Memento Mori

Album: Lamb Of God (2020)
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  • By the darkest river, beneath the leafless trees
    I think I'm drowning, this dream is killing me
    (Wake up, wake up, wake up)
    In the coldest winter, between the fading lights
    I feel I'm falling into a frozen sky
    (Wake up, wake up, wake up)
    Past the blackest heaven, above the dying stars
    I watch me breaking into a million shards
    (Wake up, wake up, wake up)
    But through the hardest hour, below the cruelest sign
    I know I'm waking up from this wretched lie
    (Wake up, wake up)
    Wake up

    A depression fed by overload
    False perceptions, the weight of the world
    A universe in the palm of your hand
    The artifice of endless strands

    Distraction flows down an obsessive stream
    Rejection grows into oppressive screams

    The hardest hour, the cruelest sign
    I'm waking up from this wretched lie
    I fight it the same, don't waste this day
    Wake up, wake up, wake up
    Memento mori

    The regression of advancing modes
    And Imperial corrosive nodes
    A prime directive to disconnect
    Reclaim yourself and resurrect

    Distraction flows down an obsessive stream
    Rejection grows into oppressive screams

    The hardest hour, the cruelest sign
    I'm waking up from this wretched lie
    I fight it the same, don't waste this day
    Wake up, wake up, wake up
    Memento mori

    There's too many choices
    And I hear their relentless voices
    But you've gotta run them out
    Return to now and shut it down
    Shut it down

    A depression fed by overload
    False perceptions, the weight of the world
    Because there's too many choices
    Gotta kill their relentless voices

    (Wake up, wake up)
    I know I'm waking up from this wretched lie

    The hardest hour, the cruelest sign
    I'm waking up from this wretched lie
    I fight it the same, don't waste this day
    Wake up, wake up, wake up
    Wake up, wake up
    Wake up
    Memento mori

    Memento mori Writer/s: David Randall Blythe, John Campbell, Mark Morton, Will Adler
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • AnonymousNot all angels play the harp. Some are warriors and defeat the demons.
  • AnonymousThis is not a Christian video and has no Christian meaning. Should not be under Christian anything. There is no darkness in Him. Something that is of God should not bother you to look at.
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