Periphery V: Djent Is Not A Genre Album Lyrics by Periphery

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Wildfire

You take the long way, wrong way to form me
And the time is now
I never would have thought this is the new me
So many people, so many faces left to please around me
You're ready to play dead, I'm ready to face it, face it
As I'm falling to pieces, the vultures are feasting

We've breached the precipice, long way down
Now I'll say this, I'm in hell
Passed the mark I've missed

Mistakes running through my brain
There's a lesson to be learned and I'll heal again
Bloodstains cover all the walls
I'm the pessimist patient doll

Now here I sit, like a marionette
Strings on my limbs, rope on my neck
The hell below exists within my bed
Counting every misstep till it's time to reset

It feels so low, the love I've known
Floating on my own
Forward, back, it's all the same now
This is a one-way road
It feels so low, the love I've known
Floating on my own
Slow or fast, it's all the same now
Somebody do it slowly
Kill me slowly

The past is cutting through me
And all the imperfections, they show
Heartbeat haunts me
When all the bad times stick
And I don't know what to do with them

I'm burning like wildfire
Take me f*cking out of this hole
Heartbeat haunts me
'Cause all the bad times stayed
And I don't know what I'm doing here

Mistakes coursing through my veins
Like the heroin needle to the addict's brain
Bloodstains hanging from the wall
Is the pessimist patient doll

So here I sit like a marionette
A slave to thoughts, they're like a weight on my chest
An appetite for neither food nor sex
With a malicious intent, I'll take two to the head, oh

You put the strings on my limbs
I put the rope on my neck
You put the strings on my limbs
I put the rope around my f*cking neck

You put the strings on my limbs
Now I'm the one with the rope on my neck

The past is cutting through me
And all the imperfections, they show
Heartbeat haunts me
When all the bad times stick
And I don't know what to do with them
I'm burning like wildfire

I don't know what I'm doing here

The past is cutting through me
And all the imperfections, they show
Heartbeat haunts me
When all the bad times stick
And I don't know what to do with them

I'm burning like wildfire
Take me f*cking out of this hole
Heartbeat haunts me
'Cause all the bad times stayed
And I don't know what I'm doing here

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Atropos

Don't look down below
We'd rather stay (We'd rather stay)
In a moment and pacified than see
That's how we do it

Don't say it's nothing more than a love like that
Gotta chase somebody
Yeah isn't it funny
How much better we seem to get along when we're face-down in a place where we belong?
Where do we belong?
Where do we belong?

Pieces, falling pieces, I can feel them
Every time I close my eyes, I can feel them in my brain
Pieces, falling pieces, falling pieces, I can feel them
Every time I close my eyes, I can feel them f*cking my mind

There doesn't have to be a reason
What's the point of taking bits and pieces away, away from my high?
You can blame it on the seasons or a lack of serotonin, constant needing
Don't look down below, we'd rather stay (We'd rather stay)
In a moment and pacified than bleed for eternity

Don't say it's nothing more than a love like that
Chase that f*cking money
Yeah isn't it funny
How much better we seem to get off when we're locked in with a superficial hole?
Where do we belong?
Where do we belong?

Now everybody sings the same old sad song
Where have we gone wrong?

There's broken bodies in the distance
Right now broken brains are amidst us
Forever
Where do we belong?
Where have we gone wrong?

A lack of body
Just caught in the middle
Some say f*ck it when they're stuck in the middle
Some say f*ck it when they're bleeding a little bit
And can't find the rhythm to get out of it
Get me f*cking out of this mess
A lack of anybody
Just caught in the middle
The soul is sold

A lack of anybody
Just caught in the middle
The soul is sold
Some they pay
Some they want it
We're caught in the middle
The soul is so empty

Paid in full
Tear the hole, tear the hole inside your soul (Inside your soul)

There's broken bodies in the distance
But right now broken brains are amidst us
And you should all just surrender
A lack of body, just caught in the middle
A lack of body, just caught in the middle
Some say f*ck it when they're bleeding a little bit
Paid in full
Tear the hole, tear the hole inside your soul
Feel it, feel it, feel it f*cking my mind
Paid in full
Tear the hole, tear the hole inside your soul
Tear it, tear it, tear it in your soul

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Wax Wings

It feels so wrong stuck down in the web we weave
Tear apart the way we are and do it so well
Our peace of mind left in pieces
Holding your head in hands and the world is watching today
Feeling like an empty room
Nothing ever fits, but I will find my way
Resume
Who am I staring at?
All I’ve wanted and more, living beyond the door
Right behind the front door

Painting the patterns I’ve become within my eyes
Murals fade, but lessons they sow
And as the paths we wander have shown, our hearts will grow
Beauty wades within the sound soul

I’ve said so long to sanity
Picked apart the way I am, but living to tell
The surgery of mending pieces is hanging over me and the world is watching today

This is still life
Make it mine
I used to do it all the time
Dust off your shoulders through it
Yeah this is still life
Make it mine
I used to do it all the time
Sick of living low
I’ve gotta let the feeling go
Sick of living low
I’ve gotta pick me off the floor

Stay in the upright
One second
One day
One step
Just keep moving
Keep your head up high
One second 
One day 
One step
You’re not on your own

I’m feeling like an empty room
Nothing ever fits, but I will find my way
Resume
Who am I staring at?
All I’ve wanted and more, living beyond the door
Right behind the front door

Must I lay here as a product of the world I never leave
I can see
My life is crashing down
It’s been a while
My mind is racing for a million miles
The machine is turning me
Just imagine the damage that’s done when you fly with wax wings in the sun
The past is present, I’m not in denial
It’s holding on like it’s an infant child
The machines are turning me

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Everything is Fine!

I saw all the flaws
Felt all the wrongs 
Bowing down
Pedestal with no god
Owing to myself, but a fraud
Always a hazard in recall
Not just for the show
Not a dead ego
I’m still binging all the lows

Sunny day, but I can’t shake this feeling
Never mind what others f*cking say
Am I the monster in the mirror when the darkest clouds hang overhead?

F*cking coward
Do you lack the confidence?
Coward
I’ll bleed and repent
Guilty cunt
Guilty faker
Blind lead the blind
Eye for an eye
Why can’t we fall in line with the status high

Hide in the jail as we cower
Hands are bound
Malicious sound
Holding the profound
Awake on my own
Wilting
Dead in the flower
Garden drowned by the showers

You coward
How we cower 
Our body is not a haven, it’s a prison
This body is not a sanctuary
Our body is not a haven, it’s a f*cking prison
This body is not a sanctuary
This mirror, shattered image of me 
This body is not a sanctuary
This mirror, shattered vision of me
F*ck your sanctuary
F*ck your haven

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Silhouette

Love, loss, light circling everybody
It gets hazy as the years begin to breathe
Step back in the memory
Relive a parody of me
He gets hazy
Move along in disbelief

We’re not the people we once were and we’ve moved on seeking out answers
Viewing the past self like he’s only a friend of mine

The world is turning as we grow
We soak in the afterglow
It’s only part of the path we take
Left in our wake
The colors of our past will fade to gray
This life replays in stereo
We soak in the afterglow

Leave clues hanging from the wall
See him walking down the hall
Piecing the puzzle undone and its like a movie that replays, but he can’t find that boy inside
Passing through all the hues
Blue vibe like it’s a funeral for somebody
Close the coffin of his mind
He was only a friend of mine

Where does he go and is he just a silhouette
What do we know?
What little of him do we know?
Just a part of who we were still in the light

To purge the cells of someone else, we shed our past down the wishing well
Your seven years have come and gone so well

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Dying Star

Falling pieces
Wide awake
Incessant murderer
The life you take
Can you feel it?
Puzzle reset
Now I remember, but I’ll soon forget

When the only emanation flowing in and around you
Is a wall of limitation, desperation steps out into the light
Patience like medicine
I’ll break the mold and settle into my ocean mind

Feel the warmth as we fill our lungs
Remove the world and all that’s become
Breathe out the past, and presently, your heart is open

You’re as persistent as a dying star
Playing the part of who you are
Sulk alone
Take it home
Yeah, the time means nothing to me
Salt the wound
Make it bloom
The body suffers through it

Patients take medicine, but I’ll break the mold and settle into my ocean mind

Feel the warmth as it fills our lungs
Remove the world and all that’s become
Breathe out the past, and presently, your heart is open

This whole relationship between me and my life has thrown me in hesitation
Lock down
Gaslight situation
My soul is down, it’s not right
Learning when the heart is open
Turn mind into an ocean

Take space ‘cause you’re not alone
It’s the same place as it was before
On roads unknown
Your heart is open

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Zagreus

The prosthetic limbs of social norms are beating us today
The burdens we all must hide, or pay for it
Transgressions aside
Be a martyr for life
And everything will be f*cking fine
Transgressions aside
Having the time of our lives
Now pay for it and you'll savor every last drop

Two as one
Fodder for the slaughterhouse
Quartered on the killing floor
You and I
Are searching for something beyond this social condition
Fill the ballot and give our permission
Over and over again and again
Sort your condition
Get down with submission

Sort your condition
For submission

Sort your condition, baby
Get down with submission
Searching for something beyond this social condition
Cast your vote and then move aside

Tradition of submission starting from the womb
You better watch what you say
They always know what's best though
Conditioned by their vision
Sinking in our tombs
The pressure is always there
We know they want what's best though
Of course they do

I think it's time to stop pointing fingers
And start looking inward, oh
Measure the cases 'cause it's not right
Just to generalize

Start staring down your life
Maybe you'll see things much clearer
Imploring what's down in your mind
To make an appearance

Sort your condition
Sort your condition
Throw it in remission
Throw it aside

Tradition of submission starting from the womb
You better watch what you say
They always know what's best though
Conditioned by their vision
Sinking in our tombs
The pressure is always there
We know they want what's best though

Will it ever be?
Will we ever live in honesty?
'Cause we're falling apart, falling apart, you and I
Will it ever be?
Will we ever live another day in honesty?
'Cause we're falling apart, right from the start, you and I

Will it ever be?
Will we ever live in honesty? (Honesty)
'Cause we're falling apart, falling apart, you and I (oh)
Will it ever be?
Will we ever live another day in honesty? (Honesty)
'Cause we're falling apart, right from the start, you and I (oh)

So paint that picture to sleep at night
No regard for another's life
We'll be just fine (oh)

So paint that picture to sleep at night (oh)
No regard for another's life (oh)
We'll be just fine (you and I)

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Dracul Gras

Daylight fading
Desolate skyline
Sun retreating giving way to dusk
Canvas sinking to darkness
Flickering are candles in the wind
Following behind the trail of the living to the feeding ground
All are one and the pulsing of a heart keeps an eternal bound
Open your veins
Hook up the line
It’s feeding time
Open the veins
Drink of the body
Blood like wine

Bow low
The children of the blood glow for the one eternal
Pray now, lest the darkness fall upon our rite, to the one eternal

Peering in the night
Servants
Everybody on the lane coddled in peace
The body had to cease
Soar below your sky
No wind below his dead wings
To the pale one, this life, we owe

Whispers trail in the breeze 
Ignore the sound, though malicious it seems

Bow low
The children of the blood glow for the one eternal
Pray now, lest the darkness fall upon our rite, to the one eternal
Oh the beauty abound
Bow low before the pale one
Pray now, lest the darkness fall upon our rite, to the one eternal

Interference howls in the dead of night
Remnants of an elden order circling
Hold tight
Our innocence betrays our safety
The reality of our destruction reaching for our sanity
Solidarity besieged
The remnants of an elden order servicing their vanity
Weep as the darkness surrounds

Silent, in the moonlight, as she goes
The air is stale as he lingers on his own
Harboring the foresight, with the teeth drawn, a commanding shadow pushes onward toward the throne
Draining borrowed blood and roaring loud as thunder
Nails tearing through the pale
The preservation of a life gone
Blood rains heavy in her trail

Mirrored image
The child of coddled demeanor
A family torn
Carry on by his side
Wide in the middle
Terrorize
The hunger showing teeth
Severing mortality
The hunger grows inside
Measuring a quarter in size
He moves swiftly into the night
So stay low
The fury of the stealth-blow
Drain the blood and the cries out to terrorize (see it in their eyes)
The pleasure of the hunt is recognized

Painting the town rose red beneath his feet
Red upon his face
For the taste
For the vengeance
Deemed the savior eternally

Servants
Everybody on the street living in peace
They rid it of disease
Open up your veins
Hook up the line
Drink of the body
Blood like wine
Open your veins
Drink of the body
Blood like wine

Son of darkness, feed in the dead of night

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Thanks Nobuo

Taking a look
Your past is the weight that takes hold of your brain
Same as before
The shock ripping through
It all hits the floor
You fear it, so feel it
Feel the apparition selling me lies
He’ll eclipse the beacon holding light
A bleeding contradiction
We’ll never harmonize, you and I
The void shall be your way

Another trigger in mind because it says so
Cut out the perilous lies
Beyond the deathblow we go

The past position was wearing me down, but this preservation is newly found
The contradiction was bleeding me dry
You and I will never harmonize
Nothing lasts forever, and thank God it doesn’t 
Drifting towards the center of serenity
The dark of night has given way, and thank f*cking God it did
Whether eternally, or just a moment, bask in the light

Another trigger in mind because it says so
Cut out the perilous lies because it says so
Beyond the deathblow we go

Nothing lasts forever so you’ve gotta make it right
Drifting towards the center
You’ve gotta remember…
This is a moment divine
A silent wave
For just a moment in time, patterns are aligning
Now the climb to bask in the light

They know it never mattered what they had known
They know that part of him that shines like so
They know it never mattered what they had known
They know that part of me that shines like gold
The curtain drops closed
I don’t wanna go
Pardon me, but the past is over
The curtain drops closed
I don’t wanna go
Rest the soul
Shine like gold

They know it never mattered what they had known
They know that part of him that shines like gold
They know it never mattered what they had known
They know…
Rest the soul, shine like gold 

You’re shining and it shows