Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Your Devoted Victim, artist - Light This City. Album song Remains of the Gods, in the genre Date of issue: 09.10.2000
Record label: Prosthetic
Song language: English
Your Devoted Victim |
| As a child |
| Monsters always haunted your panicked dreams |
| This time you’re the vampire |
| And though it’s cruel reality |
| You’re still trapped in a suffocating fantasy |
| Living out your most gruesome reverie |
| When will you let me wake you |
| From this painful dreaming |
| Don’t you realize you’re killing in your sleep |
| With claws of carelessness and fangs of apathy |
| Ripping holes in the flesh |
| Of the people you once esteemed |
| Just to smell the freshness |
| Of their final breaths and their blood |
| Yours went stale a long time ago |
| You’ll change your addiction |
| To appease your conviction |
| You’ve built quite the tolerance |
| For your previous obsession |
| But your new devotion |
| Requires some compassion |
| In the face of diversity |
| Your tolerance is lacking |
| Now you’ve indulged |
| Your feral temptations |
| You’ve awakened |
| And you say that you’ve had a vision of enlightenment |
| That you wish to be cleansed and saved |
| Wash yourself clean in a blessed stream |
| But there’s no such thing |
| And it’s never that easy |
| Innocence can’t be bought with a confession |
| You can’t just empty your sins into a pit of salvation |
| The guilt eats you just as you devoured your family |
| Why do you need a savior |
| When you could rescue yourself from the fear that drives your hate |
| You’ll change your addiction |
| To appease your conviction |
| You’ve built quite the tolerance |
| For your previous obsession |
| But your new devotion |
| Requires some compassion |
| In the face of diversity |
| Your tolerance is lacking |
| What did I do to deserve such silence |
| Such violence on your quest for self-destruction |
| You destroy us all as you feast on the last of your own blood |
| And taste the venom left behind |
| You consume my desiccated heart |
| And drain the consciousness from my mind |
| Take pity on me |
| Your devoted victim |
| Take pity on me |
| This sacrifice won’t set you free |
| Beware of the soul-saver |
| He’s not your friend |
| Why do you ask His forgiveness |
| I’m the one you’ve mistreated |
| Now ask yourself |
| Are you truly born again |
| Your pedestal reeks of death |
| A thick film of denial now coats your veins |
| There are hardly any left to penetrate |
| You had a life that refused to wait |
| For you to make another mistake |
| You’re bound to make another mistake |