Coheed And Cambria - Vaxis II: A Window of the Waking Mind Album Lyrics

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The Embers pf Fire

We all go up in flames
Going out in style

We all go up in
We all go up in
We all go up in flames

We all go up in
We all go up in
We all go up in flames

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Beautiful Losers

Your weight on my shoulders
At the top I break down, I call out
Oh young lovers, please help me
But they see with no sound when I shout
But I'm here to attest
With no hope that somehow
Where there's a will, there's a way out

Hey kid, there's no shame
Or reason to doubt for crying out loud
Run like they're out for your blood
When life feels like zero
Beautiful losers, you're my hero

Never thought, never thought
Never thought I'd be a hero

Am I better off left
A half-empty glass and a thirst unquenched?
Stand up and defend
All you are and all you weren't
In my empty eyes can I find the me?
The more I lie, I find the truth I seek

Hey kid, there's no shame
Or reason to doubt, for crying out loud
Run like they're out for first blood
When you're left with zero
Beautiful losers, you're my hero

Never thought, never thought
Never thought I'd be a hero
Never thought, never thought
Never thought I'd be a hero

The wrong side of courage
In a toy box of phobias
Hook, line and sinker
Time will bind, time will undo

Hey kid, there's no shame
And no reason to doubt, for crying out loud
Run like the dead have risen
When you're left with zero
Beautiful losers, you're my hero

Hey, you'll always be my hero (beautiful losers)
Hey, you'll always be my hero (beautiful losers)

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Comatose

I don't want to feel
F*ck it, keep me comatose

Ah come on, save me
She tells me what she wants
That only you can have your way (have your way)
I don't want to be here
Like a photograph remains
You and I at the end of a bad night

Oh, maybe this is a a war
I'm so full of bad ideas
And trust me, you don't want to hear them
Tell me everything
Now draw the line
Now draw the line

'Cause I'm so afraid
To let you know
I'm letting go
Oh, I'm such a mess, baby, this game's over
A one-man prison and no one gets in
I start to finish but just sit and spin alone
Don't get too close
I don't want to feel
F*ck it, keep me comatose

There's no more maybes, this is absolute
So don't stop now, today's the day
I know it's not what you want
It's not what you wanna hear
But what's it really matter when you're lost
Go sing a song for all your lonely hearts
No more wasted years
You're free to be as crazy as you want
But you can't cross the line
You're borderline
You're borderline

'Cause I'm so afraid
To let you know
I'm letting go
Oh, I'm such a mess, baby, this game's over
A one-man prison and no one gets in
I start to finish but just sit and spin alone
Don't get too close
I don't want to feel
F*ck it, keep me comatose

Honey, keep me comatose
I'm so afraid
Afraid of you, oh
Out of this world
And into all of you
Remember, that
That I'm so afraid

To let you know
I'm letting go
Oh, I'm such a mess, baby, this game's over
A one-man prison and no one gets in
I start to finish but just sit and spin alone
Don't get too close
I don't want to feel
F*ck it, keep me comatose

Don't get too close
I don't want to feel
F*ck it, keep me comatose

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Shoulders

Listen now that I've got your attention
Got to let it, you know
I hate to see you go, now that you're gone We can enjoy the show
When you find them laughing at you
There's no worst thing

Hey
My wicked eyes do see
That I'm the one with the world on my shoulders

You're going out of your way
Just to keep me down
Maybe we weren't made for each other
And I'm just the one you can keep around

Maybe all things have their misconceptions
That's the life you chose
Everyone is laughing at you, out to get you
But change is the exception
Time to brave your life outside this shadow
When they keep laughing at you
Dear, you got to say

Hey
My wicked eyes do see
That I'm the one With the world on my shoulders

You're going out of your way
Just to keep me down
Maybe we weren't made for each other
And I'm just the one you can keep around

I'm the one with the world on my shoulders
I'm the one With the world on my shoulders

You're going out of your way
Just to keep me down
Maybe we weren't made for each other
And I'm just the one you can keep around

You're going out of your way
Yeah, you're kicking me down
Maybe we weren't made for each other
But there's way worse things to keep around

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A Disappearing Act

He lives inside an existence that strays far beyond
The time perceived as normal, bends all limitation
A king among the binary waves conjoined
In our reality, perceived to be null and void
While I wait for him to show me a sign or be destroyed
I implore, go on walk all over me

I'm a long, long way from giving up
Call me old fashioned, call me a fool
His eyes a shade from waking up
A boy lost in the pattern
Over and over repeat

How long have you waited here?
For someone to touch you, for someone to hear you scream?
It's okay to be afraid, I'm here with you

Will we allow ourselves a cure before it does harm?
How long before the mind it gets too weak
Before it fails to witness
Before it gets a fair chance to start?

I'm a long, long way from giving up
Call me old fashioned, call me a fool
His eyes a shade from waking up
A boy lost in the pattern
Over and over repeat

How long have you waited here?
For someone to touch you, for someone to hear you scream?
It's okay to be afraid, I'm here with you

A world in limbo waiting, opening up
A world in limbo waiting to open for us
A world in limbo waiting, opening up
A world in limbo waiting

A world in limbo waiting, opening up
A world in limbo waiting to open for us
A world in limbo waiting, opening up
A world in limbo waiting

How long have you waited here?
For someone to touch you, for someone to hear you scream?
It's okay to be afraid, I'm here with you

My love, we'll make it
My hands, you can leave or take them
We're strong enough to face our fears
Now watch time disappear, ooh ooh ooh oh oh
Time disappear, ooh ooh ooh oh oh

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Love Murder One

If you see me bleeding, leave me alone
Don't want you in my world throwing stones
This glass house isn't yours to call home
So we're done, game's over, love murder one

Have we come to an understanding?
Let's agree to disagree
Circumventing resolutions
And all they seem to lack, yet keep us coming back

Oh, when I drink from your cauldron
I see through your witching eyes
The more it reveals that we're broken
In a love not meant to last it, it only lives to die

If you see me bleeding, leave me alone
Don't want you in my world throwing stones
This glass house isn't yours to call home
So we're done, game's over, love murder one

I'll confess what your heart is feeling in a Hallmark card of your fears
Tonight you'll make your toast
Oh, to better days when all had seemed so right

I hear your heartbeat thumping
Screaming "Honey, don't let me go"
I know you're up to something
I know you want to stay but I'm already gone

If you see me bleeding, leave me alone
Don't want you in my world throwing stones
This glass house isn't yours to call home
So we're done, game's over, love murder one

If you see me, believe me, it's killing me slow
Don't care to live in this world anymore
Lights out, how do you call this fun?
Oh, we're done, game over, love murder one

(I don't know how to tell you we're done)
(I don't know how to tell you it's over)
(But things have got to change)
(You must believe it)
(Oh, are you blind? Do you, do you not see it?)

If you see me bleeding, leave me alone
Don't want you in my world throwing stones
This glass house isn't yours to call home
Oh, we're done, the game's over, love murder one

If you see me, believe me, it's killing me slow
Don't want to live in this world anymore
Lights out, how do you call this fun?
Oh, we're done, game over, love murder one

(If you see me bleeding, leave me alone)
(Don't want you in my world throwing stones)
(This glass house isn't yours to call home)
(Oh, we're done) game's over, love murder one

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Blood

Is there anyone in there
Desired or left to be repaired?
It feels so hard to need
A soul of the world we never see

No, it won't matter to us
If you wake up my love
If you take my burning hand
Follow me into the fires of the sun
Oh, they fear what they don't know
And they'll be afraid of you for sure
'Cause you're my blood, you're my blood

Your eyes swim beneath
The uncertain and what's normally perceived
Do you know that I'm here?
It's true, the silent voice of the time before

Oh, it won't matter to us
If you wake up my love
If you take my burning hand
Follow me into the fires of the sun
Oh, they fear what they don't know
And they'll be afraid of you for sure
'Cause you're my blood, 'cause you're my blood

Oh, it won't matter to us
If you wake up my love
If you take my burning hand
Follow me into the fires
Oh, they fear what they don't know
And they'll be afraid of you for sure
'Cause you're my blood (they'll be afraid of you, they'll be afraid of you)
You're my blood, boy you're my blood

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The Liars Club

Liars
The fear that wakes us up
The truth that things are such, a mess far beyond repair
Your mind out of service?
Hard to find the words worth saying
What we do to deserve this?
Everything seems broken when you look at it that way
Oh it's a disease and there ain't no cure
Oh, the truth is such a bore

Oh, do you want me to lie?
'Cause I could do it, baby
I could do it; lie to you
Please ask me to
'Cause life feels such much better
When we just avoid the truth
Baby, are you okay
To lie with me

Deep in disgracе, with empty retreats
Farthеr than it seems to be
The older I creak the pain in my body
Longing for the days of my teens
Well I guess I'll accept this garbage
Death behind the wheel
With my momma steering
Jealousy, here in the backseat

Oh, do you want me to lie?
'Cause I could do it, baby
I could do it; lie to you
I'm begging you
'Cause life feels so much better
When we just avoid the truth
Baby, are you okay
To lie with me

[Interlude]
Go on and lie, to me...

Baby, are you okay?
Oh, Are you okay with it?
Baby are you okay?
Okay with it?
Cause so could do it baby

Oh, do you want me to lie?
'Cause I could do it, baby
I could do it; lie to you
Please ask me to
'Cause life feels such much better
When we just avoid the truth
Baby, are you okay
To lie with me

Cause I can do it baby I could do it
Lie, to you
I'm begging you
Cause I'd feel so much better if we just avoid the truth
Baby are you okay to lie with me?

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Bad Man

I'm not here to spread your business
I'm just here to keep things cool
Oh, no you ain't got nothing to lose
No, what you got to prove?
Heaven and hell be damned if you're made to choose
Oh, it won't matter who's to blame or at fault
Honey, just know I'll be there when you want

When you need a bad man
A bad-mama, watch your mouth
They'll think twice 'bout messing with you
You need a bad man
A bad-mama, call him out
Evil is as evil do
Better believe I'm in no mood

Go on calling for your mother
Good boy follows all the rules
Oh, what you got to prove?
When you're well beyond your use
Never felt so much alive
As I do when I'm here with you

When you need a bad man
A bad-mama, watch your mouth
They'll think twice 'bout messing with you
You need a bad man, maybe
A bad-go on, call him out
Evil is as evil do
Better believe I'm in no mood

Oh, you will need a bad man
Oh, you're calling a bad man

Give you a bad man
A bad-mama, watch your mouth
They'll think twice 'bout messing with you
You need a bad man
A bad-go on, call him out
Evil is as evil do

When you need a bad man, maybe
A bad-mama, watch your mouth
They'll think twice 'bout messing with you
'Cause you need a bad man
A bad-go on, call him out
Evil is as evil do
Better believe I'm in no mood

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Our Love

Our love won't surrender to the odds up against us, no
But there's something about this
I know we can't miss, let's take a chance on forever

I'm reliving all those days you loved so well
Totally open, I became the one you fell
For worse or better, I would never dishonor
Give you all the ammo that you want, you deserve so

I'll be better once the arrow hits heart
Give you the wedding that you want
You are so out of my league, out of my league
Oh, I'll be your guide when you wanna get lost
I'll be the sword at your side at all cost

Our love won't surrender to the odds up against us, no
But there's something about this
I know we can't miss, let's take a chance on forever

Our love won't surrender to the odds up against us, no
But there's something about this
I know we can't miss, let's do this now or we'll never

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Ladders of Supremacy

Oh, we've only got one chance at this
The severity unmerciful, as the tension sits
As the world comes into view
Our biggest fears they seem to all come true

So how we gonna handle this?
When the punch lands boy, it's all about how you fall
Go on swallow your defeat

Stay down, boy see ya got clowned boy
You got heart but sorry just ain't meant to be
Another one down the ladders of supremacy

The time has come for us
Accept all you've become
All your chances burned to ash, the end's begun
Here we watch as time moves on
Away from all the things we could have done

So how we gonna handle this?
When the punch lands boy, it's all about how you fall
Go on swallow your defeat

Stay down, boy see ya got clowned, boy
You got heart, but sorry, just ain't meant to be
Another one down the ladders of supremacy

Evil does as evil do
All you want they took from you
So, that's how it goes, because who you are
Take a look, you knew you never had a chance
You never had a chance to be loved

No matter how hard you want to play
You'll always have one foot in the grave
You just want to live, but you were born to lose, to lose
Now get up from the gravel and dust off your shoulders
'Cause now it's your chance to prove

Climbing up the ladders of their supremacy
Was it everything you had dreamed?
Did you make your mark?
Or did you let them stand between
Between you and everything?

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Rise, Naianasha (Cut The Cord)

Hell wakes you up choking
And you feel so afraid
Help, is this my place?
Searching to find what to say
Am I okay?

The fear, boy, you own it
Guilty, you find an angel in your arms
She's plucking her wings
She laughs while you go replace them
There's something in your way
The mark that you missed
Caution you throw
Lost in the dark
Begging to go
I'm going to tell ya, tell all
There's a change of the guard
So you play your part
Assuming you know where to start
As pieces start coming apart
She'll stitch those wings to your heart

But it's not what you wanted
She looks deep in your eyes
She sees all your flaws
And pulls you together
Say what you want
'Cause you are
Go on, now let heaven know
The beautiful boy that you are

Call me and I'll be there (oh, oh, oh, oh, oh)
When you need your great
Your great destroyer
Oh, my baby boy
Don't you cry, it's you and I
In a do or die
Overboard
Now cut the cord

Remember that blank space
Where static invades
All that you've succumbed
A dead mind once trapped in a change
In the dissaving grace
As you live out all outcomes
The forever you want
Is the never you'll get when you learn
That you're going to be so alone
Oh, when your mother and I go
But you've go to believe
You've got to be strong for her

Call me and I'll be there (oh, oh, oh, oh, oh)
When you need your great
Your great destroyer
Oh, my baby boy
Don't you cry, it's you and I
In a do or die
Overboard
Now cut the cord

Silence your tongue
Divide your lives
And gift us all your love
Your day has come
Open your mind
And do what must be done

Call me and I'll be there (
I'll be your great, your great destroyer
Oh, my baby boy
Don't you cry, it's you and I
Do or die

Call me and I'll be there (oh, oh, oh, oh, oh)
When you need your great
Your great destroyer
Oh, my baby boy
Don't you cry, it's you and I
In a do or die
Overboard
Now cut the cord

Over and out there
You'll meet your great (I'm your great destroyer)
Your great destroyer (I'm your great destroyer)
Oh, my baby boy
Don't you cry it's you and I
In a do or die
Overboard
Now cut the cord
Cut the cord
Cut the cord
Cut the cord

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Window of the Waking Mind

Time (time)
Time has a funny way of playing jokes on you
While you're waiting for what you think you know
Will happen next is never what you could've come to expect
And so it goes, ooh and so it goes

Deep inside his eyes I see myself
As I wonder who he'll turn out to be
Is that a question that needs answering right now?

And so concludes this chapter
As my parents unravel the entangled threads of my reality
Not of design but by accident
My perception in question
As I leave the infinite for the present
And rise a window of the waking mind

Here's a simple story
And I hope I tell it well
Of a boy locked in a place
His mind, the very cell
Imprisoned with his wild visions
Of every time in space
There's no one in this world quite like him

The thing that complicates it
Is his parents and who they are
The law they made to run from
Beyond the house of the stars
The birth must be in secret
So no prying eyes can see
There's no one of this world quite like him

Our pride and joy are you there?
Are you in there, safe and sound?
Tell us what you need, so we can help you
We don't know what to do
We don't know what to do

Patronizing doctors with their diagnostic leads
Carry on your query
It's blood the boy, he bleeds
But you can't see him like you
So a monster he must be
There's no one in this world quite like him

Vaxis son
Do you hear us?
Do you feel us?

Vaxis, Vaxis, Vaxis
Vaxis, can you see us with your eyes?
Vaxis, can you hear us with your ears?
Is this right to calculate his moments?
To find what's normal is being normal
What's right? What's right?
Can you feel it? No
Can you hear it? No

Time, I'll take you home
This child of ours I'll take you home
With all my love I'll give you the world
And keep no secrets from you
So life gets tough
But it's no excuse or your fault
My brightest star
Shine your light on us all
Am I wrong or did he save me?
Shine your love on all this crazy

Who says you got to rush to get old?
Figure it all out or you'll be left in the cold
Little one, let them, don't follow, just set them free
You can do it on your time
So you know I'll be watching you, armed to the teeth
Don't you go poking while the lion, he sleeps
My boy, it's okay to cry

I'm telling you time
Who says you got to rush to get old?
Figure it all out or you'll be left in the cold
Little one, let them, don't follow, just set them free
You can do it on your time
So you know I'll be watching you, armed to the teeth
Don't you go poking while the lion, he sleeps
My boy, it's okay to cry

Time