"True Ugly"

Album Art by Chase Stone.

## Music Video

Official Music Video on YouTube

**"True Ugly"** is a song by the American rock band Coheed and Cambria. It is the seventh song on their 2018 album *Vaxis – Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures*.

## Lyrics

**[Verse 1]**

Oh, when the lights go out

Abandon reason, listen to them shout

Divine, these monsters of flesh and bone

Oh, they make hate look so easy, loathe their kind

**[Chorus]**

Oh, show me your true ugly

The stranger you move, the sweeter you become

Now show me the good you've done

Show me the animal *(Load, Bang)*

We are the animal

**[Verse 2]**

Oh, how the times run out

*(Everybody down on the ground, now, everybody down, down, down, down)*

Burn yourself here in the heat of the sun

Pray it comes undone

Scream your loudest, no one's coming

**[Chorus]**

Oh, show me your true ugly

The stranger you move, the sweeter you become

Now show me the good you've done

Who raised these animals?

*(Down, down, down, down, down, down)*

*(Down, down, down, down, down)*

*(Bang, bang, bang, bang)*

**[Verse 3]**

Broken migrant, knife through heel

Sing your praise so hell can hear

Where did you come from?

The strange we walk, the touch we feel

Could you find a way to love us all?

Don't wake up

Show me stolen love

Everything, I need

Take away from me humility

Over and over I fuss, but I can't seem to sleep as they cut

Oh, no, you can't hurt me...

**[Bridge]**

Break, break, breaking up

Break, break, break, follow me

Break, break, breaking up

Break, break, break, follow me

Break, break, breaking up

Break, break, break, follow me

Break, break, breaking up

Break, break, break, follow me

Break, break, breaking up

Break, break, break, follow me

Break, break, breaking up

Break, break, can you hear me?

Break, break, breaking up

Break, break, break, follow me

Break, break, breaking up

Can, can, can you hear me?

**[Chorus]**

Oh, show me your true ugly

The stranger you move, the sweeter you become

Now show me the good you've done *(The good you've done)*

*(The good you've done)*

Oh, show me your true ugly

The stranger you move, the sweeter you become

Now show me the good you've done

Show me the animal

You fucking animal

Don't feed us the animals

'Cause we're not done with you

There's no good you've done

Oh, show me your true ugly

The stranger you move, the sweeter you become

Now show me the good you've done

Show me the animal

## Music Video

An official music video was released for this song on March 6, 2019. It was directed by Claudio Sanchez and Ernest "Dirty Ern" Falconer (who regularly works with Josh Eppard for his solo project Weerd Science. The video has a prison break feel, but features the band playing on stage.

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## Story Context

This song may be a cut back to Otto Cruger, the third member of The Unheavenly Creatures known as Colossus. He landed on the planet and followed instructions, reporting for work and being fit with a Gutter (a device screwed into the abdomen and, when activated, would be able to gut the person). As a "proper" prisoner, he is surrounded by other inmates who are just as messed up as him, or even more so. After some time there, he's even able to leave his designated compound and associate with the other areas on the planet (notably, a brothel). For someone like Cruger, he thrives and is actually content in this environment, but he still thinks that if he was given the chance, he would easily "punish" Nostrand for getting them trapped in here.

## References

1. ↑ Coheed and Cambria. Booklet. *Vaxis - Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures*, RoadRunner Records, 2018.
2. ↑ https://genius.com/Coheed-and-cambria-true-ugly-lyrics
3. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RdGz8U5-ps