The Nature of the Beast lyrics

So come one and come all to the crumbling walls

Of our city now painted with red

As the stench of defeat emanates through the streets

Is the life we once dreamed of now dead?

But we won’t break, we will fight, we will storm through the night

Enslaved to their game nevermore

With the locks on our cage broken off by the rage

Now it’s time to settle the score

We are the frayed, we are the torn

We are the beaten and the scorned

And now you’ve forced the beast to bare its teeth

We’ll come in droves like animals

Hungry to reclaim our control

As we fight to bite the bitter hand that feeds

We are the frayed

We are the frayed

We are the frayed

Beyond the barricade

Oh, can’t you hear that sound?

The march of tortured souls screaming

“Burn this place to the ground”

The pack you played for fools, the herd you led astray

Now run the slaughterhouse, welcome to Judgment Day

You’ll pay in blood as your retribution

So let’s gather at the gallows for the execution

We are the frayed, we are the torn

We are the beaten and the scorned

And now you’ve forced the beast to bare its teeth

We’ll come in droves like animals

Hungry to reclaim our control

As we fight to bite the bitter hand that feeds

We are the frayed

And when the new day dawns upon our master plan

Just hold your rifles still and then wait for my command

We’ll kill like savages ‘cause we’re unbreakable

But what did you expect? We’re fucking animals

Though what good is it to find the same sad solution?

Another power hungry biased fucking institution

We took the fort, we stormed the gates

But what kind of crooked paradox did we create?

We took the fort, we stormed the gates

But became the very thing that we hate

We are the frayed, we are the torn

We are the beaten and the scorned

And now you’ve forced the beast to bare its teeth

We’ll come in droves like animals

Hungry to reclaim our control

As we fight to bite the bitter hand that feeds

We are the frayed

We are the frayed

We are the frayed

We are the frayed

Where is the end? What have we done?

We’re what we swore we’d not become

Despite intent a noble heart still bleeds

Time goes on and history repeats

• Artist:Ice Nine Kills
• Album:Every Trick in the Book (2015)