Landmine Lyrics
This is a fall from grace
Can't bear the aftertaste
As you swallow all your pride
Are you satisfied?
(Are you satisfied?)
[Verse 1]
Every day like a broken record
Every night is a pointless prayer for change
No reprieve
No peace, no release for your middle class rage
Everybody wants to sell you something
Everybody wants a piece of your mind
Bite your tongue and let the crowd speak for you
Head like a hole and a heart like a landmine
[Chorus]
(Hey, hey)
Is it any wonder that we end up this way?
(Hey, hey)
Born with a crisis of identity
(Hey, hey)
Is it any wonder that this happens all the time?
Got a head like a hole and a heart like a landmine
Time hits like a freight train
No paycheck can pay back the lost years spent ruminating
Just pain to be gained from your common sense fears
Everybody’s wasting away here
Watch us bloom and decay
[Bridge]
Cast to the side (Cast to the side)
No one heard you choking as you
Swallowed your pride (Swallowed your pride)
You say you're happy, but are you satisfied?
[Pre-Breakdown]
No restitution until you understand
This world that left you cold
Will feed you shit till you bite the fucking hand
[Breakdown]
So tell me where it hurts, if it hurts to be you
If it hurts to be used and abused
If you know where you don't want to be
All the heavy-hearted, sing this with me
[Chorus]
(Hey, hey)
Is it any wonder that we end up this way?
(Hey, hey)
Born with a crisis of identity
(Hey, hey)
Is it any wonder that this happens every day?
Are we cursed and condemned to a life of misery?
Tell me where it hurts, if it hurts to be you
If it hurts to be used and abused
If you know where you don't want to be
All the heavy-hearted, sing this with me
(Hey, hey)
All the heavy-hearted sing this with me
(Hey, hey)
Cursed and condemned to a life of misery
About
This is what band’s drummer Daniel Furnari says about song in track-by-track on AltPress:
I think there comes a time for a lot of us in our early adulthood where we finally realize the world doesn’t exist to serve us as individuals and never did. You spend so much of your childhood being told that you’re special and unique only to discover that ultimately, no one else really cares if you succeed or fail, and no one is going to keep picking you up and pointing you in the right direction when you screw up. Things don’t just work out for everyone, and without that realization, you can easily find yourself being taken advantage of or becoming a spectator to a life you never wished for. “Landmine” is a nihilistic, sarcastic celebration of accepting that conclusion—of throwing your hands in the air and saying, “Where the fuck do we go from here?” This track was born from a handful of riffs that were programmed into a laptop on the plane trip over to Europe when we were about to start our tour with Architects. When we got home and started expanding on those ideas, it became one of the heaviest, most aggressive tracks we’ve written to date. Machine-gun breakdowns, blast beats, a shreddy solo and some big crowd chants.
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