HATEBREED LYRICS

1. Instinctive (Slaughterlust)

Here kindness ends
Weakness dies, trust myself
No one else
Never bow, never break
So I tap into the savagery

I have become
Instinctive
I have become
Instinctive
Like an animal
Untamable
I have become instinctive
Like a savage
Barbaric
I have become instinctive

Come with me down the abyss
Where shadows spawn from emptiness
I must transform to shed this husk
New urge to fulfill my slaughterlust
I sacrifice to dominate
My savage nature now unleashed
Breath swift and sharp against clenched teeth
Animal intuition empowers me

Transform, shed this husk
Must fulfill my slaughterlust
Transform, shed this husk
Must fulfill my slaughterlust

Here kindness ends
Weakness dies, trust myself
No one else
Never bow, never break
So I tap into the savagery

I have become
Instinctive
I have become
Instinctive
Like an animal
Untamable
I have become instinctive
Like a savage
Barbaric
I have become instinctive

Tap into the savagery
Tap into the savagery

I am unhinged, I terrify
I'd rather die than toe the line
Do what I must, fight to survive
Primitive bloodlust fills my mind
My vision's clear, my instinct strong
I am the vicious one
Inclination to destroy
Like a savage with carnage in his eyes

Transform, shed this husk
Must fulfill my slaughterlust
Transform, shed this husk
Must fulfill my slaughterlust

Unleash the savage instinct
Savage
Instinct
Unleashed

2. Let Them All Rot

Give them what they want
New ways to die
Pile all the heads
Pile them high
Give them what they want
New ways to die
Pile all the heads
Pile them high
Give them what they want
New ways to die
Pile all the heads
Pile them high
Give them what they want
New ways to die
Pile all their heads and...

Let them rot!
Let them all fucking rot!
Let 'em rot

Welcome to the land of the psychic dead
Breeding ground for the living condemned
No meaning, no shame, just blind consumption
Minds of the weak in perpetual dysfunction

Give them what they want

Give them what they want
New ways to die
Pile all the heads
Pile them high
Give them what they want
New ways to die
Pile all the heads
Pile them high
Give them what they want
New ways to die
Pile all their heads and...

Let them rot!
Let them all fucking rot!
Let 'em rot

Enter the mind of the spiritually doomed
Gratification never comes too soon
Demoralization, worship the sick
Absorb the trauma, then re-inflict
Re-inflict
Absorb the trauma
Then re-inflict
Give them what they want!

Pile all the heads
Pile them high
Pile all their heads and...

Let them rot!
Let them all fucking rot!
Let 'em rot

Give them what they want
New ways to die
Pile all the heads
Pile them high
Give them what they want
New ways to die
Pile all their heads and...
Let them rot

3. Set It Right (Start With Yourself)

If you think you should judge someone
Start with yourself
If you want to take control
Start with yourself
Something you see needs respect
Start with yourself
And if you want to change the world, you have to
(Start with yourself)

Deal with this now or it never goes away
It might not bring Heaven on Earth but it keeps Hell at bay
(Start with yourself)
There's purpose in the pain, new power to attain
You've turned away before, old ways never open new doors

Set it right, set it right
Make peace with the mirror now
Set it right, set it right
End the self-deception
Set it right, set it right
Make peace with the mirror now
Set it right, set it right
End the self-deception

If you think you should judge someone
Start with yourself
If you want to take control
Start with yourself
Something you see needs respect
Start with yourself
And if you want to change the world, you have to
(Start with yourself)

Use this for your gain, single-minded aim
You draw your own blood when pointing out another's shame
(Start with yourself)
Deal with this now before it comes back around
How many chances do you think you'll get if you keep shutting down?

Set it right, set it right
Make peace with the mirror now
Set it right, set it right
End the self-deception
Set it right, set it right
Make peace with the mirror now
Set it right, set it right
No more self-deception

That which you do not wish to look at
Has to be seen
You've sunken lower than your nightmares
Now be risen higher than your dreams

It can be set right, you have to
(Start with yourself)
If you think you should judge someone
(Start with yourself)
If you want to take control
(Start with yourself)
Something you see needs respect
(Start with yourself)
And if you're going to change the world, you have to
Start with yourself

4. Weight Of The False Self

If you want to make a difference in the world it means
You have to be different from the world you see
Free yourself from burdens that you know exist
Don't carry the curse of the fatalist

If you want to make a difference in the world it means
You have to be different from the world you see
Free yourself from burdens that you know exist
Don't carry the curse of the fatalist

If you want to make a difference in the world (It means)
You have to be different from the world (You see)
Free yourself from burdens that you know exist
Don't carry the curse of the fatalist

If you want to make a difference in the world (It means)
You have to be different from the world (You see)
No victim mindset, raise your standard
Your true self calls and you must answer

Life the weight of the false self crushing you
Lift yourself up from malevolence
Lift the curse of the fatalist haunting you
Lift yourself out from the death grip
Lift the burden upon your shoulders

There's a challenge that's begging to be risen to
There's a voice and it's your true self calling you
End the cycle, kill all willful self-abuse
Never justify another excuse

If you want to make a difference in the world (It means)
You have to be different from the world (You see)
Free yourself from burdens that you know exist
Don't carry the curse of the fatalist

If you want to make a difference in the world (It means)
You have to be different from the world (You see)
Lift the burden keeping you from being free
Holding you to standards you're not meant to reach

Lift the weight of the false self crushing you
Lift the curse of the fatalist haunting you
Lift yourself out from the death grip
Lift the burden on your shoulders

If you want to make a difference in the world (It means)
You have to be different from the world (You see)
Never justify another excuse
Lift the weight of the false self and you will be set free

5. Cling To Life

I'm helpless here, holding lifeless hands
Didn't see this coming
This was never planned
Once we had everything, now we see
How quickly life can change, how cruel it can be

(Truth is) I don't know what lies ahead
(Truth is) No one's ever faultless
(Truth is) Not always in sight
Truth is hard to stomach when you feed yourself lies

Cling to life
Our belief is what unites
Cling to life
Never let your lows steal your heights
Cling to life
Reach for the light
Our belief is what unites
Cling to life
I ask that you reach out, follow the light and don't let go

It's tragic, here you lay expressionless
What once was vibrant became emptiness
If I could just command your body not to wither
If I could just turn back the years and not be bitter

(Truth is) We have to brave the depths
(Truth is) It can all collapse
(Truth is) Not what pulls us apart
Truth is the beating of your fearless heart

There's truth in resisting
What pulls us apart
When I know I still feel the beating of your fearless heart

There's truth you can't divide
In this we can unite
Truth is hard to stomach when you feed yourself lies

(Truth is) I should've done what was needed
(Truth is) Others failed when you succeeded
(Truth is) What is broken can mend
Truth is all of this comes to an end

Cling to life
Our belief is what unites
Cling to life
Never let your lows steal your heights
Cling to life, reach for the light
Our belief is what unites
Cling to life
I ask that you reach out, follow the light and don't let go

6. A Stroke Of Red

There's no harm done until the harm is done to me

It calls me close as it comes to me
Telling me to forget this world
Erase my life, release this ghost
Longing for a violent rebirth
A stroke of red on this canvas of flesh
Faint caress, prolong the sting
Just another prisoner longing to be free
A stroke of red is all I need

Now there's no harm done (Harm done)
Harm isn't done
Until the harm is done to me
There's no harm done (Harm done)
Harm isn't done
Until the harm is done to me
Done to me

Body drifting over what I've become
I see them but they'll never see me
(See me)
So much bleeding just to feel so numb
Desires fulfilled in blasphemy
A stroke of red on this canvas of flesh
Faint caress, prolong the sting
One last brush to finish my masterpiece
A stroke of red is all I need

Now there's no harm done (Harm done)
Harm isn't done
Until the harm is done to me
There's no harm done, harm done
Harm isn't done
Until the harm is done to me
Now there's no wrong done (Wrong done)
No wrong is done
Unless the wrong is done to me
There's no wrong done (Wrong done)
If I'm in the wrong, then there was wrong done to me

Whispers from the skin entice
Addicted to the numbness of the sickening slice
Incisions you see are nothing to hide
Nothing compared to the ones inside

It's all I need
Another stroke of red to be free
A stroke of red

Ahh, there's no harm done (Harm done)
Harm isn't done
Until there's harm is done to me
There's no wrong done (Wrong done)
No wrong is done
Until the wrong is done to me
Done to me

7. Dig Your Way Out

Try as you might when all theories fail
No hesitation into the pale
Urge overtakes and the moment dies
In a crashing wave your wrists are tied

It's all caving in on you
It's all caving in on you
(Dig your way out)
It's all caving in on you
It's all caving in on you
(Dig your way out)

Don't promise, just prove
Don't fear, push through
Don't chase the pain
Become it

The urge overtakes it was nothing but an urge
The reason to go on must be unearthed
You can't just spend your whole life waiting
Pushing to the surface as it's caving

It's all caving in on you
It's all caving in on you
(Dig your way out)
It's all caving in on you
It's all caving in on you
(Dig your way out)

Don't promise, just prove
Don't fear, push through
Don't chase the pain
Become it
Don't promise, just prove (Just prove)
Don't fear, push through (Push through)
Don't hesitate
Live through it

Don't promise, just prove (Just prove)
Don't fear, push through (Push through)
When the urge overtakes
Don't chase the pain, become it

Dig your way out

Engage the crippling doubt of loss and love
Stunned by visions of what once was
Grief and deceit with sorrow feeds the angst
Comfort is destruction, there can be no more relief

8. This I Earned

Fiction you made up to believe
Lives on a screen but it's not reality
Actions that you didn't take
Is why you're concerned with the ones that I make
Now you've noticed your day slipping fast
Was it well spent or were you stepping back?
You counted all my blessings as you went
Leaving your mark of discontent

(This I earned)
I wasn't born with it
I bled for this
Be bound to your word
When you live by it
You prove your worth

(This I earned)
It wasn't handed to me
I did what I had to
Be bound to your word
It's not what you deserve, you get what you earn

Don't indulge in delusions to satisfy
I don't escape today with dreams gone by
Perfection of the present doesn't exist
The future's at stake, it isn't granted

For this I bled
For this I bled
My blood I shed for this

You want a future worth fighting for?
With skin in the game?
Be bound to your word
Everything is at stake

My blood
My blood I shed for this
My blood
My blood I shed for this

You think this was handed to me?
Some offering taken at birth
I've withstood every hardship
To prove myself of worth

(This I earned)
I wasn't born with it
I bled for this
Be bound to your word
When you live by it
You prove your worth
(This I earned)
It wasn't handed to me
I did what I had to
Be bound to your word
It's not what you deserve, you get what you earn

Earned in blood
A life that's well deserved
Take what's due
Once you prove your worth
(Earn it)

9. Wings Of The Vulture

They only take to the skies once death arrives

Through a darkened sky, so clear to see
Unveiling the closeness of morbidity
As light hits the eye, no sympathy
The talons sharper than they've ever been

Lower, lower, lower sweeps the wings of the vulture
Lurking peril trembles in the mind
Lower, lower, lower sweeps the wings of the vulture
Awaiting the bones they will pick dry
After demise

They only take to the skies once death arrives

A distant recollection has been stirred
Compelled against this life at every turn
Now high above the growing swarm is seen
The scattered fragments whispering to be free

Lower, lower, lower sweeps the wings of the vulture
Lurking peril trembles in the mind
Lower, lower, lower sweeps the wings of the vulture
Fear ridden hunger haunted flight

After demise
Descending from the sky
Once death arrives
When the end is close by
Cleansing death inside

Where there once was life

They only begin descent
When decay is evident
Always there when death arrives
Crowning evolution by design

10. The Herd Will Scatter

Consistent
Conscious
Deliberate
Intent to deceive
Decided voices
Spreading the myths to believe
Repeating falsehoods
Destroying as it spreads
Discourage the thinker
Discredit the messengers

From those who have nothing
So much more will be taken
(More will be taken)
To those who have everything
So much more will be given
(More will be given)

(We knew) There would come a time when
(We knew) Lies would be brought into
The light
Now the fear runs rampant
They strike and the herd will scatter
Playing upon their fears
Playing upon their fears

The senses flooded the future
Unrelenting bleakness
Sowing misfortune
Reaping perpetual disaster
Surrender no longer an option
Dissipation
Degraded purpose
Abandoned isolation

From those who have nothing
So much more will be taken
(More will be taken)
To those who have everything
So much more will be given
(More will be given)

The light shown upon the shepherd
They strike and the herd will scatter
Once the fear runs rampant
They'll be unattended
Once they strike the shepherd down

Strike the shepherd and the herd will scatter
Isolation spells death

11. From Gold To Gray

Oh, I don't want your pity
Won't bargain for my soul
Not another form with reason fled
Can't be another object of dread
Each for himself must carve a path
While wretched life imposes wrath
Through tangled webs that leave us worn
Into crowded graves to be ignored

Life is cold enough
I won't be frozen in the memories
Life is cold enough
Cold enough for me to remain

From gold to gray, nothing stays
We live amidst the soundless storms of decay
(Life is cold enough)
From gold to gray, nothing stays
You leave a footprint whether you wait or walk away

Someone always wants to make it worse
The slumbering soul whose words are cursed
Time is fleeting, we're always reminded
Still we labor, willfully blinded
Reality is cold, my mind is colder
Biding my time until it's truly over
Frozen still, our hearts will yearn
Enter the fray to dust return

Life is cold enough
I won't be frozen in the memories
Life is cold enough
Cold enough for me to remain

From gold to gray, nothing stays
We live amidst the soundless storms of decay
(Life is cold enough)
From gold to gray, nothing stays
You leave a footprint whether you wait or walk away

Enter the fray

One foot in the gold, one foot in the gray
Some will learn it'll be too late
The fortunes of time unable to change
Left to our own dark imaginings

From gold to gray, nothing ever stays
From gold to gray, we enter the fray
Life is cold but my mindset is colder
Enter the fray once it's over

12. Invoking Dominance

Enough chances have drifted by
I must reclaim what's mine
Reclaim what's mine
Invoking dominance inside
If it means I put my life on the line
This choice cannot be denied
Now I reclaim what's mine

Test the waters, think you know pain
Enter unforgiving domain
Thought this was over
Challenge my will, I'm going for the kill
Thought you could poke the scorpion's nest
Feel the venom in your heart as it seizes in your chest
You thought this was over
It's not over till you take your final breath

As you gasp, I'll be taking back
Taking back what's mine
I'll put everything on the line
When my fists are pouring blood
I'll know I did everything I could
Putting it on the fucking line
Now I reclaim what's mine

You knew how this would end
Still you chose to step into the lion's den
Now it's never over
Thought I'd be your prey
Tried to take my dignity
Nothing left to lose, can't live on my knees
You'll be snared in the jaws of defeat
Fools die in horror, not knowing why, never how

Reclamation
Through the nothingness, I climb
Reclamation
Hostilities come alive
Reclamation
With powers outside my own
Reclamation
Engraved in Stone

Enough chances have drifted by
I must reclaim what's mine
Reclaim what's mine
Invoking dominance inside
Reclamation
Reclamation
Living fire galvanized
Reclamation
Reclamation
Dominance inside







HATEBREED LYRICS