IRON MAN LYRICS

1. Ruler Of Ruin

Welcome friends, to my kingdom
Leave your dreams outside the door
Here where damnation reigns forevermore
A wound forever open
Enter if you might
Be dragged kicking and screaming into eternal night

Once I knew contentment
The gods began to resent
With heavy bows and arrows they shot me from cloud nine
Serenity abandoned me
Left eyes that could not see
What is left for me--broken ruined life

So come see what I do--and know that I'm a fool
My heartbeat and screams--the ruin that I rule

Minutes turn to hours turn to days--turn to years
I am just a fragment of what man has gone and deeded to himself

I pray that it isn't everlasting
I try--oh I try to believe
Slipping through exhausted fingers--my sanity betrays me
Component of the shattered landscape
That stretches to infinity
Time moves on and on--ridiculing me

2. The Final Straw

Daylight--maddening fantasy--last night never came
Blissful embers burn away
Coffin's sides are closing in--strained from the lack of air
Nightmares leave me with nothing

Like you--the mirror turned away--it can't stand the sight of me
I smash--smash it to the floor
Pieces reflect the shards of light--open my eyes
Epiphany of what I must do

I want to forgive but can't find a way
Lick clean the knife and spit away part of me
Broken--beaten--no understanding at all
The boiling results in the fatally placed final straw

I want to forget but the memory stays
Draining my being til an empty shell remains
Kill me--kill me--bleed me to quench your thirst
Now what would thrill me--for the torment to be reversed

Daylight fades as evening comes--the night's fingers grip
You're close--close enough to touch
Watching the source of my suffering standing alone
Silent--in darkness I follow you home

3. Eternal Sleep

[Instrumental]

4. Grown

A dreadful place--a dreadful man
All set to leave his little room
A world that looks the other way with blinders high
But they will know so much so soon

Apotheosis of reform was lost so long ago
A fuse that burned anticipating when it'd be let go
The skeptics will be taught what some have always known
In a wash of rage and blood we'll see how evil's grown

Destroyer then--so much more now
You can catch but you can't hold him
A heart that bled--the bastard's wrist was slapped
The faith in faith has turned so grim

The notion of remorse flat lined without a fight
Replaced by ideology burned in darkest night
The skeptics bow their heads as throats release a groan
The carnage on the walls spells out what now has grown

It’s not alone

Aberrant beast we locked inside
Is walking out a full-fledged monster
All innocence has coughed and bled and died
Release paves way for a disaster

The novelty of change has washed away but not the blame
Responsibility seeks a home but goes unclaimed
The skeptics lock their doors to try to save their own
So painful--it is clear to see what we have grown

Now reap what ye have sown







IRON MAN LYRICS