THE BANNER LYRICS

1. Zombie Onslaught

Rotting, the dead are rising
The living hiding, and running for their lives
Decaying, corpses amassing
Building there army, hellbent on feeding
Slaughter cities like cattle
For each new fallen, the scourge grows one larger
Infecting, blood flows like water, green horde???
For human flesh they march onward
Now
And look at you now
You've never looked so good before
Before tonight - thank God that I've brought you back
Those light green eyes, those pale white thighs, black blood bleeds down your fingers
While thousands die, the dead alive, cut their way through the cities
Flowers for the girl, sweet little girl, from her grave to her cold hands
He's doomed the world, the whole damn world, so he might bring her heart back

NO ESCAPING
Love undying
NO ESCAPING
Love undying
No escaping

2. Skies Go Black

She looks down to her side, it calls out through her pain
This girl will make them famous, they don't even know her name

And just how much can one girl stand
Before she takes a step
And how much weight can one back bare
Before it breaks the straps
Through the years I've took it off and shrugged it off my chest
Those held close, who know her well, can use the shadow fall

He looks down to his side, it calls out through his pain
This boy will make them famous, they don't even know his name
There was a time when his face shined his smile could fight a room
But now its black beneath this cloud heartbreak learned much too soon

And just how much can one boy stand
Before he takes a step
And how much weight can one back bare
Before it breaks the straps
Through the years I've took it off and shrugged it off my chest
Those held close, who know her well, can use the shadow fall

Beneath the tree, where I once lay, the flowers gone from the bed where I once played
Counting clouds which danced for me
Skies go black
I pray for rain, to clear my face
I pray for wings to fly me from this place

I look to the sky, no answers come to me
Dear God how far I've fallen
How could this happen to me

3. Sometimes They Come Back

Please go back to where you came from
I lived just fine when you were dead
And though you're back and clawing AT MY CHEST
It won't take more than this gun to clear my head

The winter it has come
Snow melts upon my skin
The frost comes, will it
Ice burns upon my lips

And I remember it and
What it was
What it could have been
And all it meant to us
And I remember just what you said
And I still shake at night from all that those words did

Please go back to where you came from
I lived just fine when you were dead
And though you're back and clawing AT MY CHEST
It won't take more than this gun to clear my head

Just footprints in the snow
That never lead back home
To far to walk alone
And it's grown far too cold
Inside my chest has froze
Once blood but now frost grows
Through veins of ice it flows
It is lost if no one knows

It's burning cold
It's burning cold
It's burning cold
It's burning cold
It's burning cold
It's burning cold

4. Die Fighting

No one gets out alive
But I won't be the last to die
No one gets out alive
But I won't be the last to die

I have chose to fight here
And I'll see it to the end
If need be I will die here
My all I will extend

Your heart is weak and it's not right
If not for this what would you fight
Your words are big, they prove untrue
Turn and walk away you'll get yours too
Pushed to tears, it is your right
But curled in a ball when you should stand and fight
Just to be moved is not enough
Unless it moves you forward

What good is holding the hand of the dying
When what is needed is to be dragged from the dirt
What use have those of sympathetic witness
If their not to be saved

Your heart is weak and it's not right
If not for this what would you fight
Your words are big, they prove untrue
Turn and walk away you'll get yours too
Pushed to tears, it is your right
But curled in a ball when you should stand and fight
Just to be moved is not enough
Unless it moves you forward

To stand/to fall
To charge/to crawl
To rush/to hide
To bleed/to cry
To stab/to please
To hear and bleed
To rush in blind
To fight and die

And in the end when it's just us
The bloods been spilled
The lines been crossed
Our bones are broke
Our flesh is torn
The flag is raised
They'll blow the horns
And we'll have proved
Just why we're here
And we'll move on we'll have no fear
Cause we will know
Win lose or die
We fought our fucking hearts out

DIE FIGHTING
DIE FIGHTING
DIE FIGHTING
DIE FIGHTING
DIE FIGHTING
DIE FIGHTING

Die fighting - with everything
Die fighting - THIS MEANS EVERYTHING
Die fighting - for everything
Die fighting - THIS MEANS EVERYTHING
Die fighting - with everything
Die fighting - THIS MEANS EVERYTHING
Die fighting - for everything
Die fighting - THIS MEANS EVERYTHING

5. Apocalypse

Welcome to the apocalypse
Welcome to the end
See the angles lining up
Preparing to make their decent

The sky is falling, hells gate is calling
On which list are you my friend
Women are crying and children are dying
And it's not through yet

I hope you've made your peace
The bell it tolls for you
You'll plead here for your life
Before the day is through
Begging for your god
The same that you'd ignored
Gaze upon your destiny
Your body is torn apart

Welcome to the apocalypse
Welcome to the end
See the angles lining up
Preparing to make their decent

The sky is falling, hells gate is calling
On which list are you my friend
Women are crying and children are dying
And it's not through yet

I hope you've made your peace
The bell it tolls for you
You'll plead here for your life
Before the day is through
Begging for your god
The same that you'd ignored
Gaze upon your destiny
Your body is torn apart

March on they march on
Dance for me
Dance for me fire
We'll watch it burn
Dance for me
Dance for me fire
We'll watch it burn
Dance for me
Dance for me fire
We'll watch it burn
Dance for me
Dance for me fire
We'll watch it burn

6. I Found Your Diary

So keep the home fires burning
And I'll stoke this fire in my chest
I've read your stories sweetheart
And I fear there's one chapter left
I know the ending baby
I've wrote it down inside my head
And reds the ink shade darling

And when I've said forever
I've never been so wrong

And when the prologues written
And all the words have dried
I'll tie the loose ends tightly
And burn this book inside my mind
Right now the dreams grow scary
Black out are thought of better times
"I'm heading home now baby" is how the note was signed

So keep the home fires burning
And I'll stoke this fire in my chest
I've read your stories sweetheart
I know the ending baby
I've wrote it down inside my head
And reds the ink shade darling

The words you've wrote I've read
And I've heard the words you've said
Carved the path I was lead
With lies that I was fed
So for now it's all pretend
Just till we meet again

"I'm coming home soon, I'm coming home real soon"

I'm coming home
I'm coming home
I'm coming home
I'm coming home
I'm coming

7. Black Duct Tape

Yes sir I know just where the princes lay tonight
She sleeps exactly where I left her
I see it's a story you're looking for tonight
Well sit back and listen while I tell one

You'd think with all the shit she talked
She'd be a better fighter
You think with all the blood she lost
The body would be lighter

You see it had been four long years
A real long time to get some style
She didn't even recognize
Which was just fine, it saved me time
It didn't even take that long
Fifteen minutes and a charming smile
Next thing I know we're walking back
Holding hand and making plans

I led her down through the woods behind the towns
She clenched my hand and said "it's scary"
I said "c'mon now baby who's here to hurt you"
She smiled at me and said "let's hurry"
BLACK DUCT TAPE
We sat down at the riverside for a time
She kissed me hard and bit my lip
She ran her nails down and clawed up my back
I took a rock and made her pay

I took that bitch down to the river
Made princess a castle in the mud
You'll find six sharp knives in the water
And black duct tape soaked in her blood

8. Red Devil

Your lips drag past my finger tips
As I feed you candy in the car
And you'll hold my hand for just so long

Until you think it's gone too far
And this will be our wedding song
Show me slutty girls you like to draw
And I know where this is headed
You'll change your mind again
But I'll take two months to life with out

And I wait on nothing promised
And you won't ask me to stay
I bite my bleeding lip
Please don't get scared away
And I wait on nothing promised
And you won't ask me to stay
I bite my bleeding lip

And we'll sing the songs together
Just as we're driving home
Just loud enough for me to hear
And you'll look for shoes for house
And I'll lean to smell you're hair
No place I'd rather be that here

And I wait on nothing promised
And you won't ask me to stay
I bite my bleeding lip
Please don't get scared away
And I wait on nothing promised
And you won't ask me to stay
I bite my bleeding lip

I wait here for nothing
I wait here for anything
I wait here for nothing
I wait here for anything
I wait here for nothing
I wait here for anything

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Please just five minutes more
Please just five minutes more
Please just five minutes more
Please just five minutes more

9. Night Of The Rope

Not so smart now
Now that you're on the ground
Bet you wish you'd thought a little longer
Now that it's come around

You've done nothing for me
Unless to help yourself
You've screwed me for the last time
I'll send you straight to hell
I guess you felt you were hot shit
Where are your answers now?
Did you really think you'd get away
With trying to tear me down

Not a single thing has ever been said that has gotten back to me
And I know every friend who's ever stabbed my back and their time will come too see
You never saw this coming with all you think you know
There were no secrets just bided time, until the night of the rope

You've done nothing for me
Unless to help yourself
You've screwed me for the last time
I'll send you straight to hell
I guess you felt you were hot shit
Where are your answers now?
Did you really think you'd get away
With trying to tear me down

Not a single thing has ever been said that has gotten back to me
And I know every friend who's ever stabbed my back and their time will come too see
You never saw this coming with all you think you know
There were no secrets just bided time, until the night of the rope

Keep your doors locked buddy
Night of the rope
Keep an eye open honey
Night of the rope
Keep your doors locked buddy
Night of the rope
Keep an eye open honey
Night of the rope

NIGHT OF THE ROPE, YOUR TIME HAS COME, NIGHT OF THE ROPE
NIGHT OF THE ROPE, YOUR TIME HAS COME, NIGHT OF THE ROPE

10. September Song

September, field like any other where one short story came to its end
What darkness runs through the mind of those so young to paint so black a portrait
And little legs can only carry you so far, choking down tears terrified

I've heard screams in my sleep
Telling me to wake up from this dream I'm in
I've heard laughs from all three
Shielding his face from the stones they threw at him

Strangers fall upon one soul, like so many demons upon an angel fallen
He wonders what he's done to deserve this
"Please, I just want to go back home"
The child trips and falls, knees are bleeding
Stars and clouds fill his head
Can no one hear him screaming
He's screaming his throat red

This day, dark day innocence lost its way
This field this hell, is where an angel fell
This day, dark day innocence lost its way
This field this hell, is where an angel fell
This day, dark day innocence lost its way
This field this hell, is where an angel fell

Strangers fall upon one soul, like so many demons upon an angel fallen
He wonders what he's done to deserve this
"Please, I just want to go back home"
The child trips and falls, knees are bleeding
Stars and clouds fill his head
Can no one hear him screaming
He's screaming his throat red

He lays alone, no one to hold his hand, no one to tell him goodbye
He lies alone reaching for hands not there, to weak to cry, no one to wipe his eyes
And falling autumn leaves, is not a funeral
Handfuls of windblown dust, is not a burial

11. [Untitled]

[This song starts off with a bunch of reversed guitars/drums/vocals and distortion
but then turns into a cover of Bloodlust (original recorded by Ink and Dagger)]







THE BANNER LYRICS