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ANESTHETIC

Mark Morton - Anesthetic

Produced by Josh Wilbur
“Reveal” produced by Josh Wilbur and Mark Morton
Executive Produced by Jake Oni
Mixed by Josh Wilbur
Engineered by Josh Wilbur
Additional Engineering by Paul Suarez, Jay Robbins & Roy Mayorga
Mastered by Brad Blackwood
Recorded at The Mill Studio in Grand Cayman and Hybrid Studios in Santa Ana, CA
WPP Records / Spinefarm Records

“Cross Off” also recorded at NRG Studios in North Hollywood, CA

“Reveal” also recorded at The Magpie Cage in Baltimore, MD

1. CROSS OFF

2. SWORN APART

3. AXIS

4. THE NEVER

5. SAVE DEFIANCE

6. BLUR

7. BACK FROM THE DEAD

8. REVEAL

9. IMAGINARY DAYS

10. THE TRUTH IS DEAD

CROSS OFF

“Cross Off”
Written by Mark Morton, Chester Bennington, Jake Oni and Josh Wilbur

Vocals – Chester Bennington
Guitars – Mark Morton
Bass – Paolo Gregoletto
Drums – Alex Bent

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Cross off the days gone by.

Wasting away, a self-inflicted, slow decay,

What should've been, what never was,

became the end for both of us,

Heavy is the hand that points the finger,

Heavy is the heart that’s filled with anger,

so lay them all to waste,

Years you decided to erase,

And cross off the days.

So black out and hide behind the lines,

keep staring down the sun and hope

the light will finally blind your eyes from seeing.

Cross off the days gone by.

Cutting free, the phantom limb was part of me,

You have lived, you have lost,

the separation's worth the cost

Heavy are the words that go unspoken,

Heavy are the promises now broken.

Will you learn to love the taste

of the destruction in your wake?

Cross off the days.

Making my way back from the madness,

shifting my thoughts from the blackness,

and the sadness but the fact is,

i'm swinging through life like a clinched fist,

Fuck sanity, I want to bleed,

can't kill the pain, its everything,

its all I feel, its what I breathe,

Turn the hate I breed into what I need

Heavy is the hand that points the finger.

Heavy is the heart that's filled with anger.

Did you survey everything you laid to waste

and cross off the days?

THE TRUTH IS DEAD

“The Truth Is Dead”
Written by Mark Morton, Josh Wilbur, Randy Blythe and Alissa White-Gluz

Vocals – Randy Blythe / Alissa White-Gluz
Guitar – Mark Morton
Bass – David Ellefson
Drums – Roy Mayorga

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Long gone are the days of right and wrong,

Complacent overcast

Pried eyes, a fodder feast to glut the minds

Shots fired, watch the soap box rise

A forked tongue, a French kiss

Ill winds blowing blacklists

Left is right, and black is white

Buying face, selling resourcing coins and cashing checks

Deep states and surface illusions

Blank space and buried collisions

Hold my hand and fill my head

Ring in nose, still unopposed

The truth is dead

Blessed bliss, binary codes

Ignorance and lethal loads

Shield the rich and kill the sick

Snake oil rigs anointed

Trust fund pigs duly appointed

Every wall a window, every door a lock

Heads in the sand, we feign oblivion

Welcoming landscapes of shadows and fallacies

Total eclipse, more appealing than reality


IMAGINARY DAYS

“Imaginary Days”
Written by Mark Morton, Josh Wilbur and Mark Morales

Vocals – Mark Morton / Mark Morales
Guitar – Mark Morton
Bass – Mike Inez
Drums – Ray Luzier

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Take me in, Take me in and make me ill

Locked away, Locked away can you make me well (again)

It's just as if we'd scripted our demise

Meticulous, disaster by design

There's nowhere left to go and no one left you know

because yesterday's a lifetime away

Tomorrow's just as well a story they can tell

A fable of imaginary days.

Take my breath, Take my breath and the world falls still

Suffocate, separate virtual from real (again)

And if it's me just waiting for a sign,

then let me be the one that's left behind.

SWORN APART

“Sworn Apart”
Written by Mark Morton, Jacoby Shaddix and Josh Wilbur

Vocals – Jacoby Shaddix
Guitar – Mark Morton
Bass – Mark Morton
Drums – Alex Bent

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I picked you up where I put you down so lost and found

Another trip on the misery go round

Still pictures of life that was, it’s more than us

We stood and watched but we never made a sound

Inside it’s dead silence

We can’t come back from nowhere

We can’t come back from this

Sworn apart, have we fallen so far from our stars

Tear them all down and walk away

To wind up here alone

Holding out, closing in

Crawling as the end begins

Only now you’re too far away to find your way back home

When did we start believing lies, so terrified

A competition to be most victimized

Tied down and twisted up, a broken trust

No common thread left to stitch up this divide

Still waiting, light fading

We won’t come back from nowhere,

We won’t come back from this.

Casting shadows, abstract lines

We lay in wait and bide our time.

We stood and watched and never made a sound

AXIS

“Axis”
Written by Mark Morton and Mark Lanegan

Vocals – Mark Lanegan / Myles Kennedy
Guitar – Mark Morton / Marc Ford
Bass – Mike Inez
Drums – Steve Gorman

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I came down with a fever.

The catacombs they were filled.

Lucifer within my larynx.

Clothing us a covered kiss.

Baby set my head on fire.

Every man is born to die.

The captain called me out on the carpet boys. You know I got a tear in my eye.

I have been lost and wandering.

A wanderer I remain. Met Judas in West Texas. Tried to take my name.

Now I am lost and wandering. And wandering I am blind.

Will the moon come off it’s axis, before I lose my mind?

I came down with a sickness.

Pouring down just like rain.

Red red sun in the evening.

Red red heart full of pain

Baby set my head on fire.

Every man is born to die.

The captain called me out on the carpet boys.

You know I got a tear in my eye.

I have been lost and wandering.

A wanderer I remain.

Met Judas in West Texas. Tried to take my name.

Blood is worth much more than money, as a poison crown.

See the snake that bit me honey, is going to take me down.

Now I am lost and wandering. And wandering I am blind.

Will the moon come off it’s axis before I lose my mind?

SAVE DEFIANCE

“Save Defiance”
Written by Mark Morton, Myles Kennedy and Josh Wilbur

Vocals – Myles Kennedy
Guitar – Mark Morton
Bass – Mike Inez
Drums – Ray Luzier

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Into the last refrain, as your empire falls,

World in decay your backs against the wall.

Tell me now is it too late

Tell me now who’ll pay the cost

For all the times you’ve disengaged

Tomorrow could be lost.

Stop what you started.

Open your eyes.

The truth is the hardest thing to deny.

Save defiance and hope you’ve got one last shot.

Blood of tyrants running cold, they will never stop.

Save defiance, you alone will resist in time.

Break alliance to behold shifting paradigms.

There is no time to waste.

This you can’t deny.

The truth you embraced was only just a lie.

Now do you see you’re betrayed.

Now you must keep your resolve,

Or everything you sacrificed to keep will forever be dissolved.

Stop what they started.

Open your eyes.

They’re reaping the harvest and bleeding you dry.

This is your season.

Take heed and rise.

The battle has started.

(With your back against the wall)

Fight for your life.

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Written by Mark Morton, Myles Kennedy

and Josh Wilbur

Vocals – Myles Kennedy

Guitar – Mark Morton

Bass – Mike Inez

Drums – Ray Luzier

REVEAL

“Reveal”
Written by Mark Morton, Jean-Paul Guster, Chris Brooks, Maeemah Maddox and Yanni Papadopoulos

Vocals – Naeemah Maddox
Guitar – Mark Morton
Bass – Yanni Papadopoulos
Drums – Jean-Paul Gaster
Keys – Chris Brooks

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Could be all for sale

Or could be smoke and mirrors

The end is growing near

Or could be smoke and mirrors

Say who you are, go set your truth

Don’t be the root in another’s plan

Say how you feel, and then reveal

You may not be who you are, (you are)

Right at this moment

Right at this moment

Right at this moment .... in time.

Go and dig a well and hide as you abide

See I’m fragile as a shell and echo like a bell

(and echo like a bell) ( woah, you)

Say who you are, go set your truth

Don’t be the fool in another’s plan (you may not be who you are)

Say how you feel, and then reveal

You may not be who you are, (you are)

Right at this moment, (You are)

Right at this moment, (You are)

Right at this moment .... putting it up for sale

really you have ...your own mind

You can think for yourself

Echo it like a bell and present yourself

You can think for yourself

In a line of thought that is not your own

You can think for yourself

Echo it like a bell and present yourself

You can think for yourself

Serving the throne in the hopes of getting a bone

You can think for yourself

Echo it like a bell and present yourself

You can think for yourself

In a line of thought that is all your own

Could be all for sale, but are you

Could be all for sale, but but but are you

Could be all for sale, all for sale

Could be all for sale, are you sale? (Woah, oh no)

Could be all for sale

You can think for yourself

Echo it like a bell and present yourself

You can think for yourself

Could be all for sale

Look at you - serving the throne in the hopes of getting a bone

THE NEVER

“The Never”
Written by Mark Morton, Josh Wilbur, Jake Oni

Vocals – Chuck Billy / Jake Oni
Guitar – Mark Morton
Bass – David Ellefson
Drums – Roy Mayorga

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Digging myself out of the prison that we made

Tether the indignation to a passive rage 

I know I’m no better so paint on your halo And hide from your shadow and practice everything you’ll say 

Took time to find out gold will rust

No one to trust 

A crisis to deflect the blame. 

More of the same. 

Losing all of your light. 

Listen how the scream chokes to a whisper 

Stand up and testify, fear is just demise born of the never. 

So trapped and paralyzed a distant stare reprieve

The loudest silence cries with no recovery

Silver line the lies and paint on your halo 

And run from tomorrow and regret everything you’ll say. 

Took time to find out gold will rust

No on to trust

A crisis to deflect the blame 

Take all you can 

And I am the reason for all that you’ve lost

A gangrene like cancer eating away at the soul 

Suffering the one that’s left 

Exploiting emotions, they’re spinning out of control

BLUR

“Blur”
Written by Mark Morton, Josh Wilbur and Mike Inez

Vocals – Mark Morales
Guitar – Mark Morton
Bass – Mike Inez
Drums – Steve Gorman
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It's just a phase, in time, it will subside,

Inevitably take my place along the line,

Losing my faith and faking through the days

Search for the motive keeping me alive,

Passing time

There’s nothing left to see and nothing to return

So go and set it free…one time around the sun

Followed the path along the broken roads

We know the weight of all the sorrow we can't hold

Not what we were, it's all become a blur

We're growing numb out in the cold, but can't let go

Patiently waiting for the last reprise

Anticipation of the slowly rising tide

Keep locked away, a world to isolate

Pretending I can do more than survive

Wasted time

I sit and hold my breath, and I scare myself to death

There must be some attraction to this ritual i've kept

Crawling through my time, I watch the days unwind

Sifting through the remnants, I know what I will find

BACK FROM THE DEAD

“Back From The Dead”
Written by Mark Morton, Josh Todd and Josh Wilbur

Vocals – Josh Todd
Guitar – Mark Morton
Bass – Mike Inez
Drums – Roy Mayorga

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Stand up, but don’t keep the prison inside you

You’re getting so close to a break through, stabbing the back of your own crew

Only take what you need

Stand up, what you do to yourself is a weakness

You’re so fucking numb you can’t see this

The things that went down on a secret,

Blinded by greed

Slipping myself up above the floor

Maybe I deserve this but I don’t see you anymore

There’s people talking to me in my head

I don’t know what they’re after

Lost my motivation and I lost a lot of friends

I walked away when the shit got out of control, it was a sticky situation that was stealing my soul,

Got in a whole lot of trouble and I lost my friends

I’m coming back from the dead again, back from the dead again.

You’re fucked. Maybe this shit doesn’t serve you. The conflict is bigger than I knew. Throw all this away, that what I do. The chaos is coming

You’re fucked. You burned every bridge now you’re desperate. Their coming to make you regret this. Get out while you can take a long trip. They know that you’re running.

Deflect your direction, there’s no hidden message, I know you have weakness, it’s still in your mind.

The chaos is coming, I can’t keep on running, I’m staring catastrophe right in the eye. Stand up.

ANESTHETIC

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CROSS OFF

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THE TRUTH IS DEAD

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IMAGINARY DAYS

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SWORN APART

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AXIS

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SAVE DEFIANCE

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REVEAL

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THE NEVER

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BLUR

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BACK FROM THE DEAD

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