Me Against Lyrics

The big hand moves, 3:00 AM once again

Calm night, no wind, is how the story begins

Sitting still, no action, thinking this is life

Tell the wife everything is fine, but it's a lie

The clouds come in, I can feel it in my bones

The universe is coming home and I am not alone

Any longer, destiny and fate conspire

To lead me to the fire, the air is getting drier

I can feel it, on the verge, it's about to come

Strap the sword to my side and then I load the guns

I can feel their presence, outside in the fields

The dogs bark, the birds hush as the silence builds

I see shapes through the windows, a hundred shadows

The wind starts, the fire dies, a loose shingle rattles

A haunting sound in the dead of night, like the strike of gavels

Chamber the bullet, then walk out the door for battle

Boom, in an instant the thunder starts

Lighting flash from the barrel, put the bullet in his heart

Hit 'em once, hit 'em twice, three times, then he fell

Fall back and reload, take cover behind the well

Pop up, I see eyes, put the sights on him

Let loose, two down, I was right on him

To close for rifles, stand up for the draw

Two enemies down, now it's me against the fog

One appears, we square off, .357 leaves the holster

Got the jump on him, but I feel a bullet graze my shoulder

Metal stings, barrel roll, then let off two rounds

Peek around to find out I put two more down

Five more left, I pull the Glocks out

Jump out in plain sight, it's time to rock out

Bullets blaze by, knock 'em down, one, two, three

Pistol whip the fourth, now it's me against me

Guns empty, throw 'em down, unleash the blade

Lock eyes with the threat, and try to judge his gaze

Pull back, swing the sword at the enemy

Shatter the mirror, now I've killed all ten of me

After the battle it's just me and the silence

The knight knows not the difference between peace and violence

Internal riot, and I'm the victor

Me against ten men, left standing is just me in the picture

I'm not a killer, I just killed me

Ten times, ten minds, now it's just the real me

Confusion was long set, the haze never left

Contusions were long felt, secrets never kept

I never met the man who pulled the strings

But when I killed the puppets, I gazed at the machine

The brain is like a castle, the archers are your thoughts

The knights are your regrets, that you left out to rot

You fight to get inside just to find that it's empty

The king was never there and the priest was the sentry

Feast of the century, feast upon yourself

The only way to know yourself is to kill yourself