ATREYU - the curse (2004) 1. Blood Children (An Introduction) 2. Bleeding Mascara 3. Right Side Of The Bed 4. This Flesh A Tomb 5. You Eclipsed By Me 6. The Crimson 7. The Remembrance Ballad 8. An Interlude 9. Corseting 10. Demonology And Heartache 11. My Sanity On The Funeral Pyre 12. Nevada's Grace 13. Five Vicodin Chased With A Shot Of Clarity 14. You Give Love A Bad Name 1. Blood Children (An Introduction) 2. Bleeding Mascara A wraith with an angel's body A demon with a smile of gold You soulsucker I won't become like you A killer with the perfect weapons, crystal eyes, and a heart of coal You soulsucker I won't lose myself in you Look how pretty she is when she falls down Now there is no beauty in bleeding mascara Lip are quivering like a withering rose She's back again What the fuck do you think love means? It's much more than words and feelings sucking me dry Is my marrow that sweet? Your dead lovers have left a trail of broken hearts and misspent hopes Sucking them dry Does their marrow taste of sweetness, sweetness? I hope you choke 3. Right Side Of The Bed I can see her now Dancing around, her drink in hand All her baggage in tow I just want to fucking let her go Of all the joy, all of the pain I took your guilt and placed it into me And now I kiss it goodbye Our last dance ended fatall Who's sleeping on my side of the bed tonight? Have you ever cried so hard? Baby you just died There she goes again Another masquerade in false circumstance She'll fuck you just for the taste I just wish I could replace all the memories Of what makes my blood run cold And as your blood flows through me I say goodbye to what we had She came and went I gnawed through my lip Makeup smeared in her eyes Each sob's a reason to say goodbye. Sometimes when you're holding on You'll never see the light With flowers in her hair I gazed upon with dead lovers eyes She never looked so good And I never felt so right 4. This Flesh A Tomb I feel eyelashes on my cheek And they lacerate my flesh A pain so good Put your hand in mine Never let go Never wake up 'cause I'm done with promises I'm taking blood oaths Feels likes you could kiss my imperfections My imperfections away And I would stand Stand by your side until the sun turns the sky All the colors I see in your eyes I'll never need to see the sun again There's enough light in your eyes to light up our little world So take me, take my away Kill me slowly, I'll never be the same I swear to you, on everything I am And I dedicare to you all that I have And I promise you that I will stand right by your side Forever and always until the day I die The bite marks on my neck never felt so good I'm losing control and it's all that I can do Not to blackout and fall into lust with you Your kisses infect me The dark gift is loving you And I feel immortal and I want to make you feel the same So stand by me as we immulate We can burn in each other's arms 5. You Eclipsed By Me I began my ascent at minue zero You made so sure of that You tried to keep me down here Your complacency has been your downfall Nobody made you king of the world And I'm here to dethrone you So kiss the ring motherfucker It's my time, my time to shine Grasping for the straws as they fall Maybe you can make a splint for your broken ego For your broken ego So I say thank you for the scars And the guilt and the pain Every tear I've never cried Has sealed your fucking fate What did you take me for, a fool? Or were you just too blind to see That every effort made has failed And there is no destroying me? Hate can be a positive emotion When it forces you to better yourself You built me, constructed my desire Perfected my hatred Now I'm driven to be ten times better than you think you are Ten times better than you think you are Piece by piece I've built my walls And burned the bridges down That lead back to people like you So full of malice, so full of scorn You tried your best to crush my spirit You tried to steal my soul You pushed my back against the wall And I broke it down I will not be broken Though I am the one who bleeds I will not be broken I am the one 6. The Crimson I feel it welling up inside and Robert Smith lied Boys do cry and with blood tears in my eyes I'm an Anne Rice novel come to life I can't hide the monster anymore One can only feel desolate for so long Until one starts to change Into something the mirror doesn't recognize I metamorphasize The darkness has been biding its time To claim its latest victim Fresh meat for carnal desires To become what I became I viewed the sun for the last time Will you still hold me when you see what I have done? Will you still kiss me the same when you taste my victim's blood? So crimson and red, I feel it flowing from your lips My heart is dead and so are you And it pulses through, the desire to change The desire to deconstruct all of my past failings But where to begin because when you live in sin It's hard to look at saints without them Reflecting their jet black auras back on you And all I have is hope, my inner burn's not fading I'll wipe the blood from my cheek and get on with my day And all I have is hope, and all I need is time To bury in pine under six feet of time The lies I told me about myself Claw my way out, pick the splinters from under my fingernails I won't lose hope, I won't give in Just live and breathe and try not to die again 7. The Remembrance Ballad These days are closing in Because has become apparent We're only here for so long Will anyone remember my name When time has washed away the dust of our ashes When my head rests in a velvet lined casket What's out there? What is my eternal fate? And it only just recently hit me That this life is just a state Mortality fading, like the innocence of love I'm scared to death of what's to become Of my immortal soul of this eternal flame Will you remember? Will your heart sing with pain? Who calls out my name? And tell me what happens When my eyes close for the last time Does it all simply end in a blanket of darkness And what of my soul, what of my soul? All those things that you couldn't say You should've said All those I-love-you's lost Weighed more like lead on your chest All those things that you couldn't say You should've said All those I-love-you's lost Weighed more like lead on your chest, what of Of my immortal soul of this eternal flame Will you remember? Will your heart sing with pain? Who calls out my name? And tell me what happens When my eyes close for the last time Does it all simply end in a blanket of darkness And what of my soul, what of my soul? [guitar solo] If I could take back all those misspent days Every second of anger, I would wash my sins away! Who calls out my name? And tell me what happens When my eyes close for the last time Does it all simply end in a blanket of darkness And what of my soul, what of my soul? [repeat previous stanza] 8. An Interlude [instrumental] 9. Corseting Just swallow the pill and think of me no longer Just let go and take yourself out Before I kill you too Aren't you tired of my fucking you over and over? You were the last person I wanted in my sights And my heart honestly breaks when I think of you I understand now what I-love-you means - It's doing the right thing no matter of the consequence I'm tying you up, using the nicest lace Trying to kill you softly, trying to erase your face All the while I'm doing my best Not to rub my love against your head I'd redecorate the walls with your inner thoughts But I'm afraid it's the wrong shade of red But I have these sadistic urges And I don't want to take it out on you Right now you're the only one who understands my plight Right now you're the only reason I can't sleep through the night 10. Demonology And Heartache So unaffectionate, so insecure You claim to know a thing or two about heartache And what it's like to have your insides torn out And I believe you I see it every time your pallbearer's palor is obscured by the darkness Dancing across your face, and when the blackness veils your eyes in pain I know what it's like when memories make you wince And love letters read like obituaries And photo albums are the books of the dead I need no reminders, no more reminders I'll forget the past and lay it to rest If I had my way I'd cut the calluses off your, off your breaking heart If I could get past the sternum Cauterize those wounds with Every kiss I could give to you I'm holding your heart in my hand The reason it still beats Am I being too cryptic? Am I being too obscure? Love kills, romance is dead And I don't even trust myself But I love you And you can pull my wings apart And pin me down under glass Until the end of days if it can help you Discover that we share the same pain I just hope you write your thesis Before your subject is dead No life after death 11. My Sanity On The Funeral Pyre Paranoia is the insect working its way Through my subconscious thoughts It's the larve of my self doubt Gestating in my heart as I spiral down And everything I touch is breaking And it falls to earth in splinters And I shiver as every splinter Finds its way underneath my skin And after 22 years I can still make my skin crawl Every shortcoming, a pitfall On my way to making amends Within myself to be what I became Sometimes it feels like the whole wide world Has made itself my enemy But I will stand upon my own two feet And raise my head up I lick my wounds Trying to cleanse the infection Rabid and diseased reality fades away When I pushed myself too far A dream of emotional perfection Has left a wounded heart Trying to perceive the gifts inherent inside me It's like squeezing the trigger It's like opening fire On everyone who's let me down On every beautiful lie that is only fiction For the first time I'm losing control and I like it Freedom feels like the noose is gone 12. Nevada's Grace In this perfection I lament her beauty Her voice a sour note in this bitter serenade In this perfection I lament her beauty Her voice a sour note in this bitter serenade And all these words I could have would have should have said Ring out like gunshots across long lost days If that wasn't love then what the fuck was I thinking? I would bear my soul just to bask in your grace And your beauty, your strength inspires all of my days I would carry any load just to bear your cross for a day In this perfection I lament her beauty Her voice a sour note in this bitter serenade In this perfection I lament her beauty Her voice a sour note in this bitter serenade Your love fills me up when the blood in my body's drained And your strength is my backbone when I feel every bone break im built for pain i swore to let no one in and there you where a vision a beauty It takes my breath away you took my breath away and it takes my breath away how you took my breath away [2X] How could I know that you would take my breath away? And How could I know one kiss would change everything? Your love fills me up when the blood in my body's drained And your strength is my backbone when I feel every bone break Your love fills me up when the blood in my body's drained And your strength is my backbone when I feel every bone break 13. Five Vicodin Chased With A Shot Of Clarity After all this time of asking questions Of trying to find something to quiet this soul I'm left alone within my mind into this self-made hell I delve It's not as hot as you think More so dark and cold with no room to breathe I'm sorry, I don't think it's going to be okay this time My heart has skipped its final beat It's beating me down onto the floor That must mean that the pills are working The glass isn't half empty this time I smashed it to the ground a long long time ago It shattered when it fell and I broke to pieces Each shard's another reason, another way to give up This skin is so tight that the air can't reach my brain There is nothing telling my heart to beat any faster To let me scream for help, I will never give up I will never take the easy way out This is life This is struggle This is love This is war 14. You Give Love A Bad Name [BON JOVI cover] [limited edition bonus track] Shot through the heart and you're to blame Darlin' you give love, a bad name Fuck you An angel's smile is what you sell you promise me heaven, then put me through hell Chains of love, got a hold on me when passion's a prison, you can't break free Whoa! You're a loaded gun yeah, whoa... There's nowhere to run No one can save me The damage is done Shot through the heart and you're to blame You give love a bad name I play my part and you play your games You give love a bad name You give love a bad name You paint that smile on your lips blood red nails on your fingertips A school boy's dream, you act so shy Your very first kiss was your first kiss goodbye Whoa! You're a loaded gun whoa... There's nowhere to run No one can save me The damage is done Shot through the heart and you're to blame You give love a bad name I play my part and you play your games You give love a bad name You give love... Shot through the heart and you're to blame You give love a bad name I play my part and you play your games You give love a bad name Shot through the heart and you're to blame You give love a bad name I play my part and you play your games You give love a bad name You give love a bad name