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Behind the Blackest Tears

by Kingdom Of Sorrow

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fyeahmetal This is basically a Crowbar record with Jamey Jasta sometimes on vocals. The Kingdom of Sorrow records fall exactly in a gap time-wise in Crowbar's discography, so my guess is that Kirk Windstein wrote Crowbar material and applied it to KoS. So you get plenty of Crowbar-patented inverted power chords and overall crushing feel. The nods to Jasta's involvement are some faster tempos occasionally and shorter song lengths. Favorite track: God's Law In the Devil's Land.
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1.
Those dead eyes see no empathy they fail to feel unable to believe with nothing behind the gaze glaring out Black roses wither for all who’ve been chosen Reach inside the scar caress a weathered heart Awoken by the blade the kiss of stainless steel I had already buried you there is nothing left to mourn I had already buried you I only kept the memories I loved There is nothing else left to mourn you have been enlightened to extinction That dead touch can’t feel what I’ve held unable to grasp just how I’ve dealt In the darkest corner of your plight barely alive enough to reach towards the light There is nothing left to mourn you’ve been enlightened to extinction There’s no last look in the past you’ve been enlightened to extinction Reach inside the scar caress a weathered heart Awoken by the blade the mourning begins Reach inside the scar caress a weathered heart Awoken by the blade the kiss of stainless steel
2.
Moral fabric so decayed spirit of man rotted, depraved. It takes its toll on us all, you ask for rain deny the sky, question the answers deem them lies. It's the punishment they crave. I see humanity's disease, I doubt there's anything left..., anything left worth saving, I know my heartache's not alone we're all just reaping what's been sown! You won't find god's law in the devil's land, you don't get mercy from a desperate man, you won't find god's law in the devil's land, you don't get mercy from a desperate man. It's the curse of all mankind to want to take to strive to die, so none shall stand alone, confessional is absolute but still we can't accept the truth. As it stands to reason! I see humanity's disease, I doubt there's anything left! Anything left worth saving. I know our heartache's not alone we're all just reaping what's been sown! You won't find god's law in the devil's land, you don't get mercy from a desperate man. You won't find god's law in the devil's land, you don't get mercy from a desperate man. As we drift into the unknown, we vow that none shall stand alone , as we drift into the unknown, we vow that none shall stand alone. I see humanity's disease, I doubt there's anything left! Anything left worth saving. I know our heartache's not alone we're all just reaping what's been sown! You won't find god's law in the devil's land, you don't get mercy from a desperate man, You'll never find god's law in the devil's land.
3.
Blood and hope seep into the cracks of a flawed foundation Corruption knows no bounds in a condemned and crumbling nation The monuments of ash rebuilt up from the remains Like the centuries of past must be laid down to waste again Under archaic rule nothing thrives in the dust that they’ve created The fallen empires tell us what is known must now be forgotten No more worship of the idol sought The monuments of ash rebuilt up from the remains Like centuries of past must be laid to waste again The monuments of ash empires fall and bridges burn Like the centuries of the past humanity will never learn No one can thrive under tyranny’s grasp And when the final shadow is cast We’ll all be dust along the path The monuments of ash rebuilt up from the remains Like centuries of past must be laid to waste again The monuments of ash empires fall and bridges burn Like the centuries of the past humanity will never learn No one can thrive under tyranny’s grasp and when the final shadow is cast We’ll all be dust along the path to the fucking monuments of ash
4.
Hardened by life colder than time what’s been seen still haunts, what’s heard still frightens Last gasp of desperation, truth be told to face expiration Your will was shaken, your ways betrayed them beyond what’s promised to all You’ll never want to see behind the blackest tears You’ll never want to know what’s behind the blackest tears Behind the blackest tears nothing lives, nothing loves behind the blackest tears All secrets abandoned drifting through, it echoes into her eyes sting as she peers into the past Tracing steps, through horrors reviled standing before the altar as the victims kneel You’ll never want to see behind the blackest tears You’ll never want to know what’s behind the blackest tears Behind the blackest tears nothing lives, nothing loves behind the blackest tears Last gasp of desperation, truth be told to face expiration Your will was shaken, your ways betrayed them beyond what’s promised to all No one should ever see what’s behind the blackest tears
5.
Time, is seen from the present Nows, don't come and go Only the memory does Now never was anything that we're told Even in death their mark is made Envision the divide From out of emptiness Observe the other side The darkness known as void Some turn to the tempest She, never lets go Some will, wait for the kill They know it's gonna be their last thrill Even in death their mark is made Envision the divide From out of emptiness Observe the other side The darkness known as void The mark is made Even in death Observe the dark Envision the divide The mark is made Even in death Observe the dark Envision the divide Envision the divide From out of emptiness Observe the other side The darkness known as void Envision the divide From out of emptiness Observe the other side The darkness known as void
6.
Snow hits the ground One and only Bleakness is all that I found Ice in my heart slowly fading Forgotten wishes for you now Still broken from the yesterday Endless sorrow, I'm in my own way Still broken from the yesterday My search for closure Still burns a dying flame There's nothing more of you More real to me Than the heaviness of heart I know you with us here I know this presence Know you're watching over us Still broken from the yesterday Endless sorrow, I'm in my own way Still broken from the yesterday My search for closure Still burns a dying flame All my heroes have turned to dust But I feel them watching over us Still broken from the yesterday Endless sorrow, I'm in my own way Still broken from the yesterday My search for closure Still burns a dying flame
7.
Still condemned for the sacrifice it took its toll to dig every wound Now let my path be lit with fires of burning pages a new fate uncovered You’ll always find a way to dig beneath the hurt Now fires light my way through blindness, embittered You’ll always find a way to cut away the curse Now fires light my way along the path to ruin Through it all, forbidden new fate uncovered, new fate uncovered The coldest heart wills since this again Now the truth will dawn emerging from winter’s conflict Exposed in isolation dig, dig my way out Crawling and clawing reach to the surface, reaching Hands appear through the fog, hands appear crawling for ages You’ll always find a way to dig beneath the hurt Now fires light my way through blindness, embittered You’ll always find a way to cut away the curse Now fires light my way, along the path to ruin
8.
Let me see this through their eyes feel control slip through their grasp And never take for granted that these moments may just end Walk now within my path; know the anguish I have faced Never doubt me again, my hardship gives me strength From all the wars I’ve won, from the struggles cold embrace I feel the damage done, though I’ve gained from my mistakes With barely a breath see the damage of secrets kept With one more step, my will is all that’s left Remember the empty words just like it was yesterday Learning now from all wrong doing and how life just whisks away I’m battled tested; scarred but not beyond repair I’m still gaining ground, through the anger and the fear If you’ve felt this with minds, feel the power cease to enslave And never face misfortune without the sight of what’s to be gained I’m battled tested; scarred but not beyond repair I’m still gaining ground, through the anger and the fear With barely a breath, see the damage of secrets kept With one more step my will is all that’s left.
9.
I’ve cut the wings deep to the bone I see the hourglass below I hear them coming down the road the cover of midnight has me cold The cloaked stranger waits for no one pleas are just wasted words Shadows dance to the symphony of the souls beneath the earth Harmed by desire, warned each time to stray from the cold Plagued by the time you still see slipping into nothing Second chances are false hopes before the hangman’s rope A sight you’ll never want to know, the face of the death we owe No one is ever exempt from the death we owe No one is ever exempt from the death we owe Here, second chances are false hope see the silhouette of the hangman’s rope It’s a place that you’ll never want to know everyone has to face the death we owe Harmed by desire, warned each time to stray from the cold Plagued by the time you still see slipping into nothing Just one death we owe, from which no one’s exempt And when that force takes hold, at least you’ll be on your own
10.
A gruelling question grows in my throat it stays their merciless as it strangles, tearing into my flesh It seeps; I hear it breath; I feel its heartbeat I’ve felt this before, I know this ghost, a man crushed by the world You’ve awoken a sleeping beast, now you’re in its path You’ve awoken a sleeping beast; you’ll be the focus of its wrath It all ends; there’s no redemption for all those who seek the salvation of the innocent; the cruellest joke indeed They await their slaughter, gagged with their hands bound reaching into the heavens in vain Their dreams lay beneath the ground I’ve felt this before, I know this ghost, a man crushed by the world You’ve awoken a sleeping beast; you’re in the presence of death You’ve awoken a sleeping beast; here you’ll meet your end You’ve awoken a sleeping beast, now you’re in its path You’ve awoken a sleeping beast; you’ll be the focus of its wrath Here you’ll meet your end
11.
Careful what you trust in, careful what you believe the same doors lead to destruction, if your fate lies in what you perceive The flesh reflects the deviance, the guilt, the shame within if words reflect the frustration, then you’ll be losing years Who will lead to torchlight procession? Let it be alone, let it all come down into the cold Let it be alone, just let it stay where it belongs Let it be alone, let it all come down into the cold Let it be alone who will lead to torchlight procession? Unravelled into pieces, I feel dead, I feel cold I’m your cause and your cure now, when you love has a mind of its own Wrong in every way, menacing, as it takes hold deception is a broken mirror, all the fragments obscured Most wait the torchlight procession Let it be alone, let it all come down into the cold Let it be alone, just let it stay where it belongs Let it be alone, let it all come down into the cold Let it be alone who will lead to torchlight procession? Let it be alone; fires burning, torchlight procession will the torches guide their rage? End their lust or limit their greed could it be the fire of damnation they follow to their grave.
12.
If you had a heart, I’d tear it out and show you it’s black like this hole in my chest If you had a soul, I’d twist it in knots the leeches that fester and rot I’ve never cut deeper (Salvation) I’ve never bled longer (Denied) I’m dead on your alter (Salvation) Part of the slaughter (Denied) So much of our lives wasted in misery cowering, cornered, bowing in apathy Filled up with bitterness, no answers given condemned to nothingness, punishment granted I’ve never cut deeper (Salvation) I’ve never bled longer (Denied) I’m dead on your alter (Salvation) Part of the slaughter (Denied) Your wasted life was a selfish choice your divisive words are now a silenced voice I’m pitiless now, can’t stand to think of the countless times you questioned me I’ve never cut deeper (Salvation) I’ve never bled longer (Denied) I’m dead on your alter (Salvation) Part of the slaughter (Denied) Salvation denied

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With a sound as large as their reputations, and some of the best songwriting metal has seen in years, Jamey Jasta and Kirk Windstein’s KINGDOM OF SORROW new album ‘Behind the Blackest Tears’ is destined to become a genre classic!

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released June 8, 2010

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