Top Songs By Avenged Sevenfold
Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Avenged Sevenfold
Performer
M Shadows
Vocals
Zacky Vengeance
Guitar
Synyster Gates
Guitar
Johnny Christ
Background Vocals
Brooks Wackerman
Drums
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Spoken Word
Matthew Baker
Performer
Jason Freese
Keyboards
Leah Katz
Viola
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Zachary Baker
Composer
Brooks Wackerman
Composer
Jonathan Seward
Composer
Brian Haner
Composer
Matthew Sanders
Composer
Matthew Baker
String Arranger
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Avenged Sevenfold
Producer
Joe Barresi
Producer
Andy Wallace
Mixing Engineer
Wesley Seidman
Assistant Recording Engineer
Micheal Peterson
Assistant Recording Engineer
Alex Pavone
Assistant Recording Engineer
Jeff Fitzpatrick
Assistant Recording Engineer
Morgan Stratton
Assistant Recording Engineer
Paul Suarez
Mixing Engineer
Ignacio Lecumberri
Assistant Mixing Engineer
Nick Fainbarg
Engineer
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Our truth is painted across the sky
In our reflection we learn to fly
No hand to hold us
No one to save us from tomorrow
[Verse 2]
Sailing away, beyond the reach of anyone
Far beyond the dreams of everyone
No light to follow
A shot in the dark
Does anybody know?
Sailing away, beyond the reach of anyone
Far beyond the dreams of everyone
High from the heavens
I can’t see the pain
Does anybody care?
[Verse 3]
Think for a moment of all the lives
Stripped of their essence before their time
We stand to conquer
But is there nothing left tomorrow?
[Verse 4]
I'm sailing away, beyond the reach of anyone
Far beyond the dreams of everyone
There's no light to follow
A shot in the dark
Does anybody know?
Sailing away, beyond the reach of anyone
Far beyond the dreams of everyone
High from the heavens
I can’t see the pain
Does anybody care?
[Verse 5]
We have one collective hope: The Earth.
And yet, uncounted people remain hopeless.
Famine and calamity abound.
Suffers hurl themselves into the arms of war.
People kill and get killed
In the name of someone else's concept of God.
[Verse 6]
Do we admit that our thoughts and behaviors
Spring from a belief that the world revolves around us?
Each fabricated conflict, self murdering bomb, vanished airplane
Every fictionalized dictator, biased partisan and wayward son
Part the curtains of society's racial, ethnic
Religious, national and cultural conflicts
And you find the human ego turning the knobs and pulling the levers
[Verse 7]
"When I track the orbits of asteroids, comets and planets
Each one a pirouetting dancer in a cosmic ballet
Choreographed by the forces of gravity
I see beyond the plight of humans
I see a Universe ever-expanding
With its galaxies embedded
Within the ever-stretching four-dimensional fabric of space and time
[Verse 8]
However big our world is
Our hearts, our minds, our outsize atlases
The universe is even bigger
There are more stars in the Universe
Than grains of sand on the world’s beaches
More stars in the Universe
Than seconds of time that have passed since Earth formed
More stars
Than words and sounds ever uttered by all humans who have ever lived
[Verse 9]
The day we cease the exploration of the cosmos
Is the day we threaten the continuing of our species
In that bleak world
Arms-bearing, resource-hungry people and nations
Would be prone to act on their low-contracted prejudices
And would have seen the last gasp of human enlightenment
Until the rise of a visionary new culture
That once again embraces the cosmic perspective
A perspective in which we are one
Fitting neither above nor below
But within
Written by: Brian Haner, Brooks Wackerman, Jonathan Seward, Matthew Sanders, Zachary Baker