...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead

White glow of the TV set Lights dancing on the screen Voice-overs rise like minarets Then fall diatonically. Should I answer a friend's distress call Or should I go to sleep? Would I, like the voices rise and fall, What's it to me? All those hours of wasted t...

Take one Take two Believe it or not this is a plan of action A perfect teenhood is a drug racket It's a beautiful day and I am up and at 'em Motorcycles and cops are the main attraction Tommy Gun Blood Lust A perfect teenhood Fuck you A freak visi...

Let me down And take the say Say you’re not down But you run Like out of hell Roads on the way I saw you From the wall Hide, pulling down Hide from it all Dream I can fly Why? Let me know Why can you go? And I am explorer I saw you From the w...

Drip... drip on to the tombs of the soulless... Drip on to your aorta... Drip as fiery cinder On to this sweltering town No one gives a damn about your end... This is something you can count on Drip down onto my forehead On to my aorta Drip as fiery ci...

It was All Saints Day Wind and rain hit my face Ripped apart from lack of grace Now so torn You never said All of this would end so strange Walk to a church across the bridge Find my shame Never been the type to confess It all seemed to waste...

The curtain thins Violins announce the score is over The symphony dears the folded chairs And walk towards the snack bar And I forget what the libretto was all about At eight o'clock you drop me off And not a word was spared for us Drinks at ten, we're off aga...

One last thing that you regretted, Before it fell apart, Despite your powers you hated being, A stupid rock star, Kitty Pryde so sweet and innocent, You're all we talk about, We know you'd rather raise another demon, Than sooth your own faults. And I...

Trail of dead, trail of dead Trail of dead, trail of dead Trail of dead, trail of dead Trail of dead, trail of dead Trail of dead, trail of dead Trail of dead, trail of dead Trail of dead, trail of dead Trail of dead, trail of dead And you will know t...

Are you asleep, are you in a dream? The copper shades of a morning Distant lights beckon & fade Unwritten songs of another day I fear that you would never be Every song in the world for me I took your hand, led you astray You cursed the worlds I longed to...

From a crashing light I was forced awake Clutching bloodshot eyes Wide & afraid Stark impressions of a vague translucent day Distorts the room in a lazy way A stubborn case of the young man's blues Has gotten me scouring the streets for you Where...

Marion, more in hand Lies awake and thinks of them Who is she to ask for then? Wondering, lost in the rain Singing of the ember way Moving through a cloud she stay Get awed, get awestruck Get awed, get awestruck Universal song of man From a little...

The only sin in this world of pain In this world of shame In this world of heartache The only sin in this world unjust In this world of lust In this world distrusting The only sin in this world corrput Where passions erupt And end abrupt Is a crime With no gre...

I was standing on the shore, facing an open sea I was listening to the sound of the waves breaking And I thought of all the words that they were whispering And it kept changing I was standing in the midst of a great company Listening to the voices in ecs...

Just another Poland pose With this new haircut... What am I to do? Just another ringing alarm In this empty room I know what I can do... As spring hits my eyes I revel in the mist Something lustful bores a hole Formed from dought and worthless plans...

I love to face it down Break your things, work you down Drop salt and come around Please don’t leave if substance drops Seeing creatures all about Pushing through the single crowd And then you’ll never doubt Let it out and follow them He’ll go but sti...

There’s a matrix, he had to make ways To the riddle we can say What will we gonna say? When were we good to go? What are we going to do? Why are we standing still? We are our best bet We’re getting started You did something new It puts its reason Go...

Eyes at night never see the day Because it's not in my nature Golden wings rise from the plane They burn above the red earth Scale these walls in front of me Have you ever stopped to wonder Why they forced your voice to turn From silence to a caterwaul? Never...

Well the mood settled down Once the movie hit town You know all the movies I've seen You never did understand How I watched all of them Can't figure how you never did Well the moon is so gold That it conquors the soul Like that very first moment we ki...

Counting off the days How could I be so afraid? Feeling nearer my gloom So much nearer without you I've been on the run From the dirt you talk about everyone So much nearer my gloom That much nearer without you And it's so hard to starve Yes it's so h...

Crowning of a heart, textures and shades A bitter London night on the motorway You looked so divine, back in the seat Wicked desires ablaze in me Back inside the house, into the room Watching as the lights slowly fade from view Couldn't even talk, what...

All sewn up Pull out the seams Take your call Your voice is static Far from my reach I burn the page Images are blurred Am I afraid? Around my throat You came so close To stopping me Alive in jail, alive and well I cannot leave Innocent accident Find my puls...

Wasting away the better part of the day In the bus on the docks of the UK We walked down the street on that all Hallows Eve But couldn't wait to get back to the US of A The torture of eight days straight Without sight of your face is so frightening Hoping to...

With you're fake, fake eyes, Are you blinded to me? GG - cold in the house, A butterfly knife in the south Scotch on your rocks, You're sexless, like Sid, Girl walks in, in this dust, With the past in my skull. Sink on South! Sink on South! 

Well I had a dream that I received a prophecy Predictions and vision to be written by me But I didn't want them to come true, I was afraid So I decided to run away But what could I run to, where could I go? If I showed my face, all the angry prophets...

Follow you into this suicide Place a foot into this city of refuge Carelessly mock those around us who Laugh and cry Carefully lock those fears... surround them with lies From what I know Can it do harm? From one deadly... A burn to my skin Blaze th...

This place, alive A thought, a crime A place of mine Flower card games I found a cure The nail to poor But they called the wolves Flower card games Across the outer space Deny myself again Somehow I break a leg Flower card games A world resign...

You're a gargoyle, on this building top. With your teeth bared, and your claws sharp and ready. You have seen me, walking, in hatred, With the sidewalks wet, beneath my feet. In winter, the trees loom above, In december, are you trouble prone? In decembe...

Cold hands touching my face Don't hide the snake can see you Old friends you might not remember Fading away from you Gold heart mountain top queen directory The gold heart mountain top queen directory And we looked And we passed Through the hallway of shatter...

There, but for the grace of our Gods go you and I Down roads none dare to follow Sands buried the graves of our former lives Smile and wave and let them go To rise above the mires of old days long died Know they won't come again Let the years roll in and...

The shape of your head is a twist of the truth, The skulls on these walls, are they connected to you? The stars are like eyes climbing out of a mist, The temperatures rise like an easter morning sun, Its not something you learn its just something you do,...

Ride the apocalypse Coming through the city side Fallen angel no need to hide All bodies collide and fate decides Where vengance hits Where our love will fit I can't find your face I can't see a trace In a world coming to a close I'm so damned I can't win With...

Heart full of wires, all dirty hangers Brought up the violence hard in the town Indigo stays, I submit to no one and no one around We will make our debt You want to mock a hard wife She will never raise back the boy who’s knocked his covered eye The bl...

It is a round about that I can't leave I circle for decades Only to find obscurity My life is haunted by young devilry I heard your voice On my stereo Lost into the night Brutal kids of this promised future Cut the highways With shards of truth I call out to...

Looking back in time Through verses set in nursery rhyme At oil painted eyes Of muses left behind I swear I know not why Those eyes have always left me dry She stands with arms stretched out Towards the mountains & the clouds Oil painted eyes Blind yet hyp...

This is the story of a contractor Fall in love between the house Launched into a plain adventure Shoot rolling star was like a dare The story of a misshapen contender The creature lied from rest of me It stole the lyrics and all I know The darkened ter...

Stay calm, stay calm Relax your limbs gently float to earth Hear the laughing of the Inland Sea And know your mind is where you're meant to be Wake up, wake up Remind yourself exactly who you were Is the price you've paid to live this little dream Wort...

Curse this insatiable weakness of us Close where all severs aside Douse our sensations As deep as they are Born in the blink of an eye Born in the blink of an eye Love deviates from the plans that we're on Flinging us soft to the side Find ourself...

Mourn as a nation, rule as a mob Kill for an insult so slight The further they plummet, the blinder they are Each one believing they're right I'm the monster and I exist On this summit I am lost On its slopes I've seen the world As she was meant to be...

Eyes obscured, by those bangs Sun is shielded, by your shades Kick it on the corner Leather coat and safety pins You got some ? news And you smoke your ? cools And it's 1977 You were rocking out of town Will last night ring in your ears? (With last n...

I have made you in my likeness And I will make you the keeper of my garden world If you honor me in kind, I'll be grateful, but be warned I'm a jealous God Who placed the demons in hell And the angels in heaven At my side So set me free, I'll gran...

It was there that I saw you And it was there that I came As evening sighs, Rises up against the sky-line Let me come and have my leis You were fair and fey as a sun that evil day We were bold and life was great But as time went on I wondered what was wrong I...

Now that our ties are served As we say goodbye Let us not wonder whether We are ready to take the dive Let it dive, let it die, let it fade out of sight Let it drag us down, let it fade Grieve, but not grieve together Mourn with nothing to say Gone are those...

Another page of history Another failed and hopeless year Of wasted life and wasted time Long ago you sang a tune Of running from a painful youth And now it's dry, you're wondering why Talk to me, reveal how lost your life must seem All the wonderful things th...

Lost songs are going nowhere Lost for words, with nothing to share Lost beats with no emotion Swimming through the motive socials Vague ships and bloody knives Give their best to proper applies This part has nowhere to go Only void that swallow new pol...

It hit my mind, it came to me In order to live its got to be freed And all I want Is this grace undone Its haunting my head now Like a prodigal son Like a dog tired sage You know I couldn't wait I want to set this place aflame Frame by frame A lin...

We had a mod-fuck jubilee To celebrate our broken hearts We carved tombs from the rocks and stones And transformed them into art We gave the plot a twist Blew the past a kiss Turned it upside down To quench fiending lips Freak sons and forgotten ones...

We pierced the side of the idol With the sharpened neck of an electric guitar Bottled the water from the wound Holy relic- the essence of star But what does she care, it's just another blank stare To a world that loves and hates you on a dare Where the o...

If I could make a list Of my mistakes and regrets I'd put your name on top And every line after it Because every inch of hope Becomes a world of shame I've had to walk through Each and every day And if I screamed "you were wrong" At the top of my lu...

Rolling thunder Like a voice that commands Rain drops fall Like the blood from your hands Pray to God But I doubt that he's listening This world is a gutter That he likes to piss in tonight Millions of people Quietly sleep Dreaming of deserts As the puddles...

In the summer of that year we moved a man down from the hard land A body’s worth the time fore get to war to try And in the valleys of the tribes it formed a secret alliance Land mudded, our general rolled disease across the Rhine Long live the emperor...

I'm a naked sun see right through me, I'm a naked sun I have no clouds to conceal me I have not one Maybe someday I'll forget To rise up but it hasn't happened yet I've got you sunburnt now In the morning rise up to greet me And say I'm number one In...

oh isis...hydatyd... you're blood lips surround me in this hallway. cannon lust in all this tumult... tied to the pathos...a revolt you're a slur... she's a slur... and all the space between certain illusions... is the cause of rips... cracks and y...

Well it might have been the blazing hell You want to know to save the world Now we get to Nassau The do has been tamed Save this rotten world The time is bad but still forever we Better not to enter Walking through open doors Lock the fights, I stand...

I’ll give you it, I’m raising heavens I’m improvising when it comes to my expense Brace yourselves, gigantic rings cage Fixed the hatches while the floor breaks just about our heads But I’m trying Down through the storm Another dream we thought Breakin...

Bright all the eyes of the family on the other side From an only child for the first fourteen years of life All the pictures they were never seen and never heard from I'm standing with Eric and Mom outside of Taj Mahal Convinced that I am gonna be a writer an...

There was one king, this was his one sin, You never make a move, 'til you've got something to prove. Upon a cross, strapped to a lathe, Young ingenue, escapes unscathed, You read the part, but you didn't get it, left "Lancelot" out of the picture credit....

Hard to imagine, hard to perceive find an expression for what it all means All panic and struggle, all death and decay Its coming together in relative ways yeah This electric guitar hanging to my knees got a couple of verses I can barely breathe it's all right...

Okay this is a song about killing everybody, let's all sing along now Dream machine, John and exene, Smear campaign, And a swat team. Let's have a feudal lord, Let's have a fascist regime, Side effects, Coupled with withdrawl bleeding. This is a ri...

You rule by being just Wage war with a price Master all without strife And the world will comply Said the sage, "The more rules that they write The more thieves in the night." And if we take no action And I make no design Then all the people return T...

Sigh your children Who have we? All our lives & countless years When your world A glass heart aches Wraps us unheard, unscathed Will we, your children Pine away Your good news our destiny? Is it something wrong If this is what I want? My time to...

Hear the noise back in town Let's gather everyone And go see what they're up to now Driving in, Driving out From hotel to the bar All our friends are here But somehow we seem so divided We're the voice crying out Screaming every song Not that anyone understan...

This city has lots a certain holds inside It feels so worn being chained here to this life I've been around and seen one hundred scenes Where those who dare to tread the wheel One day find out what's behind that hill Spend half a life deciding what went wrong...

I had a house on a rock I turned around and it had gone to rot All that was left of me were walls of doubt I asked a question but the world returned with silence All that I wanted to know is where'd everyone else go? I had a dad, I had a mom I had a family, d...

I remember dessert places Shadowless and cold Where heaven looks down On this empty hole Levers here to taste the ruins Dark and obscene But all I want is you In my sunken dreams I remember all the places I remember when we met You alone and graceless Me cove...

The mime's conceit has conquered over real beauty Grinning from a mask of hollowed bone Where a human is somewhere to be found But where I don't know And things couldn't be better From behind the halls we cannot pass Hear the muffled traces of a boyish laugh H...

New Horizons, unclaimed lands Await us beyond the walls of our cantonment I'll return to the Far Pavilions You can't let it get you down You were raised on the edge Of this unnamed ghost town There, a million far pavilions Gaze down from up on their he...

With history, your bluest grace Falls apart, cascading down Speak to me of beautiful hate Of island chains swept with the tide The coral leis of a conquering king They're swept away Oh, but not lost. Beneath the waves of trembling stars The roads wind toward...

How can anyone be so unkind As to want to take another's piece of mind? Is acceptance so implausible? Well I know how the best will fall And the rest will follow. It's important to recognize In this world we live there is nothing worth dying It's enough to sa...

I found a jetty of stone And I'm standing on my own The lake enclosed Array away filled sky Hovering over space and time Streams on at once And I tread line think twice As I spiral through the cold Wet tide of stones And what sueds the need of a ma...

Lying on the grass Afternoon, there's always something happening Friends go floating gently by I'm listening to a song inside my head Although the summer's past Those mythic dreams would never last Nor do I care anymore And if it makes you sad Remember all the...

Well I had this crazy feeling that I’ve lost you again Looked around and found out where you are Turned around and caught you frown and standing on the street Just a chord on your guitar Well I took you to the paces that I’ve been to as a kid The city whe...

Look at his hand move! Check out the shape of his hips as he goes! Well he's totally natural! Well actually he's a white ghost Performing in a video. He's totally natural! (he's only an actor) He's so beautiful to see, But something's lost underneath,...

I'm from redemption The meaning of redemption is faith And the meaning of faith is sin And the meaning of sin is forgiveness The meaning of forgiveness is ecstasy The meaning of ecstasy is lust And the meaning of lust is creation And the meaning of crea...

The darkest days they lie before us The world, a monster coming back to eat her master Remember when we bathed with candles The granite eyes of Horus Danced about our naked mantles This cross, which cross Which cross is the one This cross, which cross?...

Talking 'bout things we've seen Paris to Oslo seem like dreams Looking back, was it real? You know how things sometimes feel You can run but you can get no further than Three city blocks from where you began Caught in a wasted state of mind Here you come, her...

How much fun To be drifting along With the weight of the sun on my head And all covered in sad As I sketch with my pen And I brace for the troubles ahead Slow Let the weight of the bow Take your arm as you pull the string back Don't be fooled by th...

If you really want to, you can, lie... If you really want to, you can, lie... If you really want to, you can, lie... If you really want to, you can, lie... And the sun fades, The waters rise, The stars appear, The night has returned. I told you s...

Close the door and drift away Into a sea of uncertainty Where all your hopes and dreams Have faded out of reach. Remember all the bad dreams Are not far from reality Would you write again for me? (let me whisper something in your ear) And you awake and there...

Told a lie about yourself It felt so good to deceive To pull the wool over everyone Tell them whatever they'd believe You missed the train and now you're gone To join the faceless everyone Your a name on a phone list I've crossed off I've pushed you back to s...

Random lost souls have asked me "What's the future of rock'n'roll?" I say "I don't know does it matter?" This and that scene, They sound all the same to me Neither much worse nor much better We're so fucked these days We don't know who to hate or who to prais...