This is a song by Scars On Broadway written by Daron Malakian. We didn't write it duh. We thought it was cool to jam on while recording our upcoming fourth record. Ready headbang.

They Say

Behold the fruit of our labor 

Lead Single of our forthcoming FOURTH record "Arms 'Round the Armistice" 

Produced/Engineered by Justin Osburn
Mastered by David Gnozzi MixbusTV

Lyrics
Awakening a vision unnatural 
Bordering surreal
There was a time when the movements had mattered
But the time has long since gone

And now regret is indescribable 

All is known so let me go 
Where this belongs
A chance to cope 
Is a shred of hope
All that keeps me holding on

It keeps me holding on

To trip the line 
A trigger emphatic
Quickly ending life
Imperator, a dead corridor
Have and to hold is 
An exit from the cold

Defy the great imperator

All is known so let me go 
Where this belongs
A chance to cope 
Is a shred of hope
All that keeps me holding on

Awaken the disordered mind
Unshaken, though the harm keeps raining down
Down
Until an issue of safety
I won't survive again

Won't survive again

The Great Imperator

Ever Ethereal

Decay Inside

When Flame Is Quickest

Obviously we didn't write this. Right after Taylor Hawkins passed we were in pre-production and thought it would be cool to work something up as a tribute for all the years of jams. Nothing more, nothing less.

Tragic Forms - Best Of You

A Sort Of Serenity

Chasing The Ghost

Indicatrix

Prayers Of Indifference

Scrape

Death Rules

Ever slave to the reminisce 
Falling prey to times I never missed
23 it occurs to me
Everything isn't as it's meant to be
Deadweight Daydream

The chance to strike out on my own
This city spits me out unknown

Blow a kiss to a crucifix
Broken bones beneath the stones and sticks
New regret as the summer sets
Tie a tourniquet you won't forget
Lipstick death scene

The chance to strike out on my own
This city spits me out unknown

Deadweight Daydream

Alone in a memory
A skin so distraught
Upon recollection
It's worse than I thought
Yellow the pages
Of ages untrue
Adrift in the abstract
That spoils the view

What once was for the infinite
Yet still to reveal
The innocence that came and went
Left time I can't feel

Unveil the transgression
A truth that won't skew
Despite the intention 
I return to you
At long last the severance
Not quite from the blue
Though left with the reverence
The remnants accrue

What once was for the infinite
Yet still to reveal
The innocence that came and went
Left time I can't feel

Once for the Infinite

I am the saboteur

Forever saboteur 
Swallow the poison in the hopes of a cure
Plead for the reassure

Lost within sands of time
Crushed beneath weight of life

You're crushed beneath the weight
No revocation
Victim to hesitate
No road is endless

Condemn the fallacy
I'm desiccated by the strain of belief
Celestial heresy

No road is endless
Yet still I find myself 

Lost within sands of time
Crushed beneath weight of life

You're crushed beneath the weight
No revocation
Victim to hesitate
No road is endless

You told yourself that you were never alone
When driven to the brink
Suffering means into a chaotic end
Much sooner than you think

When we are here
Death is not come

When death is come
We are not here

No Road Is Endless

Clothing the children in black
To signify the targets under attack
Slicing the life from their throats
A change was made unbeknownst 

A change is unbeknownst
Slicing the life from their throats
Jealousy, rage intertwined
Obscures the truth she will find
Obsessive siren 
Murders her own

Clothing the children in black

Unfaithful
Unloyal
Now the knife falls

Out of shadows she draws t'ward the light
Bearing heart of darkness
 To eliminate those from their right
An eradication
In a covetous rage it has grown
To an infatuation unknown
As the virginal cover their eyes
Shudder their Themisto

The ending now begins
To spill the blood of friends
Deliberately denied
Foreboding filicide
Once a pleasure to be stung
By the one that held your tongue
Mercifully alone
On a abdicated throne

You can search through yesterday
But you will never find me
And you can waste your life away 
But you will never find me

Themisto

Somewhere beyond the silence
Between the pleasure and the pain
Though the days are quickly fading
Still the song remains the same

The song remains the same

So easy to remember 
Not much to know

In the absence of the sacred
Free to drink the day away
But it's hard to hold a candle
When you can't recall your name

No you can't recall your name

So easy to remember 
Not much to know

Though it's hard for you to be patient
But patient you must be
Now the stare appearing vacant
Even sunken eyes still see

Despite the best of recollection
Still there's nothing there to know
Forget the prayer for resurrection 
By now you need to let it go
Let go

H.A.G.S. 2

Sworn, the stratagem
The storm forces your hand
Scorn, until the end

Provenance the punishment
The price of your impermanence
Given the choice to realign
Rather gouge my eyes out

The weekend is melting
As time burns life away

Cynical, empirical
Survival is a miracle
Endless thoughts to fantasize
Now the light dies

The weekend is melting
As time burns life away

The Weekend Is Melting

No course is easily
Crossed over seas malicious 
The swells assail the trails we all must sail
Nearing naïveté 
In the face of something vicious 
Conditions far from clear 
Lend a different kind of fear

Lend a different kind of fear
Foreboding skies wear no disguise 

The dawn of our demise 
Should come as no surprise 
This vessel unworthy 
Facing more salt than sea
With no capacity 
To rise above this

A course so hastily
Plotted on seas pernicious 
The swells assail the trails we all must sail
Dimming reality 
On oceans unsuspicious
All of the cowards confess
In a prayer for our next breath

A prayer for our next breath 
Not one desire for
Death as a castaway 


The dawn of our demise 
Should come as no surprise 
This vessel unworthy 
Facing more salt than sea
With no autonomy 
To rise above this

More Salt Than Sea

Very familiar the fear of rejection
Since we had strode under light of the moon
The path paved with adversity 
Belies the ending of suffering soon

The time come 
All lessons learned 
All bridges burned

Onward through we fear run
At every turn
Flash flood delirium
Cannot discern
Reason for happening
In what we earn
The time is gone, the lesson learned
All bridges burned

Walk away til the darkness is faded
Until a new sun hangs itself in the sky 
The journey lies in the progression
Before the answer revealed in the why

The why



Onward through we fear run
At every turn
Flash flood delirium
Cannot discern
Reason for happening
In what we earn
The time is gone, the lesson learned
All bridges burned

Collapse the house of cards
Our grave deception
No strings attached to hearts
Our last depression



Onward through we fear run
At every turn
Flash flood delirium
Cannot discern
Reason for happening
In what we earn
The time is gone, the lesson learned
All bridges burned

All Bridges Burned

A cold coming winter
Held in disregard
Without preparation
We've drawn the last card

Deluded perception
Survive the seeds that were sown
Survey the deception
The fields are overgrown

Enter the famine
The root supersedes
A crop of compassion
Choked out by the weeds

Deluded perception
Survive the seeds that were sown
Survey the deception
The fields are overgrown

Wretched vines, shackle life
Endless entwine
Flood atone, sun has shown
The fields are overgrown

Culling field, concede yield
Harvest revealed 
Favored seed, undersown
The fields are overgrown

Deluge invading, shading down
As rain cascading, scathing ground
Unfading

The Fields Are Overgrown

No silver bullet in the chamber
Investments made to crack the code
Procrastinating for a savior 
Kicks the can on down the road

On down the road

A wish against the voice of self control
The case for letting go
But in the end the choice has made you whole
Much more so than you know

Last victory for predilection
Quite the assortment to unpack
You turn to salt at the thought of looking back
At a train long out of track

Long out of track


A wish against the voice of self control
The case for letting go
But in the end the choice has made you whole
Much more so than you know

A wish against the voice of self control
The case for letting go
But in the end the choice has made you whole
Much more so than you know

The case for letting go

The Case For Letting Go

A day that began like any other
Inconceivable from it's onset
Sheer and abject terror
And a hillside scorched with regret

Not lost in the irony
Construction of worldly throne
The fragment of fragility
Returns to the earth it once owned

By the time we had noticed
It was far too late
A sightless disoriented 
Resignation of fate

Not lost in the irony
Construction of worldly throne
The fragment of fragility 
Returns to the earth it once owned

Surveillance of the wreckage
Brings the horrors to light
No chance of recognition
Loved ones left without life
Tragedy without meaning
Where's the lesson in this?
Unknown time is fleeting
Does our god still exist?

Starved for just a shred of hope
Yet sickened by the taste
Any attempt made to cope 
Becomes a question of faith

Does our god still exist

Fragment Of Fragility

There is no pride in yourself
Rely upon the help of everyone else
A mindset indefensible
Becomes expendable 
WAIT
As the hours dwindle into few
ALL
My hope lies in the fact that
You know you

Choose the wrong bull
The invalid indicting me as the fool?
With my want to author
It's your turn to suffer
An ungolden rule
The hands are empty but the belly is full
With my desire to offer 
It's your turn to suffer

Apoplectic from the insinuation 
Of degradation

A bloodstream comprised of denial
Any attack from your position is suicidal 


Choose the wrong bull
The invalid indicting me as the fool?
With my want to author
It's your turn to suffer
An ungolden rule
The hands are empty but the belly is full
With my desire to offer 
It's your turn to suffer

Apathetic and paralytic, set of ethics
Exhausted the empathetic dialectic
This house is not your home
So don't try to make it
An alteration of all that's shown
Just for the sake of it

Just for the sake of it

It's your turn to suffer

Executrix

Insidious, the lynching of the witch
No jurisprudence 
Delirious, pressing the heretic
Crooked confluence

The tongue forced from the mouth

Accusingly and wrongfully

Fittingly their pleas eternally unanswered
Mangled beneath the weight of stone

Blatantly, deny the clemency
Villainous verdict
Fatality, final fidelity
Forgives the burden

Defiantly and silently

Ultimately theocracy is shattering
Mangled beneath the weight of stone


Accusingly and wrongfully

Fittingly their pleas eternally unanswered
Mangled beneath the weight of stone

Villainous Verdict

New suit of life support becomes disheveled robes
As far as i can tell our world is still afloat
Depolarizing views, will keep the arrow true
I send a tether out for you

For you

The time apart imparts a cold discolored skin
Blue in its hue, the crew is low on oxygen

What is and was won't be again
Accept the orbit as a friend

Two paths once aligned, maligned decrepit roads
Instead of dead, we bled until the spill had slowed


What is and was won't be again
Accept the orbit as a friend

As a friend

Ready or not the thought upon reentry
Crash back to earth, a fault in our trajectory


What is and was won't be again
Accept the orbit as a friend

A Fault In Our Trajectory

And now the return to decry
Excoriated by the ones I held high
The anger fades but the insult is infinite
Until the die that I die

Congruent, influence
Decide your own
Push through it, into it
The overthrown

Harkening back to a day
Before allegiances gave way to betray
Chaotic reasonings evidently permanent
Wallowing in disarray

Excoriated by the ones I held high

Congruent, influence
Decide your own
Push through it, into it
The overthrown

LIES
That masquerade as the truth
until that you get called out
POINT
The finger right back at you
Gift of the poison mouth
Virtue can't be outrun
Try saving face but the damage is done

The damage is done

Kid, You'll Move Mountains

A telephone with line long dead
Widened the path brightly illuminated red
A void of nothingness won't roll that stone away
Into the somnolence, besot by last decay

In the glimpse of what we know
Transcending the flesh and bone
Empty lies the open grave 
Casting off the skin enslave

Soul has flown

Compulsion steers incessantly
Gambled oblivion against monotony
Despite the solitude the weight still hangs above
Scratch off the wasted lost exit exuvia


In the glimpse of what we know
Transcending the flesh and bone
Empty lies the open grave 
Casting off the skin enslave

Long gone, soul has flown
Deny my skeleton it's resting home

Deny The Skeleton

So Metal It Hurts

Drums etc: Taylor Ball
Guitars etc: Garrett Brooks

2018: A Feast For The Scavenger
2019: Praefectus
2020: More Weight
2023: Arms 'Round The Armistice

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