MAYLENE AND THE SONS OF DISASTER LYRICS

1. Waiting On My Deathbed

Lying here in wait on my deathbed
Open air still fills my lungs
Not proud of everything I've done
But at least you know I did it well

(Feels like I'm walking on a tightrope)
Can't step on either side
I'm a hollow man but you still know who I am

I'm not going down until I get there
Break my back cause this is all I know
Still living life out on the edge
Still moving on the narrow path

For every dream I threw away on a dirt road
I've been dying way too long
I looked fate in the eye, kissed her good-bye
And I keep moving on
This mission ride is where I found my life
Say what you will, make no mistake
It's time we put up a fight
A hollow man but you still know who I am

2. Settling Scores By Burning Bridges

I'm still waiting for smoke to clear from this funeral fire
My ears are ringing, forced into what it means to be alive

Revenge is pounding, I feel it cold in my veins
You're gone but not forgotten

Familiars laid out on their backs
Parts of the whole are missing
But the black sheep left keeps it complete

(Will the twilight come as darkness
Creeps across the southern sky?)
Let it come down (tonight)

Don't count me out, this will not die
Heavenly Father's wrath and Hell is in my eyes
Rain down these shadows and regrets
Hear Angels singing while the Devil sits and smiles

Don't count me out, this will not die
Keep things right on course and leave no loose end untied

Tried to speak through your final breath, your final sighs
Just to tell you I can do this my weakness ain't my pride

Revenge is pounding, I feel it cold in my veins
You're gone but not forgotten

Now here I stand in front of you with a crooked heart, broken and unglued
I've got a new thing
I wrote it down in Alabama clav
A swan song for the rest of us

3. Just A Shock

Oh, it's you again
Your angel feathers and your bloodstains
I can disregard these flighty notions and your silly grin
This time what I stitch is mine
And what I mend is just a hand hold
Take notice it's the last time...
A better company - than being alone

Look what you're faced to find
You're gonna get it in your own sweet time
There's no easy way - you make mistakes
And pay that's just the way it's done
It's just a shock... I know you will feel it

Oh, it's here again
Shovel under the tight rope
It's not where the worries begin
But how you learn to leave it alone
No. It's not where the worries began

When it falls. When it comes down
...It makes you hollow
You might not... wanna be around
...It's just the way things are
When it shines. When it shines down..
...into the shadows
Everything lost get found
...it's enough to show you who you are

Stop thinking about something
That's nothing like the way things are
Truth has a motive
Regardless of what you want

4. Last Train Coming

I'm left standing alone
The last killer in the killing field
You said goodbye through gunshot fire
I'm still left here breathing

Sold on surviving but what's the cost?
You had your one shot and you took them all

"Woah"... Hear the last train coming
Roll the dice and spin the wheel
Hanging by a thread but at least I'm holding on

"Woah"... Full moon rising
Last dime in the wishing well
Fighting for my life because it's all that I have left

It's a resurrection
Siphon your blood straight from the ground
Vaccinated with the lead of a thousand rounds
Hell hath no fury?
Well, it does now!
Once I was lost but now I'm found

5. Step Up (I'm On It)

Too long and too little
Tell me when you gonna bring it on
Small fights and big stages
Never terrified enough to run

It's here and I can hear it
I can see it like a setting sun
This feeling I can take it
I take it in and then I move along

Low down or in the middle
Ain't enough to make me satisfied
It's all, all or nothing
Always starting on the highest high

You asked, so now you take it
I'll be gone before you hit your knees
Some things sting forever
Even if you never really bleed

All lined up and built for pressure
Step up... I'm on it
Say your peace like its the end
Stand back... we're movin'
One more push and this is over
Stay down... you're done
Hallelujah brother come on in AMEN!!!

6. Listen Close

It's been a while and a million miles
Since I've seen the sun shine on your face
A long time coming, but now I'm running back home
The southern pines and the neon signs
And every back road between the two
Out of sight don't mean out of mind to me

Carry on this way
I'm singing to you from somewhere tonight
Am I getting through? Is it getting through?
I choke on every word
And it never comes out right
This would be so much easier standing right next to you

I didn't know what I was looking for
But I found it when I took your hand
That cheshire smile still cuts me down to the bone
Preacher says, "it's for rich or poor"
We see a lot of the latter of two
I've been gone so long
I'm afraid I might be losing you

Carry on this way
I'm singing to you from somewhere tonight
Am I getting through? Is it getting through?
I choke on every word
And it never comes out right
This would be so much easier standing right next to you

7. The Old Iron Hills

What's the cost to pay the piper?
Every note don't come for free
Too busy dancing with the devil
Now it's time to pay the fee

Every good intention laid to waste
I've lost control
Out to make memories, not burn myself alive
Fire breathing caught my eye
I can't stop thinking about it
Until it's time to cross that line

Back to the days where we still say grace
And a man's words all he has
Way down south where they know my name
Homecoming
Headed back to the old iron hills
To the heart of dixieland
I'll heal my wounds back in Birmingham

Keep staring that gift horse in the mouth
He's smiling back at me
For everything I take for granted
There's one thing left for me

Spent my life chasing my dreams
Now that I've caught them
Was it as good as I thought it'd be?

8. No Good Son

I'm the first man up to tow the line
Shot down. Light up whiskey bottles of turpentine
Written out a eulogy for anyone who tries to cross my path
I fill the ranks of saints and sinners, the futures and the aftermaths

Say a prayer for me God knows I can't control myself
A new storms coming, and it won't be long
Mama said I was a no good son
I think it's time for me to make my mark
Headlines and police cars...
A tragedy from the start

I'm the poison in the well
I'm the fruit rotting on the vine
You still don't believe me?
Out of many will come one
Let the gates of hell swing wide for me

Say a prayer for me God knows I can't control myself
A new storms coming, and it won't be long
Mama said I was a no good son
I think it's time for me to make my mark
Headlines and police cars...
A tragedy from the start

It's a new religion come get in line
Hellhounds are barking and they're close behind
A promise land awaits this odd man out and its all mine
You just lead and I will follow

Say a prayer for me God knows I can't control myself
A new storms coming, and it won't be long
Mama said I was a no good son
I think it's time for me to make my mark
Headlines and police cars...
A tragedy from the start

9. Harvest Moon Hanging

We have all been cursed by the dark horse
Second chances few and far between
There's no halo hanging up above me
The ministry is equal to the disease

(Let's go down into the water)
Hear the choir on the shoreline sing
(The Mississippi ain't the river Jordan)
It won't wash me clean

Harvest moon hanging in the night sky
Medicine is flowing through my veins

(Take that anyway you want to)
I would consider it some sage advice
(There's a devil sitting on my shoulder)
He's speaking to me tonight

There is a struggle inside me, salvation keeps pulling me
I go back and forth and back again

A thousand pills won't cure my bad luck
I think this is who I was born to be
Another day standing at the crossroads
The holy ghost creeping up on me

(Let's go down into the water)
Hear the choir on the shoreline sing
(The Mississippi ain't the river Jordan)
It won't wash me clean

There is a struggle inside me, salvation keeps pulling me
I go back and forth and back again

(There's a revelation when you come undone and your
whole world comes unwound)

I'm unwound it keeps coming
(Every shadow comes from the sun)
So let the sun shine down upon me

Salvation keeps pulling me
I go back and forth and back again
Let the circle be unbroken swing low sweet chariot
Stuck in this broken life trying to be divine in the eyes of God

10. Oh Lonely Grave

Oh Death, has my time come?
You took my kind, left me behind, please take me home
I'm done with this old life please take me home
My lonely grave calls out to me
Heaven or Hell to call my own
I'm coming home

Who cheated Death cause death cheated me?
You stare into the face of God while man just stares at me
Lord strike me down!

This accident of surviving, you see me as a failure
I feel you looking down
Sing to my maker somewhere...
A bullet bears my name, come and take me now

For every shot that rang out not one was your sound
Not entitled to what you felt owed to you
Condemned to see another sun

Matriarch abandoned
Commend her spirit to your hallowed ground
The light of understanding
The silence when you're not around
Holy Father I pray
You wrap my brothers in your warm embrace
When my time comes I won't go quiet
Even in death I'm second place

11. The End Is Here... The End Is Beautiful

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MAYLENE AND THE SONS OF DISASTER LYRICS