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Shadows Fall
Shadows Fall


Background information
Origin Springfield, Massachusetts, United States
Genre(s) Thrash Metal
Metalcore
Melodic Death Metal
Years active 1995—present
Label(s) Roadrunner Records
Atlantic Records
Ferret Records
Century Media Records
Spinefarm Records
Everblack Industries
Associated acts Avenged Sevenfold
All That Remains
Killswitch Engage
Aftershock
Overcast
Website Website
Members
Brian Fair
Jonathan Donais
Matt Bachand
Paul Romanko
Jason Bittner
Former members
Adam Dutkiewicz
Philip Labonte
David Germain
Derek Kerswill



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Shadows Fall Album


Retribution (09/15/2009)
09/15/2009
1.
The Path to Imminent Ruin
2.
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4.
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9.
10.
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Bark At The Moon (Ozzy Osbourne cover; bonus track)
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Age Of Quarrel (Cro-Mags cover; bonus track)
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Critical Mass (Nuclear Assault cover; bonus track)
. . .

The Path to Imminent Ruin

[No lyrics]

. . .


The blood drips from your nose
With every lie you told
And with all you took from me
You're beggingfor insanity

Thought I died in my sleep last night
It's just wishful thinking
The pain build behind my eyes
So I will just keep on drinking

No wrong or right
Just wasting your life

Fading into sleep
The patterns all repeat
As you hide inside your lies
Inside your lies! My demise!

Something you'll never know
A secret left untold
I'd rather let you down
Then ever let you go!

The darkness never seems to stop
It's constantly creeping
No more light, no more lies
Deeper into hell I'm sinking

No wrong or right
Just wasting your life

Fading into sleep
The patterns all repeat
As you hide inside your lies
Inside your lies! My demise!

As we wash the blood away
Day breaks on another day

Wasting your life
No wrong or right, fading into sleep

. . .


Stop Searching The Sky For Answers
Black Girlfriends Avenge
My Greatest Gift Is The Lie We Are Given

This is the price you for throwing your whole life away

why can you know yourself
when your worlds
Were just one lie

Still I rise
from the ashes
from the ashes
look inside search for me
truth can not survive
truth can not survive

why fill the pains inside you
I'll watch it burn
you hurt the boardings
but you you never learn

this is the price you pay for throwing your whole life away

Protect to understand
you never redemption

Still I rise
from the ashes
from the ashes
look inside search for me
truth can not survive

Still I rise
from the ashes
from the ashes
look inside search for me
truth can not survive
truth can not survive

Why can't burn
for hating sides you would return

Still I rise
from the ashes
from the ashes
look inside search for me
truth can not survive

Still I rise
from the ashes
from the ashes
look inside search for me
truth can not survive
truth can not survive

. . .


Until the philosophy
That holds one
Race superior
And another inferior
Is finally and
Permanently discredited
And abandoned
There will be...

War!
In the east
War in the west
War!
Up north
And in the south
Prepare for war!

Until the color of a man's skin
Is no more significant
Then the color of his eye
There will be war...
There will be war...

War!
In the east
War in the west
War!
Up north
And in the south
Prepare for war!

Prepare for war!
Prepare for war!

And until that day
The world will not know peace
We will fight if necessary
And win this war...
And win this war...

Prepare for war!

. . .


It was gone before you ever had a chance
Lost forever in your disapproving glance

I see your face, it's twisted with shock
Falling from grace, you deserve what you got
The ice surrounds you now
You can pretend all that you want
I've seen the pain and all of the evil you brought

Quit your fucking crying and swallow all your pills
You're not the only one with the urge to kill
Grab the dusty bottle and let the liquor spill
Devoid of life, death is your final thrill

Bloodshot eyes can see right through the selfish lies
Search forever for a fix that keeps your high

I see your face, it's twisted with shock
Falling from grace, you deserve what you got
My hands around your throat
You can pretend all that you want
I've seen the pain and all of the evil you brought

I am the king of nothing, over emptiness I reign
Drown with sorrow, wash away the pain
I am the king of nothing, over emptiness I reign
Drown with sorrow, wash away the pain

I see your face, it's twisted with shock
Falling from grace, you deserve what you got
My hands around your throat
You can pretend all that you want
I've seen the pain and all of the evil you brought

I am the king of nothing, over emptiness I reign
Drown with sorrow, wash away the pain
I am the king of nothing, over emptiness I reign
Drown with sorrow, wash away the pain

Quit your fucking crying
Quit your fucking crying
Quit your fucking crying
Quit your fucking crying

. . .


Slave to your seduction
Open myself to sweet destruction
Pray for your affection
Still I welcome this rejection

Tear it down
Into ruins
It comes around
The taste of fear

When I see your face it haunts me
The cold embrace, deceiving
Surrounded by misery

It's become to easy
For someone like you to lie
Always searching
For a better way to say goodbye

It's so hard to listen
The hateful words you've always written
All the lives you taken
All the people you've forsaken

It's become so easy
For someone like you to lie
Always searching
For a better way to say goodbye
The taste of fear
The only thing that gets you high
With no regrets I will let this feeling die

. . .


Embrace the end
As we descend
Deeper into the fire

The pain that you feel
The nightmare is reeling you in

Grasping, crawling, clinging to life
Holding on to illusions
Tearing, feeding, tasting the blood
As you savor the killing

Welcome, welcome to the apocalypse
A twisted smile upon the Devil's lips

Strike out the sun
Winter's begun
Bringing the death of desire

Shatter the seal
The horsemen of doom ride again

Grasping, crawling, clinging to life
Holding on to illusions
Tearing, feeding, tasting the blood
As you savor the killing

Welcome, welcome to the apocalypse
A twisted smile upon the Devil's lips

Embracing
Embrace annihilation
Embracing
Embrace annihilation

. . .


I watch it all collapse
It never seems to last
As long as I need it to

A beautiful mistake
A wound without a trace
Was it ever really true?

We can't see the future
We can't rewrite the past
Tried to hold it captive
But it faded all too fast

Is it much too late
To save yourself?

Memories keep calling
Deeper into fear I'm falling
Lost within my mind it haunts me for so long

Trapped beneath the glass
Never a shadow cast
A perfect picture's all I knew

Lost within the struggle
Never felt so much alive
Gave into the rapture
Didn't care if I survived

Is it too much late
To save yourself?

Memories keep calling
Deeper into fear I'm falling
Lost within my mind
It haunts me for so long
All my hope is dying
Even though I keep on trying
Lost within my mind
It haunts me for so long

. . .


The end
Spent my whole life dreaming waiting for the end
My head
Gave myself no reason for the violence in my head

Fuck the dreams I'm holding onto
Fuck all that still lies ahead
Fuck your ego, fuck your comfort
Fuck it all until it's dead
Fuck it all, fuck it all, fuck it all

The time has come for you to pay for all you've done
A public execution, violence has come
Murderous revolution, you will pay with your blood

Fear of failure, it drives a man to run
Screaming, staring down the barrel of a gun

Fuck the ruins laid before us
Fuck the blood that has been shed
Fuck excuses, fuck denial
Fuck it all until it's dead
Fuck it all, fuck it all, fuck it all

The time has come for you to pay for all you've done
A public execution, violence has come
Murderous revolution, you will pay with your blood

You will pay with your blood
You will pay with your blood

Your time has expired, destroying your empire
Your time has expired, destroying your empire

Fuck the ruins laid before us
Fuck the blood that has been shed
Fuck excuses, fuck denial
Fuck it all until it's dead
Fuck it all, fuck it all, fuck it all

The time has come for you to pay for all you've done
A public execution, violence has come
Murderous revolution, you will pay with your blood

Your time has expired, destroying your empire

. . .


The dream inside of me is the death inside of you
Your indifference breeds indifference
Realized way too late that your life was always fake
It bends until it breaks illusions we've forsaken

Our vision still remains
Of a world that's lost and gone insane
It's a chance we have to take
Our only options are the ones we create

Waiting for this day to come
Thought I'd be left for dead but the light still shines ahead
The whole world has come undone
But we will carry on until your ways are dead and gone

The answers can't be seen
When hatred's all you've been living life on the offensive
See through all the lies, destroy your last disguise
Can't let this survive, refuse to compromise

When do we place the blame?
When all our mistakes are all the same
Escape the ghosts we left behind
And follow me 'til the end of time


Waiting for this day to come
Thought I'd be left for dead but the light still shines ahead
The whole world has come undone
But we will carry on until your ways are dead and gone

Dead and gone, dead and gone

The dream inside of me is the death inside of you
Your indifference breeds indifference
Realized way too late that your life was always fake
It bends until it breaks illusions we've forsaken

Our vision still remains
Of a world that's lost and gone insane
Escape the ghosts we left behind
And follow me until the end of time

Waiting for this day to come
Thought I'd be left for dead but the light still shines ahead
The whole world has come undone
But we will carry on until your ways are dead and gone

Dead and gone, dead and gone

. . .


(originally by Ozzy Osbourne)

Screams break the silence
Waking from the dead of night
Vengeance is boiling
He's returned to kill the light
Then when he's found who he's looking for
Listen in awe and you'll hear him

Bark at the moon

Years spent in torment
Buried in a nameless grave
Now he has risen
Miracles would have to save
Those that the beast is looking for
Listen in awe and you'll hear him

Bark at the moon

They cursed and buried him
Along with shame
And thought his timeless soul had gone
In empty burning Hell-unholy one
But now he's returned to prove them wrong

Howling in shadows
Living in a lunar spell
He finds his heaven
Spewing from the mouth of hell

And when he finds who he's looking for
Listen in awe and you'll hear him bark at the moon

. . .


(originally by Cro-Mags)

In this iron age of hypocrisy
The war against the weak goes on continuously
Can't you smell the bodies burning
Taste of death in the air
Not for a cause but just for greed

Mad scientist experiment in torture and in pain
Murdering the helpless who's this meant to gain

Polluting creation the air the land and sea
Making this world a hell of toxic misery
For the benefit of man they interfere with nature's plan
Can you tell me what is going on

I look out my window and what do I see
Junkies, gangs and rape and poverty
Don't you see the signs things are out of hand
Don't you think it's time we gotta stop

This modern age so full of grief
I've turned away from it's belief
I watch society digress
And it just looks like one big mess
I can't believe the things I hear and see
In this world there's no remorse
Now's the time we must change our course
Those of us who've seen the way
Must stand and fight for a brighter day

. . .


(originally by Nuclear Assault)

The bio-sphere, the place we live
It seems like we don't give a damn
Other species flushed down the tubes
We need another race to rape
The way we live we will destroy
Every other living thing
'Til none are left except our race
And then we will destroy ourselves

Another oil spill
Atomic waste displaced
Another forest dies
Bring on the acid rain

Slightly insane, the type of greed
That makes a world unfir for life
Toxic wastes destroy the seas
While poison gas pollutes the air
A waste of life, while no one cares
The earth becomes a giant tomb
Critical mass will be achieved
And ruins will be all that's left

Another oil spill
Atomic waste displaced
Another forest dies

A Hell on Earth, what we create
Dragging life to death with us
All living things destroyed or used
By shortsighted human beeings
We do these things, let them be done
Apathy creates despair
The damage done will be too great
The world wounded beyond repair

Another oil spill
Atomic waste displaced
Another forest dies

. . .


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