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Sniper In The Bell Tower
03:59
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Alone now, see the breathe vapors rising
The smallest sound sets the chaos in bloom
Internal, resistance, wait for the bell’s ring at noon
It’s your world not mine deceiving
Nothing to save let it all burn to hell
My strength, your weakness, the lies of the world
And I am watching for your every move like a sniper in a bell tower
Anticipating everything you do, just to pin you down again
My shield, deliver, my sword, deliver me
The hammer falls, and the smoke fills my lungs
It’s your hate, reciprocated
My strength, upon us, the eyes of the world
I did my time, in your wicked world
Crucified, but now I’ve found,
Escape, and nine bullets,
And there’s no wasting time
Fire
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2. |
Forever Hold Your Peace
03:44
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Time and term so often burn
when there’s nowhere left to go
And life leaks out like sand through glass
and drafts through open doors
So some will spend their waking days
just tearing you apart
But ears will bleed from deafening shots
from the bullets to the heart
Breakdown, I want something else, I won’t walk away
We we’re never made to run the rat race. NO!
No, this was never by design,
route the motorcade and let the stars align.
Go, Pick an apple from the tree,
speak now or forever hold your peace.
I, I am not the same, and I won’t take the blame
We we’re never meant to free the fiends
So you caught the cold, you break the mold
that’s breaking skin
Breaking my skin
Chorus
Speak now or forever hold your peace.
Chorus
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3. |
Weapon To The World
03:31
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This is life that has never been lived in
A broken spoke with a kink in the chain
every dead end road is one that you've taken
head down as you pedal away
against the wind, towing ropes disconnected
stinging eyes, are corrupting perspective
“your miles from where you should be, son”
“best go back where you came”
“there nothing for you here boy”
“you best be on your way”
Cause you’re a weapon to the world
So what are you aiming for?
And who are you running from?
there are things that he's never spoken of
words that'd warp their visions of the sky up above
onto the next town where he gives them a gift of
a life that will never be lived in or loved
cause things may change in the blink of an eye
he said things change in the blink of an eye
things will change in the blink of an eye
Things have changed in the blink of an eye
He’s a weapon to the world.
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4. |
The Roaches
04:43
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Versus the raging, reach of the arms machine
They’re seen awaiting, reconstructing broken things
And in my mirror, a lonely satellite
Longs for fear of, for fear of smoke filled glowing nights
If you want to invoke the sting
Grab the lever and pull the string
With the rain go the roaches
Sunlight torches the worms on the street
And you want to repair the wings
They’re so tired from circling
With the wind goes the motion
Clouds cover emotion, eclipsing the seas
It’s never mentioned, the consolation prize,
No good intention, buzzards pecking out your eyes
And in my mirror, a lonely satellite
Longs for fear of, for fear of smoke filled glowing nights
Chorus
I’ll never fall; I’ll never fall for this again.
You’re without reason, without knowing regret
Something reeks; reeks from your descent
From the window, the window it’s fragrant
No, I’ll never fall, I’ll never fall for this again
You’re without reason, without knowing regret
I will never fall!
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5. |
X-1 Smash Face
04:13
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More broken, shattered, callused hands
Have built a kingdom to come
Slave yourself into a broken land
Or find a reason to run
Cause you know better than to cross that line
Find a rival to run from
Find a reason to hide
We are born with our fists held high
We are born into convenient lies
We were born with a sword to fight (so fight)
We are born with a natural law
We are born into a perfect flaw
We were born with a gun to draw
Just to know it is fake, a scam
A repressed regression from charming deception
Awakes in my hand
Aroused with the prowess of infinite solace
Cause you know better than to cross that line
Find a rival to run from find a reason to hide
Chorus
Not a million confessions could buy me
There’s not a million to sell
Birds waking the new revolution
Worms eating the walls of the well
Who stole from your memories?
Who holds all your broken dreams?
Who rose to release the thieves?
Who chose all your false beliefs?
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6. |
You Must Let Go
04:50
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Your lies are beautiful
Mistrust is plentiful
Let us not ever speak of this again
I’m still sore from you and your syringe
Intact intriguing toxicants
Detracts, Fades facts, implores fiction
To gain control, you must let go (must let go)
Your thoughts ring loud and clear
Yet mine have disappeared
This rope is weak and blistering
This road is steep and deceiving
Eclipse shows truth - shows proof revealed
Escape proves fate - signed, kissed and sealed.
And I’ve sought for better things
The more it’s rubbed, the more it stings…
The more it stings.
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7. |
Flatline
04:57
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I feel lost, like a flame in the fire
Alone, like a rose on a grave
Spit out, exiled, wishing my life away.
No, it’s a rescue of ruins
No, it’s a tide out to sea
I sit alone, transpired
while your wither away
When the leaves leave the branches,
That’s where I was supposed to be,
and you always would have your way
but still I’m left wondering, how
Forever, still I’m left wondering, how it could have been
your hands, your hands gripped me tightest
before, the rose left the vase
ripped out, like briars, leaving thorns in their wake
no, it’s the lesson of losing
no, it’s the slipping away
that stings the most in fires
when we wither away
Cause your skin was getting colder, and your heart was beating slower, and I was sad
And your mind began betraying, and you thoughts we’re slowly fading, I was afraid
And that’s why I ran, away from you
And that’s why I run towards something new
And that’s why I ran, away from you
And that’s why I run towards something new
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8. |
Not This Time
03:43
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Your guidance, your guidance carries me, through the violent nights and this silence, your silence,
I meet you in my sleep, it’s so bittersweet
I’m not afraid, I am not afraid to breathe and be alive, no not this time no not this time
I’m not afraid, I am not afraid to leave the past behind, no not this time, no not this time.
The wind is, the wind is whispering, things you’d say to me, like one chance, with one chance, one chance to say goodbye, say goodnight.
chorus
in my heart, in my life, I’ll leave the past behind,
but your breathe, and your smile,
are always on my mind
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9. |
9
09:27
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Within a ditch, surrounding ground,
and a moment unforeseen
well I try to escape the bounds,
but the world is binding me
I wondered if you cared at all, that I had nothing left.
As leaves began to fall, the cicadas lost their breath.
And there’s no mistaking, I was forsaken
You took your oath, and crossed your heart,
but seasons are changing,
what sunlight evokes
Formed of things never revealed
time never mends, never heals,
sewn from the thread of regret
this time, this time I’ll never forget
The shore that’s never met the sea,
alone and desolate
always in it’s debt, desperate, it knows of nothing yet
We lucky few, we band of brothers
We took our oath.
born from the ashes of one another
a morning awoke
Scorching things never retrieved
Rain never bringing relief
Torched to the point of regret
This time, I’ll will forget.
So whatever happened to, the promises that we thought we'd see to the end.
and you were always there to brave the sea.
Whatever happened to the promises that were supposed to have set us free
and you were always teaching false beliefs.
Now, when I aim, I aim for the heart
When I aim, I aim for the heart.
I will not fall, I will not fall for this again.
the night is blinding, the silence is deafening
and I feel nothing, and I was forsaken
aiming for something, aiming for anything
When I aim, I aim for the heart
so now when I, I aim for the heart.
(the end of everything)
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