Carcass

from Like A Champion by Chumps

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I can never unburn these lungs
I can never untie the wires
That my head has become
Train your eyes to the back of my wrists
Where my teeth tore through the flesh
That was keeping my secrets hid
I suppose my secrets
They aren’t so secret

We’ll never allow ourselves to scrape and bow
We’ll build beautiful barricades to keep us safe
And we’ll always be, we will always be
Just blood and bones, just empty shells

I can never unsee these sights
But I can feed my self-denial
Until my guts distend
Until the exact moment
That your wisdom becomes a key
That your patience becomes a lock
When you parse the truth from lies

We’ll never allow ourselves to scrape and bow
We’ll build beautiful barricades to keep us safe
And we’ll always be, we will always be
Just blood and bones, just empty shells

Never sorry for being born

We black out the sun / We level all the peaks
We cannot be stopped / We cannot be pleased
No way to put an end to this, cause everyone is one of us
We are salt and lye / We are death and decay
We’re a plague, a disease / We’re the end of everything

We’re the end of everything

We’ll never allow ourselves to scrape and bow
We’ll build beautiful barricades to keep us safe
And we’ll always be, we will always be
Just blood and bones, just empty shells

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from Like A Champion, released December 19, 2014

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Carcass

Dec 2014
Like A Champion

Dec 2014
Blues For Allah

Jan 2015
CHUMPS

Aug 2011

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