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Phantom Anthem by August Burns Red - Album Lyrics & Tracks

August Burns Red•2017 Released•Melodic metalcore•United States

Tracks: 11

Duration: 53:41

Label: Fearless Records

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Complete Album Tracklist

King of Sorrow

04:05

Hero of the Half Truth

05:03

The Frost

04:46

Lifeline

05:34

Invisible Enemy

04:37

Quake

04:08

Coordinates

05:11

Generations

06:00

Float

04:15

Dangerous

04:23

Carbon Copy

05:39

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Phantom Anthem Complete Lyrics

King of Sorrow Lyrics

[Verse 1]

I'm the angel of the dead

Take a good look at me (Take a good look at me)

Grief is my guilty pleasure

I'm taking comfort in your pain

[Verse 2]

My happiness is your defeat

Your heartache makes me feel so complete

The compliments roll in and remind me I'm a good friend

I'm here for you until the end

[Pre-Chorus]

Open the door, let me in

I need you, you need me too

Open the door, let me in

Let me in

[Chorus]

I am the king, king of sorrow

Bow to me now, give me your tears

I am the king, king of sorrow

[Bridge]

Rest assured that everything will be okay

It's all going according to plan

Let me speak for you in these times of dread

I'll be your guide, now please just rest your head

[Verse 3]

I am the dead ringer

If it bleeds then it leads

Misery loves company and you've just met your match

[Pre-Chorus]

Open the door, I'll leave you be

Thank you for your sympathy

Open the door, I'll leave you be

I am the saint of empathy

[Outro]

Farewell (Farewell)

Farewell (Farewell), I've consumed all that I need

Farewell (Farewell), I am the saint of empathy

The Frost Lyrics

[Verse 1]

The cold comes with a sting, a sting across my hands

Cracking and breaking like the weight upon my chest

It took me years to figure out it's what I needed, needed to survive

What I need to survive, my resolve will be revived

[Verse 2]

I discovered the cure for my misery

By spending time with the unforgiving

Something more, so much more

Graceful than anything, anything living

[Pre-Chorus]

Alone with the wind is where I hide

As I find my place among the stars

This moment makes me feel alive

It's what I need to survive

[Chorus 1]

Time stands still as my thoughts stop swimming (Time stands still)

[Verse 3]

My muscles may ache, my tendons may break

But tearing myself down to nothing has allowed

Me to become something more than this, something greater

This is where I may seem lost, but I

Promise you I'm more awake than ever, awake than ever

Facing up towards the never-ending expanse

And finding my place among the stars

[Pre-Chorus]

Alone with the wind is where I hide

As I find my place among the stars

This moment makes me feel alive

It's what I need to survive

[Chorus]

Open soul, open mind

I'm finally focused on what's inside

I've gained a new perspective

Open soul, open mind

I'm finally focused on what's inside

I've gained a new perspective

Quake Lyrics

9 ContributorsQuake LyricsKeep moving, keep breathing

There's no time to rest your head

Keep moving, keep breathing

Sometimes help seems so hopeless

Pack up your things. Run for your lives

In hopes of finding a place to hide

The ground quakes, the trees shake

They uproot all you know

The ground quakes, the trees shake

You can't make it on your own

Imagine watching your heroes cower

Your father's face sink lower

As he tries to save you for one more hour

Cover your tracks in the earth

Let's hope they take the wrong turn

One torched home to another

Could you understand the terror?

One torched home to another

Could you understand the terror?

Watch them turn to ashes (The terror)

Disappear into the breeze

Terror, the terror

Can you empathize with their bloodshot eyes?

They're fire red from the teardrops shed

Can you empathize with all those who tried

To pull their loved ones out of harm's reach?

No, we have our own burdens to bear

We have our burdens to bear

Keep moving, keep breathing

There's no time to rest your head

Keep moving, keep breathing

Sometimes help seems so hopeless

With your gaze turned towards the west

We all turn the other way

Relief is unattainable with words no one will say, no one will say

The ground quakes, the trees shake

They uproot all you know

The ground quakes, the trees shake

You can't make it on your own

Can't make it on your own

It's time to reclaim your home

Coordinates Lyrics

12 ContributorsCoordinates LyricsLet go of all that you perceive

Everything's not as it seems

Let go of all that you perceive

Everything's not as it seems

See today for what it is

Not what it can give

Make your way. You're lost within

That's no way to live

Good we've given. Bad we've committed

We believe we're all forgiven

The mark of the man is not where he stands

Where he stands, where he stands when all is right in the world

It's what he does when the chilling wind

The chilling wind, chilling wind threatens to break down his door

Inhale the bravery

Exhale, exhale the worry

His life's on the edge but his soul survives

His sanity is stolen but he's civil inside

They hold his feet to the fire

Hoping he'll be inspired

The rocks at the bottom will know your name

Don't let shame replace who you'll be with who you are

Contempt is a weak metal for building anything of wonder

Ask a man on his deathbed what he truly believes

He will say it's not the trophies or the places he's seen

The unanswered questions leave the greatest impression

Let go of all that you perceive

Everything's not what it seems

Generations Lyrics

9 ContributorsGenerations LyricsI hate the way the weight of your decisions

They weigh upon me. I won't carry them on my shoulders

My knees may buckle, but my resolve is strong

I am the future and I'm here to prove you wrong

You are concerned with dragging me down

Everything in me won't let me drown, won't let me drown

What you decide has impact on you forever

It will all cave in on you forever

You can't ignore what surrounds you forever

What goes up must come down

It's simple physics you see, the laws of gravity

I'll stay above the water just to prove my persistence

I'm holding on to my desire to improve our existence

The remedy starts with me

It's the logic we all need

Take hold and accept it if you want things to be different

Take hold, take hold, take hold and accept it

Take hold and accept it if you want things to be different

I'm waiting impatiently while your skin turns thin

You can't ignore what surrounds you forever. Soon enough it will all cave in

Ideas built upon a weak base

Will slip away without a trace

Like a house that's made of sand being torn

To the ground by the waves

I promise to always see things from a better perspective

One that won't block those who chose another direction

And this promise to myself, I won't let it go

(Won't let it go, won't let it go)

I'll stand up, and I'll take it all in

With open arms, I'll accept what we've been given

And this promise to myself, I won't let it go

(Won't let it go, won't let it go)

Won't let it go, won't let it go

I won't let it go

Won't let it go, won't let it go

I won't let it go

This promise to myself, I won't let it go

I won't let it go, I-

Won't let it go, won't let it go

I won't let it go

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Float Lyrics

10 ContributorsFloat Lyrics(WAAAoooAAAoooooh!)

(WAAAoooAAAoooooh!)

(This is where we start) It's time to wake up the fire inside

(This is where we start) Ignite your mind. Open your eyes

We all moved like spirits in the wind, in the wind

We've been stripped of what used to be, be within, be within

If everyone had more soul, maybe we would have more control

We're the ones to blame if everything stays the same, stays the same

Where's the fire, the desire, an inherent right to stand up and fight?

Stand up. Stand up and fight

Stand up. I said stand up and fight

It's time to set our blood to boil

Feel the heat rise inside

(This is where we start) It's time to wake up the fire inside

(This is where we start) Ignite your mind. Open your eyes

(Where did we, where did we go wrong?)

You can't charge forward when your limbs will not listen

(Where did we, where did we go wrong?)

You can't mount a comeback when you don't know what you're missing

It's apathy turned into atrophy. A lesson learned in human anatomy

(This is where we start) It's time to wake up the fire inside

(This is where we start) Ignite your mind. Open your eyes

(This is where we start) Change has never started with silence

(This is where we start) So stop telling us to be quiet

Wake up. Wake up. Wake up the fire inside

Wake up. Wake up. It's time to open your eyes

(WAAAoooAAAoooooh!)

Dangerous Lyrics

[Intro]

The end will come

[Verse 1]

Some will say the end will come

But I know it's never ending

Words give meaning to my thoughts

What gives meaning to this feeling?

[Pre-Chorus]

I know what I did. I know what I said

[Chorus]

It's dangerous, so dangerous

I've made friends with a stranger. It's endangering us

It's dangerous, so dangerous

I've made friends with a stranger. It's endangering us

[Bridge]

When what you love is taken away

You realize what you're made of

You'll have to find your way

You'll have to scream and claw at the air

You strapped your pack to your back

And all the weight is yours to bear

The help we find is the hope we need

It's the hand that guides us back

We can will ourselves to remember our word

But we all too quickly forget

[Verse 2]

Along the way I got lost

Now the way back home is overgrown

This isn't an addictive thought

It's a ravenous feeling

(Ravenous feeling)

Conviction must be greater than life's afflictions

I follow in my own footsteps

Rather than following classical conditioning

I wish I had the will to keep my word

[Outro]

I'm looking back to face what's ahead. (It's dangerous)

I faced danger and it finally fled. (It's dangerous)

I'm looking back to face what's ahead. (It's dangerous)

I faced danger and it finally fled. (It's dangerous)

Carbon Copy Lyrics

9 ContributorsCarbon Copy LyricsThis is our burden

The pain we endure

We must carry it together

It will soon become a memory (Become a memory)

It's staring us in the face, we'll just turn the other way

Take the easy route while millions of people's homes fall to the ground

Merciless and unforgiving as it sets us back

The truth could bury us all in the end

You and I walk carefully

And just hope, hope that our tracks just disappear

We don't want to leave an imprint

This can't be what we're known for

I'll leave the world as it was given to me

Flowing full of life, filled with diversity

I'll leave the world as it was given to me

Flowing full of life, filled with diversity

I can look with pride in my child's eyes

And he will know

I helped preserve what may have died

And he will know

What I've done

(He will know. He will know.)

We will look ahead

The trail I've left won't lead the history books

Right back to me, right back to me

This generation won't let it all just slip away, slip away

Don't let it slip away

I'll walk forward and sense the ground beneath me

The choice is mine, I need to make the right one

The earth may remember what we have done

The choice is mine, I need to make the right one