DAWNBRINGER LYRICS

1. The Day The Deaf Went Blind

The world disappeared,
but only for an instant
Then boundaries died
and shape went extinct
And the world reappeared as blackness
Nothing was something,
as huge as a thousand oceans
They ripped pages out of books
to build their fires
They felt the earth vibrating
like a newborn child
They stripped off all their clothes,
they gave themselves new names
Even god himself fell apart,
life itself became profane

Notions of nations became a joke
All bodies became beautiful
On the day the deaf went blind

The world disappeared,
but only for an instant
Then boundaries died
and shape went extinct
And the world reappeared as blackness
Nothing was something,
as huge as a thousand oceans
They ripped pages out of books
to build their fires
They felt the earth vibrating
like a newborn child
They stripped off all their clothes,
they gave themselves new names
Even god himself fell apart,
life itself became profane

They touched grass for the first time
They made love with
every inch of their bodies
On the day the deaf went blind

They touched grass for the first time
They made love with
every inch of their bodies
On the day the deaf went blind

2. Shoot To Kill

In a cage with poisoned bars
Filled with snakes and fire
You shiver, sweat, and cry
I fear the hunger in your eyes
In a land with poisoned fruit
Filled with viruses and bile
Your sobs drowned out by hurricanes
Step aboard and feed the flames

Sign and seal, hand deliver
You have only yourself to blame
I will never reconsider
Things will never be the same

Shoot to kill
That's a promise - That's an oath
All or nothing - Choosing both
It's a habit - It's a sin
Born to Lose - Live to Win

On the throne of consequence
Built on debts and tragedy
The hand that bites you back
Is ready for attack
Under rubbled happiness
Buried in a hole of mud
Feel your coffin shrink and narrow
Chew the bones and suck the marrow

Sign and seal, hand deliver
You have only yourself to blame
I will never reconsider
Things will never be the same

Shoot to kill
That's a promise - That's an oath
All or nothing - Choosing both
It's a habit - It's a sin
Born to Lose - Live to Win

Behind the glass you're cut and scarred
Suffer with the wicked
After all the sweat and piss
Only beggars die like this
Rape and murder, kiss away
Jester crying, children dead
Psyche quartered, cut and dried
Only craving cyanide

Sign and seal, hand deliver
You have only yourself to blame
I will never reconsider
Things will never be the same

Shoot to kill
That's a promise - That's an oath
All or nothing - Choosing both
It's a habit - It's a sin
Born to Lose - Live to Win

Kill!

3. All Hell Broke Loose

I've got fucking teeth for eyes
I am the smell of concentration
Bite and chew and never swallow
Never close the fist
I will only crawl or sprint
I will only starve or glut
I will only love or kill
I'm too big for that cross

Don't make me say it
I can't even watch
All hell broke loose
Haunted...

Telling lies is getting old
But the truth has lost its purpose
Inside the torn apart
A spiraling self-hate
You will only stand and stare
You will only cut and run
I am only eyes and mouth
You only feed my appetite

Don't make me say it
I can't even watch
All hell broke loose
Haunted...

4. The Man Who Could Not Die

I am the ending of a life
No getting better now
The white zone spilling on the black
My patience, my patience running out

Fear of god and fear of life
I am cut and ready
I want to die
I am afraid I won't

In the torture of a sleepless night
While my body rots to blood
But this is never what I wanted
I'm just begging you to stop

My days bleed into weeks
All my arms are open
This is the blurring of edges
The softening of shapes
The mercy and forgiveness
In death is real
Time for you to seal me up
And roll the stone into place

In the torture of a sleepless night
While my body rots to blood
But this is never what I wanted
I'm just begging you to stop

I am the ending of a life
No getting better now
The white zone spilling on the black
My patience running out
The mercy and forgiveness
In death is real
Time for you to seal me up
And roll the stone into place

In the torture of a sleepless night
While my body rots to blood
But this is never what I wanted
I'm begging, begging, begging you to stop
Oh... begging you to stop

5. Mudslicer

Hacking through it - Swinging blades
Undercover nightmare killer racing through your veins
Cutting corners - Chopping limbs
Devil-lover finger-pointer changing all your names
Secret weapon - Trapdoor key
Vengeance hammer, pay the debt, the bringer of the curse
Razor fever - Skin collage
Blinder of the sacred and the rapist of the dead

No... No...!

Running wild - Inside out
Cut to pieces, rearranged, then cut to shreds again
Forcing entry - Pulling teeth
Been here before but I'm sure I don't remember when
Eating soil - Burning bridge
No one is protected from my whipping discipline
Kill the traitors - Kill them all
Compost maggot, jack the ripper, paying for your sins

No... No...!

6. Bleeding City

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7. Halfman

Better sleep with one eye open
Better check the doors again
Murderers will swarm you now
Avoid the strangers, fear the friends
Enemies in numbers march
Half a man in half a house
Black betrayer, incest pig
Treachery, the mob is on

Don't you even make me say it
What's on my mind is murder and torture
I could never hurt you slowly enough
You'll only be safe in your grave

Lie force-feeder counterfeit
My hands around your throat
Shining weapon, alibi
Mask, disguise, windows smashed
Upstairs creeping, breaking sweat
Bedroom open, blade comes down
Your blood all over me
Laughter, cutting, bleed to death

Don't you even make me say it
What's on my mind is murder and torture
I could never hurt you slowly enough
You'll only be safe in your grave

Better sleep with one eye open
Better check the doors again
Murderers will swarm you now
Avoid the strangers, fear the friends
Enemies in numbers march
Half a man in half a house
Black betrayer, incest pig
Treachery, the mob is on

8. What Are You Running From?

Am I the enemy? Am I the wound?
Is this the only outcome waiting?
Am I the poison? Am I the cure?
Am I the mirror to your ugly insecurity?

Look under rocks
Behind closed doors
Secret passageways
I can't believe

Am I the monarch? Am I the slave?
Is this a chase for consequences or naught?
Am I the venom? Am I the snake?
Am I the emblem of your vicious insincerity?

Look under rocks
Behind closed doors
Secret passageways
I can't believe
I won't believe

Look under rocks
Behind closed doors
Secret passageways
I can't believe

Look under rocks
Behind closed doors
Secret passageways
I can't believe
I won't believe

9. Heart Particle

Nestled in the petals of accomplishment
The naked truth of failure and glaring green
Never forgiven and never forgotten
Between the poles of infinity and pain

And that's all over now
Swallowed up as history
Reaching for the sky
A thousand lives in misery

Dead men rise and speak to me now
And all my spiralling vision turns to snow
Blackout, whiteout, greenout!
Eyes burning red
I will build palaces with my own rotting bones

And that's all over now
Swallowed up as history
Reaching for the sky
A thousand lives in misery

Giving away the answers and telling secrets
Breathing toxic air and filling our own brains with lies
We're all victims and we're all going to suffer
We're all in the same sinking ship, but we all die alone

And that's all over now
Swallowed up as history
Reaching for the sky
A thousand lives in misery

10. Beggars & Children

The beggar takes a wife, takes her right on cue
This mountain is growing, growing as I climb

Architect of poverty, that crystallized endowment
Ripped from home into the wreckage of heaven
Hunger hiding behind the sheltered, wicked feast
The paradox of consumption: even blood evaporates

The child open wide knows his world in one dimension
Before he cries that final unconsolable tear

Architect of poverty, that crystallized endowment
Ripped from home into the wreckage of heaven
Hunger hides behind the sheltered, wicked feast
The paradox of consumption: even blood evaporates

11. Cosmos Disease

Tucked away behind a black hole
Inside the bleakness of dreaming
Obsessed with the ticking of my watch
Betrayed by the turning of your head
Lured by the shining of promise
Into a vortex of eternal tension
Unresolved, unresolving, resolute
I'm wrapped in the quilt of stars

And after all I keep on living
And after all I keep forgiving

I've seen where the stars go to die
Where truth is a serpent and justice a lie

This sickness was all it took
Even planets are suffering
From cauldrons of astral plane
Rising, intoxicating fumes
Filling myself with the ashes
Of an entire burning galaxy
Washing myself in the blood
Of a thousand, a thousand murdered kings

And after all I keep on living
And after all I keep forgiving

I've seen where the stars go to die
Where truth is a serpent and justice a lie
Three-headed rescuer passes us by
Blood never freezes and tears never dry

Seen through the eye of a needle
Spectrum, refracted eclipse
Spinning meaning from symbols and shapes
The great cosmic atrocity
In the mystery of intellect
In the writhings of chaos
Gravity picks its victims
All stories end too soon

And after all I keep on living
And after all I keep forgiving

I've seen where the stars go to die
Where truth is a serpent and justice a lie
Three-headed rescuer passes us by
Blood never freezes and tears never dry

12. DNA

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DAWNBRINGER LYRICS