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Zeal & Ardor - Stranger Fruit lyrics



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01. Intro

We all heard the stories
Bring it to your knees
Ain't no lord gonna help you know

02. Gravedigger's Chant

Bring the dead body down to the graveyard now
Bring the dead down low, down low
Bring the dead body down to the graveyard, sir
Bring the dead down low, down low

Watch yourself
You can't run
You can't hide
Stay with me
You can't run
You can't hide
Watch yourself

Bring the dead body down
Bring the dead body down
Bring the dead body down
Bring the dead body down

Bring the dead man's shoes to the seashore, child
Bring the dead man's shoes down low
Bring the dead man's shoes to the seashore, child
Bring the old man's shoes down low

Watch yourself
You can't run
You can't hide
Stay with me
You can't run
You can't hide
Watch yourself

Bring the dead body down
Bring the dead body down
Bring the dead body down
Bring the dead body down

(Lord have mercy)
Lord don't have mercy for you
(Lord have mercy)
Lord don't have mercy for you
Watch yourself
(Lord have mercy)
Watch yourself
(Lord have mercy)
Watch yourself
(Lord have mercy)
Lord don't have mercy for you

Bring the dead body down
(Lord have mercy)
Bring the dead body down
(Lord have mercy)
Bring the dead body down
(Lord have mercy)
Bring the dead body down

Wash the dead man clothes in the creek now, child
Wash the clothes till the creek turn red
Wash the dead man clothes in the creek now, child
Wash the clothes till the creek turn red

Bring the dead body down
Watch yourself
Bring the dead body down
Watch yourself
Bring the dead body down
Watch yourself
Bring the dead body down
Watch yourself
Lord don't have mercy for you
Lord don't have mercy for you
Lord don't have mercy for you

03. Servants

Mama gonna cry gonna steal their horse
So we all join them in a hearse
Papa gonna die
Gonna steal their horse
So we all set fire to the woods

No grace, say the beast's own name
Left hand up by the end of the day
Many gonna die where the sun don't shine
When the servants have their way

Servants
Join us

Blood gonna flow
Gonna steal their horse
So we're making our way to the woods

God don't know
Gonna steal their horse
So we're all gonna take our fate

There's no grace, say the beast's own name
Left hand up by the end of the day
Many gonna die where the sun don't shine
When the servants have their way

Servants
Join us

Servants
Join us

Oh whoa
Oh whoa whoa
Oh oh whoa oh whoa
Oh oh whoa oh whoa
[continues in the background]

Now listen here, you can join us
Or you can die in the fire
No way that you're coinless
This is the end of the line
When the servants have their way

Many gonna hurt when they feel their burn
Cuz they only set fire to the woods

Many gonna hurt when they feel their burn
Because they only set fire to the woods

There's no grace, say the beast's own name
Left hand up by the end of the day
Many gonna die when the dead men fly
And the servants have their way

Servants
Join us

Servants
Join us

04. Don't You Dare

orning might never come around these parts sun never gonna come up
Morning might never come around these parts sun never gonna come up
(Sun never gonna come up)
Morning might never come around these parts sun never gonna come up
(Sun never gonna come up)
Morning might never come around these parts sun never gonna come up
(Sun never gonna come up)
Morning might never come around these parts sun never gonna come up
(Sun never gonna come up)
Morning might never come around these parts sun never gonna come up
(Sun never gonna come up)
Morning might never come around these parts sun never gonna come up
(Sun never gonna come up)
Morning might never come around these parts sun never gonna come

[Metal screaming]

Don't you dare, look away boy
Don't you dare, look away now
(Does it hurt too hard)
Don't you dare, look away boy
(Is it not too dark)
Don't you dare, look away child
(If you like your life)
Don't you dare, look away boy
(For the fight to live)
Don't you dare, look away now
(If you like your life)
Don't you dare, look away boy
(For the fight to live)
Don't you dare, look away
Sun never gonna come up!
"To the detractors or the accusers or the people of the other side, I would say that they would make ideal human sacrifices"

[Incomprehensible metal singing]
Bellator Halli Rha
Sun never gonna come up
Bellator Halli Rha

Don't you dare, look away boy
(For the fight to live)
Don't you dare, look away now
(If you like your life)
Don't you dare, look away boy
(For the fight to live)
Don't you dare, look away
(If you like your life)

05. Fire Of Motion

Streaks of blood are turning somber
I turn like the end of summer
And when we'll face to the east
To bring the best to the beast

I'll be the best of the bastion
I'll be the best that they control
I'll be the best of the bastion
Face to the east

Streaks of blood are turning somber
I turn like the end of summer
And when we'll face to the east
To bring the best to the beast

I'll be the best of the bastion
I'll be the best that they control
I'll be the best of the bastion
Face to the east

06. The Hermit

[Instrumental]

07. Row Row

Row Row you're never gonna go
Shapeless forms you didn't even know
Now Lord behold they're taking me below
Cast my name in the salt and stone
Now Row Row you're never gonna go
Shapeless forms you didn't even know
Lord behold they're taking me below
Cast my name in salt and stone

Take my name (You ain't ever get me)
And take my life (You ain't ever gonna leave)
Take my name (You're never gonna get me)
And take my life (You ain't ever gonna leave)

Row Row you're never gonna go
Shapeless forms you didn't even know
Lord behold they're taking me below
Cast my name in the salt and stone

We are are the last of the legion!
The last of the bastion!
We are the best of the bastards!
Enslaved to none!

I lost it all!...

Row, row
Row you fool!
Row row
Row you fool!

Row Row you're never gonna go
Shapeless forms you didn't even know
Now Lord behold they're taking me below
Cast in my name in the salt and stone

Row Row never gonna go
Left this place now you're back for more
Lord behold they're taking me below
Cast my name in salt and stone

We are are the last of the legion!
The last of the bastion!
We are the best of the bastards!
Enslaved to none!

Row, row
Row you fool!
Row row
Row you fool!

Row Row never gonna go
Left this place now you're back for more
Lord behold they're taking me below
Cast my name in the salt and stone

08. Ship On Fire

I come in the breath of the dead
Bathing in my papa's blood
Bare-boned and covered in red
Waiting on that evening flood

And I came on a ship on fire
To the seas you call your home
Climbed down from the highest spire
I disappear with the ocean foam

I collect all the things that I need
I collect all the things that I need
I collect all the things that I need

I came in the name of the dead
To bring my neck to the blade
Come down while the tempest's fled

(Milon irago lamal)

We got seven different letters in seven row
They go widdershins, sideways, vertical
Collected by the old man tied to the seaside
By the woman tied to the grave

I come in the name of the dead
Bathing in my papa's blood
Bare-boned and covered in red
Waiting on that even in the flood

I came in the name of the dead
To bring my neck to the blade
Come down while the tempest's fled

(Milon irago lamal)

We got seven different letters in seven row
They go widdershins, sideways, vertical
Collected by the old man tied to tied to the grave

(Milon irago lamal)

Nobody waiting on you
You better run, son
Nobody waiting on you
You better run, son
Nobody waiting on you
You better run, son
Nobody waiting on you
You better run

(Doreh orire rinir eriro herod milon irago lamal
Doreh orire rinir eriro herod milon irago lamal)

We got seven different letters in seven row
They go widdershins, sideways, vertical
Collected by the old man tied to the seaside
Grave

(Milon irago lamal)

Nobody waiting on you
You better run, son
Nobody waiting on you
You better run, son

(Doreh orire rinir eriro herod milon irago lamal)

You better run

(Doreh orire rinir eriro herod milon irago lamal)

You better run

09. Waste

Set fire to the right hand
For the death of a billion
Set fire to the right hand

Take a knife to the left hand
Gotta let go with me
Take a knife on the left hand
Feel the ire

All is wasted!
[Metal screaming]

Go with the fire
Go ahead go leave me
Go with the fire
Go ahead go leave me

[Metal screaming]

10. You Ain't Coming Back

These stairs don't have anywhere to lead you
Who cares if you're lost like the others?
Don't let anybody step into the circle now
Don't let anybody tell you that you're safe
All these days gonna pass like a grass fire
Don't let anybody tell you that you're safe
One of these days I'mma head for the last mile
Don't let anybody tell you that you're...
These are the eyes that saw them die
These are the hands that dug their graves
So don't let anybody tell you that you're safe
So don't let anybody tell you that you're safe

You gotta let go, let go, let
You gotta let go, let go, child
You gotta let go, let go, let
You gotta let go, let go

Who dares to come in to where I'm standing?
The rude stares just as empty as you are
Although not everybody died and gone to heaven, child
So don't let anybody tell you that you're...
All these days gonna pass like a grass fire
Don't let anybody tell you that you're safe
One of these days I'mma head for the last mile
So don't let anybody tell you that you're safe
These are the eyes that saw them die
These are the hands that dug their graves
So don't let anybody tell you that you're safe
So don't let anybody tell you that you're safe

You gotta let go, let go, let
You gotta let go, let go, child
You gotta let go, let go, let
You gotta let go, let go

Tell your family you ain't coming back (let go, let go)
Look at your home for the last time (let go, let go)
Tell your brother that you're gonna die (let go, let go)
And nothing known you're gonna be awhile (let go, let go)

Tell your family you ain't coming back
Look at your home for the last time
Tell your brother that you're gonna die
But don't let anybody tell you that's you're safe

You gotta let go, let go, let
You gotta let go, let go, child
You gotta let go, let go, let
You gotta let go, let go

11. The Fool

[Instrumental]

12. We Can't Be Found

Don't you come looking for us
We can't be found
Don't you come looking for us
We can't be found

Pray to the dark one (Pray to the sun god)
The saints gonna bleed (Holy ghost's gonna bleed)
Pray to the dark one (Pray to the sun god)
The saints gonna bleed (Holy ghost's gonna bleed)

Warte nicht auf die Antwort
Sie kommt, sie kommt

Don't you come looking for us
We can't be found
Wir brauchen Blut für den neuen Gott (blood for the new god)
Blut für den neuen Gott (blood for the new god)

Blut für den neuen Gott
Blut für den neuen Gott

Warte nicht auf die Antwort
Blood for the new god

13. Stranger Fruit

Stranger fruit
How it grows and grows
We all saw the shoot
But we tend to the rose

Stranger fruit
Is a plant of the well
Flesh so bitter
It pick itself

Stranger fruit
With a beckoning call
From crown to the root
This tree won't fall

Stranger fruit
Got holes in flesh
But it ain't gonna spoil
'Cause it never holds fresh

There's a storm out there
There's a storm out there
They're out somewhere
There's a storm out there

There's a storm out there
There's a storm out there
They're out somewhere
There's a storm out there

There ain't no shelter for us
There ain't no shelter for us
There's no shelter for us
Ain't no shelter for us

They're out looking for ya
They're out looking for ya
Out there looking for ya
Out there looking for ya

14. Solve

[Instrumental]

15. Coagula

Solve coagula...

16. Built On Ashes

Like a strange fruit, that's out of season, ooh...
You are bound to die alone
You will swing free on the breeze then, ooh...
You are bound to die alone (you are bound to die alone)
At the end of the day, you went for lights out, ooh...
You are bound to die alone, ooh...
At the end of it all there is no doubt, ooh...
That you are bound to die alone (we are bound to die alone)

Don't darling die on me now (don't darling die on me now)
We'll dig a grave close to your home (we'll dig a grave close to your home)
Don't you fix your eyes on me now (don't you fix your eyes on me now)
We never said you'd come back home (we never said you'd come back home)

They're coming closer to kill us
Don't cry, don't cry on me now
No they ain't ever goin' to help us
Close to his grave, we'll build our home
They're coming closer just to kill us
Don't you fix your eyes on me now
You know they never goin' help us
We never said you'd come back home
End of the way when the thieves tell, ooh...
You are bound to die alone, ooh...
At the end of it all when the fields burn, ooh...
You are bound to die alone, ooh... (we are bound to die alone)

Now god, heaven die, and die on me now, ooh...
And we'll dig a grave close to our home, ooh...
Don't you fix your eyes, don't you fix your eyes on me now
We never said you'd come back home (we never said you'd come back home)

Don't darling die on me now (don't darling die on me now)
We'll dig the grave close to your home (we'll dig the grave close to your home)
Don't you fix your eyes on me now (don't you fix your eyes on me now)
We never said you'd come back home (we never said you'd come back home)