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Liquified
03:03
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Riches
Privilege
Poured into golden chalices
Mistaken fragile lives
Propped up by our blood,
Our sweat, and our plight
Grant accord to the elite
Now just a cowardly shadow
Coveting for wealth
Bleeding everyone until hollow
Social darwinists propped up by a scam
Bought into the game with ego in hand
Delusional inheritance undeserved
Vanity and greed changed us
Into consumers bred to serve
There is no afterlife
Propaganda is your God
Tendrils cling to object truth
Manipulated from abroad
White noise from cold hearts
Overflowing virtual carts
Deficits in decency
Zero integrity
Our golden pyramid
Has always been empty
Liquified
Our golden pyramid
Is empty
Liquified
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3. |
Precedent
04:07
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Hide
It hunts us down
It tears everything we've ever loved apart
It erases life
It exists to curse us from the start
Be brought forth onto altars of dust
Sacrificed innocence to gratify bloodlust
Masks of black and red
Candle wax and flame
Haunted by the silent dead
Possession's endless fame
I am precedent
I am scorn
I am rage
I am agony
I am guilt
I am shame
From the inside, fear consumes
All that remains of what you used to be
This fortress of ivory and glass
crumbles for everyone to see
Your soul is ours to sell
Lured by a blackened heart
Into the depths of hell
Masks of black and red
Candle wax and flame
Deafened by the howling dread
Unbound from what is sane
I am precedent
I am scorn
I am rage
I am agony
I am guilt
I am shame
I am reborn
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4. |
Eviction
03:58
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Fire
Searing endlessly
Raising pyres
For makeshift royalty
While we see fire
Burning everything
Forged trails we can't traverse
Neglected by the shield and purse
Built a den for callous thieves
Who stole this land of misery
Oh mother, Gaia
Be it sun or God
Bring thy wrath upon us all
Eviction
Smoked out
Like rodents in a maze
Caught up in the blaze
Pierce us with a sword of bone
Streamed into an empty home
Through tubes sourced by military drones
Still life of flattened tones
Security morphing rapidly
Forever under quarantine
Filling time with tiny screens
Micro-dosing dopamine
Eviction
Smoked out
Like rodents in a maze
Caught up in the blaze
Midnight sirens
Tolling of the bell
Sleepless, fraught, terrified
This feels like hell
This feels like fucking hell
Nature's executioner
Setting us aflame
Fingers broken
Pointed backwards
Seeking who to blame
Nature's executioner
Setting us aflame
Our display of ignorance
Has become our nation's shame
Brace for eviction
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5. |
Power Outage
04:36
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We're not for sale
You're painted orange to no avail
Fleeing at the first sign of failure
Getting under guarded skin
Tracing palms of muted men
Searching for our original programmed end
Soldiers of evil
Murdering our people
We demand answers
Insanity
Shrouded in normalcy
Harbinger of death
One pull of your trigger
Robs a human of breath
Self-declared
Guardians turned killers
We're jaded just enough to steal
The power back from the shield
Your opinions look plagiarized
Straight from a meme reel
Too kind to the uncouth
Hurting to en force you
Two votes until you're done
Disgusted by the smoking gun
Besieged
Cast into sea
These winds of change
Leave us blistering
Power around us
Goes black
Powers beside us
Fight back
Outrage
Betrayed
You clowns are done
Now get into the cage
We're not for sale
Welcome to your power outage
We are not for sale
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6. |
Isolated Incidence
03:37
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Breaking tides
Destroyed by lies
Disposable sage
Yearning for a lost age
It's so unreal
The nothingness we feel
I can't reveal what's in my spirit
Afraid of what that entails
The unknown
Decayed by eternal mold
Once escaped, out of control
I face the fear alone
Front seat down below
Breathe in the failure of your afterglow
Can’t change my state of mind
Or stop trying to rewind
Backtrack to a previous instance
This is just an isolated incidence
Can’t change my state of mind
Or stop trying to rewind
Wick burning through both ends
Terror crawling underneath my skin
Sleepwalking through a vivid dream
Wishing something would end me
I dig
Graves for you and me
I just want to fucking sleep
Forever
I dig graves for you and me
Cause I just want to fucking sleep
Instead I just stare and weep
Curled up on stone and sleet
And forget how it feels
To feel anything at all
It's so unreal
The nothingness we feel
The unknown
Decayed by eternal mold
Once escaped, out of control
I face the fear alone
Front seat down below
Breathe in the failure of your afterglow
Can’t change my state of mind
Or stop trying to rewind
Backtrack to a previous instance
This is just an isolated incidence
Can’t change my state of mind
Or stop trying to rewind
I dig
Graves for you and me
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7. |
The Hourglass Shrine
04:34
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Absent silver linings
Forlorn network built on sand
Witnesses to apathy
As disease spreads 'cross the land
Severed people made of straw
Faith is such a sham
While the underclass pay penance
Amplified by a bitter past
Oh how it'd feel to dine on swine
Digest their insides
Seances in the dark of night
Forfeited daylight
Oh how it'd feel to dine on swine
Digest their insides
Seances in the dark of night
Looking for The Hourglass Shrine
Absent are your findings
Back to back days to back months
Repeating cycles
While you take your cut
Stealing time
While we count sand
Testing the limits
Steady be thy hand
A tranquil fast
Before the feast
Out of time
Imprisoned beast
Oh how it feels to dine on swine
Digesting traces of the divine
Seances in the dark of night
Oh how it feels to
Cherish the hourglass shrine
Bow to the hourglass shrine
Die by the hourglass shrine
Turn over the hourglass shrine
We all worship
The hourglass shrine
We all worship
The hourglass shrine
Preying autocracy
Weakened democracy
Our country tis of thee
means nothing anymore to me
Oh how it feels to dine on swine
Digesting traces of the divine
Seances in the dark of night
Worshiping the hourglass shrine
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8. |
Rusted Sun
03:48
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Paralysis is my favored drug
Imbued with doom
Permanent shrug
Complete withdrawal
Tossed from a bridge
Just to free fall
Downer
Erase my memories
Unrecognize this face
Destroy without a trace
Stardust
Over us
Eclipsing
Blinded by trust
Nightcrawl
Abandoned and lost
Can you
See the sun rust
Rust
Parasitic con of man
Burgled our palace
This craze takes a hold
In the form of malice
Can you see our rusted sun?
Can you see what you've done?
Stardust
Over us
Eclipsing
Blinded by trust
Torment
Our lord’s skeletal touch
Gave us everything
Gave us nothing
Can you see our rusted sun?
Sól that we betray
For once it’s gazed upon
You can never look away
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9. |
Ashes
02:49
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I'm running frantic
Far away from here
Thirsty and starving
Paranoia grips
Shreds me into bits
Oh God, I’m unraveling
Why do we live this lie?
Cannot tell reality
From what’s falling from the sky
Another season of demise
Ashes are our insides
Shattered angel
Unspeakable
Heartbroken devil
Unbearable
Hollow is the world I see
Shrouded in coded mystery
Darkness ascending
Ever gradually
Everyone I love around me dies
Never-ending devastation
Broken is my pride
The cruelty of loss becomes a vice
So I run away from the collapse of paradise
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What have we learned
From years of suffering?
That convenience trumps
Doing the right thing
Living in this state
Has been lonely to the core
We wish for fate
To wash up on shore
Cries of fear in the dark
Drenched in cold sweat
It feels like nothing going nowhere
The void pulls us out with the tide
Holding onto the shipwreck
We drift closer towards divide
Flooded
Under the endless reign
Flooded
Beneath it all
We're just slaves to this endless reign
Consolation is just a tap away
Flooded by the rising tide
Drifting closer towards divide
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11. |
Winter Comes
04:08
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Winter comes
But will it last
Seeking warmth in catacombs
I lay to rest the past
Don't pray for me
Raised gates
Empty moat
These cold hands
Grip frozen rope
Beckoned to fight
An unmasked foe
Take up blade and mail
Reap sorrow
When winter comes it comes for me
Sheltered alone in misery
When winter comes it comes for me
Either night will absorb
Or absolve my soul
Whispered spells
Forgotten script
Thrown from mount
Bite the whip
Heat of torch forsaken
Warmth of blood awakens
When winter comes it comes for me
Silent frost
When winter come it never stays
Petrified thought
Winter comes
But will it last
Seeking warmth in catacombs
We lay to rest the past
Winter never returned
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