THE BLED LYRICS

1. Devolver

We crawled out of the ocean for the evolution, to conduct the grand finale.
She wants so badly to return the favor, to bring you back home.
Everything's breaking, the cycle is void. so we fed on the bones of the weak with a rabid bite.
We fucked on in the glow of the bomb.
Everyone's racing, there's blood on the streets.
You bred the new pets, they all caught the plague.
Just human error, lean in and weep.
Don't weep.
You made this.
Now bask in it.
Ringing it in.
Brand new.
Ice age.
And I hope you can swim.
If we don't make it out alive, what comes after oblivion?
We'll all take turns wearing the ring, the spotlights will blackout the holes in the sheet.
We stretch on for miles and just like a scar along the face of the earth,
It's too bad you won't be here forever I know you just wanted to.

2. Mouthbreather

Mouthbreather I know you thought I would go quietly,
But I never asked you for permission to believe in something bigger than us both.
I think you owe me an apology, you left me waiting in the desert for the rain.
I aim my mouth at the sky.
Only to find my lungs have filled with sand.
I let the sun burn me down.
Before I let you inside, I clear my throat.
It's just a matter of time before you set something innocent on fire just to watch it run.
So keep forcing me into survival mode.
I need to know what it's all worth.
I'll chase that dream down that same one-way dead-end road until I find another reason to stay home and let it go.
I will keep my eyes on the road and my heart to myself.

3. Running Through Walls

I clutched the wheel,
Burned the trail in search of someone's master plan,
But I dragged myself into the ground in search of a fabled promised land,
This could be my destiny or the death of me,
Whatever answers first,
I could care less at this point,
As long as my story gets told.
The empty dunes whispered certain doom and irrational fears began to swallow my every thought and burn inside my ears.
It's louder than the bombs that scream in my dreams.
Can my will alone erase the things I've become?
It's hard to see passed all of my failures and loss when I'm stuck on the path to self-destruction.
Back and forth across the plains,
No chance of love,
No sign of rain you killed yourself to live,
But your heart gave up before your body did.
Back and forth across the plains,
A fractured heart,
No sign of rain until my head caves in,
I'll kill myself just trying...
I swallowed pill after pill with the blood of Christ,
Cause heaven needed me,
But when I got there,
All the beer was gone and the angels clipped their wings.
I crashed face-first into a stubborn mule to get my point across then I woke up with shards of glass in my eye and seven years bad luck.
I'm confessing, this burden of free will is a blessing.
So I'll be the judge, the jury, and the executioner.
The faulty noose at the gallows pole.
Back and forth across the plains,
No chance of love,
No sign of rain you killed yourself to live,
But your heart gave up before your body did.
Back and forth across the plains,
A fractured heart,
No sign of rain until my head caves in,
I'll kill myself just trying to live back and forth across the plains,
No chance of love,
No sign of rain you killed yourself to live,
But your heart gave up before your body did.
Back and forth across the plains,
A fractured heart,
No sign of rain until my body gives up,
I'll kill myself just trying to lovecast me to hell,
I do not seek redemption cast me to hell,
I was born to be a martyr cast me to hell,
I do not seek redemption cast me to hell,
I was led into temptation by a man just like you.
I'll see your saint and I'll raise you an ape with no soul.

4. Smoke Breaks

Slave away.
For the price of your youth you can earn yourself a dying wage.
You're worth your weight in the sweat that you spill for good of the company.
At the end of the night counting on your smokebreaks you seem to move a lot of product but the product doesn't move anyone, and that's the honest to god damned truth.
Did you answer the call when it came or did you call it a day?
Like my father, he buried his passion, sacrificed the twelve-bar blues to take on the real world.
At dawn I awoke to go back to the clockwork where I sing my songs to whoever will listen.
A glimpse of the good life beyond 9 to 5 to the has-beens, the no ones, civilians and children.
On the company dime, burning all your smokebreaks you seem to move a lot of product but the product doesn't move...
Trudge on, workhorse.
God help you all you're just getting by.
You run like a river without a prize in your sights.
Bleed on.
Bleed on.
Bleed yourself dry.
This road is my bride.
She will wreck your life.
It's for me to decide.
How you'll wreck your life.
Cut the queen, just try.
She will wreck your life.
It's for me to decide.
How you'll wreck your life.
Cut the queen, just try.
She will wreck your life.
It's my life to wreck in my own way.

5. Need New Conspirators

Tell me, how many years have you felt so sick?
To the kids who care more about these songs than the wars they've been fighting for so fucking long
There's something wrong with the soundwaves in the air there's something wrong,
It's on the tip of your tongue and it's time that you give a shit
We got the songs all wrong again (and we don't fit in)
We got the songs all wrong again (and nothing speaks to me like it did)
And I know you know, I know you know, I know you know I know you.
Tell me, how many years have you felt out of touch?
To the kids who cared more when they were young about the wars they've been fighting since before we were born
There's something wrong with the soundwaves in the air
There's something wrong,
It's on the tip of your tongue and it's time that you give a shit
We got the songs all wrong again (and we don't fit in)
We got the songs all wrong again (and nothing speaks to me like it did back then)
How many years has it been, since you lost the feeling?
Since you lost something to believe in?
I need something to believe in,
We're so tired of playing dead bring me all of the disillusioned dreamers
(how many years have you felt so sick, I ask)
All of the forward thinking allies
(how many years have you felt out of touch and old)
All of the ones who feel outnumbered
(to all the kids who care more, care more, care more, care more)
I need new conspirators bring me all of the new rule smashers
(how many years have you felt so sick, I ask)
All of the hungry innovators
(how many years have you felt out of touch and old)
All of the fearless creators
(to all the kids who care more, care more, care more, care more)
I need new conspirators.

6. Shouting Fire In A Crowded Room

We have followed our leaders into the vault of a burning bank
We raised our children on dead end roads waiting to death in the summer wind
Looking for answers that I was never meant to find I swallow my tongue in defeat
Before I drown face down in the street
Waiting for the ambulance to arrive
I saved myself from you gagging to death on these prayers
My agony is self-inflicted
Burn my body at the stake
My love in effigy
My songs are gasoline in the mouth of a coward shouting "fire"
I swallow my questions down in fear
Before I know too much of myself trying to explain what keeps me falling to my knees.
The burden of living proof, I saved myself from you.
In case of a new emergency, I saved myself from you.
When nothing moves in the wake of regret, I saved myself from you.
I saved myself from the arms of corruption.

7. Needs

As the moon waxed and waned,
He felt the depth of his love shoot right to the surface.
Overwhelmed by the once suppressed need to devour something whole.
The shapes began to shift and right before his eyes, his angel became his meal.
Call off your hunt, that kill is mine.
I'm leaving town with her blood on my breath, lord knows when we'll feed again.
I walked away with her hand on my chest, lord knows when we'll feed again.
Angel, keep your wings clean.
And don't get near him if he isn't "me" angel,
Until his eyes go red to blue,
Keep your thoughts as pure as gold,
Cause he can read your mind and his head ain't right, no.
Before the fever leaves our home pray for his salvation.
He'll say he means no harm.
Eclipsed eternally now by the echoes of her final breath.
Roaming tormented from town to town to forever stalk the highway.
The shapes began to shift and right before my eyes, you become my meal.
Call off your hunt, that kill is mine.

8. Meet Me In The Bone Orchard

Once again, I need your skin, these teeth will take too much, they always do.
Sever me, desire bleeds you dry, coercion takes too long.
Drain you and leave.
You never felt so alive until you put in your midnight eyes these bones you cracked on the run will be left to bleach in the sun.
Smother me these idle hands will be the death of us (at least one of us)
Salivate it makes me sick, was I born this way?
You wish
You were
You never felt so alive until you put in your midnight eyes these bones
You cracked on the run
Will be left to bleach in the sun
You simply refuse to accept no consolation gift
These offers I will reject
I won't be swinging by my neck
The cold moon will always eclipse
The truth spilling from your lips
These offers I will reject
I won't be swinging by my neck
Give it up
Know when to quit are you in control?
A balancing act on a burning tightrope
Hunger pains until you get your way
Until you get your way
Until you get your way nausea.
Keep chasing the sound in your head
Down a road that will never end
It eats away at you and you cannot abandon it.
You should have fled when you still had the chance.
You should have fled when you still could have.
Suffocate your hope.
Keep chasing the sound in your head
Down a road that will never end
It eats away at you and you cannot abandon it.

9. Crowbait

Dream poacher, you lost it in a hailstorm of flies,
The maggots sung under your pen in every word you wrote.
Bait for the crows taunt the hungry then they call out for me,
Never learner, still running that broken mouth of yours over broken promises.
Masquerade with the walking dead you don't look the same.
Abscess face with narcotic slouch
You weren't built this way
They took dead aim exposed evidence
They washed their hands of this ordeal silenced
Your pleas "some can't be saved" bankrupt soul,
You dove headfirst into a shallow grave what drove you to this?
Now this guilt will plague my nights dream burner,
I never said that you were a lost cause "never better" still running away on a crooked path,
As crooked as your spine.
Empty shell of someone I once knew.
You don't speak the same.
Slipping back into familiar coma you won't die in vain.
I'll carry your dead weight till I fall victim to my own vices.
Dead weight, I'll carry yours till I fall flat on my own face.
Still trying to kill all the ones you claimed left a hole in your perfect life.
Still running away from the only arms who wanted you as one.
And you were the only good thing left in this good for nothing town.
Help me clean my filthy conscience so I can get on with pointless life.
And you were the only good thing left in this good for nothing town.

10. When Exiting Your Vehicle

You and I are not survivors,
Decorated victims of a losing war,
All dressed up in our defensive wounds.
We are the ghosts.
Haunted by the living ones.
Every day apparitions.
Haunted by the sound of our own voices.
We are the ghosts.
Faithlessly wandering around.
And I'll wander around.
Yeah, I'll wander around.
Passing through.
I'm just passing through.
Stranded here forever.
Caught in the middle of our own exorcism.
The human body is a grave.
This world is purgatory.
We are prisoners of our selves.
Stranded here forever.
Haunted by living ones.

11. Night Errors

All your moves are an act to me,
If I'm dismissive,
The red on your hand and the stutter in your step gave me permission.
Who's broken heart did I abduct to feign these tears?
Who's battered soul did I usurp to howl like this?
The blade sharp and well groomed, but the execution lacked vision.
I was deployed to revive the lull in your casual blackouts.
Who's phantom hand did I possess to get this feeling?
One foot on the stage, one foot in the grave.
The only time you feel alive is when you're on fire.
There's a tempest raging on and on in my body.
You picked your battles, I just loved to fight.
Lost some, won some, then I lost count.
You can't see eye to eye when you're drinking from a different well.
I'm unopposed to replaying the dying picture.
I couldn't shut your laughing eyes, they just kept on getting louder and louder.
Grand delusions rub my ego so raw.
I wasn't born with this thorn in my side, no.
I stole every kiss from the sight of the crash.
If you believe these outrageous claims, then I'll take you to the black hole.
Where no one escapes.

12. Crawling Home

I just can't leave this alone meat for the wolves pulling flesh from the bone.
This is blood that I draw from a stone.
And a scar to remind me of where I was born.
This is what it takes to forgive myself for you.
Don't ask me what I am becoming.
Something that you cannot comprehend.
Completely unacceptable results.
Damaged and desperate, I am crawling home.
And it feels like something is wrong
When I'm not tethered to this hotel bed
I do what I can to make sense of this mess
That I made for myself, in my head.
One day at a time.
When I leave there will be no goodbyes, no explanations.
This is just something I need to do for now.
When I die there will be no funeral, make no arrangements.
What happens on the road will kill us all.
Don't ask me what I am becoming something that you cannot comprehend.
Completely unacceptable results.
Damaged and desperate, I am crawling home.
Show me if this is where I belong.





THE BLED LYRICS