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You starve your children on neglect
Then feed their bellies with fear
Concussion bat to the brain
Witness to a battered mother
Your abuse will end right here
No longer will your family fear
A gunshot to head of trepidation
My promise if you ever lay a finger
Just look at the scars you make
Your terror makes your kids break
A broken home just as you were raised
With fist raised up to your children
Your abuse will end right here
No longer will your family fear
A gunshot to head of trepidation
My promise if you ever lay a finger
This battle is on all
You've made beautiful
Now hateful
You wretched life wrecker
Abuser
Now suffer
Open fire
On the desire of the man
Open fire
With strife we'll strike down the hand
(Open fire, build the pyre)
If I can't make you see the damage you've made
(Open fire, build the pyre)
I'll make you wish you'd never been alive x2
Then feed their bellies with fear
Concussion bat to the brain
Witness to a battered mother
Your abuse will end right here
No longer will your family fear
A gunshot to head of trepidation
My promise if you ever lay a finger
Just look at the scars you make
Your terror makes your kids break
A broken home just as you were raised
With fist raised up to your children
Your abuse will end right here
No longer will your family fear
A gunshot to head of trepidation
My promise if you ever lay a finger
This battle is on all
You've made beautiful
Now hateful
You wretched life wrecker
Abuser
Now suffer
Open fire
On the desire of the man
Open fire
With strife we'll strike down the hand
(Open fire, build the pyre)
If I can't make you see the damage you've made
(Open fire, build the pyre)
I'll make you wish you'd never been alive x2
Lyrics submitted by thienosaurus
A Gunshot to the Head of Trepidation Lyrics as written by Jason Suecof Corey Beaulieu
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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The song is not about an abusive family, rather, it is about bands that feed and send out despair to their followers. "You starve your children on neglet Then feed their bellies with fear Concussion bat to the brain"
This is referring to their music thus sending out fear and being the bat.
Just look at the scars you make Your terror makes your kids break A broken home just as you were raised With fist raised up to your children
Trivium, I think, is making a point with the first and second lines that these bands aren't caring what their effects of music are having against their listeners. the fist in the air isn't a fist to beat people with but rather the fist in the air during concerts when the most anger is let out.
Then, with the broken home reference is the fact that some bands take their anger and frustration and send it to people who didn't grow up so distorted as they did, thus it would have a negative and unwanted effect.
You've made beautiful Now hateful You wretched life wrecker
This is referring to the fact that these unnamed bands take something beautiful (music) to make meaningless and overly angry strings of crap.
The hey's are indeed a statement like olli stated.
MKH has stated in many interviews that it's about domestic violence...