THE SHOWDOWN LYRICS

1. Titanomachy - The Beginning

[Instrumental]

2. Hephaestus - The Hammer Of The Gods

Take this weight from off this chest.
Crush and kill all that is left.
Bend your will unto the task.
The hammer falls, it falls.
To forge a man that's free from fear.
Clothed in hate that's seared for years.
I will be the one to outrun fate.
And I will die upon my feet.
All I need is a good mistake.
One more look at the devil's face.
Beaten, broken, bruised and blind.
One more twisted hulking rhyme.
Hammer, scythe and blade and mace.
And sands of time, of time.
Crushing oceans of regret.
Suffocate under the whip.
Back now shattered but with hands held high.
And I deny, refuse to give what's mine.
All I need is a good mistake.
One more look at the devil's face.
What I need is one more taste.
The hammer's fall with a godless grace.

Swing the hammer. Bludgeon me. Bruised and battered. Standing free.

So relieve me of this life.
And the burden of what's right.
Break this body, I will still stand tall.
And I deny, you will not take what's mine.

All I need is a good mistake.
One more look at the devil's face.
What I need is one more taste.
The hammer's fall with a godless grace.

3. Aphrodite - The Disillusionaire

Bring it down, ruiner.
She is the weight on his chest.
Between sorrow and sin.
She is the best he ever was.
But he never left her, he just let her down.
Get off the ropes.
She can't kick you if she don't know you're down.
Gather yourself.
Might be a mess, but you're bigger than doubt.

Disillusionaire.
Remember the teeth behind the goddess smile.
Pale horse breathe the air.
And always death not far behind.
So breathe. Just breathe.

Gather yourself, clear your head.
Cause if she ever let you loose she'd have a reason to beg.
She is the best you never were.
So if she wants a war, give her all that you've got.

Get off the ropes.
She can't kick you if she don't know you're down.
Gather yourself.
Might be a mess, but you're bigger than doubt.

Disillusionaire.
Remember the teeth behind the goddess smile.
Pale horse breathe the air.
And always death not far behind.
So breathe.
Just breathe.
And get off the ropes.
Oh, get off the ropes.

Gather yourself.

Get off the ropes.
She can't kick you if she don't know you're down.
Gather yourself.
Might be a mess, but you're bigger than doubt.

Disillusionaire.
Remember the teeth behind the goddess smile.
Pale horse breathe the air.
And always death not far behind.

Disillusionaire.
Remember the teeth behind the goddess smile.
Pale horse breathe the air.
And always death not far behind.
So breathe.
Just breathe.
So breathe.
Just breathe.
And get off the... ropes.
And get off the ropes.
And get off the... ropes.
Just breathe.
And get off the ropes.

4. Achilles - The Backbreaker

We are too old to cry, too young to die.
We're bound to the promise of better lives.
We're bought and sold, content to know, that we'll never have to fight if we do what we're told.
We are warrior sons but we run from a cause, that brings freedom and purpose and hope to us all.
We would rather be a product of the world and its whims, than have the world be a product of the force of our wills.

RISE. And at the sound of our standing the earth will groan.
RISE. And we will break their backs.

And we will stretch for days and miles and years, pulled across the fabric of our hopes and fears.
We'll pay the price, the sacrifice.
Rebels and angels, a storm on white light.
Earth shakers, life takers, passion and purpose makes men of us all.
The slow rotting, the cancerous fear, the corruption, we put a stop to it here.

Brothers in arms to me.
RISE. And at the sound of our standing the earth will groan.
RISE. And we will break their backs with the weight of our will.

Give us insurrection.
Give us something to say.
Give us thirst for vengeance.
And we will break their backs with the weight of our will.

Give us insurrection.
Give us something to say.
Give us thirst for vengeance.
Brothers in arms to me.

RISE. And at the sound of our standing the earth will groan.
RISE. And we will break their backs with the weight of our will.

RISE [2x].

Brothers in arms to me.

5. Prometheus - The Fires Of Deliverance

No weight, no love, resurrected like the sun.
Sight the scope, exhale the smoke.
Heart and hand and eyes move slow.
Pull it back and, pull it back and run.

Deliverance.
Give us your world.
Give us your dreams.
Trampled underfoot.
Bow to the new regime or burn.
Virus empire.
Wolves and sheep the same skin wear.
Blood and lead and the rotting dead.
Bid the vultures come be fed.
Let freedom, let freedom ring.

Deliverance.
Give us your world.
Give us your dreams.
Trampled underfoot.
Bow to the new regime or burn.

Give us your world.
Give us your dreams.
Trampled underfoot.
Bow to the new regime.

Give us your world.
Give us your dreams.
Trampled underfoot.
Bow to the new regime.

Deliverance.
Give us your world.
Give us your dreams.
Trampled underfoot.
Bow to the new regime or burn

6. Cerberus - The Hellhound Awaits

The poet dreams so he cannot let you go.

I feel it breathe deep and slow.
Feed and watch the black dog grow.
Feed him smoke and feed him wine.
Feed him lust and love and lies.
Taste the violence in his throat.
Stare right down the cursed hole.
Of the shadows he is heir.
In your heart he makes his lair.

Cerberus.
I dub you pain.
Three-headed fiend.
A heart in chains.
Shadowed sustained.

The poet feeds with the black dog at his throat.

So swallow hard, force it down.
From the beast reclaim your crown.
Brick him off and seal him up.
Tell yourself the coffin's shut.
Lightning flash and thunder roll.
Grumbling sky it clears its throat.
Pray the storm will keep at bay.
That not dead but locked away.

Cerberus.
I dub you pain.
Three-headed fiend.
A heart in chains.
Shadowed sustained.

Cerberus.
I dub you pain.
Three-headed fiend.
A heart in chains.
Shadowed sustained.
I dub you pain.
Three-headed fiend.
A heart in chains.
Shadowed sustained.

7. Odysseus - A Song Of Hope

Long days and longer nights, they stretch like barren seas.
God only knows if we'll ever see home or if that home remembers me.
We have heard the sirens song and we have braved the hydras maw
A dream of glory gone too far to make a place in history ours.

Servants, strangers, heroes to ourselves
Hearts beat in rhythm as we sail
And I will not die forgotten to this world
Icons and vagabonds, the rulers of this earth

We are the dead
We are the homesick, lost and loveless
Left to live (cause we won't die)
Though stretched and broken we will rise
We are the deaf
But you will hear us sing again
A song of hope (a song of life)
A song to urge the ill advised

We live or die the chosen few to face the early graying dawn
Let history remember us as those who conquered the beyond
Ageless and mighty let our legend outlive time
Warriors and proud men all, you will hear of our lives

Servants, strangers, heroes to ourselves
Hearts beat in rhythm as we sail
And I will not die forgotten to this world
Icons and vagabonds, the rulers of this earth

We are the dead
We are the homesick, lost and loveless
Left to live (cause we won't die)
Though stretched and broken we will rise
We are the deaf
But you will hear us sing again
A song of hope (a song of life)
A song to urge the ill advised, ill advised

Cause we won't die
I will not die

We are the dead
We are the homesick, lost and loveless
Left to live (cause we won't die)
Though stretched and broken we will rise
We are the deaf
But you will hear us sing again
A song of hope (a song of life)
A song to urge the ill advised. [2x]

8. Aries - I Am Vengeance

Apocalypse juggernaut
Engine of war
Piercing your chest with pure hate
Twisting within the great heart of all things
Exist only to obliterate

A cavern of stars
The swallowing maw
Feed of filth and greed
A tower of hate
The tyrant awaits
This juggernaut must feed

I will strike with the vengeance of a thousand hearts
At a world that drew first blood
Pulsing with scorn
A nightmare made flesh
I am vengeance

Tear out your chests, all you sinners and saints
Victims one and all to me
I am the spawn of the end of all things
Reaper of a world diseased

A cavern of stars
The swallowing maw
Feed of filth and greed
A tower of hate
The tyrant awaits
This juggernaut must feed

I will strike with the vengeance of a thousand hearts
At a world that drew first blood
Pulsing with scorn
A nightmare made flesh
I am vengeance

I am vengeance
I am scorn
I am revenge
I am war

I will burn with the heat of a thousand suns
And scorch the very gates of hell
Pulsing with scorn, a nightmare made flesh
I am vengeance

I am vengeance
I am scorn
I am revenge
I am war

I will strike with the vengeance of a thousand hearts
At a world that drew first blood
Pulsing with scorn
A nightmare made flesh
I am vengeance

I will burn with the heat of a thousand suns
And scorch the very gates of hell
Pulsing with scorn, a nightmare made flesh
I am vengeance.

9. Infernus - You Will Move

I am an island
I am pure rage
The sleeping volcanic
The bittersweet end
I am inferno
I am antigravity
I am the absence
Of all but me

You will move [2x]

I am legend
I am legacy
I am the harvest
The bitter sewn seed
I am betrayal
The war of want and need
I am the striking sword
Demanding that you bleed

You will move

10. Nemesis - Give Us This Day (New Version)

Awake the sleeping giant
Laid to rest this world
Be baptized in justice
Let forth your hand
A race born to failure
Delivered Armageddon in the womb
Snakes 'round all our necks, we suffocate in truth

This is a call to the end of time
Death rattles, come bring us the fate
We tire of this world
Its snakes, its charms, its whores
Death rattles, come bring us destruction

Virus rot creation
We the waking plague
Destroyers, usurpers
Give us this day
To rape, burn and plunder
To spit in the face of what we've embraced
Give us justice, give us hell for we await

This is a call to the end of time
Death rattles, come bring us the fate
We tire of this world
Its snakes, its charms, its whores
Death rattles, come bring us destruction

Bring us total annihilation
Bring us total obliteration
Bring snakes
Bring plagues
Bring drought
Bring boils
Disease and war
Bring floods to our doors [2x]

Bring us total annihilation

11. Medea - One Foot In Hell

Nothing more, nothing less
Nothing left to think of you
Beaten down, left for dead
To finish what the world won't do
Half a man, half a face
Half a life, lived half its days
Out of touch, out of place
Out of reasons to stay sane

So I'll take my life from..

You can't take what's left of me
No, I'll take it to my grave
You can't take what's left of me
One foot in hell, the rest will follow soon

Understood, underdressed
Understated, quiet mess
Sick inside, dead end ride
Biding time until we die

So I'll take my life from..

You can't take what's left of me
No, I'll take it to my grave
You can't take what's left of me
One foot in hell, the rest will follow soon

So I'll take my life from..

You can't take what's left of me
No, I'll take it to my grave
You can't take what's left of me
One foot in hell, the rest will follow soon.







THE SHOWDOWN LYRICS