BETRAYING THE MARTYRS LYRICS

1. Ignite

2. Eternal Machine

Ugh! (Ugh!)

The cogs keep turning
The earth keeps burning down
They gotta fuel the war machine
Crude oil and kerosene

A constant need, a hate to feed
In a world that's bleeding out
Catastrophe, epanastrophe
A never-ending cycle
An enterprise built on lies
An eternal industry
For the wheels to turn, the world must burn;
Burn it to the ground

Always wanting more and more
Living the nightmare just to feed the dream
Spoiling the wealthy, depriving the poor
Make war to fuel the machine

Filthy production line
Twisted, destructive minds
Does it get you off?
Arm the troops - it's feeding time

Devour
Errah!

Supply to demand, create to destroy
Feed the fucking machine
Go!

Devour

For the wheels to turn, the world must burn;
Burn it to the ground

Always wanting more and more
Living the nightmare just to feed the dream
Spoiling the wealthy, depriving the poor
Make war to fuel the machine

[Guitar solo]

A thirst for bloodshed, the hungry man
Ever-eternal war machine

Unstoppable

Stop this train; let's derail the monster
The iron prince cannot cease to breathe
Only flames can ignite the fire
Annihilating the war machine

3. Down

The story goes:
A million miles and a thousand shows
Pure hearts of gold
Singing it back to the microphone

Singing it back to the microphone, yeah! (yeah, …)

Breathe in,
Suck it in, and spit it back, back
We ain't backing down
Live and die for the wolf pack

DOWN, DOWN
Raise your fists, let's bring this place
DOWN (down), DOWN (down)
Hand in hand, we fight together
When you scream with me,
We tear this roof
DOWN, DOWN
We shall raise this flag together – ah! (ah, …)

Set in stone
Forged by fire - iron bones
In the zone
Lights go out and we lose control

Lights go out and we lose control, yeah!

Unstoppable
Feel the heat, push it back, back
Keep it coming now
Scream until your lungs collapse

DOWN, DOWN
Raise your fists, let's bring this place
DOWN (down), DOWN (down)
Hand in hand, we fight together
When you scream with me,
We tear this roof
DOWN, DOWN
We shall raise this flag together – ah!

Rghh!

We're a fucking tidal wave of destruction
It's redemption time
Fucking wave of destruction,
Destruction

DOWN, DOWN
Raise your fists, let's bring this place
DOWN (down), DOWN (down)
Hand in hand, we fight together
When you scream with me,
We tear this roof
DOWN, DOWN
We shall raise this flag together

Thunder,
Hear our call
Make the
Mountains fall - bleghh!

4. The Iron Gates

So, tell me WHY would you let me in,
Just to go and fucking let me down?
WHY would you push me in,
Just to stand there and watch me drown?

Just like you were buried alive
Left a carcass with no feeling inside
I mourn your death with pride
Lifeless and pathetic - empty bottles, suicide
I was your savior,
And you, my queen,
But now you're dead and gone,
And the blame is on me

And now, take me there;
Take me to the iron gates again
Fade to black, erase it all
The curtains draw
I feel so alone
Since you left us all
Take me there;
Take me to the iron gates again
Your body, still and cold
Your body, still and cold
I feel so alone

Before you die, spread those wings
Bid the child farewell for me
Say goodbye, say goodnight
Dark, become my life

Ooah!

Now tell me: WHY would you pick me up,
Just to go and fucking let me down?
WHY would you open the door,
Just to turn around and shut me out?

Black eyes, black funeral
Black hole, wasted past
Give me life, give me a home,
Then take it back
Black eyes, black funeral
Black lungs, wasted past
I'm left with nothing,
Nothing but pain and this whiskey glass (Ah!)

I was your savior (I was your savior, …),
And you, my queen (and you, my queen, …)

I was your savior (I was your savior, …),
And you, my queen (and you, my queen, …)

I was your savior (I was your savior, …),
And you, my queen (and you, my queen, …)

5. Parasite

It's like we're trapped inside an empty room
No light of day - a single ray could break this feeling of doom
I look across; who do I see? It's you and only you
But I ain't taking this; no, not this time
You turn my mind into an ugly sight
You better run and fucking hide

Let's settle the score
We're going to war
I'm over falling for your fucking traps
It's taking control,
Destroying my soul
I'll feel better once these walls collapse

I'll give the devil my taunted soul
Before I let you take control
(No more begging on my knees
It's time you slipped into eternal sleep)
I'd rather burn in a sea of flames
Than be pulled into your twisted games
(Close your eyes and go to sleep
Close your eyes and go to sleep)

You're nothing but a parasite (parasite)
It's time to kiss your ass goodbye

Let's settle the score
We're going to war
I'm over falling for your fucking traps
It's taking control,
Destroying my soul
I'll feel better once these walls collapse

I am the boss,
And it's time to cut you off
Life must go on, but
I will never forget

(Ohohohohhohh)
(Ohohohohhohh)

Back when we were young,
When you didn't have much to say,
When we were young
You'll pull me under, but not today

Let's settle the score
We're going to war
I'm over falling for your fucking traps
It's taking control,
Destroying my soul
You took my life, now I'm taking it back (back, …)

Now I'm taking it back
Yeah! I'm taking it

6. The Sound Of Letting You Go

It tears me deep when I close my eyes
To think that you're no longer here
Can't you tell I'm no longer breathing?
Can't you tell? Can't you see I'm drowning in fear?
I'm in the deep, deep in denial
Don't tell me you're no longer here
I know your flame was no longer burning,
But it always burns for me

This is the sound of letting you go
Your final days just stole

They took your life too soon
They took the brightest soul
Those breaths you should have took
Those words you could have spoken
INJUSTICE

The impact broke our hearts,
Leaving us all so speechless
(How could this fucking be?)
A night so long and sleepless
INJUSTICE – oh!

I'm left with no goodbye
I guess we're letting you go

It tears me deep when I close my eyes
To think that you're no longer here
Can't you tell I'm no longer breathing?
Can't you tell? Can't you see I'm drowning in fear?
I'm in the deep, deep in denial
Don't tell me you're no longer here
I know your flame was no longer burning,
But it always burns for me

When the lights went out
And your heartbeat stopped,
We've never felt such pain; only memories remain
But we will never ever forget

No (no, …)

This is the sound of letting you go (go, …)

When the wheels overturned,
My God, how it hurts
So long

[Guitar solo]

It tears me deep when I close my eyes
To think that you're no longer here
Can't you tell I'm no longer breathing?
Can't you tell? Can't you see I'm drowning in fear?
I'm in the deep, deep in denial
Don't tell me you're no longer here
I know your flame was no longer burning,
But it always burns for me

It tears me deep when I close my eyes
I realize you are not here
It still hurts when I try to breathe
Some things will never disappear
I'll always be deep in denial
I'll always feel like you're still here
Your flame won't stop burning;
It burns forever in our (dreams)

7. The Swarm

(They'll lead us blinded to the) slaughter
Egh! (Egh, …)

Social stature, a constant decline
They march us to the bottom here we're butchered like swine

How can we live like this, as nothing but pawns?
In their hunger games, shotgun blasts to the swarm
Hunger games - prepare for the storm

We choke to stay alive,
Gasping for air just to survive
On the edge of our extinction
When will they open their eyes?
They starve, they crawl, they beg for mercy,
Gasping for air just to survive
We choke to stay alive
When will they see we're all gonna
Die?

Leaders, resource-eating swine
Silver spoons and their fucked-up minds
(Stop) read the warning signs
We're out of time, out of time, out of time

[Guitar solo]

We choke to stay alive,
Gasping for air just to survive
On the edge of our extinction
When will they open their eyes?
They starve, they crawl, they beg for mercy,
Gasping for air just to survive
We choke to stay alive
When will they see we're all gonna die?

Stop, read the warning signs
Stop – this cannot go on forever

8. Monster

I'm a fucking monster
Errah!

My blood is boiling, but I'm loving the pain,
Bathing in the hatred with a grin on my face
This is WHO I AM; don't ever ask me to change
I couldn't if I tried, so let me be, let me be me

Mrghh!
I can't fake it
This is who I've always been
I'll never, ever change,

'Cause I'm a fucking monster
Egh! Egh!

As it rises, I embrace the chills
From my spine into my fingertips
The voices start running through my head;
They're telling me to let out the monster

Back up – temperature is rising and my teeth start to grind
SOMEONE, STOP ME
Embrace the hate

I'm over trying to hide;
This is who I am
I'm over trying to hide; this is who I am,
This is who I am

Just a fucking monster

I'm not afraid to embrace the pain nor the hate
This is who I am – it's who I am
Please, don't try to save me
Let me slip, slip away

[Piano solo]

Uh!
I can't fake it
This is who I've always been
I'm never, ever, ever gonna
Change

VOICES, they're in my head
VOICES, they live and breathe

Don't you try to save me; this is me

9. Imagine

Reflections,
Tell me who you really see
It's not perfection,
But who are they to tell you what that means?

Don't fool yourself (fool yourself, …)

Life without a filter
They're nothing more than what you have inside
Sitting on your highest horse
Clouded eyes and narrow minds

Searching
Look inside yourself somehow
Imagine (imagine),
Imagine that you're good enough now

Imagine
Imagine
Imagine feeling bold, imagine loving yourself
Imagine confidence deep within your soul

Focus
It's time to close your eyes, look behind the lies, and
Focus

(Reflections,
Tell me who you really see
It's not perfection,
But who are they to tell you what that means?)

(Searching
Look inside yourself somehow)
Imagine (imagine),
Imagine that you're good enough now
Searching
Look inside yourself somehow
Imagine (imagine),
Imagine that you're good enough now

(Imagine)
(Imagine)
(Imagine)
(Imagine)

(Imagine) Imagine,
Imagine now
(Imagine) Imagine,
Imagine now

Life without a filter
They're nothing more than what you have inside
Sitting on their highest horse
Clouded eyes and narrow minds

Why look to fiction to compare yourself?
Stop and think: is your heart still beating?
If you just stopped and took a second glance,
You'd see their selfish bones, so stop competing – oh!

Imagine
Compassion
Imagine

10. Incarcerated

Alone, you lose control
Between these walls that you've built in your head
And you can't look forward with your head hanging down
Hanging around in this cell of regret
BUT YOU, you just don't get it; you let it get in the way
You stay chained, locked up in your brain
NO, NO, you just don't get, so keep on hiding your face
Go build those walls; that'll drive you insane

(I watched you forge them bars
You locked them up and then you swallowed the key
Time flies - open your eyes
To stop from drowning in agony)

I hate to watch you suffer
I hate to watch you suffocate

Out of your mind, locked inside
A self-inflicted penitentiary
Look at me
Answer me, answer me - please don't go
Out of your mind
This ain't how living is supposed to be
Look at me
Break these chains, get up, and go

Locked inside, doing time
You went and sentenced yourself to life
In your mind, incarcerated
Intoxicating

What's in your mind?
I hate to watch you suffer

Don't say you're lonely
You're not alone - misery loves company

(Alone, alone)
Anxious, swimming in sadness
(Alone, alone)
Thick-skulled, living in the past
You're cold
Shiver, shiver, shiver
(Cold)
Uh! Shiver, shiver, shiver

Out of your mind, locked inside
A self-inflicted penitentiary
Look at me
Answer me, answer me - please don't go
Out of your mind
This ain't how living is supposed to be
Look at me
Break these chains, get up, and go

Shiver, shiver, shiver
Shiver, shiver, shiver

11. Rapture

If this day was your last,
Would you blame the present or past?
Or would you refuse to admit we're all the accused?
And when that day comes, tell me who, who will stand up?

Fading lights - the call of the hounds
Resounds in the distance as forest burn into the ground
No one makes a sound
The winds blow, the crows come to feed,
To feed on the carcasses butchered by artillery
We've lowered this earth to its knees
Eeyah!

HIDE THE TRUTH; the future's bleak
I REFUSE; do you believe?
Are we capable?
S-O-S, save our souls

Save our souls

Rising heat - volcanoes explode
Eroding the sea line as rivers and lakes overflow,
Thawing the snow
The winds blow, the crows come to feed,
To feed on the carcasses butchered by artillery
We've lowered this earth to its knees

If this day was your last,
Would you blame the present or the past?
Crying for mercy
If this day was your last,
Would you blame the present or the past?
This day could be your last

HIDE THE TRUTH; the future's bleak
I REFUSE; do you believe?
Are we capable?
S-O-S, save our souls







BETRAYING THE MARTYRS LYRICS