Omens Album Lyrics by Lamb of God

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Nevermore

Driving down blistered severe
The rapacious maw of our despair
Black dog follows, strip club echoes
The raven's shadow across the ghetto

Up the hill in an unmarked grave
The mother of American darkness lays
Liberty or death to start the battle
There's nonesuch place for human chattel

Hanging by a threat
Now you can choke on it
Hanging by a threat
So go and choke on it
This is a reckoning
You hear the ravens scream
Hanging by a threat
So go and choke on it

Across the devil's own half acre
There's rusted gallows for an angel
The ghosts that built this city scream
Of commerce and inhumanity

Cancer rides the freeway's edge
Falling statues and cigarettes
Bullets whip the screaming kettle
As teargas cloaks the monumental

Hanging by a threat
Now you can choke on it
Hanging by a threat
So go and choke on it
This is a reckoning
You hear the ravens scream
Hanging by a threat
So go and choke on it

Chained beneath a parking lot
Savaged on the auction block
In antebellum geography
Rage, horror, history

Hanging by a threat
Now you can choke on it
Hanging by a threat
So go and choke on it
This is a reckoning
You hear the ravens scream
Hanging by a threat
So go and choke on it

Nevermore
Nevermore

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Vanishing

Strode across the smoky floors in time
To bear witness and hear the death of paradigms
Lords of sound and simple vice
Young gods severe and satellites

Augmented nights, adrenaline
Of nicotine and satin skin

That world is dead, just memories
A faded scene inside of me
Vanishing, vanishing (vanishing)

Born of earth shaking Maldoror
The legion crushed
The legion crushed what came before
Imploded meaning for the youth
Who never knew
Never knew the joy of truth

Their pale and pallid replication
Could never spark a true creation

That world is dead, just memories
A faded scene inside of me
Vanishing, vanishing (vanishing)

Scorched minds and stark narration
Adroit intent not imitation
Blurred reflections, a better time
Post-modern tantrums on a father's dime

Vanishing, vanishing
Vanishing, vanishing

A shining path beckons me
Never to be seen again
A shining path beckons me
Never to be seen again
A shining path beckons me
Never to be seen again
A shining path beckons me
Never to be seen again

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To The Grave

I've walked the halls of madness
I've heard the jailer's laugh
I've yet to sing the funeral dirge
The only option left
Risen from an inferno
Of hopelessness and shame
Walked the tightrope out of it
Then shouldered all the blame

But make no mistake
I know it's always there
It's always there
The scent of doom riding neglect
It's hanging in the air

The only thing to fear remains inside unseen
Never disappears, stand guard eternally
The only thing I fear lives on inside of me
Whispers in my ear, to the grave eternally

The broken record of my life
Skips bodies of my friends
So many walked that path with me
It took them to their end
Resting on rusty laurels
It's sweating while you sleep
It's doing push-ups in the dark
With a knife between it's teeth

So lest you forget
It never fades away
Won't fade away
Waiting for you to slip
And put you in the grave

The only thing to fear remains inside unseen
Never disappears, stand guard eternally
The only thing I fear lives on inside of me
Whispers in my ear, to the grave eternally

It's always there
You best beware
Risen from an inferno
But waiting in the deep
It's always there

The only thing to fear
Never disappears
The only thing I fear
Whispers in my ear
I'll take it to the grave with me

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Ditch

Well I don't give a goddamn
About your demands

Just spit your trash and take a bow
I've heard it all before, a running mouth
The deviants and miscreants break their vows
You can all keep digging, I'm crawling out

You're face down, down in a ditch that you dug yourself
You can live and die by the hand you're dealt
Unwound consequence and you can never tell
Live or die by the hand you're dealt

Blinded by revenge
And your cowardice

They're all so scared again, it's so American
Here in the home of the brave and the terrified
Who can we blame this time? Back of the f*cking line
We're running out of excuses, we're out of lies

You're face down, down in a ditch that you dug yourself
You can live and die by the hand you're dealt
Unwound consequence and you can never tell
Live or die by the hand you're dealt

Down, down in a ditch that you dug yourself
You can live and die by the hand you're dealt
Unwound consequence and you can never tell
Live or die by the hand you're dealt

You demand a life you haven't earned
Entitled, soft and soon to learn
There's no shoulders here for crying
You command an ego gone unchecked
Unbridled needs for cheap respect
But your dreams were built for dying, built for dying

You're face down, down in a ditch that you dug yourself
You can live and die by the hand you're dealt
Unwound consequence and you can never tell
Live or die by the hand you're dealt

Down, down in a ditch that you dug yourself
You can live and die by the hand you're dealt
Unwound consequence and you can never tell
Live or die by the hand you're dealt

You're down in a ditch

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Omens

Omens, omens

I cut the weight of connection
That led myself astray
The end will justify the means
But in the end it stays the same
There's nothing left at all, nothing left to see
A restrictive empty exercise within a hollow scheme

Do you see the omens? Omens
F*ck it all, ignore the omens
Omens, omens
F*ck it all, ignore the omens

An endless recitation thrown
Right through the looking glass
I'm trapped inside a parody
A fabricated past

Searching for release from all this rising stress
Charted past the point of caring
With a broken compass
Motes in the eye of God
Indulging Armageddon
The devil slits the muse's throat
And drinks her last confession

Do you see the omens? Omens
F*ck it all, ignore the omens
Omens, omens
F*ck it all, ignore the omens

I've fallen out of touch with who you think I am
I can't pretend to care or bother to condemn
All this rising apathy
It's growing everyday
I can't pretend to care about how this will end

All I see are omens, omens
F*ck it all, ignore the omens
I see omens, I hear omens, I say
F*ck it all, ignore the omens

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Gomorrah

He packed up all his failures and pushed them down the street
Abandoned ship and torched the bridge to future memories
He never gave a second thought or tasted indecision
An automatic exit in the year of perfect vision
The years of slowly dying had come to serve him well
Just another inconvenience, another bitter pill
A hardened heir of harder times, well-equipped to suffer
And watch the fragile fall to pieces tearing at each other

Dissecting all the signs that passed him by
Reconstruct a pattern drawn by clearer eyes

Everything is doomed to fail
Everything is doomed to fail
Visions of the obvious
A featherweight apocalypse
Everything is doomed to fail
Everything is doomed to fail

High above the empty city, riding out the winter
He watched it all collapse below and saw the rigid splinter
A discipline of solitude perfected in their prisons
To lean into the void and smile as chaos ripped the system

The lines crept across waiting for a subject
From a force of will, a crucifying effect

Everything is doomed to fail
Everything is doomed to fail
Visions of the obvious
A featherweight apocalypse
Everything is doomed to fail
Everything is doomed to fail

A panicked hoard that tumbles down
Screeching outraged parasites
Another day above the ground
Another day in paradise

Everything is doomed to fail
Everything is doomed to fail
Visions of the obvious
A featherweight apocalypse
Everything is doomed to fail
Everything is doomed to fail

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Ill Designs

Now that you can't go back
To face your own reflection
Constructing your collapse
Designing your destruction

With ill designs burned in your eyes
Hide in the shadow of your lies, antagonize
Virtue displaced, a pure disgrace
No dignity, a barren waste, still on the take
Who will you be today?

Reap the rotten fruits of your labor
A bitter taste of exile and failure
Fatal flaws becoming clearer
Reptile eyes in the mirror

Loss of reality
Obsessing over control
And with a crooked mentality
Watch it all implode and fall away

A tragedy, your sick intentions on display, a strategy
And in the end you can't pretend
It's not the spoils of your intent, malevolence

Reap the rotten fruits of your labor
A bitter taste of exile and failure
Fatal flaws becoming clearer
Reptile eyes in the mirror

Every back you stabbed and every disrespect
Turns back on you, cause and effect
Strings you pulled and decks you stacked
A falling house of cards, a pathetic wreck

Reap the rotten fruits of your labor
A bitter taste of exile and failure
Fatal flaws becoming clearer
Reptile eyes in the mirror

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Grayscale

There's a war going on inside my head
Shadows sewn of golden thread
I sip the sweetest tastes until their bitter ends
I feel the greatest love inside the worst revenge

Cold rain falls on my face
And the light in my hand
I'm turning inside out
I don't know who I am
And do I want it to stop?

Grayscale eyes slide from black to white
Lived through dark days
Stillness in a crashing wave
Died in bright nights
Fall into an angry sky
Grayscale eyes slide from black to white
In a grayscale tide

There's a war going on inside of me
Questions echo endlessly
I paid a thief to steal away my one escape
I bought a broken mirror just to try and see my face

Cold winds blow from the hills
There's eyes on my back
In sinking shifting sands
I don't know where I am

Grayscale eyes slide from black to white
Lived through dark days
Stillness in a crashing wave
Died in bright nights
Fall into an angry sky
Grayscale eyes slide from black to white
In a grayscale tide
In a grayscale tide

I thought I'd know better now
The world is upside down
I thought I'd know better now
The weight is crashing down

Grayscale eyes slide from black to white
Lived through dark days
Stillness in a crashing wave
Died in bright nights
Fall into an angry sky
Grayscale eyes slide from black to white
In a grayscale tide

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Denial Mechanism

A pathetic birth of the end times
Slowly creeping to the final deadline
No fairytale on a movie screen
Just slow collapse beneath our gluttony

Take warning
As the bloated masses gather
Take warning
At their childish screams of anger
Suck this broken system dry until there's nothing left
Take warning, take warning

An idiotic doomsday, a witless Armageddon
Mass annihilation at the hands of our possessions
Plastic in your bloodstream, plastic in your brain
The human race is f*cked behind our thirst for everything

Take warning
As the bloated masses gather
Take warning
At their childish screams of anger
The population bomb explodes, we've starved them all to death
Take warning, take warning

Whores to despotism
Denial mechanisms
Free market suicides
Extinction level lifestyles

But I'll be dead and gone long before the blade drops
It's up to you my children to decide if this all stops

Take warning

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September Song

A celebration to swell the system
Mass casualties, earth's war of attrition
A slate-colored moment in an amber time
Nothing to do but move the needle down the line
Move it down the line

Ride the plague wind back to where we were before
Moving through the night, illuminate the killing floor

Divided here together
To sing a deadly song
Divided here together
To sing a deadly song, September

A confrontation over existence
Past tragedies creating resistance
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more
Where poison is the balm and endless dead ignored
The dead ignored

The lights upon the blacktop, raise a toast of arsenic
Fill the coffers, roll the dice, amusements for the sick

Divided here together
To sing a deadly song
Divided here together
To sing a deadly song, September
We sing a deadly song
Divided here together
We sing a deadly song, September

We're broken in half, mindset split
Stitched together, this game of Russian Roulette
One in the chamber, head full of doubt
More food for the crows who ride it out
We'll ride it out

Divided here together (hey, hey, hey, hey)
Breathing here together (hey, hey, hey, hey)
Divided here together (hey, hey, hey, hey)
Bleeding here together, September