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BYZANTINE LYRICS
"Byzantine" (2002 Best of/Compilation)
1. Unhook Me
2. Hatfield
3. Wings of My Soul
4. Stick Figure
5. Jeremaid
6. Pity None
7. Lowbrain
8. Cradle Song
9. The Devil's Arithmetic
10. God's Shame
11. Purity
1. Unhook Me
Some say that life is a game
But through tragedy my heartstrings will break
If I've ever burned your soul I'm sorry
I need to feel the warmth inside your flames
Unhook Me
Self medicated man I stay
Taught through torturous lessons to love the pain
If I've ever clipped your wings I'm sorry
Eternal vision of beauty branded by scars
If love was so simple
Unhook Me...
2. Hatfield
Help I've been detained
By these mountains that so poorly raised me
Burned out huffing gasoline
The redneck that I'm supposed to be
Fuck that I'm stronger than my history
The pride is instilled in me
In pesticide I hide
These West Virginia hills can't sedate me
Kill your family tree, this soil is diseased
My will is broken
The black lungs have swallowed me
Viva Villa! Long live the picket line in me
You want a war you've got one
You want a state with poverty
Remember 1882 because there is no excuse
Excuses are just tools of incompetence
Used to build monuments of nothingness
And those who specialized in the uses
Seldom achieve anything
Excuses are just tools of incompetence
Used to build monuments of nothingness
And those who specialized in the uses
Seldom achieve anything but excuses
3. Wings of My Soul
I must say my life should mean much more
On a shelf my potential ignored
They betrayed the veins
That breathed me life
Turned their backs on all
That pulled the knife across my throat
I'm not saved
Holding your head up high
I will bury your pride
And it will follow you down
On the wings of my soul
Aged against my will held accounted
Life's achievements I've never found them
I'm a waste
I'm not saved
I will smother your pride
On the wings of my soul
I will burn my scars away
All my childhood memories
4. Stick Figure
Welcome to the skin you wear again
The weeping wound you try to mend
Liar screaming hollow amens
Your conscience disappears
Each time you sin
New life is a possibility
No one is here to see you bow to me
Throw up your hands to the skies
And welcome the new lords
Of your demise
On your fear we feed
And this is the way we bleed
No love just hate my fist your face
The tears they pave my indoctrination
Your knees the pain it comes in waves
You can't be save because I am the way
My bones have all been picked clean
A bitter harvest I have reaped
You can't see what I can see
The love inside of me
On your fear we feed
And this is the way we bleed
5. Jeremaid
I rise above the human follies in my life
You'll see the shadow of the goat is my guide
Disguise the limit for my pain
Can't let anyone inside you
Crawl inside limousine of 12 feet
It's lamentation day for me
All access to my love denied
I am the king of sorrow
My darkened world has burned your eyes
You stared too long into my sky
Put the thoughts inside to rest
Decorate with Sunday’s best
Tears of pain they splash my hide
No resting place inside
Coronation of my soul
My friends I've so betrayed you
Now it's done final epicedium
It's lamentation day for me
You are all invited to my wake
Hope you enjoy the sorrow
Just let the tears pool in your eyes
So you can stare into my sky
My hell is not my own
My flames burn higher and higher
In tune with a choir
Eulogy of fire
I am a pyre reborn
Thank you for coming to my show
Hope you enjoyed the sorrow
And if your world does not seem bright
Just stare into my darkened sky
6. Pity None
Bruising minds burning thoughts over matter
Your knees hit soil you touch me not
Curdled opinions form mindless babble
From evolved me the pity is not
Elevated threshold of pain
Masterpiece of the unsane
Miles away from the next to be
Successors of pure violent misery
Grind down to human
Resist against pleasure insist on pain
I disregard the soul in me
Along with it I replace pity
I pity none
I pity you
7. Lowbrain
I've detoxed myself from all life
No one is in my heart
Dark inside me silent I'll be
Watching you like God
Whisper into the ear of lunacy
No one can tell a lie as well as me
You're not trusted
You are a suspect to me
Father disease I'm on my knees
Come embrace me now
Put in position of total control
I play the master now you pay the toll
I'll destroy you
You are nothing to me
I fake love
Come hurt with me
I'm afraid of
What has become of me?
I sold my soul away
8. Cradle Song
I breathe alone in silence
I watch the common pass
Lie in a state so dormant
To commit a sin so ancient
This world that I depleted
Tomb of memories so chiasmic
It goes beyond all temptation
So dark in you I deepen
I kissed the cross burned in my head
I cursed the sun blinding my eyes
Nurture the night which shields my life
I fear that I'm forever
I'll climb the mountains, swim the seas
To find a cure for my disease
Burn away burn away the day
A cast of thousands bleed
Cater to my worldly needs
I shun the light I shun the breeze
Forever cursed I'm on the bleed
I've killed the world to be alive
Rejected change to modify
Nurture the night which shields my life
I fear that I'm forever
I'll climb the mountains, swim the seas
To find a cure for my disease
You feel the pulse inside
You left the light behind
I give you change inside
You are one of a kind
Burn away burn away the day
9. The Devil's Arithmetic
I... I am your God
Outlast the sun
Science exact
Arrange my DNA recombinant
To form complete authority
Eyeless like father's led
Shameless like sows they fed you
Cattle I penetrate your fold
I desecrate you whole
My own devilization turns inside
The wick burns slow against the side
Magnify the anomaly by nourishing
The hemorrhage of the soul
Adapt to my environment
On passive wills I will anneal
Your flesh is what I mould upon
In time you will conform to the feel
Hammer upon my implement
To supplement my suffering
In time like any parasite
Discard the host after the vile feasting
I saw God in you
A fake God in you
10. God's Shame
I'm alive and breast feeding the nation
Line up the graves suckle their cares away
I'm dispensing my own medication
Once you're the same
There will be no pawns to sway
Because it's a shame
It's all God's shame
That he can't kill you all
It's a goddamn shame
That I can't murder you all
Romulus and Remus said without forgiveness
Line up the graves it's time for us to play
I'm inside of you sow my seeds in you
I took away all your innocence pride
I'm disgusted inside I'm ashamed
We are God's shame
Now it's your turn to die you are mine
Get in line like swine
You are mine
Get in line like swine
Your blood will flow
11. Purity
I can't swim against these waters
I can't keep afloat my pace
I can't afford to keep my promise
My lies show on my face
Purity will come in doses
And I'll swallow all my faith
Wash away my consequences
So I can fly away
It's a sad life
I've grown tired of these waters
I've grown weary from my pace
If I'd only kept my promise
Now I'm without soul
I have drowned in my own sorrow
No tomorrow lights my way
With these darkened consequences
I've grown face to face
It's a sad life
But it's my life
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