Cataract Lyrics - Protest The Hero

Death is callous, strange and sudden 

A pious, indignant, drooling glutton 

Whose hands are soft, warm, inviting 

Whose desperate advances seem useless fighting 

Whose ragged tooth should rip through flesh 

Which marinates in rancid breath 

How quick one turns to a violent death 

When cowardice remains where courage left 

No guiding light to lead the way 

Just rot declining to decay 

The would-be hangman hangs its head 

To find its victim not quite dead 

But rising now from beneath the gallows 

A driving force cuts through the shadows 

Strike from the heart, cut to the quick 

With no remorse it's politic 

With crippling blows to the body and head 

Drip by drip until it's finally bled out 

One moment defines a lifetime 

No one recalls the crawl or the climb 

Or the trembling legs that take the first two steps 

Or the moment the lungs decide to take breath 

The darkness comes to life 

Underneath its cloak beat the blood red eyes 

Whose haunting stare leaves one paralyzed 

This is the nightmare from which one never awakes 

Laughing at the feeble whose whole body shakes 

Who pounce upon the weakness and the past mistakes 

Whose hands grip the heart and cause the heartbreak 

So strike from the heart, cut to core 

Leave only the sinew washed up on the shore 

Sever the head of the beast with the crown 

Never back down 

(Back down) 

Never back down 

And as the light breaks through the darkest night 

It finds the victor dressed in white 

Rising now from beneath the gallows 

A driving force cuts through the shadows