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1. |
Untethered
04:05
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Untethered, bound by blood to the cause
No force alive can fight against the odds
Do you think for yourself
Do you think it will all work out
Try it out for yourself
Find out the meaning of loss
Lost in the sea of dreams
Unchain this heart
Open these eyes
Let me go
I finally realise I have gone away
We are not looking back
To the chaos and ruin of our dreams
This is our only plan
To divide us from our earthly cause
Unchain this heart
Open these eyes
Let me go
Do you feel the redemption
The guilt lifting off your back
This is not what it seems
Reality tears at the seams
I have heard thus never a sacred curse
That's fallen into hands, of those who plan to never do us harm
Resisting everything you fail to see
Resisting everything but never direct the steam
Falling into heaven
Falling in the sea of dreams
Falling into heaven
Nothing is what it truly seems
Sever all your limbs and taste the air, the freedom of body loss
Unchain this heart
Open these eyes
Let me go
I finally realise I have gone away
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2. |
Our Way Is the Right Way
03:43
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Our eyes lie to our very faces
Look around you and see the distress
Pick up the pieces and never replace
Never replace all the memories in this place
Leave your shell if it hurts you so much
You are a hypocrite, be labelled as such
Hear my voice, hear me now
We are light, we are dark, we are useless
Step back from the ground
This porcelain cracks and falls
Enlighten them with the sound
The sound of redemption
Pick up the pieces and never replace
Never replace all the memories in this place
Leave your shell if it hurts you so much
You are a hypocrite, be labelled as such
Our spirits fall within every hour
Look around you and see the distress
Seeing red through a glass of deception
Put the gun to your head and pull the fucking trigger
As life stops, all meaning fades away
Think about the people whose lives you fucked up today
I know we've all made mistakes
But a little regret is all it takes
I want to see what it takes to be free
Does it really matter what I choose to see
I want to see what it takes to be free
Does it really matter who the fuck I want to be
Our eyes lie to our very faces
Look around you and see the distress
Step back from the ground
This porcelain cracks and falls
Enlighten them with the sound
The sound of redemption
Pick up the pieces and never replace
Never replace all the memories in this place
Leave your shell if it hurts you so much
You are a hypocrite, be labelled as such
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3. |
False Words
05:46
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You made the effort
You made the cause
Life's not easy when you're screaming at the odds
Always be nothing
Is that your vital plan
Talking like you know but
Not knowing where it began
I told you the last time
If you're so dissatisfied
Get the fuck up
I have seen the demon in your eyes
Staring back at me (Staring back at me)
Will I ever forgive your lies
Just fucking wait and see (Just fucking wait and see)
It pains me to tell you I'm wrong
But it couldn't be further from the truth
Your false words stick to this dissolution
Indulging in a debauched life
Fulfilled by our broken cries
You made the effort
You made the cause
Life's not easy when you're screaming at the odds
These ways won't help our broken cause
Held down by the weight of the world
Forget the assimilation
Everything dies, everything is alright
Don't lie to our grieving faces
We've all been in those very places
I told you
Get the fuck up
Your false words stick to this dissolution
Indulging in a debauched life
Fulfilled by our broken cries
I just want to believe
We were more than just nothing
I just want to believe
These things I've done were not in vain
Always be nothing
Is that your vital plan
You made the effort
You made the cause
Life's not easy when you're screaming at the odds
Searching through the rough
Have we had enough
Of the words to be said
And all of the dread
Do you really think
We're better off dead
Your false words stick to this dissolution
Indulging in a debauched life
Fulfilled by our broken cries
Searching through the rough
Have we had enough
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4. |
What Comes after Me
03:31
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What comes after me
I have never seen the look in your eyes
When you die
The leveler, it comes in your dreams
When you die
All these years and all this time spent waiting
Waiting for somebody to save me from nothing
Let me live my life
Let me slip into the void, like the rest of us
Sparrows swarm the aftermath and everything goes black
Fighting for a futile cause with everything I lack
What comes after me
After all is said and done
Will I still be the same I once was
Let me reflect for the last time
Pour this water over my eyes
Let me see in darkness
Lest I be led astray
We're slipping into the end
Not a thing bothers us about that
What comes after me
I have never seen the look in your eyes
When you die
The leveler, it comes in your dreams
When you die
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5. |
The Rain Has Stopped
04:00
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The rain has stopped, and the worries drain away
Forget about today, just live for tomorrow
This is not the meaning of failure
This is my dream and I'm leading the scene
I am not a needle in the stack
We are one in equilibrium
This is the reason I crossed everything
Rinsed all my value and erased my name
None of this was in my control
I am not the one to blame
Hold back the anger, don't let it win
Everything you worked for is gone if you give in
The meaning of life
Don't stop keep the fire alive
The rain has stopped, and the worries drain away
Forget about today, just live for tomorrow
I've been searching endless for the answers in the night
Why am I so cold and heartless just because I'm right
These ties have broken us away
Shackled by the heartbreaks and mistakes we've made today
The rain washes us away, the dawn of a new day
The rain washes us away, but there's always a price to pay
Just keep letting it all unfold
Wait until the stress puts you in a fucking chokehold
I know it hurts to see it all
But you can't keep letting yourself fall (down)
The rain has stopped, and the worries drain away
Forget about today, just live for tomorrow
This is not the meaning of failure
This is my dream and I'm leading the scene
I am not a needle in the stack
We are one in equilibrium
This is the reason I crossed everything
Rinsed all my value and erased my name
None of this was in my control
I am not the one to blame
The meaning of life
Don't stop keep the fire alive
Goddamn it all
Just keep letting it all unfold
Wait until the stress puts you in a fucking chokehold
I know it hurts to see it all
But you can't keep letting yourself fall (down)
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6. |
Relentless
04:23
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We have a right, to fight for our lives
And everything we stand for
Never give in to the ones who
Never believed in you
Relentless is our glory
Unending is our pain
If this was somebody else's story
Would you still feel the same
We stay on the right path, never defeated
Never relenting, never conceding
How those bastards sing their praise
Until the time comes, they'll relinquish those days
Save it for the people
You are a machine taking everything you need
Breeding endlessly, cursing life relentlessly
We are the bastard sons of a fractured mind
Fracturing our hearts and souls just to stay in line
I don't know if you know the meaning of "we"
Surely it's better to live not as a "me"
We have a right, to fight for our lives
And everything we stand for
Never give in to the ones who
Never believed in you
We stay on the right path, never conceding
Relentless is our glory
Unending is our pain
If this was somebody else's story
Would you still feel the same
Enticing, what I see
A newly ruined dream
Alluring, the idea
Intrigued by a sense of failure
It is not right
We've got to save ourselves
By believing in ourselves
Have some faith you fucking coward
How those bastards sing their praise
Until the time comes, they'll relinquish those days
I don't know if you know the meaning of "we"
Surely it's better to live not as a "me"
Relentless our pain
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7. |
Dead Eyes
05:35
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Spit from a warlord's mouth
I will decide, I will decide
Tell all the dead-eyed scum
I wield the sign, I wield the sign
Feast your eyes on the new design
Blank minds and empty stares
Bloodshot eyes, blank his mind
God's saviour, god's new prophet
Coalesce with greed
Savage is our need
To control and deceive
To lie and still believe
We'll all be saved
All on the left, all on the right
You will all burn in hell
You're no different than the ones you hate
Desperately grasping at the straws of fate
You want to save the world
You want to save the earth
Then die
The anger boils within
Hate courses through my veins
As I take the reins of a new day
And curse all of you
I won't be afraid
To live my life
The sun goes down
And all these lost dreams
Fade into oblivion
Your mother died (It's not fair)
Your father died (It's not fair)
Why do you still grasp at the straws of fate
Coalesce with greed
Savage is our need
To control and deceive
To lie and still believe
We'll all be saved
Feast your eyes on the new design
Blank minds and empty stares
Bloodshot eyes, blank his mind
God's saviour, god's new prophet
All on the left, all on the right
You will all burn in hell
You're no different than the ones you hate
Desperately grasping at the straws of fate
You want to save the world
You want to save the earth
Then die
The sun goes down
And all these lost dreams
Fade into oblivion
The rising tide
Washes us away
We've yet to see another day
Spit from a warlord's mouth
I will decide, I will decide
Tell all the dead-eyed scum
I wield the sign, I wield the sign
Raise the black flag
What god would say
Fuck man for having doubts
Light the flame, fucking shout
Let it out, let it out
Life isn't fair
Nobody will be there
But that's alright
Life is pain without the fight
I won't be afraid
To live my life
The anger boils within
Hate courses through my veins
As I take the reins of a new day
And curse all of you
The sun goes down
And all these lost dreams
Fade into oblivion
The rising tide
Washes us away
We've yet to see another day
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8. |
Necroisthmus
01:46
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Go ahead officer, shoot me
Drive that stick through my brain
Put me out of my misery
Everything's in vain
Do you live for nothing
But to feed on another's hate
Go ahead and take my life
Seal me with the same fate
In this land of necropsy
Rotting flesh divine
Vile hogs take their meat
And then they take what's mine
Go ahead officer, shoot me
Drive that stick through my brain
Put me out of my misery
Everything's in vain
Why do you wear that badge of truth
Pretender of the faith
Grinning while you cave their skulls
Defender of the hate
Protect and serve
Protest the verve
Lie to our faces
While you fuck up the earth
Go ahead officer, shoot me
Drive that stick through my brain
Put me out of my misery
Everything's in vain
Do you live for nothing
But to feed on another's hate
Go ahead and take my life
Seal me with the same fate
Shots fired, another body lost
Another body lost in the flames
While he cries out for forgiveness
In this land of necropsy
Rotting flesh divine
Vile hogs take their meat
And then they take what's mine
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9. |
This Memory Falls
02:10
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There was a time I looked up to you
Those were the times I overestimated all I could do
I had a hunch it was all in my head
Not caring if I woke alive or dead
Forget the dreams
Everything is worth giving up for, it seems
Well that's what you said
So fucking tell me if that's everything you meant
Our white lies
Seething grace
Who we are
Saving face
Don't tell me it's not over
I've been waiting for so long
This memory falls
Into nothingness
And for the moment I was free from distraction
For the time, I could let it all fall away
And for the moment I was free from myself
But I knew it wasn't my own fault
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10. |
Passageways
06:49
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Losing sight of what's come to pass
In this lifetime, nothing will last
Don't give up your only hope
Pull yourself up by the rope
I know it hurts
I know
You want to live but you can't let go
This is the present, you got the world to show
Resist everyone saying you can't find your way
One day you'll make them see, one of these days
I know it fucking hurts
The past is in the past, you'll get what you deserve
With a broken heart in your hands, and with a mended soul
Regain it all, become whole
Collapse into a new form
A new title reborn
A new face to be seen
One that's always as it seems
It follows the clandestine
Caged within a body not mine
Enter the light so pure and so bright
What follows after is none
God what is happening, I've not done this to myself
My body's separated from my mind I'm going under
I've no regrets, none as of yet
Don't try to lie to me, I'll never forget
I've found my passageways
You've kept them locked up for so long
Was it so necessary
To save me from freedom
You want to live but you can't let go
This is the present, you got the world to show
With a broken heart in your hands, and with a mended soul
Regain it all, become whole
Regain regain regain re-regain regain re-regain regain regain re-regain
Regain it all
Collapse into a new form
Collapse into a form
Become long lost and forlorn
Hold onto integrity, purpose reborn
Our white lies
Seething grace
Who we are
Saving face
Forget the dreams
Everything is worth giving up for, it seems
Well that's what you said
So fucking tell me if that's everything you meant
Don't tell me it's not over
I've been waiting for so long
This memory falls
Into nothingness
And for the moment I was free from distraction
For the time, I could let it all fall away
Collapse into a new form
A new title reborn
A new face to be seen
One that's always as it seems
Taken apart
Left in the sea to rot
God what is happening, I've not done this to myself
My body's separated from my mind I'm going under
I've no regrets, none as of yet
Don't try to lie to me, I'll never forget
I've found my passageways
You've kept them locked up for so long
Was it so necessary
To save me from freedom
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11. |
Deception
04:51
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Another crack in the world
Another hidden fate
Left behind to wither and die
Hearts on our sleeves and eyes to the sky
Deliberation for the cause
In the end you will see what is right
Living for a chance just to fight
In the end they will tear you apart
Ripping your dreams from your heart
Redeem yourself you bastard
Give up all of the deception
The blackened soul
Spitting those words
Does it make you whole
Does it give you worth
Deliberation for the cause
Deception and your lies
Will we cross paths again
Reaching the top of the monument
This tale of our reality
Halts at the end
It halts at the end of life
You shackle yourself to this vitriol
Don't even care, you can fuck it all
Lead yourself over your verbal sick
Denying your wrongs you fucking prick
Deny it all
Another crack in the world
Left behind to wither and die
The blackened soul
Spitting those words
Does it make you whole
Does it give you worth
Deception and your lies
Will we cross paths again
Reaching the top of the monument
This tale of our reality
Halts at the end
Deception and your lies
Will we cross paths again
Reaching the top of the monument
This tale of our reality
Halts at the end
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12. |
Awake
04:38
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These thoughts that bother me
Why does it have to be this way
Infinite beauty in life
Infinite pain
The sun is in the sky
People smile in desolation
Life is fucking beautiful
Awaken the eyes of the people
Let them know if it feels to be alive
We have been searching for so long
For what makes us human
Apparition don't be scared
I'm right here in your arms
Awaken the eyes of the people
Let them know how it feels to be alive
We have been searching for so long
For what makes us human
These thoughts that bother me
Why does it have to be this way
Infinite beauty in life
Infinite pain
Cower, coward
Hide from the truth
Fuck you
Fuck you for making me believe nothing matters
Apparition don't be scared
These thoughts don't bother me
This is the way it's supposed to be
Infinite beauty in life
Infinite pain
The sun is in the sky
People smile in desolation
Life is fucking beautiful
Do you see stars in the sky
Do you know the reason why
Now we are safe
In the right place
Cease the termination
Don't burn this soul
Awaken the eyes of the people
Let them know how it feels to be alive
We have been searching for so long
For what makes us human
Apparition don't be scared
I'm right here in your arms
Absolution in your eyes
We'll stay here forever
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