Leveler: 10th Anniversary Edition by August Burns Red - Album Lyrics & Tracks

8 ContributorsEmpire Lyrics“Empire” is the opening track & the first single, released on May 16 2011, from August Burn Red’s fourth album Leveler.

 

Matt Greiner explained on Instagram:

 

Empire is a song about contributing to the world… Read More Skyscrapers, earthmovers, ground breakers

Our buildings rival the heavens

Our bridges span the seas

Ingenuity is so cunning

Innovation is not ours

Creativity is a luxury

We build with our hands what we have in our hearts

 

Fight the avalanche, you'll be buried every time

We run and run and run, keep falling behind

Fight the avalanche, you'll be buried every time

We run and run and run, always last in line

 

Before lines were lines, before time was time

The Author wrote a story in the sky (little we know)

Little do we know, we have only what we're given

Light up the sky (Light up the sky)

We're going where no man has ever gone

Little do we know we have only what we're given

Light up the sky, we're going where no man's forgotten

All you are is all we want, it burns inside us all

We're finding heart in giving soul

We're walking home into thin air singing

 

Woah oh oh oh oh, woah oh oh oh

Woah oh oh oh oh, woah oh oh oh

 

 

We are justice fighters with faces of fire

Many walk away, but we stand firm

We are justice fighters with faces of fire

Our decisions affect our descendants

We are justice fighters with faces of fire

 

Skyscrapers, earthmovers, ground breakers

Our footsteps, bringing purpose, changing history

Skyscrapers, earthmovers, ground breakers

Our footsteps, bringing purpose, changing history

5 ContributorsInternal Cannon Lyrics“Internal Cannon” is the 2nd track & the 2nd single, released on May 31 2011, from August Burn Red’s fourth album Leveler.

 

Matt Greiner:

“Internal Cannon” is a song Jake wrote about guilt and shame.… Read More I’ve feared the deepest darkest secrets that live inside of me

Defeat and tragedy, walking in shame, finding nowhere to hide

I’ve thrown my bottles of guilt into the sea

Hoping the waves carry them away from me

Oh

 

My heart is beating. I’ll never stop fighting. I’ll keep breathing

My heart is beating. I’ll never stop fighting. I’ll keep breathing to stay alive

 

And here I go, off to make a change

I’m screaming, screaming revival

 

All of my strength, all of my might

Will go into this to take back my life

All of my strength, all of my might

Will go back into this to take back my life

My life, my life, my life

I’m taking back my life

My life, my life, my life, taking back my life

 

Let’s go....

 

This song is music to my ears

This song is music

And is a new production on an old stage

On an old stage

I won’t dwell in unhappiness

I will not dwell in

Grasping humility, asking forgiveness

 

 

Tomorrow is gone, I’ll start living for today

I’ll never stop the fighting and I’ll take it all away

Tomorrow is gone, I’ll start living for today

I’ll never stop the fighting and I’ll take it away

10 ContributorsCutting the Ties Lyrics“Cutting The Ties” is the 4th track from August Burn Red’s fourth album Leveler.Silence is a frustrating answer when all you want is a sign

Silence is a frustrating answer when all you wanted is a sign

 

It’s hard to be surrounded by the ones that you love

When they keep passing you by (passing you by)

 

Beneath the tough facade

I know that we are getting through

None of us are ready to just remember you

 

Whenever you are lost, I know that we can find you standing outside screaming at the sky

 

Don’t let the tears of agony consume your heart

Let it beat on in hopes and dreams of a new start

 

No one knows the weight on your shoulders

No one knows the burdens you bear

These thoughts won’t stop

 

It’d be so easy to take the easy way out

It’d be so easy to take the easy way out

 

Compassion is a beautiful thing, so show some for yourself

Rock solid from the outside looking in

Rock solid from the outside looking in

Inside you’re praying for help

Rock solid from the outside looking in

You’re praying for help

 

 

It’s hard to be surrounded by the ones that you love

When they keep passing you by (passing you by)

 

Beneath the tough facade I know that we are getting through

Life is a gift. Remember this. Remember this

 

Break free. Break free. Break free

 

I know silence is a hard answer when all you want is a sign

Patience is a virtue (a virtue)

You will be revived

8 ContributorsPangaea Lyrics“Pangea” is the 5th track from August Burn Red’s fourth album Leveler.Closed off, we wake from the dusk. (the dusk)

Only to step out into open air

Just to see the same clouds opening. (Yahh)

Into open air, only to step out

 

If this is a place people dream of (people dream of)

Insomnia is the only cure - the only antidote

You’ve been deceived into thinking this is the perfect life

It’s an illusion to your perception

You’ve been deceived

 

I wish time was still ancient so I could bridge the gap

(bridge the gap)

Between here, between there, between you and I

(between you and I)

Frustration is setting in. I am seeing red. (I’m seeing red)

This blessing is a curse. I am seeing red. (I am seeing red)

 

Counting all the things that I took for granted

Counting down the days

Watching the clock as it just stands still

To just sail away, sail away, sail away

Waiting for the morning that takes me home

That takes me home, to take me home

 

This bittersweet dream that I dreamt

Oh Pangaea

 

 

All of this is worth every penny

Every cent I would give back

Everything just to be back, back home

 

This is a bittersweet dream I’ve dreamt

Oh Pangaea, where have you gone?

I’m at all four corners of this world

Oh Pangaea, what have you done?

This is a bittersweet dream I’ve dreamt

Oh Pangaea, where have you gone?

I’m at all four corners of this world

Pangaea, what have you done?

5 ContributorsBoys of Fall Lyrics“Boys of Fall” is the 11th track from August Burn Red’s fourth album Leveler. It continues off of the instrumental 10th song on the album, “1/16/2011”.

 

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Interviewer:

“Can you tell us… Read More Reborn

 

Where do we go to escape the end of the world?

Did we, the dogs, open fire?

That you would cast this rainstorm over above our heads?

This crushing loss that brings us to our knees

 

Is there a way to live again when there’s nowhere to run?

Is there a way to live again when there’s no way to go on?

Is there a way to live again when there’s nowhere to run?

Is there a way to live again through this dark tragedy?

 

He is God. We are just men. Who are we to question?

He is God. We are just men. Who are we to question?

He is God. He is God

 

We’re figures in a forest full of haunting trees

Brushing shoulders with death to make sure we’re alive

With the whole world ahead, and our hearts left behind

 

Every word burns, branding broken souls

Pushing to move on. Soon we will be home

 

When you’ve lost your way, when you have no words

We are your strength, when you don’t have anymore. (Oh)

We are your strength. We are your strength

 

 

Oh Sunday mourning, all we had we lost

All we gained is chaos. Where we belong is with You

All we have is You. Where we belong is with You

All we have is You. Where we belong is with You. Please rescue us

 

A star can’t be seen unless all the sky decides to be dark

(decides to be dark)

Every drop of a waterfall, rushes on towards the end

 

This melody will move us. This song will lead us on

Reverence is revival. This town is reborn

This melody will move us. This song will lead us on

Reverence is revival. This town is reborn

6 ContributorsLeveler Lyrics“Leveler” is the closing & 12th track from August Burn Red’s fourth album Leveler.

 

Jake Luhrs:

“We have another song about someone putting someone through hell, lying to them, and betraying them. I know many… Read More You have become a malicious liar that breathes for attention

Playing charades, wearing the head of a lamb

My days consumed by nights of you

 

Howling at the moon as if you were wounded, but no

You’re the one showing teeth

Ready to feast on newborn beginnings as you cry wolf

 

Howling at the moon, but no, you’re showing teeth

We know

You’re ready to feast on newborn beginnings as you cry wolf

 

8,064 hours of conspiracies

200 months which brings me

17 years of lies and betrayal

 

The truth. Never seen. Never told. Never known

You’ll never tell the truth. Never seen. Never heard

You’ll never tell the truth

All I want is the truth, the truth, the truth, the truth. (Oh)

 

Queen of hearts. Queen of hearts

But you are the deceiver with a lying tongue and matching lips

My heart thirsts for vengeance

But my Father has taught me forgiveness

If I had not decided to follow him

 

 

I’d devour you like a lion leaving your bones out to dry

I’d put you through the same hell you put me through

Pouring out conspiracies and lies (and lies)

But this world will remember me for all that I’ve done and all that I’ll be

 

The victim in me is dead, I am reborn

The victim in me is dead, I am reborn

So even though you call me self-righteous

And call my beloved treacherous

There is one thing to take away

 

Leveler, make level the road for the righteous

Leveler, make level the road for the righteous

 

I forgive you, queen of hearts, for through me

He will show you true love, Love

I forgive you, queen of hearts, for through me

He will show you true love, love, love

I forgive you, queen of hearts, for through me

He will show you true love, love, love