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The Worst Of Fates lyrics - Defeater
"I won't be coming back home"
The letters bleed from ink to pen to paper thin
And black washes out as the sea pours in
Tides push and pull me back to you
Posted in Solomon waves, panic in crashing blue
No floor beneath my feet, lost in fires blind
Wade through the worst of fates under pale twilight
The steel rears and bends iron bottom bound
My oiled, airless lungs; my candle burning out
I hear the siren's song, I feel it pull me down
Sink with the memory of you
Sink with my brothers-in-arms
Sink with the setting of the sun
I hear the siren and her song, I feel it pull me down
Sink with the memory of you
Sink with my brothers-in-arms
Sink with the setting of the sun
I hear the siren and her song, I feel it pull me down
List & Heel lyrics - Defeater
Time stands still
Stands still
Time stands still
The sea stands still for us my love
Our anchor dropped in the rising sun
I hope still for your words to come
All is fair in a war un-won
I still stand, I still breathe
While only salt and death surround me
I long still for your arms my love
Hold me close away from things I've done
The waves crash the hull
In morning's quiet calm
The calm before the storm
The break before the dawn
Before the shelling starts
And black clouds above
Hang over our heads
They bring a flash of death
The cold reaper's hand
Tries to pull me in
Lances spread off port
Aim to split our sides
The run's fanning wake
Looks a mile wide
And as the blister breaks
And the ballasts fill
The ship's bell is rung
List and heel with ash cans in the distance
Silence deafened, bled in, scuttled and lost
Time stands still
Stands still
Time stands still
Time stands still for us my love
Our anchor dragged in the smoked out sun
No hope still for your words to come
All is fair in a war un-won
I still stand, I still breathe
While only salt and death surround me
I long still for your arms my love
I long still for your arms
Atheists In Foxholes lyrics - Defeater
Brother of mine
I've been keeping my thoughts with you
Hope these words and good luck help to
Put the worst of it behind
No atheists in foxholes
Or prayers our mother taught us
I've got the best of her in mind
"Keep me close
Keep me near"
The words we long to hear
Keep my name on your tongue
This rabbit foot for good luck
Keep me on your mind
If the road ahead is too long (keep me close)
Or your love and will are gone (keep me near)
Know that the night will have its dawn (keep me close)
Know that the night will have its dawn
And if your candle stops burning (keep me close)
Or your swan starts to sing (keep me near)
Stop and think of me
Stop and think of me
The ones we love
Too many kids in graves up and down these coasts
"Hold true, stay swift"
Mothers wait in vain for their boys to come home
Hull down, dead set
Two stars hang at the window
One blue, the other soon to be gold
Keep me, keep me close
Two stars, two stars
Two stars, two stars
"Keep me close
Keep me near"
The words we long to hear
Keep my name on your tongue
This rabbit foot for good luck
Keep me on your mind
If the road ahead is too long (keep me close)
And if your love and will is gone (keep me near)
Know that the night will have its dawn (keep me close)
Know that the night will have its dawn
And if your candle stops burning (keep me close)
Or your swan starts to sing (keep me near)
"Keep me close
Keep me near"
The words we long to hear
Mothers' Sons lyrics - Defeater
We drink to those lost at sea
Who never made it off the beach
To those who won't make it home
Buried in the salty deep
Mothers' sons that we knew so well
Without a care or a chance in hell
Laid a life on a line in harm's way and out of mine
So their brothers could live to tell
So my brother could live to tell
"How the sky never looked so deep
With the moon shining down on me"
"I never known it before burning foreign shores
Boys in flak and trench, prayers to stave off death unheard"
"So old man pour another couple rounds on me
Keep 'em coming and the rye in reach"
"Be it shellshock or heartbreak
We're all dying for a stiffer drink
Or dying on a line
No god there to hear our plea"
"We've been laid out and desperate
No blood here left to bleed"
We drink to those lost at sea
Who never made it off the beach
To those who won't make it home
Buried in the salty deep
Mothers' sons that we knew so well
Without a care or a chance in hell
Laid a life on a line in harm's way and out of mine
So their brothers could live to tell
So old man pour another couple rounds on me
Keep 'em coming and the rye in reach
Be it shellshock or heartbreak
Or dying on a line
No god there to hear our plea
We've been laid out and desperate
So my brother could live to tell
So my brother and I...
Desperate lyrics - Defeater
Every day and night
We're laid out and desperate
Every day and night
We're bloodied and broken
Every day and night
Every day and night
He sits and waits at the bar
He scans the room for a mark and puts the bodies to work
(We're laid out)
Raises the glass to his lips
Drinks and tries to forget the bodies washing ashore
(We're desperate)
Long for the taste and the sting
The joy and pain that it brings to help quiet the nerves
Came back home with a curse
(We're laid out)
The bend, guilt and the weight
The bane of blood in his veins
A rotting gut full of hurt
"I'll take the blame I deserve
And let the cold world do its worst"
"We try to hide from death
But it keeps calling us in"
Trialed, empty, erased
He wears the years on his face
Thumbs a coin in his palm
"One more for luck, then I'm gone"
Try to hide from death
It keeps calling us in
I'll take the blame I deserve
And let the cold world
Every day and night
We're laid out and desperate
Every day and night
We're bloodied and broken
Every day and night
Every day and night
All Roads lyrics - Defeater
Morning bleeds in through the shades
Creeps along the pine, day dawning
The pain's tide is washing in
Bent, crawling skin, head caving in
Sick feeling in his guts
Eyes adjust to the sun, nights blurring
The air sours in his mouth
Lights a cigarette, shaking, breathes it in
"These nameless dim-lit streets
Will be the death of me"
Following the cracks
And back alley bends
Down along the pier
The boardwalk and sand
"I'll get you what you need
Keep you from lonely my friend"
All roads lead to hell
Our fortuned, timely end
No way to cheat our death
Dirty money has got his hands in deeper
Pockets lined in the fights and throwing weight on the dice
"What you got? I need it all so badly"
These nameless dead-end streets try to swallow me
Be the death of me
"I'll get you what you need
Keep you from lonely my friend"
All roads lead to hell
Our fortuned, timely end
"I'll get you what you need, what you get
I'll get you what you need, keep you from lonely"
Stale Smoke lyrics - Defeater
Ashed air
Lingering in the dim lit corners
Where the sun is peaking in
A window blocked out, cracking
Day in, day out
He turns the floor and hard luck
Sun up, sun down
He pushes hurt and poor souls
Shuffle in through the door, kicked
Always on their last drink
Suffer on their last leg, breaking
Day in, day out
The numbers run
Hard luck
Sun up, sun down
He pushes on
Poor souls
Left along the beach
Haunt and stay with me
I lose sleep to keep the dreams from coming
And stave off the pain
That comes with their names
Drink deep to keep my heart from aching
Ashed air
Breathe deep with the stale smoke
Trailing off the lit end, dragging
Cigarette glow burning
Day in, day out, he turns the floor with hard luck
Too much, too young, he pushes on poor souls
Shuffles through to sway a bad break
Coming off a cold streak, cut deck and a card cheat grinning
Day in, day out, the numbers run hard luck
Too much, too young, he pushes on poor souls
How are you going to see the ending coming
With your head turned around, struck and bleeding out?
How are you gong to keep those lies from coming?
Your teeth line the ground, tongue cut from your mouth, struck and bleeding out
Aching poor souls
Buried off the beach
Haunt and stay with me
Lose sleep to keep the dreams from coming
Their debts left in vain, a laundry list of names
I drink deep to keep my head from spinning
To keep my heart from aching
Dealer / Debtor lyrics - Defeater
Stare through me
Eyes burning
"Stare through me, I see you giving up your hand"
Eyes burning into the back of his head
Aces hidden up sleeves of cheaters, liars and thieves
Dealer folding a straight and debtor flushing
Drag him kicking out the back
Struggling hands around his neck
"Can't fool me or hide from me"
Wrapping fists around his head
Lessons learned or common sense
"Can't cheat death or hide from it"
Turning pockets for his debts
Concrete tearing at his skin
"Can't fool me, can't fool me"
"Keep walking, you'll find your way to the bridge"
Cold pistol pressed in the back of his head
Switchblade hidden in sheathe, in reach while down on his knees
Dealer making him beg and debtor plotting how
To keep his blood from spilling out
Ending up in cold and shallow ground
"Stare through me now, stare through me"
Moon shining down. "What do you see?"
"I see a broken, beaten man. I see a coward at the end"
"Can't fool me now, can't fool me
It's a long way down." Gut sinking
"I am a broken, beaten man. I am a coward at the end"
Dealer puts away his gun and tells the debtor to run
Dealer walks along the tracks
Sun is rising at his back
"Can't fool me or hide from me"
Rattling memories around his head
Death at home and in the trench
"Can't fool me, can't cheat me"
"Can't drink enough to make me drown
Bridge and river pull me down."
No Guilt lyrics - Defeater
Standing at the edge
Rust and green of the bridges reflecting
Toying with the depths
The water's blue looks a little too distant
Thinks of the pistol instead
Eyes it over and breathes in the salt air
Barrel to his head
Pulls the trigger and everything quiets
The card cheat stands
Looming over the dealer still bleeding
Switchblade in hand
Aims to cut out a trophy as winnings
It's a liar's prize
A falsehood for the bastard to brag on
His blade takes a life
Off the bridge, to the river
No shame, no guilt and no grace
Cheat heads back to the Coin
Downs a drink and calls a hand with the bookie
Stares him dead to rights
Puts the eye on the table and leaves
No shame, no guilt and no grace
No shame, no guilt and no grace
"No father should bury a son
No matter his sins, misgivings or the things he's done
That man lives with a price on his head
No matter where he hides, wears his debt like a hanging hex"
No shame, no guilt and no grace
No matter his sins, misgivings or the things he's done
No shame, no guilt and no grace
No matter where he hides, wears his debt like a hanging hex
A new face comes to call
Asking where she can get what she's needing
A man of the cloth in tow
Head upstairs to silence their longing
No shame, no guilt and no grace
Hourglass lyrics - Defeater
The years drift by
Hourglass in the hand of the reaper
Misused time
Spent in bar rooms and brothels and squandered
Every day and night
Working alleys and card games and pushers
The years drift by
Shaking hands with the reaper
"Days come, days go
The faces blur the same
Some stay, some go"
Days come, days go
Man of god still drinks alone
"Sins stay, hope don't"
Nights come, nights go
"The dirt all moves the same
Some live, some don't"
Nights come, nights go
Sins stay, hope don't
No Man Born Evil lyrics - Defeater
The streetlights dim as he walks by
Ill intent hangs in the air, hangs in the night
Hangs with the moon, dull, low and red
Shining down against blue and black glow overhead
Through empty streets and alleys to the sea
Out to the tracks where the river meets
Flipping a coin walking tie to tie
A hardened broken man with a pusher's pride
Waits on his sale, man of the cloth
Father is on a bend and on the outs with god
And out of the dark, a glowing cigarette
"I'll take what you got man, I got it bad"
"How does it feel and what is it like to know the end is near?
To lose all you love, your veins turned to dust, spend your days in fear?"
How does it feel?
How does it feel?
Priest pulls him in, flashes a knife
Ill intent hangs in the air, hangs in the night
Hangs with the moon, dull, low and red
Red as the blood, spilled warm and thick covering his hands
"I was little boy blue, next thing I knew
A teenager on a tenement roof
Now I confess the pain that happened in between
As I bleed out, you should know the reason
I've been trying to drag you all to hell with me
No man born evil. No death; put my soul out to sea
Released from the sins of the flesh
Released from the sins of the flesh
No man born evil. I became evil when evil fell onto me"
The streetlights dim as he walks away
Ill intent hangs in the air, hangs in the night
Hangs with the moon, dull, low and red
Shining down against blue and black glow overhead
Sullen light to the western sky
Ill intent hangs in the air, hangs in the night
Hangs with the moon, dull, low and red
Red as the blood, spilled warm and thick covering his hands
"I was little boy blue, next thing I knew
A teenager on a tenement roof
Now I confess the pain that happened in between
As I bleed out, you should know the reason
I've been trying to drag you all to hell with me
Soul to sea
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Released from the sins of the flesh
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