This Cold Black (track 09 from the All Hope is Gone LP by Slipknot )
Welcome home
Mother Nature is a coward/Mother Nature is a whore
No more presence and no more power
I pray for death by the hour
Cut another smile into me/Cut into me is all that you are
My artifice won’t recognize me
You won’t find me anymore
Post-traumatic war machines
The pessimists still won’t believe
Throw away my past mistakes
It’s all I can do to feel
Let my weapons be your children
Let my armies be your damned
Try to suffer on in silence
Try to stop me if you can
Pneumatic destroyer
Pathetic seducer
Distortion sufficient
Some day—one day—we will live our lives again
My ghosts have found their way back home
I have every right to kill my own/Every right to kill my own
I am something now that never could exist
My anguish conquers all
Pay the price and watch me fall
My only key is broken
My broken key is only me
Pneumatic destroyer
Pathetic seducer
Distortion sufficient
Some day—one day—we will live our lives again
You’re an utter waste of tired flesh
It doesn’t matter if you can’t progress
Even now they still create me
Give me your ignorance and irritate me
I am made of the same debris
You want it all but you didn’t want me
A hypocrite with no real use
I’m alive, what’s your excuse?
Pneumatic destroyer
Pathetic seducer
Distortion sufficient
Some day—one day—we’ll live our lives again