Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum

1. Dead and Done

In the end it’s all so clear to me that you’re betraying all your friends

When the wind blows against you dear then you cower in defense

‘Cause I’m fucking dead

Ain’t nobody owning me

I’m fucking done

I just don’t have the energy

You pretend you see things differently when you slave to all the trends

And if I bend this all ends painfully and you’ll be blaming me again

‘Cause I’m fucking dead

Ain’t nobody owning me

I’m fucking done

I just don’t have the energy

‘Cause I’m fucking dead

Ain’t nobody owning me

I’m fucking done

I just don’t have the energy

‘Cause I’m fucking dead

Ain’t nobody owning me

I’m fucking done

I just don’t have the energy

I’m fucking dead

Fucking dead

Fucking

2. Bruised and Bloodied

Add meat to the body abandon your own welfare

Feel safe in the knowledge that you’ll save yourself with prayer

Disgrace everybody then bask in the afterglow

If I beat myself it seems like you just don’t care at all

It’s really fucking pitiful

I’m not asking to pray about

Parade around

Or save somebody

Lost the courage I’m craven now

You’re way to proud

All bruised and bloodied

Conceit so lovely you’ve led me into despair

This rape and pillage of all things that I hold dear

Deface my body with gifts that you now bestow

When I need somebody it seems like you’re just not there at all

It’s really fucking pitiful

I’m not asking to pray about

Parade around

Or save somebody

Lost the courage I’m craven now

You’re way too proud

All bruised and bloodied

These disembodied emotions are all laid bare

So please tell me when will I wake from this new nightmare

I’m not asking to pray about

Parade around

Or save somebody

Lost the courage I’m craven now

You’re way to proud

All bruised and bloodied

3. Wasteland

At the end of the day

You’re so soft spoken

Don’t hang your head for me

Nobody seems to believe in the reasons you feel so lonely

Nobody seems to accept them the way that I do

This teenage wasteland of ours

I feel too much

I remember the way you left me broken

Don’t shed a tear for me

Nobody seems to be willing to save me from purgatory

Nobody seems to be able to shed the treadwheel

This teenage wasteland of ours

I feel too much

This drug won’t take on for hours

I need this crutch

Say something

Now

Say something

Now

This teenage wasteland of ours

I feel too much

This drug won’t take on for hours

I need this crutch

Now

I need this crutch

4. Dangerous

So take them off the blinders that cover your eyes

Don’t break new ground

Just follow the beaten path

Well all I can do in the end is bury it in the cellar

And only a fool would pretend to blame it on the weather

It’s so dangerous all this blamelessness and I feel like I lost all the good I’ve known

It’s so dangerous all this shamelessness and I feel like I’m watching a tumor grow

Now take them down

The roses you smothered, they died

I hear the cries of souls you have eaten since

We all must revere and defend the fortune of the teller

We all must subdue and suspend belief that this gets better

It’s so dangerous all this blamelessness

And I feel like I lost all the good I’ve known

It’s so dangerous all this shamelessness

and I feel like I’m watching a tumor grow

Please just say you know you won’t be satisfied

Not unless you know your name is verified

God I hope you choke on hate and stomach bile

Even as you sing the praise of feticide

Please just say you know you won’t be satisfied

Not unless you know your name is verified

God I hope you choke on hate and stomach bile
Even as you sing the praise of feticide

It’s so dangerous all this blamelessness and I feel like I lost all the good I’ve known

It’s so dangerous all this shamelessness and I feel like I’m watching a tumor grow

And I feel like I lost all the good I know

And I feel like I’m watching a tumor grow

5. Liar

There’s a break in the weather but I’m never gonna fade away

There’s a saying it’s now or never and this is never gonna wash away

So don’t you wear that frown and don’t you be forlorn

There’s a break in the weather and it’s sure nice not to feel

So take heed of voices that conspire

Make me walk this path alone

My sanity keeps unraveling despite this

I’m burning in the fire

I’m labeled as a liar

From today I will do better

Because I never want to feel the shame

With every vein that I have severed

I have struggled with what I became

I will not let you down

I won’t be cause for harm

So today I will do better and I sure hope this can heal

So take heed of voices that conspire

Make me walk this path alone

My sanity keeps unraveling despite this

I’m burning in the fire

I’m labeled as a liar

But I can’t bring you here

Oooh

So take heed of voices that conspire

Make me walk this path alone

My sanity keeps unraveling despite this

I’m burning in the fire

I’m labeled as a liar

I’m burning in the fire I’m labeled as a liar

6. Can’t Go Wrong

I don’t want to be the one exposed to the places no one goes

I don’t want to be the one who feels like a leper and

I don’t want to get left behind in the places that I hide

I don’t want to be the one who caves under pressure

It’s really easy to doubt me

I’ve got a feeling this can’t go wrong

My reputation precedes me

I’ve got a feeling this can’t go wrong

I don’t want to have my will imposed

Or the darkness diagnosed

I don’t want to be the one who’s kneeling forever and

I don’t want to fear the day I die

Or feel the pain unamplified

I don’t want to be the tie you’ve chosen to sever

It’s really easy to doubt me

I’ve got a feeling this can’t go wrong

My reputation precedes me

I’ve got a feeling this can’t go wrong

It’s really easy to doubt me

I’ve got a feeling this can’t go wrong

My reputation precedes me

I’ve got a feeling this can’t go wrong

My reputation precedes me

I’ve got a feeling this can’t go wrong

7. Buried in the Sand

Well I don’t want to be caught

In a tidal wave

and everything’s for naught

is what the old folks say

Well now I find I’m distraught

I’m closer to my grave

and now I’m going to come short

another goddamn day

When you throw my feelings on the fire

I can’t keep this down

and I feel like I won’t be afraid

when I’m buried in the sand

Well now I found myself fraught

and I am filled with rage

Another bottle’s been bought

To help me waste away

I think these chains are too taut

They’re cutting my rib cage

And if I give this more thought

I think I’ve gone astray

When you throw my feelings on the fire

I can’t keep this down

and I feel like I won’t be afraid

when I’m buried in the sand

When I’m buried in the sand (x3)

When you throw my feelings on the fire

I can’t keep this down

and I feel like I won’t be afraid

when I’m buried in the sand

Throw my feelings on the fire

I can’t keep this down

and I feel like I won’t be afraid

when I’m buried in the sand

8. Let It Go

Second chances are so divine

I can’t reveal what’s on my mind

But I am drowning in the quicksand

The deprivation of my mind

This education intertwined

With all these musings of a sick man

Float down that river of blood you made when you stabbed my back

But I am drowning in the quicksand

Well I don’t feel like getting older

I just feel like getting numb

And I don’t see why I should bother

I just don’t think I can let it go

When you turn sour grapes to wine

the fermentation takes some time

but I am following the short hand

When desperation is unkind

exacerbation walks the line

and I am following a blind man

Float down that river of blood you made when you stabbed my back

but I am drowning in the quicksand

Well I don’t feel like getting older

I just feel like getting numb

And I don’t see why I should bother

I just don’t think I can let it go

Oooh (x4)

Well I don’t feel like getting older

I just feel like getting numb

And I don’t see why I should bother

I just don’t think I can let it go

9. Failure

Well I saw my face in the mirror

and I am I believe a growing curiosity

Hold my feet to the fire

Cause I am I believe a quivering atrocity

Sowing seeds of doubt

that we can’t live without

Saw my face in the mirror

and I am, I believe a trembling monstrosity

And yeah I live my life like a broken-hearted failure

I’m trying to shed some light on the scars left by the razors

Well I quell my fears with a shiver

Yet I am I believe incapable of anything

So much more to deliver

but I am I believe a swollen wound without the sting

Sowing seeds that sprout disease to take us out

Throw myself in the river

Cause I have I believe this viral animosity

I live my life like a broken-hearted failure

I’m trying to shed some light on the scars left by the razors

What else can I say (x3)

What else can I

Say for myself

I’m terrified

And yeah I live my life like a broken-hearted failure

I’m trying to shed some light on the scars left by the razors

Again

10. Beg

I can’t remember what it feels like

Seems you should’ve known the rules

I think I’m never going to find my way

Slowly coming from the rear

I feel I’ve never had a thought so real

Time I found myself a quite place

Beg motherfucker

Beg

I poke the needles under your skin

Tastes like blasphemy and treason

No you’re never getting far away

See hope fading out of your eyes

This time the pain is going to feel unreal

I think you’re gonna be some easy prey

Beg motherfucker

Beg

Beg motherfucker

Beg

Beg motherfucker

Beg

11. Drift Away

Don’t let anyone cry on your shoulder

Don’t let misery bring you down

Beauty fades away as you get older

Such a shame that you hate yourself

When I saw the feelings go to waste

But it all comes as no surprise

And I feel I let it slip away

Left so hollow and dead inside

And I realize I was too afraid

so much wasted time

I feel you drift away

On the surface it seems like I’m colder

Underneath it all I’m not fine

You do well in the eyes of beholders

But I feel ugly as sin inside

When I saw the feelings go to waste

But it all comes as no surprise

And I feel I let it slip away

Left so hollow and dead inside

And I realize I was too afraid

so much wasted time

I feel you drift away

Oooh (x3)

Who are you to let me bleed

Who are you to set me free

Who are you to let me bleed

Who are you to set me free

When I saw the feelings go to waste

But it all comes as no surprise

And I feel I let it slip away

Left so hollow and dead inside

And I realize I was too afraid

so much wasted time

I feel you drift away

12. Pride Before the Fall

So can’t you see I need to leave

The world can burn without me

Don’t I belong with every song

Keep letting rage come out me

Faith but not belief it helps me breathe

It feels like shade around me

Waste no relief I grind my teeth

I feel betrayed and lonely

Can it bleed ya

Can it see ya

Doesn’t it hurt to hide it all

Can it free ya

Can it feed ya

Ever the pride before the fall

Can it feel ya

Can it heal ya

Don’t pass this up

Does it need ya

Does it please ya

Oh no

Faux and make believe I can’t conceive another way around these words

It’s all so wrong

I’m too headstrong

To assuage the turnkey

Faith, the clover leaf so keep this brief but keep this cage around me

Hate with no reprieve the knives unsheathed

I feel decay around me

Can it bleed ya

Can it see ya

Doesn’t it hurt to hide it all

Can it free ya

Can it feed ya

Ever the pride before the fall

Can it feel ya

Can it heal ya

Don’t pass this up

Does it need ya

Does it please ya

Oh no

He says he’s gonna hunt something

He seems to think the prey is me

If I can only have one wish

what do you think that wish would be

Can it bleed ya

Can it see ya

Doesn’t it hurt to hide it all

Can it free ya

Can it feed ya

Ever the pride before the fall

Can it feel ya

Can it heal ya

Don’t pass this up

Can it free ya

Can it feed ya

Ever the pride before the fall

Can it feel ya

Can it heal ya

Don’t pass this up

Can it bleed ya

Can it see ya

Oh no

13. Written in Stone

When I’m all by myself

The silence seems so absurd

Dripping words from my mouth

It never feels like I’ve heard

and I feel like I’m done

I’m tired is all I can say

when it wears down my health it’s time to take this away

‘Cause when it breaks down it’s like its written in stone

And it when it fades out

I feel the pain in my bones

it’s like its written in stone

When the sun’s heading south

and all the cows come to herd

Will the flames get snuffed out

by the screams of the birds

and I feel like I tried to quiet all my dismay

but it tore me apart

the violence out on display

‘Cause when it breaks down it’s like it’s written in stone

and when it fades out I feel the pain in my bones

‘Cause when it breaks down it’s like it’s written in stone

and when it fades out I feel the pain in my bones

It’s like it’s written in stone

Like it’s written in stone