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Iwrestledabearonce - Late For Nothing lyrics



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01. Thunder Chunky

Dead leaves on the ground!
When they were falling I held your hand
When they hit pavement I let them go
I run alone in the street, it's a dead end

Rubber, Punctured by nails
The rust is spreading, I must run fast now

Repeat, repeat, spoken in whispers
I can't buy anymore time to preserve the line
you have to fight to keep it going, I'm at loss

I'll cut my heart, i'll trust my gut
I'll cut my heart, I'll trust my gut
You try to draw a straight line
You make a circle every -

Repeat, repeat, keep pushing pens
Repeat, repeat push through paper
Repeat, repeat, it's a circuit
Repeat, repeat, this is real for me

(You've got to don't, don't, don't fight it)
You've got to stick your neck out
Don't fight that circuit anymore
It's not enough
You've got to stick your neck out
Don't fight that circuit anymore
It's not enough

Cut out my heart, I'll trust my gut
I'll trust my gut
I'll trust it

You tried to draw a straight line
You make a circle every time

Circle never-ending
Circle never-ending
Circle never-ending
Circle never-ending

Repeat, repeat, keep pushing pens
Repeat, repeat, push through paper
This is not done...

02. Letters To Stallone

It's a sign of the times, the impression that you made,
Glossed over by a wave, a golden lining in your grave, beneath the dirt its all the same

Last night a saw a thousand faces in a line
And I could not recall a name
And I could not recall a time, When I...
I needed someone to move me
Not someone to save me
Just someone to move me
Not someone to...

Change things desperately
I think mediocrity is this the key?
I can't I won't be I won't be sitting there now
break me out let me out

It's a sign of the times, there's nothing gain,
This world was never mine, it's not mine
I let the hive mind consume me,
I can feel them all moving, I can feel them all moving
I can feel...

Last night I saw a thousand faces in a line
And I could not recall a name
And I could not recall a time, When I...
I needed someone to move me
Not someone to save me
Just someone to move me
Not someone to ...

The perception that does not mean shit to me
I'm not a product of, I 'm not a product of my name
The perception that does not mean shit to me
I'm not a product of, I 'm not a product of my name
The perception that does not mean shit to me
I'm not a product of you

03. Snake Charmer

Filthy
Born in a dust storm and brought up
Up in a cloud
On the tops of trees

I was taught to distrust ideas opposing my thoughts
I was taught to distrust ideas opposing my thoughts
And you would be swayed, bending like branches and you would be played
A spark for the kindling, bending like branches, bending like branches now

Old ways die so slow, but we both know to reap and sow
They raised us not to grow, but we both know to reap and sow

Revel in darkness, revel in dirt
Excel in the muck and the mud
Crawling and creeping, waiting away for the turn, change in the air that I love
Feel it soon, harvest moon, won't you look up with me?
Children, you'll feel it soon, there is a harvest moon
Look with me, there is a harvest moon

Old ways die so slow, but we both know to reap and sow
They raised us not to grow, but we both know to reap and sow

Feel it soon, there is a harvest moon
Won't you look up with me?
There is a harvest moon

04. Boat Paddle

I felt the ocean breaking over my head
I'm spinning
A constant pressure I can't fight
I might not make it through the night
The night
The night
The night

I was raised in a state; so much at stake, a slab of meat deteriorating
Muscles are weak, no bone in my back, ligaments slack
Sensations, my insides cave as they rot
Infested in waves, take hold of my marrow and wash it away
No bone in my back, ligaments slack, sensations, my insides cave as they rot

I'm treading water, dreading
The end won't numb my feeling
I'm calling out to you, I'm begging you for help
Because I've been given all the answers and I can't even help myself
Yes, I've been given all the answers and I can't even help myself

I held a glass out in my hands
I made a fist, a consequence
My fingertips are filled with shards
My open palm is filled with blood
A single drop will conjure up unspeakable creatures preserved in the salt
Worse than darkest pools in my mind
They float, suspended
There is no time, no time

I'm treading water, dreading
The end won't numb my feeling
I'm calling out to you, I'm begging you for help
Because I've been given all the answers but I can't even help myself
Yes, I've been given all the answers and I can't even help myself

I curse the god who brought a vision as I cry for help
An island passing and I'm reaching out for help
Because I've been given all the answers but I can't even help myself
Yes, I've been given all the answers and I can't even help myself

05. Firebees

Is this what you asked for?
Streets painted in ash,
Immersed in rubble,
I'll paint a picture for you now.
Immersed in rubble,
I'll paint a picture now.

In the pain and destruction I've caused,
There's beauty.
An artistry born in the blood,
I'll ruin this town.

There is no one who can deny my gift,
My one talent to take something, turn it in;
Destruction in oblivion, oblivion.
Your world is gone, oblivion.

In the pain and destruction I've caused,
There's beauty.
An artistry born in the blood,
I'll ruin this town.
I'll ruin this town.

I won't say that I'm sorry,
I'm not sorry.

Don't put it out.
I'm not sorry.
I am moving on now on to the next one,
A town.
You talk about devils;
I am the one,
I am the one.

06. Mind The Gap

I am responsible
I blame myself for your slight of hand
You turn the mirrors in
A glass reflection I can't withstand

And my patience wears thin
You are so stuck in your ways
I am the rope you are hanging on
And my patience wears thin

My patience wears thin
Can I recover the waste?
I am the fire I smoke you out
And my patience wears thin
My patience wears thin

Loving fed a lie
That we couldn't separate
And when I let it die
I constantly paid for it
When the story begins
You never stepped in

And my patience wears thin
You are so stuck in your ways
I am the rope you are hanging on
And my patience wears thin

My patience wears thin
Can I recover the waste?
I am the fire I smoke you out
And my patience wears thin
My patience wears thin

07. Carnage Asada

All these noises burst my eardrums.
All these noises burst my eardrums.

My eyes went black
But now I see them,
Iron blue.
Transcending static.
I see the colors,
I see them

And they bleed into one.
They bleed into one.

Frozen now,
Inside and out I am a heat wave.

Waterfalls,
Ice in their mouth, I am a heat wave.

There is a change coming,
Primary colors blurring.
My eardrums burst in colors

And they bleed into one.
They bleed into one.

Frozen now,
Inside and out I am a heat wave.
Waterfalls,
Ice in their mouth, I am a heat wave.

There is change,
There is a change coming.

Primary colors, they bleed into one.
Primary colors bleed into one.

08. The Map

I've had a guide my whole entire life.
I lack the drive myself.

My passion's gone,
Used to see stars.
The sky is dark.

Pick a message at this point I don't care.
Take the exit 'cause we're getting nowhere.
Signs are blurring I can't tell what's out there.
Take the exit 'cause we're getting nowhere.

I took the test,
It was a mess.

I spent my whole life on your right slumped in my seat
With my head down in my hands,
I didn't notice the scenery.

And now I realize I didn't take the time,
And now I see.

Exits leading nowhere.
Exits leading nowhere.

Pick a message at this point I don't care.
Take the exit 'cause we're getting nowhere.
Signs are blurring
I can't tell what's out there.
Take the exit 'cause we're getting nowhere.

Exit because we're getting nowhere.

09. That's A Horse Of A Different Color

Don't be surprised if it hurts you,
I don't think I'm the one that you cling to when you can't handle it,
And now they've got you surrounded,
Well I've found it,
I'm on my own.

And now they're telling me the life that I want was less important than the role that I'm playing,
Yeah, they'll take away the things that I have 'cause on me it's just wasted,
And these days I'm alone, alone,
I know you can't recover this,
It's just a shame to waste away.

Well you can waste away,
Recoil the rope as you spew silent notes and my bones will splinter from the fall,
I will recall with a smile on my face.

I am a stranger,
I cut ties,
It's not a problem,
It's a solution,
Am I a fool to you?
Postured so innocent so it would seem,
You cut off the head of your own reflection,
You cut off the head of it.

These days I'm alone, alone,
These days I'm alone, alone,
For the first time I see myself,
Cutting my ties I'm finally free,
Not strung along by my innocence,
Well that didn't make sense to me.

These days I'm alone, alone,
I know you can't recover this,
It's just a shame that way,
These days I'm alone, alone,
I know you can't recover this,
It's just a shame.

10. I'd Buy That For A Dollar

Lost in the depths of your mind vacant, distant.
Easy to close your eyes, your eyes for the auction.
You sell it on your back.
You can hardly protect yourself.
So accepting, they have your best intentions.

Admit defeat to me,
Cut up in a million pieces,
Enclosed in packaging,
You look so sweet filled with deceit.

You catch me armed to the teeth.
I will be the last one standing.

Your pleasure comes with a fee.
You look so cheap with the price you're demanding.

I refuse to be that weak,
It's not enough.
I refuse to be that weak.

You feel so pure when you spit it out,
It makes you so sick when you swallow,
Obsessed with flashing lights.

Admit defeat to me,
Cut up in a million pieces,
Enclosed in packaging,
You look so sweet filled with deceit.

You catch me armed to the teeth.
I will be the last one standing.
Your pleasure comes with a fee.
You look so cheap with the price you're demanding.

I refuse to be that weak,
It's not enough.
I refuse to be that weak.

Don't want it,
Won't become like you.

A thing of beauty polished bright before it's sold.
A dead-eyed girl will come to life when she is told.
A thing of beauty polished bright before it's sold.
I promise I could break the mold,
I promise I could break the mold.

You feel so pure when you spit it out,
It makes you so sick when you swallow,
Obsessed with the flashing lights.

11. Inside Job

So sick the way, you drown me in my sleep,
I dream of the way things were
When you consumed the consciousness I keep,
The poisonous spell you've cast on me.

You feel the heat off my body,
You lift my feet off the ground.
You lie in wait just to prey upon my wants and needs.

A curse is leaving my body,
But I still want you around.
A sickly sweetness that brings me back down to my knees.

And now I know,
What a silly girl
Could love a man who could play a game.

A sickly sweetness that brings me back down to my knees.
A sickly sweetness that brings me back down to my knees.

My sin,
My skin is crawling with anticipation,
You send shivers
Down my spine keeping time to the click of my teeth.
I tell you I stay forever.

And I know now what a silly girl.
Who could love a man?

You feel the heat off my body,
You lift my feet off the ground.
You lie in wait just to prey upon my want and needs.

A curse is leaving my body,
But I still want want you around.
A sickly sweetness that brings me back down to my knees,

You feel the heat off my body,
I want you around.
The heat of my body, my body.
A curse is leaving my body,
I want it around,
Feel it leaving my body, my body.

12. It Don't Make Me No Nevermind

Close your eyes
And align your palms and fingertips
And feed me your dreams and aspirations.

I have the power to read,
To read your mind.

Nothing's free.
I collect mine.

Is this the God that you asked for?
I'm just a vessel in his name.
I am a parasite getting fat off incompetence and blame.

Then I peddle security,
So you can fall asleep at night.
The confidence you lack fuels me,
I think I'm doing it alright.

I set out to poison them with the divine.
I scratch out their eyes to see through mine.

And when I die,
I'm sure that I'm going to Heaven.
You must pay the price to leave this life
And join me in Heaven
Or burn in Hell.

Echoing with the gnashing teeth.
A burning lake waiting,
Put silver in my head.

This is not my creation,
I'm just a vessel in his name.
I am a sycophant of light.
The blood will wash my sins away.

I set out to poison them with the divine.
I scratch out their eyes to see through mine.

And when I die,
I'm sure that I am going to heaven.
You must pay the price to leave this life
And join me in heaven.

It will end soon.
It will end soon.
It will end soon.