TANTA FURIA - LYRICS (Patreon)

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Tanta Furia

In Spite of You

I remember them telling me

Something bad’s gonna happen

We are alone in everything

Especially in dying

I’ve got a mark where your picture was

You spun me out of the photograph

And asked me how I bend the light

I just see the negatives

It’s taken me so long to see

You never saw the best in me

Now you’re gonna see me as I am

In spite of you, in spite of you

Losing sleep each time I wake

You’ve left me nothing left to hate but you

In spite of you

Lock my love inside a cage

And now I’m happy in this state for you

See I remember the difference

Between the doubt and significance

I wasn’t born I just stumbled in

Now I don’t believe in anything

You set me up like a failure

Before I’d even begun

So I’d rather keep my addictions

Than be a slave to anyone

The prying eyes that never sleep

Will watch you while you pray for me

Now you’re gonna see what you have done

And if I ever do succeed

I hope that you will think of me

And know that I have only just begun

Part of Me

I don’t know how you got in my head

Turning all my visions to red

But you did and I’m grateful for helping mesee

That even after all this time

Your love is a part of me

First you pulled me out of my grave

Handed me the keys to my cage

And I guess that I owe you for the air thatI breathe

But now you’re starting to choke me

With the hands that used to feed

 Nowyour love is part of me

Thought you’d be malicious and clean

Calculated like a machine

And I’m drawn to your nightmare

While you pull on my chains

I can’t deny that I have found the comfortin the pain

I’ve got to get away from your arms

Your suffocating violent charms

You’re the colour of evil on the wings of adove

But even if I shoot you down I just can’tshake you off

How did I get so sick from your embrace?

Your mouth full of salt for all my cuts

Now the last of me is leaving you

But this part will never give up

I’ve got to get away from your hate

You only teach me how to degrade

You’re waste, you’re a tyrant

You’re a leech of my kindness

You’re a cunt, and a bastard

And it makes me so sad that

You’re just imitating, You’re asphyxiating

Your love is a part of myself that I’mhating

Scars

There’s a scar between us

A thorn upon this rose

My skin will only weaken

The more I lose control

She has the mark of genius

So perfectly impure

A harlequin from Venus

Walking through my door

Sorry love

I’ve seen you in history books

I’ve seen you in the quiet looks

I’ve seen you in the firelight

I see you when I close my eyes

And when I see you between these lines

I breathe your name back to life

I see you suffer on your own

I see you and I want to take you home

She has the mark of sorrow

She suffers in my skin

My scars are hers to borrow

I’d give her anything

Sorry love

I’ve seen you in tenderness

I see you, my murderess

I see you when the lightning strikes

I see you when I close my eyes

And when I see you, like a blinding light

It’s when I need you, don’t give up thisfight

I see you as they throw their stones

I see you and I want you for my own

Well there’s a place for us dreamers

You only have to choose to escape

Their hands are never gonna reach us

And I’m never gonna wake

Deathbed Confession

I took a walk through the cracks of analley

Where I saw the whites of your eyes gettingheavy

It’s a sad little burden that you keep andyou carry

But you love to weep and you love to besorry

I was almost out when the guns had beenloaded

When you heard me shout that the war wasn’tover

Do you have to doubt the power you own

So you ran and you beg to the blood redthrone

Say to me, what you see

You believed, the grass was green

They have been, safe and clean

It won’t mean they’ll save you

High is the risk and the bets that you areplacing

Don’t you think that it’s time

That you stopped all the shaking?

I can see for days you’ve been jealous andsober

Cos I made my bed with a drunk littlesoldier

Well he sat me down, said to me:

“I’m trying to decided how I want to spendeternity

I’m saving all my sins up for a deathbedconfession

But I did not know, that your God wasAmerican”

What did you think of the food from thetable?

Did you have to eat so that you could beable?

To spit out your sins, be sanctified

Now you call all you follow to lay down anddie

Temple

I’m wicked like a stranger crawling over yourbed

Wicked like the criminal inside of yourhead

I’m wicked like the sickness in a coldfever sweat

Wicked like the taste of each and everyregret

I’m wicked like the preacher preying oninnocence

Fumblin’ his creeping fingers under yourdress

I’m wicked like the bodies hidden undercement

If my body is a temple, desecrate me

I don’t want nobody else

I’ll be your tiger in a cage

I’m going to keep you to myself

I’m wicked like the serpent coming out ofthe tree

Whisper in your ear until you wake up and bleed

Wicked like the things I say but I don’tmean

Wicked now I know the devil’s working in me

So wicked that you’ll wake up screaming outmy name

Take away your purity and leave you withshame

You know I’ll leave you when I’ve nothingto gain

So baby, if my body is a temple, desecrateme

Elliot

He only tells me what I want to hear

When we’re all strung out on the town

He doesn’t give a shit about my hair

He wants to pull it out

There was a time when there was somethingthere

Now we just take it in turns

Some people want to see the world from here

And some people want to crash and burn

Elliot, I know the world has trod youunderfoot

But there’s a chance we could do somethinggood

Elliot, I know that you are justmisunderstood

You know we’re Marian and Robin Hood, ohElliot

We get attention from the neighbours nowcos he

He likes to talk to himself

And then one day he tore the house apart

Sweeping all my things off the shelves

I’m not concerned about the voice he hears

I just make him stay in his room

On days like that I hold him close to meand whisper:

“I can hear that voice too”

Elliot, you’re just the victim of yourmisspent youth

But there’s a chance you could do somethinggood

Elliot, I try to love you like I know Ishould

And then one morning I woke up in tears

His body was a cold as a stone

He took his medicine with too much gin

Oh Elliot I should have known

Spit

You turn up here uninvited

To give a piece of your mind

But all these pieces are violent

And you’re as cruel as you’re kind

You see I hold all the cards now

You want to force me to choose

No matter how this hand plays out

Darling, you’re just gonna lose

Now I watch you walk away for the last time

And I love you even though you are a liar

My hands were reaching out

But you spit on it, yeah you spit, spit,spit, spit

I never thought you’d get sober

And now I guess I was right

You keep on playingthe victim

But still there’s no one to fight

You know I meant what I said yeah

You know I’m not coming back

My eyes are looking at midnight

I watch you fade into black

Mary

Hail Mary full of grace

The Lord has put you in your place

Put you where no-one can reach

No hands to touch or words to speak

Have you had your fill of misery?

For the light it falls so far from me

But it’s my sin, there is no shame

I close my eyes, I see the flames

Hail Mary of the earth

They promised you a virgin birth

They take your name and they conspire

To burn you with their holy fire

But if you lead so many to believe

Their death is not a mystery

They’ll bring their arms and bring theirguns

For the Lord he speaks but not in tongues

We’re fighting for the rest of us

This sacrifice is not enough

To justify our history

Oh Mary, please come home to me

Hail Mary in your arms

The ashes of a fallen star

You only have to break the spine

For the Lord is good, and he is kind

Have you had your fill of righteousness?

For the light it falls so far from us

If we can’t stop the acts of man

To save ourselves then no-one can

Bones of God

When they found

The bones of God

They stitched our lips

They paid us off

The papers said

It was fake

So we hid the lies

For the children’s sake

How can I run from

Your heavenly host?

You’ve put all your trust

In a holy ghost, so

There’s no redemption

For my crime

I took my life

Where they found

The bones of God

The grass was black

The earth was rot

My saviour lay

In a tomb of rust

My rock of ages

Ground to dust

How can I run from

Your heavenly host?

You’ve put all your trust

In a holy ghost, so

There’s no redemption

For your crime

You better take your life

Tanta Furia

Been coming up for a long, long time

When am I gonna fall?

I left my body behind as I climb

To the centre of it all

Levitate from my state

Fill you up with my hate

Throw the dust in the sky

Looking up with open eyes

Holding time in your hands

An hourglass of sinking sand

Holy night, what the fuck

Is stopping me from waking up?

I’m looking down at the ground

As I’m bound to the angel of my hurt

I see his halo is burning

I’m turning the pages of the earth

Animal that you are

Feral love give me scars

Cut the cord from your life

Visions of a serpentine

Holding trust in your lips

Secrets of a Judas kiss

Turn your cheek for a friend

I never want this moment to end

She’s got the power of words

How I herd my fury to her shrine

I know she’s lifting the curse

As we worship for reasons undefined

Bite my lip, not my type

Visions of a sacrifice

Say the name in blood

Drink it down and raise it up

Bitterness overripe

Hanging from, tree of life

Let me go to despair

TANTA FURIA

Eulogy

I used to dream of the big blue sky

Now I just see no colour of sunrise in youreyes

Disfigured and pure like the demise ofLucifer

I was cold when you found me outside thewake

With the grief on my tongue like a glasssnowflake

Forgot my excitement watching this clock

Now I walk in the fields of my paradiselost

How we fall so far from grace

I used to dream of escaping here

I would pack all my bags and make big plansto disappear

But now that I’m grown I just sink like astone

Through the comfort of gravity

Now I’ll drink off this bottle as it drainsoff of me

If my heart is the thunder my tears are thesea

That will drag me right under

Ten thouseand feet to this wasteland ofsilence

How we fall so far from grace

And I say... God don’t be kind to me

Take back your liberty

Hang my freedom from this precipice

Just in front of me

Take back your Midas touch

Lord, it won’t matter much

If you cast me out I’ll just crawl away

It’s my prophecy

I used to dream of coming clean

Now I just keep my secrets safe under lockand key

A blanket of ash I am buried beneath brokenmirrors

Incomplete

I’m a little boy soldier still learning tofight

As the war passes over this unholy night

Paint the blood on my doorway and pray Isurvive

But don’t tell me not to worship

At this church of loneliness