Norma Jean : Wrongdoers

Metalcore / USA
(2013 - Razor And Tie)
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Lyrics

1. HIVE MINDS

A vine in the cracks of a life’s work
Shifting and flowing up
To find purpose under the sun
A moment of reprieve for the art born from the dirt that’ll tear it all down
You can’t fault the natural order of things
Yeah, someday these bones will be dust beneath a sprawling city of human achievement
Flowing up for a place under the sun
Do you see it now?

The gold on your back weighing you down?
Come down
Do you see it now, do you see it?

Pride is a cancer born from the cracks and crawling skyward
I have been you, the shell on the street corner with change

A sunset car ride with a bottle of meds, or is it the canopy and rooftops?
A burst of soft color and a haze on your limbs
Do you see it now?

The gold on your back weighing you down
Come down
Do you see it now, do you see it?
Now, do you see it now, do you see it?

The vines will come for you
They always do, they came for me too
Gravity may not be a law but all things will find ground

Pride is a cancer born from the cracks and crawling skyward
I have been you, the shell on the street corner with change
Hungry hands

The vines will come for you
They always do, they came for me too
Gravity may not be a law but all things will find ground
We all know it exists
Do you see it now, do you see it?

Do you see it now, do you see it?

Laid out under the orange red
Sun showers in your head on the palms soaked rooftops you’ll never find
Begging for death from the cancer of pride

On that empty street corner I’ll keep walking
I will leave you behind


2. IF YOU GOT IT AT FIVE, YOU GOT IT AT FIFTY

Rock N Roll has such a terrible name
Who is to blame?
Perching birds drug by a string in the air
Stitched together with careless intention
Cleaner than the dagger that hollowed it out
Masked and forgotten or no face at all
It’s got something or nothing to say
Yeah don’t we all?

A trance and a trust fund stitched at the same time and sold to the hogs
All eyes on you
Whatever it takes
The bottom line is
The only one that you’ll cross

Keep selling what they want to hear
Arrogant and insincere
You’ve got something to say, but what’s the pay?
A million before you and more in line
I’ve seen it a thousand times

Built to die and dying
Built to last and lasting
Go along to get along
I will not be defiled
By the kings’ meat
By the kings’ meat
By the kings’ meat

The noise ain’t noise anymore
Who’s to blame?
Who’s to blame?

You and I

The noise ain’t noise anymore
Who’s to blame?
Who’s to blame?

You and I


3. WRONGDOERS

This is just a tragedy, just another tragedy
Feel the grave slide across my throat
I’ll live, or die and then forget the trip, forget the war, forget the struggle
Failure on repeat
Drive for miles just to turn around and play it back again
Failure on repeat

We came for killing.
Hopeless yes we know but we don’t mind
Careful not to cut yourself
Unhand the knife drawer and please replace the moon with the sun
I know it’s hell to hope the feeling of knowing destruction isn’t forever, take it or leave it
We make love to the same mistakes and never get tired
Embrace the lover, make yourself comfortable
Whatever keeps me up.
So fine, take this love and be gone I’m done
I always remind you.
Forget the pain and take the initiative

I guess we just consume danger so keep your hands out of your pockets and know
I will never listen!
I will never learn!
Eat the ice and kiss this place goodnight

We came for killing.
Hopeless yes we know but we don’t mind
Blood for the bridle.
Flood of red as far as we can see
Careful not to cut yourself
Unhand the knife drawer and please replace the moon with the sun
We make love to the same mistakes and never get tired
Embrace the lover, make yourself comfortable
Whatever keeps me up.
So fine, take this love and be gone I’m done
I always remind you.
Forget the pain and take the initiative

We make love to the same mistakes

Whatever keeps me up.
So fine, take this love and be gone I’m done
I always remind you.
Forget the pain and take the initiative

I guess we just consume danger so keep your hands out of your pockets and know
I will never listen!
I will never learn!


4. THE POTTER HAS NO HANDS

Speaking madness while I strive for a wordless language
You cry experience at the top of your lungs
At the top of your lungs
Can you make it loud?
Just make it loud
Make it loud
Just make it loud as hell
Molding the truths of unawareness
Search and destroy to fill the void at any result
So keep it down, just keep it down

I’m gonna ride this train till the end, the last stop is the cemetery
Cough up your last kill
You used to live now you just fertilize so breathe out all your last words
You used to live now you just fertilize

And waste your life trying to make memories
Wear it with pride, because it’s all that you’ve got
You just don’t get it, yeah you just don’t get it
Make it loud, just make it loud
Make it loud, just make it loud as hell
I'll rest here every night and propel my evils to him who hears me

Even in the stillness of thought
Even in the noise of your anger
Even in the silence of prayer
Cough up your last kill
You used to live now you just fertilize so breathe out all your last words
You used to live now you just fertilize

Make it so loud that the words are lost
Make it so loud that their stomachs are filled with the gold that they endlessly seek
Make it so loud that they open their eyes
Make it so loud that the trees that they worship
Shake to their roots
Make it loud!

Don’t want to hear a word they have to say
Don’t want to hear a word they have to say
Don’t want to hear a word they have to say


5. SWORD IN THE 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...
Loveless without shame. I was only waiting for the calm before the storm
The tongue was being sharpened by the lie

Sword in mouth and helpless in the bond we have between us
Fire eyes and desperate for the helplessness we love

Tell us all the things we need to know now
You’ll find us in the silence of our own guilt
Shout it from the hell below
Shake us but be gentle so
Take our hand walk us through
Take my hand walk me through the land I stole
Help us to lay down

Help us to lay down
Help us to lay down

Sword in mouth and helpless in the bond we have between us
Fire eyes and desperate for the helplessness we love


6. AFTERHOUR ANIMALS

Relax, you are loved
Breathe in and breath out
You are warm, loved, and comfortable
Focus on your breathing, breathe deeply and evenly
Lay back, close your eyes
Relax and listen, to my voice
You will sink deeper and deeper into total calm, comfortable, silence
Inside you will feel clean, clear, perfect, and still


7. THE LASH WHISTLED LIKE A SINGING WIND

Our friendship has a white flag
I’ll surrender if that’s what it takes
But I’ll never admit defeat
If that’s the road then you have the map
You and I mean way less to me than anything
In the isolation of the thoughts and judgments
And whatever happens to be spewing out of your dependency jail

There’s a slow dance soiree of trouble and you threw the party
We’re all doused in gasoline with no fear of flame
Well there’s a lot of things that can start a fire
I hope you’re satisfied because we all know that it’s the last thing
That I’ll hide and it’s the last that you can expect

No! You make your own damn mistakes!


8. NECK IN THE HEMP

I’m only gonna tell you one time!
I am absolutely over you
But the fact remains that I was never beneath you
So just give me one reason to fall in line
Cause at the end of the day I just forget to care
I just forget you exist and I move on

Oh yeah, one more thing, and you should write this down
My patience is thick but the fuse has been cut
And the vital flame has been replaced
And while you’re at it can you autograph this DNR?
Don’t you worry there’s a carbon print for my records
I’ll be sure to keep it safe and sound
For the love of God, do not resuscitate

You are the heir of a neck in the hemp
I am the son of a gun that has the rope
That’s not a wall I’d want to hide behind
It’s not getting any younger and it’s about to fall
I’ll be on the other side pushing as hard as I can

Let’s not have any doubts about this I will celebrate from your…
Death is not the rebellion of life!

I’m only gonna tell you one time!
I am absolutely over you
But the fact remains that I was never beneath you


9. 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 call to arms
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”

No one says that fear is a liar
But I’ve been told “No one gets out alive”

So trust us with your life
The conclusion of the world is coming!
As soon as we have enough provisions
Plus management is God
And they’re behind it all
Silence shows nothing but weakness

By now you’ve chosen the end
To live in fear is to not live at all
Worry is no form of treatment
You lost the sun to the walls of your bunker
But my love you know that I feel the same way

The only difference that fear is a liar
But at the top no one gets out alive

So trust us with your life
The conclusion of the world is coming!
As soon as we have enough provisions
Plus management is God
And they’re behind it all
Silence shows nothing but weakness

No one gets away alive!
By now you’ve stepped off the edge
This is a romance!
Darling you know that I feel the same way


10. FUNERAL SINGER

It’s been so many years since the first time I died
The vultures have been gone for so long
The past starts again
But now it’s all been covered in ash
Dust yourself off and shine your bones cause
We’ve got a long way to go

I am the king of love to hate
You said we’d be together forever

I hope my candor doesn’t piss you off
But I wasn’t joking
Forever’s the last word I want to hear come out of your mouth

You are unchanged, why?
And no matter how it looks
I’m just now realizing they look better awake
Then they ever did asleep
The pieces are bursting together
I’ve been trying for so long to place them

I am the king of love to hate
You said we’d be together forever

I hope my candor doesn’t piss you off
But I wasn’t joking
Forever’s the last word I want to hear come out of your mouth

Circles inside squares sparing and spoiling…

And now finally I’ve left
Burning and gasping for life
You’re drowning, but you’re not, you won’t
You are unchanged, why?
Unchanged, how?

This is the only way, spit out the candles that keep me away from you
This is not an invitation, this is my plea

I want to lay down in the trap you set for me
And wait in peace for you
I’m bleeding from the inside but nothing can protect myself from you
I want to lay down next to you and forget the world
The only people that exist are you and I
I want to look you in the eyes and count my blessings
You are so much more than just my other half
I’m telling you right now, I’d sell my soul for you


11. 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

Life is blank without the flame
It’s ok cause I am still within the womb
Watching from the inside, the inside
The great things wait just past the horizon
They lose their glow when the lights hit their skin
Outstretched hands I’ll flee and to nothing I will open the door

The sun is dead, or maybe just fading out
It hits my skin for the first time in days and days
As I slip into the air I feel the warmest winter
That I can remember
Breathless is the empty world

Aimlessly walking through a vacant city
The architecture is all alone
If this is the end I don’t feel a damn thing
My tired feet matter no more

It seems the things I tend to believe always fall to my feet
To dig my shallow graves
You must have felt this, before you even woke up
You should have known it years ago
You must have felt this, before you even woke up
You should have known it years ago

You should have known
You should have known
You should have known
You should have known

Do not be surprised my friend
You make your own decisions
You worked hard, you fought the good fight
The taste of copper in a failed mouth full of broken teeth
And the sounds, the sounds of excuses
I’ll count my blessings on the fingers of the unbit hand
Empty of reason, goodbyes on the tip of my tongue forever
And so it goes

I must have seen it, before I even woke up
I should have known it years ago

I will storm the gates of hell
I will kill the queen of death herself
Shadowless in the last direct light of the drowning sun
I will storm the gates of hell
I will kill the queen of death herself
Shadowless in the last direct light of the drowning sun


12. FAMILY BIKE WRECK

You have the kind of conscience to do with waiting
You all were waiting for the slaughter to murder

Murder
Murder

You have the kind of conscience to do with waiting

You are the one forgetting the slaughter
You are the one forgetting the slaughter

The sky belongs to no one
And I've seen your face before

The sky belongs to no one
I've seen your face

The sky belongs to no one
And I've seen your face before

Before


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