THE BLED LYRICS

1. Shade Tree Mechanics

collect your bones.
man did you hear the news.
the boy's back in town and he reeks of the blues warm welcome home to the bitter truth.
so someone spiked the drinks with bad blood tonight the venom takes control.
I'm kicking down the door.
so fuck the invite.
spare me the small-talk.
every second the price on my head grows.
I'm dodging bullets from a gunman who everybody knows.
I can hear you calling out.
but it's a waste of time.
and I just can't bring myself to slap a mouth that never shouts.
so raise our glasses one more time.
may the best man overdose on pride.
I could destroy you.
but not in these shoes.
you lack the stones to be more than a metaphor.
I saw this coming slow as an avalanche.
here's some advice for you next time make sure you put at least two bullets in the head.
so make this your last mistake this is not a cheap shot it cost an arm and a leg.
so please give me something to shake something to lean on something to shatter or break.
next time there will be no next time

2. You Should Be Ashamed Of Myself

welcome to the end of the night where everyone reeks of stale smoke dirty jokes.
stop me if you've heard this one the ransoms over where's my cut?
skewered on an open flame I bought you off the spit pose for me.
paws and knees trace around the switchblade gash we're all born fresh.
but now we rot.
I'm the bastard kid of a dead-beat town you're just what I need to bring me down I've got enough strength for one more round does that sound good to you?
it sounds good to me baby.
I'm the lucky son of a bitch you need to keep alive your losing streak I've got one more trick up my sleeve does that work for you?
it works for me baby.
and you can't tear your eyes away cause she's got such a pretty face and one filthy fucking mind I will wait outside the gates and I won't leave till you show me what's on the inside I can't shake this lack of sleep it feasts on me our mothers sleep with lottery dreams our fathers built the pyramid schemes nothing is ever what it seems but it works for you cause it works for me baby you just had yourself a taste of how sweet the life could be if you could just leave yours behind.

3. Threes Away

the plague.
it came and stole my good fortune away it's not the end, it's just judgement day.
crossed off the list.
I must have some nerve how could I show my face around here ever again it's not worth the silence.
it's not worth a friend.
they say these things happen in threes.
I braved the streets with 1.2.3.sheets to the wind.
I'll see this one through till the credits begin it's worse inside all the soldiers wivers are wearing red I hang my head on what could've been, could've been, couldn't be.
I was graced and forgiven.
now I'm given a second chance to fall now I'd give it all away hopefully I am safe for now.
I'm to blame, I'll admit it.
now I'm given a second chance to fall I was graced and forgiven now I'm given a second chance to fall but it's just like the other ones I know I'll just fuck it up and it's not worth the silence and it's not worth a friend they say these things happen in threes this is the dream that haunts your sleepless nights you try to scream but can't escape the crushed windpipe I'm so easy to attach, you're so eager to amputate this is the one false move I made that left me cursing the day I stopped at all to breathe pour yourself into this night I've been holding out for this, all my life.

4. Asleep On The Frontlines

we'll keep on talking this out but I've already made up your mind I've been trying to gnaw through my tongue to stop from confessing my crimes and these conversations are wearing me down what did my patience prove if it's just another bed of nails always the silent treatment always the easy way out alive if there's no further questions I'll be on my way home.
and it's just another sharp pain and it doesn't hurt like it used to when I was a desperate man when I still believed in the meaning of the word you tried to warn me you and your consequences if I am outnumbered if I am defenseless if I come here unarmed in the middle of the night on my own standing on the front lines I will die if you invite me down if it'll please the crowd I only go through this for your amusement it doesn't hurt like should when you're throwing your stones around I'm alone trying to sleep it off but it's hard not to shake at the sound of it breaking when you're living in a house of mirrors reflecting all of my failure I will concede to my replacement congratulations it's over and over again I was in for the long run when you cut me down another sharp pain a servant to our thrones always the one that got away always apologizing always the silent treatment always the stubborn child I kept my mouth shut tight always the one that got away always the bed of nails I only have myself to blame

5. Platonic Sleepover Massacre

you tried to cover your tracks but I caught on to you they found your ear in a jar, your bones in a bag, in the back of the room when they pulled the snakes off your flesh, they were hungry for more.
you have had your last, all your sins are cleansed, no reason for you to go on.
I put you to rest

6. Starving Artiste

made a pact not to sleep through the end.
all of the dreamers are stuck in their beds.
fight off the attraction to always play dead I'm tortured by white noise in half hour sets.
ears ringing.
your mouth ran for miles but hasn't gone anywhere.
you're lost.
I heard the word on the street and it means nothing to me, so how do you like me now?
where's your passion?
the renaissance man is a thing of the past.
to you it's fashion.
dress up don't address what keeps us from resting.
the jackals circle for the feast I try to fight it off, but it's consuming me.
the rapture has only begun (while you sleep, they watch you breathing)
and you can bet it gets worse when the moon crashes into the sun
(while you dream, both ends are burning)
pray for one more chance
(they will steal air from your lungs)
in the back of the hearse, overturned as your insides prolapse
(wake before before it's too fucking late)
everyone has a skeleton key everyone rots in captivity everyone is sleeping off the heat you shut the blinds as they cauterize what lives inside.

7. Silver Lining

battered and courageous all eyes on you we made you some kind of god of war on your back awaiting constant salivation straight from the snuff film cutting room floor shot by shot cry out "I've had enough" the pictures not done till you lose a pint of blood this is what I found in the wake the message was scratched on the face of his grave it goes we will find the silver lining and make this our own where'd that pretty smile go you put it in a box and left it on the side of the road thanks for nothing you watched the ball drop then made a wish on a burnt out star when'd you lose control you woke up one day with swine all over your shore we committed our army to you fearless leader come see this through far from prophetic no promise came true we lost control your name conjures an image of defeat we lost control

8. Some Just Vanish

when you find me pinned beneath the wreckage call off your sirens call of your search everything is quiet on fire everything is warm inside the glow with television static, with engines purring let me sleep.
one by one will my friends leave my side or will my plane just drop out of the sky?
I can't afford to sleep through the virus hard at work.
it's called me out.
this body will collapse.
useless to the world.
one sudden drop.
one by one as my senses fade away.
tied to machines that feed signals to my brain.
this is the end.
the doctor draws a blade.
with patient hands.
he writes his name in braille.
I can't slow my breathing down when I'm staring at the floor.
underneath the threat of giving in, I give it all once more.
quietly dissolving under lights that call me home I can hear the voices trailing off.
someone is shutting me down.
someone is shoving me underneath waves of lead.
and I wasn't strong enough to swim back up to the surface to find you.
this is how it begins quietly counting backwards from ten, nine, eight.
sevensixfivefourthree.
but I can't concentrate on anything.
no one can save me.
I'm not even here.
I am drifting from consciousness into oblivion.
someone is shutting me down.

9. Breathing Room Barricades

and then there was one with sharpened grin a home I was never meant to find.
the wound was exposed and I fell in a curse I was blessed with as a child I spent my life waiting for this I knew I even bore the mark around my wrist and I feel like this could be enough this could be the one this could be the one.
raise your palms to me and let me show you where our lines collide graze the scalp and see show me where you think they placed that tracking device.
it is so contagious you can't escape from me you can't run they're hot on your trail hunting your down for a lock of your hair and they shot your on the space between your wings.
they tied your limbs and made you sing what makes you so evasive?
you can't escape from me.
we've lost communication these words will dissipate I've scoured through this wasteland you are a mystery and I caught you right before you fled if I could breathe in your air then I'd believe what you said if I could see what you see then I would never have left I picked apart the clues that I found I stood out I stood out for you to show yourself we can forget everything we've become it's not far it's not far until the oxygen show me what's in store locked beneath trap doors for every plot unrevealed you counted my scars and made me sing every note every secret forced me back into lucidity and you proved to us, you proved to me suffer the distance between we'll douse our words in kerosene suffer.
leave something for me we'll burn them all until we make this true I'll clip my wings and give it all to you.

10. Beheaded My Way

a long shot.
the liar is the only one who spills his guts.
we all swallow your words like starving dogs.
we eat it up.
hell of a scam.
you pulled the wool over our broken eyes again who's in command?
hell of a scam, you got the one armed man to tie the rope again.
who's in command?
yeah, we'll have your head, we'll have your head we've been misled we'll have your head.
we'll have your head and mercy's not something you'll be blessed with you'll take a trip to the guillotine the price of your guilty plea you sold me an empty dream now my hearts too black for you to be redeemed we broke our backs for you we fought your wars for you we heard your words as gospel truth we slaved away for you we never questioned you we spread your words as gospel truth we are forgotten names the only friends you betrayed a stop on your rise, can't look us in the eyes I'd put this to bed but the sting remains we'll have your head and lay you to waste.

11. My Bitter Half

I traced your shape and counted the days and you just erased me.
I hit the ground and I make no sound as your heels pierced me.
I scarred my face to conquer my pride and you cocooned in your misery.
I plucked you up from a bed of nails and hung me for your salvation.
can I come down?
there's been a mistake.
can I come down?
isn't this what you asked of me?
you lost faith.
blinding white.
and just before my chest caved in, I climbed back down I caught your scent but the wolves beat me to you.
stopped behind the place where we met.
found strands of your dress they were all that was left.
I dug you up the night you died and this is what you asked me, "when will the sun overthrow the eclipse.
I'm just waiting for this night to end.
leave me here, just go." as the dusk set in.
as the sickness spread.
I took one glance behind.
and you had disappeared.
slipping right through my fingers.
gripping as tight as I can.
slipping right through my hands we can't look back.
they've got the searchlights on us.
stay close you'll be alright.
with shadows as my guide.
I'm looking for the answer.
I will be the one who breaks the constant midnight.
tossed to the swine.
I make the climb from the abyss.
lost.
into the night.
to the abyss.
I trace your shape to memory I traced your shape.
eraser.







THE BLED LYRICS