You gave us what we wished for
A few tangled strings attached
Pull back the curtain
I won't suffer for your amusement
There's no more dreams for me to sell
I choose my nightmares wisely
Don't wanna ruin the story
but it doesn't turn out well

You will always be entertained
Everybody showed up
for the execution
But nobody would
show their face
To shoot you in
The back of the head
And call it sacrifice
They don't deserve
to even say your name

Put me inside the animal
Stitch it up and shove us off a cliff
When they tear the wings
From all the swine
Just monkeys will be left to fly
Pilot light has flickered out
and all the ashes will be screaming
No one can hear my last words
And no encore once we say goodbye

You will always be entertained

Everybody showed up
for the execution
But nobody would
show their face
To shoot you in
The back of the head
And call it sacrifice
They don't deserve
to even say your name

Assassination
Assassination

Everybody showed up
for the execution
But nobody would
show their face
To shoot you in
The back of the head
And call it sacrifice
They don't deserve
to even say your name

Sacrifice
It's not a sacrifice
It's not a sacrifice

It just started with a dotted line
Skin is whiter than a surgical glove
I need somebody to stitch me up
So I don't bleed on the one I love

All that's lost and
All that's forgotten
There'll be no funeral
Without applause

Just a little cut to make
It all feel better
There's so many scars
from what it used to be
You're the only thing in
This fucking world
That fills this hole inside of me

You can send away your firing squad
You're gonna need to behead me
Immoral looking to be immortal
But nothing fits to a T

All that's lost and
All that's forgotten
There'll be no funeral
Without applause

Just a little cut to make
It all feel better
So many scars
from what used to be
You're the only thing in
This fucking world
That can fill this hole inside of me

Cover up all of the mirrors
Cauterize all of the lies
Stop the hands on the clock forever
And forget what we left behind

All that's lost and
All that's forgotten
There'll be no funeral
Without applause

I need destruction
I want towers to crumble
Mothers tossing babies
From the windows above
Who would want to wake up
if this is their world
Who would want to wake up
If this is their world

I won't repent
This is what I was sent here for
No reason
To ask forgiveness
Pain is the language
That was spoken to me
Now it's my time to answer

Look at yourself
For someone to blame
You're the only one
who should be ashamed

Stand in your lie
I'm a bomb in your building
No mercy
No pity
I don't care who survives
I'm a mistake that you can't unmake
Nod if you understand

I won't repent
This is what I was sent here for
No reason
To ask forgiveness
Pain is the language
That was spoken to me
Now it's my time to answer

Look at yourself
For someone to blame
You're the only one
who should be ashamed

Crowd: "(Shame)"

We've been washing the floors
Of the slaughterhouse
With buckets of dirty water

I won't repent
This is what I was sent here for
I won't repent
This is why I was sent

Look at yourself
For someone to blame
You're the only one
who should be ashamed

No
No
No
I won't repent

This is no longer
Just my communion
The worms of the flesh have turned
With all the sacrifices I swallow
And the blood
from the cup
Is so cold

You're only as sick
As the secrets within

It's not so evil
As much as it's hungry
I see these bodies
and the bones picked clean
I built this cage
We've been trapped in together
Can't remember
where I hid the keys

A reason for me
For me to get by
Became a need
A need to get high
Then into a life that was
No life at all
No life at all

There is a trick to get
Out of your skin
You're only as sick
As the secrets within
But the beast is calling for us
Slowly assuming control

A reason for me
For me to get by
Became a need
A need to get high
Then into a life that was
No life at all
No life at all

I was never your taxidermy
I'm sewn into your soul
Keep sleeping
I'll make you dream of me
Keep sleeping
I'll make you dream of me

There is a trick to get
Out of your skin
You're only as sick
As the secrets within
But the beast is calling for us
Slowly assuming control

You're only as sick
As the secrets within

I'm feeling sacrilegious
Put your arms around me
I'll stab you in the back
You'll never see
a skeleton Christ
I'll be the one in
Bible black

You should have treated
Your saviors better
With the tombs
that you left behind
Do you think
that coffins gossip
And all of your ghosts are blind?

Are you here for the resurrection?
How deep did you dig my grave?
Cancel your subscription
You're the one
who needs to be saved

Let's get evil
I'm feeling sacrilegious

You can climb
To the top of my horns
but make sure
that you don't look down
Don't spit in the face of God
When you're trying
To wear his crown

Are you here for the resurrection?
How deep did you dig my grave?
Cancel your subscription
You're the one
who needs to be saved

Let's get evil
I'm feeling sacrilegious

You can't kill it until it's born
You can't kill it until it's born

Let's get evil
I'm feeling sacrilegious
I'm coming back, baby

Try to get inside my head
All the windows are
Painted shut
Take your horse to
My water to drink
I'm not the gift that you think

Cross my name off the devil's
To do list
Burn every page
In that little black book
And we're praying it remains
in the mouth of God

You've got cracks
In your magic
And blood on your hands

I'm the one
The one that you
Left behind
I wish I knew you
Knew you when
You were alive
It's not a costume
It's not how I wanted to die
It's not costume
Not how I wanted to die

Cross my name off the devil's
To do list
Burn every page
In that little black book
And we're praying it remains
in the mouth of God

You've got cracks
In your magic
And blood on your hands

I'm the one
The one that you
Left behind
I wish I knew you
Knew you when
You were alive
It's not a costume
It's not how I wanted to die
It's not costume
Not how I wanted to die

I'll break your sunshine
To scare my shadow away

I'm the one
The one that you
Left behind
I wish I knew you
Knew you when
You were alive
It's not a costume
It's not how I wanted to die
It's not costume
Not how I wanted to die

I'll break your sunshine
I'll break your sunshine
To scare my shadow away

Give me your secrets
I want a confession
Nothing good stays good for long
How much worse than me
Can you be?

If they cast me out
I want you to come with me
We can be one
We can be one
In endless oblivion

Are you gonna pray for me
When I'm in purgatory
Or just stare through
the stained glass
At my body lying there

You tell me you love me
Your mouth is a guillotine
I'll take your hand
And I'll let you
take my head

If they cast me out
I want you to come with me
We can be one
We can be one
In endless oblivion

Are you gonna pray for me
When I'm in purgatory
Or just stare through
the stained glass
At my body lying there

Will you stay by my side?
Or will you stand in their way?
What will you do
When they come to murder me?

Your autopsy table is ready
Pay off the drug deals
You made with God

A last meal
Then your crucifixion
If you're not paranoid
It's probably too late

I don't give a fuck
If you say you're sorry
I won't accept your surrender
I don't give a fuck
If you say you're sorry
I won't accept your surrender

It's time to
Beat up the bullies and
Wash the bullseye off my back
My red flag is your white one
Soaked in blood
My red flag is your white one
Soaked in blood

Cadaver dogs already
Know your face
Why pretend
In a roomful of fakes?

Something made up
For idiots to praise
Losers love liars
til their dying day
Losers love liars
til their dying day

I don't give a fuck
If you say you're sorry
I won't accept your surrender
I don't give a fuck
If you say you're sorry
I won't accept your surrender

It's time to
Beat up the bullies and
Wash the bullseye off my back
My red flag is your white one
Soaked in blood
My red flag is your white one
Soaked in blood

But your loyalty lies on the wrong side of the future
But your loyalty lies on the wrong side of the future

It's time to
Beat up the bullies and
Wash the bullseye off my back
My red flag is your white one
Soaked in blood
My red flag is your white one
Soaked in blood

They started the last rites
The earth has opened wide
I can hear my mother's voice
Time for me to say goodbye

I never learned how to love
Those drugs weren't meant for healing
I just gave for the sake of taking
Now God will swallow me

The greater the star
The more violent its demise
Maybe it was forced attrition
When you pray you cannot lie

Now I hear the children chanting
And the widows want to eat
I think they've helped themselves
To enough of my bad dreams

Lay your head against my heart
Can you feel me fading?
The first burial that I've been to
Tell the abyss to stop staring at me

The greater the star
The more violent its demise
Maybe it was forced attrition
When you pray you cannot lie

When we lifted the stone
We should have known
We'd be bitten by the snake below

The greater the star
The more violent its demise
Maybe it was forced attrition
When you pray you cannot lie

Mother can't mourn me
Father won't win my fights
I'm dressed in my mortuary best
I'm ready for my ride

The blood of the covenant
Is thicker than the
Water of the womb
They're waiting with open arms
For me to join them soon