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Atreyu - Lead Sails Paper Anchor lyrics



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01. Doomsday

Go!

A rush of blood
To my head leaves me winded and wanting
To feel the weakness in my body
Beaten and crushed like my soul
I walked the streets flirting death
But I never kissed back
I'm so lucky so cursed so fucked up
But that's the way that it goes
It's the ebb and the flow
I wish that I could give you my time
Give you my time

Seems that doomsday has come early this year
The last angel has gone
I can't remember the last time I cried
The last angel has gone home

The memories stacking up
And they pull at my guts
What do I have to do to end it
The better days hacked away
Leaving me only pain
This regret is never ending
But in the blink of an eye
This life passes you by
I wish that I could give you my time
Give you my time

Seems that doomsday has come early this year
The last angel has gone
I can't remember the last time I cried
The last angel has gone home

I can't remember
I can't remember
I can't remember the last time I cried

Seems that doomsday has come early this year
The last angel has gone
I can't remember the last time I cried
The last angel has gone home

02. Honor

Resolute a stance of defiance
Always teetering on the brink
Nothing can hold you back when
When you're not holding back a thing

Open arms we embrace tomorrow
Closed fists, tarnishing today
We're not afraid to open our mouths and scream
We believe in what we say

Like a whisper to the dusk
An oath against the shadows
Denying the dark
FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT 'til the break of dawn

Like a prayer unto the dawn
In arms against the shadows
Destroying the dark
FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT 'til the break of dawn

Covered in sweat and blood
Yet still our heads held high
Actions have consequences
When you life for foolish pride

Been careful not to lose ourselves
Stand together one passion, one hate
We believe in a better tomorrow
We believe in what we say

Like a whisper to the dusk
An oath against the shadows
Denying the dark
FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT 'til the break of dawn

Like a prayer unto the dawn
In arms against the shadows
Destroying the dark
FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT 'til the break of dawn
FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT 'til the break of dawn

We'll fight out battles we'll wage our wars
Settle the scores with honor and blood
We'll wear our scars like medals of hope
Like medals of hope
Like medals of hope

We'll fight out battles we'll wage our wars
Settle the scores with honor and blood
We'll wear our scars like medals of hope
Like medals of hope
Like medals of hope

Like a whisper to the dusk
An oath against the shadows
Denying the dark
FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT 'til the break of dawn

Like a prayer unto the dawn
In arms against the shadows
Destroying the dark (whisper to the dusk)
In arms against the shadows
Destroying the dark (whisper to the dusk)
In arms against the shadows
Destroying the dark (whisper to the dusk )

FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT 'til the break of dawn
FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT 'til the break of dawn
FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT 'til the break of dawn
FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT 'til the break of dawn

03. Falling Down

You're always looking back
Runnin' from the past.
You're always sweating me about the next big heart attack
You're lookin' over your shoulder starin' down the path
(I'm fallin' down)
Fallin' down
Fallin' down

It's in your head
All the voices mistaken
Shake it off shake it off
We're all dyin' in the end

It's in your head
All the voices mistaken
Shake it off shake it off
We're all dyin' in the end

I terrorize me images so horrible,
So horrible
To clear my thoughts I drill a hole into my skull
Clean up my brains and sweep them underneath the rug
I need them more than I needed any other drug
I'm fallin' down
Fallin' down
Fallin' down

It's in your head
All the voices mistaken
Shake it off shake it off
We're all dyin' in the end

It's in your head
All the voices mistaken
Shake it off shake it off
We're all dyin' in the end

Hey, hey, hey
Come on

[Solo]

I'm fallin' down
Fallin' down
Fallin' down

It's in your head
All the voices mistaken
Shake it off shake it off
We're all dyin' in the end

It's in your head
All the voices mistaken
Shake it off shake it off
We're all dyin' in the end

04. Becoming the Bull

Come on!!!

Grab the bull by the horns the old adage goes
Nobody tells you where to go from here
Seems like fates pulling you
Decisions have to be made
The the best path is the hardest earned

Back and forth the struggle consumes us all
Trying to keep a level head
In the most unsettling of times
Today I'll become the bull

There is so much to stake
I stumble, I lose my place
Pride and arrogance surrounded by sin
Destiny takes its hold
Fight it or let it go
But I choose how the day will end

Back and forth the struggle consumes us all
Trying to keep a level head
In the most unsettling of times
Today I'll become the bull
Today I'll become the bull

This walk can get lonely
I lose myself inside my head
No one can touch you
When you're outside staring in
Remove myself from this rat race

Back and forth the struggle consumes us all
Trying to keep a level head
In the most unsettling of times
Today I'll become the bull

Today I'll become the bull
Today I'll become the bull
Today I'll become the bull
Today I'll become the bull

05. When Two Are One

Bang!
Explosions in my head that just won't quit
A train has crashed into the wall around my heart
And left the old me dead, obliterated

Stop!
My breathing in the night when you're not there
The silence ringing through my ears
And all I want to do is hear your voice
But you're not there

Drawn together
Painter's brush stoke
Sleight of hand we
We won't go up in smoke
Fates colliding
Love undying

Like the rising tide
Beating hearts grow but never die
To simplify
I'll stand by your side
Close my eyes
Hope will never die

Like the rising tide
Beating hearts grow but never die
To simplify
I'll stand by your side
Close my eyes
Hope will never die

[Solo]

Go!
And take away the pain of being me
Soothe my soul, caress my heart
And end my fear, all my bad memories
Eradicated

Ring!
Like gunshots herd against the silent night
My love is louder than these words.
They're stronger than the rest, unstoppable
Unstoppable

Drawn together
Painter's brush stoke
Sleight of hand we
We won't go up in smoke
Fates colliding
Love undying

Like the rising tide
Beating hearts grow but never die
To simplify
I'll stand by your side
Close my eyes
Hope will never die

Like the rising tide
Beating hearts grow but never die
To simplify
I'll stand by your side
Close my eyes
Hope will never die
Will never die

DIE......

Drawn together
Painter's brush stoke
Sleight of hand we
We won't go up in smoke
Fates colliding
Love undying

Like the rising tide
Beating hearts grow but never die
To simplify
I'll stand by your side
Close my eyes
Hope will never die

Like the rising tide
Beating hearts grow but never die
To simplify
I'll stand by your side
Close my eyes
Hope will never die
Will never die

DIE......

06. Lose It

Standing on the edge
Battle in my head
I'm dying to know
I'm dying to know

If I take this leap
to fail or succeed
I'm dying to know
I'm dying to know

This is it I'm shaking
My body's aching
I lose my hold
I will let go

This is it, I'm falling
My wings need to grow
I lose my hold
I will let go

There's so many roads
Pitfalls filled with doubt
I'm dying to know
I'm dying to know

Grabbing what I need
Grip until it bleeds
I'm dying to know
I'm dying to know

This is it I'm shaking
My body's aching
I lose my hold
I will let go

This is it, I'm falling
My wings need to grow
I lose my hold
I will let go

If I
If I take this, this leap
Will I be broken?
I'm dying to know

This is it I'm shaking
My body's aching
I lose my hold
I will let go

This is it, I'm falling
My wings need to grow
I lose my hold
I will let go
I will let go
I will let go!

07. No One Cares

(I'm so tired)

All riled up, I can taste the winter
I would shut up, if I thought that it mattere.

That's what it feels like
When you're stitched into the skin
I feel stuck, and no one thinks something's missing
Something's missing

No one cares, no one listens,
Screaming words that you fake hearin'.
No one cares, no one listens anymore
(No one listens anymore)

My eyes burn as I bury how I'm feelin'
Close my eyes it's my life that I've been stealing
If it's all right, why do I feel a sense of longing?
I had it all, and yet I thought that something's missin'
Something's missing

No one cares, no one listens,
Screaming words that you fake hearin'.
No one cares, no one listens anymore

No one cares, no one listens,
Screaming words that you fake hearin'.
No one cares, no one listens anymore

So paranoid I've been hiding from the sun
I'm tired of being afraid of everything and everyone
Oh, so tired

No one cares, no one listens,
Screaming words that you fake hearin'.
No one cares, no one listens anymore

No one cares, no one listens,
Screaming words that you fake hearin'.
No one cares, no one listens anymore

No one cares, no one listens,
Screaming words that you fake hearin'.
No one cares, no one listens anymore

08. Can't Happen Here

Chariots clashed in the dead of night
Subversiveness clouds the clearest of minds
Blink of an eye we're collateralized
Raised up in arms never knowing why

We get what we take when we take nothing
Pull the helmet from your eyes
We're erased and betrayed by mistakes

Does your god know my god?
This is how the world will end

And it begs the questions
When bullets cloud the sky
Taking away the pain of
Thinking for ourselves

Demons beat down
They beat down our doors
And it begs the question
Could this scene be real
Stealing away our children
Taking away our dreams!

We get what we take when we take nothing
Pull the helmet from your eyes
We're erased and betrayed by mistakes

Does your god know my god?
This is how the world will end
Does your god know my god?
This is how the world will end

[Solo]

We get what we take when we take nothing
Pull the helmet from your eyes
We're erased and betrayed by mistakes

Does your god know my god?
This is how the world will end
Does your god know my god?
This is how the world will end

Does your god know my god?
This is how the world will end
Does your god know my god?
This is how the world will end

09. Slow Burn

It begins with a dark glowing ember
Something black burning it's way out of me
Searing the flesh
Pain is the only thing I feel
Scars all I see

Oh no the fire's burning my insides again
What can I do to silence my desire tonight?
Flames consuming reason leaving only ashes left
You will catch me for regretting my decision

I can't keep telling myself
What I want to hear
I can't just close my eyes

I know that it's killing me
And it's poisoning the best in me
But I say, I don't want to believe
What I see, I don't want to believe
So let me tell you more (tell you more)
About the lies I lead

That is how I choose to douce the flames in gasoline
Broken teeth replace the blackout memories in my head
Wreckage from the past haunts me, shake me to the bone
I know it's over but I can't go home tonight

But after this I feel as empty as the night before
Feel the pain and yet I'm still begging for more
Masochistic, nihilistic, urging backward thought
My life's a mess and I can't find a way to fix it

I can't keep telling myself
What I want to hear
I can't just close my eyes
(My eyes, my eyes, my fucking eyes)

I know that it's killing me
And it's poisoning the best in me
What I see, I don't want to believe
So let me tell you more (tell you more)
About the lies I lead

Calling, calling out
The darkest reaches of my soul
Are riddled with self-doubt
Crawling, crawling out
My will to fight will more than suffice
When others would lay down

It's only as dark as you make it

I know that it's killing me
And it's poisoning the best in me
What I see, I don't want to believe
So let me tell you more (tell you more)
About the lies I lead

10. Blow

So fuckin' blow those words out the back of your head
I've heard it all and I'm done with that shit
You tell me lies, and you get what you get
So blow those fuckin' words out the back of your head

Oh my god did you just hear
Lies are coming back in style?
Oh my god this seems so real
That they find you and confine you

So shut your mouth, we've heard it all
Hypocrite's and critics all
Can fuck off we do this for
Our souls, our souls

What they say, won't make us go away

So fuckin' blow those words out the back of your head
I've heard it all and I'm done with that shit
You tell me lies, and you get what you get
So blow those fuckin' words out the back of your head

We're not sorry and we won't conform
It's not our choice but something inborn
If we fail followin' are heart
Can you blame us? (No, no, no)

A square peg in a black hole
We don't fit in that's the way it goes
You should of not thought you're better than us
'Cause you're not
(No, no, no)

What they say, won't make us go away

So fuckin' blow those words out the back of your head
I've heard it all and I'm done with that shit
You tell me lies, and you get what you get
So blow those fuckin' words out the back of your head

So fuckin' blow those words out the back of your head
I've heard it all and I'm done with that shit
You tell me lies, and you get what you get
So blow those fuckin' words out the back of your head
Blow those fuckin' words out the back of your head

Tell yourself you're not alone at all
(Looking out your window, know you're all alone)
Oh, tell yourself you're not alone at all. (At all)
(Staring out your window, know you're alone)

[Solo]

What they say, won't make us go away
Go away, go away, go away

So fuckin' blow those words out the back of your head
I've heard it all and I'm done with that shit
You tell me lies, and you get what you get
So blow those fuckin' words out the back of your head

So fuckin' blow those words out the back of your head
I've heard it all and I'm done with that shit
You tell me lies, and you get what you get
So blow those fuckin' words out the back of your head
Blow those fuckin' words out the back of your head
(Of your head, of your head, of your head)
Yea!

11. Lead Sails (And A Paper Anchor)

Marching alone, like a good soldier does
I'm setting sail, with anchors holding me down
Pack up my bags, stow them away
I'm bidding farewell to all that is safe

Will I come up for air, come up for air
After awhile the current is calling me
Lulling me, waving goodbye
I'm out here alone, oh God can you save me now?
Sinking my heart turns to stone

Withering away, a shrinking violet dies
So full of life, these lights have dried me out
Into the sea, I needed a drink
I never thought this would consume me whole

Will I come up for air, come up for air
After awhile the current is calling me
Lulling me, waving goodbye
I'm out here alone, oh God can you save me now?
Sinking my heart turns to stone
(I turn to stone)
Sinking my heart turns to stone

Save me, take me home
Over and over again
Save me, take me home
Wishing that this all would end

Save me, take me home
Over and over again
Save me, take me home
Wishing that this all would end

After awhile the current is calling me
Lulling me, waving goodbye
I'm out here alone, oh God can you save me now?
Sinking my heart turns to stone
After awhile the current is calling me
Lulling me, waving goodbye
I'm out here alone, oh God can you save me now?
Sinking my heart turns to stone
Sinking my heart turns to stone

Save me take me home
When I come up for air
Save me take me home
When I come up for air
Save me take me home
Over and over again
Save me take me home
Wishing that all this would end