Otep : The Ascension

Nu Metal / USA
(2007 - Capitol Records / Koch Records)
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Lyrics


1. Eet The Children

Hush little baby
Don't make a sound

Hush little baby
Don't make a move

This is gonna hurt
Me more than you

(blood)

If I'm a danger to myself
Just think what I would do to you…

[V1.]

Twisting & turning
My insides are burning
Like larva feeding from the

The pestilence of decadence
I worship my emptiness
I'm ravaged by the damages of this hell

[chorus]

Eat the children raw
Eat the children raw
Eat the children raw

It's easy to beat
These worms to sleep

Operators are standing by
Some restrictions may apply
Side effects could include
We'll steal the life right out of you

[V2.]

Descending, unending
& still I'm pretending
I've regressed to become one of them

They gave me this affliction
I yield to my addiction
I can't repress myself

[chorus]

Eat the children raw
Eat the children raw
Eat the children raw

It's easy to beat
These worms to sleep

Operators are standing by
Some restrictions may apply
Side effects could include
We'll steal the life right out of you

[bridge]

(blood)

If I'm a danger to myself
Just think what I could do to you…

Role model number one
Taught you how to shave

Role model number two
Took you to the PTA

They tell us how to dress
& teach us to obey

But they never heard a word
That you had to say

For shame.
For shame.

‘cause I am vermin
I'm the anti-christ
Just another lonely chapter
In the book of lies

Don't they know that they are the prey?
Don't they know they are the prey?
Don't they know that they are the prey?
Don't they know they are the prey?

Don't they know I'm a predator
Don't they know they are the prey
Don't they know I'm a predator
Don't they know I'm insane? [x2]

[chorus]

Eat the children raw
Eat the children raw
Eat the children raw

It's easy to beat
These worms to sleep

Operators are standing by
Some restrictions may apply
Side effects could include
We'll steal the life right out of you

(blood)



2. Crooked Spoons

Take me down
With there baptized drown
So they say!

Let's make my world

So they say
I killed a man
So they say
I took his head
So they say
He was discouraged
In all the world

Take you to the
Outer helm
Madness sound

Crooked spoons are every war
Genocide
Teenage needles
Everywhere

Why?
You need
You've taken everything

Why?
You need
You've taken everything

Let's make my world

Let them sleep
I need some more
Nooses made from human hair
Bodies falling from the air

Preach true
This is it
We're through with you
Columbine

Crooked spoons are every war
Genocide
Teenage needles
Everywhere

Why?
You need
You've taken everything

Why?
You need
You've taken everything

Where the baptized drown

I sleep to deep
For you to wake me
I sleep to deep
For you to wake me
I sleep to deep
For you to wake me

My wrists are kissed
Tarnished

Why?
You need
You've taken everything

Why?
You need
You've taken everything

The from your little tiny
Shiny in your eyes
In my veins shallow
A lone incarcerated soul
I sleep too deep
You to wake me up




3. Perfectly Flawed

If you do this
If you do this you'll never have a chance to try again.
If you do this you'll never have a chance to try.

It's the same sound
Same sting.
The same collapse
Of every thing.

It's the same size,
Same blade,
The same lie,
..

My way
My face
My heart
My race
I'm a mistake.

My way
My face
My heart
My race
I'm such a disgrace.

You're perfectly flawed
You're perfectly incomplete
Like cracks in the glass
And flames full of grass

You're perfectly flawed
You're perfectly incomplete
Let them come near when
Perfection's the key you need.

Let the .. loose, just try again
Let the .. loose, just try again

Its the same doubt,
The same dream
It's the same sabotage
'cos i'm the enemy

It's the same night
Same day
It's the same parasite,
Feeding on the betrayal.

My way
My face
My heart
My race

Im such a disgrace

You're perfectly flawed
You're perfectly incomplete
Like cracks in the glass
And flames full of grass

You're perfectly flawed
You're perfectly incomplete
A work in progress
Perfection is killing me

A disguise of self-deception
Hides my secrets perfectly
I'm injecting my reflection
'cos i hate the way it judges me

Don't you do it
You're not healing you, yeah
Don't you do it
You're not healing you, yeah

You're perfectly flawed
You're perfectly incomplete
Like cracks in the glass
And flame full of grass

You're perfectly flawed
You're perfectly incomplete
A work in progress
Perfection is killing me...




4. Confrontation

Don't
Be.....
Silent.

FIGHT.

(violence, mêlées, & disturbances of the peace)

[verse 1]

Here's your introduction to destruction
& the hate sustaining me

Are we safer or in danger?
Drowning in atrocities?

Riot gear, the slaves are here
Piling corpses high

Its the rich man's war
But its the poor that fight

More capitalist crimes,
More enemies than allies

No WMD's - who gives a fuck
If they die

Just kill em all - watch em fall
Skin the world with their lies

Its a rich man's war
But its the poor that fight

[chorus]

Stand up
Speak out
Strike back

Stand up
Speak out
Strike back

They don't know
What they started

CONFRONTATION.

[verse 2]

My religion of resistance
Challenging everything

Radicals & dissidents
Of creativity

We are the children
Of the siege you hide
In this rich man's war
Where the poor just die

More deception & greed
More wars & disease

More lies from the hive mind
That seek to deceive

A weak nation of need
Like silent thieves in the night

Its a rich man's war
But it's the poor that die

[chorus]

Stand up
Speak out
Strike back

Stand up
Speak out
Strike back

They don't know
What they started

CONFRONTATION.

Stand - FIGHT
Speak - FIGHT
Strike back!

Stand - FIGHT
Speak - FIGHT
Strike back!

They don't know
What they started

CONFRONTATION.

[bridge]

This is my
Battle cry!

Defy the lies
Of the tyrant race
With a fist in the air
& a finger in their face!

DEFY THE TYRANTS!
DON'T BE SILENT!

DEFY THE TYRANTS!
DON'T BE SILENT!

DEFY THE TYRANTS!
DON'T BE SILENT!

DEFY THE TYRANTS!
DON'T BE SILENT!

[chorus]

Stand up
Speak out
Strike back

Stand up
Speak out
Strike back

They don't know
What they started

CONFRONTATION.

Stand - FIGHT
Speak - FIGHT
Strike back!

Stand - FIGHT
Speak - FIGHT
Strike back!

They don't know
What they started

CONFRONTATION.

[outro]

There's no
Way they
Can stop us
Now

So let them try
We fight or we die





5. Milk of Regret

Was I just your surrogate?
Was I your revenge?
I... have... no regrets... yet
I... have... no regrets...

You'll wish we never took this ride...
You made me do this, you made me do this, you made me
I wish I was afraid of suicide,
Long ago before I died
We should never be this high
I wish I was afraid of suicide

Once was I... made of glass,
Long ago, before I cracked...
Once was I... made of glass,
Long ago... before I cracked...
YOU MADE ME DO THIS

I just can't forget
The blood,
The stitches,
The bite marks,
The kisses,
The glass memories reflecting back
The suffocating block,
Ill milk of regret
Just smile and breathe,
Dad we never mattered it anyway
Smile and breathe,
Dad we never mattered anyway

You'll wish we never took this..

I'm starving,
I'm starving...
I'm starving for affection
Your heart is made of ash
And you were just a face to me,
A sacrificial lamb
Rejection, Revenge
Deception, Dimense
I might be going down in flames,

But you will burn with me
You'll wish we never took this ride

I just can't forget
The blood,
The stitches,
The bite marks,
The kisses,
The glass memories reflecting back
The suffocating black,
Ill milk of regret
Just smile and breathe,
Tell them: we never mattered anyway

..no one will know

This is the perfect place
To hide the crime and burn the remains...
I was so naive
I refused to feed
Waiting for you to notice me
I was so naive
I refused to feed
Waiting for you...

LIKE A LOVESICK ANOREXIC

I just can't forget
The love you twisted
The lies you enlisted
The killers quietly beat me down
I hope you drown in this shit milk or regret
I WON'T F**KING FORGET

I hope you drown while you're world is burning down
I hope you drown while you're world is burning down

...the whole world is burning
...your whole world is burning
...your whole world is burning
...your whole world is burning down





6. Noose & Nail

Your god is a fossil
Abandoned apostles
Stand & join hands to behold

You godless apostles
Abandon your idols
Stand & join hands to behold

[V1.]

(champagne
Cocaine
Vicodin
Atarol

Nicotine
Caffeine
Percosets
Halodol)

Jesus needs his
Prescriptions filled

Buddha's usin'
Too many pills

Allah promises endless thrills
In volatile bottles marked RELIGION KILLS!

[tunnel]

This is the ache
We can't escape

Betrayed!

One day this could be you.

[chorus]

We're just another
Nail in the coffin

Another
Knot in the noose

It's just another
Squeeze of the trigger

One more hue
In the bruise

[V2.]

(champagne
Cocaine
Vicodin
Atarol

Nicotine
Caffeine
Percosets
Halodol)

Krishna's rollin' on ecstasy
Jehovah's smokin' PCP

Mother mary carries a junkie messiah
Shooting smack & smokin' crack with the King of Liars!

[tunnel]

This is the ache
We can't escape.

Betrayed!

One day this could be you.

[chorus]

We're just another
Nail in the coffin

Another
Knot in the noose

It's just another
Squeeze of the trigger

One more hue
In the bruise

[bridge]

This is for a lifetime
Of shit.

You!

Get down & crawl, crawl!
You fucking insect!

Get down & crawl, crawl!
You fucking insect!

Get down &
CRAWL!

Get down &
CRAWL!

The remedy is worse than the disease
THE REMEDY IS WORSE!

My life spills out like dead flies!

[exodus]

Your god is a fossil
Abandoned apostles
Stand & join hands to explode!

You godless disciples
Abandon your rifles
Stand & join hands to explode!

TO EXPLODE!
TO EXPLODE!
TO EXPLODE!

MY LIFE SPILLS OUT LIKE DEAD FLIES!!




7. Ghostflowers

And she's a killer
And she's a keeper ...

[verse 1]
Am i blurry
In your vision

Was i just
A poor decision

Cut me open
With precision

& we'll finger
The incision

Tell me what have i done
(quid pro quo)

To watch you lose
Control

[tunnel]

I will give you sanctuary
In these hymns of Thanatos ...

I will give you sanctuary!

[verse 2]
You want to
See me burn
I am living fire!

You want to
See me burn
I am LIVING FIRE!

You will know me
By the scars i bare

You will know me
By the hate i swear

You will know me
By the scars i bare

Shapeless vengeance!

[tunnel]

We are the 1000 children of death.

We're in-between, on the fence
Non-descript antagonists

I'm in-between, on the fence
Non-descript antagonist!

I'll split you open
& climb inside
Lose myself
Eaten alive

We are the 1000 children of death!

From seraphim!
To nephilim!
To exodus!

[v3]
She's picking ghostflowers
From her soul

She's clipping the wings
Of fallen angels!

She's picking ghostflowers
From her soul

She's tonguing splinters
Of broken halos!

You will know me
By the scars i bare.

You will know me
By the hate i swear.

You will know me
By the scars i bare.

YOU WILL KNOW ME!

[bridge]

From gelatin
To specimen
To emptiness

I WILL BE AVENGED.
I WILL BE AVENGED.

These are the secrets
That kill. that kill.
That kill. that kill.
That kill. that kill.
That kill. that kill.

We are the 1000 children of death




8. Breed

[Nirvana Cover]

I don't care
I don't care
I don't care
I don't care
I don't care
Care if it's old
I don't mind
I don't mind
I don't mind
I don't mind
I don't mind
Mind, don't have a mind
Get away
Get away
Get away
Get away
Away, away from your home
I'm afraid
I'm afraid
I'm afraid
I'm afraid
I'm afraid
Afraid, afraid of a ghost

Even if you have
Even if you need
I don't mean to stare
We don't have to breed
We could plant a house
We could build a tree
I don't even care
We could have all three
She said
She said
She said
She said
She said
She said
She said
She said

I don't care
I don't care
I don't care
I don't care
I don't care
Care if it's old
I don't mind
I don't mind
I don't mind
I don't mind
I don't mind
Mind, I don't have a mind
Get away
Get away
Get away
Get away
Away, away from your home
I'm afraid
I'm afraid
I'm afraid
I'm afraid
Afraid, afraid of a ghost

Even if you have
Even if you need
I don't mean to stare
We don't have to breed
We can plant a house
We can build a tree
I don't even care
We could have all three
She said
She said
She said
She said
She said
She said
She said
She said

Even if you have
Even if you need
I don't mean to stare
We don't have to breed
We can plant a house
We can build a tree
I don't even care
We could have all three

She said
She said
She said
She said
She said
She said
She said
She said
She said .. good!




9. March of the Martyrs

(Suffer. suffer. suffer.)

You will know
I will suffer
So you won't

You will know
I will suffer
So you don't

(like a human sacrifice,
We pay the price)

& it begins
Like this
Every time

[verse 1]

My heart starts reacting
My soul starts collapsing
I'm dancing in fire again

I'm burning & bleeding
The parasites are breeding
It's me versus me versus them

I am whore, holy, loved, lonely
Murdering the others now and then

I am barren, fruitful, bored but rarely useful
A sinner seeking manic martyrdom

[chorus]

The devil may care but i don't
No masters, no gods, no laws, no soul

I'm insignificant, i'm shiny & unique
I'm a freak, i'm a fuck-up, i'm suffering

[tunnel]

Touch. taste. feel.

Prick the skin
Push it in
Nothing will be wasted

All my hate
All my faith
The cloak becomes sacred

Prick the skin
Push it in
Nothing will be wasted

Touch.
Taste.
Feel.

And you will see
And you will know
We will heal ...
Everything.

[verse 2]

My heart starts collapsing
My soul starts reacting
I'm back in the fire again

I'm burning & bleeding
The parasites are feeding
It's me versus me & all of them

I am whore, holy, loved, lonely
Murdering the others i have been

I am barren, fruitful, bored but really useful
A sinner seeking manic martyrdom

[chorus]

The devil may care but i don't
No masters, no gods, no laws, no soul

I'm insignificant, i'm shiny & unique
I'm a freak, i'm a fuck-up, i'm martyring

[tunnel]

Prick the skin
Push it in
Nothing will be wasted

All my hate
All my faith
The cloak becomes sacred

Touch.
Taste.
Feel.

Prick the skin
Push it in
Nothing will be wasted

[bridge]

Bred for the slaughter
The march of the martyrs

Bred for the slaughter
The march of the martyrs

Bred for the slaughter
The march of the martyrs

Bred for the slaughter ..

[exodus]

You will know
I will suffer
So you don't

I will suffer
So you won't





10. Invisible

Dress like we do,
Speak like we do,
Think like we do.

Obey...

Beneath the cold sun
Watching you walk away
Where my terror runs
In rivers so decayed

I am invisible...
I'm in this mood for days...
Teeth on every wall...
That never go away.

I'm made of blades and flame...
I'm sick and dangerous...
You're my favorite prey
'Cause I hurt the ones I love.

You're so lovely when you cry.
You're so perfect when you lie.
You can be my crucifix,
Hold me up to watch me die.

Can't you see?
I'm invisible...

Beneath the Pagan moon
One more prey dies today.
On sheets of flesh and doom
Shivering in endless shade like criminals...
The stain still remains
And I promise you, it never goes away.

You're so lovely when you cry.
You're so perfect when you lie.
You can be my crucifix,
Hold me up to watch me die.

Behold,
Feast your eyes as the peripherals explode.

Can you see me now? [2x]

The ugly will resign
When the young blood eats the light.
And one day,
This pain could save your life.

You're so lovely when you cry.
You're so perfect when you lie.
You can be my crucifix,
Hold me up to watch me die.

Living in the shelter,
Lying here alive...
We're painting submission
Across the shadowed sky...

Fire on the sides,
Burned and bright, has arrived (?)
Lost in flight, on golden molted wings.

Now do you see?

Now do you...

Now do you see?

[INTRO TO HOME GROWN]

Mama, don't cry...
I'm leaving his life...
It's not your fault.
It's not your fault.

Paid for our sins,
You protected us then...
And saved us all.

I make this vow,
I promise you now:

He'll never touch us again...

He'll never touch us again...

He'll never touch us again...




11. Home Grown

He hurts me 'cause he cares

He hurts me and it's all my fault!

Roaches and cigarettes,
A sink of hungry dishes.
Flies in the afterbirth,
I miss you when you're timid.

Loving you is nothing new,
It's self mutilation.
I crave the pain, I'm so ashamed
But I love the stimulation.

The last time I died
The last time I died, wasn't nearly this much fun.
Welcome...
Welcome...

Welcome to the family
This drug addict,
Sex fanatic,
Alcoholic tragedy.

Welcome to the family
This drug addict,
Sex fanatic,
Alcoholic fantasy.

I fell down some stairs...
I ran into a wall...
He hurts me 'cause he cares..
It's all my fault!

He likes to kill small animals
And blame it on the weather.
Father was ___
My secret name was terror.

Loving you is nothing new,
It's self mutilation.
I crave the pain, I'm so ashamed
But I love the stimulation.

The last time I died
The last time I died, wasn't nearly this much fun.
Welcome...
Welcome...

Welcome to the family
This drug addict,
Sex fanatic,
Alcoholic tragedy.

Welcome to the family
This drug addict,
Sex fanatic,
Alcoholic fantasy.

He hurts me 'cause he cares
He hurts me and it's all my fault.

It's all my fault.
It's all your fault.
It's all your fault!!!!!!

Fuck you,
You insecure piece of shit.
Fuck you,
Now look what you made me do. [2x]

FUCK YOU!!!

If you
TOUCH US AGAIN
I will
FUCKING KILL YOU!

I will make you pay.
I WILL MAKE YOU PAY!

Now you know how it feels.

Now you know how it feels




12. Communion

I sold my soul
so long ago

& now I'm alone
here in the palace of sadness & madness & bone

[V1.]

then she said
to the ghosts in her head

I will find the edge
I will force my fingers in

I will sip from the slit
I will rip you to shreds
I will rip you to shreds

[chorus]

rape the nun
kill the saint
wear their skin

there is no way to escape
there is no way
you'll escape

[V2.]

& I know
the road of truth is lined

with crucified criminals
& suicides

so maybe I'll just cut my throat
maybe I'll make you smile when I choke

hybrid creature of decay
there is no possible
way you'll escape

[chorus]

rape the nun
kill the saint
wear their skin

there is no way to escape
there is no way
you'll escape

[tunnel]

“yesterday upon the stair
I met a man who wasn't there

he wasn't there again today
I wish that man would go away
I wish that man go…”

shadow man standing in my room
smearing conspiracies for me to consume

shadow man has a plan just wait & see
you'll all be sorry for fucking with me

(come out & plaaaay)

shadow man
shadow man
please go away

shadow man
shadow man
please go away
I really don't feel like playing today!

I'm not ignoring you
I'm just plotting your doom

in a world that's ready to drown
don't stop-we have you now!

[chorus]

rape the nun
kill the saint
wear their skin

there is no way to escape
there is no way
you'll escape




13. Adrenochrome Dreams

I had this dream...
Where I woke up
To a grand commotion.
And uhm... I just jumped from the blankets
And whipped the door from its lock,
And rush blindly into the blackness of the hallway.
But there, on all sides
Lying next to each other
Were rows and rows of executioners...

Some were shirtless and __
And throbbing with anticipation.
Sweat delicatley sneaking through their body hair
All were hooded
Some like seventeenth century guillotine henchemen
Others had crudely made hoods
Like scarecrows or ripped ski masks
With slobber from their clenching jaws
And some had burlap masks that looked like they were made of human skin.

Each one held a weapon.
Large mallets
Crudely fashioned axes
And large clubs
Pipes

But I wasn't compelled to retreat.

No.

I was forced to move between them.
Past their swinging weapons
The clubs
The bats
The slicing tools
The shovels
The large and small axes
Boards with nails, staples and razorblades embedded in them
Taking the beating,
Falling down,
Getting up,
Again and again and again and again
Driven to make it out...

At any cost.

And next,
I stumbled into a... this strange marshy world
Where I was oddly drowning in squirrels and other large, starving rodents.
From above, out on the treetops,
Several dolls fell from the branches
And they were hanging
With nooses made of human hair
They started biting and sucking and trying to feed from me...
Trying to enter my belly and some pushed large needles into my veins and...
And as I looked back, some had nails through their hands, torsos and throats.

I was froze.
Dead eyes...
Carbonized...
As I kicked them away
I could see all around me...
Of piles and piles of dead sea life.
Large fish, smelly crustaceans, __

And their soulless empty bodies whispered
A secret language I couldn't decipher but somehow understood.

And their cries were
"Feed me... feed me..."

They wanted me to devour those around them
Chew them up into pieces
And smear them inside their mouths.
And as I turned around
I could see the shape of a woman
Perfect...
Perfectly erotic
Squatting over a pile of these dead things...
And as I ran to her and said "WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING?!"

And she had no face
And she turned to glass
And suddently cracked
And then exploded into 1000 pieces at my feet.

And just as I took a quick breath,
This world was shoved and desimated
But an intruding tidal wave
Of microorganisms, exploding atoms...

And suddenly moon rose...
Frightened, aching, and alone...
And that's what I remember most...

...The ache.

I can't escape
The ache.......




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