that was just your lifethe end of the line

broken, beat & scarredthe day that never comes

all nightmare longcyanide

the unforgiven iiithe judas kiss

suicide & redemptionmy apocalypse

produced by rick rubin

that was just your life

like a siren in my head that always threatens to repeatlike a blind man that is strapped into the speeding driver’s seat. like a face that learns to speakwhen all it knew was how to bite.like a misery that keeps me focused though i’ve gone astray.like an endless nightmare that i must awaken from each day.like conviction a premonitionnot worthy of, so i deny…… i deny.i blind my eyes and try to force it all into place.i stitch them up, see not my fall from grace.i blind my eyes, i hide and feel it passing me by. i open just in time to say goodbye. almost like your life.almost like your endless fight. curse the day is long. realize you don’t belong.disconnect somehownever stop the bleeding now.almost like your fight.and there it went,almost like your life.like a wound that keeps on bleeding to remind me not to think.like a raging river drowning when i only need a drink.like a poisonthat i swallowbut i want the world to die. like a release from prison that i didn’t know i was in.like a fight to live the past i prayed to leave

from way back then.like a general without a mission until the war will start again…… start again.i blind my eyes and try to force it all into place.i stitch them up, see not my fall from grace.

i blind my eyes,i hide and feel it passing me by. i open just in time to say goodbye. almost like your life.almost like your endless fight. curse the day is long. realize you don’t belong.disconnect somehownever stop the bleeding now.almost like your fight.and there it went,almost like your life.like a touch from hell to feel how hotthat it can get if you get caught.like a strike from heaven turns that keyand brings you straight down to your knees.like a touch from hell to feel how hotthat it can get if i get caught.like a strike from heaven to reprieve that brings you straight down to your knees.almost like your life.almost like your endless fight. curse the day is long. realize you don’t belong.disconnect somehownever stop the bleeding now.almost like your fight.and there it went,almost like your life.that was just your life.

the end of the line

need… more and moretainted misery. bleed… battle scarschemical affinity.reign… legacyinnocence corrode.stain… rot awaycatatonic overload.choke… asphyXiasnuff reality.scorch… kill the lightincinerate celebrity.reaper… butcherykarma amputee.bloodline… redefinedeath contagious deity. hooked into this deceiverneed more and moreinto the endless feverneed more and morenew conseQuence machineyou burn through all your gasoline.asylum overtimenevermind… you’ve reached the end of the line.time... choke the clock steal another day.die... faithfullynarcissistic fade away.twisted... jump the railshatter the crowd below.breaker... chase the ghostfrom latest high to alltime low. hooked into this deceiverneed more and moreinto the endless fever

need more and morenew conseQuence machineburn through all your gasoline.asylum overtimenevermind… you’ve reached the end of the line.drop the hourglass of timespilling sand we will not findas we gather here today we bid farewell… the slave becomes the master.the slave becomes the master.the slave becomes the master.the slave becomes the masterneed more and moreright now and everafterneed more and morenew conseQuence machineburn through all your gasoline.asylum overtimenevermind… dead hourglass of timesand we will not ever findwe gather here today say goodbye cause you’ve reached the end of the line.the end of the line.the end of the line.the end of the line.

you’ve reached the end of the line.

broken, beat & scarred

you rise.you fall.you’re down, then you rise again.what don’t kill ya make ya more strong.rise, fall, down, rise againwhat don’t kill ya make ya more strong.rise, fall, down, rise againwhat don’t kill ya make ya more strong.through black daysthrough black nightsthrough pitch black insidesbreaking your teeth on the hard life comin’.show your scars.cutting your feet on the hard earth runnin’.show your scars.breaking your life, broken, beat and scarred but we die hard.the dawn,the death, the fight to the final breath.what don’t kill ya make ya more strong.dawn, death, fight, final breath.what don’t kill ya make ya more strong.dawn, death, fight, final breath.what don’t kill ya make ya more strong.they scratch methey scrape methey cut and rape mebreaking your teeth on the hard life comin’.show your scars.cutting your feet on the hard earth runnin’.show your scars.breaking your life, broken, beat and scarred but we die hardbreaking your teeth on the hard life comin’.show your scars.cutting your feet on the hard earth runnin’.show your scars.bleeding your soul in a hard luck story.show your scars.spilling your blood in the hot sun’s glory.show your scars.breaking your life, broken, beat and scarred we die hard.

the day that never comesborn to push you aroundbetter just stay down.you pull awayhe hits the fleshyou hit the ground.mouth so full of liestend to black your eyes.just keep them closedkeep prayingjust keep waitingwaiting for the onethe day that never comeswhen you stand up and feel the warmthbut the son shine never comes.no, the son shine never comes.push you cross that line,just stay down this time.hide in yourselfcrawl in yourselfyou’ll have your time.god i’ll make them paytake it back one day.i’ll end this day.i’ll splatter color on this gray.waiting for the onethe day that never comeswhen you stand up and feel the warmthbut the son shine never comes.love… is a four letter word,and never spoken here.love… is a four letter word,here in this prison.i suffer this no longer,i’ll put an end to this, i swear.this, i swear. the son will shine.this, i swear,this, i swear,

this, i swear!

all nightmare long

luck. runs. out.crawl from the wreckage one more time.horrific memory twists the mind.dark, rutted, cold and hard to turn.path of destruction feel it burn. still life… incarnation.still life… infamy.hallucination. heresy.still you run, what’s to come, what’s to be.cause we...hunt you down without mercyhunt you down all nightmare longfeel us breathe upon your facefeel us shift, every move we tracehunt you down without mercyhunt you down all nightmare longluck. runs. out. you crawl back in, but your luck runs out.luck. runs. out. the light that is not light is hereto flush you out with your own fearyou hide, you hide but will be foundrelease your grip without a soundstill life… immolation.still life… infamy.hallucination. heresy.still you run, what’s to come, what’s to be.cause we...hunt you down without mercyhunt you down all nightmare longfeel us breathe upon your facefeel us shift, every move we tracehunt you down without mercyhunt you down all nightmare long

luck. runs. out. you crawl back in, but your luck runs out.then you crawl back in,into your obsession.never to return.this is your confession.hunt you down without mercyhunt you down all nightmare longfeel us breathe upon your facefeel us shift, every move we tracehunt you down without mercyhunt you down all nightmare longluck. runs. out.

you crawl back in, but your luck runs out.your luck runs out.

cyanide

sleep and dream of thisdeath angel’s kissbrings final blisscompletelyempty they say,death, won’t you let me stay?empty they say,death, hear me call your name, call your name… suicide i’ve already died.you’re just the funeral i’ve been waiting for… cyanideliving dead inside break this empty shell forever more.wait, wait patientlyyour death black wingsunfolding sleepspreading o’er meempty they say,death, won’t you let me stay?empty they say,death, hear me call your name, call your name… suicide i’ve already died.you’re just the funeral i’ve been waiting for… cyanideliving dead inside break this empty shell forever more.say, is that rain or are they tears?that has stained your concrete face for years.the crying, weeping, shedding strifeyear after year, life after life.

an air of freshly broken ground.a concrete angel lit right down upon the grave which swallows fastit’s peace at last, peace at last!empty they say,death, won’t you let me stay?empty they say,death, hear me call your name, call your name… suicide i’ve already died.you’re just the funeral i’ve been waiting for… cyanideliving dead inside break this empty shell forever more.to end this warto end this warit’s just the funeral i’ve been waiting for.

the unforgiven iii how could he know this new dawn’s lightwould change his life forever?set sail to sea, but pulled off courseby the light of golden treasure.was he the one causing painwith his careless dreaming?been afraid, always afraid,of the things he’s feeling.he could just be gone.he would just sail onhe’ll just sail on.how can i be lost, if i’ve got nowhere to go?search for seas of gold, how come it’s got so cold?how can i be lost? in remembrance i relive.and how can i blame you, when it’s me i can’t forgive?these days drift on inside a fogthick and suffocating.his sinking life, outside its hell.inside, intoXicating.he’s run aground. like his life, water much too shallow.slipping fast, down with his ship, fading in the shadows.now a castaway.they’ve all gone away.they’ve gone away.how can i be lost, if i’ve got nowhere to go?search for seas of gold, how come it’s got so cold?how can i be lost? in remembrance i relive.

and how can i blame you, when it’s me i can’t forgive?forgive me.forgive me not.why can’t i forgive me?set sail to sea, but pulled off courseby the light of golden treasure.how could he know this new dawn’s lightwould change his life forever?how can i be lost, if i’ve got nowhere to go?search for seas of gold, how come it’s got so cold?how can i be lost? in remembrance i relive.so how can i blame you, when it’s me i can’t forgive?

the judas kiss

when the world has turned its backwhen the days have turned pitch blackwhen the fear abducts your tonguewhen the fire’s dead and goneso, what now?where go i?when you think it’s all said and done.when you are the ostracizedselfish ridden dead goodbyestwisting on the tourniQuetwhen the pieces never fitso, what now?where go i?when you think it’s all said and done.bow downsell your soul to mei will set you freepacify your demons bow downsurrender unto mesubmit infectiouslysanctify your demonsinto abyss,you don’t eXist.cannot resist,the judas kiss.when the storm has blacked your skyintuition crucifywhen the ego strips your reign.assassinate the living flame.so, what now?where go i?when you think it’s all said and done.venom of a life insanebites into your fragile veininternalize and decimate patronize and complicate

so, what now?where go i?when you think it’s all said and done.bow downsell your soul to mei will set you freepacify your demons bow downsurrender unto mesubmit infectiouslysanctify your demonsinto abyss,you don’t eXist.cannot resist,the judas kiss.judas lives, recite this vow.i’ve become your new god now.followed you from dawn of timewhispered thoughts into your mind.watched your towers hit the groundlured your children never foundhelped your kings abuse their crownin the heart of feeble manplant the seed of my own planthe strong and powerful will fallfind a piece of me in all…inside you all,so, bow downsell your soul to mei will set you freepacify your demons bow downsurrender unto mesubmit infectiouslysanctify your demonsinto abyss,you don’t eXist.cannot resist,the judas kiss.

suicide & redemption

my apocalypse

claustrophobiccrawl out of this skinheart eXplosivereach in, pull that pinfear thy name: eXterminationdesecrate inhale the fireso we cross that lineinto the gripstotal eclipsesuffer unto my apocalypsedeadly visionprophecy reveal

death magneticpulling closer stillfear thy name: annihilationdesolate inhale the fireso we cross that lineinto the gripstotal eclipsesuffer unto my apocalypsecrushing metal, ripping skin.tossing body, manneQuin.spilling blood, bleeding gas.mangle flesh, snapping spine.dripping bloody valentine.shatter face, spitting glass.split apartsplit apartsplit apartspitspit it out.

what makes me drift a little bit closer?dead man takes the steering wheel.what makes me know it’s time to cross over?born to repeat until i feel.see through the skin, bones they all rattle. future and past, they disagree.flesh falls away, bones they all shatter.i start to see the end. in. me.claustrophobicclimb out of this skinheart eXplosivereach in, pull that pinviolate, annihilateall wounds unto my eyesobliterate, eXterminateas life itself deniedfear thy name as hell awakensdestiny inhale the firebut we’ve crossed that lineinto the gripstotal eclipsesuffer unto my apocalypsetyrant awaken my apocalypse.demon awaken my apocalypse.heaven awaken my apocalypse.suffer forever my apocalypse.

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