Rock and Metal Lyrics

AS I LAY DYING Lyrics
An Ocean Between Us
(2007)

1. Separation 2. Nothing Left 3. An Ocean Between Us 4. Within Destruction 5. Forsaken 6. Comfort Betrays 7. I Never Wanted 8. Bury Us All 9. The Sound Of Truth 10. Departed 11. Wrath Upon Ourselves 12. This Is Who We Are

1. Separation

[Instrumental]


2. Nothing Left

This world was never worthy
But how can I call it unfaithful
Every promise was fulfilled
As decay crawled from it's throat
Like the dead rising from an open grave
Lips of splendor and tongue of deceit
All dying now as our fragile wrists hold only waste

Like those gasping for their last breath
We cannot hide there's nothing left

If All my sorrow has led me here
Then I would cry all of my tears
To have this chance again
And know there's more than this
And know there's more than you

Like those gasping for their last breath
We cannot hide there's nothing left


3. An Ocean Between Us

How many years have we waited
for a ship that never set sail?
And how many days have we wasted
chasing a love that was not our own?
I sat ashore and watched
as one hopeless wave crashed upon another
while my thoughts ran to the hills
my heart never reached the sea
with only delusions of an endless journey
I am left with an ocean between you and me

Is this your salvation?
Is this all you can give?
I will not stand in reflection
of someone else’s dream

The gate to my heart has been weld shut
with the splendor of my aspirations closed in
how many years have we waited
for a ship that never set sail?
And how many days have we wasted
chasing a love that was not our own?

Is this your salvation?
Is this all you can give?
I will not stand in reflection
of someone else’s dream


4. Within Destruction

[Verse]
If music is
A mirror revealing
The depths of my heart
Then I will write
The darkest song
For without
Forgiveness
My soul is lost

[Chorus (2x):]
All that is hope
Within destruction
Comes from you
For I have fallen

Fallen

[Verse (Quiet)]
If music is
A mirror revealing
The depths of my heart
Then I will write
The darkest song
For without
Forgiveness
My soul is lost

All that is hope
Within destruction
Comes from you

[Break]

For I have fallen
And there is nothing good
Within me yet I've
Been given life
I will
I will never
Deserve
For without
Forgiveness
Without forgiveness my soul is lost

[Outro (4x)]
All that is hope
Within destruction

[4x]
All that is hope


5. Forsaken

I've looked straight into your eyes
And turned my head for the last time
Because I was scared to leave these walls in ruin
Like the fate of those who trust in themselves

We are alone and afraid

I know you are the one we left behind
Yet somehow we are the ones who are alone
you are the one we left behind
you are the one we left be...

I will no longer turn my head
I will never forget you
You are the one we left behind
You are the forsaken

We've built our confidence
On broken dreams now left for dead
Yet we've been condemned
To chase these dreams that never end

I know you are the one we left behind
Yet somehow we are the ones who are alone
you are the one we left behind
you are the one we left be...

I will no longer turn my head
I will never forget you
You are the one we left behind
You are the forsaken

I will no longer turn my head
I will never forget you
You are the one we left behind
You are the forsaken

Our selfishness consumes us
Until the whole world is not enough
Forgive the day that I erased your name
that I erased your name
For it's the memory of me that will decay

I know you are the forsaken
Yet somehow we are the ones who feel alone
I know you are the forsaken
Yet somehow we are the ones who feel alone


6. Comfort Betrays

You sat and watched
As I nearly destroyed myself
Never had I felt so betrayed
That you would sacrifice my life
For no more than comfort
And now your love means nothing to me
You are a coward, the antithesis of a friend
Take action before there is
No one left to defend
For I would have stood by you
Right to the gates of hell


7. I Never Wanted

I never wanted
And I never cared before
Now take it all back
This is a new day

How I long to regress
To the days before I took upon myself
The obsessions of this world
A day of innocence equating beauty
For tomorrow may fall
And today is already gone

Now take it back
This is a new day

I've grown tired of chasing
Convinced I was in need
And now the years I've spent
Only a slave to this
Tomorrow may fall
And today is already gone
I will no longer adore
These things that will never satisfy me

I have seen my world change
And then go back to where it came
In this vicious circle
We are all brought back to life
Only to die again
But without these barren obsessions
I am simply free


8. Bury Us All

I see them coming
With shrouds to bury us all
Before we were born they shaped our lives
Leading us into an unmarked grave
In moments life could end
So I will speak while I can

This is my chance
My time to stand

We may fail alone but that is better
Than dying with them only to be forgotten
I for one would rather suffer now
Than leave this life without passion

This is our chance
Our time to stand


9. The Sound Of Truth

We have all heard what we wanted to hear
"Truth" that sounds right to our ears

But what wisdom is there within us
To live based on the feeling of our hearts
How many times has instinct let us down
Never to be thought through
Never to be questioned
Say what you really mean
When your ambition calls you
For what use is there in praying
If you will only hear what you want to hear?

We speak of fighting to resist this world
But what about the battle within us?
If we have chosen to live against the grain
Then why are we all facing the same way?
There is no difference between us and them
If we all blindly seek truth from sentiments


10. Departed

[Instrumental]


11. Wrath Upon Ourselves

I can only imagine that wrath is being held out
So there will be time for us to be redeemed
But surely wrath is not being held out
So that we may redeem ourselves
For I've seen the madness
Of those who died trying
But is regret only a word that the living possess?
I long to see their faces
Regardless of the decay
For in the eyes of the deceased...

We would see hope in our last day
Inside this dying world
For there is still beauty
Inside this dying world


12. This Is Who We Are

Now this is who we are
I am no one's hero
For we are not the giant men
That some may think
You are faithful when we are not
So I'd like to tell this story
The way it is meant to be
Without the burden that's in our hearts
None of us would have ever found You
For You are faithful when we are not
You began a work
That only you can complete

Now this is who we are
I'll never know the answers
And I'll always wonder why

...Why we're given grace we'll never deserve
And a second chance that we will never earn
For there is nothing I can do to save myself

Now this is who we are
I'll never know the answers
And I'll always wonder why
But You have let me start again
I'd rather be called weak
Than die thinking I was strong



~#~

AS I LAY DYING Lyrics
Shadows Are Security
(2005)

1. Meaning In Tragedy 2. Confined 3. Losing Sight 4. The Darkest Nights 5. Empty Hearts 6. Reflection 7. Repeating Yesterday 8. Through Struggle 9. The Truth Of My Perception 10. Control Is Dead 11. Morning Waits 12. Illusions

1. Meaning In Tragedy

Yeah

I have traveled so far to find so little
Meaning in tragedy or tragedy
In the search for meaning
Dark clouds have lead me here

Yeah

Confined freedom
Guides us to security
What if everything (yeah)
I have been taught is a lie
And all of my teachers
Have been wrong this whole time

Compelling us to fight
The battles they would not
They have already won
And we have already lost
If we do not learn from their mistakes
We have already lost

Yeah

If we do not learn to change


2. Confined

Yeah
That night that I never came home
Wandering souls captured my thoughts
Emptiness filled my mind
Urgency spoke her lies
In the confines of these grey walls
I watched them move together
Taking me places I cannot remember (remember)
We have been poured out
Into a loveless bride

How quickly I forget
That this is meaningless
How quickly I forget
That this is meaningless
(Yeah)

In a world passing through my fingers
I still chase the wind

How quickly I forget
That this is meaningless
How quickly I forget
That this is meaningless

Yeah

What have I learned from yesterday?
What have I learned from yesterday?


3. Losing Sight

Can...
Can we die to live an other day?

How could we lose sight
Of what matters most?
Trying to love
What cannot love us back
All we have is not worth living for
If we do not know when to let go

What is life
That we cling to it so tight?
Afraid that it will take from us
These fading sentiments
Can we die

Yeah

Can we die to live another day?
Can we die to live another day?
Can we die to live another day?

What is life
That we cling to it so tight?
Afraid that it will take from us
These fading sentiments

How could we lose sight
Of what matters most?
Trying to love
What cannot love us back
All we have is not worth living for
If we do not know when to let go

How could we lose sight
Of what matters most?
Trying to love
What cannot love us back
All we have is not worth living for
If we do not know when to let go


4. The Darkest Nights

For so long I have felt alone
Content to live with unrest
Longing faded into countless nights
That buried my weary heart
But You brought an end
To this dead hour
And meaning to a calloused life

Held in Your arms
But too far from my heart

These thoughts will carry me through
The darkest nights
While Your eyes rest in

These thoughts will carry me through
The darkest nights
While Your eyes rest in mine

I remember the way You looked at me
And the way You drew
Dew me cose
With one deep sigh
Scattering pieces of my
My restless mind
Forgetting all that we have left behind

We have left behind
We have left behind
We have left behind

These thoughts will carry me through
The darkest nights
While Your eyes rest in


5. Empty Hearts

I've watched them build
Upon these empty hearts

I've watched them build
Upon these empty hearts
False hopes of lossless paradise
Gathering together

The dead hearts beat as one
Stillborn comfort feeding lies
Through answers of self denial
Divided between a dissolute self
And the sorrow of sincere devotion
Devotion

What is it that you find peace in now?
Where is your hope in this dark night?

What is it that you find peace in now?
Where is your hope in this dark night?


6. Reflection

I laid the night before me
Unraveled the tangles of my heart
All I felt was stale hollow air

These streams of uncertainty
They are collapsing upon my mind
Upon my mind

Yeah

Torrents fill my veins until I burst
With mistaken guilt and shame

My battered bones
Try to keep fighting
Against the endless ocean of self defeat

As time goes on
Some months are yet to pass
As time goes on
Some months are yet to pass
As time goes on
Some months are yet to pass
Are yet to pass
Let's go

Puddle puddles of ink
Surround this tired chair
All of my sorrow has been spilled
(Yeah)
Into into my reflection
Reflection


7. Repeating Yesterday

This is what I am
This is what I have become
Repeating yesterday
Drain me of my very essence
To form again what lasts

This is what I am
This is what I have become
Repeating yesterday
Drain me of my very essence

This is what I am
This is what I have become
What is love without (what is love)
What is love without (sacrifice),
My tears hold no weight
If my commitment is only failure
Each day I
I am

Repeating yesterday
Each day I am born (I am born) again to be (again to be)
A child (a child) in the eyes of love
Repeating yesterday
Repeating
(Yeah)

Drain me of my very essence
To form (to form) again
To form (to form) again what lasts

This is what I am
This is what I have become
What is love without (what is love)
What is love without...


8. Through Struggle

Yeah

Only through struggle have I found rest
With a piece of me taken away
I begin to understand
Hollow out this machine like chest

With its gears that turn to make me feel
And assembled thoughts that fade away

Only through struggle have I found rest
Only through struggle have I found rest

Remove from me (from me)
(This de...) This deception (...ception)
(That I) That I called love (called love)
(That I) That I called love (called love)

Yeah

With its gears that turn to make me feel
And assembled thoughts that fade away

Remove from me (remove from me)
This deception (that I that I)
That I called love (that I called love)
That I called love

Only through struggle have I found rest
With a piece of me taken away
I begin to understand
I begin to understand
I begin to understand

Love


9. The Truth Of My Perception

White shutters enclose
The boundaries of my heart
I hold my breath
Till the steady beating is shut out
In silence I wait for what is real

For I know the truth of my perceptions
Nothing in life matters more
More than You
Matters more
More than You

When first feelings fade
I will still be here

I hold my breath
Till the steady beating is shut out
Beating is

For I know the truth of my perceptions
Nothing in life matters more
More than You
Matters more
More than You

When first feelings fade
I will still be here


10. Control Is Dead

Control is dead in this blind world
For we do what we hate
Split from inside
Betrayed by emotion
Emotion

We must look past
What is in front of us

Shadows are security
They have become the solace
Of my looking glass heart
In search for certainty
I no longer need control

Take me through the fire
Refine what is Yours
Take me through the fire
Refine what is Yours

It is time to overcome this
We must look past
What is in front of us
It is time to overcome this
We must look past
What is in front of us


11. Morning Waits

All along it was me who changed
Morning now waits for me
All along it was me
Morning now waits
Morning now waits for me

What I have to gain does not matter
If what I give is all to You
If what I give is all to You

I have seen the stars fall (yeah)
And the sun rise again
But You are yet to change
You are all that is
You are all that is worth
You are all that is worth living for

What I have to gain does not matter
If what I give is all to You
If what I give is all to You

All along it is was
It is was me who changed


12. Illusions

Yeah

How could I ever go back (ever go back)
Back to the life
Where I live amongst the dead (dead)

How could I go back
To live amongst the dead

Those who have forgotten how to feel (how to feel)
And have become slaves (become slaves) to memory
And wishful thinking

But Your love has set me free
As You've awakened every star
That has been sleeping
In the constellation of my soul

[x2]
How could I go back
How could I go back
To live amongst the dead
Amongst the dead

[x2]
How could I go back
To live amongst the dead

Those who imprisoned beauty
I never want to leave Your arms
So I wait in hope for Your embrace
For Your embrace
I wait in hope for Your embrace
I wait in hope for Your embrace

Yeah

Illusions of what I thought was love
Illusions of what I thought was love
Now I have clear sight
To see I've left nothing behind


~#~

AS I LAY DYING Lyrics
Frail Words Collapse
(2003)

1. 94 Hours 2. Falling Upon Deaf Ears 3. Forever 4. Collision 5. Distance Is Darkness 6. Behind Me Lies Another Fallen Soldier 7. Undefined 8. A Thousand Steps 9. The Beginning 10. Song 10 11. The Pain Of Separation 12. Elegy

1. 94 Hours

94 hours of regret for me to realize what I held
unfading beauty, not just a face
I held its innocence within my heart
Go!
Now I won't let go
I won't let go
I won't let go
Now I
I won't let go
Now I
I won't let go
The torment of your eyes has awakened my soul.
The torment of your eyes has awakened my soul.
The pain of a moment's time will forever beg your forgiveness
Forgiveness
94 hours for me to realize
I held unfading beauty
I held your innocence


2. Falling Upon Deaf Ears

The sound of silent voices surveying my thoughts
regularity defining perfection
Neither sorrow nor contentment
Whispering emptiness
Whispering emptiness
Frail words collapse

My weight only stirs the ground
How long can I hold your hand as you walk over graves
You search for tears of compassion
Yet find the comfort of winter
You find the comfort
Reassurance dead like the falling leaves
Losing hope in your unchanging ways
all of my strength cannot save you
If you are unwilling to help yourself


3. Forever

Forever your eyes will hold the memory
I saw your heart as it overtook me
we tried so hard to understand and reason
but in that one moment
I gave my heart away
I gave my heart away
in that moment
I gave my heart away
in that moment
I gave my heart away (I gave my heart away)

What perfect breath where my mind lay beside me
and all I knew was what had overtaken me
with no reason I am comforted by the inability to understand

Forever your eyes will hold the memory
I saw your heart as it overtook me
we tried so hard to understand and reason
but in that one moment
I gave my heart away
I gave my heart away
in that moment
I gave my heart away
in that moment
I gave my heart away (I gave my heart away)

Forever your eyes will hold the memory
Forever your eyes will hold the memory
Forever your eyes will hold the memory

When I wake from this dream
Will your smile still open my heart and leave me transparent
When I wake from this dream
Will your smile still open my heart


4. Collision

Can you understand my meaning hidden in the roses around my eyes
I want you to know how much it means to have you in my life
Your love brings me close again in this instance this single moment
when our worlds collide
The wire of eternity twists around us
I can feel this river rising, moving up my back
Some things never change
Some things never go away
Some things never change
Some things never go away

I could never forget you
I will never be the same
I can never forget you
I will never be the same

Go!

Some things never change
Some things never go away
Some things never change
Some things never go away

I can never forget you
I will never be the same


5. Distance Is Darkness

The contingencies of another day unravel my senses
And now your distance is darkness
And now your distance is darkness
My hope has been beset by your absence
I decay from inside
From inside
Pain!
There is love, there is love, there is love
Love!
Love, there is love, there is love
Underneath there is love


6. Behind Me Lies Another Fallen Soldier

I wanted to bring you all that is in my heart
I wanted to give you my everything
but I've failed you
I've failed you so many times
how can I stand here
how can I stand here before you

how can I stand here before you
when I begin to steal
what only belongs to you
what only belongs to you

I am able to bring you
Nothing that isn't already yours

I am so ashamed, I'm so ashamed
Of what I ever called my own
Take what I have, take these broken remains
What can I give to you that you don't already deserve

You laid down your life when I refused to give mine


7. Undefined

What is this world, what is it we've created
In the burdens of this life I cannot rest
this world means nothing

Everything we hold will pass away
with a void of completion comfort will ever fade
I long for this wind to cease

Everything we hold will pass away
Everything we hold will pass away
I long for this wind to cease

We once held undying devotion
now dead to our thoughts, undefined like our love

Everything we hold will pass away
Everything we hold will pass away


8. A Thousand Steps

We climbed a thousand steps without a single imprint
This drowning regret will die

Forgotten like my past
Forgotten like my past

Moving bodies lie in rest
Carried by each other


9. The Beginning

From here to eternity we begin understanding
From here to eternity

I see who you are and who else can compare
I meant what I said, I promised to stand by your side

Until the end, that's where we begin
Until the end, that's where we begin

From here to eternity we begin understanding

It is our hearts that define what has meaning in life
Some will ask how can this be
But it was you who made me feel

From here to eternity we begin understanding

Until the end, that's where we begin
Until the end, that's where we begin

Until the end, that's where we begin
Until the end, that's where we begin


10. Song 10

[Whispering]

One night opens wounds and words utter pain
You've hid hearts and songs as long as you recall

One night opens wounds and words utter pain
The truth cannot breathe a one in your soul
You've hid hearts and songs as long as you recall
His kind words just fall near your feet
With their last air, all they want done is to be heard in your sweet ears just once


11. The Pain Of Separation

How can I bear this any longer
Take me away
Arms stretched out only to hold separation
Take me away
Take me away
Take me away
Take me away

I'm dying inside, emptied before you
Take me into your arms

I will fight until the day when I will see you
Sight given to these blind eyes

When will I
be taken from this life
take what is yours
You deserve more than my life
You deserve more than my life

Take me Away!


12. Elegy

[to Stephanie for undying friendship]

Did you ever see me or could you even see at all
I looked at your cold white face, so still, so empty
Yet I knew you were at,
Knew you were at rest
much more comforted than I
What else could I find to replace who you were
It was the carefree
unrestricted love that
You never meant to give
You never had the choice
You never had the guilt
You never had the choice

It was your innocence
It was part of who you were
It was the comfort of a friend

You never meant to give
you never had the choice

It was your innocence
It was part of who you were
It was your innocence
It was the comfort of a friend

It was your innocence
It was part of who you were
It was your innocence
It was the comfort of a friend



~#~

AS I LAY DYING Lyrics
Split with AMERICAN TRAGEDY
(2002 SPLIT)

1. Illusion 2. The Beginning 3. Reinvention 4. The Pain Of Separation 5. Forever 6. - 7. Choking On A Dream 8. World Intruded 9. Spite And Splinter 10. Porcelain 11. Moments And In Between

1. Illusion

How could I ever go back
Back to the life
Where I lived amongst the dead
Who have forgotten how to feel
And become slaves to memory
And wishful thinking
But your love has set me free
As you awaken every star
That has been sleeping
In the constellation of my soul
How could I go back to live amongst the dead
Those who imprisoned beauty
I never want to leave your arms
So I wait in hope for your embrace
Illusions of what I thought was love
Now I have clear sight to see
That I have left nothing behind


2. The Beginning

I see who you are and who else can compare
I meant what I said
I promised to stand by your side
Until the end
That's where we begin
From here to eternity
We begin understanding
It is our hearts that define
What has meaning in life
Some will ask how can this be but it
Was you who made me feel


3. Reinvention

You brought existence
To what I never thought could be
A world where eternity finds description
I followed a dream only to be left in reality
You reminded me of the unexplainable
And then reshaped me by your beauty
Knowing you has reinvented love in my heart
The perfection of loves' true existence
Experienced for the first time
I tried so hard to wake from this dream
But instead realized that I never fell asleep


4. The Pain Of Separation

How can I bear this any longer?
Arms stretched out only to hold separation
Take me away
I'm dying inside
Emptied before you
I will fight until the day
When I will see
Sight given to these blind eyes
When will I be taken from this life?
Take what is your
You deserve more than my life


5. Forever

Forever your eyes will hold the memory
I saw your heart as it overtook me
We tried so hard to understand and reason
But in that one moment
In that moment I gave my heart away
In that moment I gave my heart away
In that moment I gave my heart away
In that moment I gave my heart away

What perfect breath where my mind lay beside me
And all I knew was what had overtaken me
With no explanation I am comforted by inability to understand

Forever your eyes will hold the memory
I saw your heart as it overtook me
We tried so hard to understand and reason
But in that one moment
In that moment I gave my heart away
In that moment I gave my heart away
In that moment I gave my heart away
In that moment I gave my heart away

Forever your eyes will hold the memory
Forever your eyes will hold the memory
Forever your eyes will hold the memory

When I wake from this dream
Will your smile still open my heart and leave me transparent
When I wake from this dream
Will your smile still open my heart


6. -

[American Tragedy]


7. Choking On A Dream

[American Tragedy]


8. World Intruded

[American Tragedy]


9. Spite And Splinter

[American Tragedy]


10. Porcelain

[American Tragedy]


11. Moments And In Between

[American Tragedy]

~#~

1. Beneath The Encasing Of Ashes

Reach inside of me
Far beneath the encasing of ashes
Bleeding red
Still showing signs of life
Remove the darkness
Take me away
A Stream of Hope destroy this corrupted cell
Purification
(Leaving me desolate in the face of perfection)
Unable to hide I am drawn to the fire
It is this pain that brings me likely do



2. Torn Within

Through this pain I refine
Tearing me from within
Screaming to be released but held fast by Your love
Hold me here
Break me until my face breathes upon this ground
Outstretched with my head to the floor
Spent of all my strength
Relying on Yours



3. Forced To Die

Exhausted beyond repair
Stripped of all I had
Forced to die inside
Now I breathe a renewed Life
It is now I see without my eyes
If this is what it takes
To bring me to my knees
Then feed me pain until
I realize I am but a slave
Remind me of my need for You
Remind me of who I am



4. A Breath In The Eyes Of Eternity

Emptiness running through me
Taking all that i am
Leaving me this blinding mask
Grasping for the wind
Everything I've done
Everything I've gained
It all means nothing
A mere breath has passed away
Sadness I embrace
Left with empty promises
I look at myself and see the scars
That are brought to me by this life
Then I ask myself
Is that all this world has to give
The chase is over I am finished
Stripped of every reason I cry out to You
From my knees I scream



5. Blood Turned To Tears

This blood turned into tears
A broken heart runs my body
Dripping forth until I give my life
I have become a sacrifice
It hurts me just to think of you
I void the pain that is unbarring
(To know that I take these sufferings from you)



6. The Voices That Betray Me

Shatter my emotions
Take them all away
Left alone to face You
Now You know my heart
Left only to speak what is true
See through this plague of flesh
With truth I say that I love You
Yet my heart betrays me
Be not far from me
For these voices
They must soon cease
Despite their betrayal
You died for me



7. When This World Fades

You meant the world to me
All I have now is memories
Your love brought joy to my heart
You meant the world to me
Tears of sorrow stream from my broken soul
But I will see you again
When this world fades away
I will see you again



8. A Long March

Only You know my pain inside
You've been there when no one else could be
When tears fall from my eyes
I know that You are always there
No matter what's in my heart
You are the One who cares
When I doubt, You stand by me
So I'm not ashamed to say the way I feel
I love You, You are my Everything


9. Surrounded

Take me home
Imitations surround me
You are all I want to see
So why do I turn
To embrace what will never last
All my life I've tried
All my life I've failed
And one day I will see
Surrounded on every side



10. Refined By Your Embrace

I cannot make it without You
All my efforts have failed
So that I will cry out in the need of You
Restore the strength of my Dependence
Send me through the fire
Make me pure again
Everything I am
I give it all to You
In Your arms I wait
I lay down my life
I am nothing without You



11. The Innocence Spilled

For so long I was deceived
Enslaved by these chains
Blinded to Your forgiveness
If only I knew Your love
Giving Your life to save me from this pain
Broken and bleeding I turned You away
Now I have seen the scars inflicted by my hands
The Innocence spilled to save me
Reaching to the hand that brought You this pain
And now I am on my knees
Crying the way You wept for me
Crying, crying tears of shame
Dying, dying to take away their pain
I hear the screams of those who call from the grave
Dying for me to take their pain



12. Behind Me Lies Another Fallen Soldier

I want to bring You all that is in my heart
I want to bring You my everything
But I've failed You so many times
How can I stand here before You
When I begin to steal what only belongs to You?
I am able to bring You nothing that isn't already Yours
I am so ashamed of what I ever called my own.
Take what I have, take these broken remains.
What can I give to You that You don't already deserve?
You laid down Your life when I refused to give mine





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Lyrics

Godsmack (1998)

buy from amzon.com 1. Moon Baby 2. Whatever 3. Keep Away 4. Time Bomb 5. Bad Religion 6. Immune 7. Get Up, Get Out! 8. Now Or Never 9. Stress 10. Situation 11. VooDoo

Awake (2000)

get it from amazon.com 1. Sick Of Life 2. Awake 3. Greed 4. Bad Magick 5. Going Down 6. Mistakes 7. Trippin' 8. Forgive Me 9. Vampires 10. The Journey 11. The Spiral

Faceless (2003)

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The Other Side (2004)

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IV (2006)

get it from amazon.com 1. Livin' In Sin 2. Speak 3. The Enemy 4. Shine Down 5. Hollow 6. No Rest For The Wicked 7. Bleeding Me 8. Voodoo Too 9. Temptation 10. Mama 11. One Rainy Day

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1. Livin' In Sin

Once again my friend
Storm clouds are rolling in
Broken inside myself
Can't seem to break this trend, Can't break it!

And I've seen it all
And I've walked it tall
Lived in this sin
Where do I begin?

Caught between my lies
My life for worthless lies
Shedding my skin to begin
A life that I don't know how to live in
I can't take it!

And I've seen it all
And I've walked it tall
Lived in this sin
Where do I begin?

I don't know now
Where to go now
I don't know if I'll ever get ahead......no
It's all broken
Not a word spoken
And I don't know how to go out...God help me now

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

And I've seen it all
And I've walked it tall
Lived in this sin
Livin' in sin
Livin' in sin
Livin' in sin
Livin' in sin
Where do I begin?


2. Speak

Free? You better love me
And Hide or runaway
from all your yesterday's

Chorus:

Speak the truth, or make your peace some other way
Oh Yeah, Yeah
I never knew, but I believe that your trust in me
Oh, Will speak to me

In way beyond your controlling mind (mind)
And no more believing in all your precious lies
Yeah

Chorus:

Speak the truth or make your peace some other way
Oh Yeah, Yeah
I never knew, but I believe that your trust in me
Oh Will speak to me
Speak the truth or make your peace some other way
Oh Yeah, Yeah
I never knew, but I believe that your trust in me
Will speak to me

In finding balance between lies and trust
they'll never be a better
source than to speak your truth
or make your peace in some other way

Chorus:

Speak the truth or make your peace some other way
Oh Yeah, Yeah
I never knew, but I believe that your trust in me
Oh Will speak to me
Speak the truth or make your peace some other way
Oh Yeah, Yeah
I never knew, but I believe that your trust in me
Oh Will speak to me

Speak!

Oh Speak!

Speak!

Oh Speak!

Speak!


3. The Enemy

Hey, Oh Mister backstabbin' son of a bitch
you're livin' in a world that'll soon be dyin'
and I know everybody knows you try to be like me
but even at your best as a man you couldn't equal half of me.

I am realizing that everybody's lost their simple ways
and now that it's here I see it all so clearly
I've come face to face with the enemy, the enemy.

You, you're another shit talkin' punk to me.
You're a living inspiration for what I never wanna be,
and I see you've been blinded by what you believe
And now back up and sit down, shut up and act like you need to be.

I am realizing that everybody's lost their simple ways
and now that it's here I see it all so clearly,
I've come face to face with the enemy, the enemy.

come to me, come to me
the enemy come to me, come to me

So predicting you're the reason why I lie
simple decision took me too much time to fly
Oh, checkmate!

I am realizing that everybody's lost their simple ways
and now that it's here I see it all so clearly,
I've come face to face with the enemy, the enemy

come to me


4. Shine Down

So tired sleeping through the day
Bloodshot eyes and the sweat from my body
And I picked my head up yesterday
Found no reason or hope left inside of me

But I still believe in immortal love
And I know there's someone above

Shinedown, don't take it away from me, no
And I know you know how, yeah
Shinedown, just give me a chance to feel it
It's taken forever to get me off the ground

A dead silence overwhelming me
Day and night takes its toll on my sanity
And I know I've been away too long
All these years I've been hiding
A feeling I'm coming strong

But I still believe in immortal love
And I know there's someone that's up above
Show me a path to find my way
And give me a reason to pray

Shinedown, don't take it away from me, no
And I know you know how, yeah
Shinedown, just give me a chance to feel it
It's taken forever to get me off the ground, yeah

Shine down, don't take it away from me, no
And I know you know how, yeah
And shinedown, just give me a chance to feel it
It's taken forever to get me off the ground
Shinedown
Shinedown
Oh, shine down
Oh baby, yeah, yeah, yeah
Shinedown
Oh, shinedown
Oh, shinedown
Oh baby shinedown


5. Hollow

One more step and I could fall away
If it happened would it matter
And I can't tell if I should go or stay.
Same old picture feels so hollow.
How can anybody know what's best for me
Another page I turn in shame.
And my decisions brought me to my knees,
I needed someone to blame.

I feel so hollow
I feel so hollow
Time to do what's best for me I believe I can change.

Once upon a time in broken dreams.
Reflections that I can't face.
So hold your breath and make a wish for me.
Take me to a better place.
Time always seems to be passing by
It never waits for me
If I could do it all one more time, I wouldn't change a thing.

I feel so hollow, I feel so hollow
I feel so hollow, I feel so hollow

Time to do what's best for me I believe I can change.


6. No Rest For The Wicked

Walked a fine line slipped the edge, under me.
Rise above a suicide, taking it outta me.
Got a feeling, it's going far away, yeah.
Licking the wounds from yesterday.

Gonna fly, takin' my time, strip down to nothing.
Gonna try, but there's no rest for the wicked.

Been through the skin of a dragon a thousand times.
Yet every day I live for you, still I'm not alive.
Got a feeling, I'm gonna fall away.
Gimme a sign one reason that I should stay.

Gonna fly, takin' my time, strip down to nothing.
Gonna try, but there's no rest for the wicked.
Gonna fly, take my time, strip down to nothing.
Gonna try, but there's no rest for the wicked.

Are you ready to know just who I am?
Do you think you can make me a better man?
Crack me open, expose me to your ways?
But Ignorance and arrogance are my ways. Oh yea.
No rest for the wicked baby!

Gonna fly, take my time, strip down to nothing.
Gonna try, but there's no rest for the wicked.
Gonna fly, take my time, strip down to nothing.
Gonna try, but there's no rest for the wicked.


7. Bleeding Me

Way, way down inside there's a hollow soul
An emptiness shadows tomorrow
And I find it hard to breathe for me in your company
Seems I've been taken for granted

And you're breaking and bleeding me down to nothing
It's tearing me down
You're breaking me and bleeding me down to nothing
Yeah!

Maybe, this time baby it's meant to be
No more suffocating you or me, oh yeah
And I'd pay the price but you sentencing me to life
And I feel I put in my time

And you're breaking and bleeding me down to nothing
It's tearing me down
You're breaking me and bleeding me down to nothing
Again

You're breaking me
And bleeding me
Again
You're bleeding me, you're bleeding me

And you're breaking and bleeding me down to nothing
You're tearing me down
You're breaking me and bleeding me down to nothing
You're tearing me, tearing me down again
Tearing me down again
You're breaking me and bleeding me
Bleeding me again


8. Voodoo Too

(I'm not the one who's so far away)
(I'm not the one who's so far away)

Open your eyes, a chill passes you by.
A premonition coming strong.
Rich with desire, a superstition in disguise.
Draws me into where I belong.

Have you ever wondered why in a dream you can touch a falling sky?
Or fly to the heavens that watch over you, telling me it's all voodoo.
Voodoo too.

Instill the body, so warm with every breath.
Dance to a vision so seductive.
Rain down upon me, it cleanses me with every drip.
A scent you've promised for the nourishment that I've been gifted.

Have you ever wondered why in a dream you can touch a falling sky?
Or fly to the heavens that watch over you, telling me it's all voodoo.
Have you ever wondered why in a dream you can touch a falling sky?
Or fly to the heavens that watch over you, telling me it's all voodoo.
Voodoo too.

Voodoo too, it's all voodoo too.

Have you ever wondered why in a dream you can touch a falling sky?
Or fly to the heavens that watch over you, telling me it's all voodoo.
Have you ever wondered why in a dream you can touch a falling sky?
Or fly to the heavens that watch over you, telling me it's all voodoo.
Voodoo too.

It's just voodoo too, it's all voodoo too, it's just what you do.


9. Temptation

Oh shit

It crawls down deep inside
Without a pulse or a will to die
Not known to sympathize
And now it takes what it takes
And let's the feeling suffocate
It's nothing new it'll get it's way
Another thing that I see is how it gets inside of me
And tears away my life

It's time to love, It's time to hate
It's coming face to face trying to desecrate
No time at all to break away
Temptation, still got a hold on me

It's awake even when you sleep
It breaths without a heartbeat
Making me incomplete
And now I know what I know
Expect the demon down below
To surface through my mortal soul
And now it looks to be smiling as it's killing me
Day to day, eye to eye

It's time to love, It's time to hate
It's coming face to face trying to desecrate
No time at all to break away
Temptation, still got a hold on me (x4)


10. Mama

Oh mama what have I gone and done?
With all these years that I've been gone,
My life changed me way too fast.
I don't know if I could last.

Help me find my way, and mama save me.
Help me find today, mama please come and save me, Oh.

Oh mama if you could've only seen,
Everything I've done and where I've been.
If only one thing I would ask,
Why did you let me grow up so goddamn fast?

Help me find my way, and mama save me.
Help me find today, mama please come and save me, Oh.

There's nothing more that you can do.
It's gone beyond what you can help me through.
An emptyness has covered me.
Oh mama come and save me.

Help me find my way, and mama save me.
Help me find today, mama please come and save me, Oh.
Help me find my way, and mama save me.
Help me find today, mama please come and save me, Oh.

There's nothing more that you can do.
It's gone beyond what you can help me through.
An emptyness has covered me.
Oh mama come and save me.
Oh mama come and save.
Oh save me... no!
Oh please mama save...


11. One Rainy Day

oh man, I'm tired and lonely
Again, why must it be
A man is drowning slowly
And he can't keep above, gone way too deep

Open skies are falling, tears are coming down
Like a drop of rain falls to the ocean and comes back around
One rainy day

Oh so many times I should have crawled when I went running by
And since then I've been left feeling traumatized
Raped and drained of an innocence
A gift we've lost over time
And still I gaze through this one rainy day
Alone with no one by my side

Open skies are falling, tears are coming down
Like a drop of rain falls to the ocean and comes back around
I swear I've given, I've given you all I can
Never will you ever make me feel this way again no
On this one rainy day

Open skies are falling, tears are coming down
Like a drop of rain falls to the the ocean and comes back around
One rainy day (x3)
It's been just one rainy day




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