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From the manner of
Cutting whisper
Rising vapors through
Clouds of gold
Giving fire and
Change the demons
With undercurrents
Far too strong to haul
The sun burnt out today
Fools are dancin' in the rain
Stopped by the acid stain
And on the shelf, the jar that holds my brain
Nightfall hunts us all
From the shadows
Cynical beauty now
Lies the host
Before the flicker
There's only blackness
The end is coming
All my friends are dead
The sun burnt out today
Fools are dancin' in the rain
Stopped by the acid stain
And on the shelf, the jar that holds my brain
Rid by an empty world
Suffer the crushing weight
Madness will crawl inside
Alter the selfish stage
Feeding on the voices in my head
(Slowly we'll learn)
(Slowly we'll learn)
(Slowly we'll learn)
(Slowly we'll learn)
(Slowly we'll learn)
The unruled hedges we
Turn to someone
All those weeping will
Go unheard
Up on that once green hill
Around the mazes
And seeing the darkness
The jaws will take it slowly
The sun burnt out today
Fools are dancin' in the rain
Stopped by the acid stain
And on the shelf, the jar that holds my brain
Rid by an empty world
Suffer the crushing weight
Madness will crawl inside
Alter the selfish stage
You're feeding all the voices in my head
You're feeding all the voices in my head
They're feeding all the voices in my head
They're feeding all the voices in my head
Cutting whisper
Rising vapors through
Clouds of gold
Giving fire and
Change the demons
With undercurrents
Far too strong to haul
The sun burnt out today
Fools are dancin' in the rain
Stopped by the acid stain
And on the shelf, the jar that holds my brain
Nightfall hunts us all
From the shadows
Cynical beauty now
Lies the host
Before the flicker
There's only blackness
The end is coming
All my friends are dead
The sun burnt out today
Fools are dancin' in the rain
Stopped by the acid stain
And on the shelf, the jar that holds my brain
Rid by an empty world
Suffer the crushing weight
Madness will crawl inside
Alter the selfish stage
Feeding on the voices in my head
(Slowly we'll learn)
(Slowly we'll learn)
(Slowly we'll learn)
(Slowly we'll learn)
(Slowly we'll learn)
The unruled hedges we
Turn to someone
All those weeping will
Go unheard
Up on that once green hill
Around the mazes
And seeing the darkness
The jaws will take it slowly
The sun burnt out today
Fools are dancin' in the rain
Stopped by the acid stain
And on the shelf, the jar that holds my brain
Rid by an empty world
Suffer the crushing weight
Madness will crawl inside
Alter the selfish stage
You're feeding all the voices in my head
You're feeding all the voices in my head
They're feeding all the voices in my head
They're feeding all the voices in my head
Lyrics submitted by ThrashAddict
Mad Hatter Lyrics as written by Brian Matthew Charles Sanders
Lyrics © CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
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Matt Shadows their lead singer says the song was written as per request from the developers of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4. Watching the initial trailers for the game & looking at production sketches reminded him of the 'S-Town' podcast & its main protagonist, John B. McLemore. Matt also comments specifically on the lyrics: "I decided that the lyrics would shadow McLemore's life." In 2012, antiquarian horologist John B. McLemore sent an email to the staff of the show 'This American Life' asking them to investigate an alleged murder in his hometown of Woodstock, Alabama, a place McLemore claimed to despise. After a year of exchanging emails & several months of conversation with McLemore, producer Brian Reed traveled to Woodstock to investigate. Reed investigated the crime & eventually found that no such murder took place, though he struck up a friendship with the depressed but colorful character of McLemore. He recorded conversations with McLemore & other people in Woodstock. McLemore killed himself by drinking potassium cyanide on June 22, 2015 while the podcast was still in production. In the narrative of the podcast, this occurs at the end of the second episode; subsequent episodes deal with the fallout from McLemore's death while exploring more of McLemore's life & character.