PARKWAY DRIVE LYRICS

1. Wishing Wells

I spoke a vow today and asked if God would come and play
I've dug a shallow hole for him to sleep
But I swear he just won't answer me
I call on out is he afraid, I'll bury him down with the ones he keeps
And if the devil is listening, I'll come for him as well
If I suspect he had a hand to play
And if I see his face in town, there's room for two down underground
Nothing's gonna stop me 'til I'm done
Until I'm done!
Until I'm done!
Until I'm done!
Until I'm done!
'Cause tonight I'm killing gods!
Killing gods!

It's guilt and frustration, it's everything between
The silence and the absence hitting home
Peripheral glances and the chasing of a sound
I never knew I'd miss until it's gone
So ask me how I'm coping, and I'll smile and tell you, "I'm just fine"
While down inside I'm drowning in the fucking rain
Because when everything is empty and your heart is set to cave
Sometimes all you wish for is a place, is a place to place the blame

Burn your heaven, flood your hell
Drown you in your wishing wells
Burn your heaven, flood your hell
Damn you all 'cause tonight I'm killing gods

The incendiary shock wave scorched earth policy
The devastation that only loss will leave
The chants and incantations of daily rituals
A subtle lapse in brutal honesty
So ask me how I'm coping, and I'll smile and tell you, "I'm just fine"
While down inside I'm screaming 'til I fucking bleed
Because when everyone's expendable and your heart can't take the wait
The last thing that you wish for is the face, is the face to face the pain

Burn your heaven, flood your hell
Drown you in your wishing wells
Burn your heaven, flood your hell
Damn you all 'cause tonight I'm killing gods

I spoke a vow today and asked if God would come and play
'Cause I just wanna cut that fucker down
Face me, face me, face me, face me
Face me, face me, none survive
Face me, face me, none survive, go
None survive
The Devil and God have died inside me

2. Prey

I got an axe to grind, a crooked mind
You better watch your back
I got an axe to grind, a crooked mind
You better watch your back
Starved like a vampire chasing a vein
Cruel disposition, sickness I crave
Attention, attention, welcome to the stage
Your new sacrifice, come sharpen your teeth

Prey, we are all prey for the sorrow
Prey, we are all prey for the sorrow, our sorrow
Prey, prey, we're prey for the sorrow
Prey, prey, prey for the sorrow

I got an axe to grind, a crooked mind
You better watch your back
I got an axe to grind, a crooked mind
You better watch your back
Sick validation, gut full of pills
Self-medication, it's making me ill
Attention, attention, it's all eyes on me
I'll burn at the stake while you ache for the kill

Prey, we are all prey for the sorrow
Prey, we are all prey for the sorrow, our sorrow
Prey for the sorrow, our sorrow
Prey, prey, we're prey for the sorrow
Prey, prey, prey for the sorrow

Our new gods are empty like the holes in our heads
We dance upon the alter of envy and hubris
A scourge of narcissism reaps depression in black waves
If this is your salvation, you better pray
You better pray
You better pray
One, two, three, go

Prey, we are all prey for the sorrow
Prey, we are all prey for the sorrow, our sorrow
Prey, prey, we're prey for the sorrow
Prey, prey, prey for the sorrow

3. Absolute Power

Your heart, your home, your voice, it's got a price tag
Sign in blood, bury your rights in a body bag
They're feeding fear through the fault lines
You heard it here first, they got your freedoms on the front line
Prime time, the noose at our throats
Our liberties hands run with blood of the scapegoats
So tell me, how can we demonize
When we can't see life through another's eyes

Pay 'em off and play 'em off
Fear rolls like a reaper through the streets of the lost
Pay 'em off and play 'em off
But in the eyes of the storm

The truth drops like a bomb

The battle is on

Hands in chains for a fist full of dollars
Who do we blame for the holes in our knowledge
The past you know has been written by the victor
So I ask you now, who is it writing your future
The butcher, the liar, the thief or the killer
Your freedom died quiet in the halls of power
Starved for peace we'll eat war until it kills us
Six feet deep with a belly full of bullets

Pay 'em off and play 'em off
Fear rolls like a reaper through the streets of the lost
Pay 'em off and play 'em off
But in the eyes of the storm

The truth drops like a bomb

The battle is on

The hate runs deep but our hopes cut deeper
Now we walk through the valley in the shadow of the reaper
Money talks, and it's speaking in tongues
They put a price on our soul, like they had already won
Now open wide
I see their jaws locked tight
Silent in the moment, like prey in the floodlights
The signal is static, baptised in fire
Now we see how they talk
With a mouth full of barbed wire

Absolute power
Absolute power corrupts absolutely
Absolute power
Absolute power corrupts
The truth drops like a bomb
The battle is on
The truth drops like a …
Absolute power corrupts absolutely

4. Cemetery Bloom

You sweep across the heavens, an extinction grade event
And carve your name upon the gates where angels fear to tread

All hail my
You shine like blood and diamonds, you sing like breaking glass
You drag them out into the street and turn their names to ash

All hail my
You hum like quiet lightning in the eye of a typhoon
A bird of illest omen crowing all impending doom

All hail my
The whisper of unnerving truth when saner minds depart
You rise like Christ the Savior, you burn as Joan of Arc

All hail my
You bring the axe upon them with devastating grace
And on their heads, forever lay a curse upon their fate

All hail my
My spirit on unhinging force, my avalanche untamed
Bearing down relentlessly on all who dare remain

All hail my
All hail my
My unnatural disaster

All hail my
My kaleidoscopic gloom
All hail my

My karmic equalizer
All hail my
My cemetery bloom

5. The Void

Nothing can save us, nothing between
Infinite madness and the spiral of humanity
Nothing controls us, nothing breeds
The void awakens in the quickening of atrophy

Answer no master, never the slave
Carry your dreams down into the grave
Every heart, like every soul, equal to break

It's alive, can you feel it taking hold again?
In your mind, all your demons are rattling chains
Welcome to a world of pain

Nothing kills us, nothing seethes
Extinction riding on the pale horse of destiny
Nothing hates us, nothing can see
Through our eyes, it dives into our minds and sows its disease

Answer no master, never the slave
Carry your dreams down into the grave
Every heart, like every soul, equal to break

It's alive, can you feel it taking hold again?
In your mind, all your demons are rattling chains
Welcome to a world of pain

It's alive, can you feel it taking hold again?
In your mind, all your demons are rattling chains
It's alive, can you feel it?
In your mind, all your demons are rattling chains
Welcome to a world
Welcome to a world of pain

6. I Hope You Rot

From crooked faith, the darkness flows
From hallowed halls, through broken homes
To prey upon the weakest lamb
The cruelest heart is truly
Man

And when the judgment came, they told us "turn away"
As their laughter whipped the halls like cracking bones
Small words and hollow gestures, the rats are closing ranks
They paint themselves as angels, oh so wrong

Libera nos
Libera nos
Deliver us from the blackest of mass
Libera nos
Libera nos
Deliver us justice for the lost

Straight down
I see their wings are burning
But it's a shallow fall
Straight down
I see their wings are burning
There are no halos to be found

So save your breath
Nothing here is sacred, nothing is divine
If heaven's gates are open, then I think I'll wait in line
Nothing here is holy when every faith is blind
So save your breath, I don't need more excuses

Libera nos
Libera nos
Deliver us from the blackest of mass
Libera nos
Libera nos
Deliver us justice for the lost

But it's a shallow fall
It's a shallow fall

Straight down
I see their wings are burning
But it's a shallow fall
Straight down
I see their wings are burning
There are no halos to be found

I'll never see through the eyes of your lord
But I have seen through the eyes of a child

I hope you rot

Straight down
I see their wings are burning
But it's a shallow fall
Straight down
I see their wings are burning
There are no halos to be found

From crooked faith, the darkness flows
From hallowed halls, through broken homes
To prey upon the weakest lamb
The cruelest heart is truly
Man

7. Shadow Boxing

Do you see me
Do you see what I've become
I'm not the same beast
I leave a scar on all I touch
You think you know me now
Is it better than I know myself
I know it hurts like hell
Admitting just how you've misjudged

All my life I've been told the same old
Don't step out, don't test the mould
We know your kind, yeah we know you
So much better than you know yourself
See, the ones that won't engage me
Are the same trying to cage me
But I can't sit still and I won't be tame
When the lights go out
Better know your enemy

Because I've spent a lifetime shadowboxing with death
And we'll dance with the devil 'til there's no songs left

So do you see me
Do you see what I've become
I'm not the same beast, no
I leave a scar on all I touch
You think you know me now
Is it better than I know myself
I know it hurts like hell
Admitting just how you've misjudged

You don't know me, you cannot own me
The path I'm on don't fit the old me
I bear my soul as I keel evolving
And I chase this taste for blood
See, I learned real young, don't seek no gold
Trust no fool and you won't get sold
I never feared the dark
No, I just became it
When the lights go dead
You better pray you're safe kid

Because I've spent a lifetime shadowboxing with death
And we'll dance with the devil 'til there's no songs left

I try
To keep my cool and not let this hate win
I find
This mask I wear can't keep the darkness in

The world you know was born to fade
We'll dance upon its grave

You don't know me, you cannot hold me
You should have guessed that you can't control me
I raise my soul like a private army and I steel myself for war
Because I leaned real young, when you walk through hell
The devil can't buy what you won't sell
So I took my fear, reshaped and aimed
Because when the night caves in

No one will save you

So we'll dance with the devil 'til there's no songs left

I try
To keep my cool and not let this hate win
I find
This mask I wear can't keep the darkness in

8. In Blood

And through it all, we wore the pain
We held our own
Through the darkest of our nights

It's written in my blood
It's carved into my soul

Through the darkest of our nights

Because if you couldn't stop us then
What hope do you have now
When you dragged us though the fire
Did you really think that we would burn

We're no saviors
We're no saints
We're no martyrs
And we don't need saving
I've come too far to turn back
I've seen too much to play dead
If this is all you got then take a deep breath in
As I drown you out

I'm on the edge, I'm leaning out
But I can't see the sorrow for the pain

It's written in my blood
It's carved into my soul

The sorrow and the pain

So, you think you know the story
Did you read it in the scars
Because when you threw us to the lions
Did you really think that we would run

We're no saviors
We're no saints
We're no martyrs
And we don't need saving
I've come too far to turn back
I've seen too much to play dead
If this is all you got then take a deep breath in

Don't mistake composure for weakness
Don't mistake my silence for respect
I'll burn your world to the ground then spit on the ashes

Scorched fucking earth

As I drown you out

I've come too far to turn back
I've seen too much to play dead
If this is all you got then take a deep breath in

9. Chronos

You answer to me

I am the thunder and the rain
The confusion and the pain
And when I leave I will wash your wounds clean
And leave them golden

I got the whole world swingin' from the end of my chain
And I'm calling
I got your life in my hands and every debt will be paid
And I'm calling

Between the spark and the ember
You are smoke threading the wind

In time
All will return to me
In time
All find an end
You answer to me

I am the fight and the fury
Gravity in all its glory
And when I come around I bring the hammer of god
Down upon you

I got the whole world swingin' from the end of my chain
And I'm calling
I got your life in my hands and every debt will be paid
And I'm calling

Between the spark and the ember
You are smoke threading the wind

In time
All will return to me
In time
All find an end
In time
All will return to me
In time
You'll find no other way
You answer to me

I am the end and the beginning

I am the end
And the beginning
I am forever
I am eternal
And nothing stands against me

You answer to me

10. The Colour of Leaving

You never know just what you've got
'Til it's slippin' through your fingers
Never know just what you've got
'Til it's gone with the wind
And you never miss your shadow
'Til there's no one left beside you
You never miss your shadow
'Til you're all alone in the dark

You never know just what will break you
'Til you're picking up the pieces
Never know just what will break you
'Til your world falls apart
Never know how small your voice is
'Til you're screaming out the silence
Never know how small your voice is
'Til you're arguing, arguing with God

I saw death's face today
As he led my friend away
I saw death's face today
As he cast his shadow over me
I saw death's face today
As he led my friend away
So I'll ask who I gotta pay
To bring him back
Bring him back to me
Bring him back to me

You never know the words you should've said
Until they're all that you left with
Until the dirt is falling and the guilt it burns your bones
And we ask the biggest question
Why the fuck did this all happen?
Who on Earth deserves this and what the hell do we do now?
So we live like we have lost
And we love like we are broken
And as the color leaves the sky we're left in reverence
Of the frailty of it all







PARKWAY DRIVE LYRICS