Norma Jean : Deathrattle Sing for Me

Metalcore / USA
(2022 - Solid State Records)
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1. 1994

There’s no other story but this
It’s always something
The hand forcing sticks into its spokes
Sleeping for a day or sleep for five minutes
But only for a day or two if you’re lucky

See, I sold my board for twenty bucks
'Cause I didn't want to break my arm, save the strings
And now it’s like angry songs make me feel worse
Happy songs make me feel like a liar

I’m a 90s kid, yeah
I'm, I’m from the sounds of hollow walls and steep secondhand steps
From below the stairs
Hovering above the brick stages
Plastic sheets don’t keep out the cold

It hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts
I swear to God it hurts

If it comes worse for worse
I got a million in the stack and always one in the cavity
I think I’m witnessing the end of the world
And I like it


2. CALL FOR THE BLOOD

Ones and zeroes incoming
Ones and zeroes incoming
Last dance for a slow chance
If you stand over the cliff

And you can see the plunge
Bite them all off in
In front of all of us
In front of all of them

What’s the contact? What’s the coda?
Compass spins and then it expired
Spare everyone what I spoke of
Reap the whirlwind, everlasting

The thousand-mile-stare is ending
Consume the whole world, consume the world whole
Stand your ground at the gates as we multiply
Consumе the whole world, consume thе world whole

Ones and zeroes incoming
Ones and zeroes incoming
Last dance for a slow chance
If you stand over the cliff

And you can feel the shove
Falling off and in
In front of all of us
In front of all of them

Stand your ground at the gates as we multiply
Consume the whole world, consume the world whole
I saw a thousand miles staring back at me
Consume the whole world, consume the world whole

Ones and zeroes incoming
Ones and zeroes incoming
Ones and zeroes incoming
Ones and zeroes incoming

And you can see the plunge
Bite them all off in
In front of all of us
In front of all of us


3. SPEARMINT REVOLT

Deathrattle, sing for me
Sing for me
Forever (Forever)
Forever

Don't bring me the head of the snake
I want fang to tail and back
Deathrattle, sing for me
Don't look back, transform into stone
Stand-still insomniac
Deathrattle, sing with me
There's one hundred worlds you can be at
One time, I'll change my mind again tomorrow

January, you're the furthest thing
Even when I'm standing right behind you
But I didn't say it like I know you don't get it
I promise you, you're the only place I еver want to be
But I know I probably don't get it now
Gеt it now
Get it now, get it now
Are you a sympathetic program?
Look upon our works and despair

Variables crown the size of it all
Where everything grows unloved
Vampires with our mouth on our own compliments
Where no one here is matchless
I traded all of
I traded all of you
I traded all of you

All of you
I traded all of
I traded all of you
Deathrattle, sing for me
Sing for

January, you're the furthest thing
Even when I'm standing right behind you
But I didn't say it like I know you don't get it
I promise you, you're the only place I ever want to be
But I know I probably don't get it now
Sing for me
Sing for me
Sing for me, yeah

I want fang to tail, venom in the veins
I want fang to tail, venom in the veins
I want fang to tail, venom in the veins


4. MEMORIAL HOARD

I was born for a storm and the calm does not suit me
Imagine no, no possessions
You may say I’m a dreamer
The simple act, focusing, paying attention
Can take you a long way

My life in my hands is absolute bullshit
Wading in the grime of the rotten dead
Everything is bright now where I live
Everything is bright now where I live

Imagine no, no possessions
You may say I’m a dreamer
The simple act, focusing, paying attention
Can take you a long way

It starts cold and always ends in fire


5. ARIA OBSCURA

It takes more than wealth to introduce a god of your own
It takes stones, it takes mud, it takes hands
It takes plague after plague after plague after plague

It takes a lowercase of faith
It takes knees on the ground
It takes heads looking down
At anyone but yourself
At anything but myself

I shot the sparrow from suspended flight
I took its wings, learned its song and rehearsed
Appetite filled with curses in hand
Spread them around at incriminating rates

I’ll read the lines between
I’ll write the lines between
Can you see them?
Look, I’m not perfect
I’ll change with the new wave
I’ll adjust to everything
Everything and everything
But anything I know

I’m right when I just don't care
I'll feel when you give me air
And I’ll suffocate and not care
I’ll breathe then I’ll steal the air

Can I get a little less conversation and a lot more action please?
No one is looking at me
So I guess I don’t exist at all
Exist at all

Happiness and a shivering gun, yeah
Happiness and a shivering gun
Shivering gun

I’ll read the lines between
I’ll write the lines between
Can you see them?
I’m not perfect
I’ll change with the new wave
I’ll adjust to everything
Everything and everything
But anything I know

I’m right when I just don't care
I'll feel when you give me air
And I’ll suffocate and not care
I’ll breathe then I’ll steal the air

I’m right when I just don't care
I'll feel when you give me air
And I’ll suffocate and not care
I’ll breathe then I’ll steal the air


6. ANY%

Don’t call it a nightmare
We’ll never have any dream like this
Don’t call it a miracle
We never noticed them anyway
Don't call it a vibration
Count backwards and walk yourself back-back-back back
I never asked you for anything anyway

Drag me up, skinned alive
Take my bones, thrown aside
You can have them, I don't want them back
Push me down, fight for breath, you’re alive
I can swim on the floor above you
Have more endurance than you
I can suffer so much better than you

If you want to stab me in the back, stand behind me first
It all dries up on you 'cause I’m worth more dead
More dead than alive

We are the cool kids, we are the cool kids, oh
We are the cool kids, we are the cool kids

Don’t call it a comeback
I was never here to begin with
Don't call it a resurrection
I could only wish for such things

If you want to stab me in the back, stand behind me first
It all dries up on you 'cause I’m worth more dead than alive

I spent too much time trying to figure it out
How the world works and less how I work within it
If I stare into the abyss, it never stares back at me
We don’t fight for victory, we fight from it

We are the cool kids, we are the cool kids
We fight from it
We are the cool kids, we are the cool kids now


7. PARALLELLA

White flags to start the war
White flags to start the war
White flags to start the war
White flags to start the war

A mountain of fire, a valley of smoke
That which was above is now below
Sing to me in silence, break me back together
Fractured in one piece
The wolves hide from the sheep
Dig sparrows from the dirt
The wolves hide from the sheep
Pull snakes from the clouds
The wolves hide from the sheep
Let them war and kill each other on neutral ground

White flags to start the war
White flags to start the war
White flags to start the war
White flags to start the war
Pale horse come home


8. W W A V V E

It never looked so good

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It never looked so good
I’m down to run the risk
I want the accident
Maybe I want the crisis
I’ve done this countless times beforе
Down to ride the wave
Thе ones that I create
They’ll never be defined by anyone
They never looked so good

Brave marionette
Bleeding out the strings above you
Bleeding out the knives that carved you out
If only you could bite down on the hand
If you can find them in the darkness

It never looked so sad
It never looked so good

It never looked so good
I’m down to run the risk
I want the accident
Maybe I want the crisis
I’ve done this countless times before
Down to ride the wave
The ones that I create
They’ll never be defined by anyone
They never looked so good

It never looked so good
It never looked so good


9. A KILLING WORD

Love in the time
Secondhand social passage
A scripted interaction
Conversation is truly random
Threshing at the end
And shaking like a rushing vein

This is the introduction now

Graven effigy, rendered before every eye
Do your work with the desolate
Broken before the providence, every saint
Can you feel the lashing of the death sail?
Visions of war
Oh, there’s no interest in pleasing the ones looking for
Searching ways to misunderstand
You

Gutter press talk shows and you don’t know me
Testimony
But I could never understand myself

You can’t know every bruise I’ve bought
But I know what you’re paying out to rake up its rot
No reverence for life or limb
But I would never disrespect the legacy they held
Pressure mends if you apply it or fall beneath it
Prisons and graveyards are filled with heads that wore the crown
Whisper me a killing word

I will find you in the darkness
In the darkness, everlasting

Spitting fire and brimstone at every turn
I see everything, I see everything
Hail the restless, the ranks and to all that are starved
We’ll come back to, to accelerate
Floor it all to the ground

You can’t know every bruise I’ve bought
You can’t know every bruise I’ve bought
You can’t know every bruise I’ve bought
You can’t know every bruise I’ve bought (We don’t know ourselves)
You can’t know every bruise I’ve bought (We don’t know our)

You can’t know every bruise I’ve bought
But I know what you’re paying out to rake up its rot
No reverence for life or limb
But I would never disrespect the legacy they held
Pressure mends if you apply it or fall beneath it
Prisons and graveyards are filled with heads that wore the crown
This is the killing word

Whisper to me a killing word
Whisper to me a killing word


10. PENNY MARGS

Balance is everything to me now
Eyes closed doesn't make anything disappear

So calm on the outside
I’m freaking out on the inside

Now cast is inspiration always cutting you down to dust
Off easily harmed, never effortlessly manipulated
Understand I requested every door to ca-ca- ca-ca- cast
Out everything you measure
And everything that tries to measure you

Balance is everything to me now
Eyes closed doеsn't make anything disappear

Motionless on thе outside
I’m an avalanche on the inside

Now cast is inspiration always cutting you down to dust
Off easily harmed, never effortlessly manipulated
Understand I requested every door to ca-ca- ca-ca- cast
Out everything you measure
And everything that tries to measure you

Balance, and eyes closed

I'm gonna be okay, I'm gonna be okay
Everything is gonna be okay

Now cast is inspiration always cutting you down to dust
Off easily harmed, never effortlessly manipulated
Understand I requested every door to ca-ca- ca-ca- cast
Out everything you measure
And everything that tries to measure you

Where are you?
And who told you you were naked?


11. EL ROI

If I stare into the abyss
If I stare into the abyss
If I stare into the abyss
If I stare into the abyss
If I stare into the abyss
If I stare into the abyss
If I stare into the abyss
If I stare into the abyss
If I stare into the abyss
If I stare into the abyss
If I stare into the abyss
If I stare into the abyss
If I stare into the abyss
If I stare into the abyss
If I stare into the abyss
If I stare into the abyss
If I stare into the abyss
If I stare into the abyss
If I stare into the abyss
If I stare into the abyss
If I stare into the abyss
If I stare into the abyss
If I stare into the abyss


12. SLEEP EXPLOSION

Don't you
“Glass half full, half empty”
No glass at all, no glass at all

Always saying the wrong thing at the wrong time
And at the right time but at the wrong thing, and so on

Don't you?
Don't you?

Yeah, so shake it off and throw it out into jagged teeth
And listen for the rattle digging up your dust and bones
You can break it off and drag out all the smoke in its lungs
And curse out every word even if it tastes like blood

“Glass half full, half empty”
No glass at all, no glass at all

Always saying the wrong thing (Shut up) at the wrong time
And at the right time but at the wrong thing, and so on

24 hours and a new beginning
24 hours and a new beginning
Go
Let go
24 hours and a new beginning
Let go
Let go right now
24 hours and a new beginning

Yeah, so shake it off and throw it out into jagged teeth
And listen for the rattle digging up your dust and bones
You can break it off and drag out all the smoke in its lungs
And curse out every word even if it tastes like blood

Don't you
Don't you


13. HEARTACHE

You want the things and the promises from before
You were a killer before yet from before
I just don't need anyone else to answer
Crouched down citizens will gather up their ranks
Charging everyone down together
One by one, one hundred by a hundred
So just for a moment, they can fall above you

So what am I supposed to look for?
Where am I supposed to be found?
Carry me in every direction or lead me up
'Cause you're every way down
So what am I supposed to look for?
Where am I supposed to be found?
Carry me in every direction or lead me up
'Cause you're every way down
'Cause you're every way down

Sub-sub-subject position, crooked lines
Become distorted over time
Arrows in spines that never existed
Who wants to break another fall?
Don't worry, we'll get there at the same time
Forever is just another word now
Forever is just another word now

The world is not meant for me
Or I am not meant for it
I am not meant for it
The world is not meant for me
Or I am not meant for it
I am not meant for it

This world was never meant for me
Or I was never meant for it
This world was never meant for me
Or I was never meant for it
This world was never meant for me
Or I was never meant for it

This world was never meant for me
Or I was never meant for it
So what am I supposed to look for? (This world was never meant for me)
Where am I supposed to be found? (Or I was never meant for it)
Carry me in every direction (This world was never meant for me)
Carry me in every direction (Or I was never meant for it)
'Cause you're every way...



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