CROWN THE EMPIRE LYRICS

1. Oh, Catastrophe

Oh, sweet catastrophe
Where have you been?
I've looked for you so desperately
Inside of this pen
You're the answer I've needed
The question I've feared
I know light is your mother
But darkness I fear

Sits inside of you silently
Just waiting to crawl
It's way back to the surface
Like an infected scar
I feel balance is over
The balance is gone
Please somebody save us
Please somebody come

Oh, catastrophe
Leave me to fade out the light
And uncage the night

2. The Fallout

I felt my heart rate begin... to...
Choke out the fucking noise like I was cursed
It felt like storms were directly overhead
And where I went it poured

And in a flash came the flood
That washed over my eyes
Now I could see inside the room of the blind
I lost myself inside
And as I fell into the black I left my past to die

Tonight we'll sail to the edge of the world
And watch the stars fall down
You'll put your head in my arms as we wonder
Is there anything we could have done

Why not try starting revolution,
And in the morning find a new sunrise?
Tonight we'll sail to the edge of the world
And watch the stars fall down

As our world ignites

What will we do? Will we sit back and watch
I'm sick of apathy dictating how I think and how I
Talk, I'd like to know as I lay down to die
I still control the way I think, before they make up my mind

As I gaze up towards the sky
I feel lost in the world of the blinding lights
We all hope to reach these heights
But we're all so afraid of the fall

No one will take the fall
We're all so comfortable with living in our sheltered holes
No one will take the fall
But if we try to we could all change the world

Tonight we'll sail to the edge of the world
And watch the stars fall down
You'll put your head in my arms as we wonder
Is there anything we could have done

Why not try starting revolution
And in the morning find a new sunrise
Tonight we'll sail to the edge of the world
And watch the stars fall down

As our world ignites

We are gathered here today as brothers and sisters not bound by fate, but by the understanding that our survival lies only in harmony.

We have only one life to live
And then we're cast in to the night,

Will you carry the torch and be the keeper of the light?

Or will you let darkness fall?
Or will you let darkness fall!?

Tonight we'll sail to the edge of the world
Tonight we'll sail to the edge of the world

Tonight we'll sail to the edge of the world
And watch the stars fall down
You'll put your head in my arms as we wonder
Is there anything
Is there anything

3. Memories Of A Broken Heart

As I stare into these ruins made by man
I tremble as I realize it's the end
More and more I wonder what we could have done
But instead we wage a war that can't be won
Yeah instead we wage a war that can't be won

I stand on the ash of all I've ever loved
Memories of a broken heart
Now I'm alone in the dark.

I know there's a way out when all hope is gone
Find your light in a new dawn
But there's no way to do this on our own

I search for solace in this waste
That I once called home
But my attempts of piecing life together leaves me alone
I can't repair what's been done
When the sky is as black as the ground that I walk on

But I can't give up on this
I have to wonder what we could have done
I have to wonder
But instead we wage a war that can't be won

I stand on the ash of all I've ever loved
Memories of a broken heart
Now I'm alone in the dark.

I know there's a way out when all hope is gone
Find your light in a new dawn
But there's no way to do this on our own.

You think that this is the end?
You're wrong
This is the start of a new generation

I stand on the ash of all I've ever loved
Memories of a broken heart
Now I'm alone in the dark

I know there's a way out when all hope is gone
Find your light in a new dawn
But there's no way to do this on our own.

4. Makeshift Chemistry

A lesson learned is easier said than done
when you're living in a world with out the sun
My mind is struggling to remember

I wish I could find a way
to make up for all that I've done
I know the choice was mine
but can you blame me?

Yeah, The choice was all mine,
But I never thought that I'd
Be the last man standing alone.
I miss you here by my side
But darling I can't help but feel like
love has died

Operator is there anybody at all
that can explain why I'd give everything and more up for her
I know it's unbelievable but something bout her I can't resist
but she doesn't even know I exist

So yeah I pulled the plug
but I swore the spark would still be there
Buried beneath the promises and lies

We suffocated
in all our own filth
I swear I only wanted what was best, but you just left

I was just lonely
you were in love
But now it seems
that the table's have turned
and I feel so alone.

yeah, the choice was all mine,
But I never thought that I'd
Be the last man standing alone.
I miss you here by my side
But darling I can't help but feel like, love has died.

Operator is there anybody at all
that can explain why I'd give everything and more up for her
I know it's unbelievable but something bout her I can't resist
but she doesn't even know I exist

Darling won't you forgive me
I'm just looking for a little bit of love in this heartbreak city
Darling won't you forgive me
I'm looking for a little bit of love but she doesn't even know I exist

All I wanted was to be your love
But now you've left and I can not fill the void

All I wanted was to be your love
But now I'm finally moving on

Ha ha ha ha, I don't give a fuck.

I waited all this time to watch you jump out of my life
If I knew you'd only wanted me for just a single night
I would've left
And never had came
but you had to beg me to fall in again
and now I'm just your slave

Oh operator is there anybody at all
that can I explain why I gave everything and more up for her?
I know I sound so gullible but something bout her just drew me in...
But that bitch didn't even notice me.

Operator is there anybody at all
that can explain why I'd give everything and more up for her
I know it's unbelievable but something bout her I can't resist
but she doesn't even know I exist

Darling won't you forgive me
I'm just looking for a little bit of love in this heartbreak city
Darling won't you forgive me
I'm looking for a little bit of love but she doesn't even know I exist!

5. The One You Feed

In the wake of my broken dreams
In the dirt and the dust and the days that felt like weeks.
I found the person that I'm meant to be

'Cause when I felt like giving up
When death was closing in
I shut my eyes
And black out the darkness with light from inside

I've given more
Than what I've got
I've given all
Of what I'm not
I've watched this war consume all that we could become

Facing my fears in the dark

But if I die
Before it's done
Please take these words
My final thoughts
The only way to shine your light is in the dark.
Never let life kill your spark

This is the fallout
Yeah it's the end of the world
We'll spread the noise to everyone and let them all know you heard
A system meltdown
It's time we expose
The 'cause of chaos is our own

I've given more
Than what I've got
I've given all
Of what I'm not
I've watched this war consume all that we could become

Facing my fears in the dark

But if I die
Before it's done
Please take these words
My final thoughts
The only way to shine your light is in the dark.
Never let life kill your spark

Never let life kill your spark
Never let life kill your spark
Facing my fears in the dark

I've given more
Than what I've got
I've given all
Of what I'm not
I've watched this war consume all that we could become

If I die
Before it's done
Please take these words
My final thoughts
The only way to shine your light is in the dark.
Never let life kill your spark

Never let life kill your spark

6. Menace

Someday in this dark place
One will step into the light
And expose you for what you really are

Why am I the one who just keeps on running?
Why am I surrounded by shadows of my doubt?
I search for some sort of solace
But I am a man with no light to guide me out

Why must I run?
Why must I hide?
I'd rather be living in hell
Than never have lived with nothing to tell

So when you end up on your own
With just your pillow to hold tight
Please know
There's no reason to be afraid
'Cause if they black out the sun
And your blood turns to dust
I'll follow you into your grave

A menace, a monster
The thing that haunts your dreams
A nightmare, my comfort
I'll thrive on all your tears

I don't know what you take me for

Why must I run?
Why must I hide?
I'd rather be living in hell
Than never have lived alone

So when you end up on your own
With just your pillow to hold tight
Please know
There's no reason to be afraid
'Cause if they black out the sun
And your blood turns to dust
I'll follow you into your grave

So when you're shattered and you're broke
Without someone to hold on to
Just know I'll always be there close behind
And if you're able to love
When it's all said and done
Then I swear we'll all be fine

This won't be my last breath
You can't take my life away

You're just a worthless
Good for nothing fuck

Good for nothing fuck

Why must I run?
Why must I hide?
I'd rather be living in hell
Than never have lived alone

So when you end up on your own
With just your pillow to hold tight
Please know
There's no reason to be afraid
'Cause if they black out the sun
And your blood turns to dust
I'll follow you into your grave

So when you're shattered and you're broke
Without someone to hold on to
Just know I'll always be there close behind
And if you're able to love
When it's all said and done
Then I swear we'll all be fine

7. Graveyard Souls

We sit atop of a
Broken world
We are not holy we are
Graveyard souls

In the midst of all the chaos we are so quick to place the blame
On what we don't understand
Our brothers and sisters that don't share our name

The echoes of this desperate world
Fill up my lungs like I'm reborn
Let's find strength in the unfamiliar
And hold that truth close to our heart
Shut your eyes
And let life restart

Love is an abandoned thought

What is the point of this, if hate's what we rely on?
What is the point?

I don't see truth in their lies
I see the blood shed
A mask-less disguise
And countless of lives

Destroyed by a world
Created by men
When will it end?
When will it end?

Only you and I
Have a chance to make our wrongs in to rights
And heaven knows I've plenty I've done wrong
But only I can choose what I become

When the Lightning strikes
And we blindly must whether the world through the door
Just shut your eyes
And remember you're never alone

Hope is what we hold on to
When fear is all that we know
If darkness and heaven are both in existence
I promise there's somewhere to go.

I can't see what's wrong with living for myself
Question your thoughts

And free yourself from what you think that you're not
There's always somewhere else to go

There's always somewhere else to go

8. Two's Too Many

Sweet love of mine
Why keep on breaking your back in two
Just to prove you're all right
Just give it up
Why keep on coming
When I only want to break your heart

You've lost your mind
Why aren't you able to just move on
And get a grip on your life
Quit holding on
To all the things that I've regretted
For far too long

You have got to realize what we've been through
And know we have only one life
And too little time
And I've wasted it all on you

Please please darling won't you leave me alone
I'm tired of living in this heartbreak home
I try and try and try
To get you out of my life
But I can't seem shake this vice

My lovesick valentine
Why keep on trying to tame this heart
When you know it's a lie

You're lost in your own self-demise
It's about time to open your eyes

And see yourself for what you are
I'm sick of being just another scar
That you carve into your pitch-black heart
I'm begging please won't you prove me wrong.

Please, please darling won't you leave me alone

Please, please darling won't you leave me alone
I'm tired of living in this heartbreak home
I try and try and try
To get you out of my life
But I can't seem shake this vice

Grip that you call true love
I can't believe I gave up everything you're like a drug
I try and try and try
To get out of my life
But I can't seem shake this vice

Leave my heart
I've fallen out of what you think we are

Please please darling won't you leave me alone
I'm tired of living in this heartbreak home
I try and try and try
To get you out of my life
But I can't seem shake this vice

But I can't seem shake this vice

9. Evidence

This is the road I chose
This is the life I've made
Say what you want but know this world opened her arms for me

I write these words in blood
I write these words for you
This world deserves to finally know the...

Your arrogance blinds you
Why don't you open your mind
And listen to the words
That could save your life

We all grow tired of
What we think we know
But at the end of the day
We have to choose where our paths go

Decide at the fork in the road
Decide at the fork in the road

Just so you know we'll never go under
Please tell me, please tell me
Please try and tell me I'm wrong

You say we follow along
Well now follow along
To these words I say
They're all I have.
To open the door that could never be cracked.

Please try to tell me I'm wrong
And say I'll never belong
Because all your hate
Won't wear me down
I'll still be the last one left wearing the crown

You think we're hopeless and lost
You think we're just fucking pawns
But we will never be
No we will never be

I lie awake and dream of how we will change the world, change the world!
It's up to us to fill in the cracks
And bring this world back to what it could have been

It's up to us, it's up to us

You say we follow along
Well now follow along
To these words I say
They're all I have.
To open the door that could never be cracked.

Please try to tell me I'm wrong
And say I'll never belong
Because all your hate
Won't wear me down
I'll still be the last one left wearing the crown

You'll never find happiness while you live inside hate.
Yeah!

I write these words in blood
I write these words for you
This world deserves to finally know the truth

This is the road I chose
This is the life I've made
Say what you want but know this world opened her arms for me

10. Children Of Love

Sound the alarms for the end of the lie
That you've abused for far too long
We're in the hour of the fallout now
And there's nobody who can save our souls

Rise up for the things worth saving
Rise up for what we'll destroy
Rise up for something
Or you will be lost as you fade out inside of the noise

This is our wake up call

We have to pull it together
We have to save what we can
So put aside what you thought that you loved
And face the end

These bars our hearts must hold
Are only locked by those in charge of this broken world
And when their walls fall down
So will the keys to unlocking what we have never found

We are the children of love
Lost inside of this war...
We wear the scars on our hearts
But we don't know what they're for
we don't know what they're for

We are the noise of generation now.
We are the noise of generation now.
We are the noise of generation now.
We are the noise of generation now.

Oh, Yeah!

We are the noise
We are the noise

Hate
Is what we are bound by
Love
Is what will destroy
Trust
In everything selfish
Kill
What we don't deserve

I won't follow you to die
Welcome to the Fallout.

11. Johnny's Revenge

Ha ha ha ha
Oh well look what we have here boys
Everybody give a warm welcome to
Johnny!
Ha ha, what do you say we show Johnny a thing or two about what it's like to die.

How could this really have happened
One second life was looking up
The next I'm on my way down

I thought my story had ended.
But if this hell is where I'm trapped
Then I will seek my revenge

I've come for
Blood, blood, blood!
And I'm not leaving till I
Have your heart
You're going to pay for all that you have
Done, done, done!
I'll feel alive when I have
Blood, your blood (Blood, your blood)
Because revenge is all I haven't lost

You thought I was through
You may have killed me but now I'll come for you

You thought I was through?
Well that was far from your first mistake...

I have a twisted mind
And I have seen your fate
You think the end is close for you
When really, you're fucking late.
Your reign is over

There's no forgiveness
There's no forgiveness for all that you've done.

I've come for
Blood, blood, blood!
And I'm not leaving till I
Have your heart
You're going to pay for all that you have
Done, done, done!
I'll feel alive when I have
Blood, your blood (Blood, your blood)

Because Revenge is all I haven't lost
You've taken everything I've ever loved
So give me blood, blood, blood!
I'll feel alive when I have blood
Your blood
I want it all
I want it all

See the way
Your blood spills on the ground

But then before my eyes
He turned into a man...
I've been fooled again
I've been fooled again

You are just a slave...
You've dug your bed, deep inside of your grave.
Now slave, you will sleep
For eternity, for eternity

I've come for
Blood, blood, blood!
And I'm not leaving till I
Have your heart
You're going to pay for all that you have
Done, done, done!
I'll feel alive when I have
Blood, your blood

Because revenge is all I haven't lost
You've taken everything I've ever loved
So give me
Blood, blood, blood!
I'll feel alive when I have
Blood, your blood
I want it all!





CROWN THE EMPIRE LYRICS