Act III: Life and Death (Limited

The Dear Hunter Act III: Life and Death (Limited Lyrics
1.Writing On a Wall

Come away young man where the ground is red and you need a mask
to breathe.
Oh, it's been so hard, but your luck could change if you'd just
roll up your sleeves.
We had tried our best to warn before but it didn't get you far.
Now we're here again with a wish to mend your agonizing scar.

Open eyes young man vigilantly hands and a heart prepared for
pain.
You will lose much more in this vicious war,
past and present stay the same. But the time to come can be
alterted some if you
listen to our song...do we sing in vain?
Does the fact remain 'there is nothing to be done?'


2.In Cauda Venenum

We're biting our tongues; biding our time
An apparition awoken with an urge to
own and occupy
'Who ever said this was easy?'
A majesty's massacre floods
the fields of red
blood to your body naturally
rushes the blood to your head

And now with hands aligned
these arms move tonight
and we cry 'we can not allow this,
This is terrible'
With ideals we're idle as they
lust for more.
oh if we settle the score.
We've never been so
excited to see you before.

In the cradle we are helpless
but on our feet we are fatal
how we evolve and grow into
twisted beasts with a desire for disorder
OH what a terrible game we play;
replacing the pawn for a body.
And the players? Politicians
who say what they need to say

Now with hands aligned
Arms move tonight
here with abrasive eyes
pain in plain sight
and we cry 'we can not allow this,
This is terrible.'
With ideals we're idle as they
lust for more.
But oh if we settle the score.
We've never been so excited to see you be...

Oh when I think about your eyes
Oh when I think about your smile
Oh when I dream about your eyes/lies

travel all this way just to find love.


3.What It Means To Be Alone

Oh, you were born with the sun
Oh, you will die with the moon
Everything you thought you had you lost
But now you'd never lose what you don't have

Prayers from above, never answered quite enough
Now the only one you have is you

With this cruel and bitter heart
You were cold and in love
Left here naked in the sun

Run scared from this cruel and bitter world
This has only begun as the bombs burst off

Smoke arose on azimuth glares
Bodies brewed and frigid winter air
Where families son's are robbed beneath their feet and hearts
conceded
'Ab Ovo,' the angel sings 'Ad astra'

our eyes to the sea,We thought
that we had a cause for suffering
and reason enough to die alone

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4.The Tank

Eight wheels busting for the lives of infantry
(His bearings shift)
His turrets turning from accountability
(He takes his aim)
'We sing our final song and soon this verse is over.'
He makes advances till his wheels cease to roll.
His God is smiling on his cold mechanic soul.
'His plot is perfect if it sees no contradiction.'

There is no sign that he shows a sign of slowing.

You've stained your skin and I won't stick around
long enough to count the hearts that hit the ground.
So long ago...was I one of them?

You've stained your skin and I won't stick around
long enough to count the hearts that hit the ground.
So long ago...was I one of them?

And still he moves on
arm and iron conquer heart and soul.

and what of those in silent disconnect
sundry souls akin in consequence
begging for bills beyond the pain


5.The Poison Woman

The seed of the apothecary on heir to aided ends
she loves the sound they make as they
expel a breath their soul from the chest
she laughs a little, but never makes a sound

she swears shes offering you something savory
(what lies she tells)
just take a drink her broducts number one
(right down the hatch)
and now it seems, a smooth intoxication well
just one drop is more than enough

she never dwells on penitence
advancing in a haze

a million men have reached and end
a side effect of incompetence
she laughs a little but never smiles

she swears shes offering you something savory
(what lies she tells)
so take a drink her products number one
(right down the hatch)
and now it seems a smooth intoxication well
just one drop is more than enough

she had her supersitions
they've got there rational on call
(they never saw it coming, they never stood a chance)
she had a new tradition involving ethyene glyol
(they never saw it coming, they never stood a chance)

she had no appichension
habit sustains her viciousness
(they never saw it coming, they never stood a chance)

with the weight of the world on her shoulders she
cant want none of the sins as they unfurl in her palms

take this bottle


6.The Thief

Shrowded
criminal
an innovative mind

shadowed
they're oblivioius
with plans awry

Who can save us now?

love seems baron when cash is king
wealth here for the fleeding what good will bring
more than i could ask from those who sleep
a crooked mind an honest heart ancillary
They collide

Cheating
innocence
i've got the time tonight


7.Mustard Gas

Here they are
The wicked
A panic floods the field
Deliver it
Unthinkable
They play the part performing oh so well

With empty cause, they carry on

A twisted soul
An apparition
Born of a beastly brand
They butcher purposely

Scream at the sky and beg
Beg for a reason he would allow this
Look to the sky and say
We would be better off without this
Who would allow this?

We've never felt alive
But none of us can die just when we want to
We're stuck in this disguise
With leather skin these eyes decide to haunt you
But do we haunt you?

Scream at the sky and beg
Beg for a reason he would allow this
Look to the sky and say
We would be better off without this
Who would allow this?

From the other side x8


8.Saved

Amongst the stone and smoke
We never laid before
Images floating all about
Life in the afterglow

My decaying mind pretends
None of this ever happened
We either learn to live a lie
Or we're waiting here to die

And after all this suffering
I could lie here for good
With a mind on fire
I try and stand my ground

Illuminate and I will follow...

Amongst the stone and smoke
Rising above it all
Broken but not beyond repair
See how this soul fairs

From after all this suffering
I could lie here for good
But with a mind on fire
I try and stand my ground

Illuminate and I will follow you


9.He Said He Had a Story

There was a silver circle sign,
and she was standing at the door
we pressed our way right through the crowd,
our pace was quickened to her floor,
there was a single feigning light,
and there was silk all on the walls,
she had a lot of love to give,
I was prepared to take it all

'And what did she do next?'

She had disrobed,
and she was waiting on the floor.
She asked me what it was I want,
I thought that I wanted it all.

'What did you say?'

I said 'Stand up and move your body to the bed.'
She quickly stood, and slowly turned, and
heres exactly what she said.

'Please be soft and sweet to me,
this life has not been good
you see its hard with such a history buried in misery.'

'And what did you do next?'

I broke a smile reminding that I paid her well.
Her lips returned,
and then I felt her hands unbuckling my belt.

'So was it good?'

It felt like heaven, but I'm sure she was in hell-
I made it clear I'd get my money's worth out of the goods she
sells.

Break and bind yourself to me, deliver what you've sold
you see that I will only take from you, and use it up.
Ill use you up


Break and bind yourself to me, deliver what you've sold
you see that I will only take from you, and use it up.
Ill use you up

What was her name?


10.The Beautiful Life

One foot, then the other
Such embarrassment
It wasn't meant that
I, I should discover
Such offensive things
The suffering since

(Hoped to the ground?)
But I really never had enough
They've got pride in him
This tide turns lives over

A back-town prophecy
Adorned in stony skin
We never ever never ever
Ever had to like to move ahead
But here in oblivion
We cling to what we can
So in the end in the end
We can say that with these hands
We took it all back It all back

So let us force a smile
And pretend that we're alive
Oh, but somewhere
None of this happened
The bullets removed themselves
Life is beautiful
I have a home above the lake where I could

Forget the words to the songs that we've heard
The passages read all the names in a world
That have brought us this pain
From the wounds we've sustained
A cold calloused heart
Sitting still in this cave of a chest
So abandon a life from before
A boy and his innocence...


11.Go Get Your Gun

Go get your gun
Get your gun
And lets find out what it does
Shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot
We haven't won
And If we win
And if the morning light sets in
We've cheated fate again

And to those who die
Please try to understand
That for those who die
We tried the best we can

With our one foot in the grave
While the other one's kickin' its way
Right down to hell

Go get your gun
Get your gun
Imposing penance one by one
You've got a virtue in a vice
It forces fate you're taking lives
With all the history to guide
You've got a passion in those eyes
So aim it straight and true

And to those who'll die
Please try to understand
That for those who die
We've tried the best we can

With our one foot in the grave
While the other one's kickin' its way
Right down to hell

Now,
When this is over
Then,
We'll raise a glass
Straight up to the sun

With our one foot in the grave
While the other one's kickin' its way
Right down to hell

Go get your gun
Get your gun
And lets find out what it does
Shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot
We haven't won
And If we win
And if the morning light sets in
We've cheated fate again

And to those who'll die
Please try to understand
That for those who die
We tried the best we can

And to those who'll die
Please try to understand
That for those who die
We tried the best we can

With our one foot in the grave
While the other one's kickin' its way
Right down to hell


12.Son

We lay aligned
And move to disguise
With a soul below
Only the eyes above
Slowly and silently
Slip away

Sleep now in the soil
The dust in the debris
A stolen smoke assumes
Leaving the shell to atrophy
Meet with the earth
As the sober spirit sings

Leave, leave it behind
This truth is harming you
Leave, leave it behind
Set out and start anew
Your life hereafter
Will cure all your troubles
And recast a history

Turn and walk away...


13.Father

And what of the father?
Will he analyze?
And what about the mother?
Will she discover the truth
Behind this life we're living?

Now everything we've ever had
Is here for us
Now everything we've ever had
Is here for us

Don't worry 'bout the father
You'll take care of him
And as for the mother
She always loved her son
And you look like him


14.Life And Death

When we dance
It looks just like fire
When we sing it
It sounds the same tone

We all have hearts
We all have homes
But when we die
We die alone

Oh, what a mess
As everything descends
Oh, what a mess
But everything amends

(Such?) it was so long ago
We always tried but failed
And now with new found consciousness
We stand and wait

Oh, what a mess
As everything descends
Oh, what a mess
But everything amends

One of these days
You will learn to love again
One of these days
He will learn to love again
One of these days
You will learn to love again
One of these days
He will learn to love again
One of these days
He will learn to love again
One of these days
He will learn to love again
One of these days
He will learn to love again
One of these days
He will learn to love again

When we dance
It looks just like fire
When we sing
It sounds the same tone
We all have hearts
We all have homes
But when we die
We die alone
When we die
We die...