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KINGHORSE LYRICS
"Kinghorse" (1990)
1. Freeze
2. Caged
3. Lay Down and Die
4. Brother Doubt
5. Greatest Gift
6. Red
7. Descend
8. As I Stand
9. Razor
10. Too far Gone
11. Clayfist
1. Freeze
I feel poisoned by your smile so I'll help you take it off.
I'd tell you what I think of you but I'd never be able to stop.
Another day, another piece of my mind.
Go on with your life and see what pleasure that you'll find.
I feel poisoned by the sky so I live to blot it out.
I'd tell you how cold I feel, but I can never shut my mouth.
This world is a creation of my mind, but you can bet your soul it beats the world I left behind.
So you call me insane.
I feel poisoned by the lie that I must live among your kind.
From the moment I first spoke, I've been freezing all the time.
Another day, another warning sign.
Go on with your life and see what pleasure that you'll find.
2. Caged
I don't want to live in a human world where my kind is caged and locked out.
I have no use for human words, and I will swallow the hate they brought out.
Come on bitch, give me the keys.
Yeah, I like you better on your knees.
We must come from different worlds.
Believe me boy, I take no orders.
I have no use for human words, always spoken to bring disorder.
Come on bitch, give me the keys.
Yeah, I like you better on your knees.
Motherfucker, open this cage.
Maybe then I'll leave this place in one piece.
I've been pushed down in a den of small souls.
You're not man enough to open this cage.
3. Lay Down and Die
Sometimes when I'm feeling lonesome and low,
and there's no one to talk to and there's no place to go...
When you're too weak to shake it, and you're too strong to cry,
sometimes you just want to lay right down and die.
The sun brings no warmth although it's shining bright.
You feel drugged down in the daytime and you're so torn up at night.
And the worst part about it is you don't even know why.
But sometimes you just want to lay down and die.
You go to bed wondering why God created man
You decide for yourself that creation was the original sin.
You get up in the morning and you break up all over again.
The trees are no longer tombstones and smiles aren't knives.
You don't hate your fellow man for their pathetic little lives.
You've resigned yourself to just getting by...
But sometimes you just want to lay down and die.
The most terrible sound you've ever heard is the ringing of the phone
And a smile from a stranger cuts you right to the bone.
You get to feeling so violent that you hope everyone just leaves you alone.
4. Brother Doubt
You'll never know rest, it's just your painful life.
I know you'll curse your fate even after you finally die.
You say you'll never escape it, yeah, but then again, you'll never try.
It's in the dark alleys where the people peer through.
It's in the hated hallways.
It's always following you.
It creeps in your blood, you savor its pain.
It's always there with you now ... will you remember its name?
It's one of many reasons you felt far apart from them.
It's not the only difference between you and other men.
5. Greatest Gift
I know you've walked down many roads searching for a place to hide.
You run into the arms of strangers just to prove that you're alive.
I recognize and despise your weakness... I feel something deep inside.
Being ashamed because you're different is the sickest kind of lie.
If strange fingers point at you, it must only fuel the fire.
Just ignore the bitter fools... they cannot take your mind.
You'll try to fill the empty spaces, but those spaces can't be filled.
Accept yourself, accept your struggle and you won't die unfulfilled.
Remember how you were put aside?
Did you belong?
Child you were was made to hide.
The dream is gone.
Is it really gone?
Wandering the wicked night...it made you strong.
Taught yourself to hate the light...innocence is gone. But is it really gone?
If strange fingers point at you, it must only fuel the fire.
Just ignore the bitter fools... they cannot take your precious mind.
6. Red
We're all around you, you drive us out like dogs.
Yes, we surround you, like the words that blend into the fog.
Yes, we remember... we write these words in bitter blood.
We are the drops that gave rise to a hateful flood.
I exorcise you if you are not our kind.
A place to drop your heavy chains is a place you'll never find.
So let us make these lonely vows and add power to the flood,
with one hand hanging free to sign your name in bitter blood.
In red.
Legions deny me, the ugly embrace my heart.
Let pretty faces turn from me, let denial burn my heart.
I bring my brothers gifts, I bring them bitter blood.
We are the drops that gave rise to a hateful flood.
In red.
7. Descend
I do not know who I am, I've never truly known.
A thousand voices speak for me, my body gives them all a home.
They interblend, they steal my words.
They stole my only friends from me.
Inside they want to be alone, but alone is what I'll never be.
Look down the steps of my soul, wipe out the stains of my life.
Help me kill this thing I am now, help me destroy myself tomorrow.
We dream of places I have been.
I didn't want to leave this room.
You try to push my body forward, but my mind is all that ever moves.
We inside are forever strong, it only takes two hands to try...
I'll drown out any other voices, I'll pile your heads up to the sky.
8. As I Stand
9. Razor
She's got a demon, and she gave it a name.
She had it better when she thought life was a game.
She walks beside you but she'd rather walk alone.
She dug her own grave and she made that grave her home.
She's got a million lies that she lives without you.
You can't hurt her anymore no matter what you do.
The truth will come but she is running out of time.
She's got a razor, she's about to cut the line.
You want to hurt her but you don't know where to start.
She's got a twisted mind, she's got a twisted heart.
The drama's in your face but she will not believe it's true.
There's a million people out there more fucked up than you.
There's another world out there and it's calling her name.
When your illusions fade away you never are the same.
You're looking backwards to the way it was before.
But meeting someone like you is more than you had bargained for.
10. Too far Gone
I am far gone.
I can't chase it anymore.
I've gone too far.
I know the damage has been done.
So, join the damned, stand with us.
Prove yourself, it's all that matters.
Twist yourself, create a disease.
Release yourself, it's all that matters.
She always spoke truth - at least to you.
I'll never forget all the things that we've been through.
I have no pain - it left me cold sometime back.
I sometimes wish that somehow I could call it back.
Take her blue eyes - and turn them to the darkest black.
Close her blue eyes - and turn them to the darkest black.
11. Clayfist
Your mind's a blur, it never calms.
You search in vain for the eye of the storm.
Ears strain for each word you say.
You never know in the dark where the words form.
Can you feel me pounding on your heart?
Fists of clay are of little use but my words will do their part.
The insects crawled across your heart so very long ago.
No one recalls the day it snapped, nobody seems to know.
Something inside your chest grew hard and worked to stop the flow.
If thy hand offend thee, make a fist, but you treasure it in vain.
If thy eye offend thee - better still, you'll always look again.
Just don't pretend the pain you feel will ever come to an end.
Can you feel me pounding on your heart?
Words may be of little use, but my hands will do their part.
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