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Alter Bridge - AB III lyrics



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01. Slip To The Void

Slip to the void
To the dark
To the fall
Crawl to the life you shouldn't know
You should never come this way
To test the hands of fate
You don't belong here

Peel back the skin
Close your eyes
Hell is born
To the abyss but be warned
You feel what you've become
My God what have you done
You don't belong here

But it's all in the way you touch and you obey denial
But it's all in the way you touch and you obey denial

Sever the ties
Trip the wire
Dig your hole
Doubt is alive and you know
You were once lead to believe
You were young and so naive
But now no longer

But it's all in the way you turned your back today
Left to face this alone
Left to die with nothing you can hold
Left to break in the cold
In the void that you made
The moment you let love go

Try to win back your days
You let them all escape your heart
Now that you've come so far
Why did you have to fall so hard
Look at what you've done
What have you become

Left to face this alone
Left to die with nothing you can hold
Left to break in the cold
In the void that you made
The moment you let love go
You let love go
You let love go
You let love go

02. Isolation

When all is lost to you inside
When all the darkness takes the light
The ritual it has begun
And now you tear away from everyone
Disconnected so alone yeah
Severed ties from all you know

Isolation Brings you to the end
Until you love again
Isolation If you could only see
What will come to be
Yeah!

Justify you waste away
You dare to dream but still you're too afraid
And now you're broken and deceived
Lost to live this cruel reality
You're disconnected so alone
Severed ties from all you know

Isolation Brings you to the end
Until you love again
Isolation If you could only see
What will come to be
Yeah!

Maybe you'll stand
Maybe you'll give and break to find another way
And make things better
Maybe you'll find
A life you can live and learn to love along the way
And make things better
And make things better

Isolation Brings you to the end
Until you love again
Isolation If you could only see
What will come to be
Yeah!

Isolation Brings you to the end
Until you love again
Isolation If you could only see
What will come to be

You're disconnected so alone
What will come to be?
You're disconnected so alone

03. Ghost Of Days Gone By

The misery I know
Like a friend that won't let go
Is creeping up on me now once again

So I sing this song tonight
To the ghost that will not die
And somehow seems to haunt me till the end

Do you feel the same
For what once remained
Yesterday is gone, we can't go back again
Do you ever cry for the Ghost of Days Gone By

I remember summer days
We were young and unafraid
With innocence we'd glide beneath the stars

It seems so long ago
Beyond the life that I now know
Before the years would have their way and break my heart

Do you feel the same
For what once remained
Yesterday is gone, we can't go back again
Do you ever cry for the Ghost of Days Gone By

And I know it's drawing closer
With each day I fear the end
And I... don't wanna die
Don't wanna die, don't wanna die

I don't wanna die

Do you feel the same
For what once remained
Yesterday is gone, we can't go back again
Do you ever cry for the days gone by
Do they haunt you like a ghost until the end
Haunt you till the end, until the end
Until the end, until the end

04. All Hope Is Gone

A tireless stream of indifference flows
Through veins till the river runs dry.
I no longer care I have all but disposed
Of dreams that I once held inside

Desire is gone after all of these years
The fight has been lost I concede
The apathy born a long time ago
Has grown to what I can't defeat
No

I've been here too long
I'm tired and longing for more
How long must I run
To find what I'm looking for
All hope is gone.

The sadness I carry
So deep in my heart for what could have been and might be
It's never forgotten it's never too far
I'm wasted so worn and so weak

I've been here too long
I'm tired and longing for more
How long must I run
To find what I'm looking for
All hope is gone

Ah...
All hope is gone.

I've been here too long
I'm tired and longing for more
How long must I run
To find what I'm looking for
I've been here too long
I'm tired and longing for more
All hope is gone

05. Still Remains

I cast a line when I saw you were drowning
Still you turn your back on me
Pull you from the fire when you are burning
Still you never could believe

So carry on
If you must go your way
Though it breaks my heart
Your free will still remains
Oh

Hey

Save you from your fall when you were slipping
Still you broke from me to run
So how can you justify the life you're living

You must carry on
If you must go your way
Though it breaks my heart
Your free will still remains
Oh

You'll deny it all
You'll deny me once again
But I've seen it all
I know you'll come to crawl
Back to me before the end.

Carry on
If you must go your way
Though it breaks my heart
Your free will still remains

So carry on
If you must go your way
Though it breaks my heart
Your free will still remains
Still remains

06. Make It Right

How many times have you cut
Only to feel no pain?
How many days have you run
Only to crawl?

How many nights did you scream
Only to scream in vain?
How many years till you face
The shame of it all?

Into the fire you fall
If only you could make it right
Stand up and fight for resolve
If only you can make it right

How many lies did you steal
Just to convince the fool?
How many masks did you wear
Disguised and removed?

How many years till you break
All that keeps breaking you?
How many tears will you waste
While finding the truth?

Into the fire you fall
If only you could make it right
Stand up and fight for resolve
If only you can make it right

Into the fire you fall
If only you could make it right
Stand up and fight for resolve
If only you can make it right

There comes a time (Oh)
When one must decide (Oh)
The life they are living is far from true
Lost and deceived (Oh)
Nothing to believe (Oh)
I know I have so much I have yet to prove (prove)
I've yet to prove (prove)

Into the fire you fall
If only you could make it right
Stand up and fight for resolve
If only you can make it right

Into the fire you fall
If only you could make it right
Stand up and fight for resolve
If only you can make it right
(Ooooohhhh yeahhhh...)

(There will come a time
Only you can make it right
Only you can make it right)

07. Wonderful Life

Yeah...
Close your eyes and just hear me sing
One last long good bye
One last song before you spread your wings
There's so much left to say
And before this moment slips away

What a wonderful life
For as long as you've been at my side
And I want you to know
I loved you so

The cold night calls
And the tears fall like rain
It's so hard letting go
Of the one thing I'll never replace
And soon you will be gone
But these words they will live on
Ohhhhh

What a wonderful life
For as long as you've been at my side
And I want you to know
I'll miss you so
And though our days come to an end
Know I'll never love like this again
What a wonderful life
My friend

And all that I am you let me be
I will remember you
For all that you've done
And given to me
Oh love will remain
This I concede
Now and forever more
Because of you now I believe
I believe

What a wonderful life
For as long as you've been at my side
And I want you know
I loved you so
What a wonderful life
For as long as you've been at my side
And I want you to know
I'll miss you so

And though our days come to an end
Know I'll never love like this again
What a wonderful life

And with one last embrace
As the tears fall like rain you're gone
And with one last goodbye
As you fade out tonight you're gone.
Oh...

08. I Know It Hurts

And you say this ain't living
You say you can't go on
They only take as you're given
And now your hope is all but gone

Though you lost your way (now is not forever)
But I know your pain

We all fall sometimes you're not the first
But I know it hurts
Yeah I know it hurts

In the end you'll find what you deserve
Still I know it hurts
Yeah I know it hurts
Ohhhh...

And the tide's only rising
The storm is on it's way... yeah
But you can't keep on fighting
So battleworn and so afraid

Though it's sad and wrong
I hope you will remember
That you must carry on

We all fall sometimes you're not the first
But I know it hurts
Yeah I know it hurts

In the end you'll find what you deserve
Still I know it hurts
Yeah I know it hurts

There's still tomorrow
Hold on
Hold on
There's still tomorrow
Just wait
Just wait
There's still tomorrow
Hold on
Hold on

We all fall sometimes you're not the first
But I know it hurts
Yeah I know it hurts
In the end you'll find what you deserve
Still I know it hurts
Yeah I know it hurts

09. Show Me A Sign

A trail of tears beyond redemption
Just a word and nothing more no more
I must reveal I am falling
To the dark I now am born

So if you hear this cry
Show me a sign give me meaning
Leave me to life let me know
Why all the lies I'm believing
Have lead me so far far from home

Gutting anguish not forgotten
Eternal life will not be mine tonight
But if I wake to find perdition
This I know the fault is mine
This I know your fault is mine

So if you hear this cry
Show me a sign give me meaning
Leave me to life let me know
Why all the lies I'm believing
Have lead me so far far from home

And the fire inside is gone
And all that I once had is lost
To the darkness I am born

A trail of tears beyond redemption
Just a word and nothing more
I must reveal that I'm falling
To the dark I now am born

Show me a sign give me meaning
Leave me to life let me know
Why all the lies I'm believing
Have lead me so far far from home

Oh...

10. Fallout

Another rebel runs against the grain
A loner is born
He's filled with anguish
Deep within he's dying everyday
To find his way
He is lost
So consumed

Can you feel him?
Somewhere in the fallout
He is someone just like you
Who's lost to find the truth
Can you hear him?
From afar he cries out
For the answer to be shown
As he dares to walk the fallout on his own

So frustrated
He walks the line alone
Courage sets him apart
He is so faithless
All he once embraced he now disowns
He let it go
All the while
He still waits

Can you feel him?
Somewhere in the fallout
He is someone just like you
Who's lost to find the truth
Can you hear him?
From afar he cries out
For the answer to be shown
As he dares to walk the fallout on his own

Left behind he's walking burning still he tries
To unearth the meaning to this life
Cast aside he's weary bleeding to behold
Disconnected still he fights for truth alone

Can you feel him?
Somewhere in the fallout
He is someone just like you
Who's lost to find the truth
Can you hear him?
From afar he cries out
For the answer to be shown
As he dares to walk the fallout on his own

11. Breathe Again

Ah...
I have played the part
I have all but lost my soul
And I have sacrificed for what it's worth I just don't know
In the silence of my heart
There is a distant call
Yeah...
It beckons me to stand apart.

So I set out on my own
Just to breath again
Touch the light that calls me home
Just to reach the end
Where I'm free to breathe again

Oh...
Through the suffering through the misery and pain
Never anything but the will to see the day
Yeahh...
When the promise might be born
Light the spark within
Yeahh...
Cause I can't take it anymore.

So I set out on my own
Just to breath again
Touch the light that calls me home
Just to reach the end
Well I'm free to breathe again.

Well I am free to roam
And set out on my own
To rise above the hands that try to hold me down
Before the end
I know I'll breathe again to find my way

So I set out on my own
Just to breath again
Touch the light that calls me home
Just to reach the end
I'm leaving today...

12. Coeur D' Alene

When all the lights are faded
The encore's come and gone
And I can't take this no more
Well I can't keep pretending
I just can't play the part
I need the solace of her shores

Coeur d'Alene is calling out
And it won't be long
Coeur d'Alene I'm coming now
Will I still belong

I look into the mirror
I don't know who I am
A life so torn apart
I still long for the simple
I'm just a common man
Ye with this aching heart

Coeur d'Alene is calling out
And it won't be long
Coeur d'Alene I'm coming now
Will I still belong

Safe at last in your arms
I'm safe at last in your arms

Coeur d'Alene is calling out
Where its water is calm
Coeur d'Alene I'm coming now
And it won't be long
And it won't be long
And it won't be long

Safe at last
(and it won't be long)
I'm safe at last
(and it won't be long)

13. Life Must Go On

Sitting alone in the cold of the night
You're trying to find what you need to survive
You're so afraid
You can't go on
Left in the silence that tears at your heart
It only reminds you how broken you are
You lost your way
But hope is not gone

Cause the sun always sets
The moon always falls
It feels like the end
Just pay no mind at all
And keep rolling
Rolling
Life must go on

Do you remember and long for the past
When love was eternal and joy seemed to last
Yesterday
Forever is gone

Cause the sun always sets
The moon always falls
It feels like the end
Just pay no mind at all
And keep rolling
Rolling
Life must go on
It must go on

We have our misfortunes
The darkest of days
But we must endure
And keep strong
Just look to the morning
The promise awaits
And know that this life must go on

And the sun always sets
The moon always falls
It feels like the end
Just pay no mind at all
And keep rolling
Rolling
Life must go on

And the sun always sets
The moon always falls
It feels like the end
Just pay no mind at all
And keep rolling
Keep rolling
Life must go on
It must go on

Life must go on
Life must go on
(When you feel you're awake)
So you keep holding on
Keep holding on
(We all have our mistakes)
Life must go on
Life must go on
So you keep holding on
Keep holding on

14. Words Darker Than Their Wings

You say you are right
I hope that I'm wrong
I know that you've tried
But still it is gone

Just don't you lose hope
I swear I'd never dream that we're alone
Now don't you let go
I swear I still believe though I don't know

Remember the years
And I still walk tall
I only fear
Now I only crawl

How could I be wrong
I hope there comes a day your fear is gone
How could we be lost
Lost just cease to be not carry on

Into the light may you fall
Into the light may you follow
Into the light may you know
Truth alone

Into the light may you fall
Into the light may you follow
Into the light may you know
Truth alone
Truth alone

You can rise or run

Go never to ask why or to fear again
Go find your peace tonight
Go set out towards the sun
Let the new begin
Go soon your day will come

Your day will come

Into the light may you fall
Into the light may you follow
Into the light may you know
Truth alone

Into the light may you fall
Into the light may you follow
Into the light may you know
Truth alone
Truth alone

Truth alone
Truth alone
Truth alone

15. Zero

Now there is a light in the dark some will say
There is a grace up high
There is a beauty that some can behold
Not I. Not I.
There is a power that's felt from the shore
There is a force that won't break
But all of these things to me are no more
I've changed. I've changed.

What in the hell have you done
Cast aside all that you love
Sorrows you never out run

Zero.
Nothing for you's ever good enough
Zero
Nothing makes you whole

How many times have you felt all alone
How many tears have you cried
Called out in vain for a god to behold
Inside. Inside
How many fires you let die in your heart
How many storms must you face
Left out to fight for yourself in the cold
No faith. No faith.

So nothing to lean on this time
Nothing is left to decide
All that you've known you deny

Zero
Nothing for you's ever good enough
Zero
Nothing makes you whole
Zero
Nothing for you's ever good enough
Zero
Nothing makes you whole

Go now surrender
You can't take no more
And just cry out
Surrender your faith is no more

What in the hell have you done
Cast aside all that you love
Sorrows you never out run
Just look what you have become.

Zero
Nothing for you's ever good enough
Zero
Nothing makes you whole
Zero
Nothing for you's ever good enough
Zero
Nothing makes you whole

16. Home

Hope
The only thing that we have left to hold
In a world gone mad there's nowhere left to go
Where nothing lasts there's permanence I know

Is there something I can say?
To bring back what once remained
Where is all that we let go?
Where is home?

Doubt [echos]
From inside I hear it calling out
Tearing at the truth it must be found
In the end it only brings me down

Is there something I can say?
To bring back what once remained
Where is all that we let go?
Where is home?

If you need a reason a reason tonight
To cast every doubt from your heart and from your mind
Look to tomorrow and maybe you'll find
Something more. Something more.

Is there something I can say?
To bring back what once remained
Where is all that we let go?
Where is home?

17. Never Born To Follow

I know you feel it tonight
She's a million miles from the life
Never to return
She left it all behind

If only I could have known
The things she held in her soul
She harbored so much hurt
She faced the world alone

She dropped out and just tore herself away
She was never born to follow
Dropped out of a world she couldn't take
She was never born to follow

Into this life she was born
A firefly in the storm
And god how she would burn
She needed so much more

She never said good-bye
So it came as no surprise
I always feared the worst
A peace she had to find (?)

She dropped out and just tore herself away
She was never born to follow
Dropped out of a world she couldn't take
She was never born to follow

What else could be said
What else could be done
Life has slipped away
Should have could have over come
Still I miss her face
Brighter than the sun
She had to find her way
She dared to dream
She dared to run

She dropped out and just tore herself away
She was never born to follow
Dropped out of a world she couldn't take
She was never born to follow