Slipknot - .5: The Gray Chapter Album Lyrics

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XIX

This song is not for the living
This song is for the dead

With my face
Against the floor
I can't see who knocked me out of the way
I don't want
To get back up
But I have to, so it might as well be today

Nothing appeals to me
No one feels like me
I'm too busy being calm to disappear
I'm in no shape
To be alone
Contrary to the shit that you might hear

So walk with me
Walk with me
Don't let this symbolism kill your heart
Walk with me
Walk with me
Just like we should've done right from the start

Walk with me
Walk with me
Don't let this f*cking world tear you apart

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Sarcastrophe

Wallow in the winter of it
Discover what you truly covet
Underneath the floor, above it
You slither and I'll get a chance
How could you forget about it?
Did you think you could minimize?
This is the age of consent
You'll get a day in this life
Before I kill your f*cking light
Burn open your atmosphere
Burn open your atmosphere
Desecrate your temples
Only I'll end the name I've made
Don't look for crows, they're scattered
Prepare for judgment day

We are killed gods

The gates are falling down
Can I find a way to get there?
Bury your head in the ground
When you falsify for your friendship
Which god is god plus negative one?
It's everybody's deaths but they have only one
Will you come testify in the court of myopic opinion?
Or will you settle for oblivion?

We are killed gods

(We)
We make this world worth saving (Are)
Are you prepared to believe? (Killed)
Kill everything that kills you (Gods)
Live long and die for me

You write, tortured sick
In the middle of a novelist pact
They will never obey
All these years spent hiding all the bodies
I could never be sure but I remember the graves

We are killed gods

(We)
We make this world worth saving (Are)
Are you prepared to believe? (Killed)
Kill everything that kills you (Gods)
Live long and die for me

Live long and die for me
Live long and die for me

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AOV

Black dirty teeth, in the grease
Was the proof, too good to be believed
It's the cut, we're the tongue
Who belongs on broken knees
So far it occurs to me
That everybody in the world is afraid of me
Just one more slip and down we go
But the news is out
And I think I'm going to kill myself
Or fight myself, or tell myself
About the only thing that matters now

We bury what we fear the most
Approaching original violence
Is the silence where you hide it?
Cause I don't recognize you anymore
To each his own
I can do with one less watered down excuse
If this is over you can tell me it's no use
Used - just tell me it's over

Today we will deceive our better selves
Into assimilating pain from something else
Put on your face and show me why
Behind this safe we had to simply comply
Now the community doesn't feel any better than it used to be
I want to be a judge in their criminal case
You gather an upset, you'll come to faith
Be yourself, not yourselve, know yourself
Cause no one seems to know you now

We carry what we can't control
Approaching original violence
In the silence there's a nihilist
Who doesn't care and never did
To each his own
I can do with one less watered down excuse
There comes a time where we can't take the same abuse
If this is over you can tell me it's no use

Calm down, we're done, everything's the same
Bitch and moan, it doesn't matter, nothing's gonna change
I don't want to watch another brother f*cking die
So I'm discarded, fallen from the side
Don't tell me it's the only way
Just because the reason is why you never take the blame
The trials, the scare means, the burden of the beast
F*ck your face and turn your back on everything you fought to save a dream

(Now I can die alone)
(We're going to die)

We are the angels, fear to tread
Approaching original violence
We're the silence, we'll deny it
We can't continue on like this
To each his own
I can do with one less watered down excuse
There comes a time where we can't take the same abuse
My god, it would have taken just one worthless day from you
Now that this is over you can tell me it's no use
Now that this is over you can tell me it's no use
Used - just tell me it's over

It doesn't matter what you say
It doesn't matter what you do
We can't continue on like this

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The Devil In I

Undo these chains, my friend.
I'll show you the rage I've hidden.
Perish the sacrament.
Swallow, but nothing's forgiven.
You and I can't decide
Which of us was taken for granted.
Make amends, some of us are destined to be outlived.

Step inside, See The Devil In I
Too many times, we've let it come to this
Step inside, See The Devil In I
You'll realize I'm not your Devil anymore

Under the words of men
Something is tempting the father.
Where is your will, my friend?
Insatiates never even bother.
You and I, wrong or right
Traded a lie for the leverage.
In between the lens in light
You're not what you seem.

Step inside, See The Devil In I
Too many times we've let it come to this
Step inside, See The Devil In I
You'll realize I'm not your Devil...

I'm Not Your Devil Anymore

Your station is abandoned
Fooled you 'cause I know what you've done
Sensation, depravation
You should've burned when you turned on everyone

So step inside, See The Devil In I
Too many times we've let it come to this
Step inside, See The Devil In I
I know you'll find your answers in the end
Step inside, See The Devil In I
You'll realize I'm not your Devil... anymore

So step inside, step inside
See The Devil In I
See The Devil In I

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Killpop

She's sticking needles in her skin
I turn with an ugly grin
Her canvas doesn't leave a lot, to fantasy
But her peace of mind, can't stay inside the lines
It's so, confusing, the methods that she's using
She knows she shouldn't leave a mark, that I can see
Will she ever find, one million of a kind
It's cold and lonely, but that's because she told me
Lost inside her dirty world
No one hurts this pretty girl but her...
Oh, she's beautiful
A little better than a mind deserves
You are not inside
Please tell me she won't shy

[Chorus:]
Maybe I should let her go
But only when she loves me (she loves me)
How can I just let her go?
Not until she loves me (she loves me)

She's drowning in herself again
My god what a lovely sin
I guess there's nothing left to do, but have my way
She can feel it's right, so she doesn't close her eyes
She smiles and answers, it doesn't seem to matter
Lost inside my dirty head
Something tells me I'm the one who's kept
Oh, so volatile
A little better than a mind defiled
Oh I need the pain
Please tell me shit won't change

[Chorus]

We were meant to be together
Now die and f*cking love me
We were meant to hurt each other
Now die and f*cking love me
Die and f*cking love me
Die and f*cking love me
Die and f*cking love me

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Skeptic

Pissed!

I only want to feint, commit the rape
Do we get a little taste? That's unique
The libertine, know what I made
Him - achievement on a Sunday
You had a gift, you were a gift
But there's always a goddamned catch
Nothing and a curse, you made it work
The universe seems so much smaller

Vengeance, bastards, different, why?
Why do the living decreed?
And our hero, martyr, missionary
God - he was the best of us

The world will never see another crazy motherf*cker like you
The world will never know another man as amazing as you

Never be the same, I want the blame
To be assigned to the guiltiest one
It can't be done, because the son
Was a victim of your best sin
I'm so f*cking pissed at all of this
You gotta know that you are sorely missed
Eight becomes a wheel, they hope you heal
They make you feel like they broke it better

[?] brother, scapegoat, why?
Why did we only get this day?
Fighter, icon, chanting
God - stop taking the best of us

I won't let you disappear
I will keep your soul alive if I can't have you here
It's no grim made heaven shield[?]
I'm lunatic, set in stones
But the world will never see another crazy motherf*cker like you
The world will never know another man as amazing as you
The world will never see another crazy motherf*cker like you
The world will never know another man as amazing as you

Skeptic [x6]

Where am I supposed to begin?
I'm killing for the karma again
Feed the meat to ripping machine
Where living is a way to be sane

God - are we alone? [x3]
God - we're not alone

I can't let you disappear
I will keep your soul alive if I can't have you heal
We were meant to be the gates
Rule the masses, run the risk
And keep our systems clean
It's your remake, heaven's shroud[?]
For lunatics that starve
But the world will never see another crazy motherf*cker like you
The world will never know another man as amazing as you
The world will never see another crazy motherf*cker like you
The world will never know another man as amazing as you

The world will never see (will never see)
Another crazy motherf*cker like you (like you)
Like you (like you)
Like you

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Lech

I know why Judas wept, motherf*cker

The fires burn on the summit
Shining a light on the ones I've killed
Survivor's guilt - undetermined
I could murder the world in all the blood I've spilled

Banishment
Still question the conquered
To hell with your intelligence
Just figure out your common sense

No one is bulletproof

And I'll eat the skins of my brothers
Yellow pastor bones will make a perfect wall
Gonna fill in the cracks of these feelings
With every terrible piece or maybe nothing at all

Selfishness
Take granted for everything
What more could you ask for?
It doesn't matter anymore

No one is bulletproof

Can you feel the cold?
Fortune never favors the old
Tired of defending myself
Go complain to somebody else
Somebody else

The masses and your manners
Are the voices in your head
They're smashing out your windows
That you worked for beneath your bed
You live right f*cking 'neath it
So you'll die like thanking gods
In between the voices and the pure
Cause masses have the charm

Nine for sure

And I have only sand inside of me
It's a rotting sick that I don't need
To pene-vent your interro-gration
I can believe I'm saying this
I'll live with my regrets
I'll die by my decisions
I'm not your f*cking superstar
Keep it closed, you're going way too far

No one is bulletproof
Bulletproof
No one is bulletproof
Bulletproof
No one is bulletproof
Bulletproof

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Goodbye

Come on over
Come unglued
It's not easy
To see all of you
Help yourselves
Help is on the way
Well there's nothing to lose
So now, I have something to say
Maybe we can all recognize a moment of sadness
Maybe we can finally agree on a sane point of view
A long time ago we believed that we were united
So the last thing on Earth I am ready to do is say... Goodbye

A long time ago we discovered that nothing could stop us
This hasn't torn us apart, so nothing ever will
How can we know where we are if the sun is beyond us
But this moment will show us the rest of our lives
No one is going to save us this time
No one can know what we're feeling, in that I may trust

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Nomadic

Let's stare, upon my head is three onyx
Not again, not another excuse
The epidemic, it codepended
Biting off more than your mouth can chew
Don't forget to compilate your fake quest
I don't want to be a man today
For all that you know, I'm the devil and the bullet
I am the trigger that will make you all obey

I'm gonna make you cry tonight
I'm gonna make you hate me

Inside all my thoughts again
I can't let go
In spite of you, I'm lost again
I still don't know
Disguise has shown me
What if I am followed - lonely
The status quo was not a punishment
But now it feels like home

You're as filthy as you thought you're guilty
Started with the end of the day
Black and white is such a fascist feeling
Right or wrong, and nothing to say
The last good five prints, straight enough to fingerprint
But appreciated medical fiends
Confiscate another classic inbred
F*ck it all - light the acetylene

No one is you as I can't explain
Life keeps taking things away

Inside all my thoughts again
I can't let go
In spite of you, I'm lost again
I still don't know
Disguise has shown me
What if I am never lonely
The status quo was not a punishment
But now it feels like home

"The tough guys who came to kill, but stayed to rape and ravage."

The tortured serum, that's my friend
When the evidence came, I committed the flood
Can you stand on your faith with your feet on the bible?
Who could ask for a better disciple
What's the point, I'm not sure I can
I'll never dig another grave, I'm afraid of what I'll find
If it hurts then you're too woe
I'll take your shit and gut your f*cking goat

I'm gonna make you cry tonight
I need you to hate me

Inside all my thoughts again
I can't let go
In spite of you, I'm lost again
I still don't know
Disguise has shown me
What if I have settled on it
The status quo was not a punishment
But now it feels like home
But now it feels like home

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The One That Kills The Least

I don't seem to care today
I mirror what I love
Win what I hate
Empty waste can cloud your eyes
I only know because I tried
So come with me
Come with me
Let's meet uncontested
There's no better time to play the game

I don't want to give it away
Underneath I see the kill
Buried deep within guilty regrets
Bleeding in the dark, everything is wonderful
I don't care, I don't want to forget
When is it acquired? It's none of your business
I prefer to be an outlaw of my filth
Turn the other cheek
It's ever disappointing
You refuse us to forgive
When nothing was taken

No one else survives
I've seen you live, now watch me die
But we don't see the writing on the wall
And as I close my eyes
I know the deal, I realize
The one that kills the least still kills us all

Hidden in the rubble
Everybody's got a story to tell
What do I need? Eliminate the impossible
All that's left is a man and a veil
Maybe our mouth, maybe it's the station
There's no better way to go, no better way to be
I've got my demon, go get your own
Save another number, don't forget to hate me

No one else survives
I've seen you live, now watch me die
But we will see the writing on the wall
And as I close my eyes
I know the deal, I realize
The one that kills the least still killed us all

No one else survives
I've seen you live, now watch me die
But we don't see the writing on the wall
And as I close my eyes
I'm lost in here, I realize
The one that kills the least still killed us all
The one that kills the least still kills us all
The one that kills the least still kills us all, all, all

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Custer

Have this one!
Dat-dat-da, dat-dat-da, dat-dat-da-da-da
Dat-dat-da, dat-dat-da, dat-dat-da-da-da!

(Yeah)
(Right)
Half alive and stark raving free in the line front
Croaching on the purpose of this commercial-free interruption
Due to the prolific nature of this statement
Listener aggression is advised

It's strange, whenever I see a gun
I think about just how petty you are
And it blows my f*cking mind!
Yeah, it blows my f*cking mind!
These days, I never seem to get enough
I'm tired of this shit, I want to go up
Don't waste my f*cking time!
Don't waste my f*cking time!
Because anything exceptional
Gets crushed by governed people
With jealousy and ignorance
And all that coven equals
This one, it isn't special
Collections made of clay
I'm waiting for the punishment
I know it's on my way

(Cut- cut- cut me up and
F*ck- f*ck- f*ck me up)
Cut- cut- cut me up and
F*ck- f*ck- f*ck me up! [x5]

Irreverence is my disease
It's secondhand, but you know me
The son of a bitch is on his knees
The last man standing gets no pity

Somewhere on a toilet wall
I read the words you form along
To form a life, they're for my life
And I find myself a truth
Something so profound and now it's sitting there
Surrounded by the damage of the state
Another victim of the refuse
Now I've been saying this for years
But you don't comprehend it
I fight hell and I fight fear
Because I understand it
Androgeny and insults
Your choice, don't wanna be difficult
You want to win the war?
Know what you're fighting for

(Cut- cut- cut me up and
F*ck- f*ck- f*ck me up)
Cut- cut- cut me up and
F*ck- f*ck- f*ck me up! [x3]
Cut- (cut) cut- (cut) cut me up and
F*ck- (f*ck) f*ck- (f*ck) f*ck me up! [x2]

Irreverence is my disease
It's secondhand, but you know me
The son of a bitch is on his knees
The last man standing gets no pity
With angel eyes and demon seeds
You're missing what you really need
When all is said and done, you see
The last man standing gets no pity
(No pity) [x5]

(Cut- cut- cut me up and
F*ck- f*ck- f*ck me up) [x2]
Cut- (cut) cut- (cut) cut me up and
F*ck- (f*ck) f*ck- (f*ck) f*ck me up! [x2]
Cut- cut- cut me up and
F*ck- f*ck- f*ck me up! [x2]

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Be Prepared For Hell

I can't get out or I'll die
Just let me be
I'll never be never

Be prepared for Hell and I say oh well
Just tell me when I can open my eyes and realize I've died
[x2]

Be prepared for Hell

[maniacal laughter]

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The Negative One

(F*ck)

Fire and caffeine, a lot of nicotine
I'm on a burn, so I better tell you everything
The competition, the superstition
Nevermind 'cause you're never gonna give in
If acquired and that's how you like it
The same trouble in a different disguise
Bound to walk with a target on my back
At least I'm ready for another attack

The Lord of lies
The morning star
You had to be set free
Opposing sides
Your choices are
The negative one and me

Svengali, wail with the enemies
I never follow and I never make apologies
Your divisions, are gonna get ya
Because you won't disappoint each other
Center for the cynical, you're so political
You're getting ready 'cause the first move is critical
Reciprocity, somebody's listening
Until we learn from our time we can never die

The Lord of lies
The morning star
You had to be set free
Opposing sides
Your choices are
The negative one and me
The negative one and me

I hope you live
To see the day
When your world comes up in flames
And as you die
You see my face
You're the only one to blame
(Yeah)

(F*ck)

The Prescient, the Nascent
The quotient (They all will fall)
The Cystic, symbolic, condition (Systemic)
Egregious, replete with
These lesions (Contaminate)
Succumb to the selfish
Creation (Your failure)

Know I got ability, divisibility
I point a finger but it's always looking back at me
The centerpiece pulling on the mechanism
Unearthing skies of the cataclysm
When the innocent begin to circumvent
The color fades, but the picture is vibrant
What do you believe, doesn't matter now
Turn away, the killer is that of now

The Lord of lies
The morning star
You had to be set free
Opposing sides
Your choices are
The negative one and me
The negative one and me

I hope you live
To see the day
When your world comes up in flames
And as you die
You see my face
You're the only one to blame

The Lord of lies (The Lord of lies)
The morning star (The morning star)
You had to be set free
Opposing sides (opposing sides)
Your choices are (your choices are)
The negative one (The negative one)
The negative one (The negative one)
The negative one (The negative one)
The negative one and me
The negative one and me
The negative one and me

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If Rain Is What You Want

It's been years since anyone
Could be a friend
It's the fear that kills the feeling
In the end
Can we face it?
Can we shape it?
Can we really die?
If rain is what you want
All you have to do is close your eyes
Just close your eyes

I have watched your resurrection
Start to crawl
Is there any chance in Hell?
Any chance at all?
Do we need it?
Do we see it?
Is it really there?
If rain is what you want
Then take your seats
Enjoy the fall
Enjoy the fall

(Enjoy the fall)
The only thing deeper than my last breath
The only thing darker than my last death
Is the panic, the static
I've come back from the dead
For my solace
We'll never sleep again

In these diamonds
We're left with colored glass
As pressure takes its toll
We will outlast
But you can't break my heart
As long as I can be myself
I'll never fall apart
And you can't take me in
If I'm not broken, break me down
So I will never feel alone again

The only thing deeper than my last breath
The only thing darker than my last death
Is the panic, the static
I've come back from the dead
For my solace
We'll never sleep again

My solace
We'll never sleep again [x4]

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Override

(Special Edition Bonus Track)

The ghosts have given up
Familiar haunts have had enough
Too much thought will give you doubt
And now they found you
It's safer in a cage
They can't tell you what to say
All your dreams come with a price, so they own you
But what did you expect?
Was it too much to protect?
Did you understand they had selfish intentions?
When they were pulling you in opposite directions

You don't know the hell that's coming
Everybody get on the ground
You don't know the hell that's coming
Everybody get on the ground
We are the override
We are the override

The dead don't know, the dead are lonely
A fascination fades
When this mercy execution says it's over
You follow as preferred
Now their plans are undeterred
Who can break their need to supersede? It's over
Even hate starts out as love
Sometimes when it's all you want
Maybe satisfaction will take you for granted
When all that's left is the emotion you abandoned

You don't know the hell that's coming
Everybody get on the ground
You don't know the hell that's coming
Everybody get on the ground
We are the override
We are the override

You clawed out from nothing and I sent you back
Fought to the metal, and law's what you lacked
Covered in sores - you cannot be the one
You are the answer to why we have risen
You are not the way
You are judged to be afraid
You are simple and unchanged
We believe you should give up
Give up
Give up
Satisfaction will take you for granted
When all that's left is a life you abandoned

You don't know the hell that's coming
Everybody get on the ground
You don't know the hell that's coming
Everybody get on the ground
We are the override
We are the override

Give up [x9]

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The Burden

(Special Edition Bonus Track)

There's God
Can I feed you again?
Will I have to stay dumb?
You can feel and it begins
But I know inside this heart attack
I can see through your eyes
I'm terrified of everything
But it's no real surprise
Because the parasites are dancing closer
All this sacrilegion warns in posters
Can you handle it?

In the dark
Why I think I'm alone
I swept through my visions
I'm going too cold
Today is a tragedy
In the mouth of the mad
But that doesn't matter now
I've come relaxed
I'm curled up in a ball, and shaking
I'm hiding from the hell I'm making
I can't believe the chance I'm taking
Is there any other way?
Is there any other way?

The burden
The burden

You can't save me
There is nothing more to give
I am changing
Almost like I never lived
Be me witness
Just don't leave me in suspense
Keep this, prove it
Tell them all the consequences

The burden
Have you ever been burdened before?
The burden
Was there anything you wanted more?

You can't save me
There is nothing more to give
I am changing
Almost like I never lived
Be my witness
Just don't leave me in suspense
Keep this, prove it
Tell them all the consequences

Our same plea
By now you know that looks are deceiving
I'm covered in a rash and receding
Is there any other way?
Is there any other way?

For gods' sakes we've suffered - this pain is now our lives
For gods' sakes we've suffered enough [x4]

Enough
Enough
Enough

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Silence

(Special Edition Bonus Track)

[The track is a moment of silence for the passing of founding member Paul Gray, their bassist.]
(RIP April 8, 1972 - May 24, 2010)