Half Inch Hero - Martyr Lyrics

Did I really have to die for you to save me?
Once my kin are gone there's no replacing
Think about the stories you're erasing

When you tell me
That you think it's worth it knowing just to know
Forgoing mercy and compassion for the show
Remember, heroes never kill
Ones they swore to save

Refracting through the mist in the dark time
What are these beams?
I've never seen one
Never seen the lights on this mountain
Just their flames in the valley below

Take cover, take cover
They're taking everybody that they've found
Take cover, take cover
Trying life half an inch from the ground

Did I really have to die for you to save me?
Once my kin are gone there's no replacing
Think about the stories you're erasing

When you tell me
That you think it's worth it knowing just to know
Forgoing mercy and compassion for the show
Remember, heroes never kill the ones they swore to save

Fate sealed in a chemical prison
But a body with my liver excised
Forget the scenery
Take in the irony
Gave us a name in exchange for our lives

Distorted faces peering in from sterile places
The fruits of your profession
The cost of your obsession

Did I really have to die for you to save me?
Once my kin are gone there's no replacing
Think about the stories you're erasing

When you tell me
That you think it's worth it knowing just to know
Forgoing mercy and compassion for the show
Remember, heroes never kill the ones they swore to save

Codify me as your specimen
Retard the decay with your formalin
Consecrate me with an epithet
Immortalized
Terrified

Codify me as your specimen
Retard the decay with your formalin
Consecrate me with an epithet
Immortalized

Hold on a minute

Absent the agency
You paint me a martyr
Spilling cold blood
This reeks of a murder

Absent the agency
You paint me a martyr
Spilling cold blood
This reeks of a murder

Absent the agency
You paint me a martyr
Spilling cold blood
This reeks of a murder