Parkway Drive - Atlas lyrics
Tracks 01. Sparks
02. Old Ghost / New Regrets 03. Dream Run 04. Wild Eyes 05. Dark Days 06. The River 07. Swing 08. The Slow Surrender 09. Atlas 10. Sleight Of Hand 11. Snake Oil And Holy Water 12. Blue And The Grey 01. Sparks
Born of dust and stone
Dead hearts roaming a dying home Fight leaves us all White cloths upon the shores of time We are but sparks in a darkened world, and yet some things were born to Burn The name long in your eye Lays on my cold hard knee If you bring the matches I'll bring the gasoline I'm the same bad news as you Your're the same kind of fucked as me I'm the same bad news as you You're the same You're the same as me 02. Old Ghost / New Regrets
Forever fucked
We wage a war of suffering a deceit 100 thousand years of dreaming, drowned in a flood of fear and greed Precious heritage laid waste before the chainsaws snarling teeth Bleed the earth, bleed her 'til her heart no longer beats And still we wonder why As the ground beneath our feet turns to dust The air we breathe, laced with poisons A legacy of disgust A legacy of sorrow So we're born with nothing and we die alone We're born with nothing And we die alone Regret is all we have Death is all we know [2x] Forever fucked Eradicate the truths of history Train our eyes, train our minds so we no longer see the casualties Countless cultures murdered, generations stolen and deceived No guilt to bear Born to consume, to breed, to deny all that makes us free We're born with nothing and we die alone We're born with nothing and we die alone We're born with nothing We die alone [2x] We die alone Forever fucked We're born with nothing and we die alone We're born with nothing We die alone 03. Dream Run
Do you remember all those nights
That we stood side by side And we said we'll save the goodbyes The night is young, we still have time In my dreams I see it ending I see, I see the sky descending And I'll let the seconds Rip in to my heart Cause in my dreams i fear of falling When I hear the darkness calling Dont wake me up until the morning's night Cause ive never felt more alive. Do you remember all those nights That we stood side by side And we said we'll save the goodbyes The night is young. Well I never, never, never wanna press rewind Every mistake that lead us here I wouldn't change for anything I wouldn't change for anything. Stand up There is a wall that stands between us and them? See this was never about giving up, just giving in Because you only live once But you spend your whole life dying So when it all comes crashing, know you're not alone You only live once But you spend your whole life dying So when it all comes crashing, know you're not alone Alone! Alone! Alone! There is no death with all our sins There is no fear when this life ends There is no fear Do you remember? Do you remember? Do you remember all those nights That we stood side by side And we said we'll save the goodbyes The night is young, we still have time Do you remember all those nights That we stood side by side And we said we'll save the goodbyes The night is young, we still have time Cause i've never felt more alive I've felt more alive Alive! Alive! Alive! 04. Wild Eyes
We built our dreams from the ashes of your nightmares
Carried our fathers sins, from the cradle to our grave We paved our paths through the darkness that you left us in And now we writhe in the belly of the beast We are the diamonds that used to be coal A generation born to witness the end of the world Against the grain Against the odds Against the world Forever the underdogs We are the bastard sons. We are the ones that refuse to grow cold We are the thorn in your side We are the thieves in the night And we are coming to take whats ours No regrets We inherit the sins of the fathers Now reap the vengeance No regrets From the ashes of your nightmares From the cradle to our grave We blazed our paths through the darkness that you left us in And now we writhe in the belly of the beast We are the diamonds that choose to be coal A generation born to witness the end of the world Born to witness the end of the world Before the underdogs 05. Dark Days
What will you tell your children when they ask you "What went wrong?"?
How can you paint a picture of a paradise lost To eyes that know only a wasteland? How will you justify, justify, watching the world die? The clock is ticking, can't you feel our days are numbered Head first into disaster from which there will be no return With narrow minds we decimate our one true home Cast into oblivion, judgment is calling (Hey, hey) Behold the pale horse (Hey, hey) This is the funeral of the Earth (Hey, hey) Behold the pale horse (Hey, hey) This is the funeral The blind eye can no longer be cast The clock is ticking, there is no second chance The blind eye can no longer be cast There will be no future, if we can't learn from our mistakes The clock is ticking, there is no second chance There will be no future, if we can't learn A forced extinction closes out the age of apathy The final act, sacrifice the world's ecology The death of beauty, the death of hope Cast before the throne of avarice, judgment is calling (Hey, hey) Behold the pale horse (Hey, hey) This is the funeral of the Earth (Hey, hey) Behold the pale horse (Hey, hey) This is the funeral The blind eye can no longer be cast There will be no future, if we can't learn from our mistakes The clock is ticking, there is no second chance There will be no future, if we can't learn [Guitar Solo] [x7] I can't watch it burn Behold the pale horse 06. The River
Follow your heart to the water
Fill your pockets with stone Throw your arms around me Never let me go You were the first, you wouldn't be the last What the river took, we could never replace And as the pain set in so did the realisation You were never coming home For nights we lay awake Wishing for answers, hoping against all hope And if love could change the course of fate These nights, we move mountains But as the news filtered down the line, the impact shook us Shook us to the core Loss struck like a dagger in our aching hearts Follow your heart to the water Fill your pockets with stone Throw your arms around me Never let me go It's not the years in your life, it's the life in your years Old soul, so it's said The day we lost is the day I found regret Now in the waters that embraced you But in the wake your absence left Sink into me Hold out your hands, sink into me Hold out your hands, I'll take you away Hold out your hands, surrender the weight of this world Follow your heart to the water Fill your pockets with stone Throw your arms around me Never let me go Never let me go 07. Swing
This soul was born for battle
My heart was built for war These eyes see through the lies Filled with disgust Strip back the utopian rhetoric And you'll find a sickness at the core A septic carcass rotting out Filled with disgust We are the dead Empty lives, empty heads Guilty is as guilty fucking does Filled with disgust All we have to believe are the lies that they feed us All we have to choose is the right to obey Pray this time will be our mark on history When the shadow games and agendas Are wiped the fuck away There is no such thing as different shades of truth It'a black or white, do or die Filled with disgust You tie your noose with your lies but the world keeps turning "Swing low" we cry but the world keeps turning Turning without you It keeps turning without you 'Cause all we have to believe are the lies that they feed us Born for battle All we have to choose is the right to obey Built for war This was born for battle My heart was built for war Swing motherfuckers End it Built for war Built for fucking war 08. The Slow Surrender
You've got to fight for your life
There is nothing to fear but fear itself The Devil dances in idle minds Fight for your life I won't turn back now This will be no slow surrender I won't turn back now Carpe Diem, straight for the throat Conflict, the all-consuming pain Time lost will never be regained Don't waste your breath You can't save your strength The battle rages in the here and now See every second that you waste Is time you'll never live again Fight for your life Fight for your fucking life There is a price to pay Death is a heartbeat away The Devil dances in idle minds Fight for your life I won't turn back now This will be no slow surrender I won't turn back now Carpe Diem, I gotta go straight for the throat The Devil dances in idle minds 09. Atlas
My life is a weathered down shipwreck
Splitting at the seams, held together by memories and dreams Every face I have seen, a stitch on my mind On a shadow of a dream And my heart is its cargo, a worn out old thing Been dragged around this rock more times than you'd believe To the east I call home But the west, she is calling From the north, to the south Forever I'm drifting away With more hope than fear Put your head to my chest and you will hear The sound of it beating Is the sound of love leaving The sound of it beating Is the sound of the emptiness flooding in Flooding in It's the sound of the emptiness flooding in And my life, it aches And my heart, it breaks And I just can't shake the feeling all I am is sinking While one thousand eyes stare back at me But the ones that I'd die for are the ones I can't see Flooding in It's the sound of the emptiness 10. Sleight Of Hand
No comfort
Fear, in the face of the unknown Born to die in a lonely world Hostility, breeds within the void Left by the loss of understanding Hatred, the true face of ignorance Force-fed to the masses with the promise of salvation Knowledge controlled, power withheld In the name of one, let all blood spill There is no god, that could love this world I find no comfort In a life lived on my knees No comfort Devine judgement, I could never believe No comfort I could never believe To live a life without regret Is it not enough To love, and to be loved Nothing lasts forever Nothing lasts Superstition rules in the land of the weak Fear, in the face of the unknown Born to die in a lonely world Hostility, breeds within the void Left by the loss of understanding Hatred, the true face of ignorance Force-fed to the masses with the promise of salvation Knowledge controlled, power withheld In the name of one, let all blood spill There is no god That could love this world I find no comfort 11. Snake Oil And Holy Water
You want a piece of my mind,
there is no peace to find This is all of your doubt repaid in kind I am alone in crowded rooms, I am a ghost in forgotten tombs Widow maker, you're no company to keep 'Cause you can fool some people, sometimes But you can't fool the world for the rest of your life You can fool some people, sometimes But you can't fool the world Nobody notices, nobody cares The curtain falls to no one, no where Nobody notices, nobody cares As the curtain falls Soulless, spineless Cut from the beggar's cloth You fill your skull with their shit 'til it runs from your mouth Heartless, carcass I've seen more life in dead men's eyes, I've heard more truths alone with the night And I'd rather believe in nothing than believe in a fucking lie I'd sooner fail one thousand times than regret I've never tried 'Cause you can fool some people, sometimes But you can't fool the world for the rest of your life You can fool some people, sometimes But you can't fool the world You can't fool us all You howl at the world, but speak a dead language You're selling your soul, but no one is buying You pray to your gods of fashion and industry Heads in the clouds, but you live on your fucking knees Nobody notices, nobody cares The curtain falls to no one, no where Nobody notices, nobody cares As the curtain fucking falls Soulless, spineless Cut from the beggar's cloth You fill your skull with their shit 'til it runs from your mouth Heartless, carcass I've seen more life in dead men's eyes, I've heard more truths alone with the night No peace to find 12. Blue And The Grey
Dear sky,
Dear sky don't cry for me, (cry for me) Be the hope I could never reach Cold sea, Please don't let me sink, (don't let me sink) Wrap your arms around me and carry me home I stood at the shore and spoke to the ocean I stood in the water and let my guts spill I said "You and me, we're not so different, I see my reflection in all that you do" We both keep our secrets We're both, oh so blue My heart is full of darkness I know that yours is too I sat on the rooftop and screamed at the sky I sat on the edge until I knew deep inside, Like the sky, I will always be empty The horizon, my love, forever just out of reach We both keep our secrets We're both, oh so blue My heart is full of darkness I know that yours is too Distance was born when the sea and the sky grew apart Loneliness was born the day I let you go I let you go! So now I stand at the shore and speak to the ocean I stand in the water and let, let my guts spill Let my guts spill We both keep our secrets We're both, oh so blue My heart is full of darkness I know, I know that yours is too Dear sky, Dear sky don't cry for me, be the hope I could never reach Cold sea, please don't let me sink Wrap your arms around me and carry me home Dear Sky! |