Ashes of the Wake Lyrics Album by Lamb of God
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1. Laid to Rest
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 might as well just admit it.
Bleach out the stains,
commit to forgetting it.
You’re better off empty and blank,
than 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,
and 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!
See who gives a fuck!
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!
I’d trade all the others away!
2. Hourglass
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.
Its only getting worse,
not worth a moments 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.
For bearance and my vengeance,
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 its too late.
You finally made it home,
draped in the flag that you fell for.
And so it goes,
the ashes of the wake!
Its only getting worse…
3. Now You’ve Got Something to Die For
Now you’ve got something to die for!
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.
Flages for coffins on the screen,
oil for the machine.
Army of liberation,
gunpoint,indoctrination.
The fires of sedition,
fulfill the prophecy.
Now you’ve got something to die for!
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!
Now you’ve got something to die for!
4. The Faded Line
Witness shames parade,
the pain of blame repaid.
Its fucking hopeless,
accusations and denial.
Hopeless, demon of another day.
Colorless, stoned, solid 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 ritual to numb the cut.
Salvation in vice!
Anguish is realizing,
what could have been but never was.
Its emptiness that fills the cup,
devotion in the method of my fall.
Pointless futility continuing.
Endless flowing corrupted vein.
Walk the faded line, cursed crawl of time.
Walk the faded line, cursed crawl of time.
Silence, the only promise ever kept.
Its fucking hopeless!
Hopeless!
Hopeless!
Its fucking hopeless!
Hopeless!
5. Omerta
Whoever appeals to the law against his fellow man,
is either a fool or a coward.
Whoever cannot take care of themselves,
without that law is both.
For a wounded man shall say to his assailant:
“If I live, I will kill you!
If I die, You are forgiven”.
Such is the rule of honour!
Broken the paradigm, an example must be set.
Invoke the siren’s song and sign the death warrant.
This what has been wrought for 30 pieces of silver.
The tongues of men and angels bought by a beloved betrayer.
I am the result whats 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 from the registry
St. Peter greets with empty eyes,
and then turns and locks the gate.
I am the result whats better left unspoken.
Violence begins to mend what was broken.
You’ve been talking, I’ve been all ears!
Omertà!
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!
Omertà!
Omertà!
Sing for me now!
6. Blood of the Scribe
All of this comes crashing down,
cornerstones gone.
Sleepless, hopleless!
No end in sight!
Ink well has run dry,
fill it with blood of the scribe!
Rest comes easy to the guiltless,
the vampire laments as he prays for the sun!
Doom, despair, tragedy,
are the tools of the trade.
Cut to the bone, rob the grave.
Unearth the stone, lay to waste!
Defile the tome, rip the page.
Strip 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.
Strip 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 tolls endlessly, no end in sight.
7. One Gun
The sins of deliverance!
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!
For your sacrifice!
The sins of the father,
atoned by the son!
Confessions of commitment broken,
a nail driven for every one.
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 for your sacrifice!
They’ll hallow your name!
Sacrifice!
Sacrifice!
Sacrifice!
They’ll hallow your name!
8. Break You
Endless mornings cut by the dawn razor,
whipping the nightmares to a froth.
Endless questions with no answers,
no replacement for whats been lost.
Lost!
Everything suffocates in the dust,
of past fortunes, squandered.
The empire of lies to whom 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 or light.
Full of nothing but deprivation!
Frost on the breath of life,
empty of warmth or light.
Eternal winter!
Tell me a lie with the best of intentions.
Mute in the age of mass communication.
Dark days lead to darker nights.
Frozen, out of time.
Id dies for blessed ego,
the once mighty laid low.
Frost on the breath of life,
empty of warmth or light.
Full of nothing but deprivation!
Full of nothing but deprivation!
Eternal winter!
Full of nothing but deprivation!
Eternal winter!
You taught hate, Ill teach you fear.
Open the eyes, kill despair!
Your tried to squeeze the life from me.
Son of a bitch, I’m going to break you!
Son of a bitch, I’m going to break you!
Break you, I’m going to break you!
Break you!
9. What I’ve Become
Blank stares from broken men,
so withered from the poisons.
They can’t remember when,
there were once honest reasons.
Its all a lie,
it died 100,000 miles ago.
Pretending I’m still here!
Justify what I’ve become,
sanctify what I’ve become.
Amazing disgrace, how sweet the sound,
that saved a wretch like me.
Better lost if this is found.
Best blinded, never to see.
The race to save face,
nothing now is what we meant it to be.
Prentending I’m still here!
Its a system now, intertwined.
Take your place in the line to be ground,
by the gears of the masterpiece, betrayal.
Justify what I’ve become,
sanctify what I’ve become.
Suffered consequence,
Its been so long since,
any piece of this made any kind of sense.
You anoint the king,
Ill burn everything down to ashes.
You giveth, I taketh away!
You giveth, I taketh away!
Its a system now, intertwined.
Take your place in the line to be ground,
by the gears of the masterpiece, betrayal.
10. Ashes of the Wake
(Instrumental)
“We killed a lot of innocent civilians.
To us, every civilian in Baghdad was a terrorist.
These Fedayeen are now in civilian clothes that makes everybody free game.
But if they came within our parameter, we lit ’em up.
And when we would pull the body out, and we would search the corpse, we would find nothing.
This took place time and time again.
No harm no foul.
It’s okay.
Don’t worry about it.
Because this is a new type of war, this is an eradication.
I honestly feel that 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.”
11. Remorse Is for the Dead
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 denial 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,
violence 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 until nothing’s left,
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 until nothing’s left,
and take us with it.
Poisoned nerves and a bloody antidote.
Violence is not an abberration, its a rule!
Dying beyond the pale.
Your beatings will continue,
until my morale improves
I dont hate you,
I’m just removing an enemy.
Remorse is for the dead!
I’m just removing an enemy.
Remorse is for the dead, my enemy!
Remorse is for the dead!
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