Jehst – City Of Industry Lyrics
Lyrics
Verse 1
- Air poured, my thoughts shrouded by cloud forms
- The land ravaged in the wake of this ground war
- The quintessential outlaw
- Eye of the storm, my tears fall as a torrential downpour
- The flood, your death wish written in blood
- I came in from the cold, clothes dripping with mud
- Gripping a club, primitive, as Stig of the Dump
- Swinging a punch, the bad seed pick of the bunch
- I drink black rain, take another swig and I'm drunk
- Taste venom on the tip of my tongue, my lips cold
- Spitting out toxins I couldn't dissolve or withhold
- I never sold my soul for fool's gold
- So I'm still free, but too numb to feel pity
- Some broke down, now the steel city's a ghost town
- Snowflakes cover the ground in white carpets
- Seasons of espionage as time passes
- The lion hearted, survival of the hardest artist
- My open arms embrace darkness
- Still craving carnage and infamy
- But even parasites starve in this carcass of industry
Verse 2
- You can see me as cynical, trapped in my own gothic vision
- Encapsulating chaos in this composition
- Calculated like the lies of a politician
- Gripping the slingshot, I size up the opposition
- I drop a match in the clouds and watch the flames rise
- Fire water falling from these grey skies
- To painted train lines, chrome over red brick
- Reflective, like a gemstone in a cesspit
- Jehst gives belief to a skeptic
- The truth neglected like open wounds that turn septic
- Infected by the forked tongue of a liar
- Now my thoughts are the colour of fire
- And my night's spent bunnin' the kaya
- Unspired by the freak show
- I see ghosts dance in the trail of my weed smoke
- My words are folklore, that survived the Cold War
- New World Order and so forth
- I go north, ankle-deep in snowfall
- Leaping over dry stone walls with a holdall
- Steam clouds rise from my fiery breath
- It's the last twilight before the silence of death