Defeater

I stand next to an empty grave Where my friends will lay I'll put their bodies down Into their resting place. Got a purple heart For a wound and scar They just send letters home That broke the families apart. The paulbearers burden As heavy as my hearts hurtin...

You’ve got to find her. Your mother ain’t fit to be alone. Her rosary beads are gone, there’s only one place she’d be. The sun is nearly up, put your jacket back on and walk down the street. Feel the wind start to shift, cold and biting. Just like everyth...

I've been slipping away I've been losing the days I've been letting my vices take from me No holy spirit, no resurrection I've been hoping of death, (…) it's left Years of heartache and guilt haunting my sleep No holy spirit, no salvation Hopeless and...

I hope this finds you well A father lost and mother dear The family that's kept me here Heartless and cold, and I've learned it well How to lose everything How to push you away How to lie when I say "I never raised a hand to the ones I love." Now look...

I ain't been sleeping well these days I lie awake listening to the trains Wishing for one of them To come take me away Lost my way every place I've been Tired of thinking of all the hurt I've seen Wishing for death To finally take me. My days are all the sa...

I feel the distance in your letters sent I left my family for the trenches You've got me worried about leaving You've got your needle, I've got my demons You've got me homesick, I feel like slipping I feel the cold hand of death is creeping He took my brother...

Mid-day heat is low Sun torches victims skin Priests rise to command Blood spills the altar stairs Sacrifice to their gods Sun sets the slaves all die The hearts of humans left to dry Burnt offerings to the sky Temples built for priests with high Me...

Unwanted from his first breath. A mother's blessing born, A father's burden worn. The bright shine of the sunrise Along the tile floor to the open door. With blood on the sheets she lay on the mattress. Staring aimlessly. Numb, dark and decayed On the...

Can you hear those birds sing? Means we're closer to shore Means we're closer to home Further from love and war Further from what made sense What we were born to do What kept the blood in our veins Keep my veins thin with booze Kept my hand on my gun And my...

Closing early morning just before sunrise A night spent with the guilt Until morning light We share a cigarette, burning the shame Our lungs heavy in bliss Our arms are sore from the weight I may be a sinner, forsaken and damned The selfish and pride f...

You need to get out of this house. I’ll walk you down to town. We’ll go act our age, kick rocks, waste summer days. Penny candy at the general store, I’d buy us a pop if I had more. Keep walking inland all day, spitting and cursing each others name. “Ain’...

Unwanted, but breathing In the next room, sleeping My mother, she’s crying And my father’s been drinking In our run-down apartment Where the roof is still leaking He’s cursing and cussing It’s just the whiskey talking And I’ve got lots of memories lik...

That soap box song Stuck in his head. Burdens lie in graves past by. He carries his weight. That anthem for the disenchanted Rings loud in waves of grain. Heavy hearted hymns Heard in slums fade out on those country roads. Hope burning in his lungs. Days pass,...

After she was in the ground, he didn’t know what to do. He still towed those lines at work, he still took care of his mother, but nothing was the same. He had lost everything. So he did what they always used to, go sit at their booth at the Copper...

Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners Now and at the hour of our death Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners Now and at the hour of our death Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners Now and at the hour of our death Forgive me, my f...

"There's no place for me." A man of nowhere, a man of black heart from the dead end streets. "Regret runs through me. I am no one, I am nothing, I am a man of defeat. What's left for me?" Thought of those open roads, his mother praying all alone, that vagra...

I've got this hope in my chest I'll see one more sunrise I've got my brother's good luck Around my neck every night I've gotthis song in my head It's got me thinking of him My hear is heavy with guilt It's got my blood running thin We hold fast, dead set Hol...

Bury him in the cold wet ground. Familiar faces would have made him proud. The military and the working man, the history of the life he lived. “Can you feel that soil covering your coffin?” So what are you going to do? Be the hero that your father was, be...

It still looks the same here after all these years. The junkies and the steamboat men, The sun never set on them here. He walks to his rundown home, Hell-bent to find his mother, But all that fear comes back When he is greeted by his brother. "It's not the sam...

I can't remember (Remember) Each time it slipped right through my fingers The eyes and faces of my brothers (My brothers) They never made it back home to their mothers And all I remember (Remember) Of 1943 December Sullivan and I behind the line, we gat...

I walk in shadows and darkness I feel the feel of the sand My words are calloused and poisoned Cover my tracks with a pulpit The back alley's my arms My veins are thinning in poisons I feel the feel of the sand I feel the feel of the sin I feel the f...

The way she looked at you, tears streaming down her face. You felt the brush of her dress as she walked away. And that’s all it took, sat down to buy her a drink. An empty or a half full glass, it all goes down the same. And that’s the way that it’s been,...

We born of a lightning fallen from the dark sky We have a covenant, we fight keeping Alive the wild spirit we will never retract. The sky has fallen, I have taken refuge in the abysses Forever hidden in the shadows, I must fight for my glory. Chorus: E...

Roll on through to the other side of town. Passed the quarry, the river beds, Over bridges and bunker sheds. Roll on through to the pits and the rail car yard. "This is where you prove your worth." A brother's dare, that devil's smirk. "Oh, this is the way it...

This punch you will not forget Stronger damage that you must protect The resistance of dark kingdom Will host you wild and insanely Pre-Chorus: You are trapped in the evil You are trapped in the evil strike Chorus: Evil strike, evil striker Heavy a...

He awoke in a cold sweat To those old sounds of heartbreak. His brother at his side screaming "This isn't your fight". But that rush took over his head And he came to his mother's side. And he found himself alone with that devil rambling. "Oh, well the mone...

Hello my dear. It's so nice to see you here. How long has it been? Oh it feels like years, but I'm sure it's just been days. I've been walking around alone, drunk and missing you at home. You know I'll never feel the same, or ask another girl to take my n...

I'm wandering these streets alone They don't feel like home This once hallowed ground Feels like a ghost town now I'm on the street corners everyday At night I drink it away. And this flask that saved my life Might be the death of me. And no man in this city...

Dear old friend I'm feeling hopeless again I'm giving in to my vices bottle in hand Dear old friend I think I'm slipping again At the end of my rope with this pain in my head I could use your sage old advice Some word to calm me down I ain't been sleeping mu...

Let's talk about the old days, Let's talk about your friends, Let's talk about the summer And how you wish it wouldn't end. Did I forget to tell you, How pretty you looked in that dress? In the first time that I saw you, You cleaned the mess from my hea...

Sleepwalking skeleton wasting away An apparition losing track of his own feet Catch my reflection and I don't recognize the face that I see Barely holding on like the trees to the dead and dying leaves So let me down Let me down Let me down Let me down...

"If you're always running, You ain't no kind of man. Face up your fears kid, Fight for what you take stock in. Out here on rolling hills, There ain't no alibis. Only sweat and dirt, Only that open sky. If you take nothing more Than these simple words, With you...

We drink to those lost at sea Who never made it of the beach To those who won't make it home Buried in the salty deep While these sons that we knew so well Without a care or a chance in hell Laid their life on the line And [...] so their brothers could...

As a kid the summers seemed so long. The dusk a never ending song. Too much, too young. He'd never hear it again. A walk through the dismal streets, The alleys where the junkies sleep. Too much, too young. "That will never be me." Slow, hand in hand to the boa...

It can be heard In every man, every bullet, every shell In every word, ink and pen Every family torn, every post marked stamp wishing them well I'm a man of no faith But I'm familiar with hell It can be seen On every kid scared to death The wear and the pain...

One night, they fought harder than they ever had. They had always settled things with a ‘sorry’ and a kiss. But not that night. He had started going at the bottle much more than he used to. He’d go out to the Copper Coin after taking care of his mother and her...

Waking up safe and sound The words could hardly leave my mouth "How did I make it out alive?" I love the same sleep every night "How did I make it out alive?" I got your letter today And when I heard my name My stomach sand to the floor I can't take...

I quit believing in heaven I found no savior in nothing I gave away my faith When I gave my brother a coffin He was the air in my lungs He was the blood in my veins The reason I joined up The man that I'll never be A cigarette and a drink To burn away my nig...

Another day when the sun ain't shining Another night with the bottle I drown in Still hoping, still waiting, still breathing by a thread, still holding on [x2] To my demons To every dying wish I've had of us leaving This ghost town still draggins us down To p...

These unfamiliar streets, I hide my face and name And these secrets that I keep, every stranger looks the same The cold New England air, it rips the(?) And I replace it with the ache, the ash, the dirt, and lack of love No hands to hold, no hands to pray...

Nights chasing ghosts, asleep in the pews Naked and still, your arm in a noose Pillar of salt, we can never look back The lives we have lead, we are cursed in our past We're cursed in our past, we're cursed in our death A penance paid for in blood, the...

He walks the streets collar up to the snowfall. Holes in pockets and knees. Sleeps in bar rooms and horse stalls. But you can't stay too long in one place. "Move along kid, we don't like your face." Mother's hold children close out of fear. Father's curse unde...

You sit, and you stir You grieve and you grieve The same chair as your old man Your mother’s worse than you think Sunken eyes and a withering frame The needle quiets the longing That poison, it fills… it fills her veins So quiet when the pain comes Yo...

Dear hope I lost you, Found solace in a bottle Now I'm my mother's only son Brother of mine I woke up with the sunrise With an ache in my chest Brother of mine Now you sleep at the bottom Of the blue pacific Brother of mine I woke up with the bottle And an...

The days since we last spoke turned to weeks, turned to months, turned to years You were heavy with child with your arms around a stranger in fear I had the burn in my blood, I had the ash in my veins, had the lies I keep hid between teeth The boy must neve...

My savior, this city, My comfort, her pity Or so I hoped. My heartache, my hard luck, My war time, my struggle That no one knows. In the allys where I sleep I beg and beg for the food I eat All the pain and the hurt In your gut where it burns Every man here...

I’ve never heard the voice of god, I’ve found no trace of heaven either. Since I was spared in hell I repay the old chaplain that saved me. I spend my days with the good book, follow every chapter, prayer and verse. I spend my nights with my vices...

Been thinking about our better days The nights we let slip away The [?] lake when the longing's gone Burn my lungs and forget your name Replace it with a softer pain The siren song ringing on and on and Keep me like a note tune something borrowed and bl...

I've spent days in this trench in the snow Just my gun by my side. It's cold and wet and you're all alone Up keeping watch at night. The bite and the sting The bitter cold brings Reminds you that you're still alive The hope and the pride That we all hold insi...

He found himself waiting again. Out at the crossroads, out on the lam. This time not running, this time by right. A road-side hitcher waits for headlights. "The blues, The blues The blues won't bring me down." That pick-up truck stopped. "Where you headed, kid...

Rain fell hard Chalk it up to a failure. Push through the cold weather. Racing heart, Slow the beat, Push through the defeat. No one knows, Just push through the deadbeats, Junkies, liars and cutthroats. The same walk, the same pier. No one's going to remember...

That whiskey burns going down Old man pour me another round Cause it's my last night in town And I ain't thinking of slowing down. No, I am fixing to drown Till I see the sun or I can't see Cause I got the blues and the blues got me I'm gonna make my momma pr...

I was a good man once,I was a good man once But years of unanswered prayers have left me faithless I was a good man once but now hopeless and abandoned I was a good man once, I was a good man once But years of serving in hell have left me faithless I was...

"Remember not the sins Offenses of my youth According to thy mercy think upon me Oh lord for thy goodness Blessed are they that mourn For they shall be comforted Our father which art in heaven Hallowed be thy name Thy kingdom come Thy will be done"...

“Dear God, what have you done?” Those words ring loud in the back of your head. That bottle lies in a thick, blood red. “I ain’t no forgiver, forgetter.” Our mother waits in vain for a God that never loved us. As much as she prayed, he never showed up. “...

As the waves crash the clouds roll As the waves crash the clouds roll Sit on a dock waitind for the sun Wait for the coward but he never comes Pray for revenge on him Steam rises as the boats come in, one by one (one by one) You know she is goneand the...

We walk the streets at night We go where eagles dare They pick up every movement They pick up every loser With jaded eyes and features You think they really care I ain't no goddamn son of a bitch You better think about it baby I ain't no goddamn son o...

You’re going to find him, and make him pay. Stumble out to the bar. “Take one more look at her, and it will be the end of your days. You low-life bookie, you don’t scare me. I ain’t settling no debt, I ain’t saving no face. One more drink then I’m gone an...

Lost in your own head, but then a knock at the door. Put down that drink, your steps creaking the floor. Go and get the gun, distract yourself from death. Back against the door, your hands are starting to sweat. Slowly cock the gun, slowly move to the...