You Won't Go Before You're Supposed To Album Lyrics by Knocked Loose

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Thirst

Followed by the thirst
All honesty's left broken and marred
I am scarred

(Marred) followed
(Left) by the
(Broken) thirst

Forever infected
With the sharp, never-ending thirst
Searching for comfort
That I can never attain

(Marred) followed
(Left) by the
(Broken) thirst

Dragging my knuckles
Forward but through the mud
Secluded lower form
Sickened by my thirst for change

Remove the canvas
Scratching at the surface of my face

I want to start again
I can almost taste it
Thirst

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Piece By Piece

I hear the roar of a midnight wind
Begging not to fall again
I can't escape the dying light
Surrender to the night

(Piece) rime is dead
(By) still, it moves
(Piece) I tried to fight it off
But I can't hide from the truth
Can't hide from the truth

Each passing day
It comes in waves
Flashes of the things I've seen
Tired now, broken down
Withering away piece by piece

(Piece) time is dead
(By) but still, it moves
(Piece) I tried to fight it off
But I can't hide from the truth
Can't hide from the truth

Each passing day
It comes in waves
I tried to fight it off, but I can't

The pain I swallowed
Has been stuck in my throat

Oh, piece by piece (go)
The pain I swallowed
And thought was gone
Has been stuck in my throat for so long
I must be doing it wrong

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Suffocate

(ft. Poppy)

Suffocate
Eclipsing weight
Strangled by every mistake
The wind will hush your cries
In the storm of your restless fate

Haunting pride (morals defied)
Are you conscious behind the knife?
Or is it just another disguise
Drink from me

Take it now, take it now
Everything that I have
Leaving nothing left

Eclipsing weight
Strangled by every mistake
Branded by all of your failures
A feeling that you can't shake

Eclipsing weight
Shut your lying mouth
Are you conscious behind the knife?
It all comes crashing down

Burdened by our connection
I long for separation
In the waning glow
Every breath tries hard to escape
Your reign is over now
Have you found your grave?
Suffocate

I will dig until I find the f*cking root
I suffered because of you
I will dig until I find the f*cking root
I suffered because of you

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Don't Reach For Me

I dream of a cleansing wave
Reborn
Don't reach for me

No lies can spread
From a tongue removed
The weight of lies
Constricts your spine
I watch it kill you one day at a time
Crushing all you love
With every step
That's exactly why your daughter left

Do you hate me yet?
Do you hate me now?
A fitting end for an absolute f*cking clown

Do you hate me now?

I dream of a cleansing wave
Set me free
I return to form
No longer bound to me

And when your arms are too weak
To pull yourself back up
When your arms are too weak to reach for God

Don't reach for me

Will you grow tired
Portraying divinity?
Will your voice soon become hoarse
From the lies you
Scream for the skin to shed?
I let you get to me
You let it get to your head

(Coward)
I never gave a f*ck

Do you hate me yet?
Do you hate me now?

I dream of a cleansing wave
Set me free
I return to form
No longer bound to me

And when your arms are too weak
To pull yourself back up
When your arms are too weak to reach for God

Don't reach for me

No lies can spread from a tongue removed

I will cut off your tongue
Don't reach for me
Yeah

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Moss Covers All

This house just swallows me
It doesn't feel like it did before
Trapped in endless rain
Barren moor

And all the vines will find their way
Through the dirt and hardened clay

The wind and rain will force decay
Moss covers all

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Take Me Home

Tucked in a blanket of fog
Now only a memory, I start to dissolve
Braided by roots while the temperature falls
Forgotten in time, when the moss covers all

Pull me
Pull me back from all the darkness
A pain that sets and stains the heart
I thought I could run
I'm not as strong as I thought I was

Take me home now
No matter where I go
The dark finds out
Take me home now

Please, take me home
Take me home
Forget

(Over three hills)
(I soon will go)

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Slaughterhouse 2

Break down the wall again

Time passes, I stay the same
Too many nights spent gathering change
Represented by wealth misplaced
It must be so hard to have so much space

You tower above
Pretending like you still care
Your father's work
Paraded like it's yours to share

I tried but I can't let it go now
Let the roles reverse
I tried but I can't let it go
You won't survive

Let it go
I can't let it go

Moments of impulsion are internally hushed
We've trained our demons to sit idly by
Watching them prosper off another man's work
Hoarding our rations while we starve through the night

Force Fed
Force fed the lies
Eye for
Eye for an eye

I tried but I can't let it go now
Let the roles reverse
I tried but I can't let it go
You won't survive

I tried but I can't let it go now
Let the roles reverse
I tried but I can't let it go
Break down the wall
Break down the wall again

No longer will I suffer
Not satisfied with your scraps
A total war driven by the lower class
Another notch in a system flawed
One mutilation under god

You won't survive in the slaughterhouse

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The Calm That Keeps You Awake

You fill your home with waves
Nothing still can stay
When the storm starts to recede
Parting clouds reveal your grief
Nothing still can stay

Forever midnight
Sink heavy into the abyss
You're alone with yourself
Forced only to reminisce
Completely devoid of bliss

Losing control
You sacrifice your peace now
In order to make all the voices stay out
Losing control
You're drowning in the waves (drowning in the waves)
'Cause nothing still can stay

It's the calm that keeps you awake
The calm that keeps you awake
It's the calm that keeps you awake
The calm that keeps you awake

Awake (time spent distracted)
Nothing simple, nothing pure
Ignoring every voice
Nothing still can stay forevermore

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Blinding Faith

Blinding faith
Blinding faith

I am haunted
By the spirit again
I can't feel it
(I pretend)
There's something inside me that won't let it in
(I'm alone)
So I beg
Beg for a chance in a circle of snakes
A life consumed by faith

From inside I can hear their call
Offering the blood of God

Fall in line now
Bow your head

I will suffer here instead of biting my tongue
Condemned to a life of pain until my time has come
No promise of heaven will make me march
With my final breath
I deny the church

The word becomes the law
The word becomes the law

(Bend the knee)
(Son of God)

Blinding faith

Fall in line
Blind

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Sit & Mourn

Collecting petals of every memory
All I'm left with is all I know
Finding my own time to sit and mourn
Grief that spreads but will not show

Every season weighed by all we went through
Brought back by a voice unknown
You won't go before you're supposed to

I will break your fall
I will shield you from disdain
I will get us both home
I will do whatever it takes

A test at every turn
All I focus on is strength
I will carry you through fire
Loss we share means swallowing pain

Will you inherit my grief
If I finally choose to sleep?
I pulled from the root and found more blood
This life can be way too much

(Why'd you leave?)
(So it felt like I failed?)