All Hope Is Gone

[Intro]

It appears that we have reached the edge, that zenith where stimuli and comatose collide. Forty years ago, the man proclaimed the age of the gross to be upon us, and even though the man was destroying our heritage and insulting our intelligence, that era has become very real. We labor for pleasure and abhor the guilt of pressure. My generation will go down as the architects of contemporary disgust. Some have fought and died. Others have allowed the strong to be butchered for a price they themselves don't care about and will never understand. I myself am beleaguered by the selfish face of a kind of man that is not mankind. Distrust in information. Fundamentalism of opinion. Catastrophic boredom, and a fanatical devotion to that which does not matter. Where is your glory now, people? Where are your gods and politicians? Where is your shame and salvation? You rage for no reason because you have no reason. What have you ever fought for? What have you ever bled for? The face of the Earth is scarred with the walking dead. The age of the gross is a living virus. This is the future you have created. This is the world you have set ablaze. All your lies are coming true. All freedom is lost. All hope is gone

[Verse 1]

12/08/73, that was all I got, and now you got me

All I ever really wanted was to take the blame

I will go down in history and not down in flames

Meningitis, I will survive this

Dry sockets and a schizophrenic crisis

The Time of the Nine has begun

Get out of the way or you will suffer as one

Oh, this is so typical, apocalyptical

Hanging on abysmal release, Jesus

I don't need this, don't wanna be this

Icon in the making, my hands are fucking shaking

[Refrain]

What if God doesn't care?

What if God doesn't care?

[Pre-Chorus]

Remember, surrender

The time is now

Continue, we're in you

And we will burn your cities down

[Chorus]

America is a killing name

It doesn't feel or discriminate

Life is just a killing field

It's all that's left, nothing's real

Throw away your disposable past

And fall apart like a cigarette ash

We are the fatal and vital ones of the world

And we will burn your cities down

[Guitar Solo]

[Refrain]

What if God doesn't care?

What if God doesn't care?

Oh

[Chorus]

America is a killing name

It doesn't feel or discriminate

Life is just a killing field

It's all that's left, nothing's real

Throw away your disposable past

And fall apart like a cigarette ash

We are the fatal and vital ones of the world

And we will burn your cities down

[Bridge]

Down, ha

We will burn your cities down

We will burn your cities down

Yeah, we will burn your cities down

[Verse 2]

Feed the hungry, feed them shit

Feed them bones and politics

You wanna revolutionize?

Be specific and believe your eyes

Start a war in another backyard

And we'll destroy your house of cards

Give me a minute and I'll change your mind

Give me a bullet and I'll change your life

[Pre-Chorus]

Remember, surrender

The time is now

Continue, we're in you

And we will burn your cities down

[Chorus]

America is a killing name

It doesn't feel or discriminate

Life is just a killing field

It's all that's left, nothing's real

Throw away your disposable past

And fall apart like a cigarette ash

We are the fatal and vital ones of the world

And we will burn your cities down

[Outro]

Down, down

We will burn your cities down

Down, down

We will burn your cities down

America, what if God doesn't care?

What if God doesn't care?

[Root, guitarist] and I ever wrote… Read More [Verse 1]

My guilt and my shame

Always sell me short, always feel the same

And my face and my soul

Always wear me thin, always under control

But the longest hours you'll have in your life

Are the ones you sit through to know if you're right

So I'll wait, but I'll pray that I'm wrong

Because I think I know what's going on

[Verse 2]

So let me get this straight

The only will is my own

I do whatever I want and stay alone

All my decisions make it, untouchable and tainted

I'm gonna suffer for the rest of my life

But I will always find a way to survive

I'm not a failure, but I know what it's like

I can take it or leave it or die

[Chorus]

Stay, you don't always know where you stand

'Til you know that you won't run away

There's something inside me that feels

Like breathing in sulfur

[Verse 3]

My life is undone

And I'm a sinner to most but a sage to some

And my gods are untrue

I'm probably wrong but I'm better than you

And the longest hours I've had in my life

Were the ones I went through to know I was right

So I'm safe but I'm a little outside

I'm gonna laugh when I'm buried alive

[Chorus]

Stay, you don't always know where you stand

'Til you know that you won't run away

There's something inside me that feels

Like breathing in sulfur

[Post-Chorus]

Like breathing in sulfur

Like breathing in sulfur

[Chorus]

Stay, you don't always know where you stand

'Til you know that you won't run away

There's something inside me that feels

Like breathing in sulfur

[Chorus]

Stay, you don't always know where you stand

(You don't always know where you stand)

'Til you know that you won't run away

There's something inside me that feels

(There's something inside me that feels)

Like breathing in sulfur

[Post-Chorus]

Like breathing in sulfur

Like breathing in sulfur

Like breathing in sulfur

Like breathing in sulfur

Like breathing in sulfur

[Intro: Corey Taylor]

Ooh, yeah

[Verse 1: Corey Taylor]

I did my time, and I want out

So effusive, fade, it doesn't cut, the soul is not so vibrant

The reckoning, the sickening

Packaging subversion, pseudo-sacrosanct perversion

Go drill your deserts, go dig your graves

Then fill your mouth with all the money you will save

Sinking in, getting smaller again

I'm done, it has begun, I'm not the only one

[Chorus: Corey Taylor]

And the rain will kill us all

We throw ourselves against the wall

But no one else can see

The preservation of the martyr in me

[Post-Chorus: Clown, Chris Fehn, & Paul Gray]

Psychosocial, psychosocial, psychosocial

Psychosocial, psychosocial, psychosocial

[Verse 2: Corey Taylor]

There are cracks in the road we laid

But where the temple fell, the secrets have gone mad

This is nothing new, but when we killed it all

The hate was all we had

Who needs another mess? We could start over

Just look me in the eyes and say I'm wrong

Now there's only emptiness, venomous, insipid

I think we're done, I'm not the only one

[Chorus: Corey Taylor]

And the rain will kill us all

We throw ourselves against the wall

But no one else can see

The preservation of the martyr in me

[Post-Chorus: Clown, Chris Fehn, & Paul Gray]

Psychosocial, psychosocial, psychosocial

Psychosocial, psychosocial, psychosocial

[Guitar Solo: Mick Thomson & Jim Root]

[Bridge: Corey Taylor]

The limits of the dead

The limits of the dead

The limits of the dead

The limits of the dead

[Verse 3: Corey Taylor, Clown, Chris Fehn, & Paul Gray]

Fake anti-fascist lie (Psychosocial)

I tried to tell you, but (Psychosocial)

Your purple hearts are giving out (Psychosocial)

Can't stop a killing idea (Psychosocial)

If it's hunting season (Psychosocial)

Is this what you want? (Psychosocial)

I'm not the only one

[Chorus: Corey Taylor]

And the rain will kill us all

We throw ourselves against the wall

But no one else can see

The preservation of the martyr in me

And the rain will kill us all

We throw ourselves against the wall

But no one else can see

The preservation of the martyr in me

[Outro: Corey Taylor]

The limits of the dead

The limits of the dead

[Intro]

Thou shalt not

[Verse 1]

Kill your fathers, destroy another life

Question everything we clung to for years

Live forever, design a better death

Confuse a liar with a savior from fear

Create a myth and separate the chosen ones

Adolescent independence, dominion

I only wanna believe in fucking anything

But now my conscience is contradicting everything

[Pre-Chorus 1]

The ending's the same

The world will not change

The answer is clear

[Verse 2]

Tell your mothers they have no sons or daughters

Blame yourselves because your children are mine

We are orphans, but we are not forgotten

And we will find a way to save us this time

We can run, but we are tired of running

We're dropping seconds in a glass 'til we die

We only wanna believe in fucking everything

But we're alive, and we're not accepting anything

[Pre-Chorus 2]

The ending's the same

The world will not change

The answer is clear

Annihilation

[Chorus]

I won't control or restrain

Things I do not understand

Now I realize I'm stronger, better

They gave to me, now I give to you

The means to burn the thoughts I had

Now I realize I'm stronger, better, more

[Bridge]

We have to save ourselves

We have to save ourselves

We have to save ourselves

We have to save ourselves

We have to save ourselves

We have to save ourselves

[Verse 3]

I will never become another piece

Inside the paralytic construct I hate

Live forever, well I would rather die

At least I'd know I wasn't theirs to create

This is yours, but you had better choose

Before they take away your right to decide

I guess I'll never believe in fucking anything

But my solace is I can handle everything

[Pre-Chorus 3]

The ending's the same

The world will not change

The answer is clear

Obliteration

[Chorus]

I won't control or restrain

Things I do not understand

Now I realize I'm stronger, better

They gave to me, now I give to you

The means to burn the thoughts I had

Now I realize I'm stronger, better

[Chorus]

I won't control or restrain

Things I do not understand

Now I realize I'm stronger, better

They gave to me, now I give to you

The means to burn the thoughts I had

Now I realize I'm stronger, better, more

[Outro]

We have to save ourselves

We have to save ourselves

We have to save ourselves

We have to save ourselves

We have to save ourselves

We have to save ourselves

[Intro]

Child of burning time

Child of burning time

[Verse 1]

My only consolation is all lies

The apex of my consequence is dying here tonight

Winter hasn't ended, and it always looks like rain

I can't remember anything, anything

Inside the absolution, we succumb

And appetites are bittersweet, I think I'm going numb

A chance to give up Avarice has marked my one regret

The child of burning time is gone, he hasn't come back yet

[Verse 2]

Before I tell my story, please, consider who I am

I missed my window years ago, I'm doing all I can

A tragedy is commonplace, but in the end, they go away

My skin is still the only stain I'm left to wear in shame

[Pre-Chorus]

I cut my name into my heart

I'll tear it all apart

[Chorus]

I beg you, burn me away

I won't become your hero just to fight the life I saved

Burn me away

I won't give up tomorrow just to lose it all today

[Post-Chorus]

I'll burn away

I'll burn away

I'll burn away

I'll burn away

[Verse 3]

My isolation is my course

The effect it has on life itself is a cancer on its source

I rue the moments spent between the fetish and the flame

Until this war is over, I won't ever lose my rage

[Pre-Chorus]

I cut my name into my soul

I guess I'll never know

[Chorus]

I beg you, burn me away

I won't become your hero just to fight the life I saved

Burn me away

I won't give up tomorrow just to lose it all today

Burn me away

I won't become your hero just to fight the life I saved

Burn me away

I won't give up tomorrow just to lose it all, lose it all today