OH, SLEEPER LYRICS

1. Endseekers

Pry your eyes and behold our captain
Rally round his feet
As he controls his captive
Bring him to his knees
Behold our captain
Rally round his feet
I'm calling the bold to stand and
Make the coward bleed

Strain your chords
Push this chant through the discord
Lift your gall to an end seeking valor
We're bred to abound through the years our beating pulses stood contending the skins they indwell

I said behold our captain
Rally round his feet
As he controls his captive
Bring him to his knees
Behold our captain
Rally round his feet
Calling the bold to stand and
Make the coward bleed

"So long all you children"
Don't go! We're almost there!
"Your road is not yet coming to an end"

What do my eyes perceive? It's so contrary to the promise that secured us because now you're nowhere to be found.
You can't just up and leave, abandonment is the thumbprint of that cur who just hit the ground

You lead us straight to hell

This is hell
This is hell

Make my grave or animate my veins
Make my grave or animate my veins

"So long you children" were the last words that you said
And now my bones just keep bending to reach for an end
You said brace yourself when the air grows thick
Brace yourself when the world constricts
And brace yourself for what will come next

Pry your eyes and behold our captain
Rally round his feet
As he controls his captive
Bring him to his knees
Behold our captain
Rally round his feet
Calling the bold to stand and
Make the coward bleed

2. Shed Your Soul

This is the end!
This is all that there is,
There is no right or wrong,
No king, no throne to defend.
'Cause we are all that exists.
No blessing God,
No judge or law
There's no cost or calls from the top.

We're all on our own!
We're on our own!

No church exists in this world that we live
No beacons, no prophet
This is it
We are the only ones left.
No preachers, no new born believers,
Your faith is in jest

What if we're wrong?
What if we're not alone?
What if we're lost?
We missed the whole point of it all?
What if I'm wrong?
What if we're not all alone?
What if our peace can never be felt on our own?

I saw God die!
I saw God die!

We're on our own!

Well if all that remains is our avaricious wit,
Then an eye for an eye is the only law that can exist.

So don't use your romance to soften defeat,
And trophies of war to boast of your feat,
You've failed and you've failed
Because your body is weak,
And you'll never be as strong as you dream to achieve.

What if we're wrong?
What if we're not all alone?
What if we're lost?
And we missed the whole point of it all?

I saw God die!
(I saw God die!
I saw God die!
(I saw God die!)

3. The Marriage Of Steel And Skin

Man, the one we followed has fallen to our foe
But, oh man, you can’t just shed your soul and let ruin all your thirsting tongues
Your tolls grow tallies, but there’s no judge to pay the debts
Our judge is dead but one must reside to bring down judgment

This is my call from the kingdom and I will stand
Yes, I will stand

I’ll stand for the fires of the victims
Left to die
Left to die
And I’ll stay until their cowards on a pyre
Burned alive
Burning alive
[x2]

Daughter! Sweet daughter!
What has brought this bed of blood?
What man? What man has entered my home?
He’s wreathed your body in sin
He must pay!
Now take my hand and show me the den where he lays
I’ll marry a blade to his throat
I’ll marry a blade to his throat
There’s going to be blood for the blood that you've spilled
Blood for the blood of your forced will

We’ll stand by the fires of the victims
Left to die
Left to die
And we’ll stay until their cowards on a pyre
Burned alive
Burning alive
[x2]

Now cut, cut until the head comes off
Until the head comes off
Now you’ve got to cut, cut until the head comes off
Until the head comes off

4. Hush Yael

Hush Yael,
I hear them coming,
We'll hide here until we're safe.
Just hold tight to me,
Until they find what they need.

Hush little Yael,
I hear them leaving for the beach,
Where on the stone and sand,
Your sister finds her sleep.

Wet your jaws for the world,
We're going back to the darkest hours.
Where our kind has confirmed,
We are the masters of sin and slaughter.

On the 22nd day of the 4th month,
1979 warrants a judgement.
Because he came,
And he saw,
And this coward conquered a family asleep in their home.

Rise!
Rise!

We must rise for the helpless and fight for their justice!

So lift your voices high,
Higher than the mountains of their spite.
We are,
We are the fearless,
The ruthless,
The heralds of our time!

So lift your voices high,
Higher than the mountains of their spite.
We are,
We are the fearless,
The ruthless,
The heroes of our time!

She had to watch,
Him pull the trigger in her daddy's back,
Then put his face to the waves until he took his last.
Then he took her life with the butt of his gun,
Four years from when her life had begun!

Rise!
Rise!
Rise!
Rise!

We are all weavers,
At the loom of slaughter.
But we will rise and make these victims our martyrs!

So lift your voices high,
Higher than the mountains of their spite.
We are,
We are the fearless,
The ruthless,
The heralds of our time!

So lift your voices high,
Higher than the mountains of their spite.
We are,
We are the fearless,
The ruthless,
The heroes of our time!

Make him beg for his life!
Make him beg for his life!
He made me watch as my family died!
He'll never know what its like!
So cut him slow until his soul takes flight!

Hush Yael,
They found him and they put him in chains,
The one who broke our home,
Is finally feeling pain.

Hush little Yael,
I'm sorry your lungs are empty.
But in your new home,
That man will not be seen.

End him slow!
End him slow!

Make him feel the rocks,
That her temple rode!

End him slow!
End him slow!
End him slow!

5. The Conscience Speaks

You shed his blood in my name
To cover up the messes that he made

Will you please let it go? [x2]

I helped you shed in their name
But can't you see our wounds still remain?

Will you please let it go? [x4]

6. Dealers Of Fame

Now is the time, so gather your strength for the ride
This tale is to teach you the dangers that rest inside
A lust for the power provided by fame

"You can never stop us
We'll never have enough
The world will always fear us
The only key is fame fame fame
Don't ever try to save us
We'll prove we're always man enough
Look how they always chase us
All we need is fame fame fame."

Innocence turned its head at 19 as the two screamed,
"Don't try to save us
We'll prove we're man enough
Look how they chase us
All we need is fame fame fame"

You follow all the moths that chase the light you hold so high
You're carving up your soul to feed the distance of your flight
With every cut they lift you up
With every cut they lift you up

21 counts of murder and the public eye
She swings wide to open her arms and welcome the bribe
Behold, these are the monsters we've conjured
And they've both got to die

Let them rot
Let them rot
Let them rot

These are only a few for the list marches on
This fame is a drug and the addicts our gods.
But we measure their doses and give them a flame
So the charge is on us; we are the dealers of fame

You follow all the moths that chase the light you hold so high
Your carving up your soul to feed the distance of your flight
With every cut they lift you up
With every cut they lift you up

16th of July, Ukraine saw the horror that rests inside a lust for the the power provided by fame

7. Means To Believe

You’re building a ship with no sails
And setting out to brave the open seas
You’re standing for your God by becoming something so far off
Don’t you see the irony?

He gave me a train with no tracks
With no wood to build or burn for steam
Despite all I lack
If I derail he’ll turn his back
Don’t you see the irony?

If the blind can see you
And the lame can meet you
Will the dead embrace you if you never gave them the means to believe?
And that makes no sense to me

He gave me a voice that speaks out
But paired it with a mind that’s filled with doubt
If I’m to find the sun
I need something more than song to pull me from this cave of questioning

Give me sand to build a home
And watch all the walls fall on me
I can’t change what I am
Lions always kill the lambs
Don’t you see the irony?
Don’t you see the irony?

If the blind can see you
And the lame can meet you
Will the dead embrace you if you never gave them the means to believe?
And that makes no sense to me

Will I embrace you?
Will you ever give me the means to believe?
Answer me… please.

8. In The Wake Of Pigs

It makes me sick that it's hard to distinguish
An honest leader who preaches a cause
That's not made, and not based
On the profit they'll receive from telling the world
What line divides you from the seeders
Who sow without growing believers
You point and you judge
Forgetting that their faith is molded by your lead

So where am I to find
A voice that's pure in urging me to climb?
There's gotta be more, there's gotta be pigs
I've joined them and clawed at the ground for my feed
I've seen bloodshed but the words still remain
I left, I fled, I called, I cursed
I changed from "certain" to "searching"
But nothing has answered deserving faith

You are not alone in the eye of the darkest storm
We are the lighthouse shining a lamp from the shore
To bring your journey home
You are not alone, use this song to lead you home
We are what's left of the love that can pierce through the callous
Life you've spent undone
We are the legacy that's left to breathe the winds to sail you home
You are not alone
If you can hear this song
The battle has been won!

Don't go, don't go!
I've got to use your voice to light the way back home
'Cause I need to see, I need to breathe
So much more than my kind is offering
Where am I to find
The voice that keeps urging me to climb?
I need to hear it again or I'll lose sight of land and be swept past my chance to survive

Follow your pulse to the shallows
Unleash your will to survive
Make every step draw you closer
To be the hero you've always denied

Where is your voice coming from?
Show me a sign I can trust
I need something more to believe in
A beacon or something to merit pressing on

You are not alone in the eye of the darkest storm
We are the lighthouse shining a lamp from the shore
To bring your journey home
You are not alone, use this song to lead you home
We are what's left of the love that can pierce through the callous
Life you spent undone
We are the legacy, that's left to breathe the wind to sail you home
You're not alone
If you can hear this song
The battle has been won!

Spread wide your wings
Let the draft lift you up
You've heard the call of the future flock
You're coming home

9. Claws Of A God

Brace yourself for the climb is steep
You'll need every ounce of brawn
For the mountain won't stop 'til you bleed.

Beware of headlines that volume the growing deceit
That justice will not begin to breed without smoke
Breed without smoke

Keep close things you learned from the fall
Cast your wounds to heal without flaw
Keep close things you learned from the fall
Cast your wounds to heal without flaw

Beware
Beware for there's a zealot unleashed and sighting the end
Through a scope of righteousness that's blinded by blood on the lens
He won't stop until his claws reach his faults and he sees he's not the
Hands of God

He'll choke on the smoke
Choke on the smoke

Keep close things you learned from the fall
Cast your wounds to heal without flaw
Keep close things you learned from the fall
Cast your wounds to heal without flaw

Keep close things you learned from the fall
Cast your wounds to heal without flaw
Keep close things you learned from the fall
Cast your wounds to heal without flaw

Cast your wounds
Cast your wounds or you'll choke on the smoke
Choke on the smoke
You'll choke on the smoke that you breathe from your own code

10. The Family Ruin

She finds him by the fire,
His clothes have got him dripping from his crimes.
He beckons her, "Sweet daughter,"
The voice that once avenged her younger life.

He's got the voice of a con,
The same one
Who cut down in the name of his God,
Who took on the robe of a judge,
Without a license to kill without cause.
He's not worth it.
He's not worth it;
He's not worth it.
Remember what he did that made you question all the words he cited!

From the book, the same book,
That's reeling you home after so many years of silence.

And the daughter watches father,
As he sleeps and dreams, she brings the knife to light.
'Cause she knows he can't go farther,
And he'll never wake to see his daughter cry.

Don't lose control or you will long
To go back to this time and rewrite your thought.
'Cause you're about to choose what's to come,
So ironic, it's ironic, it's ironic that you're contemplating murder
While I'm educating you in mercy!
You say you want, you say you want,
The means to believe, so don't change who you are,
'Cause who you are is how I made you to discover me!

The steel marries his skin.
No, it's not worth it, it's not worth it.
(I cut him down! I cut him down!)
He didn't have to fall, it's your fault,
It's your fault. You lost control,
And now you long to go back and rewrite your thought.
But I won't let you slip away.
Not this time, not this time.
This time you're gonna learn what it means to receive the very mercy
That you denied when you denied
The means to believe,
I'll keep feeding you the proof that you need,
But you spit it out to follow further your doubt.

And now he can't go farther,
'Cause he'll never wake to see his daughter cry

11. Chewing The Stitch

Oh my God, I can feel something moving
The air is still growing thick but it's soothing
I've done nothing to merit forgiving
But if the chance should arise and you hear me

Make my voice be the proof that they need
That light beams even from the tongues unseen

I've never felt so alive
The wind is ushering a change and
I can't believe I'm alive
After attempts to free the pain and

You are the new sign of proof
A calloused heart can still be reached so
Stand and believe that it's true
You hold the voice to change the seas

Oh the journey of ships are just starting
All the guilt and the shame of the games I played
Deaf to my heart starts to fade

And I will speak for every one of us
The rebel dogs who rejected love
Chew the stitch until you taste the blood
Find so much more when you give it up
Give it up
Give it up

We are monsters on our own (we are monsters on our own)
Banded together we'll overcome (banded together we'll overcome)
We are monsters on our own (we are monsters on our own)
Banded together we'll overcome (banded together we'll overcome)

Now that I've found you

I've never felt so alive
The wind is ushering a change and
I can't believe I'm alive
After attempts to free the pain and

You are the new sign of proof
A calloused heart can still be reached so
Stand and believe that it's true
You hold the voice to change the seas

Don't expect us to apologize,
Rebel dogs in the spotlight
We want no truce
No truce or compromise

12. Children Of Fire

We were born to fight!

Here I stand, my breath is baited waiting for the clouds to burst
I plead and scream, "Come what may!"

Dear God, lift me up from this ground of pain
The heat has reached a degree that's bringing me to faint
My faith and sweat have remained to contend the grave
Despite the sting, we wait until you bring our fate

We're singing
We are the children of fire
We are the lions
We stayed when all else deserted
Because we were born to fight and fight and fight

I see you, tattered and bruised
You're the only ones who remained true
I hear your call through the thick of it all
You've waited so long for the rescue

Our time has come
I'm sweating red, I'm sweating red, I'm sweating red
I'm red, I'm sweating red, I'm sweating red, red, red
I'm sweating red, I'm sweating red, I'm red
I'm sweating red, I'm sweating red red red

It turns from blue,
The sky comes unglued
It falls to the earth as my answer
It's so far from rain, the lot will feel pain.
As it singes their skin but for you it will soothe

What descends feels like heaven on my skin
Finally I am free to never breathe again
My body lifts from the ground I was rooted in
And I pass the spark as it races to the rest of them

We are the children of fire
We are the lions
We stayed when all else deserted
Because we were born to fight and fight and fight
[x2]

Ignite, ignite, ignite the world
Ignite, ignite, ignite the world
Ignite, ignite, ignite the world
Ignite the world and let it burn!







OH, SLEEPER LYRICS