TWELVE TRIBES LYRICS

1. National Amnesia

A parasite insurgence called
Systemic blackout is set to go public
Unconscious & Ineffective
We are the specimen –
Induced national cult amnesia

Everyday we fall for it again
Everyday we fall for it again
Everyday we fall for it again
Everyday we fall for it again

Blood and arsenic our syndicate on the cross
Condemned to be saved
Our fear has turned on us
In these times of collapse
We’re killing ourselves

There’s a contract for your soul
And an empty shell
The walls are closing in
And all that you have left
Is the price on your head
Everyday we fall for it again
Everyday we fall for it again
All the blood & the money are all that keeps me content
Salvation won’t prove that I exist

2. Muzzle Order

Conspired across the neck
There’s new incentive for killing the messenger
Your war is our cancer
And I will hold its severed head I swear
Addiction loves the company of repulse
A beating heart will stop at nothing
To bury these words that curse me
I will bury these words

In case you’re right
I am bleeding
When you try to run
I will be there
For the hunted
For the vexation
We are the opposition
For the bleeding to stop
For the hundred thousand eyes shut
We are the cure

Let ‘em run from the sword
Searing through the flames
The serpent and the static between thoughts
I was dead and behold I will rise with the sun
To burn in triumph
With silver on our eyes
The city’s on fire
This city’s on fire
This city’s on fire

In case you’re right
I am bleeding
When you try to run
I will be there
For the hunted
For the vexation
We are the opposition
For the bleeding to stop
For the hundred thousand eyes shut
We are the cure

Let ‘em run
Cut them across the neck
My hands won’t let this fail
Your fate has been released
My heart with never hesitate

3. Televangelist

“Pray we go unharmed in the wake”
Like clockwork these words appear on a prompter
A camera cranes in and the crowds desperately tune in
For our fearless leader to wield the knife
I thank God I’m a witness

And it’s so inspired
On my command
A paid concern, a counterfeit healing
We’ll raise the dead
In the end they devise countless concepts
To renew your faith in the plan

Memorize and repeat the phrase
Look straight ahead and take back your hard earned sympathy
It won’t miss and we’re taking up arms
They won’t know what hit them
When the anesthetic wears off
We’re baiting the vultures
So help us…
That’s the way its always been
There’s a truth we can’t afford to admit

Raise the dead
Send your love & your cash
For the righteous and the dead

And it’s so inspired
On my command
A paid concern, a counterfeit healing
We’ll raise the dead
In the end they devise countless concepts
To renew your faith in the plan
To renew your faith in the plan
To renew your faith in the plan

4. Pagan Self Portrait

When I’m dead and I’ve served this life sentence I will know true love
A sentiment to medicate the silence and security
The my name will have been forgotten like all the rest
I had to give my heart away to bring the damage back again

Has it come to this end; redemption for my crimes
I know life only in my dreams
So what’s left of them is what’s left of me
I have become the lie in your arms
The truth hidden behind these scars
We hurt the ones we love
And send them to meet their god

Return to the moment that you lost
In my heart I’ve seen the end that this world has come to

I held you down under the current
And my intentions were obvious
This is my pulse in the shape of a gun
And I know it’s true love
Because it hurts you so much
If I told you how this would end
Would you listen if I said it’s too late
And you can’t stop this from happening

When I’m dead and I’ve served this life sentence
Love will burn in my eyes
Repent, repair, return
When I’ve paid for what I’ve done
The tides will send you up with my love
Repent, repair, return

Return to the moment that you lost
In my heart I’ve seen the end that this world has to come
We hurt the ones we love
And send them to meet their God

5. History Versus The Pavement

Separate the kids before they kill themselves
They are right in their place under your gun
By the grace of this blessed gasoline
We awoke in the crash

In the wreckage we’ve come to accept
We refuse to be saved
And we’re under falling lights
Captured in the flames

Don’t let it come to this
We were caught looking back at the damage
You were wrong when you said it was over

In the wreckage we’ve come to accept
We refuse to be saved
And we’re under falling lights
Captured in the flames

Lay your conscious down
And forget everything you’ve been told

6. Monarch Of Dreams

[instrumental]

“An inevitable public triumph of the downtrodden is of necessity to a world of ineffectual inhabitants, each one of whom is a monarch of dreams incarcerated in a prison of flesh; and each one of whom is distressed no less by the indifference of nature to his plight, than by the irrelevance of those social orderings he casts into existence…”

7. Librium

Sell all your dying words that keep me here
That keep me running
Sell all your dying thoughts
Run with your eyes closed

Trailing my new kill
I scrape away the tracks that marked me
The dirt tells a story but never leaves the names

The were all born godless and vile

Trailing my new kill
I scrape away the tracks that marked me
You saw the stains from the blood on my teeth
And I believe your killing me is for the best
Because this love eats the love from my chest

I keep all you said inside of me in spite of all you’ve torn apart
And all that it takes to stop repeating is to let go and keep running

8. Verona

This is not an admission of guilt:

Love is a crime in itself
Left with no evidence
But god as my witness
I confess, I confess
I siphoned the ventricle to your heart
Put the blood of a saint in the cup of a liar

There’s nothing to regret
And I don’t intend to be forgiven
For the things that I have done
I’ve become apathetic to no end
Is that how we’ve come this far?

And I’ve been running ever since
Took the pictures from the wall
We can’t go back this time
This time we can’t…
And I’ve been gone I know and
I’m coming this time to your ghost

In spite of our fate there’s still a chance
I’m coming home at your expense
I’m coming home to the wreck
I’m coming home to your ghost
And we can’t go back

And I’ve been running ever since
Took the pictures from the wall
We can’t go back this time
This time we can’t…
And I’ve been gone I know and
I’m coming this time to your ghost

I spared my life, I spared my love
And it’s buried in your flesh
From all that I’ve escaped
A heart that I’ve betrayed
And it’s still a part of you
From all that I’ve escaped
A heart that I’ve replaced
And you’re still a part of me

9. The Nine Year Tide

In a dream we had together
In a vessel of blinding light
I was bleeding from the mouth
You were dressed in someone else

I saw it coming

You were the tempest and I was the storm
You were the archetype of my disgust
Yours were the arms that kept me weighted down
In a vessel of blinding light

The lifeless stare you gave me was all we had left
A chemical releases
A scattered signal

And you confessed

In a vessel of blinding light
The lifeless stare you gave me was all we had left
You were the tempest and I was the storm
You were the archetype of my disgust
Yours were the arms that kept me weighted down

I’m bound to break your fall
To watch you heal
In the stillness before the rising tide

Raise your flag
And you take the guilt from those words you bled
Raise your flag to the sun
In your last attempt you failed us again

I’m bound to break your fall
To watch you heal
In the stillness before the rising tide

And I still have my hope to pretend
That I’m finally breathing
To leave well enough alone was too easy
It was too easy and it swallowed my heart

10. Midwest Pandemic

The dead are coming oh she said son
And they’ll kill again so take comfort in these words
They can’t take you from my arms
Hell is waiting outside beyond these walls
It won’t save your soul to panic at this point

Blessed are the lethargic
For they are cursed to die for your cause

When they come
Hold tight to your father’s gun
And don’t let it go
You’re going to need it when I’m gone
And when I’m gone
Don’t stop shooting them
They won’t spare your heart for being a coward

Blessed are the lethargic
For they are cursed to die for your cause
Pray for us sweet Mary, mother of God
They keep on coming in swarms
They keep on coming in swarms

In the war between God & Man
We are both in contempt
But you won’t remember this and I can’t explain
She said,
“we’re gonna make it..
We’re gonna make it out
We’re gonna make it..
We’re gonna make it out”

I’m not convinced that they won’t stay dead

In the greatest of our despair
The war is not lost
And all your dreams are still on their way
He said,
“We’re gonna make it out
We’re gonna make it out
We’re gonna make it out”

And all your fears will come to pas
As each shell tears you apart
And all your angels will sing your praise
To give you hope for what it’s worth
RUN

11. The Recovery: In Three Parts

[I. God Bless You, Good thief]

[instrumental]

[II. Towers And Vectors]

I called your name and it wasn’t hope
So I’ll leave you to your plague with the force of a sinking ship
There is no rebirth and no coming back from this
It’s here that I am finally home

The world will be devastated

We spared ourselves from burning lights
And could settle for nothing less than to be indestructible
And watch our ship collapse into the sea

Your glorified dominance
Towering over
Your glorified ascendancy
Brought to its knees

Brought to its knees
Bound to the stake
Burned in the flames
Laid to rest

[III. Bridge To The Sun]

Your star still burns the brightest in the sky
I’ll stand on that bridge to the sun
And wait for the end on a chariot
And I want to know this is enough
As I’m staring down into the mouth of God







TWELVE TRIBES LYRICS