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"Lech" is the seventh track on .5: The Gray Chapter.

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"Lech is one of the other tunes talking about that guilt in your gut, and just taking a look at yourself, and basically beating yourself up for having these very human feelings. In the grief process you can get angry at yourself, and you can also get angry at the person that you lost – this person that you loved so much – and when you lose them you get really angry, whether it's about their choices or the fact that you couldn't help them, and there's a certain amount of survivor's guilt that comes with that. Why is he gone and not me? It's an amalgam of just outrageous, just insane grief that really drives you into a bunch of different crazy positions, and Lech is about that. And Lech refers to the word 'lecherous'. It makes you feel like you're a bad person, and you have to fight your way through that, and it's a long process, but once you come out the other side of it you feel a lot better for it."
Corey Taylor[1]

Lyrics[]

[Intro]
I know why Judas wept, motherfucker

[Verse 1]
The fires burn on the summit
Shining a light on the ones I've killed
Survivor's guilt, undetermined
I could murder the world in all the blood I've spilled
Banishment sequestered and conquered
To hell with your intelligence
Just figure out your common sense
No one is bulletproof, yeah

[Verse 2]
I'll eat the skins of my brothers
The alabaster bones will make a perfect wall
Can I fill in the cracks of these feelings
With every terrible piece or maybe nothing at all?
Selfishness, take credit for everything
What more could you ask for?
And does it matter anymore?
No one is bulletproof, yeah

[Chorus]
Can you feel the cold?
Fortune never favors the old
Tired of defending myself
Go complain to somebody else, somebody else

[Bridge]
The monsters in your madness are the voices in your head
They're scratching at your windows as you hide beneath the bed
You live like fucking heathens, so you'll die like pagan gods
In between the poisons and the pure contagions and the cure
Nine for sure
Nine for sure
Nine for sure
Nine for sure

[Verse 3]
I got a bone that's dead inside of me
It's a rotting sick that I don't need
Feel free to vent your denigration
I can't believe I'm saying this
I'll live with my regrets
I'll die by my decisions
I'm not your fucking superstar
Keep it close, you're going way too far

[Outro]
No one is bulletproof
Bulletproof
No one is bulletproof
Bulletproof
No one is bulletproof
Bulletproof

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Navigation[]

.5: The Gray Chapter ― October 21st, 2014 • Roadrunner Records
Standard 1 XIX • 2 Sarcastrophe • 3 AOV • 4 The Devil In I • 5 Killpop • 6 Skeptic • 7 Lech • 8 Goodbye • 9 Nomadic • 10 The One That Kills the Least • 11 Custer • 12 Be Prepared for Hell • 13 The Negative One • 14 If Rain Is What You Want
Special 15 Override • 16 The Burden • 17 -Silent- • 18 Huffys Between Dumpsters • 19 Flea Circus

References[]

  1. @NegativeDevil (October 17th, 2014). Reddit Track-By-Track Descriptions of Corey In Kerrang Magazine. Reddit. Retrieved April 23rd, 2022.
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