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Unto the Locust by Machine Head - Album Lyrics & Tracks

Machine Head•2011 Released•Metal•United States
Tracks: 10
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Duration: 1:03:57
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Label: Roadrunner Records

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Complete Album Tracklist

1

I Am Hell (Sonata in C#)

08:27
2

Be Still and Know

05:43
3

Locust

07:36
4

This Is the End

06:11
5

Darkness Within

06:27
6

Pearls Before the Swine

07:19
7

Who We Are

07:06
8

The Sentinel

05:12
9

Witch Hunt

04:46
10

Darkness Within (acoustic)

05:05
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Unto the Locust Complete Lyrics

Locust Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Sweet caress grazes my skin
It's loveless, these hooks sink in
Behind an angel's disguise an insect preys
Mandibles cut like a knife, the reckoning
 
[Pre-Chorus]
Forming clouds
Their shadow shrouds
Louder the tattered wings they sound
Descending down
 
[Chorus]
They come, the swarm of locusts
Skies above converge to choke us
Feast of souls, consume the harvest
Young and old suffer unto the locust
 
[Verse 2]
Surrender, these veins are bled
Devour, nothing sacred
Strings pull the marionettes, see how they dance
Upon the winds that beget our pestilence
 
[Pre-Chorus]
Forming clouds
Their shadow shrouds
Louder the tattered wings they sound
Descending down
 
 
[Chorus]
Down they come, the swarm of locusts
Skies above converge to choke us
Feast of souls, consume the harvest
Young and old suffer unto the locust
 
[Bridge]
Bleeding from my eyes
This plague is sent to erase us
Bleeding from inside
These vermin can't infiltrate us
Faith appears and holds a candle
Hark the angels sing
 
[Guitar Solo]
 
[Pre-Chorus]
Forming clouds
Their shadow shrouds
Louder the tattered wings they sound
Tear the veil
The lies derail
Purity ever will prevail
Trumpets sound
The shattered crown
Halos of truth now they surround
The charade comes down
 
 
[Chorus]
Down they come, the swarm of locusts
Skies above converge to choke us
Feast of souls, consume the harvest
Young and old suffer unto the locust
Down they come, the swarm of locusts
Skies above converge to choke us
Feast of souls, consume the harvest
Young and old suffer unto the locust

Darkness Within Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Here in this darkness that I lay
Depression heavy in its way
And how my body aches to leave
And sing its final eulogy
My sons I love you evermore
And though the road beckons once more
I see the damage that I've done
And search for redemption
 
But I am just a broken man
Whose soul cries out to understand
How the madness shatters me
Upon the stage on bended knee
I scream aloud at skies above
That answer mute, bereft in love
I struggle not to fall from grace
I sing the hymns of my disgrace
 
[Chorus]
We build cathedrals to our pain
Establish monuments to attain
Freedom from all of the scars and the sins
Lest we drown in the darkness within
 
[Verse 2]
Mystery's forgotten chords
I strum in vain to please the lord
But he has never answered me
And faith has waned eternally
In empty men who pass along
The woes of all religions wrong
And now the shadowed veil it falls
Heed the clarion call
 
 
So pray to music, build a shrine
Worship in these desperate times
Fill your heart with every note
Cherish it and cast afloat
'Cause God is in these clef and tone
Salvation is found alone
Haunted by its melody
Music, it will set you free
(Let it set you free)
 
[Chorus]
We build cathedrals to our pain
Establish monuments to attain
Freedom from all of the scars and the sins
Lest we drown in the darkness within
 
[Bridge]
Woah!
Music my savior!
Save me!
Music my savior!
Save me!
Music my savior!
Save me!
Music my savior!
Save me!
 
 
[Chorus]
We build cathedrals to our pain
Establish monuments to attain
Freedom from all of the scars and the sins
Lest we drown in the darkness within
 
We build cathedrals to our pain (Woah!)
Establish monuments to attain (Woah!)
Freedom from all of the scars and the sins (Woah!)
Lest we drown in the darkness within (Woah!)

Pearls Before the Swine Lyrics

4 ContributorsPearls Before the Swine LyricsYeah!
 
Lie in this state
Of perdition never to awake
It negates
An admission stricken by fate
There's no salvation
It dwells in your bones
There's no remission
This sickness it owns
Make love to denial her sober embrace
Nails they've embedded never to release
 
In madness we shall reign
Down, out
In madness we shall reign
 
Hail our Mary our divine
Littered souls across a great divide
In our obsession thou cast
Pearls before the swine
 
I numb it down
Heavens fleeting
Kiss envelops
Thee it surrounds
So in vain we stab at the beast
Count the 12 times you step equal 12 times you fail
No abstination, relapse tip the scale
As you swallow the hook and you chew on the line
Choke on the sinker in this sea of lies
 
 
In madness we shall reign
Down, out
In madness we shall reign
 
Hail our Mary our divine
Littered souls across a great divide
In our obsession thou cast
Pearls before the swine
 
Broke vows and broken rosaries
Bind these rusted hopeless dreams
Broke vows and broken rosaries
Bind these rusted hands in prayer
Faith trust and love are mowed down lonely
In these killing fields
 
Deep in the throes of addiction
Now my blood's running black
My fixation is caught in its clutches
As the sun sets on my soul
In endless twilight
It is eclipsed
 
Hail our Mary our divine
Littered souls across a great divide
In our obsession thou cast
Pearls before the swine
 
 
Slowly we dance with temptation
Good intentions are sold
For the price of fool's gold and sedation
Take now this demon by its hand
And slice it off
 
Hail our Mary our divine
Littered souls across a great divide
In our obsession thou cast
Pearls before the swine
 
Take the ache beneath my bones
Peel the skin away and leave my body exposed
No grace awaits this broken soul

Who We Are Lyrics

3 ContributorsWho We Are Lyrics(This is who we are)
(This is what I am)
(We have nowhere else to go)
(Divided we will stand)
 
This is who we are
This is what I am
We have no where else to go
Divided we will stand
 
We are the ugly
Beaten and torn
Brooding with power and ready for more
We are the hungry
Sick of this world
Of robbers of thieving Of vultures unfurled
We have been left on our own
Be all the lost longing for home
We are the unwanted lives
Strung out and angry the deprived
We are the young
And young at heart
The strong and the brave that are destined to start
We are the change
The world needs to see
Look in our eyes and see our belief
 
 
This is who we are (This is who we are)
This is what I am (This is what I am)
We have nowhere else to go
Divided we will stand
 
We are the broken
Meant to be left
Damaged and headless
Like dolls in a chest
We are the future
Seeds that you've sown
In dirt that won't ever grow turns now to stone
We have been hung out to dry
We are the drunken We are the high
We despise this human race
Look in our eyes and see your disgrace
 
This is who we are (This is who we are)
This is what I am (This is what I am)
We have nowhere else to go
Divided we will stand
 
Dream
Dream
Into glory we will ride
Be unbridled in determination
Burn the seasons
Into glory we will ride
Be unbridled in determination
Burn the seasons
 
 
We are the savage
Meant to be brought to justice
To be thrown in jail and left to rot
We are the other American dream
Whose characters fight for their lives
And they scream
We have been left disavowed
Those of the black
Not of the shroud
We won't hear religious lies
Their God has left us to die
 
This is who we are (This is who we are)
This is what I am (This is what I am)
We have nowhere else to go
Divided we will stand
 
This is who we are (This is who we are)
This is what I am (This is what I am)
We have nowhere else to go
Divided we will stand