Lamb Of God - Ashes Of The Wake (2004) by Lamb Of God (보컬) on maniadb.com

If there was a single day I could live ..
A single breath I could take
I'd trade all the others away
The blood's on the wall
So you'd might as well just forget it
And bleach out the stains, commit to forgetting it
You're better off empty and blank
ThEn left with a single pathetic trace of this
Smother another failure, lay this to rest

Console yourself, you're better alone
Destroy yourself, see who gives a fuck
Absorb yourself, you're better alone
Destroy yourself

I'll chain you to the truth
For the truth shall set you free
I'll turn the screws of vengeance and bury you with honesty
I'll make all your dreams come to life
Then slay them as quickly as they came
Smother another failure, lay this to rest

Console yourself, you're better alone
Destroy yourself, see who gives a fuck
Absorb yourself, you're better alone
Destroy yourself, see who gives a fuck
Failure

If there was a day I could live
If there was a single breath I could take
I'd trade all the others away

Privileged, a chosen few
Blessed with our time in hell
Witness a divine vision, the day we all fell still
Rapture of the dying age, a shattered hourglass
Wrath of the warring gods and so this too shall pass

It's only getting worse
Not worth a moment's regret
Each dawn another curse
Every breath a twisting blade
What will be left behind in the ashes of the wake?

An ill wind blows this way
The edge of the envelope burns
Forbearance and my vengance
Payment for your intent
Fear and death in the wings
In thrall of those fallen from grace
Petty is as petty does
Witness the mass disgrace

(Fear and death in the wings
In thrall of those fallen from grace
Petty is as petty does
Witness the mass disgrace)

God forbid you read the signs
Watch for meanings between the lines
Gehenna has now arrived
No hindsight for the blind
Your trust has been misplaced
Believed the lies told to your face
Became another casualty and now it's too late

You finally made it home
Draped in the flag that you fell for
And so it goes
The ashes of the wake
It's only getting worse ...

Now you've got something to die for.
Infidel, Imperial
Lust for blood, a blind crusade
Apocalyptic, we count the days.
Bombs to set the people free, blood to feed the dollar tree
Flags for coffins on the screen, oil for the machine
Army of the liberation, gunpoint indoctrination
The fires of sedition
Fulfill the prophecy.

Now you've got something to die for.
Send the children to the fire, sons and daughters stack the pyre
Stoke the flame of the empire, live to lie another day
Face of hypocrisy, raping democracy
Apocalyptic, we count the days.
We'll never get out of this hole until we've dug our own grave
And drug the rest down with us, the burning home of the brave
Burn

Now you've got something to die for

Witness shame's parade
The pain of blame repaid
It's fucking hopeless
Accutsations and denial

Hopeless ... demon of another day
Colorless ... stoned, solide grey
Emptiness ... of promises I made
So faithless ... the tenants long betrayed

Walk the faded line, cursed crawl of time
Silence, the only promise ever kept
Familiar touch, a titual to numb the cut
Salvation in vice
Anguish is realizing what could have been, but never was
It's emptiness that fills the cup
Devotion in the method of my fall

Pointless ...futility continuing
Endless .. flowing corrupted vein.
Walk the faded, cursed crawl of time
It's fucking hopeless
Hopeless

[Intro]
Whoever appeals to the law against his fellow man is either a fool or a coward
Whoever cannot take care of himself without that law is both
For a wounded man shall say to his assalent
"If I live I will kill you, if I die you are forgiven"
Such is the Rule of Honor

Broken the paradigm an example must be set
Invoke the Siren's song and sign the death warrant
This is what has been wrought for 30 pieces of silver
The tongues of men and angels bought by a beloved betrayer

[Chorus]
I am the result, what's better left unspoken
Violence begins to mend, what was broken
You've been talking, I've been all ears

Words meant to dwell in darkness shall never see the light of day
Words can be broken so can bones, execute the mandate
Mouth full of dirt your name removed is from the registry
St. Peter greets with empty eyes then turns and locks the gate

[Chorus]
I am the result, what's better left unspoken
Violence begins to mend, what was broken
You've been talking, I've been all ears
Omerta

Cheaply venal, stupidly verbose
A slip of the tongue, a slit of the throat
Six feet under with no marker
Keep my name from your mouth forever
Free speech for the living, dead men tell no tales
Your laughing finger, will never point again
Omerta
Omerta
Sing for me now

All of this comes crashing down
Cornerstone's gone
Sleepless
Hopeless
No end in sight
Ink well has run dry
Fill it with blood of the scribe

Rest comes easy to the guitless
The vampire laments as he prays for the sun
Doom, despair, tragedy
Are the tool of the trade

Cut to the bone, rob the grave
Unearth the stone, lay to waste
Defile the tome, rip the page
Stripe mine the vein, lay to waste

Frayed at the edge, flat lined
The anvil cracks The hammer
Relentlessly comes down
A new pariah is born

Cut to the bone, rob the grave
Unearth the stone, lay to waste
Defile the tome, rip the page
Stripe mine the vein, lay to waste

Chastisement lays you down to sleep
Tucks you in with bloody kisses
Gifts of nightmares bitter sweet

Type A negative shuts me down
Catch phrase will be the death of me
Is this not what you came to see?
What, are you not entertained?

Climb the walls 'til nails bleed
Rip the hair, tear the seams, break the glass
Head in hands, bell tols endlessly
No end in sight

The eyes of the patriot fixed through the scope
The unknowing tyrant walks to the rope
Its when murder is justice that martyrs are made
A one-gun salute for the new independence day
They'll hallow your name
They'll hallow your name for your sacrifice
The sins of deliverance

"So let the wicked perish in the presence of God"

The sins of the father atoned by the son
Confessions of commitment broken
A nail driven for every one (of them)
Its when murder is justice that martyrs are made
A one-gun salute for the new independence day
They'll hallow your name
They'll hallow your name for your sacrifice
You are the cause, I am the effect
Created in hatred, a noose for your neck
The eyes of the patriot fixed through the scope
The unknowing tyrant walks to the rope
They'll hallow your name

Endless mornings cut by the dawn razor
Whipping the nightmares to a froth
Endless questions with no answers
No replacement for what's been lost

Lost
Everything suffocates in the dust of pase, fortunes squandered
The empire of lies to whome you pandered
Suffer a self-imposed exile, taste the bitter fruits of denial
In the presence of greatness the humble can only bow

Frost on the breath of life
Empty of warmth of light
Full of nothing but deprivation
Eternal winter

Tell me a liewith the best of intetntions
Mute in the age of mass communication
Dark days lead to darker nights
Frozen, out of time
Id dies for the blessed ego, the once mighty laid low

Frost on the breath of life
Empty of warmth or light
Full of nothing but deprivation
You taught hate, I'll teach you fear
Open the eyes, kill despair
You tried to squeeze the life from me
Son of bitch, I'm going to break you

Blank stares from broken men
So withered from the poisons they can't remember when
There were once honest resons
Pretending I'm still here

Justifiy what I've become
Sanctify what I've become

Amazing disgrace ... (how) sweet the sound that saved a wrtch like me
Detter lost if this is found, best blinded never to see
The race to save face, nothing now is what we meant it to be
Pretending I'm still here

It's a system now, intertwined
Take your place in the line to be ground by the gears of the masterpiece
Betrayal

Justifiy what I've become
Sanctify what I've become

Suffered consequence
It's been so long any piece of this made any kind of sense
You anoint the kind, I'll burn everything down to ashes
You givev, I taken away

It's a system now, intertwined
Take your place in the line to be ground by the gears of the masterpiece
Betrayal

We killed a lot of innocent civilians in Baghdad.
To us every civilian was a terrorist in Baghdad.
That makes everybody free game, but if they came in our paremeter, we lit'em up.
When we would search the corpse, we would find nothing. This took place
Time and time again, but that's okay, don't worry about it, because this
Is a new type of war, this is an eradication."

"Personally I believe we're committing genocide over here, I don't
Believe in killing civilians, and I'm not going to kill civilians for
The United States Marine Corp

The dirty lord of the manor surveys his filthy domain
Too many nights raising hell worked a little all too well
Constructed a monument to denail and excess
Sunk so low, crawled so far back there's nowhere left to regress

If these walls could talk, they would tell a horror story
Never-ending winter, ciolence and infidelity
Shadows fall through broken panes
Careless words that are filled with hate
Just enough to keep it together, never enough to make it work
All the tongues here are forked
We are a hailstorm of broken glass, follow the path of least expectance

A huge stinking pile of sick

Pile it higher and higher
Light the match, start the fire
Level this place and take us with it

Surroundings are irate
Crack of dawn brings naught but pain
Resentment steadily grows
Laughing in the gallows
Full throttle determined to fail
Pedal to the metal asleep at the wheel
We are the lucky ones welcome home

Pile it higher and higher
Light the match, start the fire
Level this place and take us with it

Poisoned nerves and bloody antidote
Violence is not and aberration, its a rule
Dying beyond the pale
Your beatings will continue until my morale improves
I don't hate you, I'm just removing an enemy
Remorse is for the dead, my enemy
Remorse is for the dead