Bad Omens - Finding God Before God Finds Me Album Lyrics

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Kingdom of Cards

Gave it all to burn forever underneath the rain
Drowning in the present of a past that I couldn't change
Writing songs instead of letters because I'm too afraid
Afraid of coming back to find that everything is the same

I made my way through hell again, I paid for my mistakes
Next time I think I'll stay awhile and pour myself a drink
When I return, I'll look for you, so listen for your name
If you can make it out above the roaring of the flames

If it's the mask you want, then it's the mask that you will get
But when I take it off remember that you asked for this
I tore myself apart to give you all that I could give
Don't think that I will let it go, don't think that I'll forget

I thought I wanted legacy, I thought I wanted fame
I didn't know I'd lose all my loved ones in exchange
Left them all behind and yeah for that I am ashamed
But that's the price I'm paying 'til I'm buried in my grave

Gave it all to burn forever underneath the rain
Drowning in the present of a past that I couldn't change
Writing songs instead of letters because I'm too afraid
Afraid of coming back to find that everything is the same

I'll do it all over again from the start
And this time you're not leaving me in the dark
You took me for granted now look where you are
Atop of a kingdom you built out of cards

I thought I wanted legacy, I thought I wanted fame
I didn't know I'd lose all my loved ones in exchange
Left them all behind and yeah for that I am ashamed
But that's the price I'm paying 'til I'm buried in my grave

I'll do it all over again from the start
And this time you're not leaving me in the dark
You took me for granted now look where you are
Atop of a kingdom you built out of cards

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Running in Circles

The distance to heaven is measured in gold
So if you stop along the way
Make sure that you save it when you sell your soul
So you can afford to stay
All we want is something to keep us
From the things we're afraid to know
But what we need is something to free us
From the fear that we can't let go

Running in circles and I can't think straight
Running in circles and I can't escape

Well we're gonna live forever
And I've never felt so sure
Everything has always been
What we're looking for
Yeah we're gonna live forever
'Cause we ain't afraid no more
Everything has always been
What we're looking for

The only way out of this hell is through
So run and keep running fast
'Cause if you slow down it'll ruin you
So keep running and never look back

You're not alone
You may be just like me
Without a home
Lost and looking for something
But not alone
And if you're wondering
You're not alone
Yeah

Well we're gonna live forever
And I've never felt so sure
Everything has always been
What we're looking for
Yeah we're gonna live forever
'Cause we ain't afraid no more
Everything has always been
What we're looking for

Running in circles and I can't think straight
Running in circles and I can't escape
Running in circles and I can't think straight
Running in circles and I can't escape

Well we're gonna live forever
And I've never felt so sure
Everything has always been
What we're looking for
Yeah we're gonna live forever
'Cause we ain't afraid no more
Everything has always been
What we're looking for

Running in circles and I can't think straight
Running in circles and I can't escape
Running in circles and I can't think straight
Running in circles and I can't escape

Running in circles and I can't think straight
Running in circles and I can't escape
Running in circles and I can't think straight
Running in circles and I can't escape

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Careful What You Wish For

Only in madness do you find beautiful death
And only in sadness do you feel happy instead

Be careful what you wish for 'cause you don't know
The guilt I carried this far all on my own
It's nothing you want to feel
So let it go...

Don't wait for the dust to settle
Don't wait till it's not enough
Don't wait for the world to let go of the both of us
Don't wait for the dust to settle
Don't wait till you've had enough
Don't wait for the world to let go or to give you up

The silence is one thing that I'll remember you said
Well it's better than nothing when nothing's all that you left

Be careful what you wish for 'cause you don't know
The guilt I carried this far wasn't my own
It's nothing you want to feel
So let it go

Don't wait for the dust to settle
Don't wait till it's not enough
Don't wait for the world to let go of the both of us
Don't wait for the dust to settle
Don't wait till you've had enough
Don't wait for the world to let go or to give you up

If you need a place to hang your head a shoulder's better than a knot
You'd be a better memory alive rather than not
If you need a place to hang your head a shoulder's better than a knot
You'd be a better memory if no one else forgot
So let it go

Don't wait for the dust to settle
Don't wait till it's not enough
Don't wait for the world to let go of the both of us
Don't wait for the dust to settle
Don't wait till you've had enough
Don't wait for the world to let go or to give you up

(If you need a place to hang your head a shoulder's better than a knot)
I'm not giving up
(You'd be a better memory alive rather than not)
So don't you give up
(If you need a place to hang your head a shoulder's better than a knot)
I'm not giving up
(You'd be a better memory if no one else forgot)
So don't you give up

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The Hell I Overcame

If you are cast out
What's your next move gonna be
Will you return cold
Or will you turn up the heat
(God please forgive those who doubt me)

Did you really think the pain
Would send me to an early grave
Did you think I couldn't break these chains
After all the hell I overcame

God please forgive those who doubt me, forgot about me
Then throw them down into the flames

Well I am back now and stronger than you think
Cause when it's dark, the light gets easier to see
They say I sold out and bid my dignity
But the truth is the devil sold his soul to me

To me, to me
The devil sold his soul to me
To me, to me
The devil sold his soul to me

God please forgive those who doubt me, forgot about me
Then throw them down into the flames
God please forgive those who doubt me, forgot about me
Make sure they never forget my name

The greatest trick
That the devil did
Was convince the world
He doesn't exist

The greatest trick
That the devil did
Was convince the world
He doesn't exist

(God please forgive those who doubt me, forgot about me)
After all that hell I overcame

God please forgive those who doubt me, forgot about me
Then throw them down into the flames
God please forgive those who doubt me, forgot about me
Make them remember again

Did you really think the pain
Would send me to an early grave
Did you think I couldn't break these chains
After all the hell I overcame

The greatest trick
That the devil did
Was convince the world
He doesn't exist

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Dethrone

Let me take you back to when I was killed and born again
Woke up in the light convinced my life had made it to its end
Burning up beneath the sun, while my father drained of blood
If he's there I've got a message for the man that's up above
F*ck you

If he's home I've got a message from below

Getting out is not enough if nobody else can come
If he's home I've got a message for the man above

Here am I - take me to the pearly gates
So I can look you in the eye when I spit in your face
Here am I - take me to the pearly gates
Don't let 'em hit you on the way out when I take your place

Did you think you could dig deep enough to bury me?
It's over when I say and you're not getting rid of me
So walk into my fire or step into my light
Either way it's gonna burn if you don't make this right

If he's home I've got a message from below

Here am I - take me to the pearly gates
So I can look you in the eye when I spit in your face
Here am I - take me to the pearly gates
Don't let 'em hit you on the way out when I take your place

Dead meat

Getting out is not enough if nobody else can come
If he's home I've got a message for the man above

Here am I - take me to the pearly gates
So I can look you in the eye when I spit in your face
Here am I - take me to the pearly gates
Don't let 'em hit you on the way out when I take your place

Here am I - take me to the pearly gates
So I can look you in the eye when I spit in your face
Here am I - take me to the pearly gates
Don't let 'em hit you on the way out when I take your place

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Blood

There's no rest for the wicked
There's not a home underneath the mud
And we're all dead, so what's the difference
Between a God and a loaded gun?

I am the sun, the rain, the ocean
I am the flood, the flames, the chosen

It's in our blood - it's on our breath
It's in the taste between life and death
It's in our blood

I hung myself up on a cross to bleed
Nobody cared, nobody listened to me
So I'm not carrying the weight of a conscience
Bring the floods, bring the flames, bring the violence

It's in our blood - it's on our breath
It's in the taste between life and death
It's in our hearts - it's in our heads
It's for the lives we never got to live
It's in our blood

There's no rest for the wicked
There's not a home underneath the mud
And we're all dead, so what's the difference
Between a God and f*cking gun?

Blood

There's no rest for the wicked
There's not a home underneath the mud
And we're all dead, so what's the difference
Between a God and his only son?

It's blood

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Mercy

Blinded by a fear of feeling
These are the kings we chose
Lost and looking for the meaning
I've been searching high and low
When we fade into nothing
When we go up in the smoke
We'll beg God for a mercy
That he knows we'd never show

On a canvas we stained with blood
And painted with our sins
There's a candle melting
And it's burning at both ends
We'll take and take 'til it caves
And drowns us in the wax it drips
Like a moth to a flame
You never should've f*cking lit

You can give sight to the blind
But you can't force them to see
You could take us back in time
But it wouldn't change a thing

If God came down from his kingdom
He came down from his home
And we asked him if he'd take us back
He would surely tell us no
If God came down from his kingdom
He came down from his throne
And we asked him if he'd take us back
He would tell us we can't go

To a rat in a maze the end is
Where the start begins
But if we made it out I know
That we would do it all again
We live and die in vain
Like treasure on a sinking ship
All in the name of a God
We'd just abandon and forget

If God came down from his kingdom
He came down from his home
And we asked him if he'd take us back
He would surely tell us no
If God came down from his kingdom
He came down from his throne
And we asked him if he'd take us back
He would tell us we can't go

We're dying everyday
Tell me is it all in vain
Is it worth the suffering?
Is it worth the price we paid?

Is it worth it?

You can give sight to the blind
But you can't force them to see
You could take us back in time
But it wouldn't change a thing

If God came down from his kingdom
He came down from his home
And we asked him if he'd take us back
He would surely tell us no
If God came down from his kingdom
He came down from his throne
And we asked him if he'd take us back
He would tell us we can't go

Blinded by a fear of feeling
These are the kings we chose
Lost and looking for the meaning
I've been searching high and low
When we fade into nothing
When we go up in the smoke
We'll beg God for a mercy
That he knows we'd never show

You can give sight to the blind
But you can't force them to see
You could take us back in time
But it wouldn't change a f*cking thing

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Said & Done

Old friend, don't you see me
With my soul on my sleeve and my heart left to beat
Underground, don't you leave me
With the hope and belief that you're coming for me

Was I not good enough? Worthy of being loved?
Were you ashamed or just afraid?
Well when I've given up and all is said and done
Will you just look the other way?

Was I not good enough? Worthy of being loved?
Were you ashamed or just afraid?
Well when I've given up and all is said and done
Will you just look the other way?

Half dead, barely breathing
Fell apart just to keep my head up in one piece
'Til I'm found, well I'm sinking
To the floor of the sea where you want me to be

Was I not good enough? Worthy of being loved?
Were you ashamed or just afraid?
Well when I've given up and all is said and done
Will you just look the other way?

Was I not good enough? Worthy of being loved?
Were you ashamed or just afraid?
Well when I've given up and all is said and done
Will you just look the other way?

I waited but nobody called
I waited for nothing at all

Was I not good enough? Worthy of being loved?
Were you ashamed or just afraid?
Well when I've given up and all is said and done
Will you just look the other way?

Was I not good enough? Worthy of being loved?
Were you ashamed or just afraid?
Well when I've given up and all is said and done
Will you just look the other way?

I waited but nobody called
I waited for nothing at all

I'd rather die young than die alone
Overdosing to songs you wrote
Poise and potions is all I know
When the world's a stage and I'm just a show

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Burning Out

So tell me can you keep a secret? I thought I lost myself
Trying to find a hidden meaning in all the lies you'd tell
When you think I've said enough tell me and I'll bite my tongue
But don't you think I won't remember

Don't take it now, don't take it now, don't take it now
I'm burning out, I'm burning out, I'm burning out

I was lost but now I'm found
Under the lights and in the sounds
So let us sing and sing it loud
That we're not perfect, but we're proud of
Who we are
Who we are

I thought I left the pain behind me, but when I turned around
You pulled me back into the darkness and wouldn't let me out
Like a diamond in the rough, you didn't see for what it was
And cut a hole right through the center

I was lost but now I'm found
Under the lights and in the sounds
So let us sing and sing it loud
That we're not perfect, but we're proud of
Who we are (who we are)
That we're not perfect, but we're proud of
Who we are (who we are)

If good things must come to an end
We're not going out of frame
Because you can't just run from sadness
When it runs inside your veins
If good things must come to an end
We're not going out the same
Because you can't just run from sadness
When it gets too hard to stay

When you think I've said enough, tell me and I'll bite my tongue
But don't you think I won't remember
Like a diamond in the rough, you didn't see for what it was
And cut a hole right through the center

I was lost but now I'm found
Under the lights and in the sounds
So let us sing and sing it loud
That we're not perfect, but we're proud of
Who we are
Who we are

I was lost but now I'm found
Under the lights and in the sounds
So let us sing and sing it loud
That we're not perfect, but we're proud of
Who we are

When you think I've said enough, tell me and I'll bite my tongue
But don't you think I won't remember
Like a diamond in the rough, you didn't see for what it was
And cut a hole right through the center

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If I'm There

There are scars that never ever show themselves
You get when you're left alone too long in hell
They tried to keep in the secrets that you wouldn't tell
But they just stripped you for parts you had to sell

Well if I'm there to catch you when you fall
You'll have a friend down in hell after all
And if you're there to catch me when I fall
Then maybe hell ain't so bad after all

I didn't want to believe how much you needed help
And I just left you to be all by yourself
And now I wish I had seen that you weren't doing well
But I just came back to see how hard you fell

Well if I'm there to catch you when you fall
You'll have a friend down in hell after all
And if you're there to catch me when I fall
Then maybe hell ain't so bad after all

Build me up or tear me down
I will never make a sound
Build me up or tear me down
Run a dagger through my chest
I believe it's for the best
Build me up or tear me down

There are scars that never ever show themselves
You get when you're left alone too long in hell
They tried to keep in the secrets that you wouldn't tell
But they just stripped you for parts you had to sell

And if you're there to catch me when I fall
Then maybe hell ain't so bad after all

Build me up or tear me down
I will never make a sound
Build me up or tear me down
Run a dagger through my chest
I believe it's for the best
Build me up or tear me down

Well if I'm there to catch you when you fall
You'll have a friend down in hell after all
And if you're there to catch me when I fall
Then maybe hell ain't so bad after all

Well if I'm there to catch you when you fall
You'll have a friend down in hell after all
And if you're there to catch me when I fall
Then maybe hell ain't so bad after all