Mushroomhead - The Righteous & The Butterfly Album Lyrics

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Our Apologies

How many ways
Can we say our apology
God bless confess
And rejoice in acknowledging
The definition of truth hard to prove
Often lost rarely used with sincerity
No use rejuvenating a lie
You know we mean what we say

Retribution
The payback
The vengeance
Absolution
Remission of sin
Blasphemy
All the shit that you say to me
Tell me is this
How your confession begins

I'll take the fall for humanity
Why care at all
Everything's washed
Pretending you're something you're not
Is the worst of all
No use calculating the cost
You know we mean what we say

How many ways
Can we say our apology
God bless confess
And rejoice in acknowledging
The definition of truth hard to prove
Often lost rarely used with sincerity
No use rejuvenating a lie
You know we mean what we say

Retribution
The payback
The vengeance
Absolution
Remission of sin
Blasphemy
All the shit that you say to me
Tell me is this
How your confession begins

I'll take the fall for humanity
Why care at all
Everything's washed
Pretending you're something you're not
Is the worst of all
No use calculating the cost
You know we mean what we say

Fall back bite your motherf*cking tongue
Don't talk back I'm tired of hearing your mouth run
We made our declaration
A nation under one
Let God be the judge and the jury be his son

 

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How Many Times

With mouth open wide
We lie and wait
We can't crucify
Relive our mistakes

The Devil that you know
A wolf in sheep's clothing
Your mate is your match
Set fire to the whole thing
Fire to the whole world

Would you please accept my invitation
No salvation just follow me
Forked tongue with fingers crossed
Transformation the mark of the beast
If ignorance is bliss
Sever me up a cold dish
Of your vengeance
Commitments your sentenced
Crimes through your Father's eyes
you dare to speak with me but choose to lie
Win some lose some
F*ck the world it's now numb

After all this time
It's time to say goodbye
Like we've never met

How many times can we say goodbye
And subject and reflect everything we've tried
How many times can we say goodbye
I've tried and tried goodbye is all I say to you

Goodbye

 

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Devils Be Damned

God bless your soul
Can you feel it
Hellbounds around
Trying to steal it
Reach for control
Ward off your demons
Devils be damned
Convicted of treason

Tear my soul out
Spend my whole life
I don't need your blessings confessions deceit
All I've done for you still not enough now I see

What if I could not take this
What if I had to fake this
What if your world had meaning
And if I gave a f*cking shit
Would this change anything
And what else would you bring
Anything but everything to be forgotten

I found it interesting
You destroyed your home to become someone
You reek of sorrow

Tear my soul out
Take anything you please
Spend my whole life
Distressing, confessing beliefs

Now what
You're filled with hatred
And what you thought was scared
Now that there is nothing
Everything has turned to shit
What chance do you see
All roads in with me
Does it mean anything to be forgotten

 

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Qwerty

One shot heard around the world
Gonna bring it to a head
Gonna show the world what it was
Once said
Whatever the cost
We will never surrender
Leave abandoned the loss
When the rich wage war
And the patriotic whores
Dig their own grave
For their own sake
Another casualty
Another travesty
Another motherf*cking German shepherd
growling with his teeth steppin
Bitch slappin smack rappin
Kick you in the bass drum BOOM! BOOM!
Alpha to Zulu
I'm here to say F*CK YOU!!
I had a bad day
With her angel wings

I had a bad day

Fall in line glorify
Patriotic parasite
Punishment don't fit the crime of
Being bred to lead to slaughter

 

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Portraits Of The Poor

Finger painting pictures
Of this bad existence
Fixed with stitches none the richer
You could never call me poor
Bled out the old me
Family does not know me now
Someone better show me how to live

Now the times nigh in the night sky
How can you walk away
This is your lifetime
Don't let them break you
Let this torture be exposed
Can you paint me a picture
A portrait of your soul
All the discarded and the broken
All they martyrs and the orphaned
All the soldiers and sovereign
All the sisters of the fallen
There's a bad moon in the rear-view
And a blood son on the horizon

 

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Childlike

The less we stare a different life
I play the role I smile bright
Consume the perfect pesticide
And live on this so childlike
Surprised I even care at all
Recall the days of wonderful
Delight of all the things we might be

 

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This Cold Reign

Break down the walls
Tear them to pieces
Burn them to ashes
Leave them with scars
Mine you have become

No one can help you
And no one is safe
The horsemen of doom
Are riding again
Try to beg for mercy
Here comes the evil
That spills from my head
Run for the hills
Cause this is the end
Why beg for mercy

I climb the mountains
Pled to the warden
Drink from the fountain
Bled my distortion
I've seen all the things that make up your dreams
Awaken from your sleep
My soul to keep
Glory or defeat
Never let it go
Warrior chief

Women and children
Front of the line
Make them watch
While their loved ones die
Beating of flesh
Witches of wretch
Make them pay for their regrets

Agony come of age
Pain of punishment of hate
This cold reign
Soul drain
Dream of death we masturbate
Masquerade in rows of graves
This cold reign
Soldiering

I watch them burn
From day to day
Suicide genocide
Seems to be the only way

 

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We Are The Truth

Hatred growing breathing
As the armies mount dead and bleeding
Tens of thousands no concealing
There's a hunger yet no one's eating

You can promise, but our dream's dead
And the rivers they're all but blood red
I can mimic all your speeches
No more lessons learned you can't reach us

Now
Listen to me no hard feelings
I can see your skull past the pealing skin
Passion all dead double talking
Yeah we hear your words
No one's walking

Once upon a time or two
I think I lost my mind with you
Too many times to be precise
We take a toke and drink the wine
We got the users over there
We got the whores right here

False flag attack that
Found guilty through entrapment
Of your commandments
Your cooperation is commended
Since the corporation demands it
Who are the false
We are the truth
True or false
Which one are you

 

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Son Of 7

Blinded by the creates that simple
Blinded by the wasting away
You look at you but you'll find in me
Walking a tight rope
Across a motherf*cking fault line
I thought it was divinity
I have taken what you have given me
I pledge allegiance to this patriotic bullshit
A corporate puppet preaching nothing from this pulpit

Hold on (whoa whoa) this was never me
I finally found hands that drive me
Been dancing with the devil for way too long
Please be here for me sing my last song
Sing my last song

Enlightened
Be prepared to be humbled
Frightened by the wasting away
You look at you but you'll find min me

No more snakes in the garden
Open up your eyes
And prepare for the fall

 

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For Your Pleasure

Wear your desecration
Like a declaration of your war
Scars that make impressions
After all that's what these lessons have been for

How can I face this disease
I can't get away from me
How can I face this disease
Can anybody help me
How can I face this day

Take it by the f*cking throat and say that I will live through this
Take it by the f*cking soul and live through this

For your pleasure
or your pain
Society's a game

While they campaign in poetry
And govern in prose
In their twisted sorority
Dying for the throne
You never really know just who the king will choose
Till your bygones are gone

Everything wrong with you is the same that's wrong with me
What's wrong with me is everything wrong with you

It's a brand new mirror
I see myself for the first time
It's oh so clear
Open my heart
Open my mind

 

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Worlds Collide

I fight to sleep
Can't bare but dream
And then the whole thing starts to bleed
Envision grief and get on your knees
Yeah the whole thing starts to bleed

Handout the children
Into the darkness
The fathers of sinners
The daughters of hate
Handout the darkness
To all the children
The mother of nothing
The sons of our fate
We are the burden
The shame you must carry
We are the future for now and the late

Improbable impossible
Seems insurmountable to breathe
When worlds collide
Like ancient history
We spend our time in misery for you
Awaken all but follow through

 

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Graveyard Du Jour

Who cares anymore
Shit to explore
I forgot my purpose in this
Graveyard du jour
Don't believe in anything
Why should I care

We're all going nuclear
And I'm damn sure there is no cure
TV says you don't exist
Computer hates the government

Promise me you love me
And excite my mind
Waiting for delivery
And I'm ten payments behind
Praying on my rosary
Come down dear God and talk to me
And I think I'm going blind
Come save me king crucified

 

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Out Of My Mind

Judge me for what I am
The bastards in life
Who don't pay their sins
You wage nothing
You gain nothing
Everybody's down from here on in

Heed my words hear me calling
Citizens watch
Their stealing our freedom
Promises left to die
And long forgotten
The government's lost
Tantamount to treason
Tedious the way we fall in
Avenging the cause
A rebel with a reason
For the lies
Yet war keeps callin more home
I been forsaken
For I am a patriot

Need my trust
To tie the blindfold
Bled for my nation saluted the flag
Seeds of hate
Beneath numbered the tombstones
Crowding more
Pledge my religion in ruins and rags

Out of my mind so easily
I've left behind so many dreams
Spiritual blindness poisons me
Not living on living on my knees
Or dying on my knees

 

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Rumor Has It

He, he ain't real
He ain't gon' be able to love you like I will
He is a stranger
You and I have history or don't you remember?
Sure, he's has it all but baby is that really what you want?
Bless your soul, you got your head in the clouds
He made a fool out of you and girl it's bringing me down
He made your heart melt but you're cold to the core
Now rumour has it, he ain't got your love anymore
Rumour has it
He is half your age
But I'm guessing that's the reason that you've strayed
I heard you been missing me
You've been telling people things you shouldn't be
Like when we creep out, and he ain't around
Haven't you heard the rumours?
Bless your soul, you got your head in the clouds
You made a fool out of me and girl I'm bringing me down
You made my heart melt yet I'm cold to the core
But rumour has it I'm the one you're leaving him for
Rumour has it
All of these words whispered in my ear
Tell a story that I cannot wait to hear
Just 'cause I said it, it don't mean that I meant it
People say crazy things
Just 'cause I said it, don't mean that I meant it
Just 'cause you heard it
Rumour has it