Keep working hard on your appearance
Cause you know when you're in, you're in
The drive flickers like a candle
Accessing lines stored within

Old man berates the congregation
Instill a fear he'll soon expose
Replete with a wooden constellation
To seal the doors closed
While he sold his children's souls

Feed yourself when you can
Black-eyed man doesn't understand
That the world is no more stupid than he is convincing
When will he understand?

The politics of a man
With a gun in a gentle hand?
It's the tolerance of those he tried to piss on
That let him get this far
But he thinks he won the hand
There's a black old soul
In a black-eyed man

Too steeped in lore to make a change
Too predisposed to compensate
Stuck on the roundabout
With no idea the inside is out
So on we play

Feed yourself when you can
Fool yourself when you can
Kill yourself when you can

Hate - venerating hate
Begs to be repaid
And never seems to fade

Spite - consummating spite
The medicated bile
That keeps us on our way with the worms

Outside, caught up in this killing tide
Open the gates and I get blown away
Gone, pride, sold out to this chilling shrine
With no way to break the collars of those chains

But I can change the sulphur in the vein
The pressure in the flame
In reverence if I can murder the killer in me

Change the mother in the snake
The message in the brain
In reverence if I can murder the killer in me

Burn - I'd love to watch you burn
Shed your hot black skin
And run from your own flames

Waste - a lifetime I could waste
While away the days
Just dreaming of your face

The wrong hand is giving in
In times of change
The wrong hand is giving in

Did you drop your torch in the dark?
The lights went out
You scraped along the wall to find the door

Did you fall from the pavement, again?
You woke up screaming
Alone, and covered in sweat

Where are your comrades, now?
They must be lost
Where are your comrades, now?

Could you buy the opulence?
Of peers and promises?
Wise not to wait

In the haze of the moment, they said
He was all about the morals
And swiftly sent humility to bed

And even though they're all liars and thieves
Your own act of contrition
Was deemed to be enough to cut you free

Where are your comrades, now?
They must be fools
Where are your comrades, now?

Could you buy the opulence?
Of peers and promises
Dusted on their face?

Was your sinking ship quickly hemorrhaging rats
All the way down?
Were you disconnected, when a common sap

Head-pausing refrains

Did you think that if that's the way they played?
When all is said and done
You're better off without them, anyway?

When we first met you were on the run
From situations and the bad things that you'd done
And then you did the same to me, now you're irrevocably gone
And still on the run

Daddy didn't want you and mummy gave you pain
Now anyone who gets inside is just gonna get the same
Should we sound the horn or is it all a crying shame?
Who cares who's to blame,
The outcome is all the same

Just another dream that died
To stillborn empires
Just another dream that died
In stillborn empires

She was on the outside but never looking in
And men were just a resource to capitalize with
They're so fucking dumb
All you do is lead them with their dicks
And it's all a game

But daddy's little stick horse, she had her blinkers down
For all her little easy toys were sentient and proud
So they drop the coin and they pissed her fire out
And kiss on the change, step up and hold her reins
Just another dream that died
To stillborn empires
Just another dream that died
In stillborn empires
It was a business doing pleasure with you

Little piggy is on the run
Turned taild and had to go
With a pocketful of all shed stole
Stole from the folks who helped her get to her goal

Sole intention is to be worshipped
And make amends for the car crash that she's in
But how's she gonna get there
When most other folks just stay away from her sort?

You should have known that I'd take this to the bone
No, I'm not letting go
These kiddy gloves will be taken off
I can summarize that mine's not the only sky whose song I'm singing

Little piggy is on the lam
Suffocated by the constant past
Can never seem to move quite as fast as the guilty old truth that's breathing fire down her back

And what's the use in staying when there's no more games?
She's seen the run of play, now it's high time to stray

You should have known that I'd take this to the bone
No, I'm not letting go
These city walls will be painted on
I can summarize that mine's not the only sky whose song I'm singing

It's not too late to stop the chase
But she keeps on running

On and on and on the sound
An air to drag you down before you've stayed too long
And when you realize what lies behind those crooked eyes
You're bought and sold

Of all the wasted avenues, the bitterest of pills to choose

Down in a hole, deep enough to drown

When at first the trap was laid
You showed your wicked face
And held your gaze too long
With far too much for you to prove

Witnessed the trade right in front of my face
From a soulmate to a little girl playing mindgames

It was a trick of the light, a movement inside
Stop and breathe in as the clock strikes midnight
Time to run home, here comes the slide
Too late this time

You couldn't hide your can of worms

Spat in my eye, played the victim with pride
And yet all the while you were ripping me off and bleeding me dry

And you tried so hard to keep them locked inside

And you tried so hard to keep the lid nailed tight
But they're riggling so fast in your mind
And it's a constant world, so anyone who lays by your side
Well they're gonna wake in worms every time

The animals are out for all that they can get
Put a light to the candle and the callers call to come collect
See if you can make a stand for all that's straight and true
When there's hands in the contents of all you stand to lose

Integrity, with colour and code we find harmony
Integrity, we cover our soil with indemnity
Integrity, what's the point if no-one else has any?

And it's spitting in my eye, every time it boils down to this
And it's not the same, and they're not the same as me
But it always seems to be that dog eats dog,
And that's the only rule
And if you don't play, then you're really just a fool

Am I really just a fool?

Integrity, with colour and code we find harmony
Integrity, we cover our soil with indemnity
Integrity, what's the point if no-one else has any?
Am I really just a fool?
Really just a fool?
Is real strength in untruth?
Real strength in untruth?

Come gather round, my accomplices
We'll make no sound, no false promises

If time is ours to waste, then holds the cards begat by haste
With your ghost sat by our side
We turn to move but it's too late
Heart to heart and face to face
And your cross held up so high

Eat through old ignorant wars
Drink through all contracts drawn
Dream all the rivers dry

Celestial, this range of voices
Too many years nailed to your choices

I waited in that so long, I lingered in that so long

Goodbye to you,
I almost fell by the colours cast at your side
Goodbye to you, you never were well
And your symptoms testified

Here in heart, this house of mine
I'll learn from your lesson so well

Goodbye to you, you're unhooked from my world
So this battle I have won
But is it too late to bid farewell
When you're only almost gone?
When you're only almost gone