MY RUIN LYRICS

1. Tennessee Elegy

Under a black and starry sky
Make my peace and say goodbye
Dig the grave and watch it die
Bury this in my mind
Within a stream of consciousness
Cold is so intense
My fingers freeze but my language vents

The unintended consequences of complicated friendships
Once sacred now irreverent
The unintended consequences of complicated friendships
I’m unable to mend my fences

On top of white and snowy ground
Lose myself in the sound
My sorrows I drown
Listen to the wind howl
The darkness I feel
Winters chill in my bones
My heart will ache but my words hit home

The unintended consequences of complicated friendships
Once sacred now irreverent
The unintended consequences of complicated friendships
I’m unable to mend my fences

This is an elegy - A funeral for your sins
This is a eulogy - This is your requiem

I turn and walk away - I’m growing colder by the day
I turn and walk away

The unintended consequences of complicated friendships
Once sacred now irreverent
The unintended consequences of complicated friendships
I’m unable to mend my fences

This is an elegy - A funeral for your sins
This is a eulogy - This is your requiem

2. Highly Explosive

I’ve got a knife inside my back
And it’s diggin’ deeper everyday
I’ve got a letter in my hand
With words I know I need to say
It makes me sick to think we ever trusted or believed you
So stay the fuck away from us cause we no longer need you

I’m so ready - yes I’m ready - to unload again
Highly explosive - You were warned I might explode again
Yeah we’re ready - we’re so ready - here we go again
You tried to stop us once but this is now and that was then!

I’m burning up again - I’m on fire motherfucker
Might explode again – You’re a lying motherfucker

I’ve read those ugly things you said
And I just can’t get em out my head
I’ve heard about your nasty mouth
The trash I know you talked all over town
It makes me sick to think we ever trusted or believed you
So stay the fuck away from us cause we no longer need you

I’m so ready - yes I’m ready to unload again
Highly explosive - You were warned I might explode again
Yeah we’re ready - we’re so ready - here we go again
You tried to stop us once but this is now and that was then

I’m burning up again – I’m on fire motherfucker
Might explode again cause you’re a lyin’ motherfucker
And you know I’m crazy
A ticking time bomb baby
That’s right I’m fuckin’ crazy
Highly explosive baby
I suggest you stay the fuck away from…me.

3. Walk Of Shame

Now I can tell by the way you came in - You’re just dying to be famous
Strung out on your own reflection – In desperate need of attention
So high on hope you’re wasted - So close you can almost taste it
So yesterday you’re faded - Welcome to LA….you’ve made it

You’re the walk of shame - You’re the Sunset Strip
You’re the same cliché’ honey – So keep on selling it

You pretend that you’re so alive - But you’re dead behind those eyes
Spun out from your last depression - a true Hollywood confession
So high on hope you’re wasted - So close you can almost taste it
So yesterday you’re faded - Welcome to LA….you’ve made it

You’re the walk of shame - You’re the Sunset strip
You’re the same cliché’ honey - And you look like shit
You’re the walk of shame -You’re an ego trip
You’ve got a lot to say by the sound of it but ya ain’t saying shit

Walk…..of shame - Drop another name
Walk…..of shame - Welcome to LA

Well you’ve got all the answers don’t you – And there ain’t nothing that you won’t do
True master of self promotion but you can’t buy and sell devotion
So high on hope you’re wasted - So close you can almost taste it
So yesterday you’re faded - Welcome to LA….you’ve made it

You’re the walk of shame - You’re the Sunset strip
You’re the same cliché’ - And you look like shit
You’re the walk of shame - You’re an ego trip
You’ve got a lot to say by the sound of it but ya ain’t saying shit

Walk…..of shame
Walk…..of shame
Walk…..of shame
Walk…..of shame

4. Deconsecrated

Built my church with words of violence
Spoke my sermons to the pious
I seek myself for guidance
My religion is defiance
Holy Mother you keep quiet
Truth hurts - so you deny it
I can’t take another liar
Burn that witch till she’s on fire

Every friend is a future enemy
In this temple of doom and family
Sacrificed my life for this to be
All I know is all I ever will be

Praise my God in words of violence
Suffer for my art in silence
I speak in tongues to riot
My religion is defiance
Holy Father full of fear
Truth is - you disappeared
I can never be your daughter
Just another lamb to slaughter

Every friend is a future enemy
In this temple of doom and family
Sacrificed my life for this to be
All I know is all I ever will be

This is a Southern Revelation
In with the new out with the old
This is a Southern Revelation
A restoration of a soul

I am light - In my world
I am darkness - A blasphemous girl

Every friend is a future enemy
In this temple of doom and family
Sacrificed my life for this to be
All I know is all I ever will be

I am light -In my world
I am darkness - A blasphemous girl

Every friend is a future enemy
In this temple of doom and family
Sacrificed my life for this to be
All I know is all I ever will be

5. Middle Finger

You’d like to think that you know me well - You never thought I would ever tell
Signed a deal with the Devil - Then I told him to go straight to hell
I’d like to take you by your hand - And bash your skull in with a bat
I’d like to cut you down to size - While I pray for your demise
And this time I won’t be nice - I’d like to end your fucking life

You’re all talk but your words are empty – The big shot you pretend to be
You’re all talk but your words are empty - My middle finger is all you get from me

You’d like to think that you know me well - You never thought I would ever tell
Signed a deal with the Devil - Then I told him to go straight to hell
I’d like to pull your insides out – And push your heart into your mouth
I’d like to crucify your wrists – And drive the nails in with my fists
And this time I won’t be nice - I’d like to end your fucking life

You’re all talk but your words are empty – The big shot you pretend to be
You’re all talk but your words are empty - My middle finger is all you get from me

And you can blame me so you feel better
I know the truth and I’ve read your letters
D is for Devil - The great misleader - D is for Devil – The great deceiver
D is for Devil - The great offender - D is for Daniel - The great pretender

You’re all talk but your words are empty – The big shot you pretend to be
You’re all talk but your words are empty - My middle finger is all you get from me
I’d like to watch your face turn blue
As I hold this grudge against you
Take my vengeance out on you
Make my violent fantasy come true

6. Vultures

It’s all about the basking in the perfect calm
The storm is finally passing – You can’t admit you’re wrong
We all have our silent unspeakable memories
That we do not choose to share but with a few
Today’s inspiration comes from you

I feel the discontent - But it’s about to end
Open up a vein and bleed - This mourning of a friend
It’s all about the basking – In the perfect calm
The storm is finally passing – You can’t admit you’re wrong

Digital girl with an analogue heart
Vultures are waiting to tear us apart
Times like this I remember when
It’s easier to forgive an enemy than a friend

I feel the disconnect – They’ll be no going back
The art is obvious - The silence is a stab
It’s all about the basking – In the perfect calm
The storm is finally passing – You can’t admit you’re wrong

Digital girl with an analogue heart
Vultures are waiting to tear us apart
Times like this I remember when
It’s easier to forgive an enemy than a friend

The line is thin and red
Between the love and hate
The Sky is far and wide
To London from LA
Where there’s a carcass there’s a vulture
Picking bones of flesh and minds
The devils drawing in the details
Where friendships go to die

It’s all about the basking – In the perfect calm
The storm is finally passing – You can’t admit you’re wrong

Digital girl with an analogue heart
Vultures are waiting to tear us apart
Times like this I remember when
It’s easier to forgive an enemy than a friend

Where there’s an artist there’s a vulture
In the picture is the proof
Art of illusion is ironic
The art of friendship is the truth

Your pretty picture’s lie – Your pretty pictures hide
Nobody knows the real vulture who lives deep inside of you

7. Seventh Sacrament

I’m sick to death of people trying to fit in
Commercialized into meaningless trends
The politics and the making amends
That’s why I’ve got more enemies than friends

January screams bring back memories
Ghosts from the past and other good stories
Immortalized in a Southern lament
The hills of Tennessee won’t let me forget

I can’t stand another counterfeit band
Homogenized and painfully bland
The kissing ass and the shaking of hands
That’s why I’ve got more enemies than friends

January screams bring back memories
Ghosts from the past and other good stories
Immortalized in a Southern lament
The hills of Tennessee won’t let me forget

The seventh sacrament – Body and blood
The seventh sacrament – Art that I bleed
The seventh sacrament – Flesh and the word
The seventh sacrament is setting us free

January screams bring back old memories
Ghosts from the past and other good stories
Immortalized in a Southern lament
The hills of Tennessee won’t let me forget

The seventh sacrament – The body and blood
The seventh sacrament – The art that I bleed
The seventh sacrament – The flesh and the word
The seventh sacrament will set us free

8. Reckoning

Woke up today and saw our life flash right before our eyes
Were left for dead but once again from ashes we will rise
The truth will set us free and when it does make no mistake
We’ve died a million times and we’re too strong for you to break

So arrogant your power trip let’s you believe you’re right
So sick inside your egotistic twisted little mind
You’re just another motherfucker and a lesson learned
This is our reckoning, you’ve said enough now it’s our turn

Woke up today and saw the light flash right before our eyes
We’re done with all your poor excuses and your dirty lies
The world will know the man is nothing but a little bitch
We’ve burned another bridge and this time we don’t give a shit

So arrogant your power trip let’s you believe you’re right
So sick inside your egotistic twisted little mind
You’re just another motherfucker and a lesson learned
This is our reckoning, you’ve said enough now it’s our turn

We gave you everything but nothing we gave was enough
Now we no longer trust you and you no longer know us
We gave you everything but nothing we gave was enough
Pretend we don’t exist but you know what you did to us

So arrogant your power trip let’s you believe you’re right
So sick inside your egotistic twisted little mind
You’re just another motherfucker and a lesson learned
This is our reckoning, you’ve said enough now it’s our turn!

9. The Soulless Beast

The soulless beast he came to feast upon our hearts with sin
He took the form of many men and called himself a friend
His charming words they lead us to believe and follow him
We couldn’t see his teeth but we could feel his grin

The abomination - That causes desolation's
The abomination – That causes desolation's

The soulless beast appeared so confident to gain our trust
Born of a jackal but disguised himself as one of us
He changed his face and shape when we would start to realize
He was as evil as the book of Daniel prophesied

The abomination -That causes desolation's
The abomination - That causes desolation's

This is our seven daggers of Megiddo
This is our Holy Sacrament
This is our sacrificial lamb
Our moment to repent
No more trials and tribulation
Revenge is fueled by Nazarene
Tonight’s the night we pay our penance
This is our slaying of the beast

Faith - Means not wanting to know what’s true
Faith - Is a knowledge in the heart beyond the reach of proof

The abomination - That causes desolation's
The abomination - That causes desolation's

10. Mean Street

[originally by Van Halen]

At night I walk this stinkin' street
Past the crazies on my block
And I see the same old faces
And I hear that same old talk
And I'm searching for the latest thing
A break in this routine
I'm talkin' some new kicks
Ones like you ain't never seen
This is home….This is Mean Street
It’s our home…..The only one I know

An' we don't worry 'bout tomorrow
Cause we're sick of these four walls
Now what you think is nothin'
Might be somethin' after all
Now you know this ain't no through street
The end is dead ahead
The poor folks play for keeps down here
They're the living dead

Come on down…..Down to Mean Street
They're dancin' now…..Look! Out on Mean Street
Dance baby!

It's always here and now my friend
It ain't once upon a time
It’s all over but the screamin’
I come to take what's mine
We're searchin' for the latest thing
A break in this routine
I’m talkin' some new kicks
Ones like you ain't never seen

This is home....This is Mean Street
It’s our home….The only one I know

(This is home)
See a gun is real easy
(This is Mean Street)
In this desperate part of town
(This is home)
Turns you from hunted into hunter, yeah
(This is Mean Street)
You go an' hunt somebody down
Wait a minute now
(This is home)
Somebody said "Fair Warning"
(This is Mean Street)
Lord, strike that poor boy down!





MY RUIN LYRICS