1. |
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01:14
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2. |
Horizon
03:47
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Board up the windows and deadbolt the doors
Shut off the lights, no one lives here anymore
Let all the cold start to eat through the floor
Leave all the signs of a life that was here before
Write out your will and confess all your sins
Receive the body, the blood, and the bitterness
Now say goodbye to your family and friends
Let out your last breath, now the real pain begins
Take a spade to soil, give the ashes to the tide
Our annihilation, justified
Only guilt will grow here, vicious veins of sand and stone
No forgiveness, no such thing as home
From crowns to cathedral spires
Couldn’t bind the light, so we condemn the sight of sky
No moment of mercy, no love left alive
No right, no reason to survive
You drown your daughters and strangle your sons
Hand down the sentence, content with what you’ve done
We threaten sanctions but they never come
The cost of atrocity just wasn’t high enough
So save your sermons, I’m sick to death
Of hearing hatred is back, like it ever left
They wait for shame while you flaunt empty chests
I’m here to make sure you suffer just like the rest
(No rest) ‘til fear and guilt infest your head
The fire has fled
My faith is spent
Regret is all that’s left
From crowns to cathedral spires
Couldn’t bind the light, so we condemn the sight of sky
No moment of mercy, no good left alive
No reason, no right to survive
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3. |
Spare Me
03:23
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Spare me your sanctity
You’re breaking spirits on bended knee
So disgusting, don’t speak
Spare me your dignity
You turn the wheels of tragedy
Blessed and burdened, work sets you free
And you still believe
Self-immolate and spray the gasoline
So you’re dead to me
No space to save a serpent from its teeth
I salt the house you leave
You thirst for subjugation,
lust for lashes at your back
Fake faith, perverted virtue,
dead conviction, let it all burn
‘Cause I bow to no one
No fealty for your coward king
I don’t suffer your soul submission
Honor erased, but you wear it’s face
as you stake your claim
upon the corpse of empathy
Doctrine of deception
You play the victim
And falsify your fears as facts
Redact the rape and the camps and the slaughter
‘Cause all that blood makes you feel bad
(You can’t) whitewash it from your hands
The open mouth is always hungry
And soon enough he’ll get to you
Long as you stay high while your life runs dry
He’s just playing with his food
Seeking asylum
You’ll find the gates are locked
No absolution
Concede and count the cost
Enchanted by impostors
Trade valor for a leash
Singing “better them than me”
No absolution
No truce, no amnesty
No common ground we can walk on, so spare me and leave
You stand for nothing, you fell for everything
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4. |
Strychnine
04:07
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Force myself awake
Buried in broken glass and drowned in empty space
I shut my eyes as I decay
Expose my ghost to desecrate
Remain passive in this pain that keeps me conscious
I will pass to you this poison in my veins
and drive your cells to separate
Pallbearer, are you the same as me?
Cages without a key, within each others reach
Pallbearer, bury the blame with me
Anesthetize and abandon ‘til I can’t feel anything
Plagued by penitent pathology
Sew shut the space between the world and me
Divine prescription, sanctioned addiction to disease
When did symptoms first present?
Use as directed, please report all side effects
Why do I break with every step
I tear at my flesh until there’s nothing left
Foundation flayed by the shards, we’re crucified to the cause
Too much despair to defeat, keep it away from me
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5. |
Half Life
03:30
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Dark is the path, light is fading away
Dark is the world we won’t suffer to save
Meet me at the edge of oblivion
Where we can stare into the sun until we starve to death
Don’t even want to begin again; just let it end
Pray something good will grow in our absence
Decay through the earth and rain
And blacken every breath
Swallow continents, and the consequence
Is an ocean inside my chest
Twist the knife, and blame us all for bleeding
Defile without regret
And from our beds we watch deserters come
Pull the plug and take what’s left
So keep your head down and hold your breath
Just do your part and rehearse your death
At last, the combine’s coming
Are we alive with bound hearts and blinded eyes
Standing aside, just watching the whole world die
Compliance
No, I can’t stand turning my back again
No more running
Time is lost in my sleep
Placing it's hands around me
This friction is burning
Why can't you all just learn to see
They keep us tucked away
and I fear I've lost my way
This is not why I was made
‘Cause our guilt is a grave we can’t escape
And now it’s too late
Demise decades in the making
Our last chance is fading
Refuse to die as a captive nation
The cult of cultivation carries the blame
There will be no shelter
Dragged from your throne, you will taste disaster
Cut out the cancer
Profit from pain
Pillage and prosper the same
Now nothing remains
Our last breath is spent with our boot to your throat
And you will hang from the same rope
Dark is the path, light is fading away
Dark is the world we won’t suffer to save
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6. |
Mend
04:38
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My heavy steps took me far away
A distant dream that I can’t wake up from
Eyes on the ground, may it keep me safe
What did you expect here
Can’t take the empty place where my feelings fell
Or that the blood that’s in my veins came from someone else
Yeah, I offer up my heart, not a hand to help
I’m too afraid to take the pain or the prison cell
I can’t face myself
Only cages and concrete
Only one revolt away
Just a thread that binds me here
A life to mourn what I won’t mend
Scattering my silence into the wind
Lost myself but now I’m found
So I will pick you back up so I can say “it was
Me that let you down”
We know the dark never goes away
But to shine the light like a lighthouse in the rain
I swear to stay
with you against crashing waves
In every story’s pledge
The brave are blessed and welcomed in
But in the fight we bear the cross
Until the nails find our skin
So find strength and sanctuary
Solid earth and steady gaze
A barricade woven of broken hearts
Killing guilt to forge our grace
Is my conviction fading in the distance,
Promise to earn this, so honor never leaves my sight
Is my conviction fading in the distance
Promise to earn a tomorrow that will be alright
My heavy steps took me far away
But it’s a dream I can still wake up from
Eyes on the sky, may it keep me brave
Standing ground, I can still save someone
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7. |
DNR
03:34
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Watching the clock counting down ‘til it’s doomsday
Drown in the mess if the stress doesn’t kill me
Giving up in the grasp of the routine
Lying awake in a cemetery city
No better days to believe in
Only the cracks of a structure that’s flailing
No mind or heart, just a fist always swinging
Fall on the sword, leave the body bleeding out
I don’t know what's worse
The thought that the world will die
Or that we’ll survive, destroy and repeat ‘til the end of time
“But it’s not so bad
‘Cause we’re still fine and hey, at least we’ll be last”
If that contempt is the common thread
Then that’s it, we’re better off dead
What does heaven look like
‘Cause I really need to know
What I’ll be missing buried down below
Burn out, burn out
We had it all and now all that’s left is the comedown
Forsaken, we shake at the sound
Burn out burn out
Shut it down, ‘cause our perfect plans were a letdown
So where is your faith in the fallout?
Open eyes, but there is no horizon
Allow the black hearts to thrive on sorrow and suffering
If there’s a god he’d better pray he never meets me
No consequences and I’ve had enough
If the clock runs out, promise you won’t wake me up
No meaning, just misery
Smashed against the rocks
Then dragged back out to sea
No bitter ending, just a cycle that repeats
Swear you won’t come back for me
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8. |
Quiet Pills
02:52
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To question why civilians walk the streets armed to the teeth
It’s blasphemy if I perceive the hand that doesn’t feed
Parkland, Sandy Hook, Las Vegas, and all the deaths between
But you still chew red white and blue to keep your conscience clean
Save your guns
Kill americans
Save your guns
Kill americans
Each bloodshed brings a new excuse
Reject, forget, and accuse
Then one day the barrel points at you
Thirty three, you only see the ones that you can wield
The rest you blame or bargain with while you caress your steel
You cry for independence while you kiss the fascist’s feet
Our children die, you blind the eye, “at least it isn’t me”
You tread on their corpses to license your lust
Loathsome and callous, so keep your mouth shut
You’re not some hero, you’re no patriot
Your masters make targets of everyone
Trade common sense for coffins
The slaughter you can stand
It’s all part of the plan
Betray a broken land
The blood is on your hands
True freedom you don’t have
Tyranny is here, watch you all bow down
Stack the bodies up on your hallowed ground
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9. |
Trespass
04:41
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The tired and the poor
Who flee the teeming shores
We leave them stranded
Lost in our tempest
Turn cities to jails, call it tolerance
Execute youth, call it self defense
And all that’s done to our own citizens
Scared and enraged by the different
It never ends
Devise a crime of soul and skin
And paint ourselves as preeminent
The Dream could break, so we all pretend
It never ends
Built on what we break
A war without a name
Trespass and take
Then wave it all away
Begging to breathe,
Searching for safety
While we say,
Our debt is paid
“You should be grateful for this”
Eat crumbs on the table
Or get shown to the door
We leave, our past kills us
we stay and fight your wars
Can’t stay above without those below
Crushed by the weight we refuse to hold
Fire from our tongues while or blood is cold
Carry the cross for our spoiled soul
Stolen hope
No redemption in our regress
Contort, constrict the body
Steal the right to just exist
Streets flood with the needy
We put them there
to dream of a world that
We know we can be
Never lose yourself in the bliss of a broken dream
(We’re never free)
Never lose yourself in american agony
(We’re never free)
Slaves to things we never say
A cycle of submission
Of chains with no escape
Trespass and take
But solace never stays
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10. |
Swine
03:56
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Build your walls, build your prisons
Build your profits, build your fame
You're cowards, in power for now
Everything burns the same
Don't pretend you even see human beings
We're just blood you can spill and property you can seize
Get us hooked on hating everyone so we never see
You're all bleeding us dry 'til you own everything
Just a violent disease
Suffering, sick and dying
No cure, no hope of remission
This endless affliction's a pre-existing condition
The cycle starts again
Yeah, you've earned your family name
And there's no price that we can't pay
No sacrifice we can't be forced to make
It's all a game
Starving to death in the states
Praying that maybe one day
You'll keep the promise you made
And it'll all be okay
But the plan is to wait
To bend us all 'til we break
Let things get worse and worse
We've got no choice anyway
Weighed down, epitaphs carved into our backs
Cast it off, turn around, we're not dead yet
One by one, putting fractures in the floodgates
We stand for truth, you're just standing in your own grave
Another disaster
More pain for the slaves at the hands of the master
The cycle starts again
Yeah, you've earned your family name
And there's no price that we can't pay
No sacrifice we can't be forced to make
But you can't take our will to live
We don't forget, we don't forgive
Your walls will crumble in the end
It only takes one match to send it up in flames
Nothing but swine who steal and shift the blame
For the plague; the nightmare that you create
Suffocate
Watch you all suffocate
Now watch as we walk away
We'll take the air that you breathe
Watch you all suffocate
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11. |
Toska
06:11
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Scar tissue replaced the place that raised me
The fall left a fog that covered everything
Wish I could let go, ‘cause I can’t stop the bleeding
Sometimes I wish what made me stronger would just kill me
I haunt the world, so I can feel alive
And wander into endless night
No end in sight, I’m lost inside
Break me down, and bring me back to face another fight
A stranger cast across a thousand lifetimes
But I’ll never make it right
Break me down
Weighed down to the ocean floor
Seeing the sun through the surface
But I can’t remember the warmth anymore
Take a spade to soil
Give the ashes to the tide,
Our annihilation justified
Only guilt will grow here
Vicious veins of sand and stone
No forgiveness, no such thing as home
From crowns to cathedral spires
Couldn’t bind the light so we condemn the sight of sky
No moment of mercy, no love left alive
No right, no reason to survive
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