THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER LYRICS

1. Built For Sin

[Instrumental]

2. I'm Charming

Yeah, I'm running off the rails
I've finally gone crazy
And the ground is spinning faster
Than my teeth could ever grind

I know it's a shame
When success was to blame
But I can't remember my name

In the absolute wrong
I have made this place to lay my head
A reoccurring nightmare
I never trust, I never rest

I've become another victim
Of this self-serving device
My cock does all the talking
My mouth now just for lie

I'm winding down to nothing
It suddenly comes clear
I'm winding down to nothing
Human smoke that fills the air

What can you believe?
That is the question
I have you on a string
Something yet up my sleeve

Bury me deep,
As we have an unborn child
In this world yet cold enough
To host this seed of endless ugliness

[solo]

In a sea of corruption
A wake of lie
So wildly I have stirred

I'm winding down to nothing
It suddenly comes clear
I'm winding down to nothing
A human smoke that fills the air

What can you believe?
That is the question
I have you on a string
Something yet up my sleeve

(My love is but a lie)
Always reaping what I have sown
(Taking you down with me)
To what degrees you'll never know

3. Flies

Down!
Start digging down your throat
Another string of lies is born
You must exemplify perfection
Bronzing a broken life of shit

You filthy liar
Septic tongue, shit eating grin
Slow internal suicide
An inch within the triggers pull again

This disease it is your mainstay
It wears its wires within me
Tender tissues scraped away
Of secrets etched on nameless graves

The smell of vomit
Hangs in the air tonight
Blush, eyeliner, lipstick
It's all right, tonight

You filthy liar
Septic tongue, shit eating grin
Love me with your yellowed smile
My flies are hungry for your kiss

Poison me my darling
Graves grow deeper with each passing day
This appalling love
Bask in your putrid revelry

Beauty lost in between
The lashes of sick drunken eye
Like a fool you have believed
Life of shame, you have fallen completely beneath

[solo]

And when the curtains finally part
You'll see that everyone is laughing
I am weakness just like you
I'll bury you before you're dead

Cockroach, come crawling home!

Crawl - slithering
Through this world of sculpted shit
So thrust those fingers deep, my child
It is your burden and your gift

You filthy liar
Septic tongue, shit eating grin
Slow internal suicide
An inch within the triggers pull again

Poison me my darling
Graves grow deeper with each passing day
This appalling love
Bask in your putrid revelry

4. Statutory Ape

This is a reckoning
A clichéd cut of lying tongue
Revenge never goes out of style

Gorilla honing trigger-finger
That makes gorilla man
Ingrained, there's hate within us all

Spiraling I've lost my footing once again
I'm flailing in a tantrum of disgust

When life holds nothing sacred
When the loveless turn to loathe
We'll witness this final threatened pose

(Oh!) Oh, Mother War!
Sleep in your arms tonight, I'm burning
I'm burning for your love
(This) This juggernaut of bronze and alcohol
Machines of vengeance now are born

In vengeance we are born
To our graves these grudges shall be sworn
The ultimate death of emotion never mourned
We'll die before we crawl

Twisted ministers of death
Praying for a bullet hail
Gorilla, suffocate!
Gorilla, maim!
An education in...

Howling!

Ministers of death
We'll be praying,
Praying for this bullet hail
Gorilla, suffocate!
Gorilla, maim!
An education in complete misanthropy

[solo]

(Oh!) Oh, Mother War!
Sleep in your arms tonight, I'm burning
I'm burning for your love
(This) This juggernaut of bronze and alcohol
Machines of vengeance now are born

(Oh!) Oh, Mother War!
Sleep in your arms tonight, I'm burning
I'm burning!

In vengeance we are born
To our fucking graves
The greatest tribe forever,
Forever!

5. A Vulgar Picture

Now the funeral grounds
Are at last awash
With the blackness
Of this frigid autumn night

I've lurked into the graveyard
With pick and spade in tow
This night shall birth forth our reckoning
Hell's jaws now open wide

A stare to pierce six-feet of soil
A love beyond this mortal coil

As though you've never left my side
I hold your stiffened body so close to me

For years I've lived in dreams
Awake I felt as dead
As my cold and bloodless bride to be

I can barely suppress my elation
My blood is racing as I strike the lid

A quick pry of the casket
Reveals her body paralyzed
So long I've waited for this moment
To trust my fingers deep inside

Now you will live
This song of the deceased
The ones whose souls
Will never rest in peace

[solo]

The throes of necromantic lust
Infect my mind
Cries of my precious frozen angel
Beckon from inside

I feel alive
For once I'm feeling so alive
My skin is crawling, I'm completed
On this resurrection night

This night reveals a morbid truth
Loves bounds post mortally removed

As though you've never left my side
I hold your stiffened body so close to me

For years I've lived in dreams
Awake I felt as dead
My cold and bloodless bride to be

In rapture my mind is lured by my own knife
To join this fragile being asleep below

The reflection of a razor
Reveals the moon so perfectly
Along my impatient veins
Its steel does graze
With the kiss of suicide

I feel no pain
As lay with my lover and bride
The silk lining now stained with my offering
I embrace the end of my now worthless life

6. Novelty Crosses

Eyes of perfect ivory
Match the sweetest lengths of your neck
I'm but a stain to such holy fabrics
Darwin's proposal
Bouncing back from colored glass

Serpents will guide me to your hull
Slithering between the pews of pearl
I'll walk a path of purity and temporary grace
Whatever it may take to eat and drink of you till slaked

To run a gloveless finger up
Curvaceous trembling leg
We mustn't wait

The fruits of tragedy we'll taste
I'll be Adam, you'll be Eve
We'll fuck and so create

I'm being strangled by his statue
If only his cold eyes could weep
For these things that shouldn't be

Father, I've been sinning
I've pulled a fast one
The perfect sleight of fate
Goddamn, girl
Like an hourglass I'll invert you
The Higher powers shuddering
At what you have become

The laws of science abandoned
Thrust into purgatory

Mary, you've never looked so tender
I will you statues here
To take a breath of life and look upon
Her virgin skin raised in anticipation
The dark has won
My darkness has won again

[solo]

What is truth?
I cannot yet discern
Kneeling in hope of reprimand
This Father's love shall not within me flow
I've fallen to my knees in hollow prayer

How original a sin!

We'll fuck and so create
And burn this planet in our wake

I'm being strangled by his statue
If only his cold eyes could weep
For these things that shouldn't be

Father, I've been sinning
I've pulled a fast one
The perfect sleight of fate
Goddamn, girl
Like an hourglass I'll invert you

The only heaven I will know
Is heaving 'neath the buttons of your blouse

We'll be immortal
A most blessed union of lust
The flames of Hell shall lick our coattails
As we feast of infinity's bust

7. Dave Goes To Hollywood (Vice Campaign)

We of blood frozen
So thick it cannot thaw
Joints lubricated
By sweet alcohol

Liver dissolving
Eyelids but heavy sheets
Ignorant bliss and
The bloodshot secrets it will keep

Pills if you wouldn't mind
Clouds of vapor to stretch out the miles
Hung over we'll greet a certain death
With flash of chipped tooth smile

Each cities secrets buried beneath
In this campaign of vice
Drinking song's a reprise
A slow blur existence
Wading knee deep in sin
Clutch at the ulcer
Acknowledge the frailty within

At dawn we begin again

You who have never seen your breath
Are you alive?
This mitten clenches in a fist
To kiss this fucking world goodnight

Destroyer, my only keeper
I kneel unto your amber gates
Pray you'll kill the ugliness
That sleep won't take away

Free drinks
They shall not kill us
They only warm our fucking bones
But late at night
I can't forget your laugh
And everything I used to know

But I've never seen so many faces
And I've never felt this all alone
Well, I guess this is what I've always wanted
A four-wheeled coffin to call home

I will not ask another name
Disappearing faster than they came
Are you having fun?
Are you entertained?

Another heart-shaped bruise
Another friend back home I'll lose
Am I missing something?
What is left to prove?

Another heated first name fuck
Another stroke of dead man's luck
Another year I can't replace
Another tear sent down her face

At dawn we begin again
Tune of death shall bring an end

You who have never seen your breath
Are you alive?
This mitten clenches in a fist
To kiss this fucking hell goodnight

Destroyer, my only keeper
I kneel unto your amber gates
Pray you'll kill the ugliness
That sleep won't take away

8. Miscarriage

The language of the lie
Barbed and callous tongues shall lick
Behind the thinnest doors
A web of falsehood so unfolds

Humility
(Pride dissected, maliciously)
A mockery
Bonds dissolve in endless mimicry

Cruelly illuminated
Subject of shallow spectacle
Inherent weaknesses revealed
Contact withers to a lull

Once perfect pictures,
Now stained with fingerprints
Tragedy fucks jealously
The human heartstrings bend and break

Vultures with human eyes
Can you feel them circling?
Prey on tender moments
The failures of purest dream

Our selfish means
Are the means to this fucking end
A knife for every spine
Of every man

Nails scratching into the flesh
Until the fibers are broken
Something's got to give

[solo]

The bottoms of bottles
No longer ease the pain
And the bathroom mirror
Reflects the face of autonomy

Man must invert
Internalize the pain
Sequence replays in the mind
The human heartstrings bend and break

Vultures with human eyes
Can you feel them circling?
Prey on tender moments
The failures of purest dream

Our selfish means
Are the means to this fucking end
A knife for every spine
Of every man... of every man

Lot of the ugly answers
Lie somewhere in between
Intrinsic disregard
The burden of weakness

They're sharpening!
The knives are always sharpening
A life now stained with fingerprints
Something's got to give

9. Spite Suicide

Terror is thy name!
Burning thine bridge
And death the same

A year to drain my innocence
And course it through your blackened veins

Oh, Demoness! (Oh, Demoness!)
What has our daughter become?
Trash for the maggots to eat?
What color eyes should be staring at me in my dreams?

Abomination born in this union of hate
(Killed in the name of the free)
And of our son?
To the sickle he clung
A featureless face for your nightmarish dreams

Dilate - extract
Dilate - and bury it all
Mother, vampiric mistress or night-fed blood
Who pets her child's head from a grave
(Demon!) Enchantress of evil profound
Dead and nameless, dead
(A noose to choke the memories from me)

Addicted to those forbidden hands
Thrust deep inside her helpless hull

[solo]

(SCRAPE!) Scrape it all away
Vacuum these pictures from my brain
Scrape it all away

How I shall laugh once you have died!
How I will sleep once you've been destroyed!
(Destroyed, destroyed, destroyed, destroyed)

Dilate - extract
Dilate - and bury it dead

Mother, vampiric mistress or night-fed blood
Who pets her child's head from a grave
(Demon!) Enchantress of evil profound
Dead and nameless, dead
(A noose to choke the memories from me)

DEAD!

10. Miasma

In between we insidious vapors shalt teem
Looming so loathsome
And it seems to me like I'm dead inside
A bloated corpse propped out of tradition

I can never recall
What it was I had ever to strive for?
As a youth, was it just to exist autonomously?
No, we don't wanna work
We just wanna fuck, swallow pills, and forget our curses

No, we don't need pigs like you
We follow the laws of our emptying veins
In this world of nothing for me
I'd be sooner destroyed

Vampire youth
Raise your cups to the ne'er-waning moon
Let its visage ring true!
To the hearts cold and blue
We're dying each moment free

We're all animals here
Flesh and blood, bone and dream
We're just impulses here
Just another piece of shit in the storm

Just another piece of shit!

SHIT! [Echoes]

[solo]

From the smelling of things it appears
This shit has come to a boil
Nighttime we shall rule as our own
While this hollow will sleep
We shall bark at the moon

In this world of nothing for me
I'd be sooner destroyed
In this world there is nothing for us
But the sound, but the sound!

Vampire youth
Raise your cups to the ne'er-waning moon
Let its visage ring true!
To the hearts cold and blue
We're dying each moment

We'll never sleep again
We'll be going fucking mad
Sin and Hell is all we will ever know
Just another piece of shit







THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER LYRICS