SHIHAD LYRICS

1. Factory

(If you want a vision of the future
Imagine a boot standing on a human face)

Speed is our god
Speed
"The new canon of beauty"
Caught in static ecstasy
We climb

Keep moving onward
Keep moving forward
Keep moving onward
Down
Ideas left in torment
Ideas left to drown

Stuck
Stuck
Stuck
Stuck
Stuck in the factory
Stuck

Stuck
Stuck
Stuck in the factory
Stuck

Growth is our motto
Why?
Well the answer's in productivity
Gotta give up what's mine
Got to fall into line

Confused, pathetic and manic
Splintered & entirety
Spear-like shard
Breaking hard
We should be breaking you

Stuck
Stuck
Stuck
Stuck
Stuck in the factory
Stuck

Stuck
Stuck
Stuck in the factory
Stuck

Keep moving onward
Keep moving forward
Keep moving onward
Keep moving down

Keep moving onward
Keep moving forward
Keep moving onward
Keep moving down

Keep moving onward
Keep moving forward
Keep moving onward
Keep moving down

Keep moving onward
Keep moving forward
Keep moving onward
Keep moving down

2. Screwtop

Should we debate significance
or would it leave us too small

'cause it could take some time to linger
-pushing us to a fall

pausing to initiate
around and around
in trance we heard a dirty word
in dance we scream the sound

let the selfish become selfless
ok, it's a start

worlds in worlds
not you at its heart

please could you just slow down
please just slow it down

i'm going to fast
i'm not built to last
around and around

screwtop

screwtop

it's the end of an age my friend
the end of an age

the struggle of millions pull - push back

twist and tiptoe
don't fall through a crack

once you heard the lie of life
there's no coming back

should we debate significance
or would it leave us too small

'cause it could take some time to linger
-pushing us to a fall

pausing to initiate
around and around
in trance we heard a dirty word
in dance we scream the sound

screwtop

screwtop

twist, twist, twist
from the head to the hand
from a palm to a fist
crawl, crawl without all
so we twist

gonna take it all apart
gonna take this piece away from me
your level-headed theories
your hot headed cries
head to toe
right me wrong
but just don't say no
wind me up
i'll be ready to go
but then who's face
yours of mine
gonna rip this fucker out
i'm gonna tear this piece away from me
i'm gonna bring it down to its knees

screwtop

screwtop

3. Fracture

All along the way
You been scratching your name deep in us
Now we're nothing save
Let's just say, distracted
When questioned it's delay or defuse
Beaten down again
It's nothing new
I'd bring you with me
If you were human too
But I'm face to face with this silicon wall

Hold truth like steel
Don't want to lose what I feel
When every breath seems real

Pump me full of happy medium
We want something more
We the brighter, faster, harder generation
Are coming knocking at your door
Hacking down your door

Hold truth like steel
Don't want to lose what I feel
When every breath seems real

I know we can make it
I know that if we try
They'll fall
I just can't take it anymore
Another, another with nothing apart

Come back along the way
Been erasing your name out of me
Now I'm not safe
Let's just say I'm free

Hold truth like steel
Don't want to lose what I feel
When every breath seems real

Mold our thoughts like clay
Then send us off on our way
And it's the price we pay for our fear

4. Stations

These stations are empty
So distant I just cant seem to touch them
Most of the time
You can find safety in the smooth clear surface
As cool as a breeze
As helpless as this vacant civilisation
And the air we breathe
In long, slow breaths
It got us picking up our power
We're free
Feeling free

Well I run out of eyes
And I run out of hands
And I'm moving through spaces I don't understand
But the last thing you feel before the end of your fall
Is the start of your new life

Show us how to feel
Got a fear of flying
Been failing for years
And now I'm sick of trying
Salvation's got a gun
No answers there for me
No sins left to pay
Let's blow this guilt away

Blow it away

As cool as a breeze
As helpless as this vacant civilisation
And the air we breathe
In long, slow breaths
It got us picking up
Picking up our power
We're free, yeah
Feeling free

5. Clapper Loader

Borrowed reason
That taste stirs nothing in me
And the only way to get by
Is being built into this wall
Yeah, it's a copout
Standing still to please your doubt
And for years in a snare
We're so sorry, we left out your reason to crawl

So sit down, vacuum child
Get sucked in, desensitize, stand up
Direct feed in through your eyes
But now you're looking the wrong way
Why play, not wanting anymore
The first bite's the best
So you leave the rest
Lying face down like a razor
Lying

Good evening clapper loader
You should override the writer
Making stories fold
Because truths are told
In better ways than these
Believe me I could show you if I had something to show
But your history's been bound and gagged
And the pattern that's ingrained tells you to
Crawl into yourself
Safe inside your cage
Crawl into yourself
Safe inside your cage
Crawl into yourself
Safe inside your cage

6. I Only Said

I only said those things
So you couldn't put it back on me
What's said is said
But I never lied
And the harder I try
The harder it gets to remember the path
That led me to this place
There seems to be no way out of here

I only wanted to protect myself
From meaning and cause
But you can only try
To lift yourself out of the gutter so long

Your form surrounds me
I'm left alone, an empty space
But at least it's my place
And the end result is a world
That never cared
For the likes of different ideas

I had security, and now it's gone
I can't take the pressure
And I don't blame youth
The blame's on you and it stands forever

Open your tired eyes
It could make a difference
You can't wonder why
We're in need of assistance

Open your tired eyes
It could make a difference
Or at least just try
By recreating the system

7. Derail

Abrasive to the touch
All in all in all the same thing now
We are gathered here in nonesuch
Hooks back to the line
And I trip over myself here
And I trip over myself
Something's stuck in me here
And I can't get out

Some in paint
Some in blood
Some in makeup
Derail me
Derail me
Derail me
Derail me

To everything
Churn, churn, churn
There is a season
Churn, churn, churn
There is a reason
Churn, churn, churn
This ain't the time or the place

I am sick of walking into rainbows
I am sick of plugging into rainbows
I am sick of tuning into rainbows
I am sick of turning into rainbows

Some in paint
Some in blood
Some in makeup
Derail me
Derail me
Derail me
Derail me

Some in paint
Some in blood
Some in makeup
Derail me
Derail me
Derail me
Derail me

8. Bone Orchard

Get the sinking feeling
You're behind my head again
And the more I weed, the more it grows
And here I am, hung by my toes
The time spent set in cement
Spent wasting my time
When I could have been pulling it down

It's my release
It's my release
It's my release

Held down, entangled
It's a web of my own making
This desolation shaking me apart
Build it up, paste it up, stick it up
Stuck up, fucked, such a shame
My defences have become my own restrictions

It's my release
It's my release
It's my release

My love
Talk to me
It's a bone orchard
You cast a shadow
An my heart
It's a bone orchard

My love
Talk to me
It's a bone orchard
You cast a shadow
An my heart
It's a bone orchard

9. The Happy Meal

What's yours dad?
Beef.
Yeah, but what's it called?
To join us and help work on god's plan to make the world a better place
For our families and future generations

Why aren't we be what they be?
Where's our sitcom family?
Where's the perfect boy or girl?
Where's our happy meal?
Where is our identity?
Your foot is in the door
What the hell, we don't care
We're safe in our four walls

What's happened to our spirit?
It's withered, sick and grey
Been scared into blind worship
I can't see any other way
But the problems, they keep arising
We're hurt, we're unfulfilled
"The peasants are getting restless"
We're sick of pushing shit uphill
When the substance of this system wears too thin
Let's kick it in





SHIHAD LYRICS