Machine Head Songs - Killers & Kings Lyrics

Machine Head - Killers & Kings

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Album: Bloodstone & Diamonds
Released: 2014

Killers & Kings Lyrics

Dark lady read me the future!
The ancient verse hidden away
I turn from the ever-gray, and

Tarot cards keep us enraptured!
Open mind become the sage
Let this unlock the cage!

Ancient power
Darkest hour
Open your third eye and you'll see

(Killers and kings!)
Inheritors of Earth
(Killers and kings!)
From death there comes rebirth
And as an army we will sing
A diamond bears our ring
Killers and kings

Look to Earth, summon the master
Awake the human living inside
Ecclessiasticide.

The hangman gives into temperance
The sun shines over the fool
High priestess, spreads her rule

Death and rebirth
Decay and mirth
Open your third eye and you'll see

(Killers and kings!)
Inheritors of Earth
(Killers and kings!)
From death there comes rebirth
And as an army we will sing
A diamond bears our ring
Killers and kings

The diamond bears our ring!!
Yeah!!
Oh!

The king of pentacles is here
Strength and fortitude help to push away the fear
We stand atop the mountain with the hermit and the lamp
As the lovers in the knight of swords give in to the damned

What do The cards say?
The prophecy remains
The devil in the emperor could keep us locked in chains
And the death card doesn't mean you die
It means a change is coming that you simply can't deny

Reborn!
Rebirth!
From death comes rebirth!

(Killers and kings!)
Inheritors of Earth
(Killers and kings!)
From death there comes rebirth
And as an army we will sing
A diamond bears our ring
Killers and kings

(Killers and kings!)
Inheritors of Earth
(Killers and kings!)
From death there comes rebirth
And as an army we will sing
A diamond bears our ring
Killers and kings

Writer/s: ROBERT CONRAD FLYNN, PHILIP JOHN DEMMEL
Publisher: FINTAGE PUB & COLLECTION B.V.
Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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This is a track from Machine Head's Bloodstone & Diamonds album. Frontman Rob Flynn blogged regarding the long player: "It's still what I would just call classic metal, but we've simplified beats, simplified riffs, taken the unnecessary complicated-ness of something and made it simple. I've even applied that to my lyrics, where I've stripped out a lot of extra words ('the's,' 'and's,' etc), and invented a lyrical technique I call 'clustering,' where you cluster vowels or cluster 'plosives' ('K's,' 'T's,' 'Ch's') together to make it sound heavier, or flow better. It doesn't read all that poetically, but in the song it sounds really cool. "

"I've also really worked hard on sharpening up my rhyme schemes, finding clever places to place rhymes, instead of the usual place at the end of a line, or even again, 'clustering' rhymes. It makes an abstract concept like 'Killers & Kings' (which references 20+ Tarot Cards, and that I'm very proud of the end result) to have a real meaning."

A 10-inch vinyl single containing the "demo" version of the song was originally released on April 19, 2014, as part of that year's Record Store Day.