Axe to Fall by Converge - Album Lyrics & Tracks

9 ContributorsEffigy LyricsA guest-heavy song from Axe To Fall, featuring instrumental contributions from Cave In members Steve Brodsky, John-Robert Connors and Adam McGrath. Originally recorded in 2004 during a Converge and Cave In… Read More (Chorus)

Rotting legacies

Fading loyalties

Effigies for the beasts

Effigies

 

(Verse 1)

Distorted hearts worship God's currency

That is so worthless to me

The poor eat the poor just like we've done before

Cursed by the burden youth brings

 

(Chorus)

Rotting legacies

Fading loyalties

Effigies for the beasts

Effigies

 

(Verse 1, repeated)

Distorted hearts worship God's currency

That is so worthless to me

The poor eat the poor just like we've done before

Cursed by the burden youth brings

 

(Outro)

Effigies

For the beasts

Effigies

You and me

 

 

For you and me

12 ContributorsWishing Well Lyrics(Verse 1)

The collapsing veins are empty

The stars are less bright tonight

The future is moving farther away

From defeated eyes

Your words can't touch me

While your past weighs down your life

Your heart can't love me

While your past (still) haunts you inside

 

(Chorus)

The past still haunts you

The past still follows you

The past still haunts you

The past still follows you

 

(Verse 1, repeated)

The collapsing veins are empty

The stars are less bright tonight

The future is moving farther away

From defeated eyes

Your words can't touch me

While your past weighs down your life

Your heart can't love me

While your past (still) haunts you inside

 

 

(Chorus)

The past still haunts you

The past still follows you

The past still haunts you

The past still follows you

 

You - all I had I gave to you

You - all I had I gave to you

 

(Guitar solo)

 

(Outro)

The past still haunts you

The past still haunts you

The past still follows

[Verse 1]

Shut your doors their storm is coming

Of unlived dreams that were cast away

Hear the howls soaring in the wind

Don't let our end begin

 

[Chorus]

My hatred grows as their tears fall

My hatred grows as their tears fall

 

[Verse 2]

Shield innocence from hungry tombs

Keep damages from taking you

Hear the howls soaring in the wind

Don't let our end begin

 

[Chorus]

My hatred grows as their tears fall

My hatred grows as their tears fall

 

[Bridge]

I'll do anything that I can do

To lock the window beasts are climbing through

I'll do anything that I can do

To lock the window beasts are climbing through

 

 

[Chorus]

My hatred grows as their tears fall

My hatred grows as their tears fall

[Verse]

Pick your poison as dead beats do

Leave a wake in the hearts that hurt you

Pick your poison as dead beats do

 

[Pre-Chorus]

Blood pulsing through your wounds

A thousand warnings are ringing true

Burning their homes, writing in stone

The name of demons inside of you

 

[Chorus]

You left your mark on this world

You left your scar on this world

You left your mark on this world

You left your scar

You left your mark

You left your scar on this world

 

[Verse]

Pick your poison as dead beats do

Leave a wake in the hearts that hurt you

Pick your poison as dead beats do

 

[Pre-Chorus]

Blood pulsing through your wounds

A thousand warnings are ringing true

Burning their homes, writing in stone

The name of demons inside of you

 

 

[Chorus]

You left your mark on this world

You left your scar on this world

You left your mark on this world

You left your scar on this world

 

[Outro]

Wound them

Wound them

Wound them

Wound them

10 ContributorsCutter Lyrics(Verse 1)

Severed my roots of dead family trees

Finding the damage inside

Parting blood red seas on bended knee

Too much to ask when it's so hard to breathe

 

No way out

 

(Verse 2)

Tearing my soul to finally see

The real wreckage between (you and me)

A cold grin for these damned at my door

My haywire heart their product of war

 

No way out

 

(Verse 3)

Cutting myself for clarity

I just keep falling into darkness

Cutting myself for clarity

Just keep falling

 

(Verse 1, repeated)

Severed my roots of dead family trees

Finding the damage inside

Parting blood red seas on bended knee

Too much to ask when it's so hard to breathe

 

 

No way out (Cutter)

 

(Verse 3, repeated)

Cutting myself

For clarity

I just keep falling

Into darkness (One way down)

Cutting myself (No way out)

For clarity (One way down)

Just keep falling (No way out)

 

(I may get better but we won't ever get well)

[Verse 1]

Down by your side

I watch the dreary light

It illuminates your sleeping skin

I reach my cold arm across the bed

You make no move

You never do

 

[Verse 2]

Own these dire nights

Own their seething lies

Own my damage, own my scars

They paint a broken life’s shattered art

And time won’t turn my wretched world

 

[Verse 1]

Down by your side

I watch the dreary light

It illuminates your sleeping skin

I reach my cold arm across the bed

You make no move

You never do

 

[Verse 2]

Own these dire nights

Own their seething lies

Own my damage, own my scars

They paint a broken life’s shattered art

And time won’t turn

My wretched world

 

 

[Outro]

My wretched world

My wretched world

My wretched world

 

(to stand in your shadow is to be home)