Burnout

I declare I don’t care no more
I’m burning up and out and growing bored
In my smoked-out boring room
My hair is shagging in my eyes
Dragging my feet to hit the street tonight
To drive along these shit town lights

I’m not growing up, I’m just burning out
And I stepped in line to walk amongst the dead

Apathy has rained on me
And now I’m feeling like a soggy dream
So close to drowning but I don’t mind
I’ve lived inside this mental cave
Throw my emotions in the grave
Hell, who needs them anyway?

I’m not growing up, I’m just burning out
And I stepped in line to walk amongst the dead

Geek Stink Breath

I’m on a mission
I made my decision
To lead a path of self destruction
A slow progression
Killing my complexion
And it’s rotting out my teeth

I’m on a roll
No self control
I’m blowing off steam with methamphetamine
Don’t know what I want
That’s all that I’ve got
And I’m picking scabs off my face

Every hour my blood is turning sour
And my pulse is beating out of time
I found a treasure
filled with sick pleasure
And it sits on a thick white line

The View

I am a chorus of the voices
That gather up the magnets
Set before me

I attract you and repel you
A science of the heart
And blood and meaning

The coldness of most beauties
Is a challenge that our youth
Must quickly conquer
There is no time for guilt
Or second guessing, second guessing
Based on feeling

I am the truth, the beauty
That causes you to cross
Your sacred boundaries

I have no morals
Some think me cheap
And someone who despises
The normalcy of heartbreak
The purity of love

But I worship the young
And just formed angel
Who sits upon the pin of lust
Everything else
Bores me
I want to see your suicide
I want to see you give it up

Your life of reason
I want you on the floor
And in a coffin your soul shaking
I want to have you doubting
Every meaning you’ve amassed
Like a fortune
Oh throw it away

For worship someone
Who actively despises you
For worship someone
Who actively despises you

Dimmu Borgir

Forces of the northern lights, assemble
Forces of the northern nights, call to arms
Summoned by the secrets of sacrifice

Meeting destiny on the road we took to avoid it
As we only compete with ourselves
Left is that of a confident union

What bridge to cross and what bridge to burn
Deceit is everywhere you turn
We weed out the weak and they weep

Evolving, compulsively
Behaving, inconsistently
Yet the pulse is pounding
Restoration is the name
For those who are left in the game
Invocation in the name of our flame

Dimmu borgir!
The deviants seek but one place
Dimmu borgir!
Forward, onward, march!

Forgive we shall not
Forget we shall not
With trickery and treats
Enemies will face defeats

No place for dreamers
As our formation is lava
Fire is with or against you
And so it burns

Constant retribution calling
From the shadows of three consecutive sixes
Merging with the cold dark vacuum
Talent is worthless unless exercised

When the world is turning
You’ll find your true nature
When the first is last and the last is first
You’ll be where you choose to be

Forgive we shall not
Forget we shall not
Fire is with or against you
And so it burns…

Nobody Can Save Me

I’m dancing with my demons, I’m hanging off the edge
Storm clouds gather beneath me, waves break above my head
Headfirst hallucination, I wanna fall wide awake now

You tell me it’s alright, tell me I’m forgiven, tonight
But nobody can save me now
I’m holding up a light, chasing out the darkness inside
‘Cause nobody can save me

Stared into this illusion, for answers yet to come
I chose a false solution, but nobody proved me wrong, no
Headfirst hallucination, I wanna fall wide awake
Watch the ground giving way now

You tell me it’s alright, tell me I’m forgiven, tonight
But nobody can save me now
I’m holding up a light, I’m chasing out the darkness inside
‘Cause nobody can save me

Been searching somewhere out there, for what’s been missing right here
I wanna fall wide awake now
I’ve been searching somewhere out there, for what’s been missing right here
I wanna fall wide awake now

So tell me it’s alright, tell me I’m forgiven, tonight
And only I can save me now
I’m holding up a light, I’m chasing out the darkness inside
And I don’t wanna let you down, but only I can save me

Been searching somewhere out there
For what’s been missing right here

Am I Savage?

Ooooh, run away, the past will bite again
Ooooh, no matter where you dwell
You, here again, a captive of the howl
You, welcome back to hell

Ooooh, tooth is fang, twisting under skin
Ooooh, foul tongue, black breath
Change, snap inside, the Beast about complete
Change, soon infects the rest

Faithful, as the full moon is rising
Beauty and the Beast are colliding

Sharpened edge touch liquid flame
Deepened seed soaks angers reign
Arching back, shape-shift derange
Father, how I watched you change

Am I savage? Howling at the door
Am I savage? I don’t recognize you anymore

Ooooh, inheritance, the past has bit again
Ooooh, the next heir of anarchy
Feel, stretching skin so far beyond belief
I feel, the ever changing, you, in me

Am I savage? Scratching at the door
Am I savage? I don’t recognize you anymore
Am I savage? Scratching at the door
Am I savage? Howling evermore
Am I savage? I don’t recognize me anymore

* James Hetfield explained to Rolling Stone Australia that the lyrics on this riff-driven track are about the, “realization that there’s a beast in me, and there’s a beauty in me too… that I can go from being super nice to some fucked-up beast that has no real filter or common sense.”

** Savage: Urban Definition

Keine Lust

Ich habe keine Lust mich nicht zu hassen
Hab’ keine Lust mich anzufassen
Ich hätte Lust zu onanieren
Hab’ keine Lust es zu probieren
Ich hätte Lust mich auszuziehen
Hab’ keine Lust mich nackt zu sehen

Ich hätte Lust mit großen Tieren
Hab’ keine Lust es zu riskieren
Hab’ keine Lust vom Schnee zu gehen
Hab’ keine Lust zu erfrieren, oh

Ich habe keine Lust etwas zu kauen
Denn ich hab’ keine Lust es zu verdauen
Hab keine Lust mich zu wiegen
Hab keine Lust im Fett zu liegen

Ich hätte Lust mit großen Tieren
Hab’ keine Lust es zu riskieren
Hab’ keine Lust vom Schnee zu gehen
Hab’ keine Lust zu erfrieren

Ich bleibe einfach liegen
Und wieder zähle ich die Fliegen
Lustlos fasse ich mich an, und merke dann
Ich bin schon lange kalt, so kalt
Mir ist kalt, so kalt, mir ist kalt…

Hurt

I hurt myself today, to see if I still feel
I focus on the pain, the only thing that’s real
The needle tears a hole, the old familiar sting
Try to kill it all away, but I remember everything

What have I become, my sweetest friend?
Everyone I know goes away in the end
You could have it all, my empire of dirt
I will let you down, I will make you hurt

I wear this crown of shit, upon my liar’s chair
Full of broken thoughts I cannot repair
Beneath the stains of time, the feelings disappear
You are someone else, I am still right here

What have I become my sweetest friend?
Everyone I know goes away in the end
You could have it all, my empire of dirt
I will let you down, I will make you hurt

If I could start again, a million miles away
I would keep myself, I would find a way