Charcoal Grace I: Prey Lyrics


This is where we find ourselves

Too far gone to save

A shroud over shame, I'm

Just doin' what you taught me

This is where we find ourselves

The fountain and the well

I'll smile my way to my own hell

Armed with what you left me

There's no room for me

In your small heaven

But nothing could erase me

Or what I am

I am the weight, the worry

I am the hurt, the hurry

Without the hate to carry

I could have been somebody

I am the wait, the worry

Without the hate to carry

I could have been somebody

I could have been somebody

I am the weight, the worry

I am the hurt, the hurry

Without the hate to carry

I could have been somebody

I am the wait, the worry

Without the hate to carry

I could have been somebody

I could have been somebody

This is where we find ourselves, oh

Crack in the wall, the doubt consumes while

You let your righteous fury burn with hallowed hate

You prey

But there's no room for me

In your small heaven

Nothing could erase me

Or who I am

You cast your shadow

Darkening everything south of the sun

I won't follow your accord to cut me loose

When it bound me here to watch you trade truth for a noose

Screaming, "Down we fell"

So give me hell

Tell God I wish him well

Bow down and taste the end

It's a, a bitter pill, mind

Did you plan to take the world with you

And leave your guilt behind?

"The soil is tainted"

Your words, not mine

Just scars and sabotage the legacy

You left it all to me

So go on, raise your hands, sing "Hallelujah"

Song of the dead for those who survive

The time of our lives

So we smile

Bow down and whisper words that you

You can't make us forget

You bow down, you bend your knee

To the newborn hypocrites

So bow down, give in

New gods consuming

Sweat and sickness is the legacy

You left it all to me

So go on, raise your hands and drink from the grail

Just aching to drive that last coffin nail

In the ways that we failed

On we sail

(With hallowed hate, you prey)

We're all waiting, can you prey on peace?

(Wordlessly, we welcome silence in her grace)

I could bind my heart to anger

And hold my breath for bliss that was promised me

While the desperate hands of vengeance demand to deliver me

It begins in me, how they cling to me

Pleading