A Shared History of Tragedy

The Black Maria A Shared History of Tragedy Lyrics
1.11:11

Lyricist:Mike De Eyre, Christopher Gray, Mike Green, Theo Mckibbon,
Alan Nacinovic, Scott Swain

Don't say goodbye
'Cause I'm still right here
And don't you give up
My love for you
Is stronger than this

I'm a tightrope walker
And a vagabond poet
Who was killed
For an artist's guilt

Time will disappear
And kill you
Without any conscience
But I'll still always be here

You know I know how much
This hurts you my dear
Just give it time
I promise we'll meet again

I'm a tightrope walker
And a vagabond poet
Who was killed
For an artist's guilt

Time will disappear
And kill you
Without any conscience
But I'll still always be here

The highway is a ghost town
And the roads are paved with glass
The moon is our spotlight
And the stars our final crowd

There's blood in the backseat
And our screams the only sound
And soon they'll be nobody here


2.Waking Up With Wolves

Lyricist:Michael David De Eyre, Christopher James Gray, Theodore
Michae Mckibbon, Alan Nacinovic, Scott Robert Swain

Close your eyes and pretend I'm by your side
Can you feel me love?
Can you see me love?

You wake up alone
It's still forty days until I come home
Does it get easier, love?

It seems like it never does
Is that why you lie?
And tell me your alright?

Close your eyes and pretend I'm by your side
Can you feel me tonight?
Can you see me tonight?

I know your not alright
But this is all we have for tonight
It hurts but can you feel me, love?
Can you see me love?

Are you alright?
I'm starving for answers
I need to know exactly where you are
Wherever you are

It's cold tonight, these sheets have always felt like winter
Are you with someone else tonight?
Is your body his instead of mine?
So I lie and tell you I'm alright

Close your eyes and pretend I'm by your side my love
Can you feel me tonight?
Can you see me tonight?

I know your not alright
But this is all we have for tonight
It hurts but can you free me, love?
Can you see me, love?

Why are you waking up with the wolves?

I know your not alone
I heard someones voice on the telephone
I can't stay out here for one more night
I'm coming home, you were my home

Close your eyes, and pretend I'm yours once again tonight
Can you feel me love?
Can you see me love?

Even though your not alright
For once more, let me be yours tonight
Please, forgive me, love
Will you see me, love?

This is to much to take in for one night


3.Nothing Comes Easy But You

Lyricist:Mike De Eyre, Christopher Gray, Mike Green, Theo Mckibbon,
Alan Nacinovic, Scott Swain

Your beauty forced a change in me
Vivid and pure, it will always be haunting me
Burnt out by the temptress of old
Reborn, you're constantly challenging me

It never seemed so easy
For you to put me back together again
Lost in your eyes, the time flies by
Soon I'll be gone, left without a trace
I need you, to put me back together again

I ache for you constantly
Through my veins, I yearn for you hopelessly
And when it's my time to go
If all else fails, I desperately want you to know

It never seemed so easy
For you to put me back together again
Lost in your eyes, the time flies by
Soon I'll be gone, left without a trace
I need you, to put me back together again

Have I ever been so scared to be lost without a trace?
My heart broken in two, your memory erased
I'm so scared to be alone, you made me whole

I will always miss you
You will always have a place inside my heart

You make me whole


4.A Call To Arms

Lyricist:Michael De Eyre, Christopher James Gray, Theodore Mckibbon,
Alan Nacinovic

Shots ring out like a bell
As they're running away from the scene
The sweat leaking down to my pillow
Makes it so much harder and harder to sleep

The blast gets a little bit louder
To the point that it's deafening
To see the last of the undead soldiers falling faster
And faster down to their knees

Wake up, do you believe in this honestly?

This is a call to arms, revenge is ours
We need to destroy the songs
That feed the beast in the radio
That spread like a gas leak in suburban homes

Shackled and ready to go
My army sounds like a symphony
A chant and a screaming war siren
Makes it so much harder for you to sleep at night

The blackout of an industry full of tyranny
The blackout of an industry
Is what we need to bring them down
To their knees

This is a call to arms, revenge is ours
We need to destroy the songs
That feed the beast in the radio
That spread like a gas leak in suburban homes

Wake up, turn it off
This is a breakout and the inmates are about to revolt
Take it back and take it back for good
Do you believe in this honestly?

This is a call to arms, revenge is ours
We need to destroy the songs
That feed the beast in the radio
That spread like a gas leak in suburban homes

Because this is a call to arms


5.The Perilous Curse

Lyricist:Mike De Eyre, Christopher Gray, Mike Green, Theo Mckibbon,
Alan Nacinovic, Scott Swain

This love is a curse that's fading away
If I could only see your eyes
I swear, it may just change my mind

That this wasn't a dream, a diamond I can't see
When we had everything but time
Why did we let it pass us by?

The scent of your perfume left me consumed
And every promise that you made
Were they pure and true?

'Cause when I looked beyond the mattress
I saw you for what you really were
And from that moment you've been a stranger and I've been a fool

This love is a curse that's fading away
If I could only see your eyes
I swear, it may just change my mind

That this wasn't a dream, a diamond I can't see
When we had everything but time
Why did we let it pass us by?

There's a contract in a shoe box
And a ring that comes with a veil
You've shattered all my dreams, you're a liar too

With there being so many ghosts inside
My stored past that haunts me
Will I be the one destroyed after this?

Is it a sign of weakness
Can't do it anymore
I was drowning in the ocean
Now I'm floating to the shore

You left me to die there
Sinking in the core
This love is a sequence in a series of failures

This love is a curse that's fading away
If I could only see your eyes
I swear, it may just change my mind

That this wasn't a dream, a diamond I can't see
When we had everything but time
Why did we let it pass us by?

You left me to die there
Sinking in the core
This love is a sequence in a series of failures


6.The Concubine

Lyricist:Mike De Eyre, Christopher Gray, Mike Green, Theo Mckibbon,
Alan Nacinovic, Scott Swain

So take a minute and ask yourself why
Every second you're after just seems to to pass
Take a minute and ask why you ran away from it
And every moment thereafter is a relapse
From the memory before to the one that just passed
Take a minute and ask yourself why

It's easier to appease me
When you are down on your knees
And you're begging for me
To take is easy on you, it's easier to
Leave you when you're down

These are just wasted intentions
They're mixed up and they're all pretentious
Yesterday seemed so long ago
And the best of me is almost too hard to find
These are just wasted intentions
They're mixed up and they're all pretentious
Why do you face this alone?

So now you've watched the playback in your mind
Would you agree that you let is all slip past
I just had to ask why it got away from you?
Does every regret burn from the inside
From the memory before to the one that just passed?
Watch it again and ask yourself why?

It's easier to appease me
When you are down on your knees and alone

These are just wasted intentions
They're mixed up and they're all pretentious
Yesterday seemed so long ago
And the best of me is almost too hard to find
These are just wasted intentions
They're mixed up and they're all pretentious
Why do you face this alone?

These are just wasted intentions
They're mixed up and they're all pretentious
Yesterday seemed so long ago
And the best of me is almost too hard to find
These are just wasted intentions
They're mixed up and they're all pretentious
Why do you face this alone?


7.A Thief In The Ranks (Your Bike)

Lyricist:Mike De Eyre, Christopher Gray, Mike Green, Theo Mckibbon,
Alan Nacinovic, Scott Swain

When you finally become a mute
While a sad song plays
You lie helpless and lost
Infected by the truth

That was fabricated by you
Your image shattered
In the eye of the storm
We would never reach out to you
How could you?

Your desperation
To look like a victim
Is such a cop out
You're fooling yourself

Your inspiration
Is your contradictions
You're lost the concept
Of what's the real truth

That it's you who is the thief
Who should be humbled
By the sheer size of your crimes
We befriended you, it was abuse

There's no better time
Then the present time
To finally forget you
How could you?

Your desperation
To look like a victim
Is such a cop out
You're fooling yourself

Your inspiration
Is your contradictions
You're lost the concept
Of what's the real truth

Close your eyes and pretend
That it's still alight
Do you feel it tonight?
Can you feel it tonight?
It's all crashing down

Lately you know you've seen it
The face in the mirror never lies
You're fading, fading


8.Lucid

Lyricist:Mike De Eyre, Christopher Gray, Mike Green, Theo Mckibbon,
Alan Nacinovic, Scott Swain

I stocked up on the ropes and the chains
Can we keep thinks together now?
My mind is a broken shell and the last pieces
Are covering the bathroom, which way to the door?
I'm being chased by doctors

Lucid and tranquil, I've got my sanity
Everything I ever was is mapped out on a white board
For everyone and anyone
Someone please show me the door

To sanctity my sanctuary
Is hidden deep inside from most
And the secrets in the locket I wear
They've been prescribed by doctors, I need more

Lucid and tranquil, I've got my sanity
Everything I ever was is mapped out on a white board
For everyone and anyone
Someone please show me the room

Where I lost my innocence
In a vacuum of paranoid secrecy
Is everybody after me?
Someone please show me more

Which way to the door?
I'm being chased by doctors

Lucid and tranquil, I've got my sanity
Everything I ever was is mapped out on a white board
For everyone and anyone
Someone please show me the room

Where I lost my innocence
In a vacuum of paranoid secrecy
Is everybody after me?
Someone please show me more
Show me more


9.Van Gogh

Lyricist:Mike De Eyre, Christopher Gray, Mike Green, Theo Mckibbon,
Alan Nacinovic, Scott Swain

Give away all that you have inside
Every last moment that you're alive until your body is cold
Sure, as he peels away your skin
You see the monster is intent to see this to end

It would be easier to die
Just easier sometimes
Because the light is a sober
Reminder of what he did
Your body can't get over it

Life has been keeping you awake
Asphyxiated by the hate and it never calms
Sew the aching in your veins
That no one ever seen with the blade in the sheets

It would be easier to die
Just easier sometimes
Because the light is a sober
Reminder of what he did
Your body can't get over it

It's over, it's over
Except the scars that last forever
It's over, it's over
Except the scars that last forever

It would be easier to die
Just easier sometimes
Because the light is a sober
Reminder of what he did
Your body can't get over it


10.Living Expenses

Lyricist:Mike De Eyre, Christopher James Gray, Mike Green, Theo
Mckibbon, Alan Nacinovic, Scott Swain

Paralyzed between these metal walls
And how I wish I had something more than this
Is this success?

'Cause when I'm home it's just another day
A piece of the furniture with nothing to say
Your jester who lives to fail

Everything that was written by me is complicated
I swear I give you my words, they get mixed up sometimes
Everything that was written by me is complicated
I swear I give you my words, they get lost sometimes

Oh it's cute to kiss and tell
But the craziest part if that you all will never know for sure
Did I mean it all? Any part at all?
The lyrics are just a fragile wall to keep me guarded from you

Everything that was written by me is complicated
I swear I give you my words, they get mixed up sometimes

And everything that was written by me
What's the meaning? You think you see it
The words, they get lost sometimes

Oh how I bleed for you
I wear my heart on my sleeve
I live and bleed only for you

Oh, how I bleed for you
I wear my heart on my sleeve
I live and bleed only for you

With everything that was written by me
You'll never see it, you'll never get it
This world gets me down sometimes

Everything that was written by me is complicated
I swear I give you my words, they get mixed up sometimes
And everything that was written by me, what's the meaning?
I swear I give you my words, they get lost sometimes


11.Fools Gold

There's a machine in my head.
There's a grinding in my brain.
The best part is that it turns you on.
The grinding penetrates
under the sheets, my dear.
We lie in love, but with fool's gold.
I want to give you the plans
just to make you stop.
I want you to get out of here for good.
It's in my bed, but my bed is a plot.
And the shovel is anchored down to the floor.

And I won't need to see you pushing up dirt again.
And I won't need to see you gagging on sincerity.
Daylight kills us.
KO'd by it and counting to ten.
Faced with choices
to pack it in or stand up and fight again.

There's something in my hand
pushing into my veins.
The tablature is for a death march.
I can't miss you
because you're already gone.
This is the climax to our love song.
You're in my head, but gone for good.
Your sonnet's melody plays on.

And I won't need to see you pushing up dirt again.
And I won't need to see you gagging on sincerity.
Daylight kills us.
KO'd by it and counting to ten.
Faced with choices
to pack it in or stand up and fight again.

We lie in love but with fool's gold.