The Bridge Between Us (B-Sides and Rarities)

Come on come on, are you a dead man? Pull up your skirt, we're on a mission Who said we've won? We need a hero not a politician Don't you know our legs will never carry us far enough When we've put our faith in a map a blind man drew for us The attrition of this nation will seal it's fate Light of the world illuminate Pow Oh, yeah Won't you blind us all? Oh, yeah Show us your scars Show us your scars Oh, yeah Won't you blind us all? Oh, yeah My hounds were bred of the golden kind, so flew'd, so sanded Follow the march to the end of the world two by two Dead man what are you waiting for? Dead man get a hold of yourself and pull some swagger! Come on come on, are you a dead man? Pull up your skirt, we're on a mission Who said we've won? We need a hero not a politician Oh, yeah Show us your scars Yeah

Submitted by Pestilence — Feb 21, 2026

I shake the dust from off myself And set my face like flint Scorch the thorns entangling me And pull me closer into you Because this city's full of devils And the streets clad with coal I remember every waking day As I chewed on your soul On and on A recollection of our failure On and on Forget the past, we're moving onward Tell my devils I'm never coming back I can see that your motives are not pure And I feel ashamed I can see that your motives are not pure They're not yours Throw the stones They weight heavy in your hands Throw the stones They weight heavy in your hands On and on A recollection of our failure On and on All the people crushed on the threshing floor I can see that your motives are not pure And I feel ashamed This body, a burning building It's nothing but flesh and bone This body, a burning building Turn and run or face the hounds Face the hounds Tell my devils I'm never coming back Back Face the hounds I can see that your motives are not pure And I feel ashamed This body, a burning building It's nothing but flesh and bone This body, a burning building Turn and run or face the hounds Face the hounds

Submitted by Pestilence — Feb 21, 2026

Make ready for war To breathe in the ashes of misery Prepare the gallows In fear, death finds its finality You are not defined by failures A heart of truth is forged from the struggle to overcome Pick up your weary head and look to your Maker’s eyes There is more to life than living afraid to die Death is not what scares me, it’s the apathy of being alive We’re rising above the sadness of this world Light of our Maker’s eyes We’re meant for more than empty breathing Shatter the silence, we’re screaming Adonai Take up your banner, dig their graves Steadfast and waiting for death to show its face Open the gates Open the gates Lest you be food for the fire You are not defined by failures A heart of truth is forged from the struggle to overcome Pick up your weary head and look to your Maker’s eyes There is more to life than living afraid to die Death is not what scares me, it’s the apathy of being alive Make ready for war Prepare the gallows To breathe in the ashes of misery In fear, death finds its finality When death shows its face I swear I won’t be a coward’s feet These backward attempts Drive me further into the ground Would you break my ribs Cut the veins from my pride Pull the chains and watch what was rooted fall Light of our Maker’s eyes We’re screaming Adonai

Submitted by Pestilence — Feb 21, 2026

As I charge the bloody fields waiting for your hands to pierce the depths The world is stirring yet you keep silent to me This battle shakes the ground, but your voice could split the earth The world is stirring yet you keep silent to me Eternity will never be long enough with you When every step I take feels so worn (feels so worn) If heralds of glory sing the minute life begins to fade Death is just a bridge between us See the enemy line the hills, so hide my fears from me The world is stirring yet you keep silent to me Like a burning wound it kills me that I haven't heard you in years The world is stirring yet you keep silent Eternity will never be long enough with you When every step I take feels so worn (feels so worn) If heralds of glory sing the minute life begins to fade Death is just a bridge between All I am is a scar-laden body from those years You were gone Now you appear to me Faced with suffering death You restore this porous heart that bleeds every time it beats Your suture lives in me There must be something You wished me to see, a pattern in this pain I see a pattern, I see You in this pain I’ve waited for years for what a brush with death has shown me I will trust in Your grace that speaks of the end As my life begins to fade I know Your blood was the bridge, the bridge between us Your blood was the bridge between us (Your blood, your blood) Your blood was the bridge between us Your blood was the bridge between us (Your blood, your blood) Your blood was the bridge between us

Submitted by Pestilence — Feb 21, 2026

I've seen you change with the season's wind Watch you fall before the spell's end Unlocked and waiting was the door A teasing sight then the rain begins to pour But I can't see past the clouds To your plan beyond my eyes Past the winter If the world gets cold then why don't I build a fire Unhindered ending of unanswered love I shot an arrow through your stainless dove My hesitation keeps me stuck at port Your grace upon the waves means nothing stayed ashore But I can't see past the clouds To your plan beyond my eyes Past the winter If the world gets cold then why don't I build a fire But I can't see past the clouds To your plan beyond my eyes Past the winter If the world gets cold then why don't I build a fire So let loose the words to break these chains to meet you halfway In a dead-cold world I'll strike flame But I can't see past the clouds To your plan beyond my eyes Past the winter If the world gets cold then why don't we build a fire But I can't see past the clouds To your plan beyond my eyes Past the winter If the world gets cold then why don't we build a fire

Submitted by Pestilence — Feb 21, 2026

Draw Your depiction Stars became scars in the palm of Your hand bridged by blood Your blood paints the paragon of unrequited love (Unrequited love) Do You remember pain followed by reassurance and the light shining through Bearing the poise of a redeemer choking the shadows, defeating death Providence: laid out before us A Father's arms reaching as The nations will hear a new song As we're led to the water The nations will hear a new song As we're led to the water Give us discernment Doors that glow at the sound of forerunners' words (forerunners' words) We are empty until You sit at the throne of our hearts Break us free; unshackled from our dire condition We have hope Kings of earth bow down, lose your crowns Kings of earth bow down, lose your crowns Bow The nations will hear a new song As we're led to the water The nations will hear a new song of rebirth The nations will hear The nations will hear The nations will hear a new song The nations will hear a new song As we're led to the water

Submitted by Pestilence — Feb 21, 2026

A thunderstorm, a distant shore, I've witnessed this before Patience was fleeting If a thousand coins on the ocean floor would bring back love to me I'll wait forever Fill the sea with dreams of a wishing well Waves bring back my coins to me Drain the deep that teems with my empty shells Slaves of sand still call for me I once had love to give I once had hoped to live The rarest stones will break my bones and golden salt stops my lungs The perfect limbs and haunting eyes begs the seas: begin to rise Fill the sea with dreams of a wishing well Waves bring back my coins to me Drain the deep that teems with my empty shells Slaves of sand still call for me What grace is this that saves? What grace is this that saves me?

Submitted by Pestilence — Feb 21, 2026