Nihilist Blues

Album: Amo (2019)
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  • I've been climbing up the walls to escape the sinking feeling
    But I can't hide from the nihilist at my door
    Buried in the basement floor, didn't know what I had planted
    It blossomed with all the heart of a Cold War

    I'm a spirit in a tomb
    Won't somebody raise the roof
    I'm going white, I'm going black, I'm going blue
    Do you mind if I'm exhumed?
    I'm the ashes in the plume
    I'm a beggar in the ruin
    I'm peaking out, I'm burning up, I'm shooting through
    I'm only lonely for the truth

    Paradise is in my soul and I'm terrified I can't get out
    I'm lost in a labyrinth, we are lost in a labyrinth
    Paradise is in my soul and I'm terrified I can't get out
    I'm lost in a labyrinth, we are lost in a labyrinth
    Please, don't follow
    Paradise is in my soul and I'm terrified I can't get out
    I'm lost in a labyrinth, we are lost in a labyrinth
    Please, don't follow

    Light as a feather, stiff as a board
    Sink to the floor, I sink to the floor
    I sink to the floor
    Light as a feather, stiff as a board

    You were in my dream last night, but your face was someone else's
    A twitch in my spine, a mutual disorder
    Isolation neophyte, too afraid to taste your conscience
    You march in the dark, little lamb to the slaughter

    I'm a spirit in a tomb
    Won't somebody raise the roof
    I'm going white, I'm going black, I'm going blue
    Do you mind if I'm exhumed?
    I'm the ashes in the plume
    I'm a beggar in the ruin
    I'm peaking out, I'm burning up, I'm shooting through
    I'm only lonely for the truth

    Paradise is in my soul and I'm terrified I can't get out
    I'm lost in a labyrinth, we are lost in a labyrinth
    Please, don't follow
    Paradise is in my soul and I'm terrified I can't get out
    I'm lost in a labyrinth, we are lost in a labyrinth
    Please, don't follow
    Please, don't follow
    Please, don't follow
    Please, don't follow
    Please, don't follow
    Please, don't follow

    I've been climbing up the walls to escape the sinking feeling
    But I can't hide from the nihilist at my door Writer/s: Jordan Fish, Lee Malia, Matthew Kean, Matthew Nicholls, Oliver Sykes
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • Si from UkJust to add the interview is with Robb Flynn of machine head https://bit.ly/3ykT5ZO
  • Si from UkNobody sued bmth over this track. The confusion is because oli said they did in a couple of interviews. Jordon in a later interview clarified it, bmth themselves realised that they had subconsciously copied Evanescence and contacted their management to tell them what they had done.( Evanescence's team had no idea until bmth told them). completely amicable agreement was reached, Amy got credit and a cut of the royalties and no suing by anybody was involved.
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