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The Curse That Is
11:14
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We aren't chosen, we are born
Get off your knees, take what is yours
An inheritance / Cast away
Genesis of original sin
Darkness masks / Innocence
The plague expands / Transforms my mind
Visions of hope / Vanquished to nothing
Living life / Do nothing more
Breath the air shoved in my lungs
Force fed gift / Feeding this life
A parasite / Made to consume
Giving life / Feed the disease
The licking of wounds / Cleanses nothing
The rotting of flesh / Decomposition
Eat of my body / Drink of my blood
Take from my soul / Blacken my heart
Raise all your glasses, we're doomed from the start
Remnants forgotten / Seed of misery
Consumed and defiled / Unsung legacy
Exiting life...
Existence tarnished our souls
One last sip to quench the thirst
A piece of silver under the tongue
Offering up the breaking of bread
Extinction is here, bring out the dead
Eat of my body, drink of my blood
Take from my soul, blacken my heart
Raise all your glasses, we're doomed from the start
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Dead Eyes
11:08
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Tempest
07:02
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Slaves / Work inside
Catacombs / Filled by the masses
Static forms / Shapes of their lives
Analysis / Of every word
Surveillance / Pollutes the lines
Drones / Gather to serve
Dead / Like the eyes of a herd
March single file
Lines called providing orders
Lie down to receive your mark
Embrace the weight stored on your thorax
March single file
Visions / The eye sees everything
Shelter / The glass is glistening
Prisons / Encampments barred inside...
The walls
Repeat / Experiments designed...
To amuse those outside
Catalogued and classified
Sort to profile....
Objectives compromised
Motives have changed
Birth
Inside this prison
Condemned to this (fate)
Fates the creation / Of existence
Control the demise / Drones wear our faces
Embrace the weight stored on our shoulders
Eyes glossed over lifeless and void
Integration / With no hopes of communion
Dismal Statistics / Line the charts of technicians
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Anathema / Exodus of fate
Salvation / From demise
Expelling / The virus
Touched by the hands of death...
Dispensed / And rejected
Returned / Reclaimed by the hands of death...
Redemption / Embrace the gift of life
Painted eyes / A watchful vigil
Sickness Subsides / Accepted / She pulls tight...
Neglect / Body withers
Closed eyes / Abandoned / She pushes away...
Prisoners / Such lonely days
A blazing sun / Desert winds
Barron land / Burns our feet
Losing hope / The time has come
Melancholy / Weeping eyes
A gentle soul / Such graceful stride
Overflowing / Fountain heads
Mountain view / The city of dead
Walking through / Times of pain
Compassionate / My only solace
Vascular walls / Breaking down
Once great / Now fall
With passing time...
Days grow thin / I turn my back
Become like her / Infused neglect
Beneath the surface / Refuse to see
A tumor grows / Cancerous relation
With passing time...
Alone
Engulfed / In darkness
Captivity
New tide / Rolls in
Released / To the ocean
New day / Dawning
Second chance / Falls from our grasp
Dotted cells / Form her eyes
Accepting / Calm ascent
See her life / Slip away
Empty shell / Meaning conflagrant
Passing / Decade / Extinguished
Ashes / Make her / Beautiful
White / Vessel / Memory
Ashes / Make her / Beautiful
Detached / Mental / Anguish
Ashes / Make her / Beautiful
Growing / Regret / Manifests
Ashes make her beautiful...
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5. |
This Mental Sentence
05:00
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Blue dots to keep calm / Flat-lined and compressed
Prescriptions open / The gates to my prison
Insert the IV / To be fed the cure
Upping the dosage / Increase the fear
My life is a mess but my mind is pure
My pulse is monitored / To the sounds of machines
Existence has become / A monotonous routine
Symptoms to alleviate / Placebos to control
The desired effect / The senses become dull
To deviate from the plan / Is never encouraged
Expressed concern / An expected side effect
Awaken from nightmares / To be force fed dreams
Swallow the capsule / To satiate the hate
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The Waco 177
09:22
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Smell of burning rubber / Makes me feel alive
Drinks in the air / Wheels to the sky
Peripheral eclipse / The world disappears
The churning of fuel / Embrace the nothing...
The road beckons / Keep the rubber side down
The pain of the day / Sustains the drive to ride
Reject expectations / Walk the left hand path
Initiate selection / The chosen arise
Reclusive instincts / Withdrawn from humanity
The highway's my drug / It flows through my veins
A world examined / Through a child’s eyes
Dying for the thrill / Living to die
Emancipation / Of body and soul
Push of the moment / Increase the speed
A call to days past / Expand the tribe
Substance consumption / Fuels the stampede
Stranded and hopeless / Instilled despair
Exile of the mind / Rethink, improve, proceed
Freedom on two tires / The thrill consumes
The rush of adrenaline / Thundering forward
Waco 177 / Shots ring out and bodies fall
Waco 177 / A massacre under Texas law
Nine dead and 177 / Being held on a RICO charge.
Five men released by dawn
Suspicions raised / Something went wrong
In a hail of bullets / Confusion misplaced blame
First shots came from a CI / Trading black for blue
Betraying brothers / For a little green
177 will remember the day / When liberty was stripped away
Profiled and categorized...
This is what happens when you live the life
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Luna Lupus Venator
02:53
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8. |
Minimum Slave
14:19
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Conscious / A slave to the clock
Bar codes / Lock down the machine
Finger prints stripped / And left at the door
Devour the fruit / And discard the core
Begging for scraps / And learn how to sit
Who demands for it anyway?
Programmed / Return to the hive
The only exit’s when you’re eaten alive
Don't forget at the end of the day
You're not cared for anyway
Broken hopes / A sign of success
Metal walls designed to suppress
Graft the soul to the hand that feeds
Calloused skin / A sign of production
Collective purpose / Expanding the cell
Metal walls / Encasing this hell
The scent / Of fumes / Sickens me
Shackled ankles never to be free
White lights / Replace / The sky
Uniformed and waiting to die
Oppressed / Breathing despair
Suffocate / Deficient of truth
Pressure / Those who keep busy
Emaciate / Positions down low
Tendered / Just enough to survive
Taxing / On body and mind
Failure / To keep up the pace
Promises to repair the failing body
Expendable / Discard and replace
Abandoned / In a useless state
Decimation / In its wake
Gears turn / Lumbering forward
Alive / While in a grave
Salt / The earth / Oil the machine
Castrate / For display / Save the best cuts for last
Conserve / The breath / Stay alive
Morals / Tarnished / The ladder points up
The weights / Too strong / Gravity pulls down
Wings clipped / Eyes shut / Purgatory
Awake / In regret / Beg for release
A noose / Is the gate / Leading out
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Graves At Sea Portland, Oregon
After releasing a series of highly regarded demos and splits in the underground, the cult sludge/doom quartet GRAVES AT SEA has re-emerged, having recently cut their teeth performing on mainstages at Maryland Deathfest, Roadburn and numerous other festivals. ... more
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