CAST IRON HIKE LYRICS

1. Watch It Burns

There came a day
When I pulled the carpet out
From under my world
I had been led astray
At an early age
And in such a way
That their skin did curl
Because I made my best mistakes
Every now and again
In that tired mill town
Where I waited eighteen years
Of my life to pick my head
Up off of the ground
Without any reason
For leaving
Is this treason?
No, no, no
I don't want to hide it
And I'm too weak to fight it
While being trapped inside
Of it for so long
That motherfucker town
Took the furthest route
Out from under my skin
And by the time
That my jaded self
Finally found my way out
They tried to let me in
Still I never really
Did believe in this
Because it just seemed
That this was no way to be
But in the end it was through
All of their charades
That I did see
With no reason for leaving
We're still freezing
Burn, burn, burn
"I'll learn to hide it"
Still we stand divided
Because I've recognized
Now watch it burn
With every reason
For leaving, I'm freezing
Burn, burn, burn
I've recognized that
We stand divided
And I've grown to despise
Now watch it burn

2. Boxed

There's a door that
I know won't open
And its windows
May as well be black
With a state check
And a lot of hoping
I'm trying to remember
My escape back
Youth is a myth
Into the womb where
The paint never chips
And a draft is as seldom
As is the whip
And absent is
My normal affliction
A pre-pubescent
Drug addiction
The orders come
And go with every breath
They seem to bleed
Until there's nothing left
When nobody gives a fuck
What have you?
When nobody gives a fuck
So what do you give into?
Man I feel as though
I want to just
Burn this all down
Now looking out of a box
I'm looking out

3. Reach For The Floor

I felt the tears calling
It manifests in subtle ways
It's hard to keep up the balling
When the tears are spiked
With feats of rage
Walk out, walk out, walk out
I just can't feel anymore
Load up, lock down, hold out
It's hard to tell exactly
What's in store
When I wonder how
I ever made it this far
My hands dig
Through my pockets
And they find out
Just how empty they are
And when I wonder
"How will I ever make it
Through this day?"
That's when I reach for the floor
Running hard into something
And wondering if I'll finalize today
Staring back at my nothing
Everyone wants me to
Wear a different face
Fed up, fed up, fed up
Your daily routine is my slow death
Tied up, fed up, live up
To all the horror in this head
When I wonder how
I ever made it this far
My head tears through my heart
And trades the emptiness for scars
And when I wondered
"How will I ever make it
Through these days?"
Well that's when
The horror hit the floor
Fed up, fed up, fed up
Your daily routine is my slow death
It's times like these that I do believe
That I'd be better off dead
I gave a smile
I gave two, I gave three
But still they wanted more
As the day deteriorates
My only defense
Is to reach for the floor

4. As The World (B)urns

You make me think like a criminal
With a gun in my hand

5. Let Me Down (So That I Can Feel OK About Myself)

Maybe I shouldn't come around
I can't stop letting myself down
Feeling OK is a feeling
That I just can't recall
And when I feel alright
I know that it's wrong
And you can't help because
I know I'm bound to fall
Living lightly is no reason
For us to live at all
So maybe I shouldn't come around

6. I Won't Wash Off

Dig deep into this pile of shit
That beats as my heart
There you'll find the longing
For something that I tore apart
I needed to turn my back
Like adhesive I stuck
Behind that line
I lost touch
After we last touched
And so now it seems
That I'm losing my mind
We wanted an ideal
And there's nothing
I wouldn't have sacrificed
Until I looked in the mirror
And found myself at home inside
Dig deep into this pile of filth
That pumps from my heart
Understand that if I can't find peace
Then I'll surely leave scars
Leave the door unlocked
I'm coming home
I don't want to be
Advised my rights
I don't need no reason
To hide behind an alibi
Take my breath
And sallow whole
This could be the last time
You stand upright
Wave your hair
From out of your face
And watch your life
Fall out of sight

7. Swimming Through Sand

Before me and at
The foot of the stream
I found some sort of
Plastic sanity
But I never asked
For the sand in my eyes
To leave me dry
Oh my, oh my
I never wondered why
I couldn't embrace any hope
So I stood there staring down
At the end of my rope
So quick to decompose
I suppose it was all of
The endings I left untold
So quick to decompose
I suppose it was all of
The stories I never told
But I'll pull the sand
From my eyes
And I won't let
This bring me down

8. Never Get Out Of The Boat

Absolutely goddamn right

9. Stopped Us And Starving

Dead inside
Stopped up
Like a sewer pipe
Sealed in glass
She sparkles
Under streetlights
She paints her blood
Red with a paintbrush
So she'll never forget
How right the red looks
If she could shed this skin
She'd give it all back
Fixated on kerosene
And candlelight
She's got a dream but
It only keeps her up nights
She's sharing her twin bed
With a thorn bush
Because even the real thing
Never meant that much
If she could shed his skin
She'd give it all back

10. Workhorse

In the morning
When the cold hurts
Most starvation cancers
Within its host
This is frightening
And this is profane
The way that we ease into age
We only need this bread
To let us know that
Hunger lies unaligned
With being alone
Age secures us
Our space in the storm
Where we will weather worn
Like a well worked whore
Time will take us
By our tender wounds
And it'll scab us hard
And leave us blue
White light..
This can't be right
One life?
Despite who knew that
I didn't want to be with you
I don't want to die alone

11. By Design

Top of the pavement steaming
Our bare feet are burnt to the bone
Expending miles and miles without reason
And trying so hard not to sour
You know that
This is not the way
It seems as though
They move only to gain
And we're face down
In the meal box
Chewing the lies that
We've reluctantly bought
It's all about the fall
This cup of tears
Sits steaming
While our voice
Quiets down to a drone
Expending miles and miles
Without reason
And trying so hard not to sour
They know only
How to push and strain
It's time for us
To realign our angst
We're face down
In the meal box
Chewing the lies that
We've reluctantly bought
It's time to realign
We're living by design
We live, we die by design

12. When There's Nothing Left

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CAST IRON HIKE LYRICS