AVENGED SEVENFOLD LYRICS

1. To End The Rapture

The wind of life and air from above smells of death.
Angels sing of the end.
Nothing you say and nothing you try will change time.
Human race prepares to die...

2. Turn The Other Way

Slit my wrists, take away the pain.
Slit my throat, there's no one to blame.
Lost in the fields of confusion.
Restless nights, they're not far away, away.

I came here for something and I'm not turning back.
A calm piece of mind but you still hold my keys.
Keeping my fate deep within your threshold.
Petty inconvenience but it means the world to me.

You hold the power
To set me free.
Caught in your grasp, how?
Just let me be.

Give me control out,
Out of these depths.
A fiery hell.
I pray for death.

I've been the wrong one
time and time again.
Now I'm on my knees
forgive me please.

Tore out my heart
and handed to me on a silver platter.
Sew up the hole,
emptiness in the place of compassion.

You made me this way.
I am the product of your creation.
Sew up the hole
Now you, now you've turned your back on me.

You've turned away from me,
the future's much too far away to see.
I hope you learn the truth,
not the way things were meant to be with me and you.

3. Darkness Surrounding

Darkness coats us.
The smell of fall.
Changing season.

The graveyard is alive, black cat across my path,
The chill of cold wind, the breath of the dead.

Imprisoned souls.
Trapped for eternity.

Black crows break the silence.
The garden of the dead is alive tonight and you can't stop it.
Just enjoy it.

Open up your mind and you will feel it too.
The sound, the touch, the thoughts,
That you've been so blind to.

You can feel the thoughts of the dead.
Feel the thoughts of the dead.

True or false, it's still there, teaching me.
True or false, it's still there, teaching me.

You can feel it tonight.
The wood has rotted away.
Take the time absorb it.
Their time is slipping away.

Stone all carved by hand.
Statues that resemble their faces.
They still breathe.
Come join us.

[3x]
Smell the burning embers,
Time flickering away.
Timeless but soon gone.
Timeless but soon gone.

And I can find myself,
Alone with just my thoughts.
As time crumbles away.
Time crumbles away.

Smell the burning embers,
Time flickering away.
Timeless but soon gone.
Timeless but soon gone.

And I can find myself,
Alone with just my thoughts.
As time crumbles away.
Time crumbles away.

4. Art Of Subconscious Illusion

A living nightmare,
Asleep but still aware.
The endless torture.
The painless pleasure.

I grasp myself
Trying to regain control.
I experience and learn.
In another faction of my mind.

So confused.
But everything makes perfect sense.
Can't feel the pain.
Emotional pain's so much deadlier.

Lost, you've just been raped.
Pain. Your friends can't help you.
Why won't they help you?
Another reality.

This can't be happening.
Why is this happening?
Who the fuck are you?
Who the fuck... are you?

Trying hard to figure out what's done.
I scramble but now I run.
The images in my head.
All the problems that I've been fed.
All the problems that I've been fed are all inside my head.

No.

Punching slowly my mind can't change the speed.
As my victims bleed.
No matter what I do or how hard I try
I can't use my abilities, use my abilities.

Art of illusion.

[2x]
My razor-sharp knife's edge pierces my victim's body.
But I cannot take their soul.
Punching through jello, stabbing not killing.
Disappointment. Discomfort.

5. We Come Out At Night

Black and gray clouds willow in the balance as the sun falls.
Rain plays a heart-warming tune on the pavement.
Emotions stir.
A feeling of warmness, compassion, fullness, I feel at home.

Disguised by surrounding.
As the torn and left in the gutter seek vengeance on their mistreated lives.
As the torn and left in the cold, seek vengeance on mistreated lives.
As the torn and left in the cold, seek vengeance on mistreated lives.

A silhouette stands still.
A cactus on a warm summer night.
But the rain falls cold and the moon shines bright.

Black as night.
Cold as ice.
Warm as home.
Ready to live.

Stars they shoot.
In a clear.
Across the sky.
As does my time.

Waiting, wanting, feeling, emotion.
Crying, breaking, loving, nothing.

Clouds swallow the moon,
and I'm alone,
thinking good times,
and why'd they go?

Falling down, breaking down parts of me.
Falling down, breaking down parts of me.
Fuck.

I need this place to get away from you.

[3x]
Clouds swallow the moon,
and I'm alone,
thinking good times,
and why'd they go?

6. Lips Of Deceit

The mark I breathe on you.
It's burning through your soul.
The breath I waste.
Losing control.
I bleed in pain.
Testing what I know.
Lips soaked in deceit.
Pull me from here.

No one's innocent.
So why do I feel bad?
But guilt keeps creeping,
Creeping up on me, up on me.

Guilt.
Tearing me up inside.
The innocent.
An evil in disguise.
The face of beauty to fall for.
I fall to my knees, deceitful.

Brought down by feelings of regret.
Again your mind has failed the test.
Not everyone feels the same.
Pacifist blinded by the game.

Stand tall. They'll break your heart.
Stand tall. They'll smash your ego.
Stand tall. They'll tear you down.
Stand tall. Scar your soul.

Break your thought.
Fuck your mind.

The mark I breathe on you.
It's burning through your soul.
The breath I waste.
Losing control.
I bleed in pain.
Testing what I know.
Lips soaked in deceit.
Pull me from this hole.

7. Warmness On The Soul

Your hazel green tint eyes watching every move I make.
And that feeling of doubt, it's erased.
I'll never feel alone again with you by my side.
You're the one, and in you I confide.

And we have gone through good and bad times.
But your unconditional love was always on my mind.
You've been there from the start for me.
And your love's always been true as can be.

I give my heart to you.
I give my heart, 'cause nothing can compare in this world to you.

And we have gone through good and bad times.
But your unconditional love was always on my mind.
You've been there from the start for me.
And your love's always been true as can be.

[2x]
I give my heart to you.
I give my heart, 'cause nothing can compare in this world to you.

8. An Epic Of Time Wasted

So much time I've wasted.
I can truly say I never thought it would come to this.
Never would I doubt you, but the truth kept smacking me in the face.

Reality.
You never stopped to think and you ripped us apart.
How could you?

Now our time is gone but it's still breaking my heart.

Tears run down as I think of the days we've had, and the memories will last forever,
But you and I have died and gone our separate ways.

You are the one.
You are the wrong one.
Breaking the mold.
Going your own way, go.

All I feel, betrayal.

[4x]
So much time I've wasted, and I never thought it'd come to this.

We had something great,
Then it was washed away.
We had something more,
Than I can explain.
I'm sorry.

No! We had something great, then it was washed away.
No! Not all friendships last, the genuine are harder to take.
No! Time to start again, hope someday you'll think of me.
No! The end reality, I know someday I'll think of you.

9. Breaking Their Hold

When you see them coming in form, coming in form.
And they say they do what’s best for you, what’s best for you.
Fighting for one total control, for total control.
They are planned and organized for you, for you.

Breaking their hold.
Breaking their hold of control they strive.

To keep you down, behind your back, the time has come, the end is near.
It's when you sleep, so late at night, and in the light, getting prepared.
It's not to help you, but help their cause, under one system, you won't exist.
They are the few, with all the power, our system screams, "We can't let them tear our hearts out!"
Screaming, pulling on our pride. Stand together for the right cause, one system to our demise.

10. Forgotten Faces

Forgotten faces.
Lost in yesterdays realm.
Drained with confusion.
Where did it all go?

Look into the past, look into their faces.
Never, the thought of being time fucked.
But now they're all gone and all that's left is this blank faced picture.

Ninety percent, nothing was done, nothing accomplished,
Coasting through life didn't seize the day.
No one ever realized that they're already dead.
By the time you realize, you'll be dead too.

Without another chance to save the world, these things they're gone, you're gone, forgotten.

[4x]
Now your face in my picture frame.

It's gone forever.
Right before my very eyes.
And just when I thought I made light of things.
It slips away into darkness.

My life passes, now I see.
Just what this world does hold for me?
It's getting hard, harder to breathe.
Am I out of time, is that what this means?
Well that's what it means.
That's what it means, you and me try to breathe.

Now you realize
Your life flies by.
Now I realize
My life, I die.

11. Thick And Thin

I don't want to know.
And I don't want to see you in this place.
Your kind is a disgrace as I spit in your face.

And I don't want to hear anymore.
A friend is fucked with while he's having fun on the dance floor.

Get the fuck out of here now.
Come on you kids, stand your ground.
This is your show, it's your family.
All of my friends there for me.

[2x]
There's four-hundred more of us then them.
So kick them out.
Keep it positive.
Keep it real.
Keep it true.
Together with my friends.
I'll be there for you, you.

Through the problems thick and thin and problems we'll fight through.
This is to my brothers, I'll be there for you.
Through the problems thick and thin and problems we'll fight through.
This is to my family.
I'll be there for you.

I don't want to know.
And I don't want to see you in this place.
Your kind is a disgrace as I spit in your face.

And I don't want to hear anymore.
A friend is fucked with while he's having fun on the dance floor.

12. Streets

You live your whole life staring at a wall, your mind goes blank sooner now you will fall.
You never learned the things you say to know now, but how?
There seems to be a difference, two different types of kids.
The ones who go out and the ones that are taught to live.
One group's taught how and the other group is taught why.

There's no need to tell you what's in my mind,
But in the game of life I'm doing fine.
No reason to tell you which way to be.
'Cause the streets have opened my eyes to see.

No reason to tell you what's in my mind,
But in the game of life I'm doing fine.
No reason to tell you which way to be.
'Cause the streets have opened my eyes to see.

Look what's happening now.
What are the reasons why and how?
And don't you think it sounds stupid
When someone's treated different
'Cause they're not the same as me or you?

You live your whole life staring at a wall; your mind goes blank sooner, now you will fall.
You never learned the things you say to know now, but how?
There seems to be a difference, two different types of kids.

The ones who go out and the ones that are taught to live.
One group's taught how and the other group is taught why.

There's no need to tell you what's in my mind,
But in the game of life I'm doing fine.
No reason to tell you which way to be.
The streets have opened my eyes to see.

No reason to tell you what's in my mind,
But in the game of life I'm doing fine.
No reason to tell you which way to be.
'Cause the streets have opened my eyes to see.

13. Shattered By Broken Dreams

I see you fading away from us.
I'll miss you very much.
Room with empty bottles, broken dreams, and pride still running high, always on your side.

But I wanted more for you.
You can't go on this way.
And now I see it all fall through.
We pray for better days.
Stuck alone and scared.
Throw your life away
And now choking on your pride may be the only way.

I don't want to see you like this.
We all tried to save you but missed.
I still feel the hope on your road.
Now come back to us like the days of the old.

I still feel you there, trying to get on top.
You'll always have my support in my heart.
People you've hurt.
Friends that you've lied to.
But we understand, and that's not (you) can see the end of the road,
I can see it too,

For you I'm scared if I lose you,
I'm not prepared.
This time, if you die.
I watch you right before my eyes.
Just trust me and listen.
You have no self-control.
This will take your life.
Will take your life.

Overdose and then indulge until you die.
Pondering, we all ask the question why.
Broken home, and then abandoned by your dad.
And we are left the only family that you've ever had.

Overdose and then indulge until you die.
Pondering, we all ask the question why.
Broken home, and then abandoned by your dad.
And we are left the only family that you've ever had.

But I wanted more for you.
You can't go on this way.
And now I see it all fall through.
We pray for better days.
Stuck alone and scared.
Throw your life away
And now choking on your pride may be the only way.

Help you see it through.
Fight this me and you.
Reaching deep inside.
Problems not just you is what we find.
Our friendship makes it mine.







AVENGED SEVENFOLD LYRICS