RAIJU LYRICS

1. Red Thread

2. The Kool-Aid

Uncertainty is the bitterest pill to swallow
Better get you some pain meds at least
The betting man knows where the house is, it seems
Pascal would like to raise you
Still you play your hand and expect us to follow
Sure the payout seems nice
But we just want to come on ye faithful

It's not that we think you drank the Kool-Aid
It's more that we wish you had
It's more we wish you had

Watched you expire
A cosmic hiccup, hiccup
Asphyxiate the willing
Regurgitated
Each stone you threw up, pick up
Foolish complicity

Let the BSD lift the lid, put the bun in the oven
This obsession with hymens is so poorly hiding the high, tiny horses that Mary's not riding
(We need some male enhancement)
So you see that your prophecy foretells of misogyny and sails you
Up a river of bullshit
And somehow you are just not smelling it

It's not that we think you drank the Kool-Aid
It's more that we wish that you had

It's not that we drank the Kool-Aid
So get up off your knees, and do anything
Just be free
You'll find your own way out
You'll find your own way
It's not that we drank the Kool-Aid
So get up off your knees and do anything
Just be free
You'll find your own way out
You'll find your own way out

3. Yetzer Hara

I'm out of my head but I ain't looking for no sympathy
Cross path with action moving forward

Intertwining demons are setting the scene, conversations damning
Reluctantly we drown out the feelings of pride
Ripping you apart, eaten alive
Drown out the sorrow again

I've strained to read between the lines
To redefine myself, understand myself
Clawing back to life
Picture me here, patiently waiting
For my chance to shine
Until I get pulled back down
(Picture me here, picture me here)
Always tries to pull me down

Picture me here, picture me waiting

Drown out feelings of pride
Ripping you apart, eaten alive
We drown out the sorrow
Drown out feelings of pride
Ripping you apart, eaten alive
We drown out, drown out the sorrow

Intertwining demons are setting the scene, conversations damning
Reluctantly we drown out the sorrow again
Drown out the sorrow

My curse, to always self-destruct
To never see the sun, never rise above
Constantly loathing
I am hope and hate combined

Drown out feelings of pride
Ripping you apart, eaten alive
We drown out, drown out the sorrow

I'm out of my head
But I ain't looking for no sympathy
Cross path with action moving forward

I keep on struggling to hold my head up
But deep inside, all I want is just to disappear
I know I'll reach the end of the rope soon enough
Until that day, I'll keep on moving

4. Ugly, Mean Pigeon

Searching for an angel
To spread her wings and douse the flames
It burns, it burns
She caught me on a cloud, dancing
She caught me on a cloud…

Take into frame
Images of evangelical piety
Drink from the wine
To taste the blood
And I think I feel contagious
Now I'm rising from the fire
Ignited, we'll never have to drink again

I'm counting the silver lines

Lost amongst the separation of love
We've castrated our innocence to break the mold, as usual
I feel paranoia seeping through my skin
Confessionals, they have me wondering who's ready to begin

Searching for an angel
To spread her wings and douse the flames
It burns
She's been dancing on a cloud
Basking in her waves of infinite glory
I see you waiting
I see you dancing into…

We'll be running, dancing into the avenue
We're rejoicing as you're shaking
We'll be running, dancing, devoid of feeling new
And your safety can never be safely assumed

I have tasted her blood, have tasted her eyes
All the he said, the she said, it's killing me
But what the fuck is wrong with me?
Safely assuming the worst with me
Safely assuming the worst
What the fuck is wrong?
Safely assuming the worst

I'm counting silver lines in my mind
I'm counting
I'm counting silver lines in my mind
I'm counting
I'm counting silver lines in my mind
I'm counting

Lost amongst the separation of love
We've castrated our innocence as usual, as usual
I feel paranoia seeping through my skin
Ignite the gasoline, I'm blasting off against the grain

5. Blood Sugar

I hit a wall, I need a fix
I hit a wall, I need a fix

All I want, just desserts
All I want are my just desserts

Misery, my company
Misery enjoys my company

Candy-coat my veins
Wishing this could last forever
Indecision plants the seed
Learn to fall apart
It’s the nature of my heart
So close to you

Candy-coat my veins
Wishing this could last forever
Plant the seed
Learn to fall apart
It’s the nature of my heart
Close to you

I’ll take anything that takes the place of this
I’ll take anything that takes the place of this
I’ll take anything that takes me away from…

Liar, charlatan
All I need is just one more hit
Liar, charlatan
All I need is just one more hit

Fix me, won’t you fix me
Just to fix me, won’t you fix me
Just to get your fix

I’m drained of all of my integrity
But if I am honest, I don’t regret a thing
I’m drained of all of my ability
But if I am honest, if I am honest, I don’t regret a thing

6. The Ride Of The Chechen

Chechens, we ride

Graves, dotting the planes, marking the scene of genocide made modern
Mourning the two hundred thousand unnamed
We'll not be poisoned by history
for the blackest of gold
and the blackest of souls

So we fight
Chechens, we ride
To Dagestan tonight

Chechens, we ride

I am free
I am Shiva, destroyer of worlds
Lock in aim, I will bring my vengeance tenfold

I am free
How can you kill a dead man?
Even if my hand falls limp to the ground, others' will find you
Even if my hand falls limp to the ground, others' will find you

Chechens, we ride to Dagestan tonight

Chechens, we ride

We will not be poisoned by history
Two hundred thousand unmarked graves in memory

My love, forgive me for all that I have done
I've turned my back on the garden we grew up in
They forced us to fight
We will not go quietly into the night
I fear the man you knew is gone
I replaced love with charges and bombs
We're holding the lines
They're barely holding on

Yes, yesterday, we were children playing
Forced to fight
Unable to grow, and able to know such violence

Given away everything I could have gained
Away
This time it seems I couldn't find a way
There's nothing left
Except for everyone who has destroyed their lives
We're keeping our promises we shouldn't make
Given away everything I could have gained
Away
This time it seems I couldn't find a way
There's nothing left
Except for everyone who has destroyed their lives
We're keeping our promises we shouldn't make

7. Our Fate Motive

Making promises we couldn't, keeping promises we shouldn't
Making promises we couldn't keep
Making promises we couldn't, keeping promises we shouldn't
Making promises we couldn't keep
A thousand times until I realize to appreciate
The beauty of our violence

Once our lives are divided
Beyond this plane
Vessel unseparated, separated, it's not fair
These ends calculated each step we take
It's OK to mistake
As my word is, as my word is mine to break
You're not holding me hostage

Stricken with grief, she's remembering all the good times
Beyond her ebony seat, but was it love that was sacrificed?
And, from the grave, you can hear her calling and calling
There's just no way this is any way to live
Any way to live

A thousand times until I realized to appreciate the beauty
Appreciate the beauty of our violence
Is this any way to live?

Save yourself
The pasture's always greener here on the other side
On the inside
Our padded, windowless walls

You've become too courageous
And this apathy is all I need to keep me from going insane

Waiting for the end, we shouldn't be here
We're all just waiting
For the end
We shouldn't be here

A thousand times until I realize to appreciate

Making promises we couldn't, keeping promises we shouldn't
Making promises we couldn't keep
Making promises we couldn't, keeping promises we shouldn't
Making promises we couldn't keep

If only we appreciated more than our speech
We've been going too far, too fast
We've embraced the times that wouldn't last
And the pasture, it seems, is greener on the other side
There's just no way this is any way to live

The pasture's always greener here on the other side
On the inside
Our padded, windowless walls
And if you've ever seen her, you'll never leave her side
And neither will I

8. Haunt

If you follow me
To the depths of the sea
Where the light don't shine through,
No, nothing shines through
Except for the light from the white of her belly

I hope you care
All that you can

If you follow me to the dark of this cave
Where the bats are hanging
No one's sleeping
Forever we stay awake
Because

The days are gone when we're just following the haze
No control, no control
We're losing our way
And now I realize just what I misplaced
What I've missed
The days are gone when we're just following our haze

So follow me
I just can't wait to leave you
I just can't wait to leave this all behind

I hope you care ('cause you wanted)
All that you can (So follow)
I hope you care
Follow me, follow me
Into oblivion
Follow me
Follow me

I couldn't, I couldn't breathe

We took the high road to oblivion
Only to suffocate the love we made

I couldn't, I couldn't…
You thought we'd never know
No one ever knows

Put on a tight dress
Tonight we contest it
I'm so fucking high, it's like I've been resurrected
Tiptoe the waistline, never regret it
Never regret it

And you always said to put the best foot forward
And you always wore the bravest face for me
And you always said to put the best foot forward
And you always wore the bravest face for me
And you always said to put the best foot forward
And you always wore the bravest face for me

9. Later, Sooner

[Bonus Track]

Broken again
Can you feel it?
Passion of wanting what you can't have
Caution gets thrown to the wind

Wants on wings take flight
If only for tonight
In these dreams, soliloquy
Deliver the final blow

Sooner or later
You'll find the ones you think you know are not the ones you think you know at all

It's always been a risk, a risk we couldn't take
But our paths never shared the same fate
You seem so surprised
Don't you seem so surprised
As we're watching each sunset from the safety of our home

Dear 2010
Got you just out of my distance
While can't afford letting go of anything that we've suffered for
I've seen this view
Apart from what I knew
In these dreams, soliloquy
Deliver the final blow

In these dreams, soliloquy
Deliver the final blow

Sooner or later
You'll find the ones you think you know are not the ones you think you know at all
At all
Are not the ones you think you know at all







RAIJU LYRICS