 Genius Lyrics
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Skillet – Comatose
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Comatose is the title track of Skillet’s 7th album. The song itself is about needing someone so much so that without them, you’re essentially comatose.
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Skillet – The Resistance
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[Verse 1: John Cooper & Jen Ledger] / (I) am a nation, (I) am a million faces / Formed together, made for elevation / (I) am a soldier, (I) won't surrender / Faith is like a fire
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Skillet – Feel Invincible
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This song was most likely originally supposed to be called “Invincible” due to the lyric video and what some of the band says on social media, but the album has it listed as Feel
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Skillet – Hero
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In this song, John Cooper talks about how he and this world needs a hero (or a savior) and without one we will “destroy ourselves.”
Since Skillet is considered a Christian Rock
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Skillet – Whispers in the Dark
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This song is all about how God will work to help you against the “whispers in the dark” and will always be that light in the darkness. Telling from the lyrics, this seems to be in
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Wanda Jackson – My Big Iron Skillet
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You're out doing wrong again, it's plain for all to see / And you think here at home is where I ought to be / There's gonna be some changes made when you get in tonight / 'Cause I'
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Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit – Cast Iron Skillet
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[Chorus 1] / Don't wash the cast iron skillet / Don't drink and drive, you'll spill it / Don't ask too many questions or you'll never get to sleep / There's a hole inside you, fill
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Skillet – Anchor
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“Anchor,” along with “Save Me,” were the second and third singles to be released from Victorious. It was announced on Billboard that “Anchor” would be the single that would be sent
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Skillet – Monster
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John Cooper told Stereotruth that “Monster” is a song “about being fake and putting on a face for people that’s not the real you” and shared in a Songfacts interview he was
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Skillet (Ft. Lacey Sturm) – Breaking Free
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[Verse 1: John Cooper] / This night, nothing like any other night, can’t take anymore / You say I’ll never be nothing, cause us suffering, something to ignore / [Pre-Chorus: John
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Skillet – Victorious
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[Verse 1: John Cooper] / I hear 'em talk to me / But they're not listening / Their words are kerosene / They don't know who I am / They'd never understand / What it's like to be me
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Skillet – Rebirthing
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[Verse 1] / I lie here paralytic / Inside this soul / Screaming for you till my throat is numb / I wanna break out, I need a way out / I don't believe that it's gotta be this way
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Skillet – My Obsession
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[Verse 1] / Your touch, Your ways / Leave me dumb without reason / Your love, my cage / My prison so pleasing / I spend my days / Tangled in thoughts of You / Stuck in this place
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Skillet – Surviving the Game
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[Intro] / To be more than a conqueror / You have to learn to enjoy the pain / If you want to survive the game / [Verse 1: John Cooper & Jen Ledger] / You can try to defeat me (Beat
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Skillet – Save Me
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“Save Me”, along with “Anchor”, were the second and third singles released from Victorious. When teasing the song, John Cooper said on Instragram that this song was “something
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Skillet – The Defiant
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[Intro] / Oh-oh-oh-oh / Oh-oh-oh-oh / Oh-oh-oh-oh / [Verse 1] / I'm suffering, can barely breathe / Just one more step into the fire / When all is lost, it's worth the cost
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Skillet (Ft. Lacey Sturm) – Breaking Free
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[Verse 1: John Cooper] / This night, nothing like any other night, can’t take anymore / You say I’ll never be nothing, cause us suffering, something to ignore / [Pre-Chorus: John
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Skillet – Freakshow
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[Intro: John Cooper] / Step right up, ladies and gentlemen! / Come and see / Things your eyes won't believe! / Some say they are aliens / Some say they are stranger / Some say they
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Skillet – Sometimes
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[Verse 1] / Sometimes when I lie / I know you're on to me / Sometimes I don't mind / How hateful that I can be / Sometimes I don't try / To make you happy / I don't know why I do
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Skillet – Crossfire
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[Verse 1] / When the shadows come / And the night is fallin' / And the voices tell you this might be the end when / [Pre-Chorus] / Screamin' when your heart is barely beatin
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Skillet – Ignite
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[Verse 1: John Cooper] / It's past time, it's past time / I take control, I'm cutting, cutting wires / Fight or flight, dynamite / With just a spark, I come, I come alight / I don'
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Skillet – Famous
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[Verse 1] / I testify, this is not a secret meant to keep / Your love, like fire, spreading from my heart straight to my feet / [Pre-Chorus 1] / And when I was dead, you gave me
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Skillet – White Horse
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[Intro] / Verily, verily, I will tell thee / Nothing but the truth / Listen to the preacher / Warning you about the deceiver / I am the way, the truth, the life, life / [Verse 1
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Evann McIntosh – Gorilla In a Skillet
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I wish that you could see outside your flaws / All I did was support you feel like a sports bra / I give and I get nothing back at all / Defying Newton’s third law / Defying
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Skillet – Dominion
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[Intro] / Do-do-do-dominion / Do-do-do-dominion / [Verse 1] / Life has become a war / Under our overlords / I look them in the eye / I keep crossing the bitter line / Don't hold me
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Skillet (Ft. Adam Gontier) – Finish Line (feat. Adam Gontier)
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[Verse 1: John Cooper] / Good evenin', my people up in the chandeliers / The winin' and dinin', the menu is blood, sweat and tears / Everybody ready, rainin' down confetti
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Skillet – Psycho In My Head
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[Verse 1] / Maybe I'm just paranoid / Or maybe I'm just livin' a lie / Can't stop this screamin' voice / Or maybe I'm just sick inside / [Pre-Chorus] / This is the face / I hate
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Skillet – Unbreakable Soul
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[Intro] / Here we go, here we go, here we go / Here we go, here we go, here we go / [Verse 1: John Cooper and Jen Ledger] / With my flesh and bones / Never will stop, gotta run
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Skillet – I Can
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[Verse 1] / Looking on the sad times, the guilt and all the shame / I have learned to submit my existing hurts and pains / All the grief I have learned to set aside / [Chorus
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Skillet – Forgiven
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[Verse 1] / Forgive me now cause I / Have been unfaithful / Don't ask me why, 'cause I don't know / So many times I've tried / But was unable / This heart belongs to you alone / [
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Skillet – Believe
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[Verse 1] / I'm still trying to figure out how to tell you I was wrong / I can't fill the emptiness inside since you've been gone / So is it you, or is it me? / I know I said
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Skillet – Lucy
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John said in a interview that:
“It’s based on a true story.
It’s about a young couple who finds out that they’re pregnant. They are in High School, they are not married and they
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Skillet – Back From the Dead
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John Cooper said in a live video that the intro came in his mind after he returned to his wife after getting some soda, saying something like, “I’m b-ba-b-b-b-ba-ba-back”. He liked
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Skillet – Burn It Down
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[Verse 1] / Do you ever wish that you weren't a prisoner? / Do you feel like you're done? / All the dreams you had are hard to remember / Well, you're not the only one / [Pre-
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Skillet – Not Gonna Die
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This song is, according to John Cooper, one of the more natural songs for the Skillet fanbase. It has similarities to one of their most notable hits, “Comatose”; however, the song’
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Skillet – Legendary
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This song is about making the most of every day of your life. We will not live forever and we will probably not even be remembered in 100 years from now. So I want to live my life
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Skillet – Refuge
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[Verse 1] / When I open my eyes / I can’t believe it / How the world can look so different than we were dreaming / It’s getting harder to say / Im undefeated / When the best my
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Skillet – Those Nights
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This song counts the history of the childhood of John Cooper and his best friend. Back in the time of just happened death of his mother, the relationship with his father getting
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Skillet – Valley of Death
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[Verse 1: John Cooper] / Days in darkness rolling by / And how the years betray us / And our dreams escape us / The world I wanted turned to night / Love became a shadow / Where
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Skillet – Reach
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[Verse 1] / You were the only one to see / Secrets locked inside of me / You were the only one / So tell me where you've gone / I've lost a little more today / Nothing more you can
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