1. |
Domination
02:03
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Domination
The filthy hand
Of domination
Beats you down
Bruised and bloody
The lust red lips
Of imperialism
Gently whisper
Lullabies
Youve been
Bastardized
Monetized
Made to see in black and white
You've been
Terrorized
Mesmerized
Made to accept this for your life
See for yourself
The vision
Of violence
Repeats
Desensitized
By deceitful songd
Repeated
Unending
Tell me is your beauty
Only skin deep
Tell me is your skull
As thick as they come
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2. |
Factory Floor
01:50
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3. |
Echoes Of Eternity
03:24
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Echoes of eternity
Disbelief
Or absolute madness
Running the race
Into our grave
A vicious din
I cannot hear
Nothing saved
No hope from fear
Chorus
Echooooes
Of eternity
Black holes
Swallow me
Spinning circle
Serpent takes hold
Forever and ever
Echoes of eternity
Haunted
Haunted
Haunted
Chambers
Of remains
overflow
Drown our days
Turn to night
Covered in decay
We hold our hands
And rot away
A vicious din
I cannot hear
Nothing saved
No hope from fear
Now were screaming
Now were wailing
Now were crying
Life serves no one
Ceaseless existence
Only for pain
Ceaseless existence
Living in vain
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4. |
Not to Be
03:16
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5. |
The Door
04:25
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The Door
Oh
how the clock ticks
The new product
has arrived
Separated more
By flashing lights
Locking the door
On real life
Slit the throat
Of infatuation
Give me peace
From these lighted screens
The pressure of eyes
Always staring
In murderous woes
Always caring
Instead
No flesh to touch
Humans walled
Like brain dead cattle
Overwhelmed
By silent masses
Watching evil
Enacting its will
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6. |
Ideals and Decay
03:20
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Ideals and Decay
Draped in black
A coffin of feeling
But it's what you lack
That keeps me reeling
You never know
Because you don't wanna see
It's what's below
It's what you'll be
It makes no difference
It makes no difference
Ideals equal nothing
In the dirt where you lie
Behind cruel intentions
Where your innocence has died
Playing the part
And acting this way
Living a lie
All in shame
You never know
Cuz you don't wanna see
It's what's below
It's what you'll be
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7. |
Liberation
03:00
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Liberation
Laid to fury
A stifling blow
All sense of purpose
Starts to unfold
In the heat of life
Breath fades slow
Anxiety builds
Forced to let go
Of what we hold
Liberate me
Seperate me
From this world
Liberate me
Extricate me
From this cycle
Illusion severs
Disjointed view
Waiting again
In a lifeless hue
Black covers
Just out of reach
Forces to stay
I don't want to see
What we could have
Liberate me
An insufferable reality
Liberate me
Set me free
Liberate me
Make me bleed
Liberate me
Set me free
Liberation
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8. |
Vultures
02:28
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Vultures
You are the beast
Black and feathered
Always searching
Out the fallen
You bring disease
And plague the air
With every moment
You cause despair
Birds of wars
Bringing calls of blood
Soaked in the tears
Of the innocent
The lives you stole
To make a profit
The hidden terrorist
No one sees
Carrion ways of older days
Never seem to go away
You brought the war on all fronts
And Death is your product to sell
You're the bastards creating hell
You're the bastards creating hell
Petty criminals
Get their due
Yet time and again
Why not you?
The shadows
At play
Why let them
Have their way?
Lies are told
Accepted by the fold.
Money exchanges
And hidden agendas
Oaths are sworn
And daggers are drawn
One day the dead
Will be oil too
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9. |
Severed
05:45
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Severed
I see
The shadow cast
On a land
Without regrets
Take no shame
Take no notice
Of our moral
Despondance
No
These helping hands
Severed at the thought
No
Amount of pain
Makes up this cost
I hear
Discontent
Within the voice
Of used people
Take no action
They hear no call
This is how
They want it to stay
I taste
Iron wrought
From hatred and war
For smiling leaders
The blade will fall
Cut the heads
One or the other
One or the other
Together in the end
Dont justify their ends
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10. |
Garden Of Deceit
03:42
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Garden Of Deceit
Lying below
A towering threshold
Tattered visions
Parade the air
Unrelenting regret
Lull me with disdain
Shall I enter This?
This garden of deceit
Oh come to me
My arms are reaching out
Oh I'll smother you
Engulfed by your foliage
Your kiss keeps me planted
Only in my heart
Cover me with flowers
In spite of all the hours
They've spent rotting away
Within your grasp
The din of wings
As they fly away
Birds of beauty
Are birds of prey
This thought binds
In spite of unending dread
To better times
Only to come hereafter
Set me down upon the stone
Where all noise ceases to be
I'll let them devour
Let me be free
No more sun on these eyes
No more growth in midst of flies
Wither now wither now
As if creation was a farce
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11. |
Entrapped
03:05
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Entrapped
No boundaries but we cannot leave
Its getting colder now I'm going to scream
Is time still passing or standing still
Where's my heart where's my will
Entrapped
I am deceived
Holding our hands
I cannot lead
Entrapped
Only pins of light
Insufferable and distant
Illuminate plight
The animal masses swoon with blood
It's getting hotter as death rises up
Gradual decay lies in our mouths
Entropy forever, in the shroud
Surrender or struggle
Strangling indecision
I fear I'll never be free
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12. |
Where We Belong
03:53
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Look what you've found
Is it what you expected
How do you feel
Still loveless and neglected
An abject truth
In an absurd world
We wish for release
On bloodied knees
We all go where we belong
In the shape that is oblong
No more fear no more guilt
We are meant for dirt
In solemn silence
Or frenzied haste
Slouch through this
Forsaken race
Nothing lights
Our darkened path
There's a presence outside
Who's the trespasser
I pray on bleeding knees
For merciful release
What is prayer To one
who doesnt believe
Every single day
The weight grows parasitic
It only feeds so
Dread swallows me
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13. |
As We Fade
03:25
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Hours have powers
Flying like flies
Over a corpse left
A ditch makes flowers
Makeshift grave of absolution
My soul bears no fear
If its quick
And painless
But time drags
Questions unanswered
Are my only legacy
What will become? As we fade
The love we had, the hate we gave
What will persist ? As we fade
Cries of dissonance, Encroaching distance
Songs bear witness
To a life lived short
No meaning can be drawn
Like lines in the Sand
I dare you to cross it
Cross me out
I hear the silence
And my heart pours out
Beating fluid
A liquid palpitation
Drift and drop
Annihilation
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