[The Requiem]
God save us everyone
Will we burn inside the fires of a thousand suns
For the sins of our hands
Sins of our tongue
Sins of our father
The sins of our young
God save us everyone
Will we burn inside the fires of a thousand suns
For the sins of our hands
Sins of our tongue
Sins of our father
The sins of our young
[The Radiance]
"We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty, and to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form, and says, 'Now I am become d**h, the destroyer of worlds.' I suppose we all thought that, one way or another."
[Burning in the skies]
I use the deadwood to make the fire rise
The blood of innocence burning in the skies
I filled my cup with the rising of the sea
And poured it out in an ocean of debris
I'm swimming in the smoke
Of bridges I have burned
So don't apologize
I'm losing what I don't deserve
What I don't deserve
I held my breath as clouds began to form
But you were lost in the beating of the storm
But in the end we were meant to be apart
Like separate chambers of the human heart
I'm swimming in the smoke
Of bridges I have burned
So don't apologize
I'm losing what I don't deserve
It's in the blackened bones
Of bridges I have burned
So don't apologize
I'm losing what I don't deserve
What I don't deserve
I'm swimming in the smoke
Of bridges I have burned
So don't apologize
I'm losing what I don't deserve
The blame is mine alone
For bridges I have burned
So don't apologize
I'm losing what I don't deserve
What I don't deserve
What I don't deserve
What I don't deserve
I use the deadwood to make the fire rise
The blood of innocence burning in the skies
[When they come for me]
I am not a pattern to be followed
The pill that I'm on is a tough one to swallow
I'm not a criminal, not a role model
Not a born leader, I'm a tough act to follow
I am not the fortune and the fame
Or the same person telling you to forfeit the game
I came in the ring like a dog on a chain
And found out the underbelly's sicker than it seems
And it seems ugly but it can get worse
Because even a blueprint is a gift and a curse
Because once you got a theory of how the thing works
Everybody wants the next thing to be like the first
And I'm not a robot, I'm not a monkey
I will not dance even if the beat's funky
Opposite of lazy, far from a punk
Ya'll ought to stop talking and start trying to catch up motherf**er
And all the people say
Try and catch up motherf**er
Lauren said money changes situation
Big said it increase the complication
Kane said don't step I ain't the one
Chuck said an uzi weighs a motherf**ing tone
And I'm just a student of the game that they taught me
Rocking every stage in every place that they brought me
I'm awfully underrated but came here to correct it
And so it ain't mistaken I'm gonna state it for the record
I am the opposite of wack, opposite of weak
Opposite of slack synonym of heat
Synonym of crack, closest to a beat
Far from a punk
Ya'll ought to stop talking and start trying to catch up motherf**er
And all the people say
Try and catch up motherf**er
But when they come for me
Come for me, I'm gone
But when they come for me
Come for me, I'm gone
But when they come for me
Come for me, I'll be gone
And all the people say
Try to catch up motherf**er
And all the people say
Try to catch up motherf**er
[Robot boy]
You say you're not going to fight
Because no one will fight for you
That you think there's not enough love
And no one to give it to
That your sure you've hurt for so long
You've got nothing left to lose
You say your not going to fight
Because no one will fight for you
You say the weight of the world
Has kept you from letting go
And you think compa**ion's a flaw
But you'll never let it show
And your sure you've hurt in a way
That no one will ever know
But someday the weight of the world
Will give you strength to go
Hold on the weight of the world
Will give you the strength to go
So hold on the weight of the world
Will give you the strength to go
So hold on the weight of the world
Will give you the strength to go
Just hold on the weight of the world
Will give you the strength to go
[Waiting for the end]
This is not the end, this is not the beginning
Just a voice like a riot rocking every revision
But you listen to the tone and the violent rhythm
Though the words sound steady something's empty within them
We say yeah with fists flying up in the air
Like we're holding onto something that's invisible there
Because we're living at the mercy of the pain and the fear
Until we dead it, forget it let it all disappear
Waiting for the end to come
Wishing I had strength to stand
This is not what I had planned
It's out of my control
Flying at the speed of light
Thoughts were spinning in my head
So many things were left unsaid
It's hard to let you go
I know what it takes to move on
I know how it feels to lie
All I want to do
Is trade this life for something new
Holding on to what I haven't got
Sitting in an empty room
Trying to forget the past
This wasn't meant to last
I wish it wasn't so
I know what it takes to move on
I know how it feels to lie
All I want to do
Is trade this life for something new
Holding on to what I haven't got
What was left when that fire was gone
I thought it felt right but that right was wrong
All caught up in the eye of the storm
And trying to figure out what it's like moving on
And I don't even what kind of things I said
My mouth kept moving and my mind went dead
So I'm picking up the pieces, now where to begin
The hardest part of ending is starting again
All I want to do
Is trade this life for something new
Holding onto what I haven't got
I'm holding on to what I haven't got
I'm holding on to what I haven't got
This is not the end, this is not the beginning
Just a voice like a riot rocking every revision
But you listen to the tone and the violent rhythm
Though the words sound steady something's empty within them
We say yeah with fists flying up in the air
Like we're holding onto something that's invisible there
Because we're living at the mercy of the pain and the fear
Until we dead it, forget it let it all disappear
[Blackout]
I'm stuck in this bed you made
Alone with this sinking feeling
I saw through the words you said
To the secrets you've been keeping
It's written upon your face
All the lies how they cut so deeply
You can't get enough
You take and take and take
And never say no
You got to get it inside
You push it back down
You push it back down
No
You'll never get it inside
You push it back down
Blackout
Blood in your eye
You say that it's not your fault
And swear that I am mistaken
You said it's not what it seems
No remorse for the trust your breaking
You run to the back you fall
Suffocate in the mess your making
You can't get enough
You take and take and take and take and take
f** it are you listening
No
You got to get it inside
You push it back down
You push it back down
No
You'll never get it inside
You push it back down
Blackout
Blood in your eye
No
You got to get it inside
You push it back down
You push it back down
No
You'll never get it inside
You push it back down
Blackout
Blood in your eye
Blackout
Blood in your eye
You push it back down
Push it back
You push it back down
Blood in your eye
Blackout
Blood in your eye
Blackout
Blood in your eye
Blackout
Blood in your eye
Floating out as colors fill the light
We look up from the ground in fields of paper white
Floating up you pa** us in the night
The future gazing out a past to overwrite
So come down far below
We've been waiting to collect the things you know
Come down far below
We've been waiting to collect what you've let go
Come down
Come down
Come down
Come down
Come down
[Wretches and kings]
To save face
How low can you go
Talk a lot of game but yet you don't know
Fire on the way make us all say whoa
The people up top push the people down low
Get down and obey every word
Steady get in line if you haven't yet heard
Want to take what I got don't be absurd
Don't fight the power and nobody gets hurt
If you haven't heard yet than I'm letting you know
There ain't sh** we don't run when guns unload
And no one make a move unless my people say so
Got everything under control
Now everybody go
Steel unload, final blow
We the animals take control
Hear us now, clear and true
Wretches and kings
We come for you
So keep pace
How slow can you go
Talk a lot of sh** and yet you don't know
Fire on the way make you all say whoa
The people up top and the people down low
Get down and I'm running it like that
The front of the attack is exactly where I'm at
Somewhere in between the kick and the hi-hat
The pen and the contract, the pitch and the contact
So get with the combat
I'm letting them know
There ain't sh** you can say to make me back down low
So push the bu*ton and the whole thing blows
Spinning everything out of control
Now everybody go
Steel unload, final blow
We the animals take control
Hear us now, clear and true
Wretches and kings
We come for you
Steel unload, final blow
Filthy animals beat them low
Skin and bone, black and blue
No more this sun shall beat onto you
From the front to back
And the side to side
If you fear what I feel
Put them up real high
From the front to back
And the side to side
If you fear what I feel
Put them up real high
Front to back
And the side to side
If you fear what I feel
Put them up real high
Front to back
And the side to side
If you fear what I feel
Put them up real high
Front to back
And the side to side
If you fear what I feel
Put them up real high
Front to back
And the side to side
If you fear what I feel
Put them up real high
[Wisdom, Justice, and Love]
"I come to this magnificent house of worship tonight because my conscience leaves me no other choice... A true revolution of values will lay hand on the world order and say of war, 'This way of settling differences is not just.' This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous d** of hate into the veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice, and love..."
[Iridescent]
You were standing in the wake of devastation
You were waiting on the edge of the unknown
With the cataclysm raining down
Inside's crying save me now
You were there impossibly alone
Do you feel cold and lost in desperation
You build up hope but failure's all you've known
Remember all the sadness and frustration
And let it go
Let it go
And in a burst of light that blinded every angel
As if the sky had blown the heavens into stone
You felt the gravity of tempered grace
Falling into empty space
No one there to catch in their arms
Do you feel cold and lost in desperation
You build up hope but failure's all you've known
Remember all the sadness and frustration
And let it go
Let it go
Do you feel cold and lost in desperation
You build up hope but failure's all you've known
Remember all the sadness and frustration
And let it go
Let it go
Let it go
Let it go
Let it go
Do you feel cold and lost in desperation
You build up hope but failure's all you've known
Remember all the sadness and frustration
And let it go
Let it go
[Fallout]
I'm swimming through the smoke
Of bridges I have burned
So don't apologize
I'm losing what I don't deserve
It's in the blackened bones
Of bridges I have burned
So don't apologize
I'm losing what I don't deserve
I'm swimming through the smoke
Of bridges I have burned
So don't apologize
I'm losing what I don't deserve
It's in the blackened bones
Of bridges I have burned
So don't apologize
I'm losing what I don't deserve
[The Catalyst]
God bless us everyone
We're a broken people living under a loaded gun
And it can't be outfought
It can't be outdone
It can't be outmatched
It can't be outrun
No
God bless us everyone
We're a broken people living under a loaded gun
And it can't be outfought
It can't be outdone
It can't be outmatched
It can't be outrun
No
And when I close my eyes tonight
To symphonies of blinding light
(God bless everyone
We're a broken people living under a loaded gun)
Like memories in cold decay
Transmissions echoing away
Far from the world of you and I
Where oceans bleed into the sky
God save us everyone
Will we burn inside the fires of a thousand suns
For the sins of our hands
The sins of our tongue
The sins of our fathers
The sins of our young
No
God save us everyone
Will we burn inside the fires of a thousand suns
For the sins of our hands
The sins of our tongue
The sins of our fathers
The sins of our young
No
And when I close my eyes tonight
To symphonies of blinding light
(God save us everyone
Will be burn inside the fires of a thousand suns)
Like memories in cold decay
Transmissions echoing away
Far from the world of you and I
Where oceans bleed into the sky
Like memories in cold decay
Transmissions echoing away
Far from the world of you and I
Where oceans bleed into the sky
Lift me up
Let me go
16x
God bless us everyone
We're a broken people living under a loaded gun
And it can't be outfought
It can't be outdone
It can't be outmatched
It can't be outrun
No
God bless us everyone
We're a broken people living under a loaded gun
And it can't be outfought
It can't be outdone
It can't be outmatched
It can't be outrun
[The messenger]
When you feel all alone
Cut off from this cruel world
Your instincts tell you to run
Listen to your heart
Those angel voices
They'll sing to you
They'll be your guide back home
When life leaves us blind
Love keeps us kind
It keeps us kind
When you've suffered enough
And your spirit is breaking
Your growing desperate from the fight
Remember your love
And you always will be
This melody will bring you right back home
When life leaves us blind
Love keeps us kind
When life leaves us blind
Love keeps us kind