Lyrics:

Afraid?
Why are you running away?
Thought you said that you were not afraid
Why are you running away?
Thought you said that you were not afraid
Thought we heard you say
Thought we heard you say
Thought we heard you say
Thought you said that you were not afraid
Thought we heard you say
Thought we heard you say
Thought we heard you say
Thought you said that you were not afraid

What’s the matter?
What do you see?
Did something in the
Darkness just breathe?
Why are you shaking?
What do you feel?
Can you trust your mind
To know what’s real?

Remember to keep your cool
Stay calm and you’ll survive
If you can make it to the main road
You may still get out alive

Can you feel your body shiver
As you’re brought close to the edge?
The pounding of your pulse is louder
Than the breath you cannot catch
You struggle not to lose your mind
To keep the fear from taking hold
And now your sweat is dripping down
And your blood is running cold

Why are you running away?
Thought you said that you were not afraid
Why are you running away?
Thought you said that you were not afraid
Thought we heard you say
Thought we heard you say
Thought we heard you say
Thought you said that you were not afraid
Thought we heard you say
Thought we heard you say
Thought we heard you say
Thought you said that you were not afraid

What do you hear?
Is the deafening silence rushing near?
How did you get here?
In the light of the moon it’s all too clear

Death walks tonight my friend
Your time is running low
Run for your life, don’t look back
And don’t stop ‘til you find your way home

Can you feel your body shiver
As you’re brought close to the edge?
The pounding of your pulse is louder
Than the breath you cannot catch
You struggle not to lose your mind
To keep the fear from taking hold
And now your sweat is dripping down
And your blood is running cold

Why are you running away?
Thought you said that you were not afraid
Why are you running away?
Thought you said that you were not afraid
Thought we heard you say
Thought we heard you say
Thought we heard you say
Thought you said that you were not afraid
Thought we heard you say
Thought we heard you say
Thought we heard you say
Thought you said that you were not afraid

Why are you running away?
Thought you said that you were not afraid
Why are you running away?
Thought you said that you were not afraid
Thought we heard you say
Thought we heard you say
Thought we heard you say
Thought you said that you were not afraid
Thought we heard you say
Thought we heard you say
Thought we heard you say
Thought you said that you were not afraid

The Dead Kids
They sing
All the dead kids sing

Can you feel it?
A cold wind stirs tonight
Except there is no breeze
And the chill is just your fright
You can feel them watching
Even though they have no eyes
In the empty playground
That moves in the moonlight

They sing
All the dead kids sing
They sing
All the dead kids sing

Don’t think that it’s your
Imagination messing with you
You can hear them laughing
In the cold and empty room

Some of them keep scratching
At their lids beneath the ground
Some of them aren’t lost at all
And they don’t want to be found
Sometimes you can hear them creeping
Behind you as you walk
Sometimes you can almost see them
Glowing in the dark

They sing
All the dead kids sing
They sing
All the dead kids sing

Their muddy bootprints
Gather puddles of acrid rain
Their broken bottles
Make broken windowpanes

They sing
All the dead kids sing
They sing
All the dead kids sing

In the old house
By the graveyard down the road
A light is burning
In the boarded-up window

They sing
All the dead kids sing
They sing
All the dead kids sing

Don’t think that it’s your
Imagination messing with you
You can hear them laughing
In the cold and empty room

Some of them keep scratching
At their lids beneath the ground
Some of them aren’t lost at all
And they don’t want to be found
Sometimes you can hear them creeping
Behind you as you walk
Sometimes you can almost see them
Glowing in the dark

Food For The Gods
Do you want to play?
Do you want to play?
Do you want to play?
Do you want to play?

Nevermind all the bones and the blood
Welcome to the party
We’re pleased to see you’ve made it this far
Tell us: What is your pleasure?
The secret that you seek?
That thing of which you will not speak?

You want to see beyond
To see the other side
To answer the question of what lies in wait
Pry open the pathways of pleasure and pain

There is nothing there but death, dirt, and rot
We are nothing more than food for the gods

Do you want to play?
Do you want to play?
Do you want to play?
Do you want to play?

So please relax and enjoy
Take a moment of reflection
Most never get this close to the end
You can choose the path you want
It doesn’t matter either way
All roads lead back here just the same

There is nothing beyond
Nothing for you to find
A realm of reward or a cycle reversed?
Hold dear to your life for the answer’s much worse

An empty place where even time slowly rots
We are nothing more than food for the gods

Do you want to play?
Do you want to play?
Do you want to play?
Do you want to play?

You want to see beyond
To see the other side

The desperate question of what lies in wait
Benign or malevolent, free or engaged?

There is nothing there but death, dirt, and rot
We are nothing more than food for the gods
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Single
This track will never be a single
This track will never be a single
Can’t play it on the radio
Won’t make a music video
Don’t let it leave the studio
Let it die on the cutting room floor

This doesn’t sound like
The thing we always do
We’re not so comfortable
With the risk of something new
We like the formula
You can see in this display
Within these guidelines
Feel free to go create

This track will never be a single
This track will never be a single
This track will never be a single
This track will never be a single
Can’t play it on the radio
Won’t make a music video
Don’t let it leave the studio
Let it die on the cutting room floor

These simple airwaves can’t
Carry such a powerful sound
These radio towers will
Crumble to the ground
People will feel the blood
Spraying right in their face
If for appearances
We have to show some taste

Can’t play it on the radio
Won’t make a music video
Don’t let it leave the studio
Let it die

People cannot handle
More than we want them to know
We’ve seen what can happen
When we give them any control
What would they do if they
Found out that nothing is real?
We can’t let you artists
Create just whatever you feel

This track will never be a single
This track will never be a single
Can’t play it on the radio
Won’t make a music video
Don’t let it leave the studio
Let it die on the cutting room floor

We know what can happen
If we give you total control
When everything all sounds the same
It means nothing at all
Nothing at all

​300 Years (Watch As We Bleed)
Three hundred years
Not much has changed
Things look different now
But underneath it’s all the same
Step carefully across this place
Stay alive for a little bit longer
The ground is sour here
But every day it gets a little stronger

We scraped and clawed our way
Back out of our own graves
Couldn’t even remember 
The sound of our own names
Bored and sick of the other side 
We’re back to feed the hunger
One by one we’ll reach you all 
As every day we’re growing stronger

Watch as we bleed
Won’t you join us?
Watch as we bleed
Won’t you join us?
Watch as we bleed
Won’t you join us?
Watch as we bleed
Won’t you join us?

Our flesh may not be so substantial
But our sound cannot be deadened
We’re not here to save the world
Because we’ve seen where this is headed
We don’t know how to break the cycle
To make this whole thing worth it
We don’t know how it starts or ends
And it doesn’t make any difference

From the darkness rose a swirling sound
That set this whole thing into motion
It squirms its way inside your head
Until it drowns out all the oceans
Like you, it needs to feel that release
Let loose and ease that hunger
One by one it’ll reach you all
As every day it’s growing stronger

Watch as we bleed
Won’t you join us?
Watch as we bleed
Won’t you join us?
Watch as we bleed
Won’t you join us?
Watch as we bleed
Won’t you join us?

Every drop is for your quivering lips
And it doesn’t matter how much drips and drips
We don’t care if we never transcend
We are never to be buried again

​TBTDB
We are the restless phantom souls
We are the river that darkly rolls
We are the sound of the rising flood
We are the band that drips blood

We are the shadows drenched in gore
We are the dead come back for more
We are the ones from beneath the mud
We are the band that drips blood

Music, lyrics, and recording by Thomas Alan Sandage
Mixed by Pedro Alejandro Munoz
Mastered by Dorian Falconeri
Stop motion puppets, animation, and design by Thomas Alan Sandage
(c)2022 InOpsProductions
The Band That Drips Blood
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