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Throes of Perdition Lyrics
Blind-folded and gagged, stood waiting
With the whole world: my firing squad
At the edge of the world I'm faced out
Staring the sun right in the eye
Vultures circle above, hyenas mocking the kill
Excrement drooling down their chins
Atop the cliffs I look down, into the starving Hell-mouth
The rabid foam crashes hard on its teeth
Their mouth's salivate
Fantasizing my gruesome ending
This world looks down upon
A man who can stand on his own two feet
As they're feeding their guns: "ready, aim"
They say I'll live, if I die for their cause
Living under the rule of fellow Cro-Magnon fool
They fear who leads and will kill to stay still
Their mouth's salivate
Fantasizing my gruesome ending
This world looks down upon
A man who can stand on his own two feet
Without eating from their claws
Life feels quite like Hell should
But this Hells so cold
Pull another knife out
Stick it with rest of them
When my back is full
Turn me around to face it
Such melancholy, burning the stars from skies
As we melt, drowning inside their bloodied eyes
Hope is ravaged, running from lacerations
Sob so heavily, we choke, then we die
solo: CKB
solo: MKH
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Die
Life feels quite like Hell should
But this Hells so cold
Pull another knife out
Stick it with rest of them
When my back is full
Turn me around to face it
Sob so heavily, we choke, then we die
With the whole world: my firing squad
At the edge of the world I'm faced out
Staring the sun right in the eye
Excrement drooling down their chins
Atop the cliffs I look down, into the starving Hell-mouth
The rabid foam crashes hard on its teeth
Their mouth's salivate
Fantasizing my gruesome ending
This world looks down upon
A man who can stand on his own two feet
As they're feeding their guns: "ready, aim"
They say I'll live, if I die for their cause
Living under the rule of fellow Cro-Magnon fool
They fear who leads and will kill to stay still
Their mouth's salivate
Fantasizing my gruesome ending
This world looks down upon
A man who can stand on his own two feet
Without eating from their claws
Life feels quite like Hell should
But this Hells so cold
Pull another knife out
Stick it with rest of them
When my back is full
Turn me around to face it
Such melancholy, burning the stars from skies
As we melt, drowning inside their bloodied eyes
Hope is ravaged, running from lacerations
Sob so heavily, we choke, then we die
solo: CKB
solo: MKH
Page 2 of 2
Die
Life feels quite like Hell should
But this Hells so cold
Pull another knife out
Stick it with rest of them
When my back is full
Turn me around to face it
Sob so heavily, we choke, then we die
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For those that don't know what the chorus means, it's about how he reacts to those who've betrayed him.
"Pull another knife out and stick it with the rest of them" (betray him just as the many before"
"When my back is full, turn me around to face it" (when you're done stabbing him in the back and want to say something to his face, you will turn his back around just to find his other backside; basically meaning no matter whether it be you say shit to his face or behind his back, he will completely disregard it)
about how the american government puts repression on people who don't support their militarism, their their totalitarian government
i pretty much agree with bobbyjoedik. and malice has certainly got a point that diserves some thought. really though, its a pretty streightforward song, if you can decypher metephors well. one thing trivium is great at. using metephors in a non cheesy way.
really though, i just wanted to say, that this song makes me think of lelouch from code geass, lol. the very first time i heard the song, i heard the line "with the whole world, my firing squad". i thought of lelouch leading the black knights, as his "firing squad" (though after reading the lyrics in full, i know what it really ment now). and so many other aspects makes me think of him. "living under the rule, of fellow cro-magnon fool. they fear who will lead, so kill to stay still. to me implying what lelouch thinks of brittania. brittanai thinking they have the right to discriminate and kill, but the only ones who should kill are those who are prepaid to be killed. though all brittanain's think they are devine or something..
anyways..just felt like saying that ^^'. one of my favorite songs from this album...hell..one of my favorites from trivium period.
Throes means an intense or violent struggle especially accompanying death or great change. Perdition means a state of eternal punishment and damnation into which a sinful person passes after death. Could also mean hell. So the title of this track could also be reworded as “The Struggle of Hell”. Or something to that extent. This song is about betrayal and how difficult life becomes when you are always being stabbed in the back and betrayed.
I was looking at the lyrics, and realized it was kinda of hard to read. Plus, there are some wrong words in there. Here are the right lyrics:
Blind-folded and gagged, stood waiting With the whole world: my firing squad At the edge of the world I'm faced out Staring the sun right in the eye
Vultures circle above, hyenas mocking the kill Excrement drooling down their chins Atop the cliffs I look down, into the starving Hell-mouth The rabid foam crashes hard on it's teeth
Their mouth's salivate Fantasizing my gruesome ending This world looks down upon A man who can stand on his own two feet
As they're feeding their guns: "ready, aim" They say I'll live, if I die for their cause Living under the rule of fellow Cro-Magnon fool They fear who leads and will kill to stay still
Their mouth's salivate Fantasizing my gruesome ending This world looks down upon A man who can stand on his own two feet (Without eating from their claws)
Life feels like Hell should But this Hells so cold Pull another knife out Stick it with rest of them When my back is full Turn me around to face it
Such melancholy, burning the stars from skies Sob so heavily, we choke, then we die
DIE!
Life feels like Hell should But this Hells so cold Pull another knife out Stick it with rest of them When my back is full Turn me around to face it
Life feels like Hell should But this Hells so cold Pull another knife out Stick it with rest of them When my back is full Turn me around to face it
Life feels like Hell should But this Hells so cold Pull another knife out Stick it with rest of them When my back is full Turn me around to face it
Sob so heavily, we choke, then we die!
Awesome song. I love the really heavy bits. This really is a big step up from The Crusade.
fuckin love this song
fuckin love this song
This is probably one of the best songs on the CD. Next to Torn.
The entire CD is an amazing piece of work.
I think it is what Malice says, but so much more than that.
Its about a guy who is about to be murdered and he's explaining the situation and his state of mind a guy who is blindfolded and taken to a cliff to be shot from a firing squad and they take his blindfold off before he dies