Hold that Bloodied Head Up High

Good in Red icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 (track 05 from the Horror Show EP by The Midnight icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 )

The Midnight's "Horror Show" album cover. [Formatted]

Called a curse in the cradle, with a loving mother but unstable
Daddy is gone
Under the table
But you found a song in your heart
So you learned how to fight, how to starve, how to survive
When the others blocked your light you learned to see beyond the stars

The curse of small desires is easily acquired
It’s time to set your gasoline heart on fire

Kill your demons—kill them dead
In your mirror
In your bed
In your heart
In your head
Don’t you look good in red?

Slay your devils—kill them all
Take your throne
Paint the walls
And if you make it out alive, hold that bloodied head up high

Don’t you look good in red?

Is there more beyond those plains?
You cut your hair and changed your name
Left a note as you escaped: “To thine own self be true”
But there was no gold in those hills—no platinum in those pretty pills
Just werewolves tossing dollar bills and the wine-dark sea of Malibu

The curse of small desires is easily acquired
It’s time to set your gasoline heart on fire

Kill your demons—kill them dead
In your mirror
In your bed
In your heart
In your head
Don’t you look good in red?

Slay your devils—kill them all
Take your throne
Paint the walls
And if you make it out alive, hold that bloodied head up high

Don’t you look good in red?

No one is coming to save you
Swing the sword you made with the pain they gave you like that pain is gonna save you

Kill your demons—kill them dead
In your mirror
In your bed
In your heart
In your head
Don’t you look good in red?

Slay your devils—kill them all
Take your throne
Paint the walls
And if you make it out alive, hold that bloodied head up high

I Am Reaching, Are You Reaching Out?

America Online icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 (track 02 from the Monsters LP by The Midnight icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 )

"Monsters" LP by The Midnight. [Formatted]

If I love you, will you love me?
If I want you, will you want me?
I am reaching, are you reaching out?
If I touch you, will you touch me now?

Through the wires to the heart
Phantom fingers fumble in the dark
I thought I did–yes, I felt a spark

Are we all one beating heart?

If I love you, will you love me?
If I hurt you, will you hurt me?
I am reaching, are you reaching out?
If I touch you, will you touch me now?

Through the wires to the heart
Phantom fingers fumble in the dark
I thought I did–yes, I felt a spark
Are we all one beating heart?

Are we all one beating heart?
Or are we strangers?

Am I a stranger?

Are we all one beating heart?

Hell is Empty Because All My Demons Are Here

Monster at the End icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 (track 03 from the For All Kings LP by Anthrax icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 )
“Monster at the End” Song Lyrics icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12

Anthrax's "For All Kings" album cover. [Formatted]

Breathing Lightning icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 (track 05 from the For All Kings LP)
“Breathing Lightning” Song Lyrics icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12
Blood Eagle Wings icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 (track 09 from the For All Kings LP)
“Blood Eagle Wings” Song Lyrics icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12

Distortion Sufficient

This Cold Black icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 (track 09 from the All Hope is Gone LP by Slipknot icon-external-link-12x12 icon-search-12x12 )

Slipknot's "All Hope is Gone" album cover. [Formatted]

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