American Head Charge Smiles And Pretenses Lyrics

You sit so still, unmoving
Stealing air, begging to stay
It drips on my skin's surface
Drowning me, so what's the problem?

Smiles and pretenses
We have all to watch and stand beside me
Smiles and pretenses
With the fools, and us (?)

Trust
That it's all a distraction
Trust
That you're f*cking nothing

Fighting the urge to hold my breath
Like the locusts (break and picking up trees?)
I can hear the gunshots in the background
Suffocation breeds the worst of these shadows

Smiles and pretenses
We have all to see when this first (ignored?) them
Smiles and pretenses
Without any of it, we have all forgotten

Trust
That it's all a distraction Trust
That you're f*cking nothing

You sit so still, unmoving
Stealing air, begging to stay
It drips on my skin's surface
Drowning me so what's the problem

(Sample: Cameron Heacock @ live show "I wanna see you kill the person next to you!")

Trust
That it's all a distraction
Trust
So you're (?)
Open up your blessed wings
Wrap them around all of your things
Keep yourself in the company of kings
If it doesn't bleed from the strings

*Lines from original recording were removed and used in track titled "17"*

(I see the world I'd die to know?)

I wish that I could still stand alone