Slaves - Through Art We Are All Equals Album Lyrics

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The Fire Down Below

Stuck between the voice,
Stuck between the voice and the echo.
Stuck between the voice,
Stuck between the voice and the echo.
Stuck between the voice,
Stuck between the voice and the echo.
Stuck between the voice,
Stuck between the voice and the echo.
And the echo, and the echo.

It's time to let my mind go,
And I'm willing to fade away with you.
If this is how I'm saved then let it be.
God stopped listening,
'Cause the wolf kept crying.
God stopped listening,
'Cause the wolf kept crying.

Take the air from my lungs,
Put it in hers because
She's the one who deserves to live;
The one that I pray that God forgives.
(Pray that God forgives)
Pray that God
(Pray that God forgives)
Pray that God
(Pray that God forgives)
She's the one who deserves to live,
The one that He forgives.

Can't stop who I've become,
My love will never be sung.
It's the pain before pleasure,
Now speak for the glory of one.
Open your eyes.
Open your eyes.
You deserve better,
Now give it your all.

Take the air from my lungs,
Put in in hers because
She's the one who deserves to live;
The one that I pray that God forgives.
(Pray that God forgives)
Pray that God
(Pray that God forgives)
Pray that God
(Pray that God forgives)
She's the one who deserves to live,
The one that He forgives.

Why can't my words keep us afloat?
Why can't my words keep us afloat?
And if we drown, let me make it for you.
If we drown, let me make it for you.

I never knew love until you.
I never felt love until you.
So why'd I throw it all away?
Why's it coming unglued?
Why is it coming unglued?

Change me for all the times
You hated my crimes.
You hated my crimes.
Watch the world burn in her eyes.
If we are destined to be damned,
If we're destined to be damned.
Stuck between the voice
And the echo.

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This Is You Throwing In The Towel

There's no hope in a city where the vices all turn wild.
She can't find her love, oh, that girl she turns to designer drugs.
Both the walls are closing in now, what kind of home is this?
What kind of home have we made? Where are you now? (Where are you now?)

So put the crown around my head, so put the noose around my neck.
Oh, they praise us to watch us die, forever young in your eyes. [2x]

Look at the mess we have, oh, the blood is on your hands, coming clean is easier said.
I'll be damned like you, oh, I'll be damned to the end like you.
Maintain your sanity as you hide being your new family, your new family.

So put the crown around my head, so put the noose around my neck.
Oh, they praise us to watch us die, forever young in your eyes. [2x]

No, I can't shake the feeling as we watch them all die.
No, I can't shake the feeling as we watch them die.

Move back and forth as the hole gets bigger. [2x]
Everything catches up, what an example the both of you set for us.
Everything catches up, what an example the both of you set.

So put the crown around my head, so put the noose around my neck.
Oh, they praise us to watch us die, forever young in your eyes. [2x]

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The Young And The Reckless

A puppet is only strong as its strings
I forgive and forget, yet the truth still stings
The lies are all easy, and the words are hard to swallow
The leaders get killed, we're never fulfilled, yet we follow (we all follow)

In the back of our minds we know
But then the hearts keep letting go
In the back of our minds we know
I angst to let go

Too many times, I've watched this crash and burn
At the fork in the road
We made a wrong turn
We made a wrong..

If these apartment walls could talk
Oh the story would be a nightmare
When all you wants a dream (when all you want)
We're just living a lie
This will never survive
So we run and hide
Whenever the truth arrives

In the back of our minds we know
But then the hearts keep letting go
In the back of our minds we know
I angst to let go

Too many times, I've watched this crash and burn
At the fork in the road
We made a wrong turn
We made a wrong.

Don't you know I'm sick of this bullshit
It's like I'm stuck in the ocean
Take it away to the open
Give it a day I'll be hoping for someone to rescue me
Let me put a message in a bottle (to whom it may concern)
A note to self kid, you'll probably never learn
These words are self-inflected (you're drowning yourself)
The fork in this road is your heart choosing heaven or hell (your heart choosing heaven or hell)

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My Soul Is Empty And Full Of White Girls

I wanna get out, I wanna get out
I'm sick of giving in to these demons
I wanna get out, I wanna get out
I'm sick of giving in to these demons

With eyes wide open, all I see is the dark
Another hit, another mark
A small pinch and my whole world starts to spark
If I had another chance, I can't say what I'd do
The minds a tricky thing when it comes to the loss of you

Sometimes I hear her cries, silence is the dirtiest trick in life
If I'm so empty, then why do I feel alive?
Let's go back for the last time, when you breathe you lie
Pretty thing keep your mouth closed, and those legs tangled close

Dear shame, are you forever?
I'll never know what it's like to keep my head from spinning
I'll carry the flame for you, I'll carry the weight for you
In that moment I don't need to think twice, the end of a shattered life.

Sometimes I hear her cries, silence is the dirtiest trick in life
If I'm so empty, then why do I feel alive?
Let's go back for the last time, when you breathe you lie
Pretty thing keep your mouth closed, and those legs tangled close

I feel her body break under the weight [2x]
My selfish lies, selfish lies, I can't do it any other way
Sometimes I hear her cries, I hear her cries
Under, under, under the weight of my love

Sometimes I hear her cries, silence is the dirtiest trick in life
If I'm so empty, then why do I feel alive?
Let's go back for the last time, when you breathe you lie
Pretty thing keep your mouth closed, and those legs tangled close

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Those Who Stand For Nothing, Fall For Everything

Can't let it be all I've done
Can't let it be all in vain
Gave up the war to watch it fade
Can't let it be all I've done
Won't let it be all in vain
Gave up the war to watch it fade

How do you erase the memories that give us hope?
Now bitter and gold, all the lies that we hold
Step out of the shadows, step out of the shadows
To a life worth living again, to a life worth living

No words can ever replace where I've been
Can't stand the thought of you going through it alone
Those who stand for nothing, fall for everything [2x]

How do you erase the memories that give us hope?
Now bitter and gold, all the lies that we hold
Step out of the shadows, step out of the shadows
To a life worth living again, to a life worth living

Can't let it be all I've done
Can't let it be all in vain
Gave up the war to watch it fade
Can't let it be all I've done
Won't let it be all in vain
Gave up the war to watch it fade
Can't let it be all I've done
Won't let it be all in vain
Gave... she looking down on me

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The Hearts Of Our Young

How could you leave and watch us
Face this life alone
Both our hearts were yours to mold
So open and free
But everything we've lost
How did the words make it worth it

How did the words make it worth it [3x]

I know what it's like to hurt when we're alone
I want to tell the one that follows in my footsteps
They aren't the way, so turn back
Set the course to watch them fall
But these cuts are deeper after all
Twenty-seven years, my heart still hurts, it still hurts

How could you leave her, she was perfect.
Now all your dreams, they reek of failure
Still the older we get, the more broken we become
Can someone show me how to love (show me how to love) [2x]
Watching mistakes, I feel I'll never know love

How could I be like you
I'm not over everything I made
Yet it day to day
Just to let them fall

Just to be something in your eyes [2x]

How could you leave her, she was perfect.
Now all your dreams, they reek of failure
Still the older we get, the more broken we become
Can someone show me how to love (show me how to love) [2x]
Watching mistakes, I feel I'll never know love

How could you leave the watch us
Face this life alone
Both our hearts were yours to mold
So open it free
But everything we've lost
How did the words make it worth it

How could you leave her, she was perfect.
Now all your dreams, they reek of failure
Still the older we get, the more broken we become
Can someone show me how to love (show me how to love) [2x]
Watching mistakes, I feel I'll never know love

Can someone show me how to love (show me how to love) (continuous)
I'll never know love

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There Is Only One God And His Name Is Death

The farther I go, the further you get away from who we really are
I choose a different route, a different path in life
Praised by many, but still labeled an outcast

The things that last never happen overnight
These calloused hands built the foundation of my life
Abandoned for love, left with no advice
How quickly we change overnight

Make me out to be the bad guy
How long can I wear the blame?
Sick of feeling wrong
Why do they judge me all the same?
Nobody's perfect, trying to justify myself to the ones who will never, never understand
Who will never

The things that last never happen overnight
These calloused hands built the foundation of my life
Abandoned for love, left with no advice
How quickly we change overnight

Torture myself, that's what I feel I'm worth
Torture myself, well aware that the pain is somewhere else
You can root for the villain, I'll take that title, I'll take the heat now and be your rival [2x]

The things that last never happen overnight
These calloused hands built the foundation of my life
Abandoned for love, left with no advice
How quickly we change overnight

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The King And The Army That Stand Behind Him

[Jonny Craig:]
They love you when the lines get blurred, our hearts become the source
as we push through all of these feelings, failure always disappoints.

Oh it's nights like these where it's all in my dreams. How long
should I take my mistakes? These apologies fall on deaf ears
How in the hell did I get here? I'll claim the role I was born to play.

[Kyle Lucas:]
How many times should I repent? How many apologizes are needed? I was
obviously defeated. Broken and beaten they had me focused on leaving,
I wore my heart on my sleeve, the whole world saw me bleedin', uh. I seen it all,
I've been there and I've done that. Counted me out, but never counted on my comeback.
Now I see the snakes and all the rats up in the mouse traps, this gonna be the
soundtrack for anyone who bounced back. I want that throne, go and get that crown, pest.

[Jonny Craig:]
Oh it's nights like these where it's all in my dreams. How long
should I take my mistakes? These apologies fall on deaf ears
How in the hell did I get here? I'll claim the role I was born to play.

[?] for everything is gone, I saw them for who they truly are.
Still I rise, still I stand, so put the crown in my hand.

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Ashes. Dust. Smoke. Love. Stars. The One.

I watched her eyes burn bright, but I could see the despise.
We sank beneath her with every track.
She screams 'til she's blue in the face, there's no room for her under the stars we feud for.

We're still not getting past it, hoping these issues dissolve, but they take another form, these problems just evolve. [2x]

The frown behind her smile, the pieces we can't force to fit.
I can't fake another love when the outcome is so quick.
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
Watch the smoke fill our lungs, watch the smoke.

We're still not getting past it, hoping these issues dissolve, but they take another form, these problems just evolve. [2x]

I watched her eyes burn bright, but I could see the despise.
We sank beneath her with every track.
She screams 'til she's blue in the face, there's no room for her under the stars we feud for.

Watch her turn to dust. Watch her turn to dust.
You're covered in the blood after you stabbed my f*cking heart out.

We're still not getting past it, hoping these issues dissolve, but they take another form, these problems just evolve. [2x]

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The Upgrade, Pt. II

The devil wears a white dress
Oh, she cries for something better
Her tears never hit the floor
All she wants is something deeper

Left stranded, still standing
From the joy it brings

Just another drama queen for the masses
Fading in the limelight
Just another drama queen for the masses
Girl you do it alright

Give up the ghost
Time to put it all to rest
Dig your own grave
Oh, you're dying to impress

I poured my soul into it all
And that's more than I can say for yourself
A man who desires revenge
Should dig two f*cking graves

Just another drama queen for the masses
Fading in the limelight
Just another drama queen for the masses
Girl you do it alright

Give up the ghost
Time to put it all to rest
Dig your own grave
Oh, you're dying to impress

I want you all to myself
And I barely made it out alive
I've got nothing to lose
I've got nothing
I've got nothing to lose
Let's give the devil his dues
Let's give that motherf*cker his dues

Just another drama queen for the masses
Fading in the limelight
Just another drama queen for the masses
Girl you do it alright

Give up the ghost
Time to put it all to rest
Dig your own grave
Oh, you're dying to impress

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Starving For Friends

I miss the days of being on fire, damn
Riding around with the ones that keep me inspired

I miss the days of feeling on fire
Riding around with the ones that kept me inspired

But I could've been wrong, I could've been right
And none of you seem like friends tonight
See I was just waiting for the moment to take me away
It's just one of those days, oh yeah

Can we let it go?
Will we ever let it go?
I feel the only way to let it go is to say I'm sorry

Don't make me wait for a falling star
I've been afraid that the blood in my heart
Won't sing for me a melody that's ours
Drown me in the rain, I'd sink and swim for you

You were the only saving grace I ever had

You poison me
I'm burning colors, I can see the change
I can tell the bitter taste
I'm two-faced and I can't see straight
But don't pretend to run away
I know you hear me

Just another kid that can't let it go
Just another story for the books
How did I fall off track?
How did I let you turn your back on me?
Back on me

Don't make me wait for a falling star
I've been afraid that the blood in my heart
Won't sing for me a melody that's ours
Drown me in the rain, I'd sink and swim for you

You were the only saving grace I ever had

If I'm home by sunrise, will my eyelids fade?
I'm too tired now to save my problems for another day
'Cause I've spent my whole life between fear and faith
I don't know if I've been screaming in the dark or dreaming

It's plain and simple
I don't know what I was thinking
I miss my friends
The ones I'd die for

Don't make me wait for a falling star
I've been afraid that the blood in my heart
Won't sing for me a melody that's ours
Drown me in the rain, and I'll be there for you

You were the only saving grace I ever had