Shinedown - The Sound Of Madness lyrics
- Devour
- Sound Of Madness
- Second Chance
- Cry For Help
- The Crow & The Butterfly
- If You Only Knew
- Sin with A Grin
- What A Shame
- Cyanide Sweet Tooth Suicide
- Breaking Inside
- Call Me
Devour
Take it and take it and take it and take it and take it all
Take it and take it and take it until you take take us all
Smash it and crash it and trash it you know they're only toys
Try as you like it don't hide it don't fight it just let it out
Steal it and shoot it and kill it or take another route
Take it and take it and take it you know they're only toys
Devour, devour
Suffocate your own empire
Devour, devour
It's your final hour
Devour, devour
Stolen like a foreign soul
Devour, devour
What a way to go
You want it you want it you want it you want it well here it is
Everything everything everything isn't so primitive
Take it and take it and take it and take it and take it all
Nobody nobody wants to feel like this
Nobody nobody wants to live like this
Nobody nobody wants a war like this
Devour, devour
Suffocate your own empire
Devour, devour
It's your final hour
Devour, devour
Stolen like a foreign soul
Devour, devour
What a way to go
What a way to go
Diving down
Round and round
Diving down
Round and round
Devour, devour
Suffocate your own empire
Devour, devour
It's your final hour
Devour, devour
Stolen like a foreign soul
Devour, devour
What a way to go
Devour, devour
Suffocate your own empire
Devour, devour
It's your final hour
Devour, devour
Stolen like a foreign soul
Devour, devour
What a way to go
What a way to go
Sound Of Madness
Yeah I get it you're an outcast
Always under attack
Always coming in last
Bringing up the past
No one owes you anything
I think you need a shotgun blast
A kick in the ass
So paranoid
Watch your back!
Oh my here we go
Another loose cannon gone bi-polar
Slipped down couldn't get much lower
Quicksand's got no sense of humor
I'm still laughing like hell
You think that by crying for me
Looking so sorry that I'm gonna believe
You've been affected by a social disease
Well then take your medicine
[Chorus]
I created the sound of madness
Wrote the book on pain
Somehow I'm still here to explain
That the darkest hour never comes in the night
You can sleep with a gun
But when you gonna wake up and fight
For yourself
I'm so sick of this tombstone mentality
If theres an afterlife, then it'll set you free
But I'm not gonna part the seas
You're a self-fulfilling prophecy
You think that by crying to me
Looking so sorry that I'm gonna believe
You've been affected by a social disease
Well then take your medicine
[Chorus x3]
When you gonna wake up and fight
For yourself
When you gonna wake up and fight
For yourself
When you gonna wake up and fight
For yourself
Second Chance
My eyes are open wide, by the way
I made it through the day.
I watch the world outside, by the way
I'm leaving out today.
I just saw Hailey's Comet she waved
Said, "why are you always running in place?
Even the man in the moon disappeared
somewhere in the stratosphere."
Tell my mother, tell my father
I've done the best I can
To make them realize this is my life
I hope they understand.
I'm not angry, I'm just saying
Sometimes goodbye is a second chance.
Please don't cry one tear for me
I'm not afraid of what I have to say.
This is my one and only voice
so listen close, it's only for today.
I just saw Hailey's Comet she waved,
Said, "why are you always running in place?
Even the man in the moon disappeared
somewhere in the stratosphere."
Tell my mother, tell my father
I've done the best I can
To make them realize this is my life
I hope they understand.
I'm not angry, I'm just saying
Sometimes goodbye is a second chance.
Here is my chance
This is my chance!
Tell my mother, tell my father
I've done the best I can
To make them realize this is my life
I hope they understand.
I'm not angry, I'm just saying
Sometimes goodbye is a second chance,
Sometimes goodbye is a second chance,
Sometimes goodbye is a second chance.
Cry For Help
You've been hanging out for quite awhile now
Livin' off of people you know
Trying to raise a little money
To pay off all the monkeys
That you met inside the rabbit hole
You're taking candy from the white witch
You're smokin' tea with Mama Kin
Well theres a wolf outside a brick house
Screamin' "This time I'm gonna blow it in!"
Because the mind is a weapon, see?
And its got you on your hands and knees
Pull the trigger if you're gonna
We all know that you wanna
Count of 1, 2, 1, 2, 3!
[Chorus]
You better pray that theres another way out
You better pray that someones listening now (and doesn't want to watch you drown)
'Cuz when you lie like the devil himself
No angels gonna hear your cry for help
I know you must really think its funny
You had everybody fooled in the end
But its a little unassuming considered how you knew me
I'm the only one that called you a friend
Because the mind is a weapon, see?
And its got you on your hands and knees
Pull the trigger if you're gonna
We all know that you wanna
Count of 1, 2, 1, 2, 3!
[Chorus]
Count of 1, 2, 1, 2, 3!
[Chorus]
For help
For help
The Crow & The Butterfly
Midnight, so I'd know
Yesterday was over
I put all your books
On the top shelf,
Even the one with
The four leaf clover
Man, I'm getting older
I took all your pictures
Off the wall and wrapped
Them in a news paper blanket
I haven't slept in what seems
Like a century, and now I can
Barely breathe
[Chorus]
Just like a crow chasing the butterfly
dandelions lost in the summer sky
When you and I were getting
High as outer space, I never
Thought you'd slip away
I guess I was just a little too late
You're words still serenade me,
You're alibies won't let me sleep
I've never heard such a haunting
Melody. Oh, it's killing me
You know I can barely breathe
[Chorus]
Just like a crow chasing the butterfly
dandelions lost in the summer sky
When you and I were getting
High as outer space, I never
Thought you'd slip away
I guess I was just a little too late
Just like a crow chasing the butterfly
dandelions lost in the summer sky
When you and I were getting
High as outer space, I never
Thought you'd slip away -
Like a crow chasing the Butterfly
dandelions lost in the summer sky
When you and I were getting
High as outer space, I never
Thought you'd slip away
I guess I was just a little too late
Just a little too late
If You Only Knew
If you only knew
I'm hanging by a thread
The web I spin for you
If you only knew
I'd sacrifice my beating heart
Before I lose you
I still hold onto the letters you returned
I swear I've lived and learned
[Chorus]
Its 4:03 and I can't sleep
Without you next to me
I toss and turn like the sea
If I drown tonight
Bring me back to life
Breathe your breath in me
The only thing that I still believe in is you
If you only knew
If you only knew
How many times I counted
All the words that went wrong
If you only knew
How I refuse to let you go
Even though you're gone
I don't regret any days I spent
Nights we shared
Or letters than I sent
[Chorus]
I still hold onto the letters you returned
You helped me live and learn
[Chorus]
Sin with A Grin
Take a good look at agony
Force fed pass down time release
I'm inspired to find the liar
Black list X on the back of a soulful man
I've got ways you understand
Look left, look right
But I'm behind you
I never noticed
Until I focused
On everything you did, you said
You lit the fuse inside my head
[Chorus]
Thank you for reminding me of why I'm sick inside
Thank you for the venom
Did you think it would paralyze
These scars
I scratch
I tear
Are there
Under my skin
Where you've always been
Thank you for reminding me to sin with a grin
Hangman standing on a twisted 2 by 4
Built your house but forgot to lock the door
I'm inside
With two black eyes
I have not one shred of sympathy
I have no use for apologies
I'm inspired to find the liar
I never noticed
Until I focused
On everything you did, you said
You lit the fuse inside my head
[Chorus x2]
Sin with a grin
Sin with a grin
What A Shame
Two packs of cigarettes a day
The strongest whiskey Kentucky can make
Thats a recipe to put a vagabond
On his hands and knees
I watched it all up close
I knew him more than most
I saw a side of him he never showed
Full of sympathy
For a world that wouldn't let him be
[Chorus]
Thats the man he was
Have you heard enough?
What a shame
What a shame
To judge a life that you can't change
The choir sings
Church bells ring
So won't you give this man his wings
What a shame
To have to beg you to see
We're not all the same
What a shame
Theres a hard life for every silver spoon
Theres a touch of gray for every shade of blue
Thats the way that I see life
If there was nothing
Then there'd be nothing right
And for this working man
They said could barely stand
Theres got to be a better place to land
Some kind of remedy
For a world that couldn't let him be
[Chorus]
God forgive the hands that laid you down
They never knew how
Much a broken heart can break the sound
And change the seasons
Now the leaves are falling faster
Happily ever after
You gave me hope with your endeavors
And now you will live forever
[Chorus]
Cyanide Sweet Tooth Suicide
Shes a steel thrill suicide they say
Cyanide in her plastic veins
Shes a mannequin of misery
Shes on a bender
But she ain't gonna break
Hey Hey
Taste like sugar but its novacaine
Shes grinding teeth so she can sharpen the pain
White light
Train wreck
[Chorus]
Black lips, pale eyes
Cyanide sweet tooth suicide
Shes a killer
Shes my cyanide sweet tooth suicide
Strychnine cerebellum feeds the brain
Hurricane in a violent rage
Shes a looker like Anna Nicole (oh no)
Not the silver let's go straight for the gold
Hey Hey
Digging deeper than a six foot hole
Shes snorting cocaine with a suicide note
White light
Train wreck
[Chorus]
White light
Train wreck
[Chorus]
Breaking Inside
I caught a chill
And its still frozen on my skin
I think about why I'm alone
By myself no one to explain
How far do I go?
No one knows
If the end is so much better why don't we just live forever?
Don't tell me I'm the last one in line
Don't tell me I'm too late this time
[Chorus]
I don't wanna live
To waste another day
Underneath the shadows Of
Mistakes I've made
'Cuz I feel like I'm breaking inside
I don't wanna tell
And say I lost it all
'Cuz maybe theres a part of me
That hit the hall
Leaving pieces of me behind
And I feel like I'm breaking inside
Out here nothings clear
Except the moment I decided
To move on and I ignited
Disappear into the fear
You know there ain't no coming back
When you're still carrying the past
You can't erase, separate
Cigarette in my hand
Hope you all understand
I won't be the last one in line
I finally figured out whats mine
[Chorus]
I won't be the last one in line
I finally figured out whats mine
[Chorus]
And I feel like I'm breaking
And I feel like I'm breaking inside
Call Me
Wrap me in a bolt of lightning
Send me on my way still smiling
Maybe that's the way I should go
Straight into the mouth of the unknown
I left the spare key on the table
Never really thought I'd be able
To say that ill visit on the weekends
I lost my whole life and a dear friend.
I've said it so many times
I would change my ways, no never mind.
God knows I tried!
Call me a sinner, call me a saint
Tell me its over, I'll still love you the same
Call me your favorite
Call me the worst
Tell me its over, I don't want you to hurt
It's all that i can say,
So I'll be on my way
I finally put it all together,
Nothing really lasts forever
I had to make a choice that was not mine
I had to say goodbye for the last time
I kept my life in a suitcase
Never really stayed in one place
Maybe that's the way it should be
You know I lived my life like a Gypsy
I've said it so many times
I would change my ways, no never mind.
God knows i tried!
Call me a sinner, call me a saint
Tell me its over, I'll still love you the same
Call me your favorite
Call me the worst
Tell me its over, I don't want you to hurt
It's all that i can say,
So I'll be on my way
I'll always keep you inside
You healed my heart and my life
And you know I tried
Call me a sinner, call me a saint
Tell me its over, I'll still love you the same
Call me your favorite
Call me the worst
Tell me its over, I don't want you to hurt
It's all that i can say,
So I'll be on my way(x4)