#119: Death Of The Anti Mother - Norma Jean

Death Of The Anti Mother

Norma Jean

Genre: Technical Metalcore

I hope you burn forever

There will be no other way

No more suffering

No more trust will be lost

No more wounded

No more blood will be shed

Just know, I mean to harm you

I want to see you choking and kicking in your own blood

We all have our own personal hells

I just hope yours burns brighter

Deception has been your right hand

Confusing the sight of my left

You won’t leave the way you came and now no more blood will be shed

We will burn for this

We will both of us burn

#118: Memphis Will Be Laid To Waste - Norma Jean

Memphis Will Be Laid To Waste

Norma Jean

Genre: Technical Metalcore

Waltz around the room, with a glaze in your stare.
In your tuxedo suit. I'll give it a name. Lower
defenses. I'll lower the casket. Open the door.
Open the grave. Murder. Now you're doing the waltz with your murderer......
Waltz around the room, with a glaze in your stare.
In your tuxedo suit. I'll give it a name. Lower
defenses. I'll lower the casket. Open the door. Open the grave.
Mediocrity is the killer.

You find yourself helpless. Christ is not a fashion,
fleeting away. fashion...

He laid emeralds in her eyes, oh but I'd already tried. a bracelet made of gold and scarlet thread around her wrist. and everything was wrong so we
sang sentimental songs. Oh how seldom we belong but how elegant our kiss. and we painted crooked lies but we danced in perfect time to a love so much refined, we know not what it is until like a dullen wine we pour into a grief we know before but it's never quite like this. never quite like this.

All I know now is regret, it follows like a silhouette along the cobblestone behind me, but has nothing to say except to innocently ask, a voice as delicate as glass, "Do you see me when we pass?" but I continue on my way.

#117: Fade - Seventh Seal

Fade

Seventh Seal

Genre: Metal

Objectified so itemized by, made to feel so, made to believe so
Nullified so brutalized by, made to feel so, made to believe so
I'm not human anymore, what I feel is nothing more
Than a fleeting glance of what could have been

This life will fade away (days are fading), your strength remains the same (always remain)

Objectified so itemized by, made to feel so, made to believe so
Nullified so brutalized by, made to feel so, made to believe so
I'm not perfect anymore, now the truth is nothing more
Than a fleeting glance of what should have been

This life will fade away (days are fading), your strength remains the same (always remain)

#116: Put the City to the Sword - Here I Come Falling

Put the City to the Sword

Here I Come Falling

Genre: Hardcore

Note: I wanted to link to this song on Last.fm, but as luck would have it, it isn't there. So, here's a link to Here I Come Falling's first and last album, Oh Grave, Where Is Thy Victory on iTunes. Don't bother reading the iTunes review - it's ridiculously biased against both the hardcore genre and Christian music as a whole.. I've read several reviews on iTunes that take the exact same stance ("here's a band I don't like so I'll pretend I'm funny by insulting them in what I think are clever ways"), and it's really starting to bug me.

We'll strike this city down
This place is painted with murder
Sway, sway my darling, sway
Let's dance tonight

It's been so long
Since I've seen the sun rise up over me
I hear the sirens all around
This is an emergency!

This city's filled with ghosts
And these streets won't lead you home
(So keep dancing sweetheart now)
(My love won't lead you home)
The sky is calling out my name
But I don't know if these wings will hold

Our weary eyes failed
From towers as we watched
And the world crumbles in your
Your bleeding hands

This could be the death of me
This place is painted with our murder

Swing down, sweet chariot
Oh Lord, take me home

We'll fill the air with songs of praise
And make it back here someday
I'll scream Your name out as we leave

Please save this ship
God, save this ship
Lord, save this ship
Save this ship from sinking.

#115: Malice - Seventh Seal

Malice

Seventh Seal

Genre: Metal

Malice flows up from the wound in my heart
Atrophy of intellect leads to
My hatred, I have been told to love my enemies
Surround and poison me, poison me
Surround and poison me
See through me, tell me all that you ever wanted of me

Now I'm broken, these simple words have spoken
Now I'm broken, it's torn down and falling apart

Hatred flows as all light departs
Apathy for what's correct leads to
This mindset, I have been told to love my enemies

Now on this path I'm found
Something here must change, to rid this world of pain
The hopes on the ground, now on this path I'm found