Cross Bones
My bones are lying at the crossroads
There my spirit shall remain
The grief of a world I do not love anymore
I fear too much for me to take
My dear lost Anna and her lullabies
I’d say we’ll never meet again
My ghost has been here
For ten winters now
Alas, If only I’d have known
I fired my rifle and I claimed this world
I worked my shoulders till they ached
Never to toil in these fields anymore
I escaped the only way I knew
Well, my spirit rose awake one day
Just in time to hear the preacher say
I was laid to rest upon a holiday
Lay this fella in the ground
Remove his head and put him upside down
and salt the Earth so his corpse won’t make a sound
Hang this cross up in a tree
So the spirit of his wife might see
That we tried our best to help her husband find his way
So, my bones are lying at the crossroads
There my spirit shall remain
The grief of a world I do not love anymore
I fear too much for me to take
Custom Life
Gather these things that we covet
And over these things we hover
Do we still need friends?
Occupy all of our senses
Lower our eyes and defenses
Do we still need friends?
So, plug in the window and watch it
Draw the curtains so the glare can’t stop us
Do we still need friends?
Depart for a while and take nothing
Leave for days by just pushing buttons
Do we still need friends?
You and I, well, me and my custom life x2
Can’t handle the crowds so we log in
To socialize without even talking
Do we still need friends?
So build us a cage cause we want it
Then close us in, bar it and lock it
We are such good
You and I, well, me and my custom life x2
We build walls
We build them all of the time
You can’t break them
Or change them
Cause they’re mine
Forest Fire
Cold nights leaves die and it’s not even autumn
We’ll all be getting warm down by the forest fire
So, come join us
With no light in the night sky to guide we will wander
The wind whispers for us to beware
and we oughta
So, hold tight, breathe light, as breathing gets harder
The air is thick with chemicals it bears
From our fathers
Lakes dry, there’s no tide, remembering water
When the dust clouds settle will we still be here
Will we wanna?
Closed eyes, sleep tight and we’ll dream forever
Drifting off from our conscious thought
Could’ve done better
Cold nights leaves die and it’s not even autumn
We’ll all be getting warm down by the forest fire
So, come join us
The Fifth of May
On the fifth of May, I started to say
I saw her alive earlier that day
She came up to me had asked for a ride
Already a few deep I was in no shape to drive.
So, I turned and I slurred inquiring as to why
But, she was already gone in the blink of an eye
On the fifth of May, I started to say I saw her alive
I saw her alive
Like a silhouette of a shadow
(Backing: On the fifth of May, I started to say...I saw her alive)
On the fifth of May and every year on that day
She stalks through the town, an unnatural display
She yearns for concern with emotionless eyes
and beckons toward the wood, as if some clue to her demise
On the fifth of May, I started to say I saw her alive
I saw her alive
Like a silhouette of a shadow
(Backing: On the fifth of May, I started to say...I saw her alive)
Valley
Between lives there’s a valley
Below the peaks it’s overcrowded
Our hearts and souls were boundless
Yet this graveyard has found us
In...oh in the valley we’re going nowhere
We’re growing old and losing our hair
Where gravity has touched all our hearts a bit too much
It takes a stride to get going
Though the terrain may be foreboding
Ambition for something different
Makes this a mission for the top
Every step it gets easier
You’ll see the air up here is cleaner
Every mile’s a little freer
On the path to better off
In...oh in the valley we’re going nowhere
We’re growing old and losing our hair
Where gravity has touched all our hearts a bit too much
You may need a guide to reach the summit
For support and motivation
The view at this elevation is a welcome revelation
In...oh in the valley we’re going nowhere
We’re growing old and losing our hair
Where gravity has touched all our hearts
A bit too much
Mullin Shetland’s Body
Well, my musket’s attached to a powerful hose
and they crank in the steam when the enemy shows
We’re a firing line
(backing) a firing line
A battalion of guns, a hundred feet in the sky
Take a look to your side
Every three men alive
Only one will remain at the end of the fight
We’re a firing line
(backing) a firing line
A battalion of guns, a hundred feet in the sky
Well, you play it just right, the bullets avoid your body
Well, you say it just right, you might survive the fray
So, fire away boys, fire away and we’ll see
Who survives
Yeah, fire away boys, fire away and we’ll see
Who survives
Anyway
Well, they say hell awaits, or heaven awaits
When they sound the alarm
and they open the gates
Take a firing line
(backing) a firing line
A battalion of guns, a hundred feet in the sky
For the ones that survive, we all get a prize
A shiny new medal to pin on their chest
I got 7 on mine
In a (backing) firing line
A battalion of guns, a hundred feet in the sky
Well, you play it just right, the bullets avoid your body
Well, you say it just right, you might survive the fray
So, fire away boys, fire away and we’ll see
Who survives
Yeah, fire away boys, fire away and we’ll see
Who survives
Anyway
Disith bullets will avoid Mullin Shetland’s body
(backing) Disith bullets will avoid Mullin Shetland’s body (x3)
You play it just right and the bullets avoid your body
Well, you say it just right, you might survive the fray
So, fire away boys, fire away and we’ll see
Who survives
Yeah, fire away boys, fire away and we’ll see
Who survives
Anyway
Other Side of the Gate
Life...
Taking lives for a stone
Just to have your own life
Ruining plans by taking lives for a stone
Just to have your own life
Ruin our plans by taking our lives
Well you should go and take your own life ruining plans
by taking our life
This evil mind is a piece of mine and now it’s
Out of control and it’s out to get me
Her face and eyes I recognize but there’s an
Ouroboros on this homunculi and it’s
Too late to try and reconcile with this
soulless product of our deal with the gate child with
The remains I find I’ll paralyze
Then destroy this monster that we brought to lifeless
And she’ll glow, vaporize and go
Life...
Taking lives for a stone
Just to have your own life
Ruining plans by taking lives
For a stone just to have your own life
Ruin our plans by taking our lives
Well, you should go and take your own life ruining plans
by taking our life
If my troubled mind is occupied I’ve got this
Suit of armor always at my side I’m not a
Military dog on the front lines I’ve got my
Own agenda so I play both sides
Her face and eyes I recognize but there’s an
Ouroboros on this homunculi and it’s
Too late to try and reconcile with this
soulless product of our deal with the gate child with
The remains I find I’ll paralyze
Then destroy this monster that we brought to lifeless
And she’ll glow, (vaporize and go) x3
Life...
Taking lives for a stone
Just to have your own life
Ruining plans by taking lives
For a stone just to have your own life
Ruin our plans by taking our lives
You should go and take your own life ruining plans
by taking our life
Violence and Instruments
Play, just don’t leave me out
All I ever wanted was for you and I to stand on solid ground
Oh, and don’t drag me down
‘cause I’ve already sunk up to my neck
This quicksand used to be my town
They know, and I know that they know,
If situations that arise
Can find sustenance
We know where they are bound
Oh, we created this and we hate this
Oh it’s always the other side that can see in
Wait, offshore in this boat
I promise no more promises but swear
this is the last breath that I’ll hold
And stare, stare out the window
And look upon the world with perfect vision
but see nothing there at all
And cold, a cold that is painful
The kind of cold that’s cured by
Violence and instruments
And a soundtrack will unfold
Feet, buried in concrete
Bound and gagged and tossed
Over the side by my first mate
We created this and we hate this
Oh it’s always the other side that can see in
That can see...in...oh
That can see in
That can see in...oh
Master Sergeant Leaving
The sea is full of the dead and the dying
Mothers and daughters are crying
I don’t care what you say
Captain, take me away
Leaving this battle, am I
In the town
The lords and ladies are lying
While honest folk do the dying
I don’t care what was said
Watch the water turn red
and leaving this battle, am I
and you’ll get no more killing from me (x2)
If it’s truly my fate
Then god lose the state
and I’ll run for the rest of my days
So, ma’am
Please, take my sword and revolver
It’s the least that this soldier might offer
For the price you could fetch
For an officer’s arm
May pay for the grave of your son
and I’ve gone
To where guilty men do their running
Their hiding, their sleeping, their slumming
I don’t care what was said
Watch the water turn red
and this shadowy conscience is mine
and you’ll get no more killing from me (x2)
If it’s truly my fate
Then god lose the state
and I’ll run for the rest of my days
and you’ll get no more killing from me (x2)
If it’s truly my fate
Then god lose the state
Then I’ll run for the rest of my days