Still Echoes

Album: VII: Sturm und Drang (2015)
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  • A thousand heads cut clean across their necks
    Right down the hall from me
    The Reich's relentless blade
    Thirsty and shining red
    Still echoes of their screams

    This is a tarnished heirloom
    Passed down through iron fists
    A shameful house of doom
    A legacy of collapse built on a painful truth

    A thousand years of failure
    A thousand years they bled
    To the bear, the blitzkrieg, and the Holy Father
    They just bowed their heads

    They meekly did their time
    Counting the days while harnessed to their rusty shackles
    Forever occupied
    Folded the crimson star
    The rabbits turned to jackals

    (Still echoes of their screams)
    (Still echoes of their screams)

    This is a tarnished heirloom
    Passed down through iron fists
    A shameful house of doom
    A legacy of collapse, built on a painful truth

    A thousand years of failure
    A thousand years they bled
    To the bear, the blitzkrieg, and the Holy Father
    They just bowed their heads

    Soviet hangover, Eastern Bloc
    And dirty money still flows through locks
    A killing ground of rebels, black marketeers
    Restrained but there's no resistance here

    Southeast Asia in a Euro cellblock
    Saigon's children conceal what they've got
    The Opium Trail runs west through here
    They're selling disease to erase all your fears

    (Still echoes of their screams)
    (Still echoes of their screams)

    A thousand years of failure
    A thousand years they bled
    To the bear, the blitzkrieg, and the Holy Father
    They just bowed their heads (still echoes of their screams)
    I won't bow my head (still echoes of their screams)
    I won't bow my head Writer/s: CHRIS ADLER, DAVID RANDALL BLYTHE, JOHN CAMPBELL, MARK MORTON, WILL ADLER
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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