Demon Hunter - Summer Of Darkness lyrics
- Not Ready To Die
- The Awakening
- Beheaded
- My Heartstrings Come Undone
- Our Faces Fall Apart
- Less Than Nothing
- Summer Of Darkness
- Beauty Through The Eyes Of A Predator
- Annihilate The Corrupt
- I Play Dead
- Everything Was White
- Coffin Builder
- The Latest And The Last
Not Ready To Die
You've got a lot of nerve and I've got a lot of fingers to point
While you were busy building knowledge I was already right
I know a voice like yours is not a weapon at all
And even mine is not a chisel for a thickened skull
Chant your anthems to the deaf
And we can sit here and cry until there's nothing left
Or we can take our voices with our hands
We'll make like knives and make demands
We'll take our voices - with our hands
We'll make like knives - we'll make demands
I'm burning bridges for the last time
I'm breaking habits for the first time
I saw my future today, it said I'm going away
But I still haven't sung the last line
On my way down...
I'm not ready to lay, I'm not ready to fade
I'm not ready to die
And every day of my life I can feel it getting harder to breathe
With every minute ticking by I'm getting ready to leave
I know a life like mine is not a reason to fret
But I've been busy making scars that you will never forget
If only thirty three years can save my life
I've had twenty four more to make things right
So when I'm taken to the sky and you're still here
You can clear your mind and dry your tears
We'll take our voices - with our hands
We'll make like knives - we'll make demands
I'm burning bridges for the last time
I'm breaking habits for the first time
I saw my future today, it said I'm going away
But I still haven't sung the last line
On my way down...
I'm not ready to lay, I'm not ready to fade
I'm not ready to die
When I'm taken home - and you're still here
Just clear your mind - and dry your tears
We'll take our voices - with our hands
We'll make like knives - we'll make demands
I'm not ready to lay, not ready to fade
I'm not ready to die
Not ready to die...
The Awakening
Fall into the flood of your awakening
Drown; you're just a trace of what I used to be
Waging the battle for appreciation you'll never win
Behold the army that will hearken with open souls
A tiny voice of pester softer than a drop of a pin
And so naive in thinking you were the source you told
I was composing the beginning before you had begun
Where did you sharpen such a tongue for the sound you spill?
I want the honor for the favor that I've already won
Without the ignorant deduction that you reveal
Give me the pain of something real
No empty notion, I want to see the pressure rising
Give in a way that I can feel
When you disgrace me, I want to see your eyes burn
Fall into the flood of your awakening
Drown; you're just a trace of what I used to be
You wrote the words you couldn't stomach, manifesting with breath
I read the thoughts you never questioned would show your face
If confrontation were to wake and rear its ugly head,
I get the feeling you'd be wanting it all erased
This simple gossip is your only definition of life
And what a vacant purpose taking it to your grave
There is no threat of loss in hearing the slant you cry
Oh, what a fool; to think you fell on the mass you crave
Give me the pain of something real
No empty notion, I want to see the pressure rising
Give in a way that I can feel
When you disgrace me, I want to see your eyes burn
Fall into the flood of your awakening
Drown; you're just a trace of what I used to be
Awaken from the delusion of validity
Awaken into the truth of how it used to be
Awaken.
Fall into the flood of your awakening
Drown; you're just a trace of what I used to be
Awaken
Beheaded
In the never-ending circle where
The powerless meet
There grows a struggle from the burden
Of sustaining defeat
In the face of every coward lies the
Blindest of hate
And in the eyes a sharpened image of
The damage they made
You look at me to bear the burden of the suffering past
It wasn't me behind the veil
Of a heartless mask
And where were you the day that everybody
Cursed your name?
You were the distant voice of pride
That never stood the shame
The weak of the mind will use fist
And the fist of the frail will bring gun
The loudest of guns provoke bombs
And in wrath he will chase until it's done
Chorus:
Your history is dead
Dead wrong
Dead- dead wrong
Philosophy is dead
Dead wrong
Dead- dead wrong
Within the mind of modern culture
There's an idle cog
It is the section of humanity that never forgot
And in the midst of moving forward we have given the right
To let the wolves attack the sheep and bury guilt inside
I won't forget the twisted picture of the filth that we were
Or disregard the faded voices of the people we hurt
But I was never pulling triggers or degrading your face
Don't look at me to give the reason for the pain that you trace
(Chorus)
The scars outlive the pain
Reflections will remain
The scars outlive the pain
Your sickness will remain
Dead- dead wrong
My Heartstrings Come Undone
It's buried deep within the past, and I hope it doesn't last
(It's something I already chase, I already chase)
I try to give it all away, but it's never gonna fade
(It's something I don't wanna face, I don't wanna face)
I know you feel it's all the same, but I promise that I'll change
(It's something I already chase, I already chase)
You know I'm trying to believe that you're never gonna leave
(It's something I don't wanna face, I don't wanna face)
There's nothing left! The fear is gone...
And when my heartstrings come undone
I will wait for you, pray for you
Before I make my final run
I will stay with you, decay with you
I know I'm not the perfect one, and this pain has just begun
(It's something I already chase, I already chase)
You bring me to a better path, and it's everything I lack
(It's something I don't wanna face, I don't wanna face)
There's nothing left! The fear is gone.
There's nothing left! The fear is gone...
And when my heartstrings come undone
I will wait for you, pray for you
Before I make my final run
I will stay with you, decay with you
If you fade out without me,
Will you know all about me?
If you fade out without me,
Will you know all?
And when my heartstrings come undone
I will wait for you, pray for you
Before I make my final run
I will stay with you, decay with you [x2]
Our Faces Fall Apart
Where is the inception of digression in a human life?
When is the answer just a bright light?
Who am I in shamelessly defining all the wrong and right?
What is the difference if we all die?
I am not the first, the last, the absolute
You will find no clarity in me
I am the deceased, the least, the solitude
Failing every face I try to be
I'm not your progress, the pay of your pains
I'm stabbing the questions for answers I can't face
I'm losing the battle and finding no life to retrace
I built this anguish with my own hands
I felt the burn inside my heart
I built this anguish with my own hands
I watched our faces fall apart
Chorus:
I felt the tears of all your angels, so cold
I saw the fall of all your children, I'm so cold
We are just a fraction of the poison living in this place
How can we answer with a straight face?
Who are you in gauging every standard you would have us chase?
Are we alone to run the last race?
We are all the weak, the meek, the innocent
Kissing every fault that we disgrace
We are of the worst, the cursed, the desolate
Leaving every hope that we embrace
(Chorus)
You turn your eyes to me in hope of my decline
Pointing your blame as I faltered on that line
We saw your slander when you pulled it off the shelf
If you want justice, you'll point it at yourself
Face your fears, trace your tears
Kill that blind assumption that you know how I react inside
I am not so hollow, you can't see what grows inside my mind
Straight-faced, straight-faced
(Chorus)
Less Than Nothing
I suffocate
Reality is tearing my life away
All in vain
I'm taking my pride into the grave
What a fine line we walk with our eyes closed
Giving our worst as first like we don't know
Burning my way through life with a vengeance
Giving my weight in hate until the neck bends
Tearing out every trace of emotion
Falling into this cell that you've opened
Hollow as all these faces around me
Feeling your fatal infection surround me
Chorus:
We all live in fear of something
We all disappear like nothing
We all live in fear of something
We all equal less than nothing
I suffocate
I'm taking my life from first to last
All this hate is dragging my face through broken glass
How can we be so blind in the same light?
Covering all these scars that we can't hide
Feeling my way through thorns of rejection
Bleeding out all this filth of infection
(Chorus)
Nothing
Nothing
We're nothing
Nothing
Summer Of Darkness
I'll be the one last breath before this death
I'll be the final glimpse of truth when there's none left
And if I shame your face, degrade your faith
I'll be the first to hide behind disgrace
Bloodloss- on account of my failing aim
Treason- at the root of my shameful name
I found my way to fall
I never meant to break your heart
Chorus:
Breathing in this pain (rejecting all I am)
I hear you cry again (is this my final stand?)
Before I go (before I lose it all)
You should know (I hate myself for hurting you)
I see the burn of the light from within my grave
I feel the pain of contradiction despite decay
And if the shadow of doubt will betray this gain
Then put an end to me now while the hope remains
Blood-loss- on account of my failing aim
Treason- at the root of my shameful name
(chorus)
This is not my life
This is not our life
Every day I die
This is not my life
Beauty Through The Eyes Of A Predator
I'm not the only one who can't see why it crossed your mind
I see your life and death reduce into a product line
It's not enough to see you speaking though the blindest of eyes
The same dead, cold breath is reducing mine
I can't see why, see why
You're not a saint, you're a thief
You can't deny, deny
It's all a ploy underneath
All I've seen (You better learn to keep your face under the dark)
All I need (Wake up and feel the blood escape your heart)
Your disease (For every word that you devalue and mistake)
I can't breathe (For every soul you nauseate with what you say)
Chorus:
You've brought this verdict on yourself
(Before we ever had a chance)
I hope you cry for the ones you've lost
You built this burden when you fell
(You know we never took a glance)
I hope it's worth all the blood it cost
It's been a long way back from the dissipated path
Only half way through, say goodbye and take a breath
And when the end shines new with the burn of nothing left
I'll give you one last chance to say you're done and give it back
I won't agree, agree
Your remedy is a joke
I can't believe, believe
That you can breathe and not choke
(Chorus)
Peddle your faith to the blind
And cheapen the love that you feel so painful
Pushing the guilt through your spine
And suffer the mold of a prime example
(Chorus)
I feel my lungs beginning to burn
With every foolish word that you spit, another nail you'll get
Annihilate The Corrupt
Behind the eyes of my compassion lies a suffering soul
And in my blood a bitter darkness slowly taking its toll
I feel the death of our connection and the fading of light
Between the shards of sudden panic from choking on my life
I see the scars of your addiction and the feeling you hide
A blackened heart from all the hatred you will never rewind
Within the depths of your depression hear you pleading for help
You're just a shell of vacant ruin, a portrait of myself
I can't breathe alone
You can guide me home
Chorus:
I am the face of your affliction
Feeding new life through the cracks in your skull
Beneath the skin of your aggression is a thickening fear
A swelling plague for every devastating voice that you hear
You feel the throes of contradiction in the world that you left
Another day in your delusion, the never-ending death
I can't breathe alone
You can guide me home
I can feel you here
You can draw me near
Chorus:
I am the face of your affliction
Feeding new life through the cracks in your skull
I am the pain of your conviction
Stabbing you right through the back of your soul
This is life
This is love
(Chorus)
I can feel you here
You can draw me near
I Play Dead
Play dead again, it just might stop before the end
If I pretend, you may not see the pain I'm in
So close to me, can't tell what I'm supposed to be
Don't stop to breathe, can't bear to think what you might see
This tourniquet; these blessed hands around my head
So I can keep from...
Bleeding
I've got to find a way to stop before it starts
Finding its way through my veins right to my heart
I never thought it something everyone could see
And it kills within me
Chorus:
I won't, I won't leave without a trace
I won't be erased
It's in my head, I can't forget what you once said
The words I read, the fractured soul that I can't mend
Right here with me, killing the void I used to be
Remembering through fading sparks of memory
Two broken hands lift seven wounds; I fight to stand
To keep the lungs from...
Caving
I've got to find a way to stop before it starts
Finding its way through my veins right to my heart
I never thought it something everyone could see
And it kills within me
(Chorus)
Turning, it's moving, escaping right through me
I care not, I bleed not, for you I believe not
I play dead
(Chorus)
Everything Was White
As I clear my mind enough to see
Decaying pieces of my being that have fallen on me
I find the one clean cut that has given the wrath
Beneath the deep and cleansing fire that is shaping the path
I've had all my life to fall in place
I watch all my past in right decay
And with every step that shames my face
I see all my pieces catch ablaze
CHORUS:
The pain is fading, now you're leaving me alone.
I can't stop bleeding, I'm depleting on my own
I can't bury every form I've seen
The hollow pieces of perfection are embedded in me
And with every step the walls give way
And in the shadow of deceit I can see you fade
I've seen all those dreams we try to hide
And the sound of honesty's reply
But I'm not that man you've seen inside
He was born so pure but then he died
(CHORUS)
With every word I breathe out
I feel it escaping from my soul
With every thought created
Omission leaving me so cold
I've seen inside the downward fall
Remember all the filth I saw
I've seen inside the downward fall
Remember everything I saw
(CHORUS)
Coffin Builder
My fall draws near.
My life fell out of my hands
and into this hole, where everything's cold.
I lost the feeling of guilt;
There's nothing inside, my innocence died.
And now the emptiness grows;
It's bringing me down and taking my ground.
I've seen where everything's dark.
It's here in my soul; I'm losing control.
CHORUS:
Have mercy on me.
Have mercy on me.
Have mercy on me for every thorn I've driven in.
Have mercy on me.
Have mercy on me.
Have mercy on me for every thorn I've driven in.
Within these walls you'll see.
Alone in here - The end.
Before my very last day,
I'm making it stop. I'm turning it off.
I'll fight the feeling I have
till everything's gone. Resistance has won.
Now time is healing these wounds
and You are still here, releasing my fear.
My life fell out of my hands.
They took it away, I'm taking it back.
(CHORUS)
And every day I feel
like this weight's constantly dragging me down;
Broken for the last time (Never get the best of me, won't get the best of me).
I've got a heart of steel,
But your words are constantly bringing me down.
I'm open for the first time (Never get the best of me, won't get the best of me).
(CHORUS)
Within these walls you'll see
Alone in here - the end.
My fall draws near.
The Latest And The Last
Words of high cost (you spit a curse at my name)
When thoughts of hate cross (I can't devour your blame)
This is your choice (this is your hammer to crush)
I have no voice (you're not the hand that I trust)
Throw it down on me.
Throw it down on me.
CHORUS:
Before you break your silence, before we tear this open...
We'll count the dead and hopeless for every word unspoken.
Thoughts, like blood, run (forever staining our hands)
Mouth like cold gun (before the barrel we stand)
The latest and the last (you put a price on my head)
The latest and the last (the worst is already said)
(CHORUS)
Spilling through your teeth
You're sick of what you've seen
You point your guilt at every step we took in loyalty
(CHORUS)
Throw it down on me.
Throw it down.