Beyond The Throne Lyrics

Law hangs by a thread

Hate grows when it's fed

Though blue skies overhead

The sun shines on the dead

And blight creeps up through the beds

On calm winds plague can descend

And paradise turns on its head

When brutality looms and upends

We're always but steps from that edge

Tottering steps off that ledge

You can stare off, deny and pretend

But reality snaps when you've bled

The seat of true power holds, beyond the throne

The seed that in man corrodes, beyond the throne

The crown of supreme control, beyond the throne

Commands and consumes you whole, beyond the throne

Too eager to be bossed

Too eager with no thought

Too willing to be bought

We're too willing to ease off

These are the lines that we cross

Open your eyes or you'll lose what you've caught

Many a man who have gone where we walk

Ended up winding through the killing fields lost

The seat of true power holds, beyond the throne

The seed that in man corrodes, beyond the throne

The crown of supreme control, beyond the throne

Commands and consumes you whole, beyond the throne

No mercy is laid

When cancer invades

When trust that you gave

Returns and betrays

This is the bed that they made

This the result when grit wanes

This the effect when nerve fades

If you lay down your sword then be slain

And I see the desire in your veins

I share the resolve you maintain

I feel the dominion you crave

But I refuse the kingdom you claim

As wars wage and lives are disposed

Beware of the frame of mind you impose

'Cause I've seen the face ascendancy shows

And none can assuage the hunger that grows

Insidious as it unfolds

Drunk in a poisonous hold

This is the trade when you take to that throne

The power commands but it's you it controls

The seat of true power holds, beyond the throne

The seed that in man corrodes, beyond the throne

The crown of supreme control, beyond the throne

Commands and consumes you whole, beyond the throne

The seat of true power holds

The seed that in man corrodes

The crown of supreme control

Commands and consumes you whole

That absolute rule forbodes

That trap that entombs the soul

Have mind to forsake what's shown

Have will to disown

Go beyond the throne

Beyond the throne

Beyond the throne

Beyond the throne

Beyond the throne

The more you feed the black hole

The more it takes to control

The more you feed the black hole

The more it takes and controls