THE TALE OF MY DEFEAT LYRICS

1. Inhibitions

Another stone cast upon the unforgiven
The dead will walk alone
Now I feel this in my heart and I feel it in my bones
We're never coming home
I have left my heart in the depths of the unknown
When everything abandons me, my pride won't let go

What is pride without ignorance?
Restitution in a violent mess
Throwing caution to the wind
Cast the soul into destruction and disarray
Day after day
These inhibitions that have left me just won't seem to go away

This world doesn't need another martyr
Trying to keep me alive, another love to find
The ship will sail when the sea calls it to the depths
At the the mercy of my bloodshot eyes
I'll wait forever just to find clarity in failure
Ready for your grand untimely death

You can choke on your lies
This isn't who I am
It's not how I'm meant to die
Praying to spare my life (praying to spare my life)
Look into my fucking eyes
Where is all my pride?

Crippled by our final mistakes and every last regret I have
I'm willing, willing to hold my tongue
For all the words will come
In time for me to explain all I've done
Crippled by our final mistakes and every last regret I have
I'm willing, willing to shut my mouth
Silence will pull me in
And grip me till I find the peace that comes with the end

Lock on to paradise

No shackles
Born to cross the line
Your mantra catechized to life

Why am I still alive?
Why am I still alive?

Make this easy on me, these fractured lives we lead
Waiting for rats to feed on the romantics and the irony that haunts me
Day after day
These inhibitions that have left me just won't seem to go away
Where's my pride?
When did it all die?

2. Revulsion

Where is the spine that I want behind me?
Everyday it seems to slither right by me

Another day, another wasted chance
These days the chance is that I’m not even worth a second glance
Take it back, take it back, the day I’m worth the time
Hiding in the shadows never made up for the crimes

We’re losing sight of the underground
I’m lost, I can’t find my way back out
You can die in a grave that you made if you think I will be here forever
Give me the strength to resign this pretense

Losing ground, nobody knows what happens now
We’ve lost all but foundation, no one make a sound
One look at this disguise
It falls apart and meets the Earth, seam by seam

We’ll make up for what we see
We’ll let the hatred guide our actions, no sympathy
Pick out the errors, revulsion I can’t shake
Statues carved, our lives reshaped

Never gave a thought to what you never had to be
Nobody knows what happens now

We’re losing sight of the underground
I’m lost, I can’t find my way back out
You can die in a grave that you made if you think I will be here forever
Give me the strength to resign this pretense

We'll make up for what we see
We'll let the hatred guide our actions, no sympathy
Pick out the errors, revulsion I can't shake
Statues carved, our lives reshaped
One day I’ll know what I want to be
Till then I’ll do what makes me happy
A single motion can bring this to its knees

Onto dawn, march!

And onto violence, red and violet
When will you leave me be, when will you let me leave?
When will leave my dreams, when will you leave me?
Why won’t you leave me?

We’ll make up for what we see
We’ll let the hatred guide our actions, no sympathy
Pick out the errors, revulsion I can’t shake
Statues carved, our lives reshaped
We’ll make up for what we see
You never gave a thought, no sympathy

Who will survive?

3. Standards

I stand on one final error
One plan that felt all wrong
I’m losing all salvation to one single fucking flaw

You’ll take my honor when I’m gone
So come fucking get it

The plan in motion
Drain my veins till they run dry
Remove emotion before his eyes
And leave him there: hopeless, and aimless,
Send him out with an elaborate lie
Use him only for the greed we feed and then leave him out to die

This fight can’t end with the life I’ve led
Defiled lust for the price of cheap success

I want my heart back
I want my reason to live
I’ll find salvation if it kills me in the end
Rotting in the isolation it calls me to defend
Resignation of ephemeral fear
An invitation from the ones who pull us near

Disgrace of time
Envy of devils alive
Nobody told me that this road would be so long
This is a sign, hope dies when good wills collide
Everything we do sends us further into the depths of our lives
In a world above the law
I am a liar, a cheater and a stealer that is never gonna help my lost cause

No fear in loss over everything I have done
But this is all I’ve got
But this is all I've got
I’ll give my all just to see your face
But the motivation slips so far from me

I want my heart back
I want my reason to live
I’ll find salvation if it kills me in the end
Rotting in the isolation it calls me to defend
Resignation of ephemeral fear
An invitation from the ones who pull us near

Run!

4. In Case Anything Happens

Tell me what it’s like to wanna die!

Dig a hole, carve my name into a stone
I wanna find a peace, that I have never known
On faith I can’t rely, open the sky
Why would I want to live another day, goodbye

Hold me back from my pride and my fear
There’s a place for every person, mine was never here
And when it’s time I’ll make it right, I swear
Don’t cry no more, not a single tear
It’s not you, it never was, it’s every part of me
I’ve never felt complete
It’s all I ever think
Every moment, every vision I see
What would this world want to do with me?
Deception of the mind that I’m still alive
I never felt it for a second, was it all I lie?
I’ll find the dividing line where my anger and ambition combine

You’re running away from reality without a single soul to blame
Take life for granted with your pointless words and selfish actions
Thinking they don’t care, it’s insecurity that you imagined
So they can watch me as I soar through the sky
The final countdown, walking towards the light

Think you can hide?

Hold me back from my pride and my fear
There’s a place for every person, mine was never here
And when it’s time I’ll make it right, I swear
Don’t cry no more, not a single tear!
It’s not you, it never was, it’s every part of me
I’ve never felt complete
It’s all I ever think
Every moment, every vision I see
What would this world want to do with me?

There’s no lines or words that can stop me from walking out

Look at the stars at night, as your universe divides
Nothing!

You say that you’re the one to fall and be the victim
Victimizing everyone you’ve ever loved
To show no remorse for all the heavy hearts you’ve hurt
You prove that you never deserved your life at all







THE TALE OF MY DEFEAT LYRICS