- ...Discipline Your Daughters
I can't recall that last day of sun,
Curtains closed and sitting with the lights out,
An uncertain emptiness surrounds me
I'm numb and my judgments have switched to autopilot.
Nothing left but echoes and thoughts of moving on.
Don't stay away but don't stay here.
Tell me all your secrets.
- A Media Friendly Turn For The Worse
They provide their nectar and then I am released.
I am a grain of sand underneath the floor and so far out of reach, but I am safe from harm.
Against this shelter they are always hammering, against these ears they are always deafening.
I too know an angry language. Our pain is always accurate and striving to evade its only design.
It wants to strike you down to fall into its arms again.
Blood is thicker than water, but which one did you drink?
Oh...
- A Small Spark Vs. A Great Forest
What did you say?
Don't speak.
You nailed all your words down on me and it felt like a blind guide.
Leading me into quicksand.
So fight fair, fight fair.
But all you hear is noise.
Fight fair, fight fair!
I've earthed this seed so many times.
- A Thousand Years a Minute
I am just a sensory of what I've said and done
This is what I tell myself to pacify the room
I suppose living like this is good to you?
I'm taking what you're giving but the giving takes away
Is that what you came for?
Is that what you came for?
- Amnesty Please
Astounding! Let us consider our current state
A string of events and I tied the first knot
You´re an anchor and I won't be drug down
Because no matter what
Burn this to ashes
Ashes and framework
- And There Will Be A Swarm Of Hornets
I built this destruction with my own hands and with my hands I will help pull it down.
And like the worker bees, silenced by that swarm I'll make a new home
String me up, just leave me here and I'll find my way back home I swear
These are not the plans I made.
This is not the life I wanted
I don't care.
Pull it down.
With broken bones and vital organs far from functional,
- Bastardizer
Someday you'll pass with relief
from the tossing sea of despair
onto the solid ground of truth.
Nothing you can say will prove me a bastard.
I'm left with everything,
still stray to question "why?”...
"why?"... "why?", "why?", "why?"...
- Bayonetwork
Bayonetwork: Vultures In Vivid Color
We walked on glass all day long, with eyes rolled back.
It came with smiles, it came with gestures, and it came with motives.
Investing flowers in one hand and a blade in the other.
This is between me and this blade, and my heart.
Distributing rusty knives in these countless attractive letters
with a directional diagram of a guilty heart.
- Blue Prints For Future Homes
Like miracles like clockwork and like miracles.
You witnessed halos, but you failed to see its horns.
The illusion of intelligence, a continuous sounding bell.
And can you feel the interruption in the air?
Can you feel the static?
I've never seen you like this.
Yeah, well that's what I said.
Drive drive the vultures home.
- Blueprints For Future Homes
Like miracles like Clockwork and like miracles,
You witnessed halos, but you failed to see its horns.
The illusion of intelligence, a continuous sounding bell.
And can feel the interruption in the air? Can you feel the static?
I've never seen you like this, seen you. Yeah, well that's what I said.
Drive drive your vultures home. You're killing me. Just Bury me.
Yeah, Well that's what I said. And I said exactly what I meant.
You're killing me. Just Bury Me. Holy ghosts and talk show hosts.
- Cemetery Like A Stage
There will be no more color
Broken I stand here
A new creation
On the stage of history
Where map and compass
Mean nothing at all
The arrows are in me
My spirit drinks poison
- Creating Something Out Of Nothing, Only To Destroy It
Your eyes, your concrete eyes. Cross crisscross
my path... Walking in circular patterns. Shoe shine
your ammo, polish your metal. I need not your wicked
weapons. My war is not with someone like you. A
string of blood that is not my own strings between.
Increase time and it will fall into place. a sword
and my heart. So much so that it makes its way through
my throat giving me thought to speak. This becomes my
- Deathbed Atheist
Watch it all change and watch it go away.
Watch it all never be the same again.
Watch it all all be nothing like we thought before.
Watch it all. Watch it.
Watch it all be lies, damned lies, statistics.
Lie to me. Lie to me. Lie to me.
Take it all in and take it all from me.
- Discipline Your Daughters
I can't recall that last day of sun,
Curtains closed and sitting with the lights out,
An uncertain emptiness surrounds me
I'm numb and my judgments have switched to autopilot.
Nothing left but echoes and thoughts of moving on.
Don't stay away but don't stay here.
Tell me all your secrets.
- Distance to Planets
You're burning like a sun and it's safe to say that I can't look away.
These lights are calling out my name
And I want nothing more than to attach attach attach, then try and get away.
Can't we get in over our heads?
Can't I just try and breathe?
Can't we drive in the wrong direction?
Can't we erase this map and always stay away?
- Everlasting Tapeworm
The countless times we fall to ruin. These myriad days are so relentless.
It isn't everyone's frailty to stop functioning and stop breathing.
Sway with the waves, with the waves change, and we'll find our way back to the shore when it's over.
The never content sensation of a tapeworm drug looking for its angry fix.
Will mutual fear bring us peace? Is ruining your day ruining your life?
- Full Circle in Under a Minute
Engraved into the sky. Into the living and the dead. So take away and kill the root. Less is more and I need more more more. The sky cares not what will is mine and everything else falls beneath. So for one meaningless excuse, will you tell me why I'd be to blame for anything that happens after this? For everything that happens after You? Will you tell me?
So this is how it's done. One foot in front. The hand relays the flame. Pass it off!
The dead gaze is deafening, but time will tell if sound relays the lie.
I'll tell you. Anything could happen after this. Everything could happen after you.
I am the crack in the dam. I planned the breach in the gate. I'll consume the universe, destroy the wolf and cry out for the lamb. This is how it's done.
- High Noise Low Output
Yeah!
And I sat through a thousand suns, much sooner than you arrived, and I know what you're thinking:
"Just pull the ripcord and let's descend."
You put your parachutes on parade and you left the pilots on the ground,
But if you're calling me in, then you better believe I'm gonna call you out.
(If you're calling me in, I'm gonna call you out).
Who knows the cost and what may escape you and I,
'Cause it's a long way down from here.
- I Used To Hate Cell Phones But Now I Hate Car Accidents
Run far away from what you have created.
You have created this drama.
You're Dancing around the truth.
My God rain down power.
My God rain down fire.
War.
With these diamonds you cut your throat.
Code red. Cut throat victim.
- Innocent Bystanders United
These tears are carving trenches in my skin.
Put down the microscope, rip off my scales and take a look inside,
'cause I feel like... like Jesus don't... don't come around much more these days.
Skeletons are falling out through every fracture.
Look away, look away. There's nothing to see here.
Lies and mistakes all know me by my name, and...
- Kill More Presidents
No way!
You can't control bull
Another day another customer paid for it
I'll Swallow every
Knife on this table
Another day another year with you
Shakes the crown, Can't you see?
- Leaderless And Self Enlisted
Enslavement wasn't my first choice.
My will is greater than that, believe me.
I'd scratch away to the center.
I'd bite it down to the blood.
I want to rip out the foundation,
I want the axis to rupture.
I never wanted to tell you since we know you've heard it before.
- Liiarsenic
Run
Run away screaming bloody murder
The doubt of question will be murdered, murdered, murdered,
Deception is charming
I don’t think so, lies, I don’t think so, lies,
I don’t think so, lies,
- Memphis Will Be Laid To Waste
Waltz around the room
With a glaze in your stare
In your tuxedo suit
I will give it a name
Lower your defenses
Or lower your casket
Open the door
Open your grave
- Murphy Was an Optimist
Light that fuse, back up three steps and bite down on that bullet.
You've been doing this way too long and it can't be fixed.
Don't worry pull up that chair and suck down that trouble
Misery is the fuel that keeps this broken down, lifeless instrument running
I'm sinking in cursory and I'm sinking headfirst
Clear your dusty throat and taste that stiletto
Can you taste that metal?
Don't worry it can't be fixed.
- Opposite of Left and Wrong
Dedication is nothing but a word.
What have we become?
We become the things we do.
When does it end?
Argument is the enemy.
You've said one hundred opposites of left and wrong
So tell me what's right, not what's wrong.
I don't care anymore.
- Pretty Soon, I Don't Know What, But Something Is Going To Happen
Time can kill the greatest of men. Even the strongest find themselves on the floor. It doesn't have to be this way. Time keeps moving on and on. Fragile time can not waste again. Fragile time can't be laid to rest. Fragile time can lead you to the grave or fragile time can start eternity. It kills their walk, I watch them wash away. It's all worth while time goes on.
- Robots 3 Humans 0
Open that door; I'll follow you into that space.
Where nothing is regretted then forgotten.
Where is that grace that carries me out?
So strange it's mine.
It's closed and locked but If you open that door
It won't be -
Yesterday when, before the days of collapsing,
- Robots 3, Humans 0
Open that door; I’ll follow you into that space
Where nothing is regretted then forgotten
Where is that grace that carries me out? So strange it’s mine
It’s closed and locked but If you open that door,
it won’t be yesterday when, before the days of collapsing,
And I’ll stand through all these lines just to make it back to you
Can you help me every step of the way? We can bury that battle and bury the cause
There is nothing that I can say because I was wrong this time
- Self-Employed Chemist
It's like you know the words but you can't hear the music.
You've lived a lie for so long, now you believe it.
You're shooting silver bullets and taking magic pills.
I'm asking you do you know a way to delete my conscience?
Don't put your ear to the floor to hear the sound of the future.
Yours is a history. Shaped by disaster.
We're coming back for you. You better brace yourself.
I'm telling you, We're coming back
- Shaunluu
Abundant or broke
The elect and the mute
All will slip away, the billions...
Like thieves through windows
It leaves their branches white
All breathe, be breathless
To quit this mortal frame, We're not safe.
Even lovers are asleep
- Sometimes It's Our Mistakes That Make For The Greatest Ideas
It feels so good up to my skin. One more mile and it
is sinking in. I have tried to make mine a tree. And
not have so much of me. God has stolen my heart. So I
will write it down. I consume myself with invisible
things. Escape. Congradulations. This is my escape. A
pen and book and if the world can see what I got and
then lets all have a good look. A fortunate one.
- Songs Sound Much Sadder
We'll be legends.
We are smashed men, still moving. We've tried everything in the book.
no stranger to failure, death with a steady heartbeat.
Scratching into any surface it wants.
Joy and beauty rejected so many times.
A world of hurt, a heart of false hope.
- Sun Dies, Blood Moon
Have no fear and open your eyes and observe the glowing room
Through the blood that runs through your eyelids, I guess it’s time to wake
Moving hours with vacant hands just for the chance just to sleep again
Drag my feet across the earth yeah I guess that nothings restored
Make my through my designer home
To the heart of my captivity
Where I am both prisoner and warden
All I need is the air inside my lungs, or a cigarette
- Surrender Your Sons
Left alone
Your pale skin is a razor sharp wire so I place these scales over my eyes
Don't touch me.
I'm sick.
You whisper.
But I hear only what I choose.
- Sword in Mouth, Fire Eyes
We calmly weigh our thoughts before we know them
Careful not to break our only scale
But there’s no lament in taking chances
Fall a little while before we soar
Sword in mouth and helpless in the bond we have between us
Fire eyes and desperate for the helplessness we love
Turn to walk the path in my reflection
But not before the sheep becomes the wolf
- The Anthem Of The Angry Brides
I have nothing left to prove. No demonstrations, no explanations.
There was never any intention for me to convince you.
It’s just another case of you with your formless sense of importance.
You’re breathing fire and your words are burning in hell.
This rebellion is marching to its disarray. It talks in circles and it’s words are burning in hell.
You are every inch of neutral. So avert your senses from my dedication.
- The Entire World Is Counting on Me,
Running away from this earth.
May it pass away in the beautiful flames that it was created for.
Because when tomorrow fails to come,
today is just not the same.
Inflamed earth.
Roses.
In this hope.
For all I care.
- THE PEOPLE THAT SURROUND U ON A REGULAR BAS1S
This is pain draped in excellence, and there’s no way to bury it.
I awake resolute and numb, climbing 15 stories just to fall asleep at the edge,
and I’m praying for a sleepless night. And how does this darkness always find me?
This is the time for you to leave in peace or stay and die.
We’re crashing down and burning out with every word you say.
We’re burning through the atmosphere and we hope...
we hope you never find us... we hope you never find us anywhere.
- The People That Surround You On A Regular Basis
This is pain draped in excellence, and there's no way to bury it.
I awake resolute and numb, climbing 15 stories just to fall asleep at the edge, and I'm praying for a sleepless night.
And how does this darkness always find me?
This is the time for you to leave in peace or stay and die.
We're crashing down and burning out with every word you say.
We're burning through the atmosphere and we hope...
we hope you never find us... we hope you never find us anywhere.
- Trace Levels of Dystopia
The dead, the dead, the dead are coming back to life. Does it hurt you to know that it doesn't hurt me at all? Oh how they love to see the mighty fall. Does it make me a bad person that I can't wait for you to see what's coming? Before you know it, they'll send a flood of knives. Eager to hit your spine. This isn't violence no. Fantasy justice yeah. The world's an empty stage and we're just watching it. Spite becomes routine. Harrowing questions have easier answers. There will be hell to pay. So crack the chest. Open and operate. Tie up the lungs with the debt because there's nothing to save. Send the feet to the fields and the fire. Bill the hands, because there's hell to pay.
- Triffids
This is a romance!
This is a fiction, it’s a friend
That we all, we want to take to the grave
But this isn’t going to end well
This is a fable
Brought to you before a live studio audience
And it was created by adolescents
Singing “Cash that check and check that cash that check”
- Vipers, Snakes, and Actors
Carry your flags,
March into that fictional cause and show off that medal,
Just don"t reach for that gun.
Carry that banner.
Build that heart out of stone.
Just don"t reach for that gun.
You scaled the high horse and I felt the change.
I know the difference between you and me.