Coheed And Cambria : The Afterman: Descension

Progressive Metal / USA
(2013 - Hundred Handed Inc.)
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Lyrics

1. PRETELETHAL

We drift away with the dust
The light consumes the dark recluse
No time to waste in the mess
I will retreat, no sin confessed
How did we get so lost? Anyway

Who will repair this broken heart?
This world will miss none of us
The sick we cure, the bad we just
Who will repair this broken heart?


2. KEY ENTITY EXTRACTION V: SENTRY THE DEFIANT

Believer
Your spotlight on the subject so incorrect
And suggestion suggests that I'm someone you should not respect
Oh you wear your facade so well
Covered up in a plastic shell
You're a liar to everyone around you
Just don't forget

Face the honest truth
You were never you

Now be defiant, the lion
Give them the fight that will open their eyes
Hangman hooded, softly swinging
Don't close the coffin yet
I'm alive

And it's homecoming
And it's homecoming

Can you remember
When there was no wrong in what I could do
So young, biting off way more than I could chew
And then one day I grew too old,
And my cares were now theirs to mold
Please accept this as my resignation
It's time to go

Face the honest truth
You were never you

Now be defiant, the lion
Give them the fight that will open their eyes
Hangman hooded, softly swinging,
Don't close the coffin yet
I'm alive

I'm alive

I will now bleed for what I believe in
No more mistakes for them to make for me
So goodbye, it's my time to bleed...

... to be me

Face the honest truth
You were never you

Now be defiant, the lion
Give them the fight that will open their eyes
Hangman hooded, softly swinging
Don't close the coffin yet
I'm alive

I'm alive


3. THE HARD SELL

I'm paranoid and sick of this
World's misconception of things I did
My language poured across this wrist
In a metaphoric disaster
My guess, I'm missing out the punch line
Unless this hanging noose
Is fitted to be all mine

I stood by everything I loved
While you never understood me much

'Cause there's only one of me
And too many of you fighting over nothing
Oh, there's never enough cool for everyone
And before you know it you're selling out to be in

There's never enough cool

These eyes ungoverned are tearing us apart
Their ears forsaken have given up on art
Now, why believe in anything they praise
When one hand holds them the victor
While the other holds the shovel to their graves

I stood by everything I loved
While you never understood me much

'Cause there's only one of me
And too many of you fighting over nothing
Oh, there's never enough cool for everyone
And before you know it you're selling out to be in

Oh, this ticket window has closed
Save your money, baby
The next show's about to start
Where else can you get to watch this talent fall?
One by one they drop

I stood by everything I loved
While you never understood me much

'Cause there's only one of me
And too many of you fighting over nothing
Oh, there's never enough cool for everyone
And before you know it you're selling out

You're selling all of me
And too many of you fighting over nothing
Oh, there's never enough cool for everyone
And before you know it you're selling out to be in
You're selling out to be in

I stood by everything I loved


4. NUMBER CITY

Attention we have got
A medical emergency
The patient's condition
Is critical and fading
Oh, I've got this under control
But these is no guarantee
Now should you question
This professional opinion
It's time we'll spend wasting

And oh, if you want to see
Go on and tear it out of me

This case is possibly the worst
That I have ever seen
I see how vulnerable we
As a people can truly be

And oh, if you want to see
Go on and tear it out of me
And oh, if you want to see
Go on and tear it out of me

Honey, release my heart, if you
Honey, release my heart, you let me go
Release my heart, if you, Honey
Do not let me
Do not let me go

A radio transmission sent
To get the heart to listen
(Defibrillate, defibrillate)
A radio transmission sent
To get the heart to listen

Oh, oh this is love from a gurney
Oh, this is love from a gurney
Oh, this is love from a gurney

Believe in Number City

Honey, release my heart, if you
Honey, release my heart, you let me go
Release my heart if you, Honey
Do not let me
Do not let me go
Honey, release my heart, if you
Honey, release my heart, you let me go
Release my heart if you, Honey
Do not let me
Do not let me go

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9


5. GRAVITY'S UNION

I flew head first into the light
Weightless, crisscrossing, precise
In a dream or was it life?

Inside this door all answers wait
So saddle up my steed
Where the lies live way beneath

Oh my, I think I’ve made a mess
This is all my fault it’s what I’ve wished

And I was wrong to let you go
I accept my mistake, but you will never know
This is my love into a ten ton truck
Baby, please remember the better me

No time to change my life in the air before
Our maximum reach outweighted
Apart, pictureless retreat

The terror meets the truth, no longer who
We know what we must do
Shadow dancing through the roof

Contact the life you used to know
Gravity, the world in tow
And I was wrong to let you go
I accept my mistake, but you will never know
This is my love into a ten ton truck
Baby, please remember the better me

Driver may I sleep with you tonight
Numbered uncertainty
City limits, shoe strewn diary
The roar of the engine won’t cease

All of my love and heart spilled in this car
Picture me the perfect enemy
Our lives are one, colliding up and beyond
In this fatal possibility

I am your, I am your prize

We wave welcome aboard
We wave welcome aboard
In my eyes I drown you

He has forgotten his place
Bait the hook and let it sink
No cause for alarm
Enter the master, I am Dr. Straight

Scalpel keep that lung in place
Nurse, IV needs refilling
Now watch the brain
Responding quite normal
This life I can save

Every man has a point
Where he breaks or conjoins
Among pressure that floods to complicate
Matters close to the heart
Will define who we are
Do we love? Do we hate?
We are only the meat

We understood the unmistakable
Two romantics on holiday and
How they stole our love

Caged
Locked in perpetual motion
Carving our wounds wide open
But you let the wrong one in


6. AWAY WE GO

She is her own worst enemy
Her heart a landmine calamity
Waiting for someone to set her off

Morse code a clicking out an SOS
Life raft releasing her last breath
Tonight she's going to drown

Without me, will she reach the great beyond?
Believe me, take my word, I'll never break your heart...
And away we go
My little Jersey girl

If we could escape this innocence
Trapped between the fears and the words we kept
We'll live out our later years

Here in our dreams, we'll reach a great beyond
Believe me, take my word, I'll never break your heart...
And away we go

Sinking in this beautiful undertow, together with you

We're giving up
You can leave what little we believe
Our flaw, discard, come give me what I need
My thoughts won't go away, you are my holiday

Together we'll receive and reach that great beyond
Believe me, take my word, I'll never break your heart...
And away we go
My little Jersey girl


7. IRON FIST

The wish you plead and the things you sought
We all think, we all thought
The things I've done, in the world I've seen,
Don't measure up to you my queen
Oh, I take one for the other,
And work my way through this machine

God damn this cursed iron fist
When I lose control
Oh no
God damn this cursed iron fist
When I lose control
Oh no

The first train's out while the last one drones
We'll all sing; "We're going home"
As the curtain swings in to cover all, our secrets kept, our love enough

God damn this cursed iron fist
When I lose control
Give me the strength I know, and please believe me
Oh girl, this is what I've become
And I'm going to leave it up to you
What are you going to do?

Cause I don't want to lose your hold on me
Cause I don't want to lose your hold on me

God damn this cursed iron fist
When I lose control
Oh, give me the doubt oh no, please believe
Oh girl, this is what I've become
And I'm going to leave it up to you
What are you, what are you

Just remember
Pay no attention to this iron... this iron fist
Just remember
Pay no attention to this iron... oh this iron fist

This iron... this iron fist
God damn... this cursed...
God damn... this cursed...
God damn...


8. DARK SIDE OF ME

In those discouraging days
I always missed the mark
When we were comfort and close
I would neglect to keep

Ooh, you safe and unexposed
A portrait of time repeats
This moment now replaced
With an empty wish to give
I give, I gave

I gave my everything
For all the wrong things
In this cold reality I made
This selfish war machine

Oh, this has become hell
How can I share this life
With someone else?
I promise you
There is no weight that can bury us
Beneath the ghosts of all my guilt

Here in the dark side of me
Here in the dark side of me

Now in your absence I wade
Through the coursing, lonely, lost
And in this tragic dismay
I never could believe what I became

I gave my everything
For all the wrong things
In this cold reality I made
This welcomed war machine

Oh, this has become hell
How can I share this life
With someone else?
I promise you
There is no weight that can bury us
Beneath the ghosts of all my guilt

[4x]
Here in the dark side of me
Here in the dark side of me

Ooh, I couldn't give you
What you needed
It's all my fault
Too coward to believe I lost it all

I gave my everything
For all the wrong things
In this cold reality I made
This selfish war machine

Oh, this has become hell
How can I share this life
With someone else?
I promise you
There is no weight that can bury us
Beneath the ghosts of all my guilt

Here in the dark side of me
Here in the dark side of me


9. 2'S MY FAVOURITE 1

Two hearts beat as one
Disguise your mind and feel the hold
This drone, the buzz of our love

In time we move
This churning factor feel the groove
Release the touch that moves you

Oh this is her
No regrets
I embrace your defects
To confess
You were my every wish
I admit that I will never feel alone
Once I call, oh, you home

Oh...

Push towards the dance floor
And together we'll show them who's boss
We'll set a fire once more

Oh this is her
No regrets
I embrace your defects
To confess
You were my every wish
I admit that I will never feel alone
Once I call, oh, you home

Oh...

Oh, maybe it's not now or later
Till you save the best for last
I want to be everything you need

Oh...

Oh this is her
No regrets
I embrace your defects
To confess
You were my every wish
I admit that I will never feel
No I will never feel alone
I stumbled in monotone
While the record spins around
Please turn me over
Slide me into sleeve
Oh girl
Please bring me home

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