LAMB OF GOD LYRICS

1. Still Echoes

A thousand heads cut clean across their necks
Right down the hall from me.
The Reich's relentless blade
Thirsty and shining red
Still echoes of their screams.

This is a tarnished heirloom
Passed down through iron fists
A shameful house of doom
A legacy of collapse built on a painful truth.

A thousand years of failure
A thousand years they bled
To the bear, the blitzkrieg, and the Holy Father
They just bowed their heads.

They meekly did their time
Counting the days while harnessed to their rusty shackles
Forever occupied
Folded the crimson star
The rabbits turned to jackals.

This is a tarnished heirloom
Passed down through iron fists
A shameful house of doom
A legacy of collapse, built on a painful truth.

A thousand years of failure
A thousand years they bled
To the bear, the blitzkrieg, and the Holy Father
They just bowed their heads.

Soviet hangover, Eastern Bloc
And dirty money still flows through locks
A killing ground of rebels, black marketeers
Restrained but there's no resistance here

Southeast Asia in a Euro cellblock
Saigon's children conceal what they've got
The Opium Trail runs west through here
They're selling disease to erase all your fears.

A thousand years of failure
A thousand years they bled
To the bear, the blitzkrieg, and the Holy Father
They just bowed their heads.
I won't bow my head

2. Erase This

Justify, a means to an ending only just the beginning
To legitimize the conflict that's rendering the interaction so useless
Futility defined, watching you wait for the stars to align
So clueless, so simple it should be a crime
And I can't bring myself to save you this time
Keep me in your sights, possessed by spite, woeful irrelevance
So quick to ignite, impulse to indict, defense for incompetence
For what it's worth, it was over before it began
Blind in your search, no one to guide your hand
For what it's worth, you crossed a line in the sand
Cut off, locked out, as it fell right through your hands
Victimize, cast off, forgotten daughter, play the martyr
So they sympathize with your condition and your position
It's strategic how your misfortune became so fortunate
Oh, it must be torture keeping up with it
Consider me disengaged and find a better character for your stage
Only ever more, still keeping the score, is there enough for you
Keep one thing for sure, stay pure saboteur, it's simply what you do
For what it's worth, it was over before it began
Blind in your search, no one to guide your hand
For what it's worth, you crossed a line in the sand
Cut off, locked out, as it fell right through your hands
Erase this, replace this with something to have hope in
Severe all ties that bind, the circle will be broken
Keep me in your sights, possessed by spite, woeful irrelevance
So quick to ignite, impulse to indict, defense for incompetence
For what it's worth, it was over before it began
Blind in your search, no one to guide your hand
For what it's worth, you crossed a line in the sand
Cut off, locked out, as it fell right through your hands

3. #512

Six bars laid across the sky
Four empty walls to fill the time
One careless word, you lose your life
A grave new world awaits inside.
Lycanthropic survival instincts
Embrace the beast and shun the weak
Awake the primal one that sleeps inside
Or feel the shiv(er) running through your spine.
The time is slipping by no peace in sight
But the teeth of time still hold their bite.
My hands are painted red
My future's painted black
I can't recognize myself,
I've become someone else
My hands are painted red.
Schizophrenic amnesia
Bid goodbye to all you knew and loved
Forget the only life that you knew outside
They bought the ticket, now you take the ride.
The time is slipping by no peace in sight
But the teeth of time still hold their bite.
My hands are painted red
My future's painted black
I can't recognize myself,
I've become someone else
My hands are painted red.
Another number quickly learns the rules
A hidden burner waits to point at you
A subtle gesture and you're ventilated
Talk isn't cheap here, bleed out in payment.
Six bars laid across the sky
Four empty walls to fill the time.
My hands are painted red
My future's painted black
I can't recognize myself,
I've become someone else
My hands are painted red.

4. Embers

[feat. Chino Moreno of Deftones]

Gather the bones and lay them in the sun in patterns that capture the eye
No one could know, display for everyone the holes in our souls we despise
Timber and stone, monumental, remnants frozen in time
Carried alone the burden, knowing it was all we could do to survive
Only embers remain
Refusing to fade
There's still light to find our way
Only embers remain
Black turning to gray
There's still light to find our way
Only embers remain
Scatter the dust, what we once held in hand seems was never at all
Gone in a gust, not ours to understand, an agony perpetual
Holding my breath and close my eyes, for a second I can see you again
Motionless, like that day we lost who we both should have been
Only embers remain
Refusing to fade
There's still light to find our way
Only embers remain
Black turning to gray
There's still light to find our way
Only embers...

[Chino Moreno]
I've been staring at her lying still for so long (she's so still)
Waiting for this endless night to color into dawn (it's never ending)
But it's never lifting, it's always shifting
No one can breathe
It holds me under, and this drags down you (it drags you down)
This breaks what was made one into two

5. Footprints

A human leech, foul you crawl into my field of vision
An empty speech breaking the skin of concentration
Jesus Christ, you make me sick
Bloated and corpulent from disregard, what you discard
Your presence is leaving a scar
Are you ready for the night?
Put you out like the setting sun
Four more words and then I'm done
How the fuck did you think this would end?
A filthy prick, foul parasitic imposition
A dirty trick, a seasonal war of attrition
So thoughtless, you're such a pig
Loaded and indolent, and you assume what you consume
Is other's business to reap and remove
Are you ready for the night?
Put you out like the setting sun
Four more words and then I'm done
A violent need to speak the truth, tired of bone and long of tooth
Let's be clear -- you're not welcome here again
How the fuck did you think this would end?
This is where it ends
The swollen fingers of the modern age
The human condition in a gross display
Anemic and weak with intemperance
Are covered in the grease of indulgence
Clutching at the latest distraction
Bleeding a most savage reaction
Are you ready for the night?
Put you out like the setting sun
Four more words and then I'm done (Get. The. Fuck. Out.)
A violent need to speak the truth, tired of bone and long of tooth
Let's be clear -- you're not wanted here, my friend
How the fuck did you think this would end?

6. Overlord

You've never proved me anything but right
You hold no surprises, consistency defied
An overwhelming sense of predictability
A dull sideways slide into mediocrity

Another day...
Spent buried in the shadow of your doubt
Always the same...
But still you refuse to figure out

You will destroy you
Distorted, tore yourself in two
Your will absorbs you
You can't ignore you anymore

An entitled declaration of distress
Strife, misery, and the pursuit of unhappiness
Endless complaining, no accountability
The reek of privilege and weightless tragedy

Another day...
Spent buried in the shadow of your doubt
Always the same...
But still you refuse to figure out

You will destroy you
Distorted, tore yourself in two
Your will absorbs you
You can't ignore you anymore

Cry wolf on your silken pillow
Clipped wings beneath a crooked halo
A perfect child who never looks at the mirror
Right in your face, but not any clearer

A problem hidden in plain view...
Is staring right back at...
YOU!!!!

All the world's a stage...
But you are the only player
A black hole at the center of the universe
A dark cloud of despair

Caught in an endless rut
A crisis without solution
Someone should stitch your mouth shut...
And solve your fucking problem

Strife!
Another day in misery
Always the same
Strife!
Another day in misery
Always the same

You will destroy you
Distorted, tore yourself in two
Your will absorbs you
You can't ignore you anymore

Anymore
Anymore
Anymore
Anymore!!!
Anymore!!!

7. Anthropoid

Arrogance mounted on a poison steed
Hangman swings from a rope of conceit
Pale horse runs septic through his veins
For I am the end of all his days
A dead finger pulls the trigger to decide the final hour
We are the faces of the end
We are the architects of ruin
Fathers of rebellion, disciples of the reaper
We are the apex predator
A superior man, I will bleed the butcher dry
In the underground I live, I fight, I die
I will rust the iron heart
I will crush the death head's march
A dead finger pulls the trigger to decide the final hour
We are the faces of the end
We are the architects of ruin
Fathers of rebellion, disciples of the reaper
We are the apex predator
Bleed the butcher dry
Under the cross we're bound to die
I'm ready
Because I am what you are too afraid to be
We are the faces of the end
We are the architects of ruin
Fathers of rebellion, disciples of the reaper
We are the apex predator
(We are)
I live
I fight
I die
(We are)
I live
I fight
I die
(We are)
I live
I fight
I die
(We are)
The apex predator

8. Engage The Fear Machine

Here we go again, the world is coming to an end
Engage the fear machine and collect the dividends
That's it, you filthy monkeys;
Keep your eyes on the bright and shiny
Just for you, a brand new-and-improved catastrophe
Pure-bred Pavlov, prime time apocalypse
Hit the panic button and reap the bloody benefits
Paranoia writes the checks
Strung out like a marionette
A hole in the sky, a hole in your head
It's business as usual
We're bringing you disaster in high-def
Once again, my friends: the world is coming to an end
No empty threat this time, so let the witch hunts begin
The sky is falling, seal the boarders, heighten the anxiety
A steady diet of hysteria shapes history
Pure-bred Pavlov, prime time apocalypse
Hit the panic button and reap the bloody benefits
Paranoia writes the checks
Strung out like a marionette
A hole in the sky, a hole in your head
It's business as usual
We're bringing you disaster in high-def
Stream the latest threat from the limelight economists
Fabricated peril from contagion to communists
Fear delivered to your door by racketeers and strategists
Another advertisement war sold by the media terrorists
Paranoia writes the checks
Strung out like a marionette
A hole in the sky, a hole in your head
It's business as usual
We're bringing you disaster in high-def

9. Delusion Pandemic

Allocate your future to the delegates
Relegate your muses to the surrogates
Long green apron stings that end in hooks
Sunk deep, written off, and on the books

Ripped off, a weak derivative culture
Disposable, nothing's built to last
Whipped dogs, a bleak cognitive future
Ineptitude is reaching critical mass

A generation of mockingbirds
You are being herded by the wolves
A generation of mockingbirds
Feeding yourself to the wolves

This is the rise of our demise
Fucked up and uncivilized
This is the rise of our demise
You paint a target right between your eyes

Collateral damage in the aggregates
Structural analysis of duplicates
Errors of illusion, clouded perspectives
Terrorized delusions and end game objectives

Locked out, a stiff tactical suture
A victim complex now reality
Blocked ground, a swift statistical maneuver
Persecution of the self-made weak

A generation of mockingbirds
You are being herded by the wolves
A generation of mockingbirds
Feeding yourself to the wolves

This is the rise of our demise
Fucked up and uncivilized
This is the rise of our demise
You paint a target right between your eyes

[Spoken:]
And now is the moment when everything can change
You are completely responsible for your own life
And no one is coming to save you from yourself
So stop blaming your problems on any and everything else
It does not matter one tiny fucking bit how unfair you think the world is
It's only what you do, right here, right now, right this fucking instant that matters
It's your choice now.
Sink or swim.

It's imminent, the rise of your demise
Sink or swim
It's all around, the rise of your demise
Sink or swim

10. Torches

The soul of the nation slowly withers (in the howl of the empty wind)
As the spring lays, crushed beneath the hammer (the invisible flame)
My vision sears the crowded square (as the mouth of injustice grins)
This routed place (fire runs through my veins)
I choose to expire
You're all on the brink of compromise(as the steel in my nerve sets in)
Mass concessions in defeated eyes (I carry the cries)
A terrible kindness to break the thrall (in my end a new world begins)
I strike the match (it's not me who dies)
And let it fall
Oppression, injustice, self-immolation
I am the inferno I am legion

I am inferno
I am!
I am!
I am!
I am legion!

Some run screaming
Some sit silently
An agonizing gift of charred humanity
My footsteps
They will echo through eternity
A seismic scorching outcry of indignity
I write my blackened name, carved into the wind
I fill your hearts with rage
I leave you ash and legend
Fire runs through my veins

Oppression, injustice, self-immolation
I am the inferno I am legion [2x]
Ash and legend, I am legion
I am the inferno I am legion

11. Wine & Piss

[Deluxe Edition Bonus Track]

Greet the day with a hateful heart
Run to finish before I even start
Stalk through paradise with a gun in my hand
Following to pieces in the promised land
I've done my part to make the world like this
A glass that's filled to the rim with wine and piss
Hit or miss, it's a roll of the dice
It's pain or bliss, whatever arrives you can't stop the tide
It's hit or miss.
I'm collapsing beneath joy and pain
Grotesquely clean but beautifully stained
Resentment keeps rebuilding me inside
Feels like I'm drinking poison but expecting you to die.
I've done my part to make the world like this
A glass that's filled to the rim with wine and piss
Hit or miss, it's a roll of the dice
It's pain or bliss, whatever arrives you can't stop the tide
It's hit or miss.
I came to make amends,
To do the right thing.
I came to corrupt your children,
To kill the king.

12. Nightmare Seeker (The Little Red House)

[Deluxe Edition Bonus Track]

As I walk through the sodden killing fields
A million souls interred beneath my heals
The darkest sights… no, they can't be unseen
Burn the eyes, crush the heart, and scar the psyche.
This black reward
This crimson burden
I am the morbid witness
A scholar of aberrance
The one who never forgets.
I can never forget.
Exhume the graves and grind the bones to dust
Salt the earth and satisfy the lust
The archeology of genocide
Reconstructed, cataloged, and canonized.
This grim vocation
These fearsome wages
I am the nightmare seeker
A student of violent teachers
The one who never forgets.
I can never forget.
The ghost of zyklon hangs in the air… extermination.
Can you smell the sarin on the wind?
War is coming to take us again.
This black reward
This crimson burden
I am the morbid witness
A scholar of aberrance
The one who never forgets.
I can never forget.
War is coming to take us again.







LAMB OF GOD LYRICS