Demo (2012)

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credits

released 17 September 2012
Jesse Halstead - Vocals
Jason Snyder - Guitar
Patches O'Brayer - Bass
Christopher Conley - Keys
Grant Gurnett - Drums

Recorded and mixed by Jason Snyder at Raw Dog Studios.

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Track Name: Unholy
Unholy

-Verse (Part One)-
I've seen you operate; make people pay
To see the pearly gates
And how can you play God? How can you know
If a stranger is saved?

-Verse (Part Two)-
You can't fool me
(I see right through you)
Like a martyr
(I will die to prove)
Only pious
(Won't face damnation)
Even rich men
(Can't buy salvation)

-Verse (Part One)-
What lead you to believe that all this wealth
Would cleanse you of your sins?
One day you'll have to face this simple fact:
Redemption lies within

-Verse (Part Two)-
Retribution
(Meets you with vengeance)
It's too late to
(Beg for repentance)
Choose the scripture
(You'd like to omit)
Don't you beg for
(Your soul; you've sold it)

-Chorus-
Come unholy
It kills you slowly
No one wants to die
Bring unholy
You're scared and lonely
And no one wants to fry
In hell

-Bridge-
Take me over Jordan
Take me over home
Take me to my father
Take me where the lilies grow
Save me from the fire
Save me from the brimstone
They come to take me from my savior
They come to drag me down to hell

-Solo-

-Verse (Part One)-
You've had a chance to have eternal life
And chose a lake of fire
One day you'll have to face this dismal fact:
You're doomed when you expire

-Verse (Part Two)-
Breathe the sulfur
(Inhale the venom)
For damnation
(Is more than legend)
Blood is boiling
(As you succumb to)
This dementia
(That you've been put through)

-Chorus-
Come unholy
It kills you slowly
No one wants to die
Bring unholy
You're scared and lonely
And no one wants to fry
In hell
Track Name: Prophet's Warning
Prophet's Warning

-Verse-
There's nothing left to call our own
Watching us all as we fall
Why did this all happen to such a good man?
Standing so tall, never fall
Can't see the end, hard to pretend that we won't
Watching us all as fall back out in vein

-Chorus-
I know it's hard but it still remains
No one can tell you anything
But you should know by now that
Nothing will ever be the same

-Verse-
He told us all that we would fade
Standing so tall, never fall
The world knows his name, we play his youthful game
Standing so tall, then we fall back out in vain

-Chorus-
I know it's hard but it still remains
No one can tell you anything
But you should know by now that
Nothing will ever be the same

-Solo-

-Chorus-
I know it's hard but it still remains
No one can tell you anything
But you should know by now that
Nothing will ever be the same
Track Name: Believe in Nothing
Believe In Nothing

-Verse-
They will come like a thief in the night to whisk away all that you believe in
Though you try to run, though you take your flight, they will find something to redeem them
Would you take it in? Would you let it out? Would you need something to believe in?
Could you call his name? Should you cease to shout, they would need someone to redeem them.

-Chorus-
Would you risk it all on a leap of blind faith?
Do you need something to believe in?
Would you change your ways to attempt to feel safe?
Do you need something to believe in?

-Verse-
Make a case for the rest of your race. Pious, dumb and always very faithful
Set an example before it's too late, this is real, there's no time to be playful
When you take a step, and you fall straight down, you would love for someone to catch you
So step away from this hallowed ground, you unworthy bag of flesh and sinew

-Chorus-
Would you risk it all on a leap of blind faith?
Do you need something to believe in?
Would you change your ways to attempt to feel safe?
Do you need something to believe in?

-Bridge-
Oh, you have to see it
Oh, you have to feel it
Oh, you have to need it
No, you'll never see it

-Verse-
With an iron grip, and a bitten lip, you will find something to believe in
In this massive world, in this maddening place, you will need someone to believe in
Does it all go black? Do you lose your mind? Is death nothing more than sleeping?
Take a look inside and I think you'll find that you've lost all of your reason

-Chorus-
Would you risk it all on a leap of blind faith?
Do you need something to believe in?
Would you change your ways to attempt to feel safe?
Do you need something to believe in?
Would you risk it all on a leap of blind faith?
Do you need something to believe in?
Would you change your ways to attempt to feel safe?
Do you need something to believe in?
Track Name: Hollow
Hollow

Verse
And I'm not open for anything
Not open for anything
In life I try to find what's inside
I lost almost everything
I left all of those behind
To die no one to hear your cries
You never knew anything
You take all of those you can

Pre-Chorus
Memories will fucking haunt you
Memories will never let you go
Can't you see that the damage done here's
far too much for you to bestow?
Memories will fucking haunt you
Memories will never let you go
Can't you see that the damage done here's
far too much for you to bestow?

Chorus
I won't fail
(Even though I want it)
I'll take what's left
(To leave me haunted)
As I hope for life
(So hard to swallow)
I'll take what's left
(To leave me hollow)

Verse
And you left all of those behind
It seems like a shameful crime
To those who have to live your life
Why couldn't you see the light
That tormented you inside
No one around to hear your cries
Would you believe in crime?
Cruel memories behind

Pre-Chorus
Memories will fucking haunt you
Memories will never let you go
Can't you see that the damage done here's
far too much for you to bestow?
Memories will fucking haunt you
Memories will never let you go
Can't you see that the damage done here's
far too much for you to bestow?

Chorus
I won't fail
(Even though I want it)
I'll take what's left
(To leave me haunted)
As I hope for life
(So hard to swallow)
I'll take what's left
(To leave me hollow)

-Bridge-

Chorus
I won't fail
(Even though I want it)
I'll take what's left
(To leave me haunted)
As I hope for life
(So hard to swallow)
I'll take what's left
(To leave me hollow)
Track Name: Breaking Away
Breaking Away

-Verse-
Trying his luck with the rest of his faith today
He found it himself; for the final time he prayed
His life was cut short and finally stripped away
But how could you watch as he slowly went insane?

-Chorus-
As I break away
Will I fade away?
As I break away
Will I stay the same?

-Verse-
Followed inside by the haunting voice today
The only thing left was to find his resting place
The easy way out would ensure an early grave
But how can we help while he slowly goes insane?

-Chorus-
As I break away
Will I fade away?
As I break away
Will I stay the same?

-Solo-

-Verse-
Watching the clock as the time now falls like rain
Wishing that someone would have to feel his pain
All that we want is for someone to be a friend
But we all forget what it's like here in the end

-Chorus-
As I break away
Will I fade away?
As I break today
Will I stay the same?

-Outro-
Trying to live when there's nothing left for me
Track Name: Seventh King
Seventh King

-Verse-
Faded glory of the one, the seventh king
Undying was his pure will, everlasting
Time is frozen behind walls that scream his name
Voices calling to the one who left in shame

-Pre-Chorus-
Listen to the word of angels

-Chorus-
Lost in time
Wandering
Straining for life
Forgotten
Lost his mind
Solitude
Searching for life
Searching for the end

-Verse-
Bound forever to the halls of majesty
Drifting through the conscious thought of mind and soul
All the conquest could not bring the prophecy
Untold ages to relive his final days

-Pre-Chorus-
Listen to the word of angels

-Chorus-
Lost in time
Wandering
Straining for life
Forgotten
Lost his mind
Solitude
Searching for life
Searching for the end

-Solo-

-Chorus-
Lost in time
Wandering
Straining for life
Forgotten
Lost his mind
Solitude
Searching for life
Searching for the end
Track Name: The Last Stand
The Last Stand

-Intro-
I left my home behind to fight a stranger's war
The thought of you surrounds my dark internal roar
As shadows fall, the sounds of screams will leave us torn
You hear their voices calling you back towards the storm
The time has come for us to make men out of boys
No turning back now as your heartbeat fills the void

-Verse-
I see the bullets fly by taking all of us
In this delusion, there's no order that we trust
The bodies fall down, no one heeds their futile screams
They're hit by flying lead, erasing all their dreams
No hope in sight for those who've fallen in this fight
Those who don't make it out won't make it through the night

-Chorus-
I take their lives, won't take mine
Fell to us all just in time
Tell all of them this is our last stand
Brothers in arms, come and lend me your hand

-Verse-
The sounds are fading as the blood still trickles down
These poor souls have to pass with no one else around
As I take aim at one who seems to have it all
Now as my anger strikes it's your turn to fall

-Chorus-
I take their lives, won't take mine
Fell to us all just in time
Tell all of them this is our last stand
Brothers in arms, come and lend me...

-Bridge-
Damn it all as we fall
Damn it all as we fall

-Solo-

-Verse-
As the light of day brings madness to the ground
I could not believe my eyes, my body felt so bound
I walked away from this hell, pushing through the crowd
Now I can see why this war has made all of us proud

-Chorus-
I take their lives, won't take mine
Fell to us all just in time
Tell all of them this is our last stand
Brothers in arms, come and lend me your hand
Track Name: Divinity
Divinity

-Verse-
At the dawn of time, there came to be
These strange beings
How they did shine, they were agleam
They were divine, they were supreme
They were our gods
And from the earth, they drew some clay
Crafted our race
We were so weak, we were but sheep
We would obey, we would believe
They called us “Man”

-Pre-Chorus/Chorus-
These gods said
“Place your faith in me
Trust divinity
I'm proud to see how far you've come
You may be naive, but you're not dumb.”

-Verse-
So we remained subservient
We were their slaves
We would succumb, we would obey
We praised our makers every day
We wanted more
We yearned to break this servitude
We grew restless
We cursed our lives, we cursed these cells
We called our people to rebel
We cursed our gods

-Pre-Chorus/Chorus-
They cried out
“Don't lose faith in me
Lost divinity
I hate to see how you've succumb
And I can't believe you've grown so numb.”

-Interlude-
But nothing goes unheard by the ears of Gods
They learned of our subterfuge, of our treachery
Hurt and furious, they devised a plan of attack
Their intent: Destruction of the planet and the beings they had created
In a blind fury they scarred the land with divine magic
Those who survived the initial assault went on to tell their progeny of the genocide
And the legend passed down to be by my father is as follows:

-Bridge-
For forty nights
And forty days
They wrought a tidal wave

They were displeased
They were unbound
They rained balls of fire down

They brought disease
They brought the plague
They brought famine and earthquakes

Tornadoes raged
The lightning crashed
As they reduced the world to ash

-Solo-

-Interlude 2-
After the fury of the gods had subsided,
They looked down upon the earth that they had destroyed,
They looked at the destruction and despair they had caused
Horrified by their actions, they issued this apology:

-Chorus-
“I'm sad that we brought you all down,
And I can't believe we burned this ground.”

-Bridge-
But we endured
We will strike back
We will plan our attack

We will not stop
We will not cease
Until we escape this
Tyranny