1. ANTHEM FOR DOOMED YOUTH

What passing bells
Slaughtering the cows
What passing bells
Slaughtering
No prayers no bells
Deafening shrill choirs
Of wailing shells

Bugles calling from crippled shires
Shaking goodbyes
I want to burn
Leave me with one less thing to miss
I won’t go on like this now
One more reason to end my life
Life will go on without me
Spineless
Worthless
Hypocrite
Life would be
Much better
If I weren’t here
I will let you down again


2. BLOODLETTING

Breathe in
Hold together
Breathe out
Empty threats
Aim and fire
Shoot to kill
Redact
Can your god turn his head
Play blind to genocide?
Will he just watch the world sink to the bottom?
Year by year they kill us


3. SILENT RAPTURE

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4. PRELUDE TO VIOLENCE

There's no saving this one it's already too late to fain innocence
While you're posing like angels the blood drips from your hands
Staining the ground where our children sleep
There's no virtue in silence, no solace in death
Just grief that sits like a ton of bricks
And I pray that someday we fall so I can breathe
Nothing will grow in fallow ground
Nothing is left that's worth saving


5. COME AND SEE

I'm trapped inside of this mental prison
I shut the world out, keep inside to stay alive
There's no salvation, we can't keep this up if we want to see faces that we recognize
The butcher swings his blade to the earth
Another early grave
Faces once blithe and full
Another rose, dead in the cold
No reason, no goal
Just a monster without a fucking soul
No recourse, no hope
Just a nightmare with no escape
The birds don't sing no more
We're just a means to an end
Come and see the world we've created
Come and see what we leave behind


6. DULCE ET DECORUM EST

Bloodshod
All blind
We cursed through
White eyes
Writhing
In his face
Under
Green seas
I saw him drown
Plunging
Choking
He is gone
Ardent for desperate glory
Hungry to serve a purpose
Vile as cancer
Bitter incurable sores on innocent tongues
The oldest lie they preach
Find something to die for
March to your tomb


7. CONSTANT VISIONS OF SUFFERING

I shake myself awake
There’s no repose you’re still here
It’s setting in your love is a ghost
The sky is on fire thoughts pierce through my skull like a knife
No one will ever be enough, nothing will make me whole
With trembling hands, and tired eyes
I’m giving up, i’m giving in
What’s another sleepless night
Maybe this time I won’t wake up
You were never here
You were never mine
Visions of suffering flood through these bloodshot eyes
A distant memory fuels barbaric desire
I feel my body break at the crushing hands of time
Without rest, without reprieve
I ache to feel your pain


8. WHIPPOORWILL

Eyes like voids
Piercing from above
Vultures leer from skeleton trees
Dull eyes gaze longing for an end
I know it's not if but when
One day I’ll be just another wooden cross
One day it'll be like I wasn't even here
There's a ringing in my ears and a weight in the air
It doesn't matter how sweet the sound
It all goes black all the same
Lately my skin just hasn't fit quite right
And every night wings dim the sky
Death please come soon
Peace please be still


9. INVOCATION

For what it’s worth
You’ll probably wake up
With your life in place
You’ll have your job
And all of your new friends
To keep you full
You’ll close your eyes
And pretend it’s working
Just look away
Don’t let the mask slip
It’s not permanent
Don’t ever forget
This can be ripped away
No false
Comfort
You make me sick

You are every
Anxious thought
That haunts my mind
You took every
Sanctuary
I could make
With a heart that breaks like the
Promise of
Being safe
I won’t suffer alone
Some day soon
Your heart will give out
On giving your
Cruelty a place to thrive
I’ll feel nothing
No one will remember you


10. DID YOU COME FOR BLOOD ALONE?

I refuse
To be
Part of a
Broken system
Fueled by blood
Is this what
You meant
When you told me
To be a man?
Then I’m fine
Being a coward
In your eyes

A hundred voices
Chanting at once
Bringing an end to
A delicate still
Thundering footsteps
Trudge through the thick
With every step
A new scar on the earth
Never a question
Of right versus wrong
Just profit incentives
And keeping control
Withering planet
And kids in the street
But funding for murder
And spreading disease
The promise of god
And an eternal peace
Rupture the world
With a misguided act
Just out of reach
From eternal relief
If there’s a hell
Then it can’t be much worse

Nothing is harder
Than
Letting go
Of
A future
That
Could have been

I’m standing tall
With fists made of spite
Nothing is sacred
Nothing is right

Hold on to what you can
As long as you can
These hands are frail and scarred
From years of letting go
I know you’re never gone
My sweetest friend
Every night I pray
To a god that isn’t there
Just to hear you
Just one last time
Telling me
Everything will be alright
Just rest your pretty face
Did you come for blood alone?