Lyrics
thegodmachine (July 19, 2011)
thegodmachine: THE SPEAKING STONE
trembling in the shadow of your creation your knees grow weak/watch my eyes beam with gold and you’ll keep coming back/if you fixate your desire upon me you’ll give me breath with your lungs/feed me living!/i am what you fashioned, your praise gives me power/with it I will devour you
BAD BLOOD
grieve that your body’s so worm eaten inside/crawling with infection, fed by your lies/drop into your pit you dug with your pride/now you’re nothing but a slave/you polish yourself as if you were a monument/reaching high like a tower to hell and the ground concedes/pulled from the earth like rotting roots/purge the demons/draining your veins/pride in your heart deceives you/dragged from the depths of a dying world/purge the demons draining your veins/pride in your heart deceives you/keep your teeth before your tongue/or you’ll claw for divinity/your filthy rags: a disgusting crown/the offspring of an unhealed wound/you wear your skin like a scoured corpse/after you heave you return like a dog/you had love but your heart is not your own/grace is not beyond you but you walked away/the heavens will expose you…/hell bent on destruction/hell bent on escape/show us there’s no where to hide/show us fear
A PATTERN IN PAIN
as i charge the bloody fields waiting for your hands to pierce the depths/the world is stirring yet you keep silent to me/this battle shakes the ground, but your voice could split the earth/the world is stirring yet you keep silent to me/eternity will never be long enough with you/when every step i take feels so worn/if heralds of glory sing the minute life begins to fade/then death is just a bridge between us/see the enemy line the hills so hide my fears from me/the world is stirring yet you keep silent to me/like a burning wound it kills me that i haven’t heard you in years/the world is stirring yet you keep silent/all i am is a scar-laden body from those years you were gone/now You appear to me/faced with suffering death You restore this porous heart that bleeds every time it beats/Your suture lives in me/there must be something You wished me to see, a pattern in this pain/i see a pattern, i see You in this pain/i’ve waited for years for what a brush with death has shown me/i will trust in Your grace that speaks of the end/as my life begins to fade i know Your blood was the bridge, the bridge between us/Your blood was the bridge between us
I AM THE LION
son of Mine, can you hear the sound of this repetition as clockwork/I’m always peeling back your skin to rip the legions from your heart/every scar you leave yourself is a jewel in the making/I would give new passion yet you’ve turned your back/like a devil of details cut your throat you’re so addicted/you’ll swing the hammer and I’ll turn your nails to Gold/you will know My voice when the hair on your neck stands up/I opened this door, and I will bring the End/all gives way and all will fall to their knees and beg for grace/son of Mine these letters I swear have not been burnt/my heart a child trembling in sight of his wake/is longing to rest in the hollow of Your hand/i know now what it is to be helpless like a foot on my neck to the ground/i’m longing to rest in the hollow of Your hand/here I am/I await you/you will know My voice/here I am/I AM THE LION/clear the path/I am the Lion/you brood of snakes/I am the Lion
FROM ONE END OF THE SKY TO THE OTHER
part the dark sky that keeps me from Your eyes/even as the darkness descends/my cry came to Your ears/as my heroes fail me/they leave me to fend on my own/my cry came to Your ears/the earth withers beneath me/i’m always looking towards the clouds/i know we are not alone/can’t help but feel You in my bones/when all is dead and gone Your love will still remain/from one end of the sky to the other you burn your banner/cords of the grave, snares of death cannot take me from You/i see the eyes of the empty/they form an eclipse above me/until i find safety in Your memory/safety in Your memory/safety in Your memory/safety in the memory of Your faithfulness/bright lights are breaking through the sky/dark clouds are pouring from Your feet/seas and valleys all run dry/so reach through the sky and capture me/my cry came to Your ears/your love saved no mercy for Yourself
LEGACY
CROWNS
draw your depiction/stars become scars in the palm of Your hand bridged by blood/your blood paints the paragon of unrequited love/do you remember pain followed by reassurance and the light shining through/bearing the poise of a Redeemer choking the shadows defeating death/providence: laid out before us/a father’s arms reaching as/the nations will hear a new song/as we’re lead to the water/the nations will hear a new song/as we’re lead to the water/give us discernment/doors that glow at the sound of forerunners’ words/we are empty until you sit at the throne of our hearts/break us free; unshackled from our dire condition/ we have hope/kings of earth bow down lose your crowns/kings of earth bow down lose your crowns/bow/the nations will hear a new song/as we’re lead to the water/the nations will hear a new song…of rebirth
THE WISHING WELL
a thunderstorm a distant shore, i’ve witnessed this before/patience was fleeting/if a thousand coins on the ocean floor would bring back love to me/i’ll wait forever/fill the sea with dreams of a wishing well/waves bring back my coins to me/drain the deep that teems with my empty shells/slaves of sand still call for me/i once had love to give/i once had hoped to live/the rarest stones will break my bones and golden salt stops my lungs/the perfect limbs and haunting eyes begs the seas: begin to rise/man: and when these delusions come to fruition/believe you me/i will strangle my self into nothingness/and be reborn from the dream of a blasphemous fool/in my sordid pelt of mold/i’ll earn back years to me/the god of a nightmare will fall as I take back what is…/devil: mine!/worthless swine enraptured by my vanity/your soul sank under the weight of gold you offered me/man: a waste of a life, squandered my heart until it rests upon the ocean floor barren/watching the light descend deeper and deeper/a deadening feeling starts to grow in my ribs/from where I lie, the waves overflow, with my blood/devil: from where I hide, the snakes overgrown, with your blood/man: where are my years/I’ll bleed dry by myself/i wish I was someone/devil: you wish you were someone else
MY HORSES ARE MANY
this is what its like to be on fire burning through the coals/what a way to release this fury and be consumed/a false prophet and a terrible liar/trading money for souls/abomination of a broad horizon/you sold them for a frail mansion/its nothing but dust/your recompense and tongue will be fed down your throat/oh you’d topple the pillars of a church to make yourself a god/when you speak it’s a dead language/forfeit the grace you never preach/limb for a limb/you’ll be torn to shreds/eye for an eye/you’ll be torn to shreds/throw it down like you never want to see it again/if this is a slippery slope you’re at the bottom of the ditch/take advantage of the children yet you call yourself a man/if this is a slippery slope you’re at the bottom of the ditch/headlong
GRACE DISGUISED BY DARKNESS
i’ve felt their lives slip through my fingers/now i watch them circle the drain/with breath like the torrent they sink to the bottom/i’ve wasted so many chances/my efforts not a drop in the barrel/with a body like a boulder i sink to the bottom/i’ve shown my teeth and have had them kicked in one too many times/in my yearning He split the rock, and the water gushed forth/a voice keeps yelling, a voice keeps yelling/”this is where your proud waves end”/my fingers trace lines, on the surface i’m consumed/the sinking feeling, the sinking feeling/”this is where your proud waves end”/i take my first step, and i’m thrown over the edge/i tried to walk on the water but now i just swim/where is your mercy/what grace is this that saves me/i scream Your name/are You outside of Your wrath/oh God Your name/amongst the pile of dead/i see a light split the water from the heavens/i feel God glowing inside me/my heart shakes with the music of the spheres/i no longer tremble in fear/for Redemption has found me/and in Redemption comes the overflow of peace
PENDULUM
bright lights are breaking through the sky/dark clouds are pouring from your feet/the seas and valleys all run dry/reach through the sky and capture/my heart a child trembling in sight of his wake/your blood was the bridge between/a new song
thegodmachine: THE RIDER
trapped in the trenches/overrun by idols/we’ve strapped pride to our bones and sealed it with our skin/looking for a way to beat this system/we’re trading life for a corpse/entangled with the dead and silenced by our guilt/we’ve strapped pride to our bones and sealed it with our skin/i’ve encased myself in a tomb/with gods as dead as me/surrounded by stones of depravity/i’m already dead/and i’m running out of answers out running all the answers/we want more/every failure leaves me deeper in the ground/show me what i’ve become/hanging skulls on my branches/waist below the earth/i was a fool of lust since the day of my birth/oh my love i haven’t let you go/golden skies will divide to receive your soul/oh my son you’ve just begun to grow/but we’ve strapped pride to our bones and sealed it with our skin/turn this tomb to dust/oh my God You never let me go/as lifeless as statues/as fleeting as dust in the air/we’ve robbed your splendor and replaced it with deceit/replaced with ruin/show us what you see/grace come swiftly/oh God give us rest in you/like the waves upon the shore/we can’t hear you in our hearts anymore/grace come swiftly and drag the axe further towards me/the Son of man approaches the hollows/He breaks the guilt in one fell swoop/beheading our treachery/oh God would you bring a burning downpour of Your… blood/i can hear the hordes of ghosts screaming in Your choir/but would Your love make any difference in a graveyard/there’s no running now/His thunder shakes the earth/there will be no trace of betrayal/all creation trembles before You/as You lift Your hand/Your will be done.
THAT I MAY LOVE YOU
The Phinehas EP (December 15, 2009)
Well If The Earths Are Stopped, Then the Fox Faces The Hounds
I shake the dust from off myself
And set my face like flint.
Scorch the thorns entangling me
And pull me closer into you,
Because this city’s full of devils
And the streets clad with coal.
I remember every waking day
As I chewed on your soul.
On and on,
A recollection of our failure
On and on,
Forget the past, we’re moving onward.
Tell my devils I’m never coming back
I can see that your motives are not pure, and I feel ashamed.
I can see that your motives are not pure, they’re not yours!
THROW THE STONES, THEY WEIGH HEAVY IN YOUR HANDS!
THROW THE STONES, THEY WEIGH HEAVY IN YOUR HANDS!
On and on,
A recollection of our failure.
On and on,
All the people crushed on the threshing floor.
I can see that your motives are not pure, and I feel ashamed.
This body, a burning building,
It’s nothing but flesh and bone.
This body, a burning building,
Turn and run or face the hounds.
FACE THE HOUNDS!
Tell my devils I’m never coming back.
The Jungle
can you point us all to something to run from
they’re biting at our heels
can you point us all to something to run from
and slay us if you will
we soak our tattered shirts with our brothers’ blood
instead of ringing out it clings to us
the snares we set only trapped the dead
and the chains never wash away they just sink further into the mud
the tombstone to the casket
all hell in a handbasket
pray the chains cut deep cut deep
ugh!
can we cast our demons out to sea (drowning the savagery)
punch our fists straight through the ceiling (yeah we’ll take the heat)
we suffer to the beat
then release our beasts ON THE STREETS
we soak our tattered shirts with our brothers’ blood
instead of ringing out it clings to us
the snares we set only trapped the dead
and the chains never wash away they just sink further into the mud
pray the chains cut deep cut deep
pray the stains sink deep sink deep
WHAT WILL BE LEFT THAT IS NOT HELL’S
WHEN WE’VE DESTROYED THE WORLD OURSELVES
we destroyed the world ourselves
don’t look back if you’re gonna rebel
bring in the cavalry (bury your infantry)
prepare your graves, but don’t stop
bring in the cavalry (bury your infantry)
prepare your graves, but don’t stop
running.
Panhammer
Come on come on, are you a dead man?
Pull up your skirt, we’re on a mission.
WHO SAID WE’VE WON?
We need a hero not a politician.
Don’t you know our legs will never carry us far enough
When we’ve put our faith in a map a blind man drew for us
The attrition of this nation will seal its fate
Light of the world illuminate
POW
Oh yeah
Won’t you blind us all?
Oh yeah
Show us your scars.
My hounds were bred of the golden kind, so flew’d, so sanded
Follow the march to the end of the world two by two
DEAD MAN what are you waiting for?
DEAD MAN get ahold of yourself and pull some swagger!
Come on come on, are you a dead man?
Pull up your skirt, we’re on a mission.
WHO SAID WE’VE WON?
We need a hero not a politician.
I Am The Lion
son of Mine, can you hear the Sound of this repetition as clockwork? I’m always peeling back your skin to rip these legions from your heart. every scar you leave yourself is a Jewel in the making. I would give new Passion, yet you’ve turned your back. a devil of details cut your throat. you’re so addicted. you’ll swing the hammer and I’ll turn your nails to Gold. you will know My voice when the hair on your neck stands up. I opened this Door, and I will bring the End. all gives way, and all will fall to their knees and beg for Grace. son of Mine these letters, I swear, have not been burnt. my heart, a child trembling at the sight of his wake, is longing to rest in the hollow of Your hand. I know now what it is to be helpless, like a foot on my neck to the ground, i’m longing to rest in the hollow of Your hand. here I am. I await you. you will know My voice. here I am. I AM THE LION. clear the path. I am the Lion. you brood of snakes. I am the Lion.
Grace Disguised By Darkness
I’ve felt their lives slip through my fingers.
Now I watch them circle the drain.
With breath like the torrent (THEY SINK SINK)
To the bottom.
I’ve wasted so many chances,
My efforts’ not a drop in the barrel.
With a body like a boulder (I SINK SINK)
To the bottom.
I’ve shown my teeth and have had them kicked in one too many times.
In my yearning He split the rock, and the water gushed forth.
A voice keeps yelling, a voice keeps yelling
“This is where your proud waves end”
My fingers trace lines, on the surface I’m consumed.
The sinking feeling, the sinking feeling
“This is where your proud waves end”
I take my first step, I’m thrown over the edge.
I TRIED TO WALK ON THE WATER, BUT NOW I JUST SWIM
They slipped through my fingers.
Now I watch them circle the drain.
With breath like the torrent (THEY SINK SINK)
To the bottom.
I’ve wasted so many chances,
My efforts’ not a drop in the barrel.
With a body like a boulder (I SINK SINK)
To the bottom.
I scream your name.
Are you outside of your wrath?
Oh God, I scream your name.
and amongst the pile of dead…
I see a light split the water from the heavens,
and I feel God glowing inside me,
my heart SHAKES with the music of the spheres.
I no longer tremble in fear,
for Redemption has found me,
and in Redemption comes the overflow…
