- A Lesson Lived Is A Lesson Learned
Do it
Some scars are meant to be worn with pride.
Everyday is knowledge to use in life.
A lesson lived is a lesson learned.
Setbacks used to propel me forward
Misjudgment taken as force to do right,
A better outlook a mindset of power.
Each day resolve and reform.
- A Stroke of Red
There’s no harm done until the harm is done to me
It calls me close as it comes to me
Telling me to forget this world
Erase my life, release this ghost
Longing for a violent rebirth
A stroke of red on this canvas of flesh
- Afflicted past
Hatred evokes the memories
That make your blood run cold.
Fear and sorrow
Push you away from yourself.
How can you face the world,
When you can't face the mirror?
How can you leave your past
- Another Day, Another Vendetta
The question they keep asking me.
How can one so young be so bitter and angry
Well the answer is plain to see
Just look around at this world that we're living in.
It's die or let die
Take or be taken from
And there's nowhere to run
Who do we look to
- As Diehard as They Come
Some of us have had their fateful day
When harmony fades and life stands still
Those who were willing to sacrifice
Were blessed with the instinct to survive
This is for those who've escaped the torment
You know real courage
You are as diehard as they come
- Become The Fuse
I won’t own the consequence of your deception
Or live within the confines of your blame
I can’t see your destruction of peace
From the places I know are guarded by belief
We may never undo what is ruinous
But we will weather what storms may strike
From this day on, May the torch inside always stay
- Before Dishonor
What makes you think everything in this world that you have can be taken away?
In a world this day, it's kill or be killed.
I live each day like it might be my last.
In this lifetime few things are worth fighting for.
My blood. Your honor. Everyone has a destiny.
I'll choose my own.
I will not be a victim.
- Beholder of Justice
In this very moment, agony exists
Unbeknownst to an unforgiving force.
Some pray, some beg, without consolation.
The pure lie beneath us while the scum walk the earth
Why can't we heal them
Why can't we see them
Can we keep hoping, no one knows for sure
Blamelessly renouncing, guilt has no bearing
- Bellow The Bottom
Half dead, you trod through life.
So dependant, a shell of a man.
Pitiful, you let your vices tell your fate.
Follower of the blind, you have nothing.
My empathy has turned to rage.
My pity has turned to hatred.
In selfishness you've sunken to the depths.
How much lower can you go.
- Betrayed By Life
In a cold unforgiving world--alone with fear and weakness, oppressed and dying slowly--countless people have been betrayed by life. No one is exempt. No one is safe. So many lives will be taken. So many lives have been ruined. So many lives hang in the balance. So many lives have been lost. Betrayed by life. As survivors we are left to mend their wounds, we are left to dry there tears. We are left to pick up the pieces of those who have been betrayed by life.
- Bitter Truth
How many ways to languish
How many ways to fail
How many ways to die too soon
You can't choose one it chooses you
Some of the choices, we make
All along the way, can destroy us
The bitter truth cuts both ways
- Bloodsoaked Memories
Those wounds have been revealed
Clawing through this wasteland
No emotion lives, suffocate on hope
Swallow your last rational thought
It tastes of every heart you've devoured
Your veins constrict, they are choking you
Wrapped in vanity, you're dying.
Unveiled by searing hatred
- Bound To Violence
Bound to violence
Gagged by pain
Drowned in self-regret
This grief is the sentence you face
Incomplete, you've lost your way
Struggling with rationale
In a world so cold and bleak
- Choose Or Be Chosen
The time has come to deny your ways.
To rid ourselves of the parasites.
Shedding dead weight, reclaiming whats ours.
Taking each moment with force again.
No crosses to bear, no time to be wasted.
A fearless approach to oppression.
A constant attack to never retreat from.
With no other choice but resistance,
- Cling to Life
I’m helpless here, holding lifeless hands
Didn’t see this coming
This was never planned
Once we had everything, now we see
How quickly life can change, how cruel it can be
Truth is, I don’t know what lies ahead
Truth is, no one’s ever faultless
- Conceived Through an Act of Violence
Thrown, I was thrown
Thrown, into this living hell.
I was thrown into this living hell.
I am the hatred taken from another's life.
Born unwanted, extracted of all that is humane.
No one can relate to my abandonment.
I walk this earth alone in search of salvation.
Forever, Forever. Forever. Alone.
- Condemned until rebirth
Poison fills your lungs
Saying your name is free
I only die to late
Crawling all over your lifeless body
Miles away
Dishonor awaits us all
You are gone forever
Overcome by the perils of existence
- Confide In No One
Give me something real
Give me back those years
Give me peace of mind
Give me something more
Strength, to deny you
Trust, in my instincts
Breathe, when I?m drowning
Life, when I?m lying dead
- Dead Man Breathing
I've grown colder
Than any other stone turned
Than any road crossed
On my way
I've grown colder
Than earth under foot
Than wind at my back
Now scabbed & cracked
- Defeatist
Trapped within your own apathy
Spiralling into a cycle of loss
Beaten mind with a bruised reflection
It's addiction to failure and substances
That ties you to your selfish punishment
In your eyes it's cursed
No fix, no cure, tortured with imperfection
Your hatred is aimless
- Destroy Everything
A new life begins
Destroy everything
Obliterate what makes us weak
Destroy everything
Decimate what threatens me
Cleanse this world with flame
End this, cleanse this
- Dig Your Way Out
Try as you might
When all theories fail
No hesitation into the pale
Urge overtakes and the moment dies
In a crashing wave
Your wrists are tied
It’s all caving in on you
- Dissonance
When the end of sanity comes to you
What will the silence say
Will you express any remorse or throw decency away
Clear conscience is forfeit when a heart's played false by praise
Harmony ends swiftly, withers, dies and dissipates
Always unwilling to give, so self-obsessed without respect
Always unwilling to give but they take take take
- Divine Judgment
It's a wish for reprisal
The vengeance the divine has chosen
In the reflection of this anger
In this embodiment of all that is despised
They'll claim it's justified
They'll say it's divine judgment
With prayers and wishes to be granted
With destruction and murder behind their eyes
- Driven by Suffering
Every seconds breath life into a reason for dying.
Our ignorance will only stunt our final will to live.
Bound and Gagged.
I feel forced back in a losing race.
I've been stepped on and passed by but I have enough hope to keep fighting.
All of my pain.
Driven by suffering (2x)
Every single choice I must make.
- Empty Promises
You've come to me with salvation, saying I must repent.
You offer up your redemption, a guarantee of a better life.
In your safe world your illusions are comfort for your conscience.
My sacrifices will be made in a honor of what is truly sacred.
How can you save me, when you can't save yourself?
You can't save yourself.
You can't save yourself.
- Every Lasting Scar
Hard rain pours down on the concrete
Seeps in deep below
Cold screams of the city are
Heard through the walls of every home
Most seek for a deeper meaning
Beyond their daily woes
Most see nothing more than black clouds
- Everyone Bleeds Now
You fucking bleed now
Underneath the veil was a
Killing power
Only a cursed love could retain
I lent it a vision and a voice
And pleaded in the greatest moment of need
- Facing What Consumes You
Facing what consumes you is the only way to be free.
Released from those poisonous fears.
Resurrected once and for all.
You want me to hold my tongue,
Then why the fuck am I here?
You want me to bottle my rage,
Cause you never had the heart to say what I say.
My life, my body, my pride.
- Final Prayer
Destruction - in it's purest form. No limit to the vicious damage done. Corruption - injustice with no remorse. Heinous disregard, our future's uncertain. But as life comes from the earth. It must returns to the ash. Cleanse ourselves of these vile traits. And crawl back from annihilation. Worthless. We shatter lives. Ruthless. We decimate the earth. Final prayer. Final prayer for the human race we know our time is running out. Millions of people will suffer and die by the hands of those in power. Final prayer. Final prayer for the human race. You must bow to your knees and repent for the human race. Awakened. To the blood stained face. Of a world that can not be changed. Forever reminded. Of a nightmare that is every passing day. Worthless. We shatter lives. Ruthless. We decimate the earth. Final prayer. Final prayer for the human race we know our time is running out. Millions of people will suffer and die by the hands of those in power. Final prayer. Final prayer for the human race. You must bow to your knees and repent for the human race.
- From Gold to Gray
I don’t want your pity
Won’t bargain for my soul
Not another form with reason fled
Can’t be another object of dread
Each for himself must carve a path
While wretched life imposes wrath
Through tangled webs that leave us worn
Into crowded graves to be ignored
- Ghost of War
Fate silent warriors sleeping souls will arise.
Once forgotten soldiers come to life.
Fallen mercenary, dormancy is done,
Not content with wars we never won.
Memories can't ignore
Anguish of before
Satisfy the scorn.
- Give Wings To My Triumph
Here I am
Exposed in my brokenness
Here I am
Screaming these words
It's all I ever known of serenity
Here I am
Telling my pain, bearing my soul to the world
Here I am
- Healing To Suffer Again
I won't be chained to the earth
I feel cheated, so I cheat myself
I feel defeated, so I defeat myself
Drown your sorrows again and again
- Hollow Ground
From nothing we have risen and from nothing we still rise
Take your life back
Fight, fight
Will you fight to take your life back?
Ask yourself what's truly yours in life
Are you in control or someone's slave?
- Horrors of Self
Look again into the mirror that you despise
Keep looking over your shoulder
This shadow may not always be your own
It's living in you, on you, eating you alive
It bears a striking resemblance, it bears your scars
Confront the horrors of self
What no one knows is what you fear
- I Will Be Heard
Now is the time for me to rise to my feet
Wipe your spit from my face
Wipe these tears from my eyes
Now is the time for me to rise to my feet
Wipe your spit from my face
Wipe these tears from my eyes
I've got to take my life back
- Immortal Enemies
When the conflict never ceases
and the enemies are immortal
Only their names And Faces change
So a stance must always be held
Claw at my pride your facade tears away
Another day dies, i'm looking, i'm Lasting
Attempt to break my stride, fall deeper, tread faster
- In Ashes They Shall Reap
Born to bleed
Fighting to succeed
Built to endure
What this world throws at me
Born to bleed
Fighting to succeed
Built to endure
- In the Walls
Leave no eye open
To weep for the fallen
A strange stillness
Has started to sink in
Inside the wall is scum and trash
Blind from birth, only see what they lack
Outside these walls, filth and shame
- Indivisible
Unfinished,
Are the issues we wait until tomorrow to confront
Unpunished,
Are the deeds we do to gain us what we want
Intentions,
Have to be genuine in order to be felt
Decisive,
We will be, once we clear the past from our present self
- Last Breath
All the prayers in the world cant bring you back
Its your last breath, this is our last breath
taken from this earth without warning
victim of the ultimate injustice
nothing will ever make sence of this
nothing could have prepared me
all that is left are memories
and the peices of a shattered existence
- Live for this
Let's go!
Live for this, Live, Live
Live for this
Live for this, Live, Live
If you don't live for something, You'll die for nothing
Through the best and the worst
The struggle and sacrifice
- Merciless Tide
Father of all that is merciless
Creates what cannot be more vile
Servants beg their twisted master
To victimize defile
The merciless tide
Consumes and purifies
All those who've done wrong
- Mind Over All
When I was at my weakest
And I had given in
Some had counted me out
Some rejoiced in my failures
The few that believed
Gave me power and life
Gave me strength with their trust
Surrounding me with light
- Never Let It Die
Never Let It Die
The flame was almost extinguished
The will had faded and escaped me
Two years have passed and they wilted away
All that was left were memories of days I never lived
Now the fight is on, until there's nothing left
- No Halos For The Heartless
I see our world as out of focus
Lost and dying as we witness virtue
Thrown aside
Now degenerates and leeches thrive
While the working manes condemned
And the junkie, risen up onto a throne of lies
A wretched pedestal
- Not My Master
This day is worth living
This fight is worth fighting
This hope is worth hoping
What I walk away from is not my master
If it came down to life or death would you even make a choice
If it was tomorrow would you see that today you've destroyed
I feel like I've been here before so many painful times
- Not One Truth
Living as we rot
Showered with shadows of dreams devoured
Our souls descend into endless seas of sin
There's no turning back
No repenting, no remorse
Hate stricken creation
I realize in this world
- Nothing Scars Me
What becomes as red sight sees life
Lies and the mouths that birth them, sworn to abide
Cutting the lifeless pieces, rotted by time
Strangled by shadows in the coldest light
Nothing you say scares me anymore
Nothing,scars me
- Perseverance
I know your fear of loss
And your struggles with faith
And how it takes everything that you have to face the day
The virtues you possess now bring you eternal pain
All you have is contempt for a life you can't obtain
All your heroes have failed you
Yet you try and prevail
- Prepare For War
Drifting by the heavens unscarred. Yet unhealed before a bleeding cross.
Thrown into the ash. Crumbling.
[chorus]
I've been crossed. Like the lies on
a clocks face. I've been fed lies I can't comprehend. I've become but a mere
seed again. And I'll prophesize the end. Now. I have yet begun to fight.
There is no fear in my heart. No cause worthy of my respect. In the End I'll
rot. I won't fall prey to deception. Deception is the means by which they
- Proven
You want to see me fail
You won't get your chance
(You want to see me fail)
You won't get your chance
(You want to see me fail)
You'll never get your chance
This is our lives
- puritan
Bastard cries.
Feed the fire.
The burning desire
To rob human life.
In this world full of fear of the unknown.
Twisting the perception of the weak.
Lying to progress.
- Put It to the Torch
Am I supposed to be sorry, my words struck a nerve
Am I supposed to be sorry that I lift dust where my footsteps once were
Maybe I’m supposed to care for grand ideas never expressed
It took no heart, pierced through so clear
More verbal piss in the well of your fear
Here’s your apology, here’s to burning out
And here’s to fading away
Fuck you both, I just put it to the torch
- Remain Nameless
If there's one thing in this world… that I must do
It will be, to prove you wrong
Make you take back the lies
And bring the truth to the surface
Clean my slate and erase
All the black you've
Tarnished my name with
- Severed
Sorrow filled days of disease,
the faceless shadows arise.
The fear once among the lust,
now reflects creations demise.
So to the idols wait for the
impending doom, under a godless sky,
yet we walk
on further atop the broken glass.
- Smash You're Enemies
I hope I'm alive
To witness your demise
Make you feel my sorrow
Encompass all my pain
That I've felt for years
Dreading each dying day
Hanging by a thread
On the edge of my sanity
- Smash Your Enemies
I hope I'm alive.
To witness your demise.
Make you feel my sorrow.
Encompass all my pain.
That I've felt for years.
Dreading each dying day.
Hanging by a thread.
On the edge of my sanity.
- Spitting Venom
Here lies another grudge another score never settled
For many who lead a life of resentment
Filled with foolish pride, that blinds them
Fighting the world but their own progress gets fought
Feeble minds, spit their venom at me
Reliving their grievances day in, day out
Living with all the same that their life has spit out
- Straight To Your Face
Straight to your face with the truth
The longer it takes for you to achieve
The faster they want to see you break
It's in their nature to try to destroy
What they know they could not help create
I've seen it for years and I know first hand
Who is genuine and who is fake
The rest of the leeches will come and go
- Supremacy
Supremacy — четвёртый студийный альбом американской хардкор-группы Hatebreed, вышедший в 2006 году, и первый их диск, выпущенный лейблом Roadrunner Records. Альбом достиг 31 строчки в Billboard 200 в 2006 году.
- Supremacy Of Self
SOME WARS MUST BE FOUGHT ALONE
Am I the only one standing in my way?
Am I my own merciless enemy?
Can I stare back looking deep into death's gaze
Can I turn and face myself and the knowledge of would shouldn't be?
To look into my heart was to look into hell
Controlled by the voice of fear I was completely overwhelmed
- Tear It Down
How much more can you possibly take?
How many battles can you lose in one day?
Who is the source of all your pain
And how do you ever plan to be unrestrained?
How much longer? How much more?
Until you gain some self respect.
For once, just stand the fuck up and fight!
Confront and shatter everything that stands in your way.
- The Divinity of Purpose
When the odds were stacked against me
I needed someone by my side
And when the world left no place for me
I needed someone by my side
And when the skies crashed down upon me
I looked for someone by my side
You were there, when no one else was
You showed me what's born doesn't always die
- The Herd Will Scatter
Consistent
Conscious
Deliberate
Intent to deceive
Decided voices
Spreading the myths to believe
Repeating falsehoods
- The Most Truth
Ahhh let's go!
The pain is here,
To tell me that i'm still alive.
The pain is here,
To tell me that i'm still alive.
Alive to fight another day,
- This I Earned
Fiction you made up to believe
Lives on a screen but it’s not reality
Actions that you didn’t take
Is why you’re concerned with the ones I make
Now you’ve noticed your day slipping fast
Was it well spent or were you stepping back
You counted all my blessings as you went
Leaving your mark of discontent
- This is Now
Hatebreed - This Is Now
Another memory and I`m asking myself
How can I let the past be the past.
Once and for all take a hold of the future
And not let it control what I aspire to have.
I see where my decisions have brought me
Whats done is done and its time to start again
- Through The Thorns
Soldier on
Now it's all irrelevant
The journey here and what it meant
The time and distance
Others hate for my persistence
Every stride enlightens
It's all begins emerging
- To the Threshold
This is the sound of the lost, beaten and broken,
Rising up and claiming what was been taken from us
From the shadows of the past
From the depths of our own failures
Stepping forward into the light
Denying our demise
Decimating all uncertainty
Bowing to only who can place judgment upon me
- Unloved
When it all ended
There was no where to turn
I hid inside myself hoping someone would find me
That day never came
As the years passed the pain lessened
I thought your voice would silence forever
I was wrong
- Voice Of Contention
If they said they knew the truth
They lie.
No one said my faith wouldn't be questioned.
Been driven to the brink.
Because the truth is too hard to accept
When you face your mortal enemy.
Who ever said, I needed you, lied
Who ever said, you knew the truth, lied.
- Walking the Knife
You only know life's worth
When you're taken to a place where life means nothing
You only know what hurts
When you dig to a place where the pain stops coming
Some days will give you the ground
Some days will give you the rope
Someone will hand you the poison
- We Still Fight
Talk of the causes you support
Voice your misdirected views
You only comment on the things you don't have the power to change
Do you even think before you speak
Do you know what it is you condone
Take a look at the world today
You've taken your freedom and safety for granted
- Weight of the False Self
If you want to make a difference in the world it means
You have to be different from the world you see
Free yourself from burdens that you know exist
Don't carry the curse of the fatalist
If you want to make a difference in the world it means
You have to be different from the world you see
Free yourself from burdens that you know exist
Don't carry the curse of the fatalist
- Wings of the Vulture
They only take to the skies once death arrives
Through a darkened sky so clear to see
Unveiling the closeness of morbidity
As light hits the eye, no sympathy
The talons sharper than they’ve ever been
Lower, lower, lower sweeps the wings of the vulture
- Words Become Untruth
The man drifting seeks poison and promise
A threat to all, mostly to himself
Hearing voices from the great beyond
Now only he can dig himself out
Eyes red, wrists cut
Reaching out but not from heaven
Soul black, head fucked
- Worlds Apart
Conditioned to feel nothing
We turn our backs on all these crimes
Cries fall on deaf ears, and the killing continues
They say what we don't know will never hurt us
But nothing could be, further from the truth
[chorus]
- You're Never Alone
This is for the kids who have no where to turn
Who have nothing to live for
You think you haven't the will to persist
You have to search within yourself
All the work that you've done in vain
Been overlooked and taken for granted
Only you can end your suffering