Hostages Lyrics


Smile for me

And give me your hand

This sweet little innocence

Shall be rotten to the core

Just another match

Predetermined to burn its own kin

You will grant them the power of him

And spit on their ashes

Feed the silence with roaring blazes

Scatter the ashes into the four corners of the world

The gift of the pyre

Descend into war for souls with thousands of others

Mark with the symbol of mercy

Bind with the unseen

And take no hostages

The rhythm of the gospel

A structure of terror

Words deadlier than swords

Take the fall into the pits

Where virtue and sin

Become the one

Smile for her and take all her trust

This blank state shall be written in blood

Smile for her and take all her trust

This blank state shall be written in blood

Load the gun

Sharpen the cleaver

Despise the fellow man

And take no hostages

Smile for her and take all her trust

This blank state shall be written in blood

Smile for her and take all her trust

This blank state shall be written in blood

Away, together, yet alone, together

I saw a man in robes

He said to me

Your lord is the kingdom

A flock of slaves

Gathered to bid his will

The lies have bound them to the chains

No remorse

Bury the sword

In your brother’s throat

And kiss goodbye to your children

The web grows thick

Thread by thread

It will make you

His prisoner

You will thank me

You will praise us

Sing hymns

To the murdered

I know you’ll be

A happy slave

The richest beggar

Take the fall into the pits

Where virtue and sin

Become the

Smile for her and take all her trust

This blank state shall be written in blood

Smile for her and take all her trust

This blank state shall be written in blood