Beneath the Guillotine

Verse 1

Pale hands, pressed in prayer

Fading faith, the air so thin

Fractured faces fill the square

One wish, to start over again

A single step beneath clouds

Teeth set tight, silent mouths

Breathe slow, breathe slow, I repeat

All eyes burn where flesh and metal meet

Red drips stain my sleeve

Ashen sky, ash in my teeth

Chorus

Down the blade, it sings

Past regrets, parade of kings

Every secret carried clean

Meet me beneath the Gillotine

Meet me there again

Meet me beneath the Gillotine

Post-Chorus

O-oh, run red run

O-oh, can't outrun

Verse 2

Hollow commands, acrid smoke

Bent knees and starving hope

Empty hats fill the street

Take a shallow, stalling breath

Wait for nothing, wait for death

Has mercy all but gone? Did reason flee at dawn?

Don't tell me to pretend

To plead for pardon, to make amends

Down the blade, it sings!

Chorus

Down the blade, it sings

Past regrets, parade of kings

Every secret carried clean

Meet me beneath the Gillotine

Meet me there again

Meet me beneath the Gillotine

Bridge

I wait, I wait, I wait

Face the fate I helped create

Time ticks in trembling hands

I, I, I, I UNDERSTAND!

Guitar Solo

Chorus

Down the blade, it

Sings

Past regrets, parade of kings

Chorus

Down the blade,

it sings

Past regrets, parade of kings

Every secret carried clean

Meet me beneath the Guillotine

Meet me there again

Meet me beneath the Guillotine

Down

We meet beneath that blade

Bring it down

We meet beneath that blade

post-chorus

O-oh run red run

O-oh can't outrun