Ice Nine Kills
Ice Nine Kills
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“The Nature of the Beast” is the opening track of Ice Nine Kill’s fourth full-length album, Every Trick in the Book. This song is inspired by George Orwell’s 1945 novel Animal Farm, a story about a group of animals who oust the humans from the farm on which they live. The animals run the farm themse...
[Intro: Spencer Charnas]
So come one and come all to the crumbling walls
Of our city now painted with red
As the stench of defeat emanates through the streets
Is the life we once dreamed of now dead?
But we won’t break, we will fight, we will storm through the night
Enslaved to their game nevermore
With the locks on our cage broken off by the rage
Now it’s time to settle the score
[Chorus: Spencer Charnas, Justin "JD" DeBlieck]
We are the frayed, we are the torn
We are the beaten and the scorned
And now you’ve forced the beast to bare its teeth
We’ll come in droves like animals
Hungry to reclaim our control
As we fight to bite the bitter hand that feeds
We are the frayed
We are the frayed
We are the frayed
[Verse 1: Justin "JD" DeBlieck, Spencer Charnas, Both]
Beyond the barricade
Oh, can’t you hear that sound?
The march of tortured souls screaming
“Burn this place to the ground”
The pack you played for fools, the herd you led astray
Now run the slaughterhouse, welcome to Judgment Day
You’ll pay in blood as your retribution
So let’s gather at the gallows for the execution
[Chorus: Spencer Charnas, Justin "JD" DeBlieck]
We are the frayed, we are the torn
We are the beaten and the scorned
And now you’ve forced the beast to bare its teeth
We’ll come in droves like animals
Hungry to reclaim our control
As we fight to bite the bitter hand that feeds
We are the frayed
[Verse 2: Spencer Charnas, Justin "JD" DeBlieck, Both]
And when the new day dawns upon our master plan
Just hold your rifles still and then wait for my command
We’ll kill like savages ‘cause we’re unbreakable
But what did you expect? We’re fucking animals
[Breakdown: Both, Justin "JD" DeBlieck, Spencer Charnas]
Though what good is it to find the same sad solution?
Another power hungry biased fucking institution
We took the fort, we stormed the gates
But what kind of crooked paradox did we create?
We took the fort, we stormed the gates
But became the very thing that we hate
[Chorus: Spencer Charnas, Both]
We are the frayed, we are the torn
We are the beaten and the scorned
And now you’ve forced the beast to bare its teeth
We’ll come in droves like animals
Hungry to reclaim our control
As we fight to bite the bitter hand that feeds
We are the frayed
We are the frayed
We are the frayed
We are the frayed
[Outro: Spencer Charnas]
Where is the end? What have we done?
We’re what we swore we’d not become
Despite intent a noble heart still bleeds
Time goes on and history repeats
The Nature of the Beast was written by Spencer Charnas & Justin deBlieck & Justin Morrow & Conor Sullivan & Steve Sopchak.
The Nature of the Beast was produced by Steve Sopchak & Justin deBlieck.
Ice Nine Kills released The Nature of the Beast on Fri Dec 04 2015.