The Stage Lyrics - Avenged Sevenfold

1 So I arrived, naked and cold

2 A welcomed change from the abeyance of a ghost town catacomb

3 No need for counsel I appreciate the time I'm not alone

4 ''(Why don't you get my lawyer on the phone?)''

5 There were days these child eyes

6 Would overlook the ugliness and fantasize

7 I found my heart for the first time and I awakened in me

8 I left myself to navigate and oh, I felt control

9 ''(It appears these sheep have quite an appetite)''

10 Who is the crowd that peers through the cage

11 As we perform here upon the stage?

12 As the boy became a man

13 In came a calm sophistication I can hardly understand

14 So lost in ego, didn't notice when the time had slipped away

15 ''(Yeah, everyone's got a sob story)''

16 Jesus Christ, was born to die

17 Leave it to man to levitate his own to idolize

18 We're simply sociopaths with no communication baby

19 I see your angle but we differ from our points of view

20 ''(So, what's your cross to bear?)''

21 Who is the crowd that peers through the cage

22 As we perform here upon the stage?

23 Tell me a lie in a beautiful way

24 I believe in answers, just not today

25 Hope my wheels don't abandon me now

26 Seein' that I'm out here alone

27 I'm runnin' out of fight

28 And the wind speaks a comforting voice

29 Guiding me to her arms

30 Mother, I'm alright

31 It took the birth of sin to snake-rattle the mind

32 Before a blow to the head by the gavel of time to wake up

33 Won't you wake up?

34 When did the walking apes decide that nuclear war

35 Was now the only solution for them keeping the score? Just wake up

36 Can't you wake up?

37 ''(You do know this is just a simulation, don't you?)''

38 Who is the crowd that peers through the cage

39 As we perform here upon the stage?

40 Tell me a lie in a beautiful way

41 I believe in answers, just not today