"The Audience" lyrics - COHEED AND CAMBRIA

Please allow me to introduce myself
I'm the lie you use
Surrounded by snakes and talking sharks
Be mindful the words you choose

Their eyes reflecting a purpose, calling
"Welcome to the feast"
Will you follow their actions and play games
And as they step will you repeat formality

Thieves of our time
Watch as they rape your integrity
March as the beating chest
Time ticks forward, towards the bottom of undoing all that I
Once loved come take your piece of me, blood or bone
No matter, I'll still be here when you're

Don't cross the story you were always a maybe
Here there're no absolutes
Oh used and abused now left for show
They lie from their perch to let you know
There's no letting go

Thieves of our time
Watch as they rape your integrity
March as the beating chest
Time ticks forward, towards the bottom of undoing all that I
Once loved come take your piece of me, blood or bone
No matter, I'll still be here when you're
Done

Be here when you're
Done
Be here when you're
Done

This is my audience
Forever one together
Burning Stars
Cut from the same disease
Ever longing, what and who we are

This is the story of a boy who lost his way and found the

Unstruck, his courage lost
Damaged goods, a trust now long pre-

This is my audience
Forever one together
Burning Stars
Cut from the same disease
Ever longing, what and who we are

Take all matters into your own hands
Let them play with the coward who can command
Now you're just a memory
Of humanity

(The audience, I will show all of myself)

This is my audience
Forever one together
Burning Stars
Cut from the same disease
Ever longing, what and who we are

This is my audience
Forever one together
Burning Stars
Cut from the same disease
Ever longing, what and who we are