LANDMINE MARATHON LYRICS

1. Skin From Skull

You virgins will expire with rape beyond the skin
Hear the echoes of a mother
Cradling what could have been
Look into eyes unshaken
Look into the fear
Charcoal covered bodies
You made disappear

Peel the skin
From the skull

Arrows deep is where it starts
Sympathy comes at a glance
Hallucinate a forlorn escape
Leading your skinless rape

Seek no compassion
It's not an illusion
Mirthless reaction
Cryptic conclusions

Reap the fear
Ink with blood
Mark their deaths
One by one

Distorted carvings of breed less men
Misplaced memories are all that's left
Disused bodies marked for death
Keep the young burn the rest

Eyes still unshaken
Peel back the skin
Release my fears
No time to react

Arrows deep is where it starts
Sympathy comes at a glance
Hallucinate a forlorn escape
Leading your skinless rape

Seek no compassion
It's not an illusion
Mirthless reaction
Cryptic conclusions

Reap the fear
Ink with blood
Mark their deaths
One by one

2. Rise With The Tide

Stigma
Break our stigma
Become an iconoclast

Seize this virtue that is so faint
We realize our own signifacance
And are consumed with hypnotic fervent

And the lamented minds
Of those who live to hate

Languished wth unclouded fires
My blushing palms swell and rage

This uncharted maze leaves all life behind
We begin to rise with the tide

And the lamented minds
Of those who live to hate
Are drunk with self disgust
Guided by vanity

Inbreed and put to rest
Is the life of all humility

Let there be one less oceans edge
Smeared with forgotten graves
One less mother with a lipless grin
Drowning in her faith
We set the stage

We live to hate

3. Changing Addictions

Inability to move frees
Me from obligations to act
Tasteless depression changes
Addictions no competition

Our convictions pull us apart we walk alone
A new beginning full of remorse and external regret

Changing our addictions
Changes our convictions

We fall short we are alone
No movement in these hands

Grinding knees into the wood and cutting away
The lives of past condemn us to rot in a cage
More mistrust abused and let by the righteous and proud
New beginnings full of remorse and external regret

We begin the assimilation
Of our own degradation
We must not lose what we protect
We must refuse we must reject

Impefect imaginations
Blood shot dead swollen faces
What's the source of our misery
This flawless conspiracy

We begin the assimilation
Of our own degradation
We must not lose what we protect
We must refuse we must reject

4. The Scum Also Rises

By tooth and claw, by hook or crook
Pretty covers on dirty books
Through hazy nights and wasted days
No sleep in the gutter, sleep in your grave

The scum also rises
The scum also rises

Heart pounding, short of breath
Bitter taste of dust and death
Don't wanna know, ain't gonna care
Another dream been worn threadbare

The scum also rises
The scum also rises
The scum also rises
The scum also rises

Hated and despised
There's fear in your eyes
When we start to rise
No escape tonight
There's no wrong or right
Set this town alight
This our revenge
Watch you break and bend
This will be your end
Trodden under heel
Caught up in the kill
Now your fate is sealed

Lift up your head, don't turn away
Cause every dog gets just one day

Grasp at straws, shoot out the lights
Day won't come, so burn though the night

The scum also rises
The scum also rises
The scum also rises
The scum also rises

5. Twilight's Last Gleaming

O, say can you see
Through this haze of deceit
The roaring crowd
Leaps to their feet
The illusion complete
Walk in your sleep
Through nightmares unseen
Lost in American dreams

O'er the ramparts we watched
As what we fought for was lost
When victory means the same as defeat
It comes at too high a cost
For words, our deaths come cheaply bought
But in flesh and blood they are wrought
At the twilight's last gleaming

Shadows fall over the sleeping
Who lie content in believing their dreaming
Until they wake up screaming
At the twilight's last gleaming

Shadows fall over the sleeping
Who lie content in believing their dreaming
Until they wake up screaming
At the twilight's last gleaming

O, say can you see
That you live on your knees
Blindly led, through life and to death
For a nominal fee

I'll live my life like a wolf among sheep
But I will die on my feet

6. Scapegoat Parade

Lines drawn in black and white
Jackals spoil for a firefight
In fear we trust to snuff out the light
Tables turning from left to right

In a scapegoat parade, you stand accused
Against the grain of truth, without a shred of proof
A self-righteous charade, to execute
They need a scapegoat parade, to persecute
It's your neck on the blade, in a scapegoat parade

Unbalanced scales will tip
With just one fatal slip
At your heels the jackals rip
When white knuckles fail to grip

In a scapegoat parade, you stand accused
Against the grain of truth, without a shred of proof
A self-righteous charade, to execute
They need a scapegoat parade, to persecute
It's your neck on the blade, in a scapegoat parade

Scapegoat - eyes in the back of your head
Scapegoat - still only seeing red
Scapegoat - with every step you tread
Scapegoat - you might just wind up dead

Your word in null and void
Reality gone paranoid
The jackals overjoyed
To look on as you are destroyed

In a scapegoat parade, you stand accused
Against the grain of truth, without a shred of proof
A self-righteous charade, to execute
They need a scapegoat parade, to persecute
It's your neck on the blade, in a scapegoat parade







LANDMINE MARATHON LYRICS