Call Me King

1. Wind and Water, Misbehave 

Ring around the Rosy 
Pockets full of posies 
Ashes, ashes 
We all fall down 

So ahead of all your peers 
The king of your career 
The son of success 
Knowing all you've done will be revered 
Concealing all your fears 
The things you hide inside 
All for the sake of you and your useless selfish pride 

The world sleeps under your thumb 
While you sleep under your roof 
A living mockery of God 
Ignoring any that you can't use 

The thought appears for just a moment 
Somewhere on the periphery 
A conjured image from the darkness 
Of all those who rest in need 

So shut your eyes and close your ears 
Numb your heart to all their tears 
Just tell yourself that it's not real 
Don't leave a trace that you can feel 

Their sunken eyes beg from hunger 
A crumb off the table would suffice 
But your greed gives no allowance 
Concerning their petty lives 

Here I am bringing vengeance 
For all your apathetic hate 
Don't you know of Siren's judgment? 
You'll receive your due fate 

So shut your eyes and close your ears 
Numb your heart to all their tears 
Just tell yourself that it's not real 
Don't leave a trace that you can feel 

No hesitation 
A blade cuts off breath 
From ashes rising 
A siren sings 

So shut your eyes and close your ears 
Close your heart to all their tears 
Just tell yourself it's no big deal 
Don't leave a trace that you can feel 

Ring around the Rosy 
Pockets full of posies 
All of them are dead

 

2. Casting Shadows 

 

Oh God 
Look at the world we made 
We're a generation lacking passionate pain 
Our shame is what we all ignore 
We're offended by truth, we're unready for war 
We'll watch the stars fall down around us 
It's nothing but a choice inside 
We're clasping hands and casting shadows 
But inside our hearts have died 

So tear off the blindfold from your eyes 
Don't forget what we have all denied 
We could rule this world by nightfall 
By nightfall, by nightfall 

This isn't sustainable 
The world's held in balance by paper sheaves 
Change is hope 

We're passing the money up 
They're passing the rules down 
It's an endless cycle going 'round and around 
We're passing the money up 
They're passing the rules down 
And all the while our skin drags on the ground 

So tear off the blindfold from your eyes 
Don't forget what we have all denied 
We could rule this world by nightfall 
By nightfall, by nightfall 
Don't forget the flesh around your bones 
The death that you refuse to show 
We are all beyond our end but 
We walk on, we walk on 

When the ravens devoured your flesh  
Did you think for a moment you'd have a regret? 
All along we've been walking with death 
When they stole both your eyes 
They left you with breath but 

That was their mistake 
In this world that they've made 
The dead will now be raised 
We walk from our graves 
If you're offended by truth than stop me 
I bet you mindless cowards won't 

I will scream until the demons take notice 
I will make the earth crumble around your ears 
I will fight until the world stands in silence 
I will stand until I no longer feel my fear 
(I feel fire in my veins 
Watch me burn) 

So tear off the blindfold from your eyes 
Don't forget what we have all denied 
We could rule this world by nightfall 
By nightfall, by nightfall 
Don't forget the flesh around your bones 
The death that you refuse to show 
We are all beyond our end but 
We walk on, by nightfall

 

3. Dream Eater 

Your face is always on my mind 
Trying desperately to lie 
Hiding memories 
Suffocating 
I still dream of you 

Your hands rifling through my hair 
Your lips pressed over my skin 
Your life a story so ambitious 
But where do I begin?  
I end talking to myself  
Reciting histories undealt 
Beginnings hazy memories 
Of what I never held 

Oh what a shame 
That we could never meet  
And who's to blame  
That you held no love for me?  
With everything I've longed to hold you close beside me and I 
Wish I could resign 
For you I was so blind  
But inside my head you're mine 

Your face is painted on my soul 
Your voice whispers "Don't let go." 
You were everything I wanted 
But never quite enough 

We were just moments away 
From both our greatest mistakes 
And then you held my eyes 
and told me you'd be going to sleep 

The twists and turns of your hips 
Your soft hair gracing your lips 
 And your spine pressed against my chest 
 I lied, I'm never at my best 

Oh what a shame 
That we could never meet  
And who's to blame  
That you held no love for me?  
With everything I've longed to hold you close beside me and I 
Wish I could resign 
For you I was so blind  
But inside my head you're mine 
You're mine 

I want to taste the air you breathe 
Fill your soul with all my sweet misdeeds 
Take everything that you can be 
But your voice 

I'm left abandoned, an empty old shell  
You were my mistress and I was your thrall 
But I haven't heard my sweet lover's voice 
In years left uncounted months too long to tell 

I've tried to remember the way your skin felt 
The taste of your lips and the curve of your smile 
You are a stranger, a ghost in my mind 
You haunt me 
But you're not present in my sight 

Oh what a shame 
That we could never meet  
And who's to blame  
That you held no love for me?  
With everything I've longed to hold you close beside me and I 
Wish I could resign 
For you I was so blind  
But inside my head you're mine 
You're mine

 

4. Red All Over 

Extra, extra read all about it 

Front page starts as an empty canvas  
'til black-lined headlines make sensational fear a fact 
The next craze is a murder spree 
I'm convinced you'll regret hearing anything other than me 
So come back in, unplug your ears 
And lean close as I spit acid shaped like fear 

Take heed open your ears 

Welcome to the time of special interests 
Monetized bottom line  
If it don't earn we won't tell 
One small fee for us 
Peace of mind for you 
We'll feed you what you wanna hear 
And count up our revenue 

The world is ending 
Don't try to kid yourselves 
Every day something new 
To convince you that you won't make it through 
Here's our product 
It keeps you safe and sound 
At least distracted 'til you're down in the ground 

Abandon hope,  ye who enter here 
The world is filled with all of your deepest fears 
Keep focused with your eyes on the flowers 
And don't think about the gun that's pressed to your skull 

Listen while I lie 
In such convincing ways 
I turn my truth for just that light that makes you all afraid 

Trust no one 
You're surrounded 
Everyone 
Is in on it 
So will you choose to do something about it 
Or did you forget that culture's a product 

We'll never have time to buy plots of earth 
I guarantee that this sickness will kill us first 
We'll never have time to buy plots of earth 
I should be laughing right now 

Abandon hope,  ye who enter here 
The world is filled with all of your deepest fears 
Keep focused with your eyes on the flowers 
And don't think about the gun that's pressed to your skull 

God willing, we'll own you all your life 

I ink my stories with the screams of the dying 
Still I rejoice 'cause my net gains are rising 
I make my living off the fear you're providing 
My needs are met by all the tears you're supplying 

Abandon hope,  ye who enter here 
The world is filled with all of your deepest fears 
Keep focused with your eyes on the flowers 
And don't think about the gun that's pressed to your skull 

The murderer's and rapists 
Read all about it 
The cold sweat and distress 
Read all about it 
The serial hatred 
Read all about it 
All your fears, created 
Read all about it

5. Wolves At the Door 

It's in the sound and it's in the street 
Yeah you filled me full of disbelief 
And I know retaliation is a distant dream 
But it's time to make a change 
So let me give you my name 
So that you know just who to blame 
When your life goes wrong 
The shame is I cannot recall 
A single time when I stood strong 

I will write my will across the sky 
I will darken the sun and take hold of time 
I will tear this world down around me 
And smile as it burns 

A brilliant white sun 
Lives in my soul 
I am a product of a burnt out core 
You have made me deadly 
Something to be feared 
Have you met a monster? 
Come and meet one here 

I will write my will across the sky 
I will darken the sun and take hold of time 
I will tear this world down around me 
And smile as it burns 
I will make a ruin of this Earth 
For good or ill I will make sure that I am heard 
I don't care for any objections 
I will rule the earth 

I hold the reigns of life and death 
I'll summon the wind with a single breath 
Worship all that I have done 
And know that I am dust 

(I'll bring your nails, you bring their cross) 

(Don't make of me a liar 
You can save yourself from fire 
Rescue me, rescue us 
From what you've done) 

So what words will mark your gravestone? 
And will they be put there by me? 
And when all is said and done, oh 
Will you still be my enemy? 

And when the world returns to ashes 
And everything we've made is dust 
Do you believe that you'll remember 
All of the kings of this Earth? 

For we have built a grand cathedral 
And we have filled it with ourselves 
A graven image so distasteful 
We almost couldn't stand to bow 

Yes the world's become an idol 
A pagan altar to our pride 
And we have worshipped our own shadows 
Lifted ourselves up to the sky 

I will write my will across the sky 
I will darken the sun and take hold of time 
I will tear this world down around me 
And smile as it burns 
I will make a ruin of this Earth 
For good or ill I will make sure that I am heard 
I don't care for any objections  
I will rule the earth

 

6. Everybody's Got A Price 

Where is this man of God that I've heard so much about? 
Maybe he's disappeared and I'm talking to myself 
A message left unheard by deafened ears concerned with only self 
I've heard he's round here somewhere but I can't find him just empty lying shells 

(I've heard you saying) 
With money so short I'm keeping my wallet tight 
If I waltz away with your skirt for the same price 
I can't turn down the bottom line when you've been giving it away 

I see judgment in your eyes with every look at me 
Pretend I'm worth time, I'll pretend you're right 
Not expecting any truth I've learned hypocrisy 
Pretend I'm worth time, I'll pretend you're right 

I want to cry and shriek and shake 
Until the boards loosen 
Until the wood creaks 
Until my foundation breaks 
Until I'm not afraid 
If you took my tongue I'd still speak the truth 
The rocks would cry out 
The trees walk on roots 
The mountains dive into sea 
The world my melody 

I see judgment in your eyes with every look at me 
Pretend I'm worth time, I'll pretend you're right 
Not expecting any truth I've learned hypocrisy 
Pretend I'm worth time, I'll pretend you're right 

Do the demons know your name? 
Because they sure as hell know mine 
When you speak do they run away? 
Or is this all just a waste of time? 

This Babel we've built is destined to fall 
Might as well be me who takes it down 
When theres no man of God to be found 
It might as well be me who opens my mouth 

Are there any right places anymore? 
Is there goodness to be found in Gomorrah? 
Is there still a righteous man in Sodom? 
Is there anybody left who can't be bought out? 

I see judgment in your eyes with every look at me 
Pretend I'm worth time, I'll pretend you're right 
Not expecting any truth I've learned hypocrisy 
Pretend I'm worth time, I'll pretend you're right 

Someone's gotta wear the crown 
Might as well be me 
Someone's gotta wear the crown 
So call me king

 

7.  Bandit 

We all lie about our priorities 
About the things we stand for the reasons that we breathe 
I know that it's a difficult question 
But rather than face it we run for the exits 
And what do we create? 
Our shame, society medicated 
But I will not be ignored I'll make rhythm my weapon and words into swords 

Brace yourselves for every time I've held my acid tongue 
In moments between substance it is when I come undone 
A liar's tale, but told for free 
I'm speaking the truth 
Unleashing the realest me 
Why am I alive? 
What am I waiting for? 

You've met with a terrible fate haven't you boy? 

They took the gold from in your eyes and scattered it to dust 
Now I lay beneath your judging eye and conform to your lust 
I change my face to suit your need like I am without form 
I lose my name inside the role you force me to adorn 

These words turn 
Aiming at the very lips that spoke 
I write them 
Hoping they can save me from myself 
I'm not wasting my time 
Taking a life 
My own creations always turn 
The vitriol of this venomous voice 
It's dividing sinew, it's shattering choice 

Brace yourselves for every time I've held my acid tongue 
In moments between substance it is when I come undone 
A liar's tale, but told for free 
I'm speaking the truth 
Unleashing the realest me 
Why am I alive? 
What am I waiting for?

 

8. Everything Is a Weapon (If You Hold It Right) 

 

I hope you've prepared everything that you need 
The time is coming for you to be brought down to your knees 
I was safely forgotten, nothing more than a memory 
But skeletons in your closet don't vanish so simply 

Cause you and I are dancing in time 
To a beat no one else can hear 
I am a creature of darkness and light 
With followers that you fear 

This is a dance for the ages 
Let me see some spectators 
It's time to clear the dance floor 
No need for introductions 
We don't need your responses 
You're begging me for more more more 

The anger in their eyes 
Tells me we'll have to fight 
And as our voices rise 
I lift my hands up toward the sky 

Cause you and I are dancing in time 
To a beat no one else can hear 
I am a creature of darkness and light 
With followers that you fear 

The world must seem so slow as you dance with me 
It all must seem so slow 
Watch it all fade away as you dance with me 
Watch the world fade away 
All your memories return as you dance with me 
I see it in your eyes 
Yeah your face fills with pain as you dance with me 
As you remember your lies 

So count your steps 
And take your time 
Us dancing here 
It could cost us our lives 
With lines and words 
Our battle is made 
We go to war 
With our songs at our waists 

Cause you and I are dancing in time 
To a beat no one else can hear 
I am a creature of darkness and light 
With followers that you fear 
We have both become kings in our own rights 
Bearing the weight of the world 
I've been sent to bring judgment from on high 
I'll give you the end you deserve 

Cause you and I are dancing in time 
You and I are dancing in time 
You and I are dancing in time 
You and I are dancing in time

9. Broken Machines 

The cracks you used to know 
Spiderwebbing through my heart my hands 
They're pushing me apart like slivered flats of land 
Ever since the day you replaced me 

The breasts of a blossoming beauty  
Wrapped in torn scraps a once-elegant dress 
Structures decaying soundly 
Magnified meaningless markings of majesty 

A Hunter to his prey 
Fleeting footsteps flowing 
One under the weight 
Of two hearts heavy falt'ring 

I'm a broken machine 
Made with overwound springs 
Watch me slowly fall apart 
Slowly fall apart 
I'm all on my own 
With nowhere to call home 
Watch me slowly fall apart 
Slowly fall apart 

I move 
Grinding gears inside my body but 
I smile 
The effort almost breaks me every time 

I'm drowning 
Every Time my head dips I can't help but wonder if it's the last time 
I'm floating 
Life's my surface flailing for a single gasp I can't (see her) 
Again 
Alone we're suffering 
In this crater we call home 
I've lost the will to take (A hunter to his prey) 
A life so beautiful 

I'm a broken machine 
Made with overwound springs 
Watch me slowly fall apart 
Slowly fall apart 
I'm all on my own 
With nowhere to call home 
Watch me slowly fall apart 
Slowly fall apart 

You knew exactly how this ends 
You're running just like all your friends 
I'm hunting after you again 
Please stop me please stop me 

My hands make empty homes their ends 
I'm stealing from those I call friends 
I'm broken worthless let it end 
I'm drowning please stop me 

(You've never been alive 
You've always been a lie 
No one could break in 
Your walls are flawless 
You told yourself a lie 
It poisoned all your mind 
You never waited 
You knew the ending 
You weren't weak at all 
Where others would all fall 
You stand triumphant 
And you can stop this 
The choice is yours to make 
To give or will you take 
But I will trust you 
I still trust you) 

I'm a broken machine 
Made with overwound springs 
Watch me slowly fall apart 
Slowly fall apart 
I'm all on my own 
With nowhere to call home 
Watch me slowly fall apart 
Slowly fall apart 

You knew exactly how this ends 
You're running just like all your friends 
I'm hunting after you again 
Please stop me 
Please stop me

 

10. Where Have You Been, Jack Douglas? 

After everything I've been through 
I don't know why I'm shocked 
That everything I stood for 
Was hiding something dark 
It's clawing at my insides 
And it's begging for escape 
I can feel my own potential 
And it's driving me insane 
It's like a blackness rising from my soul 
A bent that I can't change  
It's like everything inside of me 
Is everything I hate 

So tell me why 
We can't explain 
Why nothing's changed 
We  live with hate 
Don't we all know 
Everything fades 
It's time we learned 
Nothing lasts forever 

I tell myself I'm ordinary 
There is nothing wrong with me 
I wish that I believed a single lie I hold inside of me 
These blackened words flow from my lungs 
And I can't control myself 
Everything I do just binds me tighter to my inner self 
I tell myself I'm ordinary 
It never seems to take 
It's like everything inside of me is made from my mistakes 
Like every day I wish that I could be a better version of myself 
But I won't sit unmoving with no legacy to sell 

So tell me why 
We can't explain 
Why nothing's changed 
We  live with hate 
Don't we all know 
Everything fades 
It's time we learned 
Nothing lasts forever 

I hold on so tight but it all slips away 
It's like sand in my fingers or dust in the rain 

So tell me why 
We can't explain 
Why nothing's changed 
We  live with hate 
Don't we all know 
Everything fades 
It's time we learned 
Nothing lasts forever 

So tell me why 
We can't explain why nothing's ever changed 
We've reconciled to always live with hate 
In retrospect all beauty's born to fade 
Nothing lasts forever

 

 11. Sing Me to Sleep 

 

Son take me away 
Son give me a good life and 
Rewrite all the problems that I've made 
Son give me hope 
Son give me a good death and 
Forget all my struggles, all my pain 
The troubles of the past have gone away 
And it's a new day 

I've made myself into a dream 
A familiar face you've never seen 
A heartbreaking requiem melody 
All in the name of paternity 

And I'll murder you with my words 
I am a massacre 

I'll take you away 
Down to the river 
Where the sirens wait 
I'll teach you my name 
With water and wicked 
As your shallow grave 
Where innocence withers 
And hatred is answered 
A pathway created 
As flesh turns inanimate 

Softly 
Slowly 
You are the stain upon my soul 
The one thing I can't let go 
You are everything I hated 
But never quite enough 
To crush you into dust 
Until you took my purpose 
The one I'd never trust 

And I'll murder you with my words 
I am a massacre 

I'll take you away 
Down to the river 
Where the sirens wait 
I'll teach you my name 
With water and wicked 
As your shallow grave 
Where innocence withers 
And hatred is answered 
The pathway created 
As flesh turns inanimate 

Like you were alive 
Heaven-sent 
Kairos on its head 
A broken frame left bleeding red 
A shadow appears and my eyes alight 
Your killer in my sight 
And I arrive 
With empty promises I'll aim for more 
This blood I can't ignore 
You've stolen him from me I'll watch you fall 

I'll take you away 
Down to the river 
Where the sirens wait 
Where innocence withers 
I'll teach you my name 
In water and wicked 
An enmity unending created 
I'll take you away 
Down to the river 
Where the sirens wait 
Where innocence withers 
I'll teach you my name 
In iron and ember 
A pathway you've chosen me to wander 

A changing of names 
Your life is retreating 
I scrabble to save 
You're dying you're bleeding 
Your suffering ends 
While mine's just beginning 
A final word 
Please 

I've got a friend in the background waiting  

12. evil will prevail 

Didn't you ever see what you did to me? 
Didn't you even know what this meant to me? 
You act like all of this was just a personal choice 
Like you weren't choosing sides 

Didn't you consider the effects? 
I'm standing here watching as you left 
Apparently this was never what I thought inside 
What it was in my mind 

Of all the ones who made me wanna kill myself 
I never thought I'd see your name up on that shelf 
You left me hanging by just a thread and 
You left me here with almost nothing left 

I, I gave you everything you asked for 
I listened to your every plea 
I put up with the strife and all the lies 
And never asked for anything 
You are everything I've tried to fight 
You're everything I've regretted inside 
Everything I wished I'd never done 
And never given time 

Don't you ever tell me that you wish things could be the same 
Don't you ever tell me that you regret a single thing 
I know better than to believe a single word you say yes 
I know everything you said was just a lie because 

The pain inside me drags me down 
Down to the bottom 
You left me just like all the others 
In the end 
I hope you know that you don't deserve 
A thing you've gotten 
I hope you know you're just a child 
Let me be clear 

I, I gave you everything you asked for 
I listened to your every plea 
I put up with the strife and all the lies 
And never asked for anything 
You are everything I've tried to fight 
You're everything I've regretted inside 
Everything I wished I'd never done 
And never given time 

Everything was just a second away I guess 
Everything was just another of my regrets 
A hundred lies couldn't make me lose my trust in you 
But you did it with the truth 

I hate the air you breathe 
I loathe the world you see 
Can you even understand 
What it means to care about something? 

Or do you only think for yourself? 
Do you think of no one else? 
Do you give in to not caring for anyone? 
I hope you know 

I saw through every lie you said 
Through every word you'd sell 
Through every angry look 
And every empty smile 
And I just let it pass 
Acted like we were friends 
I guess you couldn't stand 
Dealing with my demands 
I hate you 
What you put me through 
Everything you did to me 
That you passed off as normalcy 
You're a liar 

And all the songs I wrote 
They all bear your name 
Between the lines and notes 
I guess you were the same