Exhibition Of Prowess

A Hopeless Fate (feat. Jamey Jasta)

EP: Gallows Writings
Story: Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
Occasion: Halloween!

Lyrics:
[Intro]
They say he rides again…

Lanterns shake like guilty eyes,
Every lie rides tonight.
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[Verse 1 ]
I rode out
chasing reason’s light,
Through fields that whispered
“don’t look right.”
A schoolhouse mind, a skeptic tongue,
Where gospel ghosts still kept me young.
The bridge ahead,
the woods behind,
Each branch a question in my mind.
I mocked their myths
with teacher’s pride—
But laughter dies when logic rides.
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Faith can’t save the man who thinks—
Belief bites harder than it blinks.

[Chorus]
Head count,
how many fears tonight?
One horse, 
no face,
no light.
You can outrun truth till your lantern dies,
But the headless ride never lies.
Count your doubts,
they’re all you own—
Every myth demands its throne.
Head count,
one more ghost to prove,
Lose your mind
to the move.
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[Verse 2]
The bridge was there,
then gone in smoke,
The sky split open,
something spoke.
Faithless man,
you fed their lore,
Now ride, professor... 
think no more.
Pumpkin grin and saber flash,
Hooves like thunder, teeth like ash.
I prayed to math, I prayed to chance—
Both refused the dance.
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[Bridge]
Head down,
don’t look back,
The horseman rides the scholar’s track.
Truth is fear
you can’t subtract—
Head down, don’t look back.

Logic bled, belief attacked—
He took my mind and gave it back.
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[Final Chorus]
Head count,
no one left to find,
They say I lost more than my mind.
Now every story keeps me fed,
A candle where my head once bled.
Count your fears before they speak—
The rational die this superstitious week.
Head count,
my lesson’s taught,
The truth was just what fear had bought.

[Prog/Metal] Head Count (7/4)

False prophets hiding in the dark,
Pretending to be your god,
so venomous, so poisonous
We've been working blinded to their laws.

Save us! We've come to far.
Now somethings gone wrong for us,
Failure. We thought they were gods.
And now we are riding the desolate storm.

We'll never learn, (We'll never learn),
We'll just thrust our heads in the hornets nest.
Save us! we've come too far,
And somehow labelled this progress.

How can we label this progress?

How can we label this progress?

There's faith in fear.
The failing state became the fate to follow.
No matter what, it is devouring everything.

"There's faith in fear"

Save us, We've come to far.
Now somethings gone wrong for us,
Failure, We thought they were gods.
And now we are riding the desolate storm.

We'll never learn, (We'll never learn),
We'll just thrust our heads in the hornets nest.
Save us, we've come too far,
And somehow labelled this progress.

We're are caught in the perfect storm.
The system devours us all,
remember there's faith in fear,
That's what they want you to hear.

How can we label this progress?

How can we label this progress?

Mud

Kublai Khan TX

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