HAWSER LYRICS

1. You Can Only Hope...

A.I.F.

2. Recall & Repent

Devil plays all of us.
One's dealt a good hand, the next man's loss.

Justice is long overdue.
Silhouette on its shoulder in the shape of you.
Justice is long overdue.
You played devil's advocate, shame on you.

Bitter aftertaste.
Bit the hand that fed.
Now the stomach's full but the heart repents.
And I hope that you see it too.
I wonder to this day, is it clear to you?
I'm just a notch on the belt that you'll hang from.
You feel it too?
Every word bites back at you.
I'll keep my cool.
I'm clean while you play the fool.
I played with fire.
I got burned.
I can't wait for justice to rear her head and come for you.
Cause I paid my dues while you bathed in self indulgence.
And as I see you ponder all your lies all love becomes revulsion

3. Wrong Side of the Present

The rape of
Gaia at the hands of greed.
Shackled to this earth by the hands that feed.
We all bought into their games.
Power play.
We march in shame onto an early grave.
We burn together, lost forever.
Can we make it right?
Or do we burn together into an endless night?
Lose our wings, burn forever.
Redemption traded for anything.
Point of no return, the threshold bursts.
Marched into extinction:
It's nothing we don't deserve.
It is when life becomes worthless that the rich man is made.
Hang them from the tallest trees for sealing our fate.
And we'll bury them all amongst all our sins.
Turned a blind eye.
Lost to the winds.
We had it coming.

4. Bury the Hatchet

I'll be the first to know that nothing lasts forever.
You'll be the first to go when it all comes down.
And I take no pride in the sins that brought me to the gallows but unlike you
I'll hang with my conscience clean.
It takes one to know one and
I see right through.
It's too late to bury the hatchet,
I swing it back at you.
Now you smother desire.
You murder for hire.
Suffer.
I'll be the first to know that nothing lasts forever.
You'll be the first to go when it all comes down.
Before the court you stand, how do you plead?
The charge laid before you:
Murder in the first degree.
Top of the food chain.
Always handing out the blows.
Adversity is calling.
Reap what you sow.
And now you suffer.

5. Oorlogsmoe

The cycle's on,
I feel it slither on me.
It's sucking on my soul, it's feeding off the pain.
Locked the door, boarded it up, I threw away the key.
It smells the path I've fled, it's crawling back to me.
Maybe I just had enough of deceit?
Can't take another second.
Anything for relief.
All my ambitions choked out by doubt.
I ain't asking for much, I just want out.
Craving an ending.
I need to break out of these walls.
Can't find a reason to feel.
Spike it, I'll watch it flow.
Ill mind descending, a changing maze of wicked ghosts.
I need to find a better way to keep sane.

I'm just done with war.
It's like a knife to my skull, stuck with the guilt forevermore.
As regrets soar the bodies pile up and I can't run no more.
Painted on grin.
Leave all I have behind as I sink in sin.
I clipped all their wings.
I watch the angels hail down from the heavens I kissed.
And there's nothing
I can do, nothing
I can say.
I just burn.
I'm just done with war.

6. Hi & Lo

[Instrumental]

7. Snowblind

This has gone on for far too long.
I just can't take it anymore.
It starts with the little things.
It drags you down to the deepest lows.

Clawing at your neck and breaking your back.
When you feel release, you're kicked in the teeth.
How many years until I wrap my head around it?

How long until my thoughts aren't shrouded?
I've spent my whole life on the sideline.
I'm burning through the pages too damn quick.
I'm so jaded.

Sedated.
I can't thaw the ice in my head.
I will atone for everything that

I should've said but never did.
There is a void no fix can fill.

I'm burning through the pages too damn quick.
I've spent my whole life watching from the sideline.
I'm on the outside looking in.

8. Luck of the Draw

Every day you stray from everything ever set aside.
It all turns to grey: from the deepest red, to the darkest white.
It's all in your blood.
Laid out for you like a deck of cards.
Now you're on the run.
You've had your chance but you played your part.
I know your words.
I know your moves.

Just so you know: you'll never do.
You're just a rat.
Back of the line.
We call the shots.
Now is your time.
We let you in.
Embraced your kind.
Luck of the draw.
Pay for your crimes.
And when you're done.
Down on your knees.
For sake of all I'll make you bleed.
Just you feel it.
Every day it just haunts.
You sacrificed your conscience to outrun all the guilt and all the shame.
Chapter closed on your wicked games.
You lay it out like a deck of cards.
Now you know luck of the draw.

9. Common Grave

They all walk the same.
They all talk the same.
I wonder when their buckets break.
Hollow stares to a common grave.
When will they stop and realize that nobody will remember their names?
Fading.
Hollow stares to a common grave.
And I'm waiting.
Nobody will remember their names.
Buried in sin.
Sorrow is the coffin.
And when you're at the gates
He won't let you in

10. Petrine Cross

It's been a long five years and my time's about due.
But I haven't quite found the courage to make amends with you.
Because my hands are a little too dirty and you haven't got a clue.
But I came around about right and you'd cross me upside down, if only you knew.
And I can't even put your name to my lips, so what's the point in trying?
Let the rains commence.
Vindicated in the name of lenience.
Cleansed of all the guilt by your saving grace.
I don't deserve it.
Bury me face down in an unmarked grave.
I see visions of a world where there's not another second wasted on my memory.
And I'm gone.
Just like that.
So I pray to your god and I deal with your devil.
I set the terms as they're set at my table:
Free from the chain of my memory for my soul to keep.

11. Will to Meaning

You're in it for the worst bits but you just gotta own it.
Sooner or later you're set free and then you'll know it.
What's it gonna be?
Do you hand it out?
Or all in for a little doubt?
I just play it safe and walk the line.
All I need to make me feel fine.
But what's it worth to you to just live your life with no-one but yourself at your side?
You just live for you.
You never comply.
You're always at the wheel, never on the sideline.

But it's not like I never burnt, every scar is just a lesson learned.

Another wrong turn and there's a way out and that's all I yearn.
I owe this to you alone.
All your words are now set in stone.
You're all I know.

Thanks to you I've found my home.
There comes a time when you decide your own fate.
Is it written by sorrow?
Is it molded by hate?
Do you take control or watch life pass you by?
Now is your time.
So what's it worth to you to live your life?
To never come in seconds, never on the outside.
No more handouts.
My own man.
King of the jungle.
Lord of the lands.

12. All Is Forgiven

Try to make amends as the sand runs out.
Please forgive me when you're not around.
I see everything.
I carry you around.
Just you know I'll never let you down.
But it's hard coming to terms that time ain't on our side and soon it's your turn to return to earth.
Amongst the dirt you'll settle, rot with the worms.
The last to burn, flames to ember, scatter the ashes.

On your deathbed just remember:
I'll carry you with me for life.
Everyday is just another second until you fade away.
In your name I will carry your cross and I will never stray.
In my mind I see visions of the vultures picking at your spine.
And I'd try to break the backs of gods if I could buy you time.
Because life played you but you never settled.
You sacrificed it all to outrun the devil.
You put us out of his reach and sealed our fate.
If I could just ease your pain I'd take it all away.







HAWSER LYRICS