FIT FOR AN AUTOPSY LYRICS

1. Absolute Hope Absolute Hell

We could have had it all
Before the wells ran dry
Before the cities fell
Yet we still think
It'll all end well
Absolute hope, absolute Hell [2x]

What's there behind the eyes?
Just souls & sulphur
Black & cold
Strip us to ashes & bone
Starving for love, dying alone

Watch it suffer
Watch it burn
Watch it die

Dance with the puppetry
Hollow silhouettes born of animosity
Hung by the rope threaded by the kings
Inhuman disaster tearing at the seams
Lead us not unto temptation
Lead us to the suicide of the fallen nations

God of nothing
Bring the sheep to the slaughter
[2x]

Absolute hope, absolute Hell
Strip us to ashes & bone

& so the apathy spread like cancer
Dripping through the beams in the towers
Staining the souls of the pacifists
Still complacent in the final hour
Distracted youth
A nation of bullshit status
Raked through the teeth
Of the corporate apparatus
We could have had it all
Before the cities fell
Yet we still think it'll all end well

Absolute hope, absolute Hell [2x]

We could have had it all [4x]

2. Wither

Put me in the fucking ground
Ugly fucking gods, ugly fucking heroes
Bow to your masters
Count your worthless fucking zeroes

Look me in the eye and tell me I'm a sap
Like the trees that leak green gold
Suck it out till they all collapse

I'm not a victim, at least I never thought I was
I'm just a product of my environment
Just the salted fucking slug

Pocket stuffer, motherfucker, soul stealer, bottom feeder
Just put me in the fucking groud
Ugly fucking gods, ugly fucking heroes
Bow to your masters count your worthless fucking zeroes

Watch me wither
I'm just the salted fucking slug watch me wither
I'm just the salted fucking slug watch me wither
I'm just the salted fucking slug born to burn
Give unto the pigs what they year
Give me hate in your handshake
Give me hell in pain I embrace it

Born to die
Born to rot in a soup of flies

Leave me in the pines
Let my body become the decay in my mind
We all deserve the shovel
We all deserve the crown
To a kingdom of dirt and devils

So just put me in the fucking groud
A kingdom of dirt and devils
Nothing more, nothing less
A kingdom of dirt and devils
Nothing is pure, nothing is left.

3. Saltwound

Home in the absence of light
Hammer the rusted nail deeper into my side
Fill me with needles and thorns
Down to the blone, the grey turns to black
The soul of the shapard exposed

Ruin
Lay the cities to ruin
Let the lifeblood envelop the sea
In crimson and chaos
We are reborn into suffering

Saltwound
Every night is a night that I wish would end
Saltwound
Every fight is a fight that I cannot win

God is a lie and man is a failure
God is a lie and man is a failure

I wanna reach out
But there's a disconnect
Between the ones we love
And the ones we neglect
The lines gone dead
But the receivers tone beats the silence
No operator, just hardwired to a world of violence

All I ever wanted was the truth
That the hell in me is the hell in you

Here's the fucking truth
Sometimes people should just fucking die
Stop pretending that's wrong, stop pretending it's a lie
Sometimes people should just fucking die
Stop pretending that's wrong, stop pretending it's a lie

Saltwound
Every night is a night that I wish would end
Saltwound
Every fight is a fight that I cannot win

4. Murder In The First

Dear devil, we tried to move them
We had all the facts
They just overruled them
Slaves to the gods they see in the mirror
Self inflicted prisoners
Alone for another winter, cold forever

Take everything from them
They are nothing but a pile of possessions
Empty underneath the rubble
Lost in their seflish transgressions
Godless

Bigot nations, cursed at birth
Wealth to wastleands
Murder in the first

Pencil pushers and prescription poppers
Take two and call me when you're numb
Or when your mind succumbs

Worship your workshops
Like thoughtless fucking pigeons with your heads cut off
Twitching in a foolish fucking rhythm

Oh child don't look away
I want you to watch the world die
I gave up on living
We should all give death a try

Every last soul, cast into the fire
Watch them burn alive
Halos and horns
We war the mark of the beast like a crown of thorns
Halos and horns
We weave a masterpiece of deceit and scorn

Oh child don't look away
I want you to watch the world die
I gave up living
We should all give death a try
Every last soul, cast into the fire
Watch them burn alive

Dear devil, I fucking quit
You can have this world, it's a piece of shit
Dear devil, I fucking quit
You can have this world, it's a piece of shit

Every last soul, cast into the fire
Watch them burn alive

5. Storm Drains

I'd pour a bottle down my throat if it really helped
But we know it doesn't
It's a fucking copout and I wish it wasn't.

Let me sink
Into the space between the storm drains
So I can hear
The trampling on the pavement above

No on here
No on here
Has any thought to question
Why we kill
Why we kill the things we pretend to love

We didn't earn a chance to feel at peace
We just pretend we gave it a shot
While worlds away the cultures weep
As the symbol of the casualties we forgot
Who the fuck gave us the pass

Alphas in the pig pen
Sucking back the feed
Like some kind of godsend

Let me sink
Into the space between the storm drains
So I can hear
The trampling on the pavement above

No on here
No on here
Has any thought to question
Why we kill
Why we kill the things we pretend to love

Life is a lost cause
Lost
Lost under the surface
Lost
No place, no purpose

Lost between the dirt and the stones
I'd rather lie with the worms then the filth in our homes

Let me sink

Let me sink

6. Ghost In The River

Lay me deep in the mountain
Frozen limbs collapse as they climb
The impossible horizon
My will is broken
My eyes have seen what they've always known
Every man has a shadow behind him
Every soul

Every soul has a price in gold

Out of breath
We've stripped the lungs of its vessels and it's arteries
And now we drown in death
Numb to the pain of our man made blasphemy

We're the ghost in the rivers
So ashamed of our own reflection
And the demons stare back with eyes as mirrors
In a gaze forever fixed in our direction

Fire and vine
Human and serpent entwined
Force down the hand of foul will
As the world grows all the things it can kill

Lay me deep in the waters
Sunken limbs collapse as they try
To reach for the shoreline
Souls to left wade and wallow
Cries of sorrow call my name

My will is broken
My eyes have seen what they've always known
Every man has a shadow behind min
Every soul has a price in gold

We're the ghost in the rivers
So ashamed of our own reflection
And the demons stare back with eyes as mirrors
In a gaze forever fixed in our direction

Fire and vine
Human and serpent entwined
Force down the hand of foul will
As the world grows all the things it can kill

7. Mask Maker

Layers of soil turn to stone long ago
And i can't remember when we held each other like brothers
Layers of sand eroded the bone long ago
And I can't remember why we took the child from the mother

Hope is a lie and you bought it
Hook, line, and sinker
We gave you the out but you just dug in deeper
In the pockets of the salesman and the serpent

Swarm upon the cowards, frozen in fear
How I pray for the end
For the end to draw near

The ghosts are crying out for us
Our ancerstors names are stained with shame
Who the fuck wrote the laws of man
Man, we should all just burn in the flames

Mask maker fuel the furnace
Take the dying hearts within your hands
Mask maker fill the oceans
With skeletons and blackened sand
Layers of soil turned to stone long ago

And I can't remember when we held each other like brothers
Layers of sand eroded the bone long ago
And I can't remember why we took the child from the mother
I've spent too many nights starving for solace.

Reaching for a hand that was never there
Sinking deeper into the coldest pit
Of self inflicted human despair

The ghosts are crying out for us
Our ancerstors names are stained with shame
Who the fuck wrote the laws of man
Man, we should all just burn in the flames

Mask maker fuel the furnace
Take the dying hearts within your hands
Mask maker fill the oceans
With skeletons and blackened sand

I would rather be a corpse than the man I am
Fuck the optimists
I would rather be a corpse than the man I am
Just another dead fucking pessimist

8. Hollow Shell

Mourners in the hallway
Don't turn the lights out
For they await the passing

The devil knows, he always knows
How to find out where we hid the lashings
Show him your skin
Show him your skin
He knows the scars come from within
Let him in

Man is a hollow shell, how easy it breaks
So fuck being the victim
You live and die by your mistakes
Capable fucking failures
We let ride, like rookies at the table
We let it die, alone in the fallout

We deserve the fate we've enabled
I am the pariah
I am the liar who speaks the truth
I am the architect, sewing seeds of change that bear no fruit.

Dust, all I taste is blood and dust
The fogs are smothering
Rust coat the kingdoms in blood and rust
The lands are suffering

Shower the world in violence
Shower the world in violence
Fuck all this false sense of security
Fuck all the prophets and the parasites that cling to me
Fuck all these selfish self-righteous hypocrisy
We're nothing more than the demons in our arteries.

Man is a hollow shell, how easy it breaks
So fuck being the victim
You live and die by your mistakes
Capable fucking failures
We let ride, like rookies at the table
We let it die, alone in the fallout

We deserve the fate we've enabled
I am the pariah
I am the pariah

9. Out To Sea

The old man is gone, I hope he's drifting out to sea
He always loved to swim away
First the bottle, then drugs, then the apathy
Maybe he'll an island with a sycamore shaded tree
Just like the one in our year
Just like when it was him and me

Everything you love lets you down
Every wish sails away, every ounce of hope drowns
Everything you love lets you down
Every wish sails away, every ounce of hope drowns

10. Swing The Axe

Wish I had known that life lets you down
Wish I had known that everyone drowns
In a sewer just a puddle of swill and spit

And I can't breathe (I can't breathe)
Cause it all smells like bullshit
We came into this world pure and shining
And now we drag through the mud
Bitching and whining
As machines carry us to other machines
To churn the chemicals that kill everything
That was once serene

It falls on our heads
like the axe
Like the mortars
Like a righteous intervention

It falls on our heads
Like the rain
Like the pain
We're the victims of ill intention

Denial and consumption
Poisoned by our own production
Tell me who do we blame
When the first turn up dead
And the children are born with disfigured heads
When the ground won't produce
And the leaves don't grow back
As the fires burn forever

In the lines of smoke stacks
Let the lights burn out
Squander the resources further
The droughts
Pretend they'll be a solution as we drown in the swill and polution

Life is a cycle of sin and sorrow
All we know are the crims we commit
Life is a cycle of sin and sorrow
We made our bed
And now we'll lie in it
We made our bed
And now we'll lie in it

Are we so diluted in this septic tank
That we turn to plague and poison
Like a temporary savior
No whispers of healing
No help no warning
It falls on our heads

Like the axe
Like the mortars
Like a righteous intervention

It falls on our heads
Like the rain
Like the pain
We're the victims of ill intention

It falls on our heads
The world is dead
Swing the axe, it falls on our heads
Swing the axe, it falls on our heads
The world is fucking dead

11. False Positive

YOU DON'T KNOW FUCKING PAIN
DISTANCE IS DEAFENING
AND A DREAMER CAN DREAM
BUT THE PRIVILEGED GET A PASS
AND KICK THE SHIT DOWNSTREAM
THE SHELTERED HAVE THE SHELTER
KEEPS EM OUTTA THE RAIN
THEY DON'T KNOW SHIT ABOUT LIFE
THEY DON'T KNOW FUCKING PAIN
BROTHER
DO YOUR HANDS SHAKE
DID YOU LOSE YOUR TRAIN OF THOUGHT
ARE YOU BACK IN THE BRUSH AND THE HELLFIRE
DO YOU REMEMBER WHAT YOU WERE TAUGHT
WHERE'S THE FUCKING HONOR
ABANDONING THE ONES WHO
KEEP YOU SAFE
BROKEN BODIES YOU CAN'T REPLACE
WE'RE NOT WORTH OUR WEIGHT IN SHIT
WE'RE NOT WORTH OUR WEIGHT IN SHIT
BUT WE KNOW HOW TO PILE IT UP
COFFINS OF CAMOUFLAGE AND SAND
TAKE YOUR BOOTS OFF BEFORE YOUR GET THROUGH THE DOOR
BUT THE DIRT STILL DRAGS IN DEEP
DEEPER THAN EVER BEFORE
BREAK YOUR BACK FOR THE PRINCES
AND BRING THE BURDEN BACK HOME
THE EYES OF THE CHILD THROUGH A RIFLE'S SCOPE
SEE YOU AND YOU ALONE
COULD YOU HAVE BEEN THE SHOULDER TO CRY ON
COULD YOU WEAR THE LEATHER SKIN
COULD YOU HAVE EVEN BEEN BOTHERED
TO LET A STRANGER IN
YOU DON'T KNOW FUCKING PAIN







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