Pillars of Hate - Dead Man Standing

Blotted skies subdue stellar cries Bleeding out from the pillars Nebula of Aquila You have served a killer Time warps these hallowed grounds As if to draw a line in the sand Time brings disdain for the weak Time is what I have With Reaper Squads still dispatching You place your hopes on pillars crashing Time is a clock on the wall we command And its hands made from pillars of sand On our watch we don't seek what we find Left bereft by the passage of time I have built an empire On the dust of Alshain Collection sails extract the Enocules From vast mines in space And so, we live as ageless men From the time the reaction begins The dispenser is strapped to your wrist You are shackled to my every whim You are enslaved by the promise of tomorrow You've paid the price for the time that you borrow Time is a clock on the wall we command And its hands made from pillars of sand On our watch we don't seek what we find Left bereft by the passage of time Time moves like a crack in glass Sometimes slow, sometimes fast We all know the fate of the pane But we move forth, piling on more strain On the glass of melted sand Forged by our greedy hands On a path we choose to belie It makes us feel alive Pillars of sand fall down as gravity remands The bones of the dead in a dusty mist Pillars of sand cannot ascend Such are we at the point of the obelisk As Reapers dock in the Cygnus Port My eyes are captured by the pillars Nebula of Aquila Your skies have never been stiller We have come upon the line Where gravity intercepts with time Time is without mass And cannot exist in broken glass The unrepentant nature of all Everything falls Time is a clock on the wall we command And its hands made from pillars of sand On our watch we don't seek what we find Left bereft by the passage of time

Come see a living, breathing spectacle Only seen right here It's your last chance in this lifetime The line forms at the rear You won't believe your eyes Your eyes will not believe your ears Get your money out, get ready Step right up, yeah you, come here You ain't seen nothing like him He's the last one of the breed You better hold on to your honey Honeys, don't forget to breathe Enter at your own risk, mister It might change the way you think There's no dancers, there's no diamonds No, this boy don't lip-sync Here's the last man standing Step right up, he's the real thing The last chance of a lifetime To come and see, hear, feel, the real thing See those real live calloused fingers Wrapped around those guitar strings Kiss the lips where hurt has lingered It breaks the heart to hear him sing The songs were more than music, they were pictures from the soul So keep your pseudo-punk, hip-hop, pop-rock junk And your digital downloads Here's the last man standing Step right up, he's the real thing The last chance of a lifetime To come and see, hear, feel, the real thing Take your seats now, folks, it's show time Hey, Patrick hit the lights There's something in the air There's magic in the night Now here's the band, they really play I'll count the first one in I don't know where it's going We all know where it's been The last man standing Step right up, he's the real thing The last chance of a lifetime To come and see, hear, feel- The last man standing Step right up, he's the real thing The last chance of a lifetime Come and see, hear, feel, the real thing The real thing The real thing

I don't wanna be the last man standing But wait a minute maybe I do If you don't mind I'll start a new line And decide after thinking it through Go on in front if you're in such a hurry Like hell, I ain't waiting for you I don't wanna be the last man standing On second thought maybe I do It's getting hard to watch my pals checkout Cuts like a worn out knife One thing I learned about running the road Is forever don't apply to life Waylon and Red and Merle and old Ronald Lived just as fast as me I still got a lotta good friends left And I wonder who the next will be I don't wanna be the last man standing But wait a minute maybe I do If you don't mind I'll start a new line And decide after thinking it through Go on in front if you're in such a hurry Like hell, I ain't waiting for you I don't wanna be the last man standing On second thought maybe I do Maybe we'll all meet again on the other side We'll pick and sing Load up the buses and ride I don't wanna be the last man standing But wait a minute maybe I do And if you don't mind I'll start a new line And decide after thinking it through Go on in front if you're in such a hurry 'Cause hell is a-waiting there too I don't wanna be the last man standing On second thought maybe I do Yeah maybe I do Yeah maybe I do Yeah maybe I do

Wait There's something I forgot to say There's something always in the way It hovers like a cloud and I can't see your eyes, your face There's a road that I am staring at A foot on both the brake and gas And I don't know how to leave Or how to stay Standing in the crossfire next to you Is all that I can do When the ammunition all runs out The battlefields quiet down Someone has to be the last man standing When all is said and all is done After every war is won I promise I will be the last man standing Here for you And so today The world looks like a broken toy Once capable of endless joy Is now just a memory instead And we are backsliding, done trying, tongue-tied We don't even know what to say We don't even know what to say And all we want is something to do In a world that isn't big enough for you Someone has to lose When the ammunition all runs out The battlefields quiet down Someone has to be the last man standing When all is said and all is done After every war is won I promise I will be Yeah, I promise I will be the last man standing The last man standing And I'll storm this hill, take it all tonight And I'll plant this flag, claim this land as mine All tonight Wait There's something I forgot to say There's something always in the way It hovers like a cloud and I can't see your eyes, your face There's a road that I am staring at A foot on both the brake and gas And I don't know how to leave Or how to stay 'Cause someone has to be the last man standing When all is said and all is done After every war is won I promise I will be Yeah, I promise I will be the last man standing The last man standing