Songs of the Third and Fifth

The Mark Of Cain Songs of the Third and Fifth歌詞
1.Barkhammer

Visions of betrayal
Promises not kept
Incrementally drawn deeper
Into a situation I didn't want

But addiction dies hard
And the thrill of the chase
My only excuse
No chance to escape

The build up over time
Not seen, not heard
My actions alone
Is this really about the past?

Is it my own weakness?
Is it control and fear of actions?
When you know it's wrong
Even as you drive there

You can't go back
You can't go back

I can't go back
Not after all that's been said
I can't go back
Not after all I've done
It's too close in here
Even now I can't stand, can't turn around
Can't exit this time

You can't go back
You can't go back
You can't go back
You can't go back

Leave the ghosts behind
I can't go back
Even if I wanted to
I can't go back
So don't fucking push me

You can't go back

Oh what have I done?
Oh what have we done?
Was forgiveness ever on the table?
Was it only someone
Someone else's idea of salvation
I cannot go back
Not now, not ever

You can't go back


2.Avenger

Like a record of history
With a full discography
Like a pilot I take a view
One hundred miles on top of you
And out here I wonder how
What it is I'm seeing now
That from all the things I do
I'm gonna end up just like you

I'm in the breech so hear me now
A one-shot deal that's not allowed
If I can ever escape from you
I never wanted to be like you
A fear of failure or success
That I might be second best
That history repeats itself
No way to ever forgive myself

Breech loader
Breech loader
Breech loader

A single point of wreckage
A single point of impact

Another round of spreading fear
In tattooed nights we roamed the streets
Shouting we drove endlessly
A thousand times we met and reduced discomfort
And the mighty fall as mighty do

Only you were just December crammed into a year
And I was just a year in ten
A single history of wreckage
A single point of impact
My fragments scattering widely
My shrapnel shattering the innocent

Don't want to be
Just like you
Gonna be, just like you
Breech loader
Unloaded I'm nothing
Loaded I explode
Smash my surroundings
Into a million pieces
I have welts on my hands
From killing windows

I step into the breech
It's my job occupation
My only salvation
The only way
To understand my situation
Gun for hire
I'm the breech loader
Mercenary


3.Separatist

Memories, memories
Why did they have to fall?
Given up all understanding
Never been so far before
After all that passed between us
Too busy in afterthought
It's a long way to go
It's a long way to go
Such a long way to go
It's a long way to go

Can you hear me?
Can you hear me?
Can you hear me?
Can you hear me?

Memories, memories
What did you do that for?
Tearing off the strips of your life
All the flags have been taken down
As I watch the parade pass by
I think I will be leaving town
It's a long way to go
It's a long way to go
It's a long way to go
It's a long way to go

Can you hear me?
Can you hear me?
Can you hear me?
Can you hear me?

I think it's time to go
Calling, calling, calling
Calling, calling, calling
Can you hear me?


4.Milosevic

The reprisals were harsh
Cos we're the ones who dealt them
What others didn't know
We would teach them
For zero killed
Zero kills
We're zero kills

We rode on through
Like a T34
Nothing could stop us
Our dead-eyed crew
Our years were burning
Through a thousand thrills
We're zero kills, zero kills

Someone was talking
I wasn't looking
The noise and the cheers drew me away
Too busy looking at my feet
I missed the main event
And found myself left behind

It's just like this
It's just like this

With the others scattered
And me left on my own
The same old story unfolded
With me alone
Only need one left to remember
What others disown
Only one to record
Before it's all gone

If you can pinpoint where it all went wrong
If you could recover the lost unsung songs
What would you do?
Would you seek to empower the others with the knowledge
Of that last fatal hour?

We're zero kills

We've only just met
You still have to go through hell yet
Don't look at me too long
Or you might just see yourself

Like a hair trigger
Waiting to go off
This time
We're going to do it right

As often dictates
When we weave a course
That's slightly off balance
And somewhat off course

And in our wake
The wreckage left behind
Who says the closest distance between two points
Has to be a straight line?

We're zero kills
We're zero kills
And so it goes


5.Eastern Decline

I feel the pain
I feel the pain
I feel the pain
I feel the pain
It makes me feel real 'real'

Light the cigarette that defines you
Buy the world that they sell you
Play the games that amuse you
Disregard the real world that disenfranchises you
Play the games to amuse you
DIsregard the real world
Disregard everything
Everything
Everything

I feel the pain
It makes me feel real
I feel the pain
It makes me feel real
I feel the pain
It makes me feel real
I feel the pain
It makes me feel real

The curse of divinity
The things you cannot see
All the things in me
That should be, that should be
The things that I can see
Raskolnikov the apex of my soul
Is what I'm thinking of
Just what you think you're not
Pain my truth
My only witness
To myself

An affliction of cynicism
Glints of our youth
Paid back in kind
Hostility remained
Awkward and unnatural
Dissolved of myself
Silence, deep silence

I am Raskolnikov
We weren't destined to leave
Without seeing everything to the end
The curse of seduction
Aimed at the skyline
Struck


6.Grey 11

I'm coming home
My person out of touch
But now I'm coming home
I'm coming home
I'm coming home
I thought I'd never come back
I swore that I'd make it
What's in your eyes that tell me
This time I'm in a different story
When it all comes down
Your truth will set me free

If it's a different ride
I cannot be sunlight
I cannot be your life
I cannot be so light

You see the man that stands before you
You hear the voice that calls your name
The things I've seen have seen right through me
The eyes you see can see straight through you
I am a stranger in your eyes
And tell me what you think you see
Don't lie
Don't lie to me
Don't lie
Don't lie to me

It's all inoperable
I never saw your plan
I'll always lock and load
I'll never speak again
I'll always walk alone
It's my inherent soul
It's all I'll ever know

It's all turned again

The principle is sound
But in my head
I can never read
It's only now that you want yourself in reach

I never realised
What could be in this dream?
When we are walking home
When we are lost alone
And when we're thrust together
It's all a waste to me
It's all a blessing too
It's never going to end
Will it ever end?


7.1000 Yards

Whatever happened to me
That made me so aware?
That gave me pause to gaze
With a thousand yard stare
My worldly construct, so insecure these days
I'd like to break it down, burn it all away

Whatever happened?
Where did it all go wrong?
Some missed chance in my youth
Left its mark too strong
And when I try to break out
Something holds me back
My only motive
Fear of losing track

You see me coming
Keep out of my way
You don't want to know me
Cos the Devil will make you pay

Look at all the people they all stay away
Look at all the people I can't turn away
Look at what they're doing make them understand
Look at what they're doing they will understand

Slow my pulse down
Slow my pulse down

I roll the dice
As if I've chambered a round
See if my future
Means I'll leave this town
Sometimes I win
Sometimes I lose

See me coming, look at my soul
You don't want to know, you don't want to know
All the issues that I carry
That are burning in my soul

Look at all the people they all stay away
Look at all the people I can't turn away
Look at what they're doing I can't understand
Look at what they're doing I will make them understand

Slow my pulse down
Slow my pulse down

I roll the dice
As if I've chambered a round
Try see if my future
Means I'll be around
Sometimes I win
Most times I lose

Stop it


8.The Argument

Drama preset on a stage
I thought you knew but what it is I can't say
Bittersweet is what it is
A homily to a better life
I took the bad news in my stride
Too late to care too proud to cry
I found as good as I can give
Wounded, entrenched, some life I live

It's what you are
I've been here before

So walk on old man
Walk on while you sleep
For mankind's final fall
And your own eternal sleep
Walk on into the bright light
A new day, another day
Another day for you to try
Remember at the end
You and me, we all die

It's what we are
I know I've been here before
I know I've been here before

Drama preset on a stage
I thought you knew but what it is I can't say
Bitterness is what it is
A homily to a better life

I took the bad news in my stride
Too late to care too proud to cry
I found as good as I can give
Wounded, entrenched, some life I live

Petty jealousy that's led to betrayal
Enough to drive final nails
So walk on, walk on old man
Walk on while you can

It's what you were
I know I've been here before
I know I've been here before

Bitterness is what it is
A homily to a better life
I took the bad news in my stride
Too late to care, too proud to cry
I found as good as I can give
Wounded, entrenched, some life I live

It's what I am

I know I've been here before
I know I've been here before

So walk on old man
Walk on while you weep
For mankind's final fall
And your own eternal sleep
Walk on into the bright light
A new day, another day
Another day for you try
Remember in the end, you and me
We all die


9.Heart of Stone

Caught in the mirror
Why didn't you save me?
I never could do
While when I said
I'd never bend or break

I never was near you
I never concerned myself
How could I save you
When I couldn't even save myself?

Heart of stone
Heart of stone
Heart of stone
Heart of stone

You see it in my eyes?
You see it in my eyes?
You see it in my eyes?

One in a million
I couldn't save her
Well how could I save her
When I couldn't even save myself?

I never realised
What happiness could ever be
I watched your single love
Distil the weaker side of me

Heart of stone
Heart of stone
Heart of stone
Heart of stone

Can't you see it in my eyes?

How could I save her
When I couldn't even save myself?
Threw her a lifeline
Watched it sail out of reach

How could I save her
When I couldn't even save myself?
Threw her a lifeline
Watched it sail out of reach