- ...Discipline Your Daughters
I can't recall that last day of sun,
Curtains closed and sitting with the lights out,
An uncertain emptiness surrounds me
I'm numb and my judgments have switched to autopilot.
Nothing left but echoes and thoughts of moving on.
Don't stay away but don't stay here.
Tell me all your secrets.
- A Media Friendly Turn For The Worse
They provide their nectar and then I am released.
I am a grain of sand underneath the floor and so far out of reach, but I am safe from harm.
Against this shelter they are always hammering, against these ears they are always deafening.
I too know an angry language. Our pain is always accurate and striving to evade its only design.
It wants to strike you down to fall into its arms again.
Blood is thicker than water, but which one did you drink?
Oh...
- A Small Spark Vs. A Great Forest
What did you say?
Don't speak.
You nailed all your words down on me and it felt like a blind guide.
Leading me into quicksand.
So fight fair, fight fair.
But all you hear is noise.
Fight fair, fight fair!
I've earthed this seed so many times.
- A Thousand Years a Minute
I am just a sensory of what I've said and done
This is what I tell myself to pacify the room
I suppose living like this is good to you?
I'm taking what you're giving but the giving takes away
Is that what you came for?
Is that what you came for?
- Amnesty Please
Astounding! Let us consider our current state
A string of events and I tied the first knot
You´re an anchor and I won't be drug down
Because no matter what
Burn this to ashes
Ashes and framework
- And There Will Be A Swarm Of Hornets
I built this destruction with my own hands and with my hands I will help pull it down.
And like the worker bees, silenced by that swarm I'll make a new home
String me up, just leave me here and I'll find my way back home I swear
These are not the plans I made.
This is not the life I wanted
I don't care.
Pull it down.
With broken bones and vital organs far from functional,
- Anna
Haven't seen a word in a span of days. Listen for the slow and steady hum, saying you're everything to everything you're saying. It's not the answer you devoured or the quest to find the question, just the sound that came before the first step and never turned around again.
I don't want to freeze inside. I fell in love with the burn out here, but a little on the lighter side,
I'm here alone and you don't ask why.
Write it down, Anna. Can you hear me now? Autograph and send it through the air.
Say you're everything cause you're everything I'm not
The knife won't cut the rope tied to me. It's breaks and frays to nothing. Comfort sorrow and you'll hold that weapon by the jagged blade.
Caught between a dream and a dream. I pulled at the seams. We're always between trading the dawn for dusk. Exchanging rot for rust. I'll testify with a torch burning black from the mouth of a night-stained sky. I'll stand in the sun cutting shapes into shade. You can hold the hilt, I'll be the blade. You're the reason. You're the sound that lights the way before the first step that never turned around again. All hail!
- Bastardizer
Someday you'll pass with relief
from the tossing sea of despair
onto the solid ground of truth.
Nothing you can say will prove me a bastard.
I'm left with everything,
still stray to question "why?”...
"why?"... "why?", "why?", "why?"...
- Bayonetwork
Bayonetwork: Vultures In Vivid Color
We walked on glass all day long, with eyes rolled back.
It came with smiles, it came with gestures, and it came with motives.
Investing flowers in one hand and a blade in the other.
This is between me and this blade, and my heart.
Distributing rusty knives in these countless attractive letters
with a directional diagram of a guilty heart.
- Blue Prints For Future Homes
Like miracles like clockwork and like miracles.
You witnessed halos, but you failed to see its horns.
The illusion of intelligence, a continuous sounding bell.
And can you feel the interruption in the air?
Can you feel the static?
I've never seen you like this.
Yeah, well that's what I said.
Drive drive the vultures home.
- Blueprints For Future Homes
Like miracles like Clockwork and like miracles,
You witnessed halos, but you failed to see its horns.
The illusion of intelligence, a continuous sounding bell.
And can feel the interruption in the air? Can you feel the static?
I've never seen you like this, seen you. Yeah, well that's what I said.
Drive drive your vultures home. You're killing me. Just Bury me.
Yeah, Well that's what I said. And I said exactly what I meant.
You're killing me. Just Bury Me. Holy ghosts and talk show hosts.
- Careen
Circle within a circle. The pier glass infinite. Transparent echo on twin sides in every direction.
See through infinite. incomprehensible now. Abandoned all the fear that fear the all abandoned, cast out, passed up without fail. Oh can you see at all? I'll never say what it is
but I can say what it almost certainly is. Forgetting rules that rules forgetting. So wash away my care aside. Surrender my defense of everything. Cause I'm over it. I can't tell you why, I can't refuse anymore. Confused I'm outside the mask. They mask the outside. I'm confused.
I can't complain.
- Cemetery Like A Stage
There will be no more color
Broken I stand here
A new creation
On the stage of history
Where map and compass
Mean nothing at all
The arrows are in me
My spirit drinks poison
- Creating Something Out Of Nothing, Only To Destroy It
Your eyes, your concrete eyes. Cross crisscross
my path... Walking in circular patterns. Shoe shine
your ammo, polish your metal. I need not your wicked
weapons. My war is not with someone like you. A
string of blood that is not my own strings between.
Increase time and it will fall into place. a sword
and my heart. So much so that it makes its way through
my throat giving me thought to speak. This becomes my
- Deathbed Atheist
Watch it all change and watch it go away.
Watch it all never be the same again.
Watch it all all be nothing like we thought before.
Watch it all. Watch it.
Watch it all be lies, damned lies, statistics.
Lie to me. Lie to me. Lie to me.
Take it all in and take it all from me.
- Discipline Your Daughters
I can't recall that last day of sun,
Curtains closed and sitting with the lights out,
An uncertain emptiness surrounds me
I'm numb and my judgments have switched to autopilot.
Nothing left but echoes and thoughts of moving on.
Don't stay away but don't stay here.
Tell me all your secrets.
- Distance to Planets
You're burning like a sun and it's safe to say that I can't look away.
These lights are calling out my name
And I want nothing more than to attach attach attach, then try and get away.
Can't we get in over our heads?
Can't I just try and breathe?
Can't we drive in the wrong direction?
Can't we erase this map and always stay away?
- Everlasting Tapeworm
The countless times we fall to ruin. These myriad days are so relentless.
It isn't everyone's frailty to stop functioning and stop breathing.
Sway with the waves, with the waves change, and we'll find our way back to the shore when it's over.
The never content sensation of a tapeworm drug looking for its angry fix.
Will mutual fear bring us peace? Is ruining your day ruining your life?
- Full Circle in Under a Minute
Engraved into the sky. Into the living and the dead. So take away and kill the root. Less is more and I need more more more. The sky cares not what will is mine and everything else falls beneath. So for one meaningless excuse, will you tell me why I'd be to blame for anything that happens after this? For everything that happens after You? Will you tell me?
So this is how it's done. One foot in front. The hand relays the flame. Pass it off!
The dead gaze is deafening, but time will tell if sound relays the lie.
I'll tell you. Anything could happen after this. Everything could happen after you.
I am the crack in the dam. I planned the breach in the gate. I'll consume the universe, destroy the wolf and cry out for the lamb. This is how it's done.
- 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
- High Noise Low Output
Yeah!
And I sat through a thousand suns, much sooner than you arrived, and I know what you're thinking:
"Just pull the ripcord and let's descend."
You put your parachutes on parade and you left the pilots on the ground,
But if you're calling me in, then you better believe I'm gonna call you out.
(If you're calling me in, I'm gonna call you out).
Who knows the cost and what may escape you and I,
'Cause it's a long way down from here.
- I Used To Hate Cell Phones But Now I Hate Car Accidents
Run far away from what you have created.
You have created this drama.
You're Dancing around the truth.
My God rain down power.
My God rain down fire.
War.
With these diamonds you cut your throat.
Code red. Cut throat victim.
- Innocent Bystanders United
These tears are carving trenches in my skin.
Put down the microscope, rip off my scales and take a look inside,
'cause I feel like... like Jesus don't... don't come around much more these days.
Skeletons are falling out through every fracture.
Look away, look away. There's nothing to see here.
Lies and mistakes all know me by my name, and...
- It Was As If The Dead Man Stood Upon The Air
Rewind the cycle.
My Regret is the world I created.
Regret the kiss that sealed my fate.
Rewind, rewind it all again.
Rewind the silver that was my price.
I think I will take a walk and rest my soul.
A cylindrical head resting in
The arms of a circular rope.
- Kill More Presidents
No way!
You can't control bull
Another day another customer paid for it
I'll Swallow every
Knife on this table
Another day another year with you
Shakes the crown, Can't you see?
- Landslide Defeater
It's like I said. You won't believe what I've done. You won't believe what I've done.
You won't feel it bite down, the black tusk into the chest or the teeth that it left in the wound.
Amputate. You brought this on yourself. You brought this on yourself. So bring me the feast that I already consumed. The paradox rejected. I care for nothing new. I care for nothing.
Cursed is the land in need of heroes for liars. It's all coming down. It's like you said, It's like you said Woe to you. I heard the lie that told a deeper truth and rendered conversations useless. It's like I said, it's like I said Woe to you, just like I said.
Forever without end, none of you seem to understand. I'm not buried with you. I'm not buried with you. It's you buried down here with me. Burned is that fear that is burned.
Cover your hands (your hands) so the world won't burn so bad.
Cover your head (your head) so the world won't feel so cold.
Break the world in half so the ground won't shake so hard.
- Leaderless And Self Enlisted
Enslavement wasn't my first choice.
My will is greater than that, believe me.
I'd scratch away to the center.
I'd bite it down to the blood.
I want to rip out the foundation,
I want the axis to rupture.
I never wanted to tell you since we know you've heard it before.
- Liiarsenic
Run
Run away screaming bloody murder
The doubt of question will be murdered, murdered, murdered,
Deception is charming
I don’t think so, lies, I don’t think so, lies,
I don’t think so, lies,
- Memphis Will Be Laid To Waste
Waltz around the room
With a glaze in your stare
In your tuxedo suit
I will give it a name
Lower your defenses
Or lower your casket
Open the door
Open your grave
- Murphy Was an Optimist
Light that fuse, back up three steps and bite down on that bullet.
You've been doing this way too long and it can't be fixed.
Don't worry pull up that chair and suck down that trouble
Misery is the fuel that keeps this broken down, lifeless instrument running
I'm sinking in cursory and I'm sinking headfirst
Clear your dusty throat and taste that stiletto
Can you taste that metal?
Don't worry it can't be fixed.
- 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
- Opposite of Left and Wrong
Dedication is nothing but a word.
What have we become?
We become the things we do.
When does it end?
Argument is the enemy.
You've said one hundred opposites of left and wrong
So tell me what's right, not what's wrong.
I don't care anymore.
- Orphan Twin
The first grain foundation
Down you put that hand that put you dow
I am the crushed right hand
I am the crushed left hand
The shattered hands run their bones through the earth. The shattered hands run their bones through the air.
Slip up on time, Emit no pupils
It's not like you
It's not like you
- Pretty Soon I Don't Know What But Something Is Going To Happen
Time can kill the greatest of men.
Even the strongest find themselves on the floor.
It Doesn't have to be this way.
Time keeps moving on and on.
Fragile time can not waste again.
Fragile time can't be laid to rest.
Fragile time can lead you to the grave or fragile time can start eternity.
- Pretty Soon, I Don't Know What, But Something Is Going To Happen
Time can kill the greatest of men. Even the strongest find themselves on the floor. It doesn't have to be this way. Time keeps moving on and on. Fragile time can not waste again. Fragile time can't be laid to rest. Fragile time can lead you to the grave or fragile time can start eternity. It kills their walk, I watch them wash away. It's all worth while time goes on.
- Robots 3 Humans 0
Open that door; I'll follow you into that space.
Where nothing is regretted then forgotten.
Where is that grace that carries me out?
So strange it's mine.
It's closed and locked but If you open that door
It won't be -
Yesterday when, before the days of collapsing,
- Robots 3, Humans 0
Open that door; I’ll follow you into that space
Where nothing is regretted then forgotten
Where is that grace that carries me out? So strange it’s mine
It’s closed and locked but If you open that door,
it won’t be yesterday when, before the days of collapsing,
And I’ll stand through all these lines just to make it back to you
Can you help me every step of the way? We can bury that battle and bury the cause
There is nothing that I can say because I was wrong this time
- Safety Last
I am the wreck that you've been waiting for.
The dream is real.
The nightmare is fictional real.
I'm telling you I've seen the serpent lose.
A rush of poison from the fangs.
Snap it's tail.
Fall into the lake and take a breath.
Pull the root from interlacing vines.
- Self-Employed Chemist
It's like you know the words but you can't hear the music.
You've lived a lie for so long, now you believe it.
You're shooting silver bullets and taking magic pills.
I'm asking you do you know a way to delete my conscience?
Don't put your ear to the floor to hear the sound of the future.
Yours is a history. Shaped by disaster.
We're coming back for you. You better brace yourself.
I'm telling you, We're coming back
- Shaunluu
Abundant or broke
The elect and the mute
All will slip away, the billions...
Like thieves through windows
It leaves their branches white
All breathe, be breathless
To quit this mortal frame, We're not safe.
Even lovers are asleep
- Sometimes It's Our Mistakes That Make For The Greatest Ideas
It feels so good up to my skin. One more mile and it
is sinking in. I have tried to make mine a tree. And
not have so much of me. God has stolen my heart. So I
will write it down. I consume myself with invisible
things. Escape. Congradulations. This is my escape. A
pen and book and if the world can see what I got and
then lets all have a good look. A fortunate one.
- Songs Sound Much Sadder
We'll be legends.
We are smashed men, still moving. We've tried everything in the book.
no stranger to failure, death with a steady heartbeat.
Scratching into any surface it wants.
Joy and beauty rejected so many times.
A world of hurt, a heart of false hope.
- 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
- Surrender Your Sons
Left alone
Your pale skin is a razor sharp wire so I place these scales over my eyes
Don't touch me.
I'm sick.
You whisper.
But I hear only what I choose.
- Sword in 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
- The Anthem Of The Angry Brides
I have nothing left to prove. No demonstrations, no explanations.
There was never any intention for me to convince you.
It’s just another case of you with your formless sense of importance.
You’re breathing fire and your words are burning in hell.
This rebellion is marching to its disarray. It talks in circles and it’s words are burning in hell.
You are every inch of neutral. So avert your senses from my dedication.
- The Entire World Is Counting on Me,
Running away from this earth.
May it pass away in the beautiful flames that it was created for.
Because when tomorrow fails to come,
today is just not the same.
Inflamed earth.
Roses.
In this hope.
For all I care.
- THE PEOPLE THAT SURROUND U ON A REGULAR BAS1S
This is pain draped in excellence, and there’s no way to bury it.
I awake resolute and numb, climbing 15 stories just to fall asleep at the edge,
and I’m praying for a sleepless night. And how does this darkness always find me?
This is the time for you to leave in peace or stay and die.
We’re crashing down and burning out with every word you say.
We’re burning through the atmosphere and we hope...
we hope you never find us... we hope you never find us anywhere.
- The People That Surround You On A Regular Basis
This is pain draped in excellence, and there's no way to bury it.
I awake resolute and numb, climbing 15 stories just to fall asleep at the edge, and I'm praying for a sleepless night.
And how does this darkness always find me?
This is the time for you to leave in peace or stay and die.
We're crashing down and burning out with every word you say.
We're burning through the atmosphere and we hope...
we hope you never find us... we hope you never find us anywhere.
- Trace Levels of Dystopia
The dead, the dead, the dead are coming back to life. Does it hurt you to know that it doesn't hurt me at all? Oh how they love to see the mighty fall. Does it make me a bad person that I can't wait for you to see what's coming? Before you know it, they'll send a flood of knives. Eager to hit your spine. This isn't violence no. Fantasy justice yeah. The world's an empty stage and we're just watching it. Spite becomes routine. Harrowing questions have easier answers. There will be hell to pay. So crack the chest. Open and operate. Tie up the lungs with the debt because there's nothing to save. Send the feet to the fields and the fire. Bill the hands, because there's hell to pay.
- Translational
The non dimensional spectrum, The non dimensional pull, The one dimensional eye
Just like a low lying black cloud hovers over a city. So does the fog produce dependence.
Deliver me. I won't have it any other way. Deliver me. So we can fade away.
The ghost sighed, there will be no grasping out for one straw, my dear enemy.
There is only grasping out for several. Submit the hand. Granted, you care about countless and such careless things, precarious enemy, but these are not the questions I asked the coin. So toss again. I won't have it any other way. So bury me with your guilt in the desert in the beating sun. We can't float forever. Enemy the prize that prize the enemy. It's as if I were speaking to myself to no ears but my own. Turn off the dark so I can lift my head again. Light a torch and set yourself ablaze again. Burn baby burn. Yeah, catalyst. Giver of faith, I'm on fire with you. So we can fade away, yeah so we can fade away.
- 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 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”
- Vipers, Snakes, and Actors
Carry your flags,
March into that fictional cause and show off that medal,
Just don"t reach for that gun.
Carry that banner.
Build that heart out of stone.
Just don"t reach for that gun.
You scaled the high horse and I felt the change.
I know the difference between you and me.
- 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