1. |
Opening Shots
03:50
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The masses speak, they never lie
Social justice, they must die
Accuse the world
It must be them
After all have you not suffered long enough
Restrict your fear
Call for vengeance
After all you were martyred long before the cause
Resent them all
No thought to spare
After all no one gave you any chances
Control yourself
Castrate their brains
After all they refused to let you have a voice
You made a judgment call but it's too late
Because you failed to anticipate
Your apathy would slowly turn to hate
Now we're devolving at an alarming rate
The masses spoke, it was a lie
Just noises and a threat to try
Raise a white flag
We are the ones to blame
Gag all our lives
We're nothing but a stain
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2. |
Misguided
04:01
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Can you hear it
They declare fit
Those who just sit
Learn what they say
Follow their way
Brainwashed you stay
This rage is misguided 1x1 2x2 3x2
Fuck you and your borrowed dream
Fuck your dead eyes staring at the screen
Fuck your faith and all you've seen
Fuck yourself and who you've been
Cursed with a short fuse
My patience's wearing thin
Explode, implode and always lose
My thoughts chaotic, flailing
Losing sight of reasoning
My capacity to articulate is failing
Can't restrain this
Fuck you...
Bow down your head
Ideas you fed
Wanted you led
And you obeyed
And made the grade
But now you fade
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3. |
Angela
03:56
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Gather all your things together
Put them in the trunk
Calm your sister and coax her down
From the second bunk
Don't believe the men when they say
Nothing is wrong
Do not look into their eyes
Just sing this harmless song
Left right left right
We'll never be alone
Right left right left
March us far from home
Let me go // I hate this show
Already know // Reap what you sow
Must undergo // Murder in the snow
Time to forgo // This overthrow
Drown in the rain // Encompass pain
Forsake my name // Hold down to tame
Existence maimed // Used as a game
No cause to feign // Get me off the train
Give them all your things forever
Don't amount to much
Keep a tight grip on your feelings
Use them as a crutch
Hold your limbs out, do not struggle
Branded you belong
Do not look into their eyes
Just sing this working song
Left right left right...
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4. |
From The Cradle
07:40
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Against all odds they survive
Trampled on so others thrive
Mislead, misguided many times
Losing life forced into lines
Now they struggle to adapt
All their will and beliefs sapped
They become a source of contempt
A generation that dreamt
We are too close to see ourselves
The universal psyche delves
In similarities but not
In what caused our souls to clot
From the cradle, from the cot
We find our minds oft too hot
To withstand our frozen forms
Our lives tormenting us with storms
They find it hard to understand
How they were dealt this dreadful hand
How the one that they let rule
Could have been fatally cruel
In others they still stir fear
For one can listen but never hear
The philosophy into which they dive
Makes others wish not to be alive
Σώσον, Κύριε, τον λαόν Σου
Και ευλόγησον την κληρονομίαν Σου
Νίκας τοις βασιλεύσι κατά βαρβάρων δωρούμενος
Και το σόν φυλάττων, διά του Σταυρού Σου πολίτευμα
Κύριε ελέησον [x2]
Αμήν [x2]
A decaying nation
A generation of
Children that wish to die
Before they find out why
We are represented
By drugs and resented
For not wanting a part
In this state we didn't start
We never want to fight
Or stand for what is right
We've seen all this before
How you started this war
We can see straight through you
We're against all you do
We never want to sing
We don't want anything
Apathy kills x3
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5. |
Sacrifice
03:52
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The needles
Pierce through my skull
The tubes run
Into the wall
Connected
To the unknown
An abomination
Standing eight feet tall
Inject me
With testosterone
Stand back
I'm always near
I feel nothing
My senses dull
My muscles
Begin to tear
A monster
Steel and death
All my needs
Are all base
I can see
Without eyes
I am one
With this space
Watch me rise
Cower in fear
Terminate
This is the start
I command
And I demand
Sacrifice
Tear out your heart
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6. |
Organize Your Mind
04:21
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A variation bent my mind
Behind what I had thought
Was possible
A distortion skewed my view to new
Horizons I thought improbable
I find myself destroyed and scattered
Find a way to organize your mind
And capitalize
Explain why we fell behind
And generalize
Oversimplify the whole process
And rationalise
It's obvious if either side is wrong
Then neither side is right
I am drowning in misinformation ad mortem
And I don't care
I see no point in a joint
effort to collaborate and recreate
the fantasy we just destroyed
I am annoyed
by my own indifference I've lost all sense of reason
My treason will appear against myself as I give up on it all
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7. |
Colder
04:20
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I feel a rip in the slit
In my throat
Compromise your position
And your false integrity
Pretend that you offer
To your imagined democracy
Run home to your shelter
Hide under your rock
They say birds of a feather
So don't stray from the flock
Time is running out
And I think it's getting warmer
And I think we're getting colder
And I think that we fucked up
Never had a doubt
Neither primer nor a former
Our outsides are getting bolder
But our brains do interrupt
I turned cold
You turned blue
The tables turned
They think we're through
The water rushes through
I remain unscathed
Advertise for admission
Into the few social elite
Disregard yourself as a buffer
Conflate survival with conceit
Block everyone else out
Lock yourself indoors
A wolf in sheep's clothing
Paperwork as your claws
The rip and the slit in my throat just grew colder and I'm older
And I think this is the end
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8. |
Why
09:02
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Why do you always try
Will you always end
on your knees
In the dark
Far from the trees
You used to climb
How do you still allow
Your every whim
to rule your heart
In the dark
You could still start
To see a light
Time is always on our side
Time is always
What do you always spot
In the distance as
A dead end
In the dark
Find a friend
Within yourself
Who better than you knew
A way to survive
This abyss
Yet in the dark
Your soul does hiss
Against itself
Time is always on our side
Time is always
Time doesn't care if we live or die or if we cry in the night out of sight
Time doesn't care for anyone or any sum offered up out of luck
Time doesn't care for anyone but we're too blind to see
Time is never standing still and so we're always free
Time is always on our side
Time is always
Time has no cause or effect
Time's indifferent
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