The Audience

Please allow me to introduce myself I'm the lie you use Surrounded by snakes and talking sharks Be mindful the words you choose Their eyes reflecting with purpose, calling Welcome to the feast Will you follow their actions and play games And as they step will you repeat formalities Thieves of our time Watch as they rape your integrity March as the beat suggests Time ticks forward, towards the bottom of undoing all that I once loved come take your piece of me, blood or bone No matter, I'll still be here when you're Don't cross the story you were always a maybe Here they'll know absolutes Oh used and abused now left for show They lie from their perch to let you know There's no letting go Thieves of our time Watch as they rape your integrity March as the beat suggests Time ticks forward, towards the bottom of undoing all that I once loved come take your piece of me, blood or bone No matter, I'll still be here when you're Done Be here when you're Done Be here when you're This is my audience Forever one together burning stars Cut from the same disease Ever longing, what and who we are This is the story of a boy who lost his way and found the Unstruck, his courage lost Damaged goods, a trust now long pre This is my audience Forever one together burning stars Cut from the same disease Ever longing, what and who we are Take all matters into your own hands And I, and I, I let them play with the coward who can command And I, I, I now you're just a memory Of humanity (The audience, I will show all of myself) This is my audience Forever one together burning stars Cut from the same disease Ever longing, what and who we are This is my audience Forever one together burning stars Cut from the same disease Ever longing, what and who we are --- The Audience - Coheed and Cambria