Parkway Drive : Horizons

Metalcore / Australia
(2007 - Resist Records / Epitaph Records (USA-1))
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Lyrics

1. BEGIN

(Instrumental)


2. THE SIRENS' SONG

Virtue is lost

Beyond this sleek veneer
Beneath the neon existence
Her face is grey
And everything she longs for turns to black
The chemicals bring little vindication
And white lines lace every vein
Does she realise what she's become?

But she's not waking
And she's still failing
But she's not waking
She's still failing

Follow the siren's song
To face this empty cycle
Searching the darkest nights
Searching the silence

And does it make you sick?
"Can you hear me, is she Conscious?"
Does it make you feel beautiful?
Bloodshed under the streetlight

And does it make you sick?
"Oh God! We've got a bleeder here."
Does it make you beautiful?
Heartbreak under the streetlight

She's lost again
Adrenaline strains corrupted arteries

Virtue is lost

Beyond this sleek veneer
Beneath the neon existence
Her face is grey
And everything she longs for is pulling away

Follow the siren's song
To face this empty cycle
Searching the darkest night
Searching the silence

Follow the siren's song
To face this empty cycle
Searching the darkest night
Searching the silence

Dead by first light
They can't wipe the blood from her eyes
Dead by first light
They can't wipe the blood from her eyes

Dead by
Dead by first light
Dead by
Dead by first light


3. FEED THEM TO THE PIGS

This is life
This is worthless
Is there consequence
This apathy is murderous

Hope is dead
Buried by regret
Alive for nothing
And dying for even less

Is This the path we've chosen
Our mind and our future left to rot

These lives are worth nothing
Our lives worth nothing
Fuck

As we watch our dreams turn into dust
Into dust

On these cold sheets
Beneath this hollow corpse of a life
Their world casts shadows
And it's eating us alive

We are the working dead
Haunted by the ghosts of unanswered dreams
We are the flesh and the blood of a lost generation

The deceased and forgotten
The voiceless and consumed
We're buried and broken
And we're rising against you

So this is life
And are we so worthless?
We've clawed our way back
They can't destroy this
'cause we've got nothing left to lose
These hate fuelled hearts keep burning
We push against the grain
And we won't turn back

Armed to the teeth
Born from the shadows
Burning for revenge

Revenge

We're burning for revenge


4. CARRION

Carrion!
In a moment I'm lost
Dying from the inside, her eyes take me away
Tear me apart from the inside out!

Dead eyes speak in volumes
But our lips refuse to move
Could this ever be the last time?
The final time that we see this through?
Give me the strength to return
Return the breath you've stolen
Give me the means to reset, reset
Her heart I've broken again
Reflections, built upon sorrow
We're walking the darkest roads
Within chests carved with regret

In a moment I'm lost
Dying from the inside, her eyes take me away
Tear me apart from the inside out!

From the inside out
The inside out

We've been running blind
Now we're falling, through the cracks!

We're left running
We are running blind
Now we're falling, falling through the cracks
Back to the world of the dead

Her shining eyes (her shining eyes!)
Her shining eyes mark our return
Back to the world, of the dead!

In a moment I'm lost
Dying from the inside, her eyes take me away
Tear me apart from the inside out!

My love I left!
My heart I left!
With my promise to return
A promise to return
A promise to return
A promise to return!


5. FIVE MONTHS

The night creeps through my bones with a winter's chill
Sending shivers down my spine
Like cold hands across my skin

Five months have passed
And taken with them every sense of warmth
Until my blood ran cold
And life stood still

And still I hold my breath
Counting the nights
I've stood with my heart in hand

And still I hold my breath
Counting the nights
Waiting for silence to break
To break me down again

If only you could see
See it in my eyes
How much it means
Your touch, your smile
To a heart thats beat has long since given out
And given in

The night opens wide
Swallowing every sense
Embracing me with emptiness

The night opens wide
Swallowing every sense
Embracing me with emptiness

The hours have become irritations
And I find myself reduced to life's imitation

The hours have become irritations
And I find myself reduced to life's imitation

How can we truly say that we are alive
When everything I see in me is screaming?
How can we truly say that we are alive
When everything I see in me is screaming otherwise?
It's screaming otherwise

'Cause five months have passed
And taken with them every sense of warmth
Until my blood ran cold
And life stood still
And life stood still
And life stood still

The hours have become irritations
And I find myself reduced to life's imitation

The hours have become irritations
And I find myself reduced to life's imitation


6. BONEYARDS

These are the sentiments
Of a cold-blooded cynic
So believe me when I say
I would love nothing more

Than for everything
To end unpleasantly
Concrete shoes, rising tide
Grey skies let none survive

Don't say I didn't warn you

I would rather see your face in hell
Than speak another word
Of this perfect world

I would rather see your face in hell
Than speak another word
Of this perfect world

Of this perfect world

Oh, to be buried beneath the waves
A sailor's grave is all I crave
Bury me
(Bury me)
5000 fathoms deep
And leave my bones for the depths

The sharpest teeth await our skin
The sharpest teeth await...
Bloodlust swarms upon our worthless existence

The Devil's teeth
(The Devil's teeth)
The Devil's teeth beneath our skin
Whispering of silent vengeance
Blood debts remain unpaid

Now every breath of life has been betrayed
Every ideal has rusted through

Nothing we hold brings solace
Feed us to the sharks
So let nothing remain
Feed us to the sea

To be buried beneath the waves
A sailors grave it's all I crave
Bury me
(Bury me)
5000 fathoms deep
And leave my bones for the depths

There's blood in the water
(Sinking, always, sinking)
There's blood in the water
(Sinking, always, sinking)

There's blood in the water

I would rather see your face in hell
Than speak another word
Of this perfect fucking world


7. IDOLS AND ANCHORS

Now, your heroes have fallen
Championless, the seas are rising
So torch every banner, every hope of surviving
This storm is breaking, security has left you
Treading water
Now taste the fear
Taste the uncertainty!
What will you do? (what will you do?)
When there's nothing left for you to cling to
What will you do? (what will you do?)
With your (one, last, breath!)

Thrive in your emptiness

Burn all you love
There's no hope for the weak
Your heroes have died

No heart, no hope
Face to face, with the abyss (with the abyss)
One by one they fall away and won't be missed

Can you hear it?
Can you hear the sound?
As our broken Idols
Come crashing down
Now taste the fear
Now taste the fear

Burn all you love
There's no hope for the weak
Your heroes have died

Burn all you love
(There's no hope for the weak)
Burn all you love


8. MOMENTS OF OBLIVION

There is nothing
There is nothing
I would not give
These are the days of calm
These are the days of calm
Please understand
These are the days of calm
We don't forget
We don't forget


9. BREAKING POINT

Black plagues line a fading sky
A dying world stripped to the bone
Intoxicated by the madness
Blood weeps from open wounds

And still the fires rage
Consumed, now chaos reigns
Our pride dissolved
The rise and fall
The breaking point
Burned and crossed

Lost

Now immune to all the carnage
We turn upon ourselves
Within these times of desperation
We are the virus that has infected to its last

Nothing is sacred
Nothing shall be saved
No one shall be spared the horror
That has yet to come

Destroy and discard
This is all that we know

Blackened flesh, blistered
Hangs from skeletal frames
Stalking this arid wasteland
Our minds immune to change

The shreds of morality
Fall by the wayside
As we are left to ponder
These black box revelations

In the days to come
In this, our final hour
We will witness the true depths to which
Humanity can sink

Humanity can sink

We will learn
Learn to suffer
We will learn
Learn to fail
And before long, before long
We will beg for the end

And still the fires rage
Consumed, now chaos reigns
Our pride dissolved
The rise and fall
The breaking point
Burned and crossed


10. DEAD MAN'S CHEST

When your lungs collapse
When your last breath fails
When my reflection, as faded as a sentiment

Convulsions constrict your flesh, into a portrait of agony
Crushed! Into a portrait of agony
Of agony

This, this is cataclysmic failure
As you're looking, refuse to prevail

This is, this is pointless suffering
How does it feel to know you brought this shit on yourself?

The timing of consequence
Your actions have their price
Oh you'll pay for your mistakes

As pity grips your nerves
You'll get what you deserve
Now brace yourself
As all hell breaks
All hell breaks loose!
All hell breaks loose, yeah

Fucked up this system
Shut it down
Drowned in disease

Stop, cut all based upon
We know all from our lamenting

Suffocation of a race
The persistent beings of life!


11. FROSTBITE

Vanishing points and midnight horizons
Herald another night
Without you by my side

Bring me the light
Bring me the dawn
Bring me another day
But further, from your arms

And this world is frozen
And my limbs so numb
Feel the frostbite
Exceed all hope of coming back alive
And these roads we've chosen
Leave our hearts so numb
As another day
Sets in teeth
Ready to strike

But there will be no dawn
At these hours
I find my mind
Turns itself in circles
Reigniting the worst of fears
And leaving others to the cold

Powerless
I'm afraid to lose
These thoughts of you
Please leave me the scars
Just leave me the scars

Wake (Wake)
These are the hours left to ghosts
These are the times
Reason fails to reach

These are the places
For which echoes fail to return
And solitude runs hand in hand with disaster

And this world is frozen
And my limbs so numb
Feel the frostbite
Exceed all hope of coming back alive
And these roads we've chosen
Leave our hearts so numb
So I'll salvage what little hope I can
From the sun

Still I'm choking on the words
I should've said
1,000 times
And I'm cursing every memory
And I'm holding on until
There's nothing left to save

Every scar
Let every scar still bare your name
Every scar still bares an angel's face
An angel's face

And still I chase
I chase the sun

And still I chase
I chase the sun


12. HORIZONS

So it begins

Our eyes drawn open
Free from the thought of doubt
Free from the selfish conflict
Our blood restless
Ceaseless
With open arms we stand
Before the dawn

The sun seems to have been rising
Ever since I can recall
Lending a sense of permanence
To this lying world

Your words not worth the air
Your life not worth its weight in flesh
To hope for something more
To dream of substance

Like a million before us
Waiting to die
Like a billion before us
Waiting to die

Masochistic to think
This would be remembered (would be remembered)
Sadistic, perpetuation
Of stagnation

There is nothing as empty
As waiting to die
We've spent our lives
Wasting, as time eats us alive

There is nothing as empty
As waiting to die
We've spent our lives
Wasting, as time eats us alive

The sun seems to have been falling
Ever since I can recall
The only sense
Of permanence
In this dying world

Sit back and watch
As time eats us alive

Everyone who knew me
Knew me
Destined to die
Die

The marks I left upon this world
Will wash away
In time

In time
And so it ends
In time
It all finds an end

In time
And so it ends
In time
We all find an end

With broken arms
And hollow eyes
I'll wait to return to oblivion

Embrace our last
Empty horizon
Embrace our last
Empty
Horizons

Horizons
Horizons
Horizons


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