ARMED FOR APOCALYPSE LYRICS

1. The Starting Line Is A Trip Wire

I've got a big problem
with shitting where you eat,
cause it trickles down
& it flows through the streets
like a slave ship
on the way to a sermon
by a clenched fist
with a mouth for a weapon

Oh!
I'm not giving you my A game
It's hard to live when the
wine is blood
& the love isn't free
all the meat is spolied
& the goal is the disease
not the cure
the starting line is a trip wire

Oh!
I'm not giving you my A game
get it right

the last time
everyone is very impressed
we are very impressed!
everyone is very impressed

good job
I've got a big problem
with fighting for defeat
cause it crashes down
& it tears through the streets
like a wrecking ball
leaving broken foundations
where shattered minds
can build new devastation

Oh!
I'm not giving you my A game
Oh!
I'm not giving you my A game
( A game )

it's the same thing
in so many different ways
I've got so little to lose..
& everything being demolished to gain

2. Better World (The Void)

I am sickened by everything
retching!
at odds with every day
burn my brain in effigy

expectation.. has murdered fulfillment..
I'm done

endless capacity for failure
I've seen better worlds
through a thick, white fog
intention has slaughtered my resolve
longing for the viod
i need a roof over my head
so I can let it rot & cave in
bury my head in my hands
& my heart in the sand
I will let them win

I've seen fire rain
on an sea of open arms
longing for the void
living for the void

your nerve is shot by your shame
all defenses deployed
living for the void

plunging toward the void
I've seen better worlds
in a state of shock
longing for the void
living in the void

endless capacity for failure
endless [2x]

3. The Well

Fates collapse
when meaning finds new ground
impossible reasons progress
impressionable scowls take in scrounge
if anyone is god
strike us down
us..down

if it ever counted.. for anything [2x]
It's solid ground
solid ground

demons wait
drowning in the well
take apart the world
& forge new ground
if anyone is god
strike us down

if it ever counted.. for anything
if it showed you what you found
if it tripped you up
it's..
it's solid ground
solid ground

4. Open Wound

Causing the living to die
till there is no one to defend!
causing the living to die
till there is no one left to see the end
I've found a better way
to inflict pain
pain.. felt forever

the short term
the bottom line
everyone's best interests
fight to be the last one's alive

I've found a better way!
to seal our fate
I've found a better way!
to hate

an open wound
that continues to spread
until nothing is left
we will feast on our wounds to survive
on the eve of our demise
we will feast on our wounds to survive
until nothing is left

5. Built To Kill

Nothing survives
even the tallest mountain dies
& time stands still for no man
(for no man..)

living the lie
black hands, ilourescent sky
these ladders rung is safe for no man
built to kill [2x]
if it leaves you living
the dead inside will haunt you still

we all die with the hands of time
wrapped around our throats
corpses lie in their suits & ties
destitute & broke

don't fool yourself
your safety net has you trapped
your blood is in the water
remember who you're working for

you've come a long way, baby
just step into line
keep pushing
more, more
you're gonna make it one of these days

why are you so negative?
at least you're clocking in
& as the years tick by
remember that you are working toward an end
the end!
Is that a pulse in your throat?
alive [3x]
do you need to speed it up to cope?
alive [3x]

built to kill [2x]
a definition of living
as being merely content
is one with no hope

we all die with the hands of time
wrapped around our throats
corpses lie in their suits & ties
destitute & broke
it's only a matter of time..

don't fool yourself..
your blood is in the water
remember who you're working for

6. The Road Will End

It's good to know that you fail all the time
stick around for the ride!
it's falling short every time that you try
stick around for the ride!

it's the same thing..
the same way
you're bound to lose it..
so give it away

I was the first to bleed
& the first to lose
whatever comes back to me.. (back to me)
I'm not giving it to you
to see one's own intestines
means secrets revealed

the same thing
in a different way
you're bound to lose
lose

It's good to know that you fail all the time
stick around for the ride!
it's falling short every time that you try
stick around for the ride!

the road will end!
& so will our ambitions
the road will end!
dig a hole

7. Worth The Weight

Can't strive
can't stay alive
moving forward with a dead man's stride
& my weakness will thrive
I never ended
& I never began
immolating relics with no inhibition
at the mercy of man

you brought a gun to a fist fight [2x]

I don't need a life rung dry
wilting every day & running out of time
hit the ground falling
& never look back from the dirt in my eyes
nothing survives
even black holes die
long after we've all made the least of our lives
but transience never dies
never dies

you brought a gun to a fist fight
was it worth the weight?

everything is something
& anything is everything
whether you're chasing nothing
or living a lie
when everything is dead
there will be no more empathy
no more resolve
we were never alive
can't die
can't stay alive
trudging baackward with a dead man's pride
I'll leave nothing behind

you brought a gun..
to a fist fight

was it worth the weight? [6x]

I never thought the worst would come
what would it take?
breathing like anew through a shell of mistakes
I made my peace ( I made my peace! )
watching you fall
I made my peace ( I made my peace! )
watching you fall

8. Drawning The Line

The payoff
is empty pockets & broken teeth
slowly rotting
like a concept of self
lost in the depths of a level of excess
by no other name but home

let's draw a line!
& not be defined by a defunct design
let's draw a line!
live for something that you need to survive

when the world fucking crashes
we're all crashing with it
this shit is played out,
but i gotta stick with it
I'm dying inside,
but I'm lucky to be alive
failure is certain,
but it's still worth a try

let's draw a line!
& not be defined by a defunct design
let's draw a line!
live for something that you need to survive
oh, you need to survive
live for something that you need to survive
let's draw a line!
a line to define what we have in this life

I finally feel.. something more
& it rips itself to shreds

I'm lost in the fog

9. Happy Hour (Disciples Of Death)

Have a black heart
(fall) I need suffering
(off) I need reckoning
clip your own wings
(mayday) I crave misery
for it gives me the fuel I need
sell yourself short
(whore) I'm done
I'm always done
weak, flawed, wasted
it hurts
this way of living

..& you think it's natural

the pressure is mounting
disciple of death
viscera turns to stone
disciple of death

bow before the throne
worshipper of illusions
viscera turns to stone..

it hurts
this way of living
& you think it's natural..

dead is dead is real
your black heart is mine
now is here is gone
patient misery is inevitability
life is alive here
racing toward the end
eat our black heart

10. Ends Meet

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ARMED FOR APOCALYPSE LYRICS