THE SHOWDOWN LYRICS

1. Fanatics And Whores

You with the bible belt buckling the knees of the world
And you rattletrap dogma in tow
You with the tie and that smile green in your eyes
Selling Jesus on your TV show

Fanatics and whores
And rumors of war
Bring us collapse
This breath, these bones can take no more.

Pious and blind you are the thorn in and the spear in the side
Of the body you would claim to believe
We are revolt we are the fire in our father’s eyes
Your Armageddon only set us free
OH YEAH
You won’t forget us
And we won’t be satisfied
Till we bring in down
Down around that self serving smile

2. Head Down

Lovesick and lost and cold and lonely
With a gutful of nothing
And I’m long since past my limit
But my fuse is just a string
Friend you’ve shown my ever lonely
Trapped and pinned beneath your wing
Fear that takes the heart and shake
And now it’s left its hooks in me

Lay my head down
Breathe the dream of darkness on its way
But I’m not afraid
Put my head down just believe the scars were worth the pain
Cause I’m not afraid

Life and love and ever after
All I’d say and all I’d sing
Wash it down and starve it back
To sleep tonight and not to dream
Death and taxes forth and back
We go from sin to deadly sin
And I don’t know what the attraction is
But I don’t see and end

3. Six Feet Under

We are you shield, the line drawn in the sand
We take your bullets and we make your stand
A scattershot payment
For each and every sin

Through storms of lead
We’ve screamed and bled
Don’t tread on me she said
We’re all unclean
From all I’ve seen
Oh God wash this from my hands

We’re mice and men and might have been
Our heavy hearts beating like thunder
The bastard sons brought home again
Our heart beats still we’re six feet under

Nobody knows the trouble we’ve been
Or if well ever get back again
A scattershot prayer
God save us and amen

4. We Die Young

Move in circle and unwind
Feel the rhythm and the lines
Are you satisfied?
Feel the need and just collide
Swear your best intent and ride
Into the edge of night

And run
Live so fast you come undone
Cause we die young
Bright as stars we fade as one
So run

Talk in circles and entwine
Tell your breath carry your mind
Are you satisfied?
Doe you feel alive
Tired tongue and aching chest
What it takes outdoes your best
Death redraws the line
Do you feel alive?
Or run live so fast you come undone
Cause we die young
Bright as stars we fade as one
You’ll always run
Live so fast you come undone
And we die young
Bright stars we fade as one

5. Breath Of The Swamp

This is the voice of disquiet
A blue collar massacre
Calling up from the bell of the south
We will be heard throw it in gear
You wanna drive us down
But you’re losin’ it, you’re losin’ it
You’re losin’ it in the curves

Put it in the red
Outlaws on the run
Straight outta the southland
Here we come
Put it in the red
Burn the concrete black and run
Straight outta the southland
It’s the breath of the swamp

This is the voice of the choir
Well versed in songs of wrath
Voiced in long hard days
Voiced in helpless rage no more
Drop the hammer
Still trying to break our backs
But you’re losin’ it, losin’ it
You’ve lost your grip on us

Put it in the red
Outlaws on the run
Straight outta the southland
Here we come
Put it in the red
Burn the concrete black and run
Straight outta the southland
It’s the breath of the swamp

We speak it curls around your neck
Just like the breath of the swamp

6. It Drinks From Me

Daddy toasts the mourning, daddy toasts the night
Daddy can’t remember more than getting by
Mama blacks the night out, mama shakes and stares
Mama can’t remember just how they got there

It drinks from me and I drink from you

Daddy’s more than gone now, rode the trigger god knows where
Sad she can’t remember ‘cause he was never there
Mama drowns in whiskey, tries to choke her shame
Sometimes she’ll remember, sometimes it just rains

It drinks from me and I drink from you

Love ain’t the bottom of a bottle
Cause love is in the aftermath
But love is easier to swallow
Than giving up and looking back

It drinks from me
And I’m through

7. Temptation Come My Way

I’m torn and I’m ripped in temptations wake
I’ve lived half a life I’m desires slave
Of love and of lust and of life he speaks
In thrall I’m the victim until it sleeps
I’m bound to this Medusa blind or stone
I’m held at the mercy of the unknown
Can’t shake the black hearted, still I roam
Can’t change how it started, the beast comes home

You choke like smoke
And define like a stain
You reign and the flood
Washes all but my name away
Temptation come my way
Temptation takes the day
Hey hey this is the lid to my coffin case
You lay six feet of deep just to separate
Pine tar and pitch and a rusted hinge

What’s left of a life that temptation spent
Hey, hey, you are the storm and the sun will drown.
I love, to love the way that you let me down.
And if I ever strut bring me right back down
Remind me today that temptations still in town

8. Forget My Name

Gone like a bullet
I’m burnin’ quick and clean
Ride like an outlaw and like a king
Living’ electric
It makes a man outta me
I’m comin’ loose and I’m cutting your strings
The black hearted
Had better stay clear of me
I’ll drop the whole sorry place to it’s knees
I gotta get out
This town was never for me
I wanna walk like a man and die free
Oh it’s cocked and loaded and it’s comin’ for me
Got me runnin’, runnin’
So give me two or three steps mister and I’ll be
Long gone

Forget my name
That ain’t my face
I ain’t come back and I can’t come down
To that same old place in that lonely town
Forget my name
Just ain’t my day
I ain’t coming back and I can’t come down
Can’t keep my head in the sand
With my feet on the ground

One in the chamber
And two in the clip
Do what I have to die on my feet
I’m clearing leather
White knuckled the grip
My resolve just as hard as my steel
Stare down the barrel
A steady grip at the end
Clear me a path or you’ll be my next meal
My name is deadly
But you can call me the breeze
Shakin’ dust, don’t want you on my heel

9. Spitting In The Wind

She slides
Alive like a picture come unbound
And when you dance the world could never let you down
Alive yeah
You dance and your feet outstrip the ground
And you come undone
When you come around

And I don’t care if you don’t mind
If you don’t mind that I don’t care
So we’ll just cruise between the lines
And keep on spitting in the wind

I ain’t ready to ride I ain’t ready to fall
But you don’t get it

She rides
And smiles her breath becomes a sound
And she holds tight
And we dance as the sky comes down

And I don’t care if you don’t mind
If you don’t mind that I don’t care
So we’ll just cruise between the lines
And keep on spitting in the wind

I ain’t ready to ride I ain’t ready to fall
But you don’t get it

10. I, Victim (Here’s To the Year)

Blacking out
Spitting gravel grinding teeth
Coming home
To just how desperately we need
Bloodshot eyes
Half filled holes and weakened knees
This is consequence
This is shredding skin

We’re so obvious
Sharpen rocks to break our fall
So obedient
To what bend and breaks us all
We’re just passengers
Biding time between the lines
Here’s to the year
Here’s to nothing at all

Disconnect
Vertigo will serve you yet
Streetlight sick
Daylight never felt so dead
It’s not personal
But the crosshairs stays on you
We give you victim hood
Do with it what you will

We’re so obvious
Sharpen rocks to break our fall
So obedient
To what bend and breaks us all
We’re just passengers
Biding time between the lines
Here’s to the year
Here’s to nothing at all

11. Carry On Wayward Son

12. Death Finds Us Breathing

I would sleep without dreams
And know everything
As death finds us breathing
And all but believing
We sleep and we dream
In the arms of the sea
Drowning in days

Ungrateful, the lifeless, the ocean held in sway
Torrential, a creature but for faith
As we breathe in and lash out, a juggernaut of days
Release us unto death, oh release us this age

Plunge us into the deep
Left anchored with dreams
As death finds us pleading
For all we believed in
We breathe in the sea
And our lungs feel deceived
Cause the drowning can’t leave

Count our lungs deceived (plunge us into the deep)
The drowning cannot leave (and take our breath away)







THE SHOWDOWN LYRICS