OH, SLEEPER LYRICS

1. Let It Wave

A step in the heat's worth 10 in the shade
I tell you son, you've gotta back up your claims
You're walking the beat 'tween damage and hate
But no one's buying 'cause you dance all the same
It's time to gut up, sever ties to comfort
You need to walk in the heat of their day

If all your heroes are martyrs
Shouldn't you be the same?

This flag is more than a symbol
It means more than a song
I live to die in its shadow
Until that day I pierce the ground
And let it wave, let it wave
Let my banner dance in the wind and fade
Let it wave, let it wave
You'll find my name on an empty grave

I can't believe that after everything you asked for
Upon delivery you upturn your nose
Looking out like you deserve something more than failure
You know you gave up, don't act like I don't know
No sour soil spoiled you child
Just your chosen lack of drive to grow

If all your heroes are martyrs
Shouldn't you be the same?
Shouldn't you be the same?
Shouldn't you be the same?

This flag is more than a symbol
It means more than a song
I live to die in its shadow
Until that day I pierce the ground
And let it wave
I pierce the ground
And let it wave, let it wave
Let my banner dance in the wind and fade
Let it wave, let it wave
No stories told from a flawless blade
So you're gonna find my name on an empty grave

2. Decimation / Burial

The blind don't rely on the light, they just fight
I curse my sight

Embrace the cost
Welcome to the war
Strike deep or don't strike at all
Draw full or don't draw at all
If you're to lead
Lead point or don't lead at all
We're destined to die
So make worthy your fall
The sun's abated
Light up the torches
Expect nothing to fuel your lamp
Nothing here wishes you another breath
Into the fray you watched me charge on
I cleared the way while you waded in thought
Your feet stuck sinking prints in the floor
What the hell were you waiting for?

The blind don't rely on the light, they just fight
I dug this bed, I'll lay down my head
Let my axe put me down instead
'Cause they just can't kill what's already dead
Immortality belongs to the dead

You just can't kill what's already dead
The fame all goes to the claimer of the head
You just can't kill what's already dead
Deserters all

Lead point or don't lead at all
You're all gonna die
Make worthy your fall
Make worthy your fall

3. Fissure

When destroyed, you rebuild
It's the same old song, the most vital one
When destroyed, you rebuild
Lest you let away fly their only aid
And you turn astray letting fanned flame just fade away
Choose not to forget just how cold it gets
When you're staring at the winter in her eyes

They're crying out for the medics, so we answered in panic
Reaching out for their arms, hoping all's not lost but we're met with, but we're met with
A response unexpected
Anesthesia in the needle is rejected
They could die from this life and they're running out of time
But they scribed their wrists "do not revive"
"Do not revive"
They could die from this life and they're running out of time
But they scribed their wrists "do not revive"

Are you the one to raise the dead in me?
I'll give you anything, let's start with my body
I see you chasing. Don't give up on me
But if you reach me
Oh, do not revive me

Do not revive me
Do not revive me
Do not revive me, oh
Do not revive me
Do not revive me
Do not revive me
Do not revive me
(Do not revive me)
Do not revive me
(Do not revive me), oh
Do not revive me
Do not revive me
Do not revive me

When destroyed, you rebuild
There's no rebuilding the dead
When destroyed, you rebuild
Look around, there's nothing left
But the desperate
They can learn from the fall
We could catch them
But it's not what they want
You don't know
We stayed the course relentless
Now it's time to let go
It's time to let go

My dear, I can hear you pleading
And I can see, I can see you've been bleeding
I'm reaching out and I'm wanting to help
But first off, you've gotta cover yourself
There's more to love than what's on your surface
I'll be to blame for your next scar, I promise
Don't be ashamed, it's my fault that I caution
I've failed to grow and am not to be trusted

Are you the one to raise the dead in me?
I'll give you anything, let's start with my body
I see you chasing, don't give up on me
But if you reach me, oh, do not revive me

Do not revive me
Do not revive me
Do not revive me, oh
Do not revive me

There's no rebuilding the dead
There's no rebuilding the dead
There's no rebuilding the dead, but look around
There's nothing else left
(Do not revive me)
(Do not revive me)
(Do not revive me, oh)
(Do not revive me)
(Do not revive me)
(Do not revive me)

4. Bane Disease

I think it's time that for once (For once)
I'm gonna give them what they want
Peel back and let lap the dogs at the fat
Yeah, for once (For once)
It's time to step out in the sun
A decade in shadow
I'm shield shed and carving my own
I'm shield shed and carving my own

If I mean honesty, you say to judge me
It's condemning one's self to hypocrisy
Then, oh, what a defeat, the way your world beats
Spiders play the bane, flies spread the disease

I alone
Running back to the line we left
How could you leave?
I'll fly my own crest
(Don't turn, we need you)

I alone in the scar-crossed armor
Running back to the life we left
How could you leave? So far from over
I'll fly my own crest

You want to know the real me? You want to see me?
Then just know that when you turn your head
At my broken mess, be it judgement or jest
It's the same damn thing, don't you ever forget
Don't you forget

I think it's time that for once (For once)
It's time you step up to the front
Take the rudder by the wheel, steer us into the sun
Yeah, for once (For once)
I can't lead us through the storm
A decade of battle
I'm too strained to stand on my own
I'm too strained to stand on my own

I alone in the scar-crossed armor
Running back to the line we left
How could you leave? So far from over?
I'll fly my own crest
I alone in the scar-crossed armor
Running back to the life we left
I'd never leave, so far from over
I'll fly my own crest
Don't turn, they need you

A lifetime on the front line
An honest banner in the divide
Never knowing why I'm always behind
Spiders play the bane, flies spread the disease

I alone in the scar-crossed armor
Running back to the line we left
How could you leave? So far from over
Go fly your own crest
I alone in the scar-crossed armor
Running back to the life we left
I'd never leave, so far from over
I'll fly my own crest

You want to know the real me? You want to see me?
Then just know that when you turn your head
At my broken mess, be it judgement or jest
It's the same damn thing, don't you ever forget

'Cause I mean honestly, you say to judge me
It's condemning one's self to hypocrisy
Then, oh, what a defeat, the way your world beats
Spiders play the bane, flies spread the disease

5. Two Ships

I can see what scares you
I can see through every scar
Where there is no light in the pitch of the night, I'll find you
I won't leave you stranded
I've never left you alone
When you see no light in the pitch of the night, I'm beside you

Two ships pass in the night
One gilded in gold, one slowed from the cold
Then I see you counting pinpoints of light
In hopes that one might tear and give sight behind
The curtain you fight and prove that you're right
This has all been a lie

I can see you've got the answers
But your fight is not with me
Your fear is becoming one of my blind and boasted sheep
Oh, I never made a coward
And I never made them sleep
I never made them damn your name
Can't you see it wasn't me?

Two ships pass in the night
One gilded in gold, one slowed from the cold
Then I see you counting pinpoints of light
In hopes that one might tear and give sight behind
The curtain you fight and prove that you're right
This has all been a lie

Be the man I planted
My warrior in the sea
In your ocean, death devours but
You can break its foaming teeth
You will not be abandoned
But I will not intercede
You've gotta look past them, look past them
Set your sight on me
But if you never turn and face me
You'll live adrift alone
Live your life in the night
And die with my light sitting
Right beside you
I've been
Right beside you
I'm always
Right beside you

6. The Island

Such bittersweet
Fruits from the seeds I sowed
When I took the oar
I pulled the needle off of north
I forced my course
Without waiting for the wind's answer
I joined the infantry, singing

No gods, no masters
That life is over, it's over
Forget the call, make it work and sing
No gods, no masters
Their reign is over, it's over
You're on your own, make it work

We built this ship from the wreckage
And just prayed it might be more
One step, two steps
Blood is warming in me yet
Three steps, more sweat
Now I'm gonna build my own damn throne
Even if I have to melt the one we built to make one

Why leave the fire to chase an ember?
Why would you sunder your mast for tinder?
Just for tinder?
Why leave the fire to chase an ember?
Why rob the hull of your surrender?
Your surrender?

We built this ship from the wreckage
But left broken, we ran ashore
One more, two more
Build a wall around my world
Three more, four more
Now I'll make it out of frozen stone
This time the mountain's gonna keep its fire clear of my throne
We built this ship from the wreckage
We, the praised, ran ashore

One day at sea
Now one more day is all that I plea
And I'll burn the oars
I'll force dependence on the wind's answer
For this world is all rubble masquerading pearls

Why leave the fire to chase an ember?
Why would you sunder your mast for tinder?
Just for tinder?
Why leave the fire to chase an ember?
Why rob the hull of your surrender?
Your surrender?

Feeling returns like a surgeon severing a nerve
Lost soul's sending pain from the phantomverse

No gods, no masters
That life is over, it's over
No gods, no masters
Their reign is over, it's over

7. Mutinous

Oh my God, we seem to have gone off course
We let the current drag us down too far
We tried to live amongst the broken hearts
But lived alone and finally broken ours

We set a course for a new shore, saw everything we hoped for
We sweat and bled just to dream of the next war
Where did we let loose our reverie?
And when'd the captain fall asleep?

We made a monster of Him, deserter of you
An impostor of me, bastard of our dreams
How did we drift so far out to sea?
And why'd we ever take the wheel?
Now we're screaming

Oh my God, we seem to have gone off course
We let the current drag us down too far
We tried to live amongst the broken hearts
We lived alone and finally broken ours

There in the distance, I can see shimmering faces
Beautiful liars say that royal is perfect
You can see their flaws until you forget the verses
A mask can hide only what's on the surface
Where did we go wrong?

We made a monster of Him, deserter of you
An impostor of me, bastard of our dreams
How did we drift so far out to sea?
And why'd we ever take the wheel?

Finally I've got a place to call my own
I'd rather die than to give up control
No one's voice here is louder
Or head here is taller
Or vision is brighter than my own
Finally I've got a place to call my own
I'd rather die than to give up control
No one's voice here is louder
Or head here is taller
Or vision is brighter than my own
I'd rather die than to give up control
I'd rather die than to give up control
I'd rather die than to give up control
Why the hell did we ever take the wheel?

Oh my God, we seem to have gone off course
We let the current drag us down too far
We tried to live amongst the broken hearts
We lived alone and finally broken ours

8. Pulse Over Throne

The old familiar steam starts creeping out
Fire baking my veins
Tonight, on hell we dine
Reaching out, our cloud of oblivion
The omen showing its face
Tonight, we dine

If you see the war and your blood ignites
When the moon is high, on hell we dine
We kill to live, live to feed
Starving the beast made a monster of me
(Hey, hey, hey, hey)
If you see the war and your blood ignites
When the moon is high, on hell we dine
We kill to live, live to feed
Blood-starved beasts, the monsters are we

Men evolve to gods in their fury charge
Shifting shape into flame
Tonight, on hell we dine
Glory spren, ascends from their printed sand
A blinding wake to the end
Tonight, we dine

If this world is for man, then I am a beast
I do not fit in
I'll embrace my claws and devour the land
(Hey, hey, hey, hey)
We serve not some distant kingdom
We defend not brick nor stone
We are the countless keeps, our blood is the mortar
Our king is one of pulse over throne
We are the moving wall, the armored march
The archers, the medics, the fire-born resistance
Immortal, we'll face them one on one-thousand
And we'll sing

If this world is for man, then I am a beast
I do not fit in
I'll embrace my claws and devour the land
(Hey, hey, hey, hey)
If you see the war and your blood ignites
When the moon is high, on hell we dine
We kill to live, live to feed
Blood-starved beasts, the monsters are we

9. Oxygen

Underestimated and far from the grave
The brighter the fire the sharper the blade
And the undertaker awaits me but this body's for the pyre so ash he'll receive
We didn't come this far to feed the ship to the sea but this body's for the pyre so ash he'll receive

Oxygen, oxygen
Black out the sun you'll see I can be the light
Oxygen, oxygen
I'll boil the seas as I sink to the bottom of the ocean
Oxygen, oxygen
Rip out the claws you'll still meet the teeth in time
Oxygen, oxygen
Spoil the feed we'll feast on the venom of aversion

Cast from the crest the kingdoms of Judas crown
The fleecing traitors and the wooing gowns
Look around you if it blocks your path
Burn it down
Pile it on I'll burn it all fire crawls any wall in its way
So there's nothing left to burn ill set myself ablaze all we are is spark and flame

Oxygen, oxygen
Black out the sun you'll see I can be the light
Oxygen, oxygen
I'll boil the seas as I sink to the bottom of the ocean
Oxygen, oxygen
Rip out the claws you'll still meet the teeth in time
Oxygen, oxygen
Spoil the feed we'll feast on the venom of aversion

Underestimated and far from the grave
The undertaker's gotta wait for me 'cause I'm far from fading
Test me
This body's for the pyre it can take the heat
It can take the heat
This body's for the pyre it can take the heat

10. The Summit

From here I see clear for miles
Searching through our best times to force a smile
My blood is leaving, but the sun's still shining
And I can't see a cloud in sight
I can see our own, but they won't get here in time

Every man has a mountain
And every day is spent climbing

The view from the top
Is just the journey that brought you
And you'll give it all up
For one more day at the bottom
At the summit you'll wish
That you were anywhere but here
It's clear
That every man has a mountain to fear

I hear they could see the fire for miles
But I don't know if you'd known the cost if you'd ever light it
It took your two different banners on the front line burning
And I ain't put a cloud in sight
If you knew you'd die alone, would you ever stand to fight?

Every man has a mountain
And every day he spends climbing

The view from the top
Is just the journey that brought him
And he'd give it all up
For one more day at the bottom
At the summit he'll wish
That he was anywhere but here
Ain't it clear
That every man has a mountain to fear?

I don't wanna close our eyes
I don't wanna go our separate ways
I don't want the story that brought us here to end today
I don't wanna close our eyes
I don't wanna go our separate ways
I don't want the story that brought us here to end today

'Cause the view from the top
Is just the journey that brought us
And I'd give it all up
For one more day at the bottom
At the summit I wish
That I was anywhere but here
It's so clear
But I guess every man has a mountain to fear







OH, SLEEPER LYRICS