All music written & performed by
The Messiah Complex | All lyrics by Rikk Wolf | Produced by Aaron Young & Rikk Wolf | Mixed by Justin Mantooth | Mastered by Neil Simpson
Nervosa Crux
So this is what’s beautiful?
You should look like this?
A dog in a red dress?
Starve yourself for the success
Celebrity culture cult
Your face is not your own
I walk away with my arms crossed
Your caress comes at too high a cost
And nobody means a fucking word they say
When they realize the weight that they carry
Every-fucking-thing’s a waste of time
When your heart’s a glass valentine
Every empty promise has come true
Incinerating me the closer I get to you
You, I watch you…
Kill me with only your denial
You ran and slipped away
You’re killing me with only your denial
You ran and slipped a… way
Narcoleptic awareness
Selective admittance
You lie and lie and lie
Cowardice is a virtue
So just go ahead and be…
A dog in a red dress
Starve yourself for the success
Celebrity culture cult
Your face is not your own
Whore
This disease lacerates when I kiss you.
The first time I meet you will be your funeral.
And the words on your grave will be “My Tortured Heart”.
And I wither without you
Dead
I wither without you
Enmity
Where were you when the drama came down?
I guess you were too busy trying to “find yourself”.
Such a shame I found yourself first - daddy’s little lost cause.
Remembering everything and everything you ever said.
Remembering everything and everything you ever said.
Where are your so called...
Where are your friends now?
Take a picture ‘cause I am long gone.
Take a picture ‘cause I am long gone.
Do you walk your path?
Or does your path walk (you?)
Hearts run cold and acid flows for blood.
Vendetta - no more blind facades.
Your enmity burns like tragedy.
With every breath I draw I live against you.
So Bravo, You play the victim so well,
I can hear the violins as they start to swell.
Chivalry’s dead and you killed it.
But it got me somewhere… a closed casket
You’re purely fake but you gotta roll with your strengths.
You’re purely fake but you gotta roll with your strengths.
Where are your so called...
Where are you friends now?
Your picture's begging to be burned.
Burn the pictures ‘cause I am long gone.
A Storm of Fireflies
These tortured eyes have seen the last of the unknown.
The consequence of dishonesty will warp the reality we’ve sewn.
And if I hate myself, well then I hate myself, and I hate this same old haunt.
But it takes far too long to find the way back home.
And now the coldest lights are shinning through your eyes.
Every sunset is a waste and without your face the twilight dies.
A storm of fireflies will lead the way back home.
But can you tell the dishonest lights apart from the ones I've shown?
A storm of fireflies circles around your eyes.
For the last time we breathe as one.
You never said goodbye,
And it kills my air supply.
For the last time we die as one.
These eyes are searching for you now.
The stars are bleeding down your name.
This heart is lost without you.
How did we get so far?
Nevermind, just lead me home.
And now I search for your soul in every face I see.
It’s the only thing that makes me smile as the black slides around me.
You breathed eternal life into these lungs then buried me.
So now your smile bites through my tongue everyday.
Every sunset is a waste without you.
Every rainstorm is a chance to find you.
Blue Eyes Bleeding (In the Grave)
I can see the network as it contorts into a noose.
Our signals are getting crossed and your intentions remain obtuse.
Don’t look sorry, you cannot fool me.
Your promises, were your weaknesses.
Our blinding mistakes have what it takes.
To give me the strength, to end my life.
All I wanted was to shine for you
Long enough to see you smile at me.
You were my best & only friend,
With two beautiful hands to lend.
But you only choked me with them, and watched me writhe.
No such deeper cut,
Than those made by the intimate.
The corpses of your promises,
Hang me with my heartstrings.
All I wanted was to shine for you
Long enough to see you smile at me
But it was too good to be true anyway
I got to touch you for just one day
And I watched as every promise you made to me dissolved
How many phony tears did you black mail me with?
There’s no healing these scars from years gone by
And I can’t stop falling long enough to try
Engine Failure at the Finishline
Grasping defeat from the jaws of victory.
We’ve come too far, just to stall out now.
But don’t count me out ‘till I’m down.
Not till’ the nick of this time.
I hope you dream of fractured spines,
While you’re asleep at the wheel.
For every smile of yours I’ll never see, another wound digs its way into me.
I don’t know what to mourn ‘cause I don’t know what was real and what was lies.
So wrap your heart around this thorned rose.
And I’ve chosen you to be the first one…
…the first one to see me smiling.
And the last one to see me alive.
Don’t count me out ‘till I’m down.
Not till’ the nick of this time.
I pick the glass from my eyes,
While you’re still miles away.
And we’ve come so far just to stall out now.
You left me bleeding fast on those railroad tracks.
You give me an inch, when miles have passed me by.
But tonight…
Tonight I take my life back from you.
I trusted you, so the fault is mine.
Engine failure at the finish line.
A fuel injected suicide machine.
Push the filter to pull the trigger.
And Number Four is stalling out at the finish line.
We jump the track marks,
To burn your rubberneck.
So sweet the way you bled,
When we hit the pavement.
Don’t count me out ‘till I’m down.
Not till’ the nick of this time.
This engine’s out of key,
So we dance like amputees.
So wrap your heart around this thorned rose.
And I’ve chosen you to be the first one to see me bleeding to death.
But too late just came and went.
Soul mates and alcohol spell tragedy.
Just in Time to Burn
Her eyes remind him of scars once forgotten.
It takes a certain kind of darkness,
To see through the illusionary process.
Your eyes will find me here,
Suspended in time for another year.
I can’t tell you why we’ve burned one hundred times.
And I’ll combust another hundred times.
I’ll be dead but dreaming.
You’ll be alive and screaming.
We’re too late for our turn,
But we were just in time to burn
Was there ever anyway to see through the dimensional divide that was a thorn in our side?
I can feel your world as it crosses over into mine.
All I ever wanted to do with you was lay down and die in a dream or two with you.
But we fell to rosen ash too soon.
In your eyes, or in none, am I really there before I’m gone?
In forty-eight hours they’ll be setting flowers on my… on my grave.
Our time ticks away with every heartbeat.
Burn.
Fire shoots through my veins
As I watch your face fall away.
Will you remember me once I’ve burned?
Her eyes held the formula for the most beautiful chemistry that I’ll never find again
She ghosted out in the swirls of cigarette smoke and now she’s somewhere less than hollow
But there’s plenty of fish in the cesspool and there’s some fool for every fool right?
Yeah… right.
Just keep telling yourself that.
Heh… you’ll figure it out.
Dawn From the Ashes
Combustions carry a certain beauty,
That ignites a death less ordinary.
The dust that gathers on a scar that scatters is a fragment of your farce.
You cannot take this away from me,
But ready, aim, take your best shot.
To gain that which is worth having,
We must lose everything.
Gone!
Make the most of these words.
Before your chances capsize.
You never cared.
To ask us how -
To make the most of the worst.
Before your chances capsize.
You were never there for me.
We rise, we fall,
To the beat of the cinder’s song.
We rise, we fall,
So we may – dawn from the ashes.
Everybody wants to step up like they’re gonna get made.
But everybody flakes out when it’s time to get the shit played.
It’s out of your reach, so out of my way.
It seems so close, and then it’s…
You were never there
Like you said you were.
You never cared
Like you said you do.
A Logical Flaw
The fallacy of unrequited cardiac arrest
burns a hole straight through your bulletproof chest.
Exponential decay paints a betrayal worth a thousand words
That you’re too fucking scared to say.
Run in circles still the burning end of time.
Run in circles off the falling single file.
Ten million little white promises that I am still waiting for.
I know you know.
This is my heart stretched shoulder to shoulder.
As your skin grows colder and colder.
And remember in this ventricle so sinful,
This hate is logical.
Doubt.
The heartthrob threads that Siamesed our papier-mâché arteries,
Are forever severed due to tangled tragedies.
Your automated, factory made, default excuses,
Have trapped me in a memory I never asked for.
Never!
You’re only constant in your inconsistency.
You never failed to fail me.
Black September
I can’t believe it’s September again, yeah.
Let’s watch our corpses burning here.
You’re gonna change again.
So I’ll murder you, my friend.
Let’s carve off your face.
That mask was never you.
I’m gonna sit back here
And watch you die.
I’m gonna die down here,
And wish I was there
To watch you fall apart.
Don’t lie awake in your grave.
This is our Black September.
