Vultures – English Lyrics

• By: Dayseeker
• Album: Dreaming Is Sinking /// Waking Is Rising

Lyrics & Translation

Discover the emotional depth of Dayseeker's "Vultures" and explore how music can be a powerful vessel for storytelling and healing. This song offers a poignant look into the aftermath of trauma through its raw lyrics and dynamic blend of aggressive and melodic hardcore. For those learning English, the lyrics provide a rich vocabulary for expressing intense emotions and complex narratives, making it a compelling piece to study and understand.

[English]

(eerie music)

♪ The vultures came and picked and pulled apart ♪

♪ Trapped in a vessel going nowhere ♪

♪ Left me to rot in that bed for another ♪

♪ Bound to the anchor, still sinking deeper ♪

♪ Say the dead won't speak, but my sanity begs to differ ♪

♪ Clouds pass covering the sun in my dreams ♪

♪ My soul reaches out to God, but he can't reciprocate ♪

♪ The days and nights we spent, they're haunting me ♪

♪ This coma is a prison ♪

♪ This might be the last time I will ever speak ♪

♪ Dreaming is sinking, waking is rising ♪

♪ Waking is rising, waking is rising ♪

♪ Through these eyes, I've watched you take ♪

♪ The spark that fights to illuminate ♪

♪ You trade her soul for your sickening needs ♪

♪ You are a cancer I will eradicate ♪

♪ It makes me sick ♪

♪ To watch you prey upon the innocent ♪

♪ But I can't stand by and simply be a witness ♪

♪ With each fist that splits ♪

♪ Open my skin ♪

♪ My legs fall as I fail to defend ♪

♪ Tell me how you still can fall asleep ♪

♪ When she hasn't shown her face in weeks ♪

♪ Tried to believe that she could outrun these demons ♪

♪ It's inhuman to be so cold ♪

♪ The vultures came and picked and pulled apart ♪

♪ The hell that's in her head ♪

♪ Don't you see yourself for who you really are ♪

♪ The vultures came and picked and pulled apart ♪

♪ The hell that's in her head ♪

♪ From wishing you were dead ♪

♪ The bloodstained pavement is the only thing my eyes ♪

♪ Succeed at seeing ♪

♪ I'm slipping quick into unconsciousness ♪

♪ But I meant it when I said it, you're so pathetic ♪

♪ Worthless ♪

♪ Despicable waste ♪

♪ And when she's screaming out for help ♪

♪ Could you hear a thing she said ♪

(intense post-hardcore music)

♪ The catalyst to keep her up at night ♪

♪ Don't you see yourself for who you really are ♪

♪ The vultures came and picked and pulled apart ♪

♪ The hell that's in her head ♪

♪ From wishing you were dead ♪

♪ Though she may forgive ♪

♪ The day won't come that she'll forget ♪

♪ But you are the reason that she stays awake at night ♪

♪ Though she may forgive ♪

♪ The day won't come that she'll forget ♪

♪ So when I call your name to seal your fate ♪

♪ You better listen ♪

♪ You better listen ♪

♪ Kicked in the teeth ♪

♪ The vultures circle around me and I see ♪

♪ No hope, no peace ♪

♪ I fade to black with the dark surrounding ♪

♪ No hope, no peace ♪

♪ I fade to black, I fade to black ♪

(intense post-hardcore music fades)

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
vulture /ˈvʌltʃər/ B2	noun - a bird that feeds on dead animals
soul /soʊl/ B1	noun - the spiritual part of a person
dream /driːm/ B1	noun - a series of thoughts, images, or emotions occurring during sleep
sick /sɪk/ B1	adjective - affected by physical or mental illness
dark /dɑrk/ A2	adjective - having little or no light
bloodstained /ˈblʌdsteɪnd/ B2	adjective - marked or stained with blood
cancer /ˈkænsər/ B2	noun - a disease caused by an uncontrolled division of abnormal cells
prison /ˈprɪzən/ B1	noun - a place where people are kept as a punishment for a crime
haunting /ˈhɔːntɪŋ/ B2	adjective - having a quality that is difficult to forget
innocent /ˈɪnəsənt/ A2	adjective - not guilty of a crime or offense
spark /spɑrk/ B1	noun - a small fiery particle
anchor /ˈæŋkər/ B2	noun - a heavy object used to moor a vessel
fade /feɪd/ B1	verb - to gradually grow faint and disappear
scream /skriːm/ B1	verb - to make a loud, high-pitched cry

Key Grammar Structures

• The vultures came and picked and pulled apart

  ➔ Simple past tense

  ➔ The phrase uses the simple past tense to describe actions that have already happened.

• This coma is a prison

  ➔ Present simple tense

  ➔ The present simple tense is used to express a general truth or a state of being.

• Tell me how you still can fall asleep

  ➔ Indirect question

  ➔ This line contains an indirect question, which does not follow the typical question structure.

• Though she may forgive

  ➔ Modal verb 'may'

  ➔ The modal verb 'may' is used to express possibility.

• You are a cancer I will eradicate

  ➔ Future simple tense

  ➔ The future simple tense is used to express an action that will happen in the future.

• The bloodstained pavement is the only thing my eyes succeed at seeing

  ➔ Present continuous tense

  ➔ The present continuous tense is used to describe an action that is currently ongoing.

• I fade to black with the dark surrounding

  ➔ Present simple tense

  ➔ The present simple tense is used to express a habitual action or a state of being.