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Scape
02:35
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2. |
Repugnant
04:50
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Lyrics:
Let me tell you what I find sickening
Our self imprisonment seems to be quickening
We are the wardens
We are the inmates
Of our gilded cage
Alone
Our voices lost on the poison wind of this dying age
We are the wardens of our gilded cage
We vote ourselves into shackles
As if we had a choice
Our dignity: what a fucking joke
If it ever did live, it died with JFK
We are one and the same
Alone
And yet together
United under the weight of what it means to be “I”
The number 8 tipped on her shoulder
Chewing a tail of starry night sky
The more we learn
The more we cry
Or wish we could
Look death straight in the eye
The more we learn
It’s tragic happiness in life comes from ignorance
The more we cry
Or wish we could
Straight in the eye
Let’s be honest: our feelings wane by the day
Sapped by the screens
Sapped by the screens we cradle
Rotting culture brain-soup ladle
The pursuit of modern conveniences
Objects we hold so dear
Drain us day by day
The years passing us by
Never seeing what’s right in front of us
We can never quite grasp the concept
Numbing our pain with magic potions
Anything not to feel
Anything not to feel…
This way
We vote ourselves into shackles
As if we had a choice
Our dignity: what a fucking joke
If it ever did live, it died with JFK
We are one and the same
(Alone)
Repugnant seeds from the strategist
Cease all the feats of consequence
Sick from self-sabotage
We are wardens of gilded prisms
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3. |
Arbiter Of Taste
06:36
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Lyrics:
Here we are again
It’s been far too long
I know you wanna heal everyone
The scourge of addiction has taken from me a brother and friend
And left on my tongue the taste of the bitter end
Him and I: one and the same
But his scars run longer and deep
Now I see your ghost
Animating your bones
Now I see whats left
As you dissolve on your throne
The arbiter of taste
(Oh the arbiter of taste)
Choose carefully
We're all mad here
Alone with our weakness
We sit in the dark
And obsess over visions
Irony
I can see them where they dance upon the hill
Why don’t you follow them
Cremate your cares away
Sprinkle the ashes upon the script
Pitiful, incomprehensible, demoralization
A mind devoid of stimulation
Pinnacle of the lowest point
The ones who care: I disappoint
And you'll be pleased to find out
The world is run by snakes like you
Why don't you join them now?
Now I see your ghost
Animating your bones
Now I see whats left
As you dissolve on your throne
She said to me again: oh well
Oh well
Waste away another day
Since I found you out
Just say what you were gonna say
Here we are again
Drowning in all
Sometimes I just wanna turn the feelings off
Oh well
Waste away another day
Since I found you
Just say what you were gonna say
Yet I feel just fine
Yet I feel that’s a lie
I can see them where they dance upon the hill
I’m hollow now — An empty shell
I feel the rot in every cell
So say what you're gonna say
Waste away another day
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Glowjaw
04:36
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Lyrics:
I can see light
Upon the eastern ridge
Casting shadows further
Drown the flames and leave no trace
I can hear cries
Upon the eastern wind
The sound of distant sorrow
Compels me to move on
Unsure of the path laid before me
Tread lightly through ashen trees
Careful not to wake the sleeping beasts
Anything could well befall of me
So far from home
And to think it all could fall away
Leaves me feeling frightened and alone
So I try
We gotta find another way out
Feed the jungle brain
So I try
Collapse under the blackout
Seed the other plane
So far from home
Drowning in this cold glow
Alone
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5. |
Hastor the Shepard Gaunt
05:03
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Lyrics:
Welcome, child!
To the gala of everlasting indulgence
I am the penchant chief
“Kosmn Bhahtaq"
Address me by my name
Come now!
Satiate your carnal appetites
More then enough to go around
Won’t you partake in the festivities?
Accept this liquid offering
Psychotropic secretions of the gods
Behold the glory of Hccula
We revel in her honor
I grasp the sacred chalice
Toast to the divine
In the wake of the fallen realm
Where the spirits lie
Why don't you come on home?
With a mere curiosity
I beckon light
Why don’t you come on home?
It’s the stuff of nightmares
And I try not to think about it
I've had enough
I don’t even care anymore
I just want it to stop
Rise
Call the Shepard
Rise
Cull the herd
Rise
Call the Shepard
Rise
Cull the herd
It’s the stuff of nightmares
And I try not to think about it
I've had enough
I don’t even care anymore
I just want it to stop
You think that this is all just circumstance
I’ll have you know that this is intentional
The herdsman bellowed incantations
Sucked us sunken in his slate
Gloomy shade brains
Wet with crimson rain
With vacant starless eyes
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6. |
Vesica Piscis
06:05
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Lyrics:
Two hubs for gloam
It’s the stuff of nightmares
And I try not to think about it
I've had enough
I don’t even care anymore
I just want it to stop
And to think it all could fall away
I know
I know (x2)
I can see light
Upon the eastern ridge
Casting shadows further
Drown the flames and leave no trace
Now I’m sure of the path laid before me
Tread lightly through ashen trees
Careful not to wake the sleeping beasts
So I try
We gotta find another way out
Feed the jungle brain
So I try
Collapse under the blackout
Seed the other plane
So far from home
Drowning in this cold glow
Alone
Mirror images on an axis
Bilateral symmetry
I will do to him as he would have done to me
Watch him decompose and then drain him of his energy (x2)
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7. |
Heavy Rhetoric
03:49
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Lyrics:
You can talk your way out of everything
And convince people of anything
But over time your words loose meaning
Empty promises and false assurance
The subtle art of persuasion
Bask in the glory of your standing ovation
And overtime your hairline receding
Hollow gestures and secret agendas
The subtle art of persuasion
Bask in the glory of your standing ovation
Stop running
Stop hiding behind your heavy rhetoric
Take responsibility for what you say
Stop running
Stop hiding behind your heavy rhetoric
How long can you keep running away?
Constantly learning new ways to pacify the populace
The new representative of this ill-fated metropolis
You think us mere plebeians
Armed with vicious terminology
You catch the world off guard
Stop running
Stop hiding behind your heavy rhetoric.
Take responsibility for what you say
Stop running
Stop hiding behind your heavy rhetoric
How long can you keep running away?
You catch the world off guard
And take that which is so damn sacred
Petrifying the masses
This insidious sermon delivered
Orchestrating pandemonium
You appease us with these bullshit statistics
Waging war with a microphone
Calculated chaos
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8. |
物の哀れ
06:49
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Lyrics:
Treading open water
In a sea of selective memory
The days wash over like a tide
Pulled by her majesty — The moon
Your joy will spring forth
Like a flower from the rot
But never exactly from where you thought
I will not fear what is to come
Let sorrow bring another day
I know I'm not the only one
Let tomorrow bring what it may
How do we make it through?
This maze of insecurity
What’s your capacity to feel?
To roam the roots of the great tree
Your joy will spring forth
When times get bleak
And your vessel of fabric and silk springs a leak
I will not fear what is to come
Let sorrow bring another day
I know I'm not the only one
Let tomorrow bring what it may (x2)
Glorious decay
I’ll fall away
Giving way to the new
You’ll fall away
Glorious decay
I’ll fall away
Giving way to the new
Unforgiving detachment
We fall away
Giving way to new
You’ll fall away
Giving way to new
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9. |
Misuse And Malignment
03:34
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Lyrics:
Welcome to the empire of self validation
Parasitic
Narcissistic
A constant stream of misinformation
Content with our sedentary lifestyle
Overloaded and bloated
Witness the death of creativity
Bleed it dry
Digital prostitution
Squandering what little time we have left
What a waste…
Look to the future
Look to the past
Compare to that of others
And you'll be free at last
Look at me: high and mighty
I have 1,000 friends
Alone in my room
I can follow all the trends
A false sense of connection
Privacy is dead
I can’t distinguish humanity from fantasy
So I use today's tragedies
To show everyone I care
Why do I crave this abuse?
Who am I to have my way?
Why do I crave this misuse?
Who am I to have a say?
I'll fight Ebola
I'll fight terrorism
I'll stand in solidarity
As long as I don't have to get up
Cuz I have binge watching to do
And virtual love to make
That's about all I do these days
A constant stream of misinformation
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10. |
Fix
06:26
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Lyrics:
Five paces back from where I came
Five paces forward just the same
I try so hard to grasp and clutch
Once melted frozen to the touch
These hands have done terrible things
And these eyes have seen far too much
Your hands have done terrible things
And your eyes have seen far too much
All common sense had been exchanged
Friends ask me why I’m acting strange
Cause the fix is in
And it builds…
And it builds…
I can see all the cracks and they mean nothing to me
Springing a leak
These hands have done terrible things
And these eyes have seen far too much
Your hands have done terrible things
And your eyes have seen far too much
The bullshit that we say
The lies that we have spun
The people that we play
The harm that we have done (x3)
The love that we lease until there is none
And the harm that we have done
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