Hear my words that I might teach you
Take my arms that I might reach you
That I might reach
Straight for your throat

This is madness
Will we not be satisfied
Until we sit drenched in each other's blood?

The shame of only two appalling options:
A taker of life, or a dead man
This is why the wives, the mothers, and children are mourning

Love, as vital to life
As blood to heart
Conquers pain
Lest death intrudes by means of its
Flawed emissary, man

On this day, saints will be sinners
There will be no victors, only bereaved
This is why we mourn

Leaving the world blind, eye after eye

Disease inhabits the environs
Famine feeds our gardens
Flesh is predisposed to die
Death needs no aide

We bear blood to where we rest
And still we are not sleepless

And we will live such tragedy in perpetuity

Her loved one is dead
His loved one is dead
My loved one is dead
Your loved one is dead

This is a tragedy


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Ending the Perpetual Tragedy Lyrics as written by Matthew Fletcher Geert Van Der Velde

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    the missing part

    the stillness of a corpse is unnerving, it is the physical form of death, the air is cold, and im sure someone somewhere is laughing. i am colder than the air, my heart is deeper than an ocean, it's pain is focused, a focus as brutal of the stillness of a corpse, on this day let them all be unnerved as the blood of the dead mixes with the blood of the gouging of my eyes, the truest tragedy complete and in perpetuity, as this is the world of imbisiles who thirst for blood, blind as bats. There are no more lessons to be learned, man unlearns wisdom as swiftly as it digs it's own grave, if you must dig, let it dig for itself,i will bury the corpses of those that would bury mine, withdowned by the loved, let the blood of my own eyes mixes with the blood of mankind, it will cleanse the world, the scorth is jet blood, it will cleanse the world this is a tragedy when a loved one is dead

    ZakRoMon December 10, 2008   Link
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    i will bury the corpses

    myheartbleedscoldon June 17, 2003   Link
  • 0
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    of those that would bury mine

    naithaon June 27, 2003   Link
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    this is a tragedy.

    vh1on July 06, 2003   Link
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    It will clense the world It will clense the world

    THIS IS A TRAGEDY

    Monticello o2ion April 26, 2004   Link
  • 0
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    our hearts mourn

    GazaRaidon December 30, 2004   Link
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    This scorched, jet blood; it will cleanse the world.

    I also love the kudos to Hearts Once Nourished at the end of this song...if these hands would only kill.

    RighteousAngeron May 27, 2006   Link
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    Simon & Garfunkel? (first two lines)

    Denizenon August 19, 2006   Link
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    "A taker of life, of a dead man." that line is "The takers of life or dead men" Basically saying the only options we have left is to kill everyone or kill ourselves because we're so messed up.

    Such a powerful ending to the anthem album of our dying world.

    bringeroflighton March 22, 2008   Link

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