The Birthday Massacre - Superstition (2014) Lyrics

Band: The Birthday Massacre

Album: Superstition
Release Date: 11 November 2014

Genre: Industrial Rock/Synth Rock

Label: Metropolis Records
Artwork By: Aaron Cunningham
Producer: Michael Rainbow, Michael Falcore

- Line Up CD: from left -
* Nate Manor: Bass Guitar
* Michael Falcore: Guitars
* Sara ''Chibi'' Taylor: Vocals
* Owen MacKinder: Keyboards
* Michael Rainbow: Guitars
* James ''Rhim'' Davis: Drums

(Canada: Toronto, Ontario)

01. Divide - Lyrics:

Tides of glass, return to ash
In the dawn, we follow the path away from the sun
Shadows cast in wake of the past
Reaching out, into the dark and out of the light

Crawling underneath our feet
A river running black and green
From the heart of the gallows tree
Where the future and our fate
Will bleed into the world below

Stone to bear the mountain stairs
In the night, we dance with our devils and dine with the snakes
The dead will stare in joy and despair
Rising up, away from the earth, into the clouds

From the eye of the Graeae we stole
A truth that we can't unknown
Spinning on the threads they sew
In a river of the tears that flow into the world below

Over, under, threads of fate
Weaving patterns, soon and late
As in this life, so in all things
The end result, the action brings

The fates will divide in three
A sight that we can't unsee
We're falling to our hands and knees
As the past and the future bleed into the world below.

02. Diaries - Lyrics:

Away from you
The light moves out of view
I'll wait for you
We'll drive where we always do

Over the roads like the blood in our veins
Lines that were broken are now the same
It feels so familiar like nothing has changed
I still remember

[Chorus]:
When we were strangers
I would believe I was walking in my sleep
We were strangers
When I believed I could wake up from this dream

Nights go by
Hours pass and moonlight dies
Close your eyes
You're dreaming and so am I

You know I can't stay here and I won't pretend
All that begins never comes to an end
It felt so familiar, it's all that remains
I still remember

[Chorus]:
When we were strangers
I would believe I was walking in my sleep
We were strangers
When I believed I could wake up from this dream

As life moves on
I know that time will take you away
And tear us apart
And when you're gone
I'll wake up with a hand on my heart
And a foot in my grave

[Chorus]:
When we were strangers
I would believe I was walking in my sleep
We were strangers
When I believed I could wake up from this dream.

03. Superstition - Lyrics:

I walk out to the edge of the lake
Eyes following the water
As it washes my convictions away
He stops me when I'm starting to pray

He says
“Intuition is awakening suspicion”
He says
“My tradition is the art of superstition”

I wake up in the light of the fire
Eyes burning like the ashes
In submission to the heat of desire
He tells me not to preach to the choir

He says
“This condition is a slow decomposition”
He says
“My religion is the practice of sedition”

He says...

He says
“Intuition is awakening suspicion”
He says
“My tradition is the art of superstition”
“This condition is a slow decomposition”
He says
“My religion is the practice of sedition.”

04. Destroyer - Lyrics:

This is a fantasy, projecting the vanity
A quiet delusion, controlling me
It took the best of me
Dissolving my sanity
A silent intrusion, destroying me

[Chorus]:
When night expires across this town
I'll light a fire to burn it down
The end is here and now
I'll burn it down, I'll light a fire
The end is here and now

Making wishes for me, causing calamity
The only solution, abandons me
This is a tragedy
I meet with it gratefully
It's my execution, and you're joining me

[Chorus]:
When night expires across this town
I'll light a fire to burn it down
The end is here and now
I'll burn it down, I'll light a fire
The end is here and now

I'll burn it down
The end is here and now
I'll burn it down
I'll light a fire
The end is here and now.

05. Surrender - Lyrics:

Tonight they're calling out your name
A light across the river
They're coming for you
Let me in and I'll explain

So dark outside here
I'm afraid I'll disappear
I know you're in there
I sense your fear

[Chorus]:
Surrender
I know you are hiding here
Come, my dear
You can hide in the night while I'm waiting here, all alone

When you're sleeping, I'm out here watching at your window
Can't you see me?
You and I, we are the same

So cold outside here
I'm afraid you'll disappear
I know you are in there
Just let me in

[Chorus]:
Surrender
I know you are hiding here
Come, my dear
You can hide in the night while I'm waiting here, all alone
Surrender, and we can disappear
Come, my dear
By the end of the night we'll be far from here, all alone

Now I know where you're hiding, and I want you to notice
The river is rising
I want you to know this

[Chorus]:
Surrender
I know you are hiding here
Come, my dear
You can hide in the night while I'm waiting here, all alone
Surrender, and we can disappear
Come, my dear
By the end of the night we'll be far from here, all alone.

06. Oceania - Lyrics:

From the ocean, we were washed up on the other shore
We didn't know where we'd been, or who we were before
We were two brothers and a sister with three poison hearts
We walked so close together, but our souls were always far apart

A slight of hand, a flash of light
Our seasick days and homesick nights
When tomorrow comes, there'll be no end in sight

[Chorus]:
The dreams of blood devotion follow us here
These tears run into the ocean as we disappear

Underneath the mountain, we took shelter from the storm
When the skies had cleared, we chased our shadows North
We drew a circle in the ashes where we fell asleep
We dreamed about tomorrow and the secret we would always keep

A slight of hand to make us blind
Our past life shared, we left behind
When tomorrow comes, there'll be no end in sight

[Chorus]:
The dreams of blood devotion follow us here
These tears run into the ocean as we disappear

Home is something I'll never know
It's where I wanted to go
Cause in the world below, I was always alone

A slight of hand, a flash of light
Our seasick days and homesick nights
When tomorrow comes, there'll be no end in sight

[Chorus]:
The dreams of blood devotion follow us here
These tears run into the ocean as we disappear.

07. Rain - Lyrics:

Praise the white-handed queen
The gold and the green I give to her
From this broken heart
By nail and by tooth
The blood of my youth flows over her

Falling like the rain
Falling like the rain
Falling like the rain

Praise the truth come to light
The valley of night she gives to me
From her empty heart
By silence and shame
The poison and pain flows over me

Falling like the rain
Falling like the rain
Falling like the rain
Falling like the rain

Falling like the rain
Falling like the rain
Falling like the rain
Falling like the rain
Falling like the rain.

08. Beyond - Lyrics:

Out here at the edge of town I saw her
Alone on the water
I watched from the ridge as the trains passed under
My eyes full of wonder

[Chorus]:
Here I can see
Lakes of fire
As she called to me
And I could see
Beyond the ordinary
Lost to me
In every fading memory

Here under the bridge her eyes looked younger
An absence of color
The sound of her voice lost in thunder
My heart full of hunger

[Chorus]:
Here I can see
Lakes of fire
As she called to me
And I could see
Beyond the ordinary
Lost to me
In every fading memory

Out into the dark I stared
Out here at the edge of the world
I made a promise to never grow up and
Forget all the days here when I was so young

[Chorus]:
Here I can see
Lakes of fire
As she called to me
And I could see
Beyond the ordinary
Lost to me
In every fading memory.

09. The Other Side - Lyrics:

Let me show you the way through the water
You don't have to explain yourself
Turn your face to the stars
I see you smiling

[Chorus]:
In summer I drowned you
In winter I found you
As the world falls apart around me
The serpent is dreaming
I don't know this feeling
As we break through the other side

Walking north I can hide for a season
Are you here in the dark with me?
With your voice in the stars
I hear you crying

[Chorus]:
In summer I drowned you
In winter I found you
As the world falls apart around me
The serpent is dreaming
I don't know this feeling
As we break through the other side.

10. Trinity - Instrumental [♫]