THE GOSPEL OF RUST (2010)

Produced by Brad Zeffren & Nathan Wade

Engineered, Recorded & Mixed by Brad Zeffren
Basic tracking recorded live at Two Sticks Audio, November 8-11, 2008.
Vocals/instrument overdubs recorded at Crackle & Pop on various dates, January-March 2009.
Mixed at Electrokitty Studio, April 1-6, 2009.
Mastered at RFI by Ed Brooks, May 21, 2009.

Words & Music by Nathan Wade

All songs arranged by Brian Alter, Sam Collins, and Nathan Wade
String Arrangements on "Big Black Sleep" "Let The Wind Know"
and "Weeds Grow Around" by Sam Collins

I. GOTTA GET RIGHT

1. You gotta get right with the Savior, you gotta get right with the Lord; get set for Armageddon 'cuz God is goin' to war 2. Now grab your ammunition and dig yourself a hole. 4. Break bread with the Christians--they got a line on all the souls. 5. You gotta get right with the Savior, you gotta get right with the Lord; get set for Armageddon 'cuz God is goin' to war. 6. Now, the Feral Child has risen with steel and empty eyes 7. Strike down all the heathens, stacks of bodies start to rise. 8. You gotta get right with the Savior, you gotta get right with the Lord; get set for Armageddon 'cuz God is goin' to war. 9. You know the hammerhead of history is gonna drive you through the ground. 10. Jets of blood and poison gonna hose that misery down (all down). 11. You gotta get right with the Savior, you gotta get right with the Lord; get set for Armageddon 'cuz God is goin' to war.

II. BIG BLACK SLEEP

1. Don't turn the light out, don't look away. 2. Those dreams that haunt you have come to stay. 3. And it's true: we won't leave you alone. 4. All the deepest devils have come to rise. 5. This world will crumble right behind your eyes. 6. And it's true: we won't leave you alone. 7. Remember this when you're going down easy in that big, black sleep tonight. 8. And when you wake up and the sky did fall, we tried to warn you with a wrecking ball. 9. And it's true: we won't leave you alone...we won't leave you alone. 10. Remember this when you're going down easy in that big, black sleep tonight.

III. RUSTY BLADE

1. I said when, when, when: when you gonna go away, away from me like they always do? 2. But love, love, love: she's bringing that rusty blade, to do me in with her metal valentine. 3. Oh, I don't want to know, will it fade like emotion or run away slow? 4. But you keep coming back, you keep coming back, you keep coming back...to get the best of me. 5. I said wait, wait, wait: wait until my skies calm down, and then you'll see where all the violence grows. 6. But love, she's bringing that rusty blade, to do me in with her metal valentine. 7. Oh, I don't want to know, will it fade like emotion or run away slow? 8. But you keep coming back, you keep coming back, you keep coming back...and get the best of me.

IV. COOL YOUR GUNS

1. The morning comes to light the day while shadows crawl in on spider's legs 2. The crows all singing a killers song; did you finally learn the words to sing along? 3. If what you feel is hard to explain you let it run black ribbons through your veins 4. And climb it's way up through your spine 'til it overcomes the cross-hairs of your mind. 5. You better cool your guns, you better cool your guns, you better cool your guns they say. 6. The powder burns will paint your skin, show the world what grows within. 7. Raise your head, cock the hammer back and blow that velvet smoke across the tracks. 8. You'll know the dead in foreign lands, you'll be crossing bones with the nightmare band. 9. They'll meet your gaze with sightless eyes while your flags all flow like liquid on the sky. 10. You better cool your guns, you better cool your guns, you better cool your guns they say. 11. You better cool your guns, you better cool your guns, you better cool your guns they say. 12. You better cool your guns, you better cool your guns, you better cool your guns right now.

V. THIS WORLD (ALREADY OVER)

1. Acetylene sunrise, it rose like a wall; we knew it was coming and did nothing at all. 2. So black out your windows and build up the pyre, there's not a hero among us who'll live through the fire. 3. But this world was already over, left to the dust and lost from the sky. 4. This world was already over when she drifted off as a dream and said no goodbye. 5. Oh, misery river bring forth your bones, I've no need to wander this night all alone. 6. Build me a lover in the shape of the one who was burned from my pages and fell by the gun. 7. Oh, this world was already over, left to the dust and lost from the sky. 8. This world was already over when she drifted off as a dream and said no goodbye.

VI. THE SHARPSHOOTER

1. I'm the sharpshooter, who's never gonna find the mark. 2. The sharpshooter, a hollow-point flash in the dark. 3. I'm on my own (I'm not alone). 4. But there's nobody who's ever gonna help me find my way right out of here, find my way right out of here. 5. I'm the painkiller, who just can't live with the pain. 6. The painkiller, a medicated smile in the rain. 7. I'm on my own (I'm not alone). 9. But there's nobody who's ever gonna help me find my way right out of here, find my way right out of here. 11. I'm the night drifter, that never found the way out of town. 12. The night drifter, all my shadows will gather 'round. 13. I'm on my own (I'm not alone). 14. But there's nobody who's ever gonna help me find my way out of here, find my way right out of here.

VII. GOLGOTHA DRONE

1. Swarm of bees and a locust hum (line the skulls against the wall). 2. Apocalypse cliffs where the blood will run (line the skulls against the wall). 3. Lonesome plagues and a tremolo pine (lay the bones along the road). 4. No warning bell along a downed power line (lay the bones along the road). 5. Junkyards rise in a halo of tears (hang the spines from the trees). 6. The bitter pill and the broken gears (hang the spines from the trees). 7. All this suffering is coming true, all this suffering is coming true; it's coming true. 8. It's coming, it's coming, and everything we know will end; it's coming true.

VIII. LAKE OF FIRE

1. Well the righteous run while the dealers walk; there's a shallow grave a'full of wasted talk. 2. Now sing that song from your prison bed; set loose that voice growing in your head. 3. On a lake of fire we all float away, on a lake of fire we all float away...we all float. 4. Take my hand, now let's be still; let's plant a flag up on the Devil's hill. 5. Wash the demons down with the brimstone wine; and burn that skin right off the vine. 6. And on a lake of fire we all float away, on a lake of fire we all float away. 7. I say la-dee-da-dee-da, on a lake of fire we all float away...we all float. 8. Tear your halo down, yeah and suffer your sin. 9. From a rusty bridge you can dive right in-in-in. 10. On a lake of fire we all float away, on a lake of fire we all float away. 11. Said la-dee-da-dee-da, on a lake of fire we all float away...we all float.

IX. LET THE WIND KNOW

1. When it's time to go, well it's time to go; all the size of your god's grown useless on me now. 2. And if the blood will flow, then the blood will flow, and the valleys will run with histories unknown. 3. If they've lined us against the wall, I'll be the first to fall. 4. I've never made a stand, so let the wind know who I am. 5. If the world will change, then the world will change; we'll trace in the night all the shapes along her bones. 6. And if the sky should fall, then the sky will fall, and cover the shame let loose upon our lives. 7. If they've lined us against the wall, I'll be the first to fall. 8. I've never made a stand, so let the wind know who I am. 9. Let the wind know who I am, let the wind know who I am. 10. When it's time to go, then it's time to go; the almighty hand is losing all control.

X. I AM THE RUST

1. All you prisoners in your dead machines: did they burn the starlight up and right out of your dreams? 2. Better run to me, better run to me. 3. I am the gospel, I am the rust. 4. I am the twilight thoughts that fade and slowly turn to dust. 5. Oh heavenly blackout bring on the night. 6. Wipe clean this kinship with the morning light. 7. I am the ozone come a'falling down. 8. I am the acid in your rain, a poison underground. 9. Roll out your thunder on a lightning tide. 10. Throw down your Bibles and open up your eyes. 11. I tell ya: I am the rust...you better run to me. 12. Better run to me, better run to me, you better run (look out). 13. I am the gospel, I am the rust, oh I am the rust.

XI. LOST TRANSMISSIONS

XII. WEEDS GROW AROUND

1. It started 'neath the sidewalk, it started down beneath the ground. 2. The weeds they started growing where the sky was coming down. 3. The darkness nearly cleared up, a morning light come shining down. 4. The fires had all burned out, the buildings had all fallen and unwound. 5. We're ready to lose our confessions down between the cracks. 6. We're ready, and soon all the weeds will grow around, soon all the weeds will grow around (they grow around). 7. Where have all our friends gone? They've joined the fallen and unfound. 8. In the fields so full of bloodshed, a new green's rising from the ground. 9. We're ready to lose our confessions down between the cracks. 10. We're ready, and soon all the weeds will grow around, soon all the weeds will grow around (they grow around).