Norma Jean - VS The Anti Mother Album Lyrics

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Vipers, Snakes, And Actors

Carry your flags, march into that fictional cause
And show off that medal
Just don't reach for that gun
Reach for that gun
Carry that banner, build that heart out of stone
Just don't reach for that gun
You scaled the high horse and I felt the change
I know the difference between you and me
You scaled the high horse and I felt the change
I know the difference between you and me
You and me

You cleaned the outside of your chalice
But it's filled with robbery and self indulgence
Just like the rest of us

You wear that cross like a crown.
You wear that cross like a dagger
You wear that cross like a crown.
You wear that cross like a dagger

Oh my god, take this sword from my mouth
You scaled the high horse and I felt the change
I know the difference between you and me

Come down from that tower
Come down from that tower

Nothing will be the outcome.
Nothing is the outcome

 

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Self Employed Chemist

It's like you know the words
But you can't hear the music
You've lived a lie for so long
Now you believe it
You're shooting silver bullets
And taking magic pills

I'm asking you, do you know a way to delete my conscience?
Don't put your ear to the floor to hear the sound of the future
Yours is a history shaped by disaster
We're coming back for you
You better brace yourself

I'm telling you
We're coming back
To collect that killer
Who killed me and threw me away
Am I holding you up
Or you holding me down?

You killed me and threw me away
Am I holding you up
Or you holding me down?

We make the same mistakes
We always count them
I want to fail you so badly.

I'm telling you
We're coming back
To collect that killer
Who killed me and threw me away
Am I holding you up
Or you holding me down?

You killed me and threw me away
Am I holding you up
Or you holding me down?

What if I have to lose?
What if I have to suffer?
So what if I have to lose?
So what if I have to suffer?

You killed me and threw me away
Am I holding you up
Or you holding me down?

 

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Birth Of The Anti Mother

From the bloodline of vicious serpents
A dreadful heart within a lovely shell
A demon's heart, but with the face of God
I guess a liar's heart is still true even if her lips are not

The vomit that flows out from your mouth
Has seeped into your chest
Searching for the strength
To breathe in one last lie from you
But right now the grave seems so much easier

The fear of that devil in me
It comes from you.
You're like the smoke in the window
It comes from you

She comes for sorrow
She comes for lies

We came here for blood
Did you? Yes or no?
No one's getting out because
We came here for blood
Did you? Yes or no?
No one's getting out because

We came for blood

She's not breathing and I don't care
Because no one's breathing
She's not breathing

Choke that witch out
Suffocate her
Choke her out

 

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Robots 3 Humans 0

Open that door: I'll follow you into that space
Where nothing is regretted then forgotten
Where is that grace that carries me out?
So strange, it's mine, it's closed and locked

And if you open that door
It won't be yesterday when
Before the days of collapsing
And I'll stand through all these lines
Just to make it back to you

Can you help me every step of the way?
We can bury that battle and bury the cause
There is nothing that I can say
Because I was wrong this time

Everyone knows cause they see the glare in our eyes
Careful now, don't drown yourself in sorrow
I was the one that built that cross and weighed you down
And now I'll carry on till it's over and it's over

And if you open that door
It won't be yesterday when
Before the days of collapsing
And I'll stand through all these lines
Just to make it back to you

Can you help me every step of the way?
We can bury that battle and bury the cause
There is nothing that I can say
Because I was wrong this time

Yesterday when
Before the days of collapsing
And I'll stand through all these lines
Just to make it back to you

Can you help me every step of the way?
We can bury that battle and bury the cause
There is nothing that I can say
Because I was wrong this time

 

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Death Of The Anti Mother

I hope you burn forever
There will be no other way
No more suffering
No more trust will be lost
No more wounded
No more blood will be shed
Just know, I mean to harm you
I want to see you choking
And kicking in your own blood
We all have our own person hells
I just hope yours burns brighter
Deception has been your right hand
Confusing the sight of my left
You won't leave the way you came
And now no more blood will be shed

We will burn for this
We will both of us burn

 

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Surrender The Sons

Left alone

Your pale skin is a razor sharp wire
So I place these scales over my eyes
Don't touch me, I'm sick.
You whisper, but I hear only what I choose

Hello my good old friend.
Your hand pulls me back from that mire
Will I look back and stare
And wonder if she is way back there?

But afterwards my mouth
Will be filled with gravel
And I'm left alone

You know that feeling of fear
And desperation in the pit
Of your stomach making you nauseous
Excitement, apprehension,
You wish you could lose it all

Hello my good old friend.
Your hand pulls me back from that mire
Will I look back and stare
And wonder if she is way back there?

But afterwards my mouth
Will be filled with gravel
And I'm left alone

The fear of dealing with this is stronger
Than the fear of just forgetting this
And future, I am scared of you

Left alone

Hello my good old friend.
Your hand pulls me back from that mire
Will I look back and stare
And wonder if she is way back there?

I swear I'll find my way back
To the light now that I'm left alone

 

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Murphy Was An Optimist

Light that fuse, back up three steps
And bite down on that bullet.
You've been doing this
Way too long and it can't be fixed.

Don't worry
So pull up that chair
And suck down that trouble
Misery is the fuel
That keeps this broken down
Lifeless instrument running

I'm sinking in cursory
And I'm sinking headfirst

Clear your dusty throat and taste that stiletto
Can you taste that metal?
Don't worry it can't be fixed.
Don't worry it can't be fixed
So don't worry

Light that fuse, back up three steps
And sink without a trace

I'm sinking in cursory
And I'm sinking headfirst

Hold me down till I stop crying.
I don't want to feel this anymore
Hold you down cause you're not trying.
I don't want to feel this anymore

Hold me down till I stop crying.
I don't want to feel this anymore
Hold you down cause you're not trying.
I don't want to kill you anymore.

Is this what you were designed for?
Did you think you had it coming?
Hell follows with you

I'm sinking in cursory
And I'm sinking headfirst

Is this what you were designed for?
Did you think you had it coming?
Hell follows with you

 

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Opposite Of Left And Wrong

Dedication is nothing but a word.
What have we become?
We become the things we do.
When does it end?
Argument is the enemy.
You've said one hundred opposites of left and wrong
So tell me what's right, not what's wrong.
I don't care anymore.
I'm drained from the struggle.
Argument is the enemy.
I don't care anymore: I'm giving this up
You can fight your way through this graveyard
There is no rehab for your power addiction and
I've had all the freedom that I can stand
Tell me what's right

 

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...Discipline Your Daughters

I can't recall that last day of sun
Curtains closed
And sitting with the lights out
An uncertain emptiness surrounds me

I'm numb and my judgments
Have switched to autopilot
Nothing left but echoes
And thoughts of moving on

Don't stay away
Don't stay here

Tell me all your secrets
I promise I'll be listening
And if you ever come back home
I'll be waiting patiently

Tell me nothing sacred
I promise I won't hear a word
And if you ever come back home
I won't act so patiently

Black feathers
And an unannounced call.
These things go hand in hand

Like talking to you
And the intake of glass
I hope this knife in my hand
Speaks for itself...

Don't stay away
Don't stay here

Tell me all your secrets
I promise I'll be listening
And if you ever come back home
I'll be waiting patiently

Tell me nothing sacred
I promise I won't hear a word
And if you ever come back home
I won't act so patiently

She's not coming back

Tell me all your secrets
I promise I'll be listening
And if you ever come back home
I'll be waiting patiently

Don't stay away
Don't stay here

Tell me all your secrets
I promise I'll be listening
And if you ever come back home
I'll be waiting patiently

Tell me nothing sacred
I promise I won't hear a word
And if you ever come back home
I won't act so patiently

She's not coming back

 

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And There Will Be A Swarm Of Hornets

I built this destruction with my own hands
With my hands I will help pull it down.
And like the worker bees, silenced by that swarm
I'll make a new home

String me up, just leave me here
And I'll find my way back home I swear
These are not the plans I made.
This is not the life I wanted
I don't care
Pull it down

With broken bones and vital organs
Far from functional, I am ruined.
So pull me down
And I'll find my way back home I swear.

What you can't pull from me, pull from yourself

We know what we have to do.
We're not going anywhere!
With blood stained glasses
Staring straight at me and just careless
With that lidless gaze I am ruined

I need to be saved.
Pick me up
And I'll find my way back home I swear

What you can't pull from me, pull from yourself