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Sanhedrin - A Funeral For The World lyrics



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01. Riding On The Dawn

Are you a true believer?
'Cause I'm a lucky thief
An enchanted deceiver
At night we're getting some relief
We are the walking disasters
Just like the living dead
No escape 'til the morning
From that freight train in your head
Coming awake in the night time
The vampires disease
The streets ain't safe for those who sleep

Chorus:
Going fast and living cheap
Where we're from we don't need sleep at all
When you're riding on the dawn
Going fast and living cheap
Nevermind the writings on the wall
When you're riding on the dawn

There is no ever after
There's only now until
The next speed fueled disaster
Time's moving on you're standing still
We're always out marauding
Forever breaking night
Look what the devil brought in
Flesh wounds of love or from a fight
Coming awake in the night time
The vampires disease
The streets ain't safe for those who sleep

Chorus:
Going fast and living cheap
Where we're from we don't need sleep at all
When you're riding on the dawn
Going fast and living cheap
Nevermind the writings on the wall
When you're riding on the dawn

Solo

Chorus

02. A Funeral For The World

Watch us build our funeral pyre
To say goodbye to all that we know
Fan the flames as they grow higher
Leave the Earth to bathe in fire
We hear the darkness fall
Into the empty void of it all

Left the place a total wreckage
Cities stand at the bottom of seas
Gravity does not possess us
Watch the Earth reel from a far
As blood crystallizes
Into a garnet red dust

Ashes to ashes we drowned in the sea
Something for nothing, that's what we believed
Decaying metal and sulfurous rust
Came ashes to ashes and dust to dust

It's always been a thirsty world
The wicked winds of change they have come
Ice melts and sea levels rising
Rust in the perpetual engine
Lunatics control the asylum
We share a lust for survival

Ashes to ashes we drowned in the sea
'Cause something for nothing, that's what we believed
Decaying metal and sulfurous rust
Came ashes to ashes and dust to dust

Ashes to ashes we drowned in the sea
'Cause something for nothing, that's what we believed
'Cause decaying metal and sulfurous rust
Then ashes to ashes

03. Demoness

People talking about her but no one can see
The power she has upon us is destroying me

In love with rock and roll
Losing all control
Making out with the devil that you know
And sin begets a sin
And God's not listening
You've been reduced
By the last kiss of the demoness

It's just not in her nature to set us free
There's a chain around my neck always tethering me

In love with rock and roll
Losing all control
Making out with the devil that you know
And sin begets a sin
And God's not listening
You've been reduced
By the last kiss of the demoness

With your back against the wall
Win or lose you'll take a fall
Right or wrong you're back again
Fight or flight it's all the same
Still you're coming back for more
No regrets, sleep on the floor

North remembers falling
North remembers falling down

People talking about her but no one can see
There's a chain around my neck always tethering me

In love with rock and roll
Losing all control
Making out with the devil that you know
Well sin begets a sin
And God's not listening
You've been reduced
By the last kiss of the demoness

04. Collateral Damage

There's a ghost in the woods
He's after your girls
Taking them off into a dead world
Taking no prisoners, leave no witnesses, collateral damage

Governments, warlords, drug cartels
Numbed to the pain and you train them to kill
Foot soldiers are a never ending stream
'Cause the price is cheap and supply is plenty

There's a road block ahead
They're after your ride
It's hunting season and there's nowhere to hide
Taking no prisoners, leave no witnesses
Collateral damage

Governments, warlords, drug cartels
You're numbed to the pain and you train them to kill
Foot soldiers are a never ending stream
'Cause the price is cheap and supply is plenty

Poisoned well, dead end street
It's hard to tell what a good life means
Poison the well, dead end street
Drawing from a leaded stream
Call this, the civilized world, good and evil's on its knees
Reeling from the human disease
And the sole creation is misery (collateral damage)
In this, the civilized world, good and evil's on its knees
Reeling from the human disease
And the sole creation is misery (collateral damage)

My head is pounding war drums
Sentenced to the ultimate silence
Will fight you to the death and
Laugh as you choke on your own blood
And directed to kill, directed to hate
Never been touched by the hands of human kindness
The price of life is dropping
Sentenced to the ultimate silence
Kill fast and show us mercy
Or laugh as you choke on your own blood
And directed to kill, directed to hate
Never been touched by the hands of human kindness

In this, the civilized world, good and evil's on its knees
Reeling from the human disease
And the sole creation is misery
You are doomed to repeat it
Call this, the civilized world, good and evil's on its knees
Reeling from the human disease
And the sole creation is misery (collateral damage)

05. Faith Healers

Put your faith in a sanctified healer
Someone who would know what to do
Didn't know it was a real death dealer
Playing God with the truth
I got my eyes on you
Death dealer with the ultimate truth
Pump her full of bad bad medicine
Body calls a truce

Sometimes I've seen this happen
Said the doctor to the girl
Such a shame such a nice nice person
Has to leave this world

Well I've got my eyes on you
Death dealer with the ultimate truth
You pump her full of bad bad medicine
Surrender call a truce

And then the rains came falling hard
Roses dying on the vine and
Roots are taking up the charge
And then the rains came falling hard
The skies could not control their crying
Roots are taking up the charge

And then the rains came falling hard
Roses dying on the vine and
Roots are taking up the charge
And then the rains came falling hard
The skies could not control their crying
Roots are taking up the charge

06. No Religion

We walk this path alone
Threadbare with empty chest
See a man dead in the saddle
I'll take his horse, hope for the best
And through us all it travels
One toll of an ancient bell
Ripples through time everlasting
Like coins in a wishing well

So you don't like them folks none
Blow 'em off with the butt of your gun
Leaving scars for the generations
Not aware what it's doing to you
Just scrape yourself off the sole of their shoes
And all the time there's a gun in your wallet

When I make my last decision
It will be with no religion
Ground will take me back again
The Moon receives our spirits risen

One sound goes on forever
A tie that binds us all
We'll stitch it back together
With silver needles and silver thread
And through us all it travels
A toll of an ancient bell
Ripples through time everlasting
Like coins in a wishing well

Hard won, hard fought wars
Find out what heaven was made for
Knocking hard on the iron clad doors
Not aware what it's doing to you
Just scrape yourself off the soles of their shoes
And all the time there's a gun in your wallet

When I make my last decision
Ain't gonna be with no religion
Ground will take me back again
The Moon receives our spirits risen

Lord please spare me your religion
It always seems that I'm in chains
It seems to lack all of your wisdom
To live my life with wealth as my king

Someone always needs to be in chains
For those on top to be untouchable
I find that challenging to my faith
And slipping through an open door
Better watch your back for sure

Lord please spare me your religion
It always seems that I'm in chains
It seems to lack all of your wisdom
To live my life with wealth as my king

07. Massive Deceiver

All across the bloodstained
Battlefields of time
Same innocent faces, same corrupted minds
Buying all the reasons, forgiving all the lies
There have always been
Just fools for the massive deceiver

Make way for the massive deceiver
He'll take your brain and then he'll rob you blind
Common sense is for the evil believers
He'll take your soul and then he'll leave you alive, yeah

Riding out on the warpath
But you're asleep at the wheel
Riding out on the warpath
Don't be asleep at the wheel

All the fields of crosses in their perfect lines
Same innocent faces, same corrupted minds
Buying all the reasons, forgiving all the lies
We have always been
Just fools for the massive deceiver

Make way for the massive deceiver
He'll take your soul and then he'll rob you blind
Common sense is for the evil believers
They'll take your heart and then they'll leave you alive, yeah
Riding out on the warpath
Don't be asleep at the wheel
Riding out on the warpath
Cause you're asleep at the wheel

Riding out on the warpath
Don't be asleep at the wheel
Riding out on the warpath
Cause you're asleep at the wheel

08. Die Trying

Ghost winds after midnight
Or could it be
The coy wolves calling out
Catch your scent through the trees
Still point that shatters
Through time and space
Cuts to what matters
Instincts you can't replace

If you travel by moonlight
Travel with no fear
Those demons won't know that you're here
But if you run in the daylight, you risk it all
Those dogs of war they smell the fear

Rise together
We all stand or fall until
We die trying

Ghost winds in a dark night
Or could it be
The coy wolves calling out
Catch your scent through the trees
Still point that shatters
Time and space
Cuts to what matters
Instincts you can't replace

If you travel by moonlight
Travel with no fear
Those demons won't know that you're here

Rise together
We all stand or fall until
We die trying

You turn the wheel, and the oarman strikes the oar
We set off to forever from an open shore

You turn the wheel, and the oarman strikes the oar
But we set off to forever from an open shore