Lyrics


Updated 10:15:05


Adversary
Tabula Rasa
Nightmare Unending
Doomed to Fail
Fusion
Black Violets (A Lament)
The Science of Violence
Dying Whore Factory
Unheard
Chainsaw Anthem
In Darkness I Wait
Hangman
Most People Just Die
Only Assholes Play Grindcore
Pit Maneuver
Sea of Razors
Dead Girls Can't Smile


Adversary
lyrics: Shapiro. music: Croteau, Belliveau, Hall, Howe.

Mockery; A martyr you're not.
Self obession renders you lifeless and opaque.

Your pathetic delusions of grandeur tighten my tourniquet.
And your malignant existance tightens my tourniquet.
For every last word I can never take back - tighten my tourniquet.

I know what's the truth.

Surrender to me.
The weak-willed fear confrontation
And conversations
Just like this.

I know what's the truth.

I will be your undoing.


Tabula Rasa
lyrics: Shapiro. music: Belliveau, Croteau, Hall, Howe.

Stories of untold vengeance now come to pass
The golden brilliance of this world was never meant to last

Locked in this embrace of hate
We are frozen forever

The flowers of fate bloom death
An icy apocalypse awaits
I pray for the murder of the sun and the blackest of dawns
Erase the sky.

May the skies rain carnage.
Lay blight across this land.
May the skies rain carnage.
Awaken the terror in man.

Shimmering vessels of what we once were
Are now the landscape of a world cleansed of impurities
Purge me clean


Nightmare Unending
lyrics: Belliveau/Shapiro. music: Belliveau, Croteau, Hall, Howe.

I can't awaken from this dream
This place shrouded in darkness
Nothing here is what it seems

Now.
Now is the time.
To make my escape.

Your atrocities
Condemned me here.
Betrayal, deceit, lies and secrets.
I will forgive, but never forget
Black clouds are beginning to clear

These broken remains
He will piece back together
He will awaken me from
This nightmare unending.

New life siphoned from above
Harness the power and overcome
Stand with me and clench your fists
Together we will rise above

Why has this taken forever?
Released by your lifeless hands
I've been taken from you
Never to return, never again.

Awaken me.


Doomed to Fail
lyrics: Belliveau/Shapiro. music: Croteau, Belliveau, Hall, Howe.

Predisposed to break the oath
A promise of futile integrity
My broken foundation for all to see
You have awakened the beast in me

Blindsided by your wandering eyes
Why wasn't I enough for you?
Acting on impulses without reservation
Why am I not enough for you?

We were doomed to fail
Your heart beats so cold
We are doomed to fail
My heart beats no more

Now I'm ruined because of you
Stripped of all my faith
My soul of purest form
Forever shattered by you

I look through these empty eyes
To the sky I look for a sign
A sign
Externally eluded by your disguise
By your disguise, by your disguise, by your disguise
A sign for your return to me


Fusion
lyrics: Belliveau/Shapiro. music: Belliveau, Croteau, Hall, Howe.

"Fuck!"

Infect me with your every way
And lift away the veil of obscurity
Broken wings mended to perfection
My restoration through her purity

When you give me one more taste
It's ten-fold that I adjure you
Please forgive me for my honesty
And embrace this newfound gluttony

The past has now become itself
I can't deny you burning inside
So let's fuse ourselves together
And fall victim to one another

My heart is giving donations
Accept another token as you go
Tread me with caution and remember this
As my heart becomes your home


Black Violets (A Lament)
lyrics: Shapiro. music: Croteau, Belliveau, Hall, Howe.
All those violins, they're playing for you
All the saddest songs from violet to blue
All the lies about yourself you want to be true
All those things you hate are inside of you

You can't just call off a hit.
That which cannot be undone
You can't just call off a hit.
Smoldering in pain
Sealed is your fate

Violently trembling
You can't just push the pain away
screaming, you can't stop the screaming
Your lungs collapse from trying to drown out your feelings

She cries when the guilt builds up inside
Her soul yearns to be purified
But it takes so much more to earn your penance these days
An emotional grenade cast into the fray

We both knew how this would end.


The Science of Violence
lyrics: Shapiro. music: Croteau, Belliveau, Hall, Allen.
I draw the line
As clear as night and day
No more tolerance
For all of you
Bastards

Nightfall brings the last stand of sincerity
Nothing has ever been more true than this

And now...
Violence

This one's for all the fakes
Men who have the tongues of snakes
cheating, lying, sneering, motherfucking
backstabbers obsessed with self benefit
These are not hollow threats

And now...
Violence.

For all the fakes.

I've been silent my life through
Swing at every one of you
Bless me for now I have sinned
Rape the world with violence.

For all the fakes.


Dying Whore Factory
lyrics: Shapiro. music: Hall, Allen, Belliveau, Croteau
Selling your soul for a change of scenery and a pack of cigarettes
Isolate the works, incapicitate the flux
Don't you wish you could?

A metaphorical wrench in the gears of your dying whore factory
Pushing my thumbs slowly into the bloody eye socket of society

Remote control for a change of scenery and an ad for cigarettes
Isolate the works, incapicitate the flux
Don't you wish you could?

...and maybe I'll never understand
why we kill the ones we love.

Without pain, there is no joy.
It seems
we build the things that help us destroy
ourselves

I've seen her
White, pale skin from afar
I've seen her
A pretty face, crisscrossed with scars

...and If I remember correctly,
All my memories ended pretty badly
Close the book, nobody cares how the chapter ends.
No one is reading the words anyway.

A metaphorical wrench in gears of your dying whore factory
Pushing my thumbs slowly in the bloody eye socket of society

...and maybe I'll never understand
why we kill the ones we love.


Unheard
lyrics: Shapiro/Hall/Rosbury. music: Hall, Belliveau, Allen, Croteau
The greatest weights often are shouldered alone, unnoticed
Stabbed in heart by everyday
ambiguity - Mundane and unappreciated
When the days just stop
The best gift we could hope for, a second chance

It's my life

Cry out to darkness
A child alone.
Solitude, your beacon.
Sadness, your throne.

It's my life

You wear on your face
What we keep to ourselves
The desperate are driven
to torture themselves

This is visceral, This is all I have
That connects me to the outside world
Beautiful paradox, my exposition's only this
No hope for second chances, cross my heart and slit my wrists

Now, see how vanity has killed all your friends.
Now, see how vanity has killed all your friends.

Your cries shall go
Unheard



Chainsaw Anthem
lyrics: Shapiro. music: Allen, Hall, Belliveau, Shapiro, Rosbury.
You don't need
ESP
to know what
I'm thinking

I'll rip you apart
Motor burning gasoline
Saw blades and arms
Find yourself an amputee

Chainsaw
Through your walls
Chainsaw
Through your skull

Now you'll make me smile
Gore
Blood everywhere
Each tooth chewing through what you are

As I succumb to madness
I've never known such peace
So gentle and serene
This brutal murder scene

A sadist's serenity
Embrace all that you fear
A sadist's serenity
Destroy all you hold dear

Death from above
The smell of oil and fresh meat
Eviscerated
Displaying your contents for all to see

Chainsaw
Through your walls
Chainsaw
Through your skull

Now you'll make me smile
Gore
Blood everywhere
Each tooth chewing through what you are

Just know this:

I've come for your blood;
I've come to kill you


In Darkness I Wait
lyrics: Shapiro. music: Shapiro, Belliveau, Hall, Allen.
In memory of Andy Conn

What can I say to make sense of this?
What can I say that hasn't already been said?
Speechless, all is still.

What I'd give to turn back the clock
Anything to change this fate

All the opportunities gone to waste
All your potential has been displaced

In this life, all we have is one another
All that's left is what you've given me
I shall hold you in my heart
(You are with me still)
I shall hold you in my heart always.

For I shall bear this guilt forever

In this life, all we have is one another
All that's left is what you've given me
I shall hold you in my heart
(You are with me still)
Now and always.

I would trade my life for yours.

Now golden petals fall from the trees
As the sky begins to weep
From the ashes you'll rise
We're only a lifetime away

In darkness I wait
as the fragments slip through my hands...

 

Hangman
lyrics: Shapiro. music: Hall, Allen, Rosbury, Belliveau.


This is for every bullet that you've left lodged in my chest
And this is for every promise I believed when I should have second guessed
This is for all the trust that I ever wasted on you
This is my goodbye to say that we're through

See me and know me for who I once was
That light burns inside me no more
See through the grief that I've made with my flaws
I have no heart anymore
See through to the
end
of
my
war

You are the knife that bleeds me time and time again
You are the coffin that I'll soon find myself in
You are the amphetamines forcing my heart to beat
You are the very reason I accept my perpetual defeat.

You always wanted me to write you a song, I hope you know I kept my word
You're like a disease in me for which there is no cure
And I've let time deceive me, thinking you were my only hope
A game where I play the hanging man, and you get to play the rope

You've made me cry, you've made me sigh, yet I always stood right by your side
To think that I'd still love you, knowing one day you'd leave me to die
Sure enough that day came and went, and as I lie here beseeching the sky
Unable to lift the burden of my own regret, always questioning why.

Bleach out this heart of mine until I feel no more.

...And hopelessness consumes me again
as your face fades from my memory

See me and know me for who I once was
That light burns inside me no more
See through the grief that I've made with my flaws
I have no heart anymore
See through to the
end
of
my
war

With warmest regards I bid you farewell.

And you are cordially
invited
to witness
my downfall

I have no heart anymore
I have no heart anymore
I have no heart anymore
I have no heart.


Most People Just Die
lyrics: Shapiro/Rosbury. music: Belliveau, Hall, Rosbury, Allen.
When she fucked you
Did she say she loved you too?
When she fucks you
Does she say she loves you too?

When I sleep at night you're gone
But every night I see your face
When I sleep at night you're gone
But every night I dream of dying

Most people just die before they endure what I have survived
Most people just fucking die.

You fucking parasite
Drink until these veins run dry
You fucking parasite
Gaze upon me with cataract eyes
you fucking parasite

Here's my heart
Served cold, I'll heat it up
If you just push start
I'll give you the knife if you promise to cut
Pull it in
Push it in
Fuck me in the heart

When I sleep at night you're gone
But every night I see your face
When I sleep at night you're gone
But every night I dream of dying

Most people just die before they endure what I have survived
Most people just fucking die.

When she fucked you
Did she say she loved you too?
When she fucks you
Does she say she loves you too?

So sweet, so sweet you're not
Every kiss I spit back in your face
For I taste blood on your lips
It seeps from my skin; It's my disgrace

Just because this is suicide
Doesn't mean that you didn't kill me

I'll rip these bad parts out of me
I'll cut away each and every memory right out of my skull
I'll gouge away at all the shame that you left me with
I'll tear you out of me


Only Assholes Play Grindcore
lyrics: Shapiro. music: Shapiro.
You fucking asshole.
Only assholes play grindcore.
blah blah blah
grrrrrrrr
You still suck.


Pit Maneuver
lyrics: Shapiro. music: Hall, Belliveau, Allen, Rosbury.
Among the restlessness
We see the wasted breath
Youth squandered on the young
Drunk on our own regrets

Compassion may one day prevail
Silence the storms in our chests
Until then, I face each demon on my own

Embrace this life
before it's time to rest
Taste life for this day
for soon it shall end
It's been said before
Our time is now
No more lamenting for yesterday
No more opportunities to cast down

As the
hours melt away
you're still
caught in the same place
Complaining about
what the world owes you when all you're left with is what you gave
All you're left with is what you gave

And I will carry on until the road has claimed my bones
I'll be there to watch it all end
Just running this closed circuit course
Marked with the graves from those before
It doesn't make much sense

Please let there be a way out of here
Out of my grasp, yet I shall never stop reaching

And I will carry on until the road has claimed my bones
Until the bitter end.

Just try and hold us back
Just try and hold us back
Just try and hold us back
Just try and hold us back
You'll never hold us back

Life can't end here

They never said it would be so unfair (so unfair)
They never said it would be like this (like this)

Build up these walls of anger until
you can no longer stand yourself inside.

You know they've won
When you're just like them
You know they've won
When you're just like them

I won't be like them
I won't give in...
I'll never let them win
I'll never give in


Taste life for this day
For Death's not far
behind you

We live.
Then we decay.

There's no such thing...

There's no such thing
as impossibility anymore.

There's no such thing...

transcend impossibility


Sea of Razors
lyrics: Shapiro. music: Belliveau, Hall, Rosbury, Allen.
She used to seem so innocent
I used to think she was harmless
Dressed for disaster
White knuckles, blackhearted.
Caring about you was like swimming in a sea of razors
I've lied to myself so much that I've become a stranger

(Damned if I don't
Revile in the face of failure)

Call on me... (call on me)
For the touch of my pale heart to yours
Share with me... (share with me)
The pleasure of your suffering (suffering)
CRUSHED!
under the weight of this cross I bear
look into my eyes, you'll see there's nothing there.
CRUSHED!
under the weight of this cross I bear

She was a hurricane
Faster than the pulse of a
palpitating city

Doom being the name
of the whore she rode in on

(Bitterness consumes the bloody wake)
Aftermath:
Ships left sinking in the horizon,
I let her ghost become a memory
I'm haunted
and left sickened
by the taste of
FUCKING FAILURE
every time don't we swear
it won't happen again

Shatter the synapse
Split at the seams
We're being eaten alive
By this sweet disease

Loveless, I crawl back inside myself tonight
LET THE LYING LOVERS DIE TONIGHT

As fast as the curse falls from my tongue
So shall you face consequence for what you've done
As I dissect every second of this
Each moment an eternity in the abyss


Dead Girls Can't Smile
lyrics: Shapiro. music: Belliveau, Hall, Allen, Rosbury.
Excuse me, but my face is up here.

I climbed the highest spinal column I could find
and hung myself on her heartstrings

The story should have ended there, but...
The whiskey's been doing the talking for quite some time now

But I meant it when I said:
Don't ever touch me;
You don't know where I've been

So pardon me for venting
Because I'm still in denial that nobody cares
Our feelings only complicate the fact
That life can be very easily broken down to a simple if/then statement

Sometimes, when it gets cold
I try to forget where the river goes
Flowing rich with
Tormented souls

Behind the falls
Cascading with pain
A body full of bullet holes
Behold the corpse of hope

I feel it take hold
I feel I'm losing control
This is malice
This is why I'm on fire

You're going underground tonight.

You get the best seats in the house.
How's the dirt down there?
I see why you only (kill) (fight) (fuck) trust yourself.
At least you'll die beautiful