You'll Never Take Me Alive Lyrics

You'll never take me alive

Every part of this was my design

From the heart embarked to see you decline

Don't look surprised

You'll never take me alive

Every mark on our past that we redefine

Every dark we outlast to a golden sky

Every spark from ashes that we then refine

Lost in the dark, stark, frostbitten heart, marked

Parts that spark shiver start and come apart

These lonely souls with their charcoal bones, I'll show them how to be more than gilding for the thrones

At the cost of the lost, tossed away so shocked

Flocks that pick and prod at the discarded part

Those holy goals tallied up and sold, we can be much more than kindling for the cold

Sparks that flit on up from a pyre, piled high with past goals and desires, hearing how they crackle, spit and hiss, the abyss doesn't blink more coughs up gifts

Scrounging for meaning, a mind left reeling, steeling ourselves for the impending transcension

Unrelenting, tongue loose from venting, I swear that our book will have the same ending

You'll never take me alive

Compile all your lists and best designs

A list you permit me to undermine

No longer confined

Stand redefined

Never take me alive

Every part of this was my design

From the heart embarked to see you decline

In part imparted by the stark replies

Never take me alive

Every mark on our past we redefine

Every dark we outlast to a golden sky

Every spark from ashes that we then refine

We make no reply

You'll never take me alive

Revert from our curse, nursed smirks past a hearse

Entreating for meaning in packed earth to disperse

The dirt on fingers for so long lingers, streams clean flesh but our souls will sting worse

Thrones to usurp shirked roles to divert

Pursed lips over bit tongues, paths to traverse

Plucked anew from among the cinders, a cupped hand, a faint breath, soon lights burst

Fleeting fragments, whispers round the fire

Surreptitious glances, hisses of desire

Superstitious answers, be the lone survivor

Seditious to the cancer, they are not required

Unrequited, uninvited, its a missive soon ignited

So derided, those incited, it is time that we reminded

Those so blinded by their greed that we are not deceived

That whatever they believe, it is time for them to see

You'll never take me alive

Compile all your list and best designs

A list you permit me to undermine

No longer confined

Stand redefined

Never take me alive

Every part of this was my design

From the heart embarked to see you decline

In part imparted by the stark replies

Never take me alive

Every mark on our past we redefine

Every dark we outlast to a golden sky

Every spark from ashes that we then refine

We make no reply

You'll never take me alive