[Every Time I Die]

Tusk And Temper

 

Bedeck your gown in bricks

There's leeches stealing across the stage

Come hell or ocean water I won't end up without

Applaud the gall of the black cloud groping a drunken teenage vow

As saline drips from her prom dress, damp hands are desiccated

There's a wolf at the window of the second floor who kidnaps your date with a new car

We both want the same thing

Bad poetry and assaults at the bar

Just try and stop me

We are the only one in the world

Prepare the ballroom

Quicksand in front of the coat check

Waltz with the scarecrow in the spotlight through the rye

I was born a wanted man

But I'll die a sailor's wife

God help me pick the lock to her room I have to make this right

Scream the hounds to sleep for me

I'm creeping around in your head like a vine

Your spit is the meat of the rose harvested by the dull

Let fly the doves, unhook their leather wings from the fog

Put your foot and mouth together for the sweethearts of Vietnam

In a photo taken of us, at the recpetion held at the jail

Loverboy is breaking up just off to the right side of me

I will stop at nothing

I am the siren that sings you home

Is that clear?

I will stop at nothing

I am the tooth in your jewelery box

Is that clear?

Let pry the crows

Unhinge their crooked beaks from the clock

Put your foot and mouth together for the sweethearts of Vietnam

Bolt the gate and head for ivory tower

Adoration is cutting the phone lines to your heart

Love is here

I am the snarling and starry-eyed

We both want the same thing

Better aim at the stranger in our yard

Just try to stop me

I am the blinding light of your life

Prepare the body

I've been better but thanks for asking

Wait with the scarecrow for the spotlight in the rye

I'll eat you alive

The calm will come again

[Every Time I Die]

The New Black

 

Baby, you got me all wrong

And maybe I am not at all down and out

I'm high and I'm in

Don't you know who I am?

I'm the jaded one with pop insensitivity

When I finish struggling, we can make our way to the dance floor and stand like strangers in an elevator stuck between stories

I always find myself in the middle of your stories

With the cameras as a witness I will suffer

Everything I do is wrong

But by God I do it right

We don't dance no no no

We got class

No we don't have any fun at all

It's the new style and we know it

We're not stunning, we just stunned and we're lying for a living

Don't you know who I am?

I'm the real thing with the low-key sensibilities

I don't need what I've got half as much as everyone covets it

If loving me is wrong, then god you do it right

It turns us on to turn you down

[Every Time I Die]

Easy Tiger

 

How you gonna get up if you ain't never been down?

How you gonna move on if you ain't never had enough?

Give the signal

Advance the pill pushers

Administer a change purse full of thorazine

Show this girl a little bar courtesy and keep her senses clear of the scene

We've found a gentleman caller who goes by the name she's been weeping for

Turn her over

Easy in easy out

We've nearly got this situation stabilized

Just some winces to eradicate

Take a deep breath

Cut the blue wire

Keep your fingers crossed and pray she's been detached

She stirs and I'm emasculated

Doctor! Doctor!

Give her the blues

She got herself a varsity letter by loving you

Breach and clear the abandoned back seat of the Cadillac

We've been altered by the local authorities that regret has been seen on the grounds teasing the dogs, making the rounds

There's a heart shaped bed in the honeymoon ward that circulates dust

Twitches and vomits in fits like the damned

Comforts none but the sloth

Yet we pay by the hour for the bricklayers view

Johnny, dream of your gun

Goddamit it Commander, she's a hopeless case

Note the time she arrived

I didn't think we would lose another one to the sound

There were too many fangs for us to tame

Someone fetch her blue eyes

From a restroom wall downtown

She stirs

We underestimated

Doctor! Doctor!

Give me the news

She caught herself a cause of the wilds by loving you

She caught a bad case of the wilds and she flatlines

[Every Time I Die]

Bored Stiff

 

I was wrong, close one

I am wrong

I said it

I was wrong, I mean it

Did it stick? Come down from there

I know it's hard to swallow, when your head is overturned

Hey there girls, I'm a

There was venom in the heart of the dagger

They found a worm in your pearls saying prayers

All is finally infested, unless we blossomed in the in the cankerous air

Then only hell can help us

I got off, just once, you were right

I admit it

We weren't soft, just better

Do you flinch? Keep that radio dry, I'm sorry you were all mine

Let the boys find your body

Let love gnaw the meat from your bones

Admit the arrows, suffer the hot flash

We come together now

All together now

[Every Time I Die]

Apocalypse Now And Then

 

You got me right where you wanted me

So what do we do if I can't hold this pose for too long?

Do we shoot again, or does the whole operation shut down and we go back to the board?

I practiced all my lines, oh yea I'd feed every child in the world

But it's a one night stand baby

We gotta keep on

If you got it all then you got it right

I'm gonna do what you say and get way out of line

Nobody's gonna stop me now

It's not how it looks unless you saw nothing

We all agree this proposal's been sentenced to death

Are we baiting the right hook to catch your attention?

The media needs another blackout

We've been calling

Flooding hotlines

We've applied mascara to the radio but that's just a quick fix and we need a little more

Does it matter to you at all?

Are you listening or have you tuned out?

We've gotta get it together

But first we drink and we take it all apart

Everywhere we go we're the local boys and we're back in town

Well that's the way it is

It breaks my heart

We've applied mascara to the radio, but that's just a quick fix and we need a little more

Does it matter to you at all?

Are you listening or have you tuned out?

Get by

Get gone

Get high

Get wronged

[Every Time I Die]

Gutter Phenomenon

 

Kill The Music

 

Stutter step to the beat of a disparaged lover

Dumb and pulsing we've become

The bedroom door is an old black lung

It's arrhythmic

Uninviting and pliable

With the noble irreverence of shrapnel she came for us

Bore into our head and found thoughlessness

Never minded the faithless courage of shame or the bravery of oblivion, I'm on her mind and I'm never coming back

If two timing is what it takes then we both know one take is all we need

We're not equipped to stay unloved

But it's all we've got and we're not at all alright

Come on baby and give me the creeps

Either you or I or both must go

Either you or I or both must go

I'm on her mind and I'm never coming back

If two timing is what it takes then we both know one take is all we need

We're not equipped to stay unloved

But it's all we've got and we're not at all alright

There's no difference between being holy and alone

That's why I'm eagerly fleeing the scene

Lead footed

Baby return the favor and leave somebody you love

If they come back they're drunk and they're lonely

We all get lonely

God forbid we indulge when at sea

Just the tempest, the temptress and me

Naturally bored thriller

Nobody knows the trouble I've been or the exacting improvement of sin

I'm handing myself over

I'm turning myself in

War has no glory like a woman ignored

So here's to the empires polluted with dead

And the truckers wives who erected them

I know the stripper's real name

Stop me if I'm wrong

[CoLd]

Ocean

 

If the wind could bring the rain

I would save it all for you

Make an ocean to sail away and begin again

They said i could never change

That i cant belong to you

Than i watched you sip away in the oceans arms

 

I'll never get you back.

Its like fallin down a wave,

Fallin down a wave

 

If a star could light the way

That could take me back to you

And the rain could wash away

Everything ive done

Only melody remains

So i sing my song to you

As i watched you slip away in the oceans arms

 

I will never get you back

[CoLd]

When Angels Fly Away

 

I'll make a soldiers decision to fly away

Load my gun, paint my face, call me misery

I can see the sky light up and the ground explode

Got my sights locked in i can see you breathe

Then i watched you fall and somebody scream

Its the saddest thing when angels fly away

 

I cant be home tonight, i'll make it back its allright

Could ever love me half as good as you

Gotta badge for my scars just the other day

Wore it proud for the sake of my sanity

I could see the flames burn bright from the windin road

Like a haunting page from our history

Watched a young girl cry and her mother scream

Its the saddest thing when angels fly away

 

I cant be home tonight, i'll make it back its allright

Noone could ever love me half as good as you

If you cant be strong tonight, love makes you sad its allright

Noone could ever worry half as good as you

[CoLd]

Tell Me Why

 

I could see her fall from grace

Like a movie star to old to change her life

With a bottle by her head

Every night she went away

I would pray for someone else to change her life

If she wouldnt change for me

 

Tell me why. please tell me why. you stole my life

 

Tired of hearing the same old song

Everytime you came back frozen deep inside

Was it my love that you feared

I was a misfit all the way

Never there to help me grow and change my life

Then you smiled and walked away

 

All the lil things she said to me

Were broken thoughts and tainted dreams

If she cant take these memories

It doesnt change a thing

Every lil word she said to me

That broke my heart and stayed with me

I wish that she could hear me scream

She never changed a thing

 

This cant go on!

[CoLd]

When Heaven’s Not Far Away

 

If you slip away in dark ness do you fall

And if god created love, did he make it for everyone

Is there solitude and hope can you still dream

If the devil makes you cry do you change?

 

In my own shame when heavens not far away

 

Do the lil things in life stay with you soul

Does an angel hold a sign with directions for everyone

Is there someone there to have and hold for me

If the stars refuse to shine do you change?

[CoLd]

Happens All The Time

 

I still hang on every word

in the world of faded memories

where your still in love with me

I can see it in your eyes

you look as if your major Tom has lost control

 

I must hold on

This happens all the time

I still find my faith in you

I cant hold on

this happens all the time

I still find my way to you

 

If a dreams all that ive got

then I wish your in a fairy tale

where your still in love with me

I could see it in your eyes

the look as if your hero fell and lost his soul

 

I must hold on

This happens all the time

I still find my faith in you

I cant hold on

this happens all the time

I still find my way to you...

 

To you...

To you...

To you...

 

I must hold on

This happens all the time

I still find my faith in you

I cant hold on

this happens all the time

I still find my way to you

[CoLd]

Another Pill

 

Your all the same you loose you win

Your mystery hides all your feelings

Your on your way to medicate

Noone to hold noone to sing

 

Take another pill for love, let it open

Up your mind to

Be free again

Think of everyone youve lost, let them

Open up your heart to

Complete yourself

 

Your all alone with broken wings

Your life hinges on your direction

Look to the stars to medicate

Listen to hear the whole world sing

 

The world to hold, the world to sing live again

[CoLd]

A Different Kind Of Pain

 

Before i let you go

Give me just one more night to show you

Just how i feel

I lost all my control

If it takes my whole damnned life i'll

Make this up to you

 

Im kinda like the waves that roll their whole life

Towards somewhere crashing it on the shore

Thats blown in by the wind that carries the clouds

To hide my wish on a fallen star

 

A different kind of pain, is someone there to hold you

Is someone there to take you away from me

 

I tried to let you go

I wish i could turn back time and show

You just how i feel

I needed you to know

If it takes my whole damned life i'll

Make this up to you

 

Before you let me go, i needed you to know

[CoLd]

The Calm That Killed The Storm

 

Its when my world comes down

You wanna change your lil ways

Tommorrows another start

But it looks like evryday

You cant imagine how i wished that

You could be the one

Inside you were not the same

But you look like evryone

Its like a tidal wave that rose to take

The stars

A hurricane that wrapped around my heart

If i could find away i'd make a brand new start

I cant believe it was the calm that

Killed the storm

Inside you broke my heart and took a lil piece of me

Maybe one day we'll try again

But it wont ever be the same

If i dont hold on now

Everything fades and slips away

Tommorrows another start but it looks like everyday

[CoLd]

Feel It In Your Heart

 

Can't run away from love if yo cannot feel

Everything falls apart in a tragedy

I am so far away from gone

I just wanna be here

Everyone forms apart in my symphony

 

Can you feel this in your heart

Can you take it to your soul

I dont want you to pretend

I dont wanna be alone

 

Feels like im torn apart

And i cannot bleed

Caught in the web you made

This just cant be real

I am so far away from gone

I just wanna be here

Everyone falls apart in this tragedy

I dont wanna be alone

Inside ive changed

Everyday i'll live through this alone

[CoLd]

A Different Kind Of Pain

 

Back Home

 

When she walks into the room

They look up to see her face

All the glitter falls on her

And the rooms her stage

Dont you think youve had enough

Do their claws make sores

Take my hand and come away

And ill take you home

 

I wont turn around, cant be afraid

Takin you all the way back home

Innocence gone, cant be the same

Takin you all the way back home

 

Will the world still be the same

Even if your gone

When the pillars sart to fade

And the rooms just walls

Dont you think youve had enough

Do there claws make sores

Take my hand and come away

 

Dont you think youve had enough

Whats the gun their for

Take my hand and fly away

And i'll take you home

Dont you think youve had enough

Whats the gun their for

Take my hand and come away

And i'll take you

[Arch Enemy]

Slaves Of Yesterday

 

Monuments of dying dreams

As far away as Eden

These hours standing still

Finding comfort in a distant past

 

Slaves of yesterday

You are blind

Blind to the sunrise

 

A roaming spirit, forever lost

Among the living

Walking down the fatal road

Cursed to be left behind

 

Slaves of yesterday

You are blind

Blind to the sunrise

 

Lead melody - Christopher Amott

Lead - Christopher Amott

 

Slaves of yesterday

Slaves of yesterday

 

Outro Lead - Michael Amott

 

Slaves of yesterday

You are blind

Blind to the sunrise (x2)

[Arch Enemy]

Machtkampf

 

Flying high on blackened wings

Vengeance in my eyes

Colder than steel instantly real

A new power flows through me

 

Reaching out for something

Knowing that it's there - Somewhere

 

All I had was

All I gave

Was it not enough?

You took

You take

Never giving anything back

 

Lead - Michael Amott

 

Bridges that I thought I crossed

Got to cross them all again

These parts that lead to nowhere

Mocked me all my life

 

Make a change

Break the chain

Make a change

End this game

 

Lead - Michael Amott

Lead - Christopher Amott

 

Vengeance in my eyes

A new power flows in me

[Arch Enemy]

Mechanic God Creation

 

The human race

Like a chromatic stain

Lost in concrete fields

Hybrids of steel

 

Mechanic god creation

Enter annihilation

 

We are rendered obselete

Just a relic at their feet

Not cold enough - too human

 

The doomsday machine

Created by man

Like a black dawn rising

To conquer - conquer and destroy

 

Mechanic god creation

enter annihilation

 

Climbing the walls

The walls are too high

They swallow the sun

Ebony sky

 

Lead - Michael Amott

 

We are rendered obselete

Just a relic at their feet

Not cold enough - too human

 

Outro Lead - Christopher Amott

[Arch Enemy]

Hybrids Of Steel

 

[instrumental]

[Arch Enemy]

Skeleton Dance

 

On a journey ill

My mind floats astray

Over withered fields

I cross the river

 

This shortness of breath

Between birth and grave

Fading in the distance

I am nothing

 

Watch the skeleton dance

Dancing on my grave

My frozen hour of death

 

Watch the skeleton dance

On my grave

My frozen hour of death

 

Here I am alone

Casting my own shadows

Traversing the mundane

Desperate cry

 

Boundless darkness

A voiceless fear

Unheard, unseen

It is coming near

 

Watch the skeleton dance

Dancing on my grave

My frozen hour of death

Watch the skeleton dance

Here I am - alone

 

Had I not known

That I was dead

I would have mourned

My loss of life

Loss of life

 

Lead - Michael Amott

 

Watch the skeleton dance

Dancing on my grave

My frozen hour of death

 

Watch the skeleton dance

On my grave

My frozen hour of death

Between birth and grave

Here I am alone

[Arch Enemy]

I Am Legend / Out For Blood

 

I am after you

A shadow on the hunt

Don't turn around

I am right behind you

 

I will get to you

And take you down

Tear your insides out

Crush your soul

 

I am out for blood

Out for your blood

 

I am harder than steel

Break your will

Waiting all my life

To kill

 

I will get to you

And take you down

Tear your insides out

Crush your soul

 

I am out for blood

Out for your blood

 

I can smell your flesh

I can taste your sweat

I can sens your fear

I am right here

 

Lead - Michael Amott

Lead - Christopher

 

I am out for blood

Out for your blood

 

Out for blood (x3)

 

Out for blood (x3)

[Arch Enemy]

Carry The Cross

 

We walk through the ages

The world on our shoulders

The burden we carry

To the dark end of our days

A thousand eyes watching

every step we are taking

waiting to see us

struggle and fall

 

And when we are beaten

The cross holds us down

I hear them laughing

And walking away

 

Carry the Cross

And suffer the loss

Hear my confession

Forever damnation

 

Reincarnation

Bleeding forever

Recover the pain

Pain gives me strength

Pick up the cross

And carry it on

Over and over

the wheel turns again

 

And when we are beaten

The cross holds us down

Ihear them laughing

And walking Away

 

Carry the cross

And suffer the loss

Hearmy confession

Forever damnation

[Arch Enemy]

Nemesis

 

Verse:

We walk this earth

With fire in our hands

Eye for an eye

We are nemeses

 

We are with you

On this vicious, oh

Fight, fighting for freedom

United, we stand..we stand

 

Verse:

We are a legion

Voice of anarchy

This is revolution

Creating new disorder

 

We are enemy

Divided of the system

Crossing democracy

Trading it in this time...yeah

 

Chorus:

One for all

All for one

We are strong

We are one

 

One for all

All for one

We are one

[Arch Enemy]

My Apocalypse

 

Sudden implosion of silenced emotions

Buried beneath a scarred heart for too long

Delusions of hope fading away

Dying like leaves on frozen soil

 

My apocalypse is near

I can feel the end...coming here

 

Neglecting existence repulse and repent

An endless journey into the morbid

Whispering voices distorting all senses

Buried beneath a scarred heart for too long

 

My apocalypse is near

I can feel the end...coming here

 

Lead - Michael Amott

 

The bitter taste of a dying dream

Shine the light on our shadows and illusions

 

Lead - Chistopher Amott