Cripper - Antagonist lyrics
Tracks 01. New Shadow
02. Not Dead Yet 03. Animal Of Prey 04. Hegemony 05. Clean 06. General Routine 07. Totmann 08. Dogbite 09. Another Lesson In Pain 10. Damocles 11. God Spoken Prayer 12. Cocoon 01. New Shadow
Reality, reflection
I'm the fire-feeding The world around is built by us And "us" is more than all of you and me In the end Nothing is true What has been and is, will be In a different light From now on: New shadow Shadow, awake in the sunlight Shadow, alive like an animal Shadow-alike run up the wall My shadow-allied A shadow like mine Open eyes Seeing things in a different light While I'm here And on my own Nothing speaks Nothing means My words for you I say again: All my words for You make it whole You give sense The meaning stretches To the end Another focus Different view Support all angles: This is real! With all my strength and all my senses Ease my mind, embrace the pain These words I own are yours right now Each letter, word... each phrasing, sound So level up the inspiration Make me feel the humming flow A symbol for the peace of mind A symbol for my shadow-allied 02. Not Dead Yet
Come a little closer
Come near and you will see You might find the peace I sense Out there, almost within reach With the headlights on With a pocket full of stones Waiting for the sun Hoping for gravity Fear the wrong, them all or nothing Is it broken or just old? If you don't know - they surely will Decide first for, then sell to you Stand, stare See... understand If you wanna walk the line Then there's no room to step aside So now come clean Let the healing begin So now become one With the beating within We are not dead yet A little closer Yet about to see The line dividing earth and sky Is just a shadow in your head The taste of insecurity, freedom In a bottle full of rain Step outside the ordinary Enjoy Living. Learning Breaking the bone of habit Disturbing the peace of symmetry Painting the best case scenario Treasuring pain Treasuring pain 03. Animal Of Prey
Staring out the window
Ignoring the signs Hear the knocking on the door "Let me inside" I'm still beating I'm alive Believe me I am not pretending I can see us now... ending Stand up for the god Who left you alone The absence of god Who left you alone Our reanimated shelf life Stretched to a breaking point See, all you need is to breathe To stay alive I'm still breathing I'm alive In the mirror I see My reflection staring back at me Stand up for the god Who left you alone The absence of your chosen god Has left you Haunted animal of prey Stand up for the god Who left you alone The absence of god Left a hole 04. Hegemony
Blood
You are a painting in the sky Superior legions Run superior plans Who's gonna change the world for you today? Well, I guess you wouldn't want it any other way Throwing You in and out the game Showing That this world will still spin when you're gone Throwing you in and out the game Showing that this world that we're in (not to sin) Will still spin when you're gone Red Who stole the gentleman's hat? Yesterday's matters Today only letters We haven't seen you for so long Now that we see it all seems so wrong Imminence A proof, a hidden evidence For no reason Life is against you Silent Conspiracy Goddamned! Are you the beat? Are you the melody? Hegemony Mirror, mirror on the wall Who's the emperor of us all? Bow down, follow the pain May guilt be thy master And remorse be thy name 05. Clean
Losing, living, losing grip
Feeling, taking, feel like shit I came here with nothing But leaving now means leaving everything behind I've pushed you farther than you'd go I'm not your lover Not your enemy Why would you push all the buttons, open any door? And what I wish for Is you wide awake But you feel like rain in my head Brainwash me clean See, hate is no surprise We fought everything we could Synchronized our intentions Until we lost what we had found Remind me why I wanted this job Because I'm starting to forget Don't say no, say okay As if saying so will make it so Oh well That's good I'm alright And it's getting even better now Who wanted those silly flowers in the backyard? And what about this "we" thing anyway? 06. General Routine
When I say something
To make you say something In the end it's all My fault And so I say nothing So you say nothing In the end there's nothing at all General Routine God from the machine You ain't gonna fuck my brain Your hands in the open air I'm to blame, but I don't care Crush down heaven to the earth This won't bring back your wasted years They all served good and long and still For sure they can't find peace until We cut you and we see no blood Come on, let's do it, fill the cup A substitute for your own pain We cut 'em all, but all in vein The higher dose, the General Were they bad things after all? Victim Faint-hearted schism You are standing there, unbound No rights, no left turn, nothing left to learn I don't want to make friends I'm not here to please you I don't want to play a game All I want to do to you is what you did to me Anyway You are bound in many ways But when it comes to run away You've got the speed and the drive Of a goddamn train 07. Totmann
From the shoulders
Of giant Majority We look down And make believe What we see is the only possible reality The river runs down the hill The river shapes the land The river pours into the sea The river is a river Kill the deadmen One by one Walk on, walk strong On and on Kill the deadmen One by one Walk on, walk strong Go out and show 'em - they'll never doubt it again Like a lioness Her breed And a lion another lion's breed Those rules to go by Are like a tight string around our necks Pain And a painkiller What I can't hear I need to say My blood-spattered Blood brother Your covered, blinded eyes can't see It may not always be easy It may not always look good The message, however, is simple It's our life we live it our way 08. Dogbite
In the end it's all
My fault And so I say nothing So you say nothing In the end there's nothing at all General Routine God from the machine You ain't gonna fuck my brain Your hands in the open air I'm to blame, but I don't care Crush down heaven to the earth This won't bring back your wasted years They all served good and long and still For sure they can't find peace until We cut you and we see no blood Come on, let's do it, fill the cup A substitute for your own pain We cut 'em all, but all in vein The higher dose, the General Were they bad things after all? Victim Faint-hearted schism You are standing there, unbound No rights, no left turn, nothing left to learn I don't want to make friends I'm not here to please you I don't want to play a game All I want to do to you is what you did to me Anyway You are bound in many ways But when it comes to run away You've got the speed and the drive Of a goddamn train Dogbite Under pressure Under control Feeding the living With the limbs of the dead Long before the dawning Longing for the fall Hell, we keep the motor humming I am humming, running dry Black, on fire, arrows Aiming in the sky Searching for a shelter, home Hiding from each other's pain Wake me, take me Turn around and hate me I may not be good company But I can kill your apathy Near the end of the stay Near the bottom of the line We all follow the animal And escape the pain Now tell me more about the girl That I'm supposed to be Sometimes it seems I've had enough To make me walk away If this is what you want Then this is what you want Who would even bother? Say, who wouldn't want it, too? Love controls with silence As it does with words You used to say that I have fire Now you're gonna see me burn Bleeding desire Beat inside, outside memory Burning empire Like a fever turning blood into fire What I fake In my head Alone Bleeds Wherever I go Now is just A matter of time And we are less Than a moment Of high tension Once bitten, twice shy One is wrong and almost done One is one plus one plus one One is one more than just none Another is just one Another is just one 09. Another Lesson In Pain
So we're equal but we're not the same
What I look for you'd just throw away Down with the water to the river to the shore I cannot take this anymore All the stolen, all the broken All the borrowed, all the blue All my hate I share with you Another lesson in pain Little is the space I own Yet you don't know that you can't have it Give me more - it can't be more than I can take See, there were other friends I've made before Spoken: broken More for show, for blow Growing - bowing down and low As I walk alone Free my heart from stone Now see this, see it very well At the bottom line we're even ordinary Irritated solo-mutants Nerve-twisted, longing for some sleep "Attention now!" cries tragedy Finally we're more than just free Take the good, turn it to bad Leave a message and me alone The ashes come from fire The fire from the boom The boom I think was when I pushed the button labelled "go" 10. Damocles
5 on the run
Running dry Their hands on mouth, ears or eyes 5 and again Looking back Again on the run And up the wall Repetition Competition I ain't scared Are you? Let's be the dogs that bite the hands that fed us for so long Fear - I won't let you in Right in the line of fire, I turn around and look at Fear - I won't let you win I make you shrink, until you disappear I can't hear you breathing I don't see you cry If you are what they call alive Then what the hell am I? 5 on the hunt Hunting the brave Feel the bars from which side of the cage? 5 are hurt Hurting for immunity Of change Communication Regulation I ain't scared Are you? Frightened people are great believers in security Killing No more Killing under the constraints of caution Again Again Again 11. God Spoken Prayer
Water
Surface Horizon Sky And all are looking up to see The universal remedy Established phantom of the free The modern myth security There is a line I drew a line Into the sand That line is fear My mouth is bleeding Like a wound My mouth a wound I'm bleeding into you Whispering down the lane Gathering, paralyzed Open-mouth society I wear you like a suit Oh mother earth Out of the water Out of sight I am the devil's crippled hand Licking drips off lips leaving delicate lies Where the white rabbit goes, follows mankind Like a god spoken prayer They search, I teach 'em to find Concern Devotion Shelter Sacrifice A life To lose... What do you want from me? You make a fool out of yourself 12. Cocoon
It is from the order of succession in Nature
And not from the ever-lasting endurance of her works That we may expect the reign of perpetual activity in her wide domains In her living kingdom The ravages of decay and death Are eternally repaired by the birth of new represantatives of life As lands will vanish and appear above the waters We are alone And under cold stone We rot So afraid Of change Still we serve The origin of worlds The matter saved from such mighty wrecks Will again be available for useful ends; The forces which seem destroyed Only assume other forms to participate in new movements and operations I can see A face split in a grin And I see A dream that did not come true And all according to the plan We are deer Expected at the rear end of our own objective All we were and are and will be Serves the origin of worlds |