Album: Ascendancy (2005)

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• The face and the lips
  tremble as it rips
  Your breath quickening
  as heat rushes in
  
  Pull harder
  strings martyr
  Stop your cry, that's a lie
  Flush gasping
  white reddening
  You smile and destroy it
  it's time that we end this
  
  It's our curse
  that makes this world so hopeless
  Allowing our
  king to spread his genocidal wings
  
  Clawing the skin
  each kill your weakness
  Annihilation your masturbation
  tyrant, I'll burn you down
  
  Pull harder
  strings martyr
  Stop your cry, that's a lie
  Flush gasping
  white reddening
  You smile and destroy it
  it's time that we end this
  
  It's our curse
  that makes this world so hopeless
  Allowing our
  king to spread his genocidal wings
  
  It's our curse
  that makes this world so hopeless
  Allowing our
  king to spread his genocidal wings
  
  My hands grip your throat
  I need your end
  Burned, staked, ripped apart
  I avenge
  For every life you have taken
  I am here to repay
  
  You ask me, "Oh, God, why?"
  'Cause I'm God's fucking why
  For every life you have taken
  I am here to repay
  
  Pull harder
  strings, martyr
  Stop your cry
  that's a lie
  Flush gasping
  white reddening
  You smile and destroy it
  it's time that we end this
  
  It's our curse
  that makes this world so hopeless
  Allowing our
  king to spread his genocidal wings
  
  It's our curse
  that makes this world so hopeless
  Allowing our
  king to spread his genocidal wings Writer/s: Corey Beaulieu, Jason Suecof, Matthew Heafy, Paolo gregoletto, Travis Smith
  Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 8

• Nick from Cairns, AustraliaI'm sick of this trivium ripping off metallica s**t. I'm a metallica fan and have every cd and i'm not that convinced yet. If there iss anything that shows trivium sounds a bit like metallica its probably matt heafy's vocals in the crusade and maybe the guitar solo's. For instance, in the song becoming the dragon, the bassist paolo gregoletto played the outro solo with his bass. That's not neccessarily ripping off metallica's late bassist cliff burton. Paolo was just influenced by cliff to do something like that i guess.
• Martin from Columbus, OhEvan do you know about music of course they sound like metallica they plagarize um walk down the street in a trivium shirt and you'll hear some sh*t bout them
• Chris from Attleborough, EnglandTrivium are the best they rock their gig in cambridge was awesome
• Steven from Viking, CanadaIn an issue of Guitar World magazine, Matt Heafy said that if he could steal anyones guitar powers, that he would steal DragonForce's Nintendo sounds.
• Evan from Otway, OhI love this song, and band. These guys remind me of Metallica, just by the way they play. Anyways, my 2nd favorite Trivium song. Oh, and I freakin' love the drums in the very beginning of the song.
• Jake from Tranmere, EnglandTRIVIUM ROCK anthem is the best though
• Dee from Northfield, IlIf you listen to this song more closely, it's about George W. Bush.
• Mike from Mason, OhTrivium is so badass

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