THE ACACIA STRAIN LYRICS

1. Worthless

It never quits, it never stops
If I close my eyes don't wake me up
When the time comes I'll sleep forever
See you in my dreams, see you never

Sing me to sleep, scare me to death
Sing me to sleep, scare me to death
Sing me to sleep, scare me to death
Sing me to sleep, scare me to death

Every day above ground is a curse
Nothing you do to me could fucking make it worse
There is no glimmer, no chance of hope
You'll find a noose at the end of my rope

So fucking worthless, you serve no purpose
I see you shaking, you should be nervous
I am here to make you well again
Here to make your life a living hell again
Deliver you from evil
Deliver a dose that is lethal

Breathe in the sickness, exhale the plague
Breathe in the sickness, exhale the plague
Breathe in the sickness, exhale the plague
Breathe in the sickness, exhale the plague

["True Story" movie sample:]
That's when I saw Madison.
She was tangled in the sheets. She looked sick. Purplish. She wasn't moving.
So, I went over and sort of jostled her.
That's when I discovered that she was cold to the touch. Very cold.
And I couldn't... I couldn't believe what was happening.
I ran into the living room.
I grabbed MaryJane and lifted her to her feet.
And I was... I was yelling, "What happened to Maddie? What... What's wrong with her?"
And that's when I realized, what about Zach and Sadie?
And when I said their names out loud, MaryJane got hysterical.
She started hitting me with her fists.
She looked me right in the eye.
And then she said, "You did this. You killed us."

So fucking worthless
You serve no purpose
With your hands around my neck
Begging you to bring me death

2. Plague Doctor

You are poison, you are toxic
Black tar oozing from your diseased lips
Half human, steaming pile of putrid pus
Reveling rancid rancor reeling in rot and rust

Born in filth, mourn your health
So fucking proud to be in love with yourself
Scratching and clawing walls turning red
Can't seem to get you out of my head

Buried never breathing
Die never knowing
Feast upon the ashes
It would have never lasted

Wounded and cut, sickening rot
Crippled and dropped in a burial plot
Festering folds of filth and decay
Scrub all you want, you won't wash me away

Buried never breathing
Die never knowing
Feast upon the ashes
It would have never lasted

Soap and bleach to clean the knife
I scrubbed you from my fucking life
Not even death will bring you peace
I cut out your heart and buried it deep
Not even death will bring you peace
I cut out your heart and buried it deep

Nothing to no one
Nothing to no one
Nothing to no one
Nothing to no one

3. Bitter Pill

Your silver tongue has turned to shit
As time passes on you will wither with it
These are the days you will never get back
You're fucking trapped

We exist inside a wasteland
Rolling fields of agony
Bodies hanging lifeless
In a forest of dying trees
The last great disciple of the human race
Slipping through the cracks of time and space

Your sadness sweeter than a rose
I'll watch you decompose
Paid the final cost

I am the butcher
Everything I see I kill
You have no immediate future
Swallow sorrow's bitter pill

I am the butcher
Everything I see I kill
You have no immediate future
Swallow sorrow's bitter pill

The future isn't open, it's bleak and fucking empty
Keep crying to your god, he's the one who fucking sent me

Unholy left hand, the prophet of doom
Save your tears, you'll need them soon
Cower undercover face the fire as a coward
You will be the first, the most deliciously devoured

4. Big Sleep

Oh wondrous deceiver
You've made me a true believer
Locked inside an empty room
Enjoy your safety, enjoy your tomb
The bottom is too high
You've been sinking your entire life

I cringe every time I'm forced to say your name
Today and yesterday will never be the same
Fear is the difference between progress and change
In death there is no pain, I turn the final page

I am the voice you hear just before you die
No second chances, time to say goodbye
Bite your tongue as I smile ear to ear
Taste the iron in the air

Taste the iron in the air

Enjoy the big sleep
You've gotten yourself elbow deep
Close your eyes and grit your teeth
You ruin everything

You ruin everything you touch
The world is your enemy and I'm your fucking crutch
One of these days you're all going to die
And that will be the best day of my life

Your life is a joke
Take a bunch of pills and choke
What's dead is dead will always be
You do not exist to me

5. Gravebloom

You killed it all, you killed yourself
Placed upon a higher shelf
Always the victim
Tied down, I figured it was fitting

If I am lucky the knife will cut deep
I'll choke on my vomit and die in my sleep
All memories of me erased
Please plant a flower on my grave

Dead in the dirt
I hope the dying took forever, I hope it fucking hurt
I drove an arrow through your heart
A lit your coffin aflame to make sure you were really gone

Bury me upside down
Six feet is not deep enough in the ground
Death's cold embrace
Carry me away

Bruises on your hands and knees
I only want to watch you as you bleed

Bruises on your hands and knees
I only want to watch you as you bleed

Left behind
Cast aside till the end of time

6. Abyssal Depths

No one showed to see
The scraps of who I used to be
Burial at sea
Trust the waves, not the worms to take me
Shipwrecked staring into the abyss
Bid farewell I won't be missed
Bleed in the blackness breathe in the salt
Treading water for no reason at all
Drifting deep without a sound
Hoping I am never found
Answer the call of the grave
The coffin sank below the waves
Pieces pulled apart before they are rotten
Gone before I reach the bottom
Any trace of my existence erased
The coffin sank below the waves

7. Model Citizen

Broken fingers, broken legs
Attention for all those who beg
All alone with bones exposed
I'm the only one who knows
Fingernails tearing under the flesh
Traces of me wherever she went

The frost freezes frozen and erodes
Force fed glass as I step on your throat
Drown your sorrows
No promise of tomorrow

Final farewell
Cry to yourself
Fight to survive
Frozen in time
I've seen you at your best
Done to death

The frost freezes frozen and erodes
Force fed glass as I step on your throat
Drown your sorrows
No promise of tomorrow

I buried them under my porch
The called off the dogs, they called off the search
May your sons and daughters rest in peace
Identified by their teeth

Whistling past the graveyard
Dying's the easy part

The frost freezes frozen and erodes
Force fed glass as I step on your throat
Drown your sorrows
No promise of tomorrow

8. Calloused Mouth

Never loved, never lost
Everybody breaks, everybody falls
Move on, stay gone

Restrained forever, life in shackles
Thrown to the wolves and fed to the jackals
The walls to my prison are higher than most
We buried their bodies and we live with their ghosts

All that lives to dust
The ground caves in around us
Wounded and weeping with none to console
The mouth of the mountain will swallow you whole

Buy me a nice plot for my burial
A spot on the shady side of the hill
Everything I am will fade away
But I'll still have my spot in the shade

My brain is fucking rotting
I'd rather lay here dying than to listen to your talking
Inhale anger, breathe in the salt
Hold it in, exhale out

Into your calloused mouth
You should be ashamed of yourself
You should have stayed dead
Caught myself weeping for you, I should have killed you instead

You should have stayed dead
Caught myself weeping for you, I should have killed you instead

Mentally slipping, physically drifting
Mentally slipping, physically drifting
Mentally slipping, physically drifting

9. Dark Harvest

The collar corrupts
Your leaders are morally bankrupt
A demon behind your holy eyes
Prey on trust and ruin lives
Man of the cloth
Unholy pervert reigning safely from the top
Preach your crown of gold
It's getting fucking old

There is no love
See no evil do no good
Prayers will go unanswered
Here to do the devils work
There is no love
See no evil do no good
Sacred promise holy vow
Not even God can save you now

Rivers of death rot and waste
Fall to your knees in reverence and grace
Dead from thirst and starvation
Pictures of love and salvation
The final judgement
End it all in justice
Your reverence is open and flawed
Maggots swarming to the corpse of a dying God

There is no love
See no evil do no good
Prayers will go unanswered
Here to do the devils work
There is no love
See no evil do no good
Sacred promise holy vow
Not even God can save you now

He doesn't love you
Hell will fucking find you
Hope exists to crush you
The light will fucking blind you

He doesn't love you
Hell will fucking find you
Hope exists to crush you
The light will fucking blind you

Kneel and pray for the end of days
Preach your plague turn your back on faith
Sickness and death as you wallow in wealth
Burn in the hell you made for yourself

10. Walled City

Blinded by the swirling dust
Fade into twilight from dusk
Burnt by the desert sun
I don't remember anyone

Delusion puts my mind at ease
I can barely see or breathe
Looking up to the sky
I feel so lonely I could die

This sand will be my grave
Picked apart before I am saved
The vultures circle overhead
Don't cry for me, I'm already dead

The wilted waste around me
My heart starts beating slowly
Each breath feels like my last
No future, only past

I cannot move, I cannot think
The world moves on around me
Nothing but blue skies above
As my lungs begin to combust

This sand will be my grave
Picked apart before I am saved
The vultures circle overhead
Don't cry for me, I'm already dead

I put the swine before the pearls
A dying man in a dying world
I see the circling crows
They all know what no one else knows
Barely conscious, barely alive
I relinquish my right, my will to survive
As my lungs fill with heat and sand
I reach out to grab your hand
Mirage in life and dream in death
After this there is nothing left

11. Cold Gloom

We have no use for your carcass
Overwhelming darkness
I can feel the earth turn
I close my eyes and everything burns
We get sick but we never die
Time flies
I am spiraling out of control
Allow the darkness to swallow you whole
As the sun beats down on my broken form
Wishing I was never born
Poison courses through my veins
I am so afraid
I am so afraid
I am so afraid

Blue clouds are black turning red
I like to dream I'm already dead
Your world will freeze and refuse to spin
Ice flows in the funeral hymn
Frigid air, we weren't prepared
This is all come too soon
Cold gloom

Now you know I will never rest
You were the one who knew me best
Life is sinking into hospice
Disconnect from reality, welcome to the abyss

Keep digging deeper as I punish myself
There's nobody out there and no one can help
I am blistered from the frozen sun
Find your own way home

Find your own way home
Find your own way home
Find your own way home
Find your own way home







THE ACACIA STRAIN LYRICS