The Stage - Avenged Sevenfold (七级炼狱)

Written by：Brooks Wackerman/Jonathan Seward/Brian Haner/Zachary Baker/Matthew Sanders

Producer：Avenged Sevenfold/Joe Barresi

So I arrived naked and cold

A welcomed change from the abeyance of a ghost town catacomb

No need for counsel I appreciate the time I'm not alone

Why don't you get my lawyer on the phone

There were days these child eyes

Would overlook the ugliness and fantasize

I found my heart for the first time and I awakened in me

I left myself to navigate and oh I felt control

It appears these sheep have quite an appetite

Who is the crowd that peers through the cage

As we perform here upon the stage

As the boy became a man

In came a calm sophistication I can hardly understand

So lost in ego didn't notice when the time had slipped away

Yeah everybody's got a sob story

Jesus Christ was born to die

Leave it to man to levitate his own to idolize

We're simply sociopaths with no communication baby

I see your angle but we differ from our points of view

So tell me what's your cross to bear

Who is the crowd that peers through the cage

As we perform here upon the stage

Tell me a lie in a beautiful way

I believe in answers

Just not today

Hope my wheels don't abandon me now seein' that I'm out here alone

I'm runnin' out of fight

And the wind speaks a comforting voice guiding me to her arms

Mother I'm alright

It took the birth of sin to snake rattle the mind

Before a blow to the head by the gavel of time to wake up

Won't you wake up

When did the walking apes decide that nuclear war

Was the only solution for them keeping the score just wake up

Can't you wake up

You do know this is just a simulation don't you

Who is the crowd that peers through the cage

As we perform here upon the stage

Tell me a lie in a beautiful way

I believe in answers

Just not today