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P R E T E L E T H A L

As I drift away with the dust, The light consumes the dark recluse, No time to waste in this mess, I will retreat, no sins confessed, How did we get so lost?

Away. Who will repair this broken heart? This world will miss none of us, The sick we cure, the bad we just.

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K E Y E N T I T Y E X T R A C T I O N V :

S E N T R Y T H E D E F I A N T

Believer, your spotlights on the subject so incorrect, And suggestion suggests, That I am someone you should not respect, You wear your facade so well,

Covered up in a plastic shell, You're a liar to everyone around you, just don't forget. Face the honest truth, You were never you, Now be defiant, the lion,

Give them a fight that will open their eyes, Hangman hooded, softly swinging, Don't close the coffin yet... I'm alive And it's homecoming. Can you remember?

When there was no wrong in what I could do, So young, biting off way more than I could chew, And then one day I grew too old, And my cares were now

theirs to mold, Please accept this as my resignation it's time to go. I will now bleed for what I believe in, No more mistakes for them to make for me,

So goodbye, it's my time to be me.

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T H E H A R D S E L L

I'm paranoid and sick of this world's misconception of things I did, My language poured across this wrist in a metaphoric disaster, My guess, I'm missing

out the punch line, Unless this hanging noose is fitted to be all mine. I stood by everything I loved, While you never understood me much. Cause there's

only one of me, And too many of you fighting over nothing, Oh, there's never enough cool for everyone, And before you know it you're selling out to be in.

These eyes ungoverned are tearing us apart, Their ears forsaken have given up on art, Now, why believe in anything they praise, When one hand holds

them the victor, While the other holds the shovel to their grave. Oh, this ticket window has closed, Save your money, baby... The next show's about start,

Where else can you get to watch this talent fall... One by one they drop.

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N U M B E R C I T Y

Attention, we have got a medical emergency, The patient's condition is critical and fading, Oh, I've got this under control, but there is no guarantee, Now

should you question this professional opinion, it's time we'll spend wasting. And oh If you wanted to see, Go on and tear it out of me. This case is possibly

the worst that I have ever seen, I see how vulnerable we as a people can truly be. And oh If you wanted to see, Go on and tear it out of me. Honey, release

my heart, If you, Honey, release my heart you let me go, Release my heart, if you Honey, do not let me, Do not let me go. Defibrillate, Defibrillate, A radio

transmission sent to get the heart to listen. This is love from a gurney. Believe in Number City. 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9

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G R A V I T Y ’ S U N I O N

I f lew head first into the light, Weightless, crisscrossing, precise, In a dream or was it life? Inside this door all answers. Wait, so saddle up my steed to

where the lies live way beneath. Oh my, I think I've made a mess, This is all my fault, it's what I wished. And I was wrong to let you go, I accept my

mistake but you will never know, This is my love into a ten ton truck, Baby, please remember the better me. No time to change my life in the air before,

Our maximum reach outweighed, apart, pictureless retreat, The terror meets the truth, no longer who, We now know what we must do, shadow dancing

through the roof. Contact the life you used to know, Gravity the world in tow. And I was wrong to let you go, I accept my mistake but you will never

know, This is my love into a ten ton truck, Baby, please remember the better me. Driver may I sleep with you tonight, Numbered uncertainty, City limits,

shoe strewn diary, The roar of the engine won't cease. All of my love and heart spilled in this car, Picture me the perfect enemy, Our lives are one, colliding

up and beyond, In this fatal possibility. I am your, I am your prize. We wave welcome aboard, We wave welcome aboard, In my eyes I drown you. Has he

forgotten his place, Bait the hook and let it sink, No cause for alarm, Enter the master, I am Dr. Straight. Scalpel keep that lung in place, Nurse, IV needs

refilling, Now watch the brain, Responding quite normal, this life I can save. Every man has a point, where he breaks or conjoins, Among pressure that

f loods to complicate, Matters close to the heart will define who we are, Do we love? Do we hate? We are only the meat. We understood the unmistakable,

two romantics on holiday and how they stole our love. Caged... Locked in perpetual motion, carving our wounds wide open, But you let the wrong one in.

Ha ha ha.

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A W A Y W E G O

She is her own worst enemy, Her heart a landmine calamity, Waiting for someone to set her off, Morse code a-clicking out an SOS, Life raft releasing her

last breath, Tonight she's going to drown. Without me, will she reach the great beyond, Believe me, take my word, I'll never break your heart... And away

we go, My little jersey girl. If we could escape this innocence, Trapped between the fear and the words we kept, We'll live out our later years. Here in our

dreams, we'll reach a great beyond, Believe me, take my word, I'll never break your heart... And away we go. Sinking in the beautiful undertow, together

with you. We're giving up, You can leave what little you believe, Our f law, discard, come give me what I need, My thoughts won't go away, you are my

holiday. Together we'll receive and reach that great beyond, Believe me, take my word, I'll never break your heart... And away we go, My little jersey girl.

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I R O N F I S T

The wish you plead and the things you sought, We all think, we all thought, The things I've done and the world I've seen, Don't measure up to you my

queen, I'd take one for the other and work my way through this machine. God damn this cursed iron fist, When I lose control, oh no. The first train out

while the last one drones, We'll all sing we're going home, As the curtain swings in to cover up, Our secrets kept, our love enough. Give me the strength,

I know, And please believe me, Oh girl, this is what I've become and I'm going to leave it up to you, What are you going to do? I don't want to lose your

hold on me. Just remember, Pay no attention to this iron fist.

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D A R K S I D E O F M E

In those discouraging days, I always missed the mark, When we were comfort and close, I would neglect to keep... You safe and unexposed, A portrait of

time repeats, This moment now replaced with an empty wish to give, I give, I gave. I gave my everything for all the wrong things, In this cold reality, I

made this self ish war machine, Oh, this has become hell, How can I share this life with someone else? I promise you, there is no weight that can

bury us, Beneath the ghosts of all my guilt... Here in the dark side of me. Now in your absence I wade through the coursing, lonely, lost, And in this

tragic dismay, I never could believe what I became. I couldn't give you what you needed, It's all my fault, Too coward to believe I lost it all.

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2 ’ S M Y F A V O R I T E 1

Two hearts beat as one, Disguise your mind, And feel the hum, This drone, the buzz of our love. In time, We move, This churning factor, feel the groove,

Release the touch that moves you. This is her, No regrets, I embrace your defects to confess you were my every wish, I admit that I will never feel alone,

Once I call you Home. Push towards the dance f loor, And together we'll show them who's boss, We'll set a fire once more. Maybe it's not now or later, Til

you save the best for last, I want to be everything you need. Our sum in monotone, While the record spins around, Please turn me over, slide me into sleeve,

Please bring me home.

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C O H E E D A N D C A M B R I A I S :

Claudio Sanchez: Vocals, Guitar • Travis Stever: GuitarZach Cooper: Bass • Josh Eppard: Drums

Blaze James • Navigator

All songs written by Claudio Sanchez • Except* written by

Claudio Sanchez and Travis Stever

Published by the bag.on-line.adventures (SESAC)

Except* published by the bag.on-line.adventures and Point Me at the Sky (SESAC)

Arranged by Coheed and Cambria

Produced by Coheed and Cambria with Michael Birnbaum and Chris Bittner

Recorded at Applehead Studios in Woodstock, New York

Additional recordings created at The Big Beige

Guitar techs: Rob Gill, Jeff Champtone

Songs 2 and 7 mixed by Rich Costey at Eldorado Studios, Burbank, CA

Assisted by Chris Kasych

Songs 1,3-6 and 9 mixed by Ryan Williams at Pulse Recording, Silver Lake, CA

Song 8 mixed by Chris Lord-Alge

Mastered by Howie Weinberg and Dan Gerbarg at Howie Weinberg Mastering

Additional instrumentation:

Piano, Clavinet and Synthesizers: John Medeski

Percussion: Daniel Sadownick

Horns: Steve Bernstein, Stan Harrison, Dan Levine. Arranged by Steve Bernstein

Additional background vocals by: Chondra Sanchez and Maggie Bryngelson

Segues written and arranged by Claudio Sanchez and Josh Eppard

Dialogue Performed by: Sirius Amory • Claudio Sanchez

The All Mother • Chondra Sanchez

Cover Art by Heidi Taillefer • Interior Art by Nathan Spoor

Package design and additional graphics by Bill Scoville

Coheed uses: Gibson, Taylor, Fender, Orange, Bogner, Vox, Moog, Korg, Ableton,

Propellorhead, Death By Audio, Electro-Harmonix, DR Strings, Sennheiser, Mesa

Boogie, C&C Drums, Sabian Cymbals, Mission Engineering, Dunlop, Audio

Technica, Ultimate Ears and Line 6

Legal: Peter Lewit and David Rappaport for Davis Shapiro, Lewit and Hayes

Business Management: David Weise, Kathy Izaguirre, Beth Sabbagh, Kim Kennedy and

Tagui Karagaryan for David Weise and Associates

Booking (North America): Kirk Sommer for William Morris Endeavor

Booking (Rest of World) : Rob Markus for William Morris Endeavor

Marketing: Rob Gordon, Mikael Mossberg and Katy Ables for Backbeat Industries

Tour Production Guru: Pete Stahl

For Hundred Handed: Craig Aaronson, Jordan McGraw, the McGraw Family

and Barbara Robinson

Blaze James is part of the Velvet Hammer Music and Management Group

For the Big Beige and the years of inspiration you gave us... See you soon, lady.

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C&P 2013 Everything Evil Records Under Exclusive Licence to V2 Music Ltd.

1. Pretelethal2. Key Entity Extraction V: Sentry the Defiant

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4. Number City5. Gravity's Union

6. Away We Go7. Iron Fist

8. Dark Side of Me9. 2's My Favorite 1

Produced by Coheed And Cambria with Michael Birnbaum and Chris Bittner

Mixed by Rich Costey and Ryan Williams

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