Week Thirteen - Knights of Shame by AWOLNation

The musical countdown to BIFF continues: This week's song is by AWOLNation, an Indie electronic, pop, rock band formed by Aaron Bruno in 2010. The band's first single, "Sail" debuted at #30 on the U.S. Billboard chart and was included on their debut 5-song album. Knights of Shame was cut on their first full-length album, Megalithic Symphony in 2011 - - it may be the longest cut selected for the Countdown, coming in at over twelve minutes.

Knights of Shame
(Link to higher quality but edited version with interview segment)

by AWOLNation

Lyrics (Or as close as I could get them):

Dance baby dance like the world is ending

[x3]

Dance baby dance like the world is ending

(x3)

Dance baby dance like the world is ending

(x3)

Dance baby dance like the world is ending

(x3)

This is who you are

[x3]

This is who you are

[x3]

Oh

Sit back and look for the warnings

The futures bright and alarming

Sit back and look for the warnings

Sit back and look for the warnings

The futures bright and alarming

Sit back and look for the warnings

What

Woo

Huh

Cool

They be walking around with your head cut off

They be walking around with your head cut off

Oh

They be walking around with your head cut off

They be walking around with your head cut off

Their power's fear and it surrounds us

Their signs, you can see

One day we will wake the walking zombies

'Til then we pray

Oo

Everybody

The king and his ghost are laughing at me

These signs, you can see

One day well listen for the sirens

'Til then we pray

Skeletons

Marching army

Guns

Drop your feet

I'm scared

I'm duke Ellington

My mother said there'd by days like this

But one of the fires lit made her piss

Calling all zombies

All up inside me

Transforming vampires

Right beside me

And you can't run

'Cause, you did, you'd be dead

And them walls can't run from the side of my head

I beat the ghoul

My beats are cool

But here's last kiss

All suckers

They will cease to exist

I can't entertain with a beat up human

Lay wast to cities

Leave towns i ruin

I am a robot

Whole arsenal stock

Ready to blow

Lastly you see

Me, be three by three

Firing these things called TNT

Fire these things called TNT

These things called TNT

They call me TNT

These things called TNT

Ahh,

We can dance like the world's over

Yeah it's almost 2012 

Call your girls over

Let's kick back

Pop shots

Have a ball

And if the world blow up

Next life, we do it all over

Uh, Yeah

Let's toast to the memory

I wrote my name in the sky

So remember me

Baby forever we

Together mentally

The day I leave my baby over something

Then helll'll freeze

Froze

This world cold like Natalie

So

Let's lose our clothes like Adam Eve

Back to the basics

Step out the matrix

Step out your cool

Baby, get on my spaceship

I seen her face lit

She seen a sign like a Mason

So we ran home like a base hit

Safe

Life is whatever you think it is

Yo,  what you think this is?

Uh

Yeah it's all in your mind baby

You gotta do what you feel, like a blind lady

You gotta spread your wings and just fly, baby

It feel like you're reborn?

That's my baby

She said she feel it in her soul like a vibrator

I got some things for your thoughts we can try later

Let's hit the dance floor

Right before we out of time

And just party like it's 1999

You know what prince said

Girl, you my princess

I got the glass slipper

I hope the thing fits

Your body on fire

Let me extinguish

hop on this white horse

Ride to the sunset

Is anybody really out there breathing?

Is anybody really sick of bleeding

So come out scream to the sky this evening

And 'fore the morning I'm a touch your feeling

Ha,

Let's start today!

Thank you, alright

Let's start today!

Woo, ah, yeah

Let's start today

Ha ha, yeah, wooo, okay

Let's start today

Start today

Start today

Come on down

The queen's heart

The knights of shame

The people's voice

So we pray and we pray

The queens heart

The knights of shame

So we pray and we pray!

The queens heart

The peoples voice

So we pray and we pray

The queens heart

The knights of shame

So we pray, and we pray

Oooooooo

And yeah it's no fun waiting for the fall

And there'll be no more waiting for you all

And there'll be one more chance for the truth

Without you, I would die

And yeah it's no fun waiting for the fall

And there'll be no more waiting for you all

And there'll be one more chance for the truth

Without you, I would die

I would die

Waiting on a heartbeat

Does anybody hear me?

We're waiting on a heart beat

Is anybody listening?