Parkway Drive : Darker Still

Metalcore / Australia
(2022 - Resist Records / Epitaph Records (USA-1))
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Lyrics


1. GROUND ZERO

The fights, the falls, the scars and broken bones
Beneath it all, the cracks begin to show
The hurt, the hate, we're no better off alone
Than a time bomb
Don’t let it explode

There's a voice in my head
Telling me I'm not right, wanting me to fall
There’s a place inside me
Where everything is dark, I don't care anymore
There's a thousand reasons
Telling me it's too bright living in the limelight
Every choice is mine to bear, mine alone

Flawless is a fiction, imperfection makes us whole
The weight that holds you down, let it go

The fights, the falls, the scars and broken bones
Beneath it all, the cracks begin to show
The hurt, the hate, we're no better off alone
Than a time bomb
Don't let it explode

I've got friends beside me
Telling me it's all right, waiting on my call
There’s a place they showed me
Where I can find peace in the eye of the storm
There’s a thousand reasons
Telling me it's not right giving up the fight
I got you beside me when my back’s against the wall

Flawless is a fiction, imperfection makes us whole
The weight that holds you down, let it go

The fights, the falls, the scars and broken bones
Beneath it all, the cracks begin to show
The hurt, the hate, we're no better off alone
Than a time bomb

Flawless is a fiction, imperfection makes us whole
The weight that holds you down, let it go, go, go
Break through

Break through
Live like life depends on it
Live like life depends on

The fights, the falls, the scars and broken bones
Beneath it all, the cracks begin to show
The hurt, the hate, we're no better off alone
Than a time bomb
Don't let it explode

Explode
Don’t let it explode
Don't let it, don't let it explode


2. LIKE NAPALM

Burn it all away
Burn it
Burn it all away
Burn it
Burn it all away

Bad vibrations resonate
Peace is such
Peace is such a static state
Kill your darlings, clean the slate
Learn to master everything you love to hate

God damn, I can be it
Everything you love to hate
I can see it
Everything you love in flames

Like napalm in the garden of Eden
Like a car bomb burning at heaven’s door
Like napalm in the garden of Eden
Like an A-bomb falling through the house of the Lord
Burn it all away

[Post-Chorus]
Burn it
Burn it all away
Burn it
Burn it all away

Burn the bridges, fan the flames
Scattеr the ashes
Dead is dеad, is dead to me
Fear is such a fragile place
I can be it
Everything you love to fucking hate
Hell yeah I can see it
Everything you love in flames

Like napalm in the garden of Eden
Like a car bomb burning at heaven’s door
Like napalm in the garden of Eden
Like an A-bomb falling through the house of the Lord
I am inevitable
I am inevitable

Burn the bridges, fan the flames
Burn it
Burn it all away
Kill your darlings, clean the slate
Burn it
Burn it all away

Burn it
Burn it all away
Burn it
Burn it all away

Burn the bridges, fan the flames
Burn it
Burn it all away
Kill your darlings, clean the slate
Burn it
Everything you love in flames


3. GLITCH

Close your eyes
Let your mind submerge
Are you ready?
3, 2, 1

I feel a glitch in the cortex
Like a ghost in the shell
Caught the devil playing mind tricks
I feel the dread close in like the walls of a cell

I cannot sleep
I cannot hide
I cannot take
One more night on the dark side of my mind
I close my eyes to sleep, the shadows speak
And they won't stop when I'm awake


Everything they say would seem
Feeds the fear inside of me
Let it feed thе fear inside
Help mе take this pain away
Sleep is now my enemy
Now it feeds the fear inside of me

The fear inside of me
The fear hit like a shell shock
Body froze like my heart stopped
REM waves got my limbs locked down
But my eyes wide open
Sheer terror manifest before me

I cannot sleep
I cannot hide
I cannot take
Living this way on the dark side of my mind
I close my eyes to sleep, the shadows speak
And they won't stop when I'm awake

Everything they say would seem
Feeds the fear inside of me
Let it feed the fear inside
Help me take this pain away
Sleep is now my enemy
Now it feeds the fear inside of me

Sleep paralysis
Let me out, let me out
Let me out, let me out, let me out, let me out
Let me out, let me out, let me out
Let me the fuck out
Let me the fuck out

Everything they say would seem
Feeds the fear inside of me
Let it feed the fear inside
Help me take this pain away
Sleep is now my enemy
Now it feeds the fear inside of me
It's the fear inside of me

I cannot sleep
I cannot hide
I cannot take
One more night on the dark side of my mind


4. THE GREATEST FEAR

Master of the darkness
Siren of the storm
Whisper in the silence
The king of nevermore
Keeper of the secrets
Reaper in the fall
Reigning here eternal
The king of nevermore

The bells will ring
Virtue extolled
Behold, destiny, thy guidance

Master of dominion, he's the shadow on the wall
His arms are always open
He's the name we leave unspoken
He's the king of nevermore
The harbinger of all
Dark matters
Dark matters

Breaker of the cycle
Seeker of the soul
Shepherd in the ether
Through the gates of nevermore
Look just beyond the pale
The truth is there to see for one and all
The answers that you seek
Lie just beyond his open door

The bells will ring
Virtue extolled
Behold, destiny, thy guidance

Master of dominion, he's the shadow on the wall
His arms are always open
He's the name we leave unspoken
He's the king of nevermore
The harbinger of all
Dark matters

In death
In death
In death we all sing the hymns of nevermore
(In death we all sing the hymns of nevermore)
(In death we all sing the hymns of nevermore)
Nevermore
Nevermore

The promise, the constant
The requiem for every soul
Polaris inside us
We sing the hymns of nevermore
Nevermore

The harbinger of all
Dark matters
Dark matters
Dark matters


5. DARKER STILL

I’m buying acres in the sky
And building stairs with every lie
With every step I make her cry
Until I die, until I die

I’m swinging hard for all my life
Reaching across this great divide
Until I see the other side
Until I die, until I die

And the night grows darker still
And the night grows darker still
And the night grows dark, darker still

I’m swimming deep into her eyes
I’m swimming strong, but won’t survive
The dark, the blue, I cannot fight
Until I die, until I die

I’m wishing hard upon the night
With every wish, a new star dies
But bright, the light behind her eyes
Until I die, until I die

And the night grows darker still
And the night grows darker still
And the night grows dark

Darker still!

Until I die, until I die!
(And the night grows darker still)
Until I die, until I die!
(And the night grows darker still)
Until I die, until I die! (Ohhhhhh)
(And the night grows darker still)
(And the night grows dark)

And the night grows darker still
And the night grows darker still
And the night grows dark


6. IMPERIAL HERETIC

Watch out
What will it take to get it into your head
You want it
A street painted blood, a climate of dread
You want it
Yeah, you want it all

Fear, for the faithful
Fire, fuel the rage
Faith, in your profits
It's all
Hate from the pulpit
Acid in the rain
Blood on the altar
It’s all
Fear, fire and faith
What will it take to clear the fog from your sight
You want it
The prism of profit warps the purest of mind
You want it
Oh, you want it all

Fear, for the faithful
Fire, fuel the rage
Faith, in your profits
It's all
Hate from the pulpit
Acid in the rain
Blood on the altar
It's all
Fear, fire and faith

It’s all the same sad mantra
But I won't, I refuse, I refuse to
Repeat it
Imperial heretic

‘Cause you want it all
You want it all

Fear, for the faithful
Fire, fuel the rage
Faith, in your profits
It's all
Hate from the pulpit
Acid in the rain
Blood on the altar
It's all
Fear, fire and faith


7. IF A GOD CAN BLEED

If a god can bleed, then I'll bleed you out
If a god can bleed, then I'll bleed you out
Like a god can bleed, then I'll bleed you out
If a god can bleed, then I'll bleed you out

The news came down with the first winter rain
Word on the street is there's rust on the blade
Everybody knows that everybody talks
Blood on the breeze draws the worms from the woodwork
They say “god has lost his shine"
"Troubles red rivers lace the whites of his eyes"
They laugh at your back, until they laugh at your face
‘Cause word on the street is there's rust on the blade

Champagne smilе with a cocaine heart
Hollow in the middlе and the edges gone soft
If you don't stay sharp, then you just get cut
Fat little piggy with his head on the block
"Lost your edge, dulled your shine"
"Fear runs red in the gutters of your mind"
Now the laughter pours down like the cold winter rain

‘Cause word on the street is there's rust on the blade

If a god can bleed, then I'll bleed you out
If a god can bleed, then I'll bleed you out
Like a god can bleed, then I'll bleed you out
If a god can bleed, then I'll bleed you out

Just

Like...


8. SOUL BLEACH

Poison
Poison
Soul Bleach

Bow the fuck down to your new pariah
Coming to you live from a dumpster fire
So damn wrong, and I'm here to make it worse
Never born to be the hero, I'm the villain you deserve
Heart of stone, black as tar
Read my life like a book of scars
I'm no Superman, but I've got issues
First is trust, and the second's you

God, a little trust is a dangerous thing
It's gonna kill, kill, kill you if you let it back in
A little trust is a dangerous thing
You gotta kill, kill, kill it if you want to be free

Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill

Oh, don't be so dramatic
Shit, you planned it
Took that shot like a calm assassin
Slowed your heart, turned off your conscience
Flipped that script and killed the hostage
Every villain's got an origin story
Every hero wanna put ‘em in a frame
Guess I shoulda read the warning signs
Guess mine’s getting hit by a freight train

A little trust is a dangerous thing
It's gonna kill, kill, kill you if you let it back in
A little trust is a dangerous thing
You gotta kill, kill, kill it if you want to be free
[Post-Chorus]
Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill
You’re fucking poison

Just let it die
Extinction's a blessing, it's all just perspective
If you wanna survive, here's my little lesson
Know you will bleed
Know you will suffer
And if you don't kill me...
If you don't kill me then fucker, you better run

You better run
Run
Let the past die, kill it if you have to

(I’ll be the nightmare)
(I’ll be the nightmare)
That lives in your mind

A little trust is a dangerous thing
It's gonna kill, kill, kill you if you let it back in
A little trust is a dangerous thing
You gotta kill, kill, kill it if you want to be free

Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill

Soul Bleach


9. STRANGER

We are all but strangers, in a stranger world
Pixelate
Isolate
Filter out the human
Pixelate
Isolate
We become the future
We are all but strangers, in a stranger world


10. LAND OF THE LOST

Like drones to their makers
Like pigs in the trough
Never souls, we are numbers
In the land of the lost
Dig

Guilt is the weight of the mind
Heavy as heaven, cold as the night
Pain is the price of denial
The promise of hell in the devil’s design
In the devil’s design
In the devil’s design
In the devil’s design
The promise of hell

Are you a righteous boy?
Are you a penitent girl?
We've been down so long
We forgot why we were searching
But there's bodies in the basement
And there's dirt on the soul
There's a presence of omnipotence
Reaching down to guide us all

Keep digging
Keep digging the hole down deeper
Keep digging
Keep digging, the whole thing runs on...

Hope is the hollow inside
Empty in promise, it echoes the mind
Faith is the noose that we wind
The prayer that tomorrow will forgive our lies
Will forgive our lies
Will forgive our lies
Will forgive our lies
The prayer for tomorrow

Are you unholy boy?
Are you a godless girl?
We've been down so long
We forgot why we were kneeling
But there's a dream they can sell you
For a credit on your soul
So bite the hand or bite the bullet
No choice you make will breed control

Keep digging
Keep digging the hole down deeper
Keep digging
Keep digging, the whole thing runs on...

Keep digging
Keep digging
Keep digging
Keep digging, the whole thing runs on...

Like drones to their makers
Like pigs in the trough
Never souls, we are numbers
In the land of the lost
Like drones to their makers
Like pigs in the trough
Never souls, we are numbers
In the land of the lost

In the land of the lost
In the land of the lost
In the land of the lost
And they're leading us down like lambs to the slaughter

Oh!
Yeah!
They're leading us down like lambs to the slaughter
They're grinding us down

Keep digging
Keep digging the hole down deeper
Keep digging
Keep digging, the whole thing runs on...

Keep digging
Keep digging
Keep digging
Keep digging, the whole thing runs on...

Keep digging, the whole thing runs on blood


11. FROM THE HEART OF THE DARKNESS

From the heart of the darkness

I took a walk last night through the valley of death
And I saw no evil but the fear that I reflect
There's a war going on inside, nobody's safe from
You can run, but you can't hide
When it's your soul you must confront

My victory was

Ripped from the heart of darkness
Torn from the torment of the soul
I saw myself so broken that I struggled to reconcile
The one I was, with the one in my mind’s eye
I picked my bones from the floor and built, piece by piecе
Fed the fire in my bеlly into an inferno I must release

My victory was

Ripped from the heart of darkness
Torn from the torment of the soul

There's a hurricane hiding in the butterflies’ wings
And a songbird singing from a cage she can't release
There's a river of bad blood flooding the bridge
And a cold hard truth that won't relent beneath my fists

Fury, fury be my victory

From the heart of the darkness

Ripped from the heart of darkness
Torn from the torment of the soul

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