Ragged Tooth Lyrics - Protest The Hero

What unknown face now breaks the silence? 

What tipping force disturbs the balance? 

Swift and sober, comes a voice, offering a bitter choice 

Take up a crime and serve the sentence, offer up a final penance 

Or dismantle colossus from deep inside, conspirators, 

and those allied 

Gifts of bronze, iron, obsidian, from nave to chop, 

plunged and hidden 

Deep in the chests of those who cry, the songs of gods untrue 

The prayers to start or end the coup, forever silenced 

Like sulfur set to fire, blue flame is born 

To rip through homes and cleanse the town 

A new world rendered, an old world mourned 

The old world left to drown 

It draws closer with every step, push off with both feet 

Fall into the chasm, which will consume all 

March not to the drum, but off the beat 

Burst into the evening, cool air burns the lungs 

Fear not the turning heads, the darting glances, the lashing tongues 

The glowing eyes that burn like embers, fall painful on the skin 

Seething with hatred, and writhing in pain, they cast a ghastly grin 

Yet among the faces shrouded in horror, one truth prevails 

All who've ever come this far exclusively have failed 

Reach for the hand whose grasp is firm, 

Whose blistered palms can confirm, 

A kinship in a spiteful place, 

with tender touch a warm embrace 

Though nights turn long and cold, and the warmth of the day escapes 

The long dark shadows growing old, form familiar shapes