Maniacal Me Lyrics - Crown The Empire

When color starts to fade everything you see is tainted grey
As hope drains from your veins
Fear will slowly take its place

Feel the charge rush down your spine
Every hair stands on end, in shock of your own mind
Lost in the sound of the pounding hearts
The wires have shorted, the circuits gone dark
All it takes is a spark

The masquerade
Is lit ablaze
Surrounding me as fear consumes my soul

There's a maniac within, taking hold of me again
No place left for me to hide behind the eyes of a maniac

I'm a fucking maniac!

Scarlet drapes my eyes the phantom calls from deep inside
Revealing my disguise, the freak beneath has come alive
Suffering is all I'm wanting
You've been chosen for my haunting

The masquerade
Is lit ablaze
Surrounding me as fear consumes my soul

There's a maniac within, taking hold of me again
No place left for me to hide behind the eyes of a maniac

I'm a maniac, a maniac, a maniac!

I am the bane of your existence
Feeble are all your attempts at resistance
Stealing your sanity, watching you rot
Just lying in wait, ready or not

Here I come!

You stare in the mirror and the evil you see
Is the menace within you that you have set free
Unleashing the beast brings the freedom you seek
But there's no escaping maniacal me

Second Thoughts Lyrics - Crown The Empire

 

Sh...
I hear the static drawing nearer, there's no way out.
I breathe the eyes and let the fire die.
I keep on feeling in the chemicals I need to breathe, but how could something so important not belong to me.
I can't pretend like I'm the one who's going to change this but all I know is that our time is running out.

I get so tired lighting fires when I know we still have so much better effort to go.

So how much longer must I wait to fill this emptiness.
I make mistakes and that my dreams slip through the cracks.
I've seen such hate surround the inside of this dark abyss but all this pain just makes me certain that there's luck for me to find a brighter path.

And out of the dust to see the light creep in and no it won't be long.
But let's confide, cause at least in the dark no one else can see who you really are.
So bring me, raise up your guns and blame me for all of your wrongs.
Seems hate is all I have left, yeah it's all I have left, it's the only thing that's left of me.

I get so tired lighting fires when I know we still have so much better effort to go.

So how much longer must I wait to fill this emptiness.
I make mistakes and that my dreams slip through the cracks.
I've seen such hate surround the inside of this dark abyss but all this pain just makes me certain that there's luck for me to find a brighter path.

So when you feel like you're falling under, holding onto the things you thought you loved.
Will you let all of the things you run from, chew you up and spit you out. (There's so much now!)

I get so tired lighting fires when I know we still have so much better effort to go. [x2]

So how much longer must I wait to fill this emptiness.
I make mistakes and that my dreams slip through the cracks.
I've seen such hate surround the inside of this dark abyss but all this pain just makes me certain that there's luck for me to find a brighter path. (Find a brighter path!)

Don't be scared, we'll see the lights go out...

MNSTR Lyrics - Crown The Empire

I am the ghost in the shadows
I am the fear of the dark
I am the murderer of apathy
An angel that's fallen

I am the psycho the sinner
I am what you can't escape
I am the splinter underneath your skin
I am a monster

With a bang
I feel my heart start to separate
The enemy within
Can no longer be contained

I'm running from myself
There's something inside of me
And it's ripping a hole through my chest

I spit the fire from my lungs
The creature I buried
Is now the beast that I've become
We pretend that we can be somebody else
But heaven's judgments nothing when
You're already in hell

So take these broken wings
They'll just slow me down
(I'll never be the same, I'll never be the same)
And take my fragile heart
They'll just tear it out
(This is the end of broken me)

They call me to the lights

I am the ghost in the shadows
I am the fear of the dark
I am the murderer of apathy
The angel that's fallen

I am the psycho the sinner
I am what you can't escape
I am the splinter underneath your skin
I am a monster

I feel so god damn tired
And I can't escape the things I've lost
The cycle repeats and repeats
And I can't turn the fucking power off

I hate the things that I'm not
And I'm sick of how this has to end
I tried to reason with you
But now all of you are fucking dead

I am the living dead
I am the living dead
I walk through hell alone
And none of you can save me now

So take these broken wings
They'll just slow me down
(I'll never be the same, I'll never be the same)
And take my fragile heart
They'll just tear it out
(This is the end of broken me)

They call me to the lights
Their voices just like thunder
They call me to the lights
But I am already gone, what have I done?

I am the ghost in the shadows
I am the fear of the dark
I am the murderer of apathy
An angel that's fallen

I am the psycho the sinner
I am what you can't escape
I am the splinter underneath your skin
I am a monster.

The Wolves Of Paris (Act II) Lyrics - Crown The Empire

When the days had grown shortest, and the leaves all died.
When life became scarce and all was covered in ice.
There lived a pack of wolves against every odd.
That grew hungry and tired and needed to hunt.

They'd sneak in to the towns in the dead of the night.
And seek fire for comfort and warmth in the light.
And though they weren't evil, and knew it was wrong.
They couldn't escape, the lust for the blood.

Machines Lyrics - Crown The Empire

 

We hold on to the lies to feel free,
So shackled by smiles, so empty.
We're scared of the war, so we've forgotten who we are.
We've traded in hope for safety, we're raised in the smoke,
Insisting that we're all too tired to light the fire,
And shake the earth.

But if all we are is just machines, then let's become a miracle
And break free from these chains.
We must be more than just machines,
So let them hear our hearts, so let them hear our hearts.
So let them hear our hearts, so let them hear our hearts!

Yeah!

Where will you run when there's no place left for you to hide?
When you're faced with the flood, will you stand for the future,
And swallow your pride?

Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one who dares to dream!
I scream at the top of my lungs, I hope that I'm proven wrong!

But if all we are is just machines, then let's become a miracle
And break free from these chains.
We must be more than just machines, so let them hear our hearts
So let them hear our hearts!

Where will you run when there's no place left for you to hide?
When you're faced with the flood, will you stand for the future,
And swallow your pride?

Where will you run when there's no place left for you to hide?
When you're faced with the flood, will you stand for the future,
And swallow your pride?

If all we are is just machines, then we must be the cogs,
Inside the wheels of change.
We must be more than just machines,
We can't afford to hide.
We must embrace the pain.

If all we are is just machines, then we must be the cogs,
Inside the wheels of change.
We must be more than just machines,
We can't afford to hide.
We must embrace the pain.

Millennia Lyrics - Crown The Empire

 

Hey there shadow, you didn't seem to care at all when you watched me go.
I know young love is just a dream, we were only seventeen,
But you're the only love I've known.

So please just let me go if you're done
'Cause it's hope that kills this heart.
So please set me free, kill the spark.

I've been gone from this world for what seems like millennia,
Looking for nothing short of a miracle.
I only ever wanted to come home, please won't you let me go?
When I have no where left I can run away, will you lie to me,
Tell me I'll be okay.
Close my eyes and lay me in my tomb.
Then pull the trigger and send me home.

So how did I get so far from my yesterdays,
Another broken heart now just a memory.
I should've left you in the dark, I should've left this awful town
And never found out how to love.

So I don't wanna know about the things that you regret,
Now that we're dead and over and done.
Get away from me and leave my heart under the rug.

I've been gone from this world for what seems like millennia
Looking for nothing short of a miracle
I only ever wanted to come home, please won't you let me go?
When I have no where left I can run away, will you lie to me,
Tell me I'll be okay.
Close my eyes and lay me in my tomb.
Then pull the trigger and send me home.

Send me home!

I've been gone from this world for what seems like millennia
Looking for nothing short of a miracle
I only ever wanted to come home, so won't you let me go?
When I have no where left I can run away, will you lie to me,
Tell me I'll be okay.
Close my eyes and lay me in my tomb.
Then pull the trigger and send me...

Initiation Lyrics - Crown The Empire

 

Welcome new recruits to your evaluation and initiation course.
This system is designed to test your survival and critical thinking
skills in Aeon City.
Please adjust the volume and do not move.

Welcome.
To the Resistance.

I've been a victim.
I've been a coward hiding underneath my pain.
I've been immobilized and watched the system
Destroy everything I loved
We cannot take this.
We must Resist this.

Who will you follow when the world fades to the grey?
Where can I turn when the world gives up on me?

I keep waiting in the dark for someone to come and save me
And I've been holding on to something I can never change.
We all search for higher ground
When the world comes crashing down, but I know
Nobody will come in to the dark and save me.

With iron claws and casted hearts
I feel my fear just fall apart.
I'm melted down to clear my past
then forged from fire so that I may ask

Who will you follow when the world fades to the grey?
Where can I turn when the world gives up on me?

I keep waiting in the dark for someone to come and save me
And I've been holding on to something I can never change.
We all search for higher ground
When the world comes crashing down, but I know
Nobody will come in to the dark and save me.

All new recruits,
We have been surrounded by scarecrows.
This is not a drill.
I repeat this is not a drill.
Runaway status is active to all new recruits starting immediately.
System failure.

Look what they've done to us.
Look what they've done to us.
Look what they've done to us.

I've grown so sick of hiding,
It's time we reclaim what's ours.
They try to say what we'll become
And rearrange the stars.
I know I'm sick and fucking tired
Of this mess they've made.
So let their arrows block the sun.
We will fight under the shade.

Welcome to the Resistance

I keep waiting in the dark for someone to come and save me
And I've been holding on to something I can never change.
We all search for higher ground
When the world comes crashing down, but I know
Nobody will come in to the dark and save me.