Yeah / yo
You were that / foundation
Never gonna be another one, no
I followed / so taken
So conditioned I could never let go
Then, sorrow / then, sickness
Then, the shock when you flip it on me
So hollow / so vicious
So afraid I couldn't let myself see
That I could never be held
Back or up / no, I hold myself
Check the rep / yep, you know mine well
Forget the rest / let them know my hell
There and back / yet, my soul ain't sell
Kept respect up / the best, they fell
Let the rest be the tale they tell
That I was there, sayin'

In these promises, broken / deep below
Each word gets lost in the echo
So one last lie / I can see through
This time, I finally let you

Go / go
Go

Test my will / test my heart
Let me tell you how the odds gonna stack up
Y'all go hard / I go smart
How's that workin' out for y'all in the back, huh?
I've seen that / frustration
Been crossed and lost and told, no
And I've come back / unshaken
Let down and lived and let go
So you can let it be known
I don't hold back / I own my own
I can't be mapped / I can't be cloned
I can't C-flat / it ain't my tone
I can't fall back / I came too far
Hold myself up and love my scars
Let the bells ring, wherever they are
'Cause I was there, sayin'

In these promises, broken / deep below
Each word gets lost in the echo
So one last lie / I can see through
This time, I finally let you go

(Go)

No / you can tell 'em all now
I don't back up / I don't back down
I don't fold up and I don't bow
I don't roll over / don't know how
I don't care where the enemies are
Can't be stopped / all I know / go hard
Won't forget how I got this far
For every time, sayin'

In these promises, broken / deep below
Each word gets lost in the echo
So one last lie / I can see through
This time, I finally let you

(Go) / go / (go) / go
(Go) / go / (go) / go
(Go) / go / (go) / go
(Go) / go

Separate / sifting through the wreckage
I can't concentrate / searching for a message
In the fear and pain / broken down and waiting
For a chance to feel alive

Now, in my remains
Are promises are never came
Set this silence free
To wash away the worst of me

Come apart / falling in the cracks
Of every broken heart / digging through the wreckage
Of your disregard / sinking down and waiting
For the chance to feel alive

Now, in my remains
Are promises are never came
Set this silence free
To wash away the worst of me

Like an army / falling
One by one by one
Like an army / falling
One by one by one

Like an army / falling
One by one by one
Like an army / falling
One by one by one

Now, in my remains
Are promises are never came
Set this silence free
To wash away the worst of me
(One by one / one by one)

Like an army / falling
One by one by one
Like an army / falling
One by one by one

The cycle repeated
As explosions broke in the sky
All that I needed
Was the one thing I couldn't find

And you were there at the turn
Waiting to let me know

We're building it up
To break it back down
We're building it up
To burn it down
We can't wait / to burn it to the ground

The colours conflicted
As the flames climbed into the clouds
I wanted to fix this
But couldn't stop from tearing it down

And you were there at the turn
Caught in the burning glow
And I was there at the turn
Waiting to let you know

We're building it up
To break it back down
We're building it up
To burn it down
We can't wait / to burn it to the ground

You told me, yes / you held me high
And I believed when you told that lie
I played soldier / you played king
And struck me down when I kissed that ring
You lost that right / to hold that crown
I built you up but you let me down
So, when you fall / I'll take my turn
And fan the flames as your blazes burn

And you were there at the turn
Waiting to let me know

We're building it up
To break it back down
We're building it up
To burn it down
We can't wait / to burn it to the ground

(When you fall / I'll take my turn)
(And fan the flames as your blazes burn)
We can't wait / to burn it to the ground

(When you fall / I'll take my turn)
(And fan the flames as your blazes burn)
We can't wait / to burn it to the ground

I'm a be that nail in your coffin / saying that I softened?
I was duckin' down to reload
So you can save your petty explanations / I don't have the patience
Before you even say it, I know
You let your pride or your ego / talk slick to me?
No / that is not the way I get down
And look at how you lose your composure / now, let me show you
Exactly how the beraking point sounds

I wanna see you choke on your lies / swallow up your greed
Suffer all alone in your misery
Choke on your lies / swallow up your greed
Suffer all alone in your misery

What is it you want me to tell you? / I'm not the failure
I would rather live and let me
But you came with the right kind of threat to / push me to let you
Know you can't intimidate me
You disrespect me so clearly / now, you better hear me
That is not the way it goes down
You did it to yourself and it's over / now, let me show you
Exactly how the breaking point sounds

I wanna see you choke on your lies / swallow up your greed
Suffer all alone in your misery
Choke on your lies / swallow up your greed
Suffer all alone in your misery

(I wanna see you) choke on your lies / swallow up your greed
Suffer all alone in your misery
Choke on your lies / swallow up your greed
Suffer all alone in your misery

You did it to yourself
You did it to yourself
You did it to yourself
You did it to yourself

You did it to yourself
You did it to yourself
You did it to yourself
You did it to yourself

I wanna see you choke on your lies / swallow up your greed
Suffer all alone in your misery
Choke on your lies / swallow up your greed
Suffer all alone in your misery

Like shining oil / this night is dripping down
Stars are slipping down / glistening
And I'm trying not to think what I'm leaving now
No deceiving now / it's time you let me know
Let me know

When the lights go out and we open our eyes
Out there, in the silence, I'll be gone / I'll be gone
Let the sun fade out and another one rise
Climbing through tomorrow, I'll be gone (I'll be gone) / I'll be gone

This air between us is getting thinner now
Into winter now / bittersweet
And, 'cross that horizon, this sun is setting down
You're forgetting now / it's time you let me go
Let me go

When the lights go out and we open our eyes
Out there, in the silence, I'll be gone / I'll be gone
Let the sun fade out and another one rise
Climbing through tomorrow, I'll be gone (I'll be gone) / I'll be gone

And tell them I / couldn't help myself
And tell them I was alone
Oh / tell them I am the only one
And there's nothing that can stop me

When the lights go out and we open our eyes
Out there, in the silence, I'll be gone / I'll be gone
Let the sun fade out and another one rise
Climbing through tomorrow, I'll be gone (I'll be gone) / I'll be gone

I'll be gone

Take me down to the riverbend
Take me down to the fighting end
Wash the poison from off my skin
Show me how to be whole again

Fly me up on a silver wing
Past the black where the sirens sing
Warm me up in a nova's glow
And drop me down to the dream below

'Cause I'm only a crack
In this castle of glass
Hardly anything there
For you to see / for you to see

Bring me home in a blinding dream
Through the secrets that I have seen
Wash the sorrow from off my skin
And show me how to be whole again

'Cause I'm only a crack
In this castle of glass
Hardly anything there
For you to see / for you to see

'Cause I'm only a crack
In this castle of glass
Hardly anything there
I need to be

'Cause I'm only a crack
In this castle of glass
Hardly anything there
For you to see / for you to see

For you to see

No regret for the confidence betrayed
No more hiding in shadow
'Cause I won't wait for the debut to be repaid
Time has come for you

Victimised / victimised
Never again / victimised
Victimised / victimised
Never again / victimised

They're actin' like they want a riot / it's a riot I'll give 'em
As the siren climbs higher on this violent rhythm
For you snakes in the grass / supplyin' the venom
I ain't scared of your teeth / I admire what's in 'em
You been waitin' in the shadows there / thinkin' you're hidden
But the truth is, you don't have the stomach to get 'em
Go on, already / hit 'em / yeah, you gotta be kiddin'
Wanna talk about a victim? / I'm a put you there with 'em

Victimised / victimised
Never again / victimised
Victimised / victimised
Never again / victimised

No

Weep not for roads untraveled
Weep not for paths left alone
'Cause, beyond every bend / is a long, blinding end
It's the worst kind of pain I've known

Give up your heart left broken
And let that mistake pass on
'Cause the love that you lost / wasn't worth what it cost
And, in time, you'll be glad it's gone

Weep not for roads untraveled
Weep not for sights unseen
May your love never end / and, if you need a friend
There's a seat here alongside me

Skin to bone and steel to rust
Ash to ashes / dust to dust
Let tomorrow have its way / with the promises we made
Skin to bone and steel to rust

Ash to ashes / dust to dust
Your deception / my disgust
When your name is finally drawn / I'll be happy that you're gone
Ash to ashes / dust to dust

Ash to ashes / dust to dust

Skin to bone and steel to rust

Right to left / left to right
Night to day and day to night
As the starlight fades to grey / I'll be marching far away
Right to left and left to right

Ash to ashes / dust to dust

Skin to bone and steel to rust

Let tomorrow have its way / with the promises betrayed
Skin to bone and steel to rust
Skin to bone and steel to rust
Skin to bone and steel to rust

It goes one, two, three

(I was born with the) hunger of a lion / the strength of a sun
I don't need to sweat it when a competition come
Original style like an eight-O-eight drum
So I don't run the track / no, I make the track run
My mama taught me words / my daddy built rockets
I put 'em both together / now, tell me what I got
It's a pretty smart weapon / I can shoot it / I can drop it
But learn to respect it 'cause you clearly can't stop it / like that

It ain't over 'cause the shark's on the left side / the snake's on the right
And anything you do / they wanna get a little bite
It really doesn't matter if you're wrong or if you're right
'Cause, once they get their teeth in, nothing really fights
And, as for me, I do it like I got nothing to lose
And you can run your mouth like you could try to fill my shoes
But, steady, little soldier / I ain't standin' next to you
I'd be layin' on the ground before you're even in my view / like that

Give me the strength of the rising sun
Give me the truth of the words unsung
And, when the last bells ring / the poor men sing
Bring me to kingdom come

It's something for you people on the block to / black out and rock to
Give you what you need like Poppa / Who Shot Ya?
Separate the weak from the obsolete
You're meek / I creep hard on impostors
And switch styles on a dime / quick-witted, y'all
Quit trippin' / I don't have time for your cryin'
I grind tough, sucker / make your mind up
Are you in the firing squad or are you in the line-up?
Bang-bang / little monkey-man
Playin' with the big guns only get you slain / I ain't playin'
I'm just sayin' / you ain't got a sliver of a chance
I get iller / I deliver / while you quiver in your pants
So shake-shakedown / money, here's the breakdown
You can play the bank / I'm a play the bank takedown
And, no mistakes now, I'm comin' to get you
I'm just a Banksy / you're a Brainwash / get the picture? / It's like that

We swim against the rising waves
And crash against the shore
The body bends until it breaks
The early morning sings no more

So rest your head / it's time to sleep
And dream of what's in store
The body bends until it breaks
Then, sings again no more

'Cause time has torn the flesh away
The early morning sings no more

Instrumental

You hid your skeletons when I had shown you mine
You woke the devil that I thought you'd left behind
I saw the evidence / the crimson soaking through
Ten-thousand promises / ten-thousand ways to lose

And you held it all
But you were careless to let it fall
You held it all
And I was by your side / powerless

I watched you fall apart and chased you to the end
I'm left with emptiness that words cannot defend
You'll never know what I became because of you
Ten-thousand promises / ten-thousand ways to lose

And you held it all
But you were careless to let it fall
You held it all
And I was by your side / powerless

And you held it all
But you were careless to let it fall
You held it all
And I was by your side / powerless

Powerless

Powerless