips turned upside down
She took his hand on the earthly floor
And the two became one but so much more
They danced with the fever that happiness brings
A boy with no name and a young girl with wings
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3. |
Sometimes Comes The Wolf
03:38
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I should’ve never let you go
And yet I’m glad you’re gone
Which is all you need to know
About the frequency I’m on
If I’ve remembered not to care
Or forgotten how to feel
In the darkness all is fair
In the darkness I am real
In the shadows of the world I can lose control
In the space between the words
Where the truth is told
Hear the cry of the lamb
When the moon is full
Sometimes comes the mother
Sometimes comes the wolf
A carnival of vertigo
For a crowd of one
And that’s all you need to know
About the stage I’m bleeding on
Though my intentions are ever clear
The execution is often flawed
Without conscience all is fair
Without conscience I am god
In the shadows of the world I can lose control
In the space between the words
Where the truth is told
Hear the cry of the lamb
When the moon is full
Sometimes comes the mother
Sometimes comes the wolf
I should’ve never let you go
But as the time goes on
I’ve learned all I need to know
About the pain of holding on
Where the rhyme’s ambiguous
The reason disappears
In this moment all is lost
In this moment I am fear
In the shadows of the world I can lose control
In the space between the words
Where the truth is told
Hear the cry of the lamb
When the moon is full
Sometimes comes the mother
Sometimes comes the wolf
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4. |
The Killing Tree
03:24
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Change is nigh
So hang your old from the killing tree
Leave that past, unkind
To dance alone in the breeze
Now there's sand for miles
Stretching as far as the eye can see
My desert child
This lonely road is a gift from me
Go slow but don't surrender
As the world is wide, your path is slender
Your fear is justified
But if you change your mind
You can save your life
Here is a lie
A sweet mirage of the cruelest kind
The illusion mystifies
And makes a prisoner of the mind
So rise
To where the stakes are high
And circling wolves are your company
Though you don't want to die
You don't want to live to become me
Go slow but don't surrender
As the world is wide, your path is slender
Your fear is justified
But you can change your mind
Hold on to your intentions
Brace yourself for true ascension
Your fear is justified
But if you change your mind
You can save your life
Ghosts thrive on the withering
Feeding on the bones of long-lost things
When you never can forget
You'll always wonder why
The future never comes to life
And the past won't seem to die
Now is the time
Collecting scars is a certainty
Reminders of where you've been
Where you’re going now
And where you’ll be
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5. |
This Zombie Love
03:58
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A world full of ghosts
With faces I know
And I see her from a mile away
Staggering slowly with death in her veins
Where did she go
Is she somewhere inside
If the body's the vessel that carries the soul
Is she truly gone, or just less than whole
This zombie love
Is bringing me so low
And it kills me to know, that even undead
She's more alive than any other girl in the world
Here she comes now
The love of my life
With blood on her breath and nothing in her eyes
Why is Death wearing her as a disguise
I can't leave her this way
Only two bullets left
But I let her down once, won't do it again
Put my finger on the trigger and count back from ten
This zombie love
Is bringing me so low
And it kills me to know that even undead
She's more alive than any other girl in the world
And I hope she doesn't see me crying...
Now she's at rest
Only one bullet left
This plague raining down like death from above
Could kill everything on this earth but our love
This zombie love
Is bringing me so low
And it kills me to know that even undead
She's more alive than any other girl in the world
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6. |
Soulfire
03:31
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A soul-fire bringing down my world in blue flames
Black smoke rising up to choke the gods
This cold reminder of
As below, so above
The long road’s getting awfully short these days
Black top giving way to rocks and dirt
It hurts... it hurts...
When you’re full of piss and fire
You want it all all all
Injecting darkness just to heal you
Now the moonlight’s dying
And you’ve got to crawl crawl crawl
Because the sun ain’t gonna rise
Anymore
No wires stringing me above the true plane
Wide-eyed, staring down into the dark
If you don’t jump you’ll never know
That’s one life down with none to go
Memories are a bitter pill these days
Bad times are the only ones I feel
It’s real
When you’re full of piss and fire
You want it all all all
Injecting darkness just to heal you
Now the moonlight’s dying
And you’ve got to crawl crawl crawl
Because the sun ain’t gonna rise
White-knuckled
Drowning in distractions
Devouring every image
Every sound
Anything to avoid what’s waiting at the end
Are the answers there at all
Do I leap or do I fall
When you’re full of piss and fire
You want it all all all
Injecting darkness just to heal you
Now the moonlight’s dying
And you’ve got to crawl crawl crawl
Because the sun ain’t gonna rise...
Anymore
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7. |
Eden
02:39
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Your voice, a scarred and sultry tone
Like red wine poured through the telephone
A world of hurt divides the pride of flesh and bone
Are you alive or long past dead
Your spirit, thin, living on water and bread
The years of feeling nothing
Have gone right to your head
Tear down the walls around your Eden
Might be the serpent you’ve been needing
What can you know about yourself
If you’ve never even had the chance to fall
Tear down the walls
Your trees are bare, your grass, so high
You are the ghost of paradise
Scratching the stones for every day that whispers by
I write you words you send them back
Now I've got volumes, neatly stacked
While you haunt the garden, carving penance in your back
Tear down the walls around your Eden
Might be the serpent you’ve been needing
What can you know about yourself
If you’ve never even had the chance to fall
Tear down the walls
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8. |
Dead White Stone
03:59
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I don’t need Heaven
To remind me how far I can fall
Just the world can make me feel so small
I can’t understand myself
And I sink down, down, down
In this black river
Down, down, down
Like a dead white stone
Your beauty
Just reminds me how ugly I feel
Dig my nails into my skin and peel
Til I can’t recognize myself
And I strip down, down, down
In this black mirror
Down, down, down
To my dead white bones
And I reach back into my mind
Where the sleeping snake unwinds
He feels the sun but can’t see it shine
A lifetime in the night will leave you blind
Now I remember
As the bodies line up on the wall
They only came to see me fall
And I’ve got no surprises anymore
Down, down, down
And I reach back into my mind
Where the sleeping snake unwinds
He feels no love but he’s not unkind
A lifetime in the night will do me fine
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9. |
Thirteen Women
03:55
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Last night I was dreaming, dreamed about the H-bomb
Well, the bomb went off and I was caught
I was the only man on the ground
There was a-thirteen women and only one man in town
Thirteen women and only one man in town
And as funny as it may be
The one and only man in that town was me
Well, thirteen woman and me the only man around
I had two girls every morning
Seeing that I was well fed
And believe you me, one sweetened my tea
While another one buttered my bread
Two girls gave me my money
Two girls made me my clothes
And another sweet thing, bought me a diamond ring
About forty carats I suppose
Thirteen women and only one man in town
There was a-thirteen women and only one man in town
It was something I can't forget
Because I think of those thirteen women…
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10. |
Fangs
02:18
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At the end of the day
When the mask is put away
And the sweat of deception is dry
I turn out the lights
And I breathe in the night
Full of panic though I don’t know why
My head’s a jigsaw mess of doom
I don’t know why I’m terrified
A bulbous, thought-infested womb
Of fever dreams and silent screams
Whoa
A legion of horribles grow
They take me to places unknown
The gnashing of fangs in the dark
Tears me apart
What good is the mind
That never opines
Addicted to the peace silence keeps
No words from a voice
Made for thunderous noise
The wounds of defiance run deep
Something broken? Maybe so
I don’t know why I’m terrified
In this cerebral rodeo
Of fever dreams and silent screams
Whoa
A legion of horribles grow
They take me to places unknown
The gnashing of fangs in the dark
Tears me apart
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11. |
Diary of a Beast
03:00
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Within this dark there burns a heart
So afraid of everything
When through the loneliness
Came a reckoning
A heart beat small and strong
On palest wings
In a slow, burning way
I think I could love you
Within my dreams there are no seams
Between the ocean and the sky
No Beauty and no Beast
Just you and I
'Til sunlight splits my eyes
And I feel the sting
In a slow, burning way
I think I could love you
Within my soul, there is a hole
I dug a long, long time ago
A secret, safe and warm
I thought you should know
A Fairy, wings and all
Could lay inside
In a slow, burning way
I think I could love you
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12. |
The End
02:27
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Downtown and the sound surrounds me
Treading water in an ocean of souls
A wet grave as the wave just flows
Right back through me
There’s no choice when the voice compels me
Can’t run with both feet in a hole
A dark cloud of a crowd like thunder rolls
Right back to me
Rock hard but the lightning scars me
Gone blind in a sliver of time
Dead eyes go wide as it slides
Right back through me
Eight billion tongues flicking
And all those teeth clicking
No mind, just a need to bring you pain
Sometimes when the lies confuse me
I space out ‘til there’s nothing at all
Transcend ‘til I bend and I fall
Right back through me
I shut down when the world disturbs me
One mind means nothing at all
When the monster collective scales the wall
Right back to me
Eight billion fingers poking
And all those throats croaking
No words, just screams to bring you pain
I’ll stand tall and blessed
To face the redness in the West
All roads lead to the end
My wounds are dressed
As I embrace the redness in the West
All roads lead to the end
Speak up and the words corrupt me
Context means nothing at all
No sense, no sound, just crashing down
Right back through me
Face down in the pain it deals me
More real than ever before
I beg for less and scream for more...
I’ll stand tall and blessed
To face the redness in the West
All roads lead to the end
My wounds are dressed
As I embrace the redness in the West
All roads lead to the end
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