Year: 2002
Rock
Wait for . . . everything evil1 in you comes out
I'll stay when we'll only motivate sound instead, Sergeant
Make for the table, in hopes that I won't be afraid again
Call when enabled, and send the leader out against
I will stage a reenactment: in a false pretense, exist, inflict
Unworthy unconsciousness, why debate when the action’s suppressed?
Then kill the acquitted
Listen . . . to the sounds that remain in question in hopes they solidify a truce
Amongst the children and the jury that stands the verdict
Alive here among the dead
Evolve Monstar,2 show me the things I've never wanted done
Evolve Monstar, do to me the things I’ve never wanted done
I . . . I felt much better than this before
If they find out to avoid, then the accident’s3 kept hidden away
But if they stay . . .
Blood hungry, cannibalistic unfit family ties
In a series of knocks to the young girl's head side
Come write me a letter and paste it on my refrigerator door
Inspected inspector, I think we've found something over here
I . . . I felt much better than this before
If they find out to avoid, then the accident’s kept hidden away
But if they stay . . .
Jesse!4 Just come look at what your brother did
Here he did away with me
Jesse! Just come look at what your brother did
Here he did away with me
Stay until Wednesday and write me a child-like letter pretending
At war here in Thursday, let’s make this our last day at home by the fence5
Would you run? Would you run? Would you run down past the fence?
Everything Evil
Written by: by Claudio Sanchez, Joshua Eppard, Michael Todd and Travis Stever
1. Monstar virus
2. A virus with the power to cool the stars of Sirius, destroying the Keywork and causing the planets to drift apart.
3. Murders in the Kilgannon home which could reveal Wilhelm Ryan’s plot
4. Coheed’s brother, Inferno
5. Heaven’s Fence
6. Josphine, Coheed and Cambria’s eldest daughter
7. Sole surviving child of Coheed and Cambria
Glossed by: Lakisha Dupree
“Everything Evil” was written by the original members of Coheed and Cambria, Claudio Sanchez, Joshua Eppard, Michael Todd and Travis Stever, and for this analysis, I’ve used the lyrics as they appear in the booklet accompanying The Second Stage Turbine Blade CD, originally released in 2002. In this presentation of the lyrics, with the exception of periods (since they usually are not used in song lyrics,) I’ve inserted punctuation not previously present, for the sake of readability and coherence. I have also made a few alterations to lineation. These changes are at times an indication as to how this song would be sung, but its main function is to serve as a means to help decipher the lyrics, by separating the events which happen within them. I’ve also made the decision to add lyrics that are sung but not written, including the repetition of some lines but not others, in an effort to preserve meaning and emotion on the page while maintaining a clean appearance.
Lyrical Notes by: Lakisha Dupree
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And she6 screamed, Claudio!(7) Dear Claudio!
I wish, God damn it, we'll make it if you believe! . . . F.B.I.