The Family Ruin Lyrics

Lyric discussion by SoulScream 

Cover art for The Family Ruin lyrics by Oh, Sleeper

She finds him by the fire, His claws of God are dripping from his crimes, He beckons her, "Sweet Daughter," The voice who once avenged her younger life.

He's got the voice of a con, The same one who cut down in the name of his god, Who took on the robe of a judge, without a license to kill without cause, He's not worth it.

He's not worth it, He's not worth it, Remember what he did that made you question all the words he cited, From the book, the same book, That's reeling you home after so many years of silence.

And the daughter watches father, As he sleeps and dreams, she brings the knife to light. Cause she knows he can't go farther, And he'll never wake to see his daughter cry.

Don't lose control or you will long, to go back, To this time, And rewrite your thoughts, Cause you're about to choose what you called, So ironic, It's ironic, It's ironic that you're contemplating murder while I'm educating you in mercy, You say you want, You say you want, The means to believe, Then don't change who you are, Cause who you are is how I made you to discover me.

The steel marries his skin

No! It's not worth it! It's not worth it!

I cut him down, I cut him down!

You didn't have to fall, It's your fault, It's your fault!

You lost control, And you long to go back and rewrite your thought, But I won't let you slip away, Not this time, Not this time, This time you're gonna learn what it means to recieve, The very mercy, That you denied, When you denied the means to believe, I keep feeding you the fruit that you need, But you spit it out to further your doubt.

And now he can't go farther, Cause he'll never wake to see his daughter cry.

Lyric Correction

This comes straight from the lyric book that came with the album, with one exception.

The last line "Cause he'll never wake to see his daughter cry," is different in the booklet.

In the book, it reads: "Cause he'll never wake to hear her daughter cry."

I think this shows that his daughter is pregnant from the rape. I assume that the band only included the line in the book to give the people who took the time to read it another interesting plot twist to think about.