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Foundations
05:26
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Chaos reigns forever, it runs through our veins.
This fear burns my heart, leaves me in disarray.
Disguised as something normal and what we recognise.
They have betrayed us. We have been left dehumanised.
Shackled to the core. The price of what we can ignore.
Deception, acceptance, crushing dreams of your perception.
So precious, this life, on foundations built from lies.
Disgusted by their actions, too late we can’t go back. This darkness lurking, this darkness growing.
I can feel it, like a wolf amongst the sheep. They have betrayed us. We have been left to do, or die.
Shattered to the core. The price of what we have endured.
Deception, acceptance, crushing dreams of your perception.
So precious, this life, on foundations built from lies. Built from lies.
My soul is burning. Time is escaping.
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Breathe
03:07
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Standing on a tightrope, hanging on for dear life, don’t look down, there's a million other reasons why you feel like you’re falling.
Didn’t have the courage, didn’t have the fight. You’re in too deep kid, open your eyes. You feel like you’re drowning.
It’s all in your head and you know it. I know it, everybody knows it.
Shining a light through the darkness, breathe in the life that defines us.
I want to know, I have to know, what’s going on inside your mind.
It’s easy to forget the past, your future’s bleak and fading fast.
Sick of all the unanswered questions. Now is the time for redemption.
Shining a light through the darkness, breathe in the life that defines us.
Take what you can and be selfless. Shining a light through the darkness.
It’s easy to forget and you’re fading fast. You feel like, feel like you’re drowning.
Shining a light through the darkness, breathe in the life that defines us.
Take what you can and be selfless. Shining a light through the darkness.
Shining a light through the darkness.
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Worship
03:09
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Cold-blooded and forsaken, stripped of humanity. Break out of your confinement, this is your destiny. Show no remorse, shut out the pain, just do your best. Is it ever enough?
Bow down to the riverbed, let the river run red. Bow down to the riverbed, welcome to deliverance.
Behold the tragedy.
Unfaithful deities, lay waste to all that see you as the enemy.
Sever the head of the snake. Leave it to exsanguinate as we rise up, counting the toll, losing the battle we yearned for, take it away, bury your head in the sand.
Bow down to the riverbed, let the river run red. Bow down to the riverbed, welcome to deliverance.
Unfaithful deities lay waste to all that see you as the enemy. We’ve fought hypocrisy, lived in adversity. The end is yours to see, yours to see.
Was it ever enough? Waiting in anticipation for the final curtain call. Are you prepared to lose it all?
Was it ever enough? Was it ever enough? Was it ever enough?
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White Flags
03:26
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Do you possess the strength to stand by or watch your brothers fall side by side?
It makes no sense, tell me it’s worthless. No human life should deserve this. You either get it, or you don’t. Tell yourself it wasn’t your fault.
Too late to see, to hear, to be, to fight, to live, to die, survive, in death, in life, for you, not me, for greed, money, obscene, you hate, you kill, you love, no eye for eye, no right.
White flags are waving in the air. As the bombs keep on dropping the world is in despair. White flags are waving in the air. Take a chance, stop the fighting. The world will need repair.
Let them fall.
Death is here. Don’t be scared. Death is fear. Bow down to ruin.
White flags are waving in the air. As the bombs keep on dropping the world is in despair. White flags are waving in the air. Take a chance, stop the fighting. The world will need repair.
Take down those who oppose and defy your rules.
When will they see that the violence needs to stop before they lose themselves?
White flags are waving in the air. As the bombs keep on dropping the world is in despair. White flags are waving in the air. Take a chance, stop the fighting. The world will need repair.
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Survive
04:29
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Tyrants, forcing me, feeding me into the mouth of Hell,
no shield for life, no common sense, natures defence.
And now the time has come to step over the front line,
to sacrifice it all, in front of those with no spine.
Break me, its fine to loose it all,
kill me, exhaustion wall to wall.
And now the time has come to step over the front line,
To sacrifice it all, in front of those with no spine.
I stand and watch it with my own two eyes,
poor decisions and the fall of man kind,
bodies crammed wall to wall, through it all,
no space to breathe, to move to hide, survive or die.
Shutdown the world, there’s no-one else to blame,
This is our fault, there’s nothing left but shame,
a forecast shadow that’s growing every day,
shut it all down or meet an early grave.
Bow your head in shame.
Too late, now, to change our ways.
And now the time has come to step over the front line,
to sacrifice it all, in front of those with no spine.
I stand and watch it with my own two eyes,
poor decisions and the fall of man kind,
bodies crammed wall to wall, through it all,
no space to breathe, to move to hide, survive or die.
Shutdown the world, there’s no-one else to blame,
This is our fault, there’s nothing left but shame,
a forecast shadow that’s growing every day,
shut it all down or meet an early grave.
Standing on the precipice, darkness starts to fall.
A vial full of dreams, lost and shattered in the fall.
We all dropped our guard in the eye of the storm.
A short glimpse of gold was enough to fool us all.
I stand and watch it with my own two eyes,
poor decisions and the fall of man kind,
bodies crammed wall to wall, through it all,
no space to breathe, to move to hide, survive or die.
Survive or die.
No space to breathe, to move to hide, survive or die.
Survive or die.
No space to breathe, to move to hide, survive or die.
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Dream Catcher
04:26
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I want to know now, do you really know me? I have to see now if you really feel me. I want to live inside your mind for one day. I want you to step inside my mind for one day.
Our hearts are empty so far it seems. We’re chasing demons and not our dreams.
We have to walk on through the night, no breathing. We have to fight to stop ourselves from leaving. We have to hold onto the dream, no seeing. We have to jump into the fire, no feeling.
Our hearts are empty so far it seems. We’re chasing demons and not our dreams.
Walking high through this life but it’s fading away.
I can see it for myself, your love has died.
Our hearts are empty so far it seems.
Our hearts are empty so far it seems we’re chasing demons and not our dreams.
Not our dreams.
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Get What You Give
04:04
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We need an outlet, another way to be heard. We can’t go on like this stewing through the same old filth.
So powerless, so take control. It’s breaking point so let it go.
Can you feel the pressure building up inside?
You can’t escape. You have to overcome your fears and bring the fight.
So powerless, so take control. It’s breaking point so let it go.
Discard. Release. Find your inner peace.
You get what you give, when it’s all been said there’ll be nothing left. Yeah. Make the most of your damnation. You get what you give, when it’s been said there’ll be nothing left. Yeah. Lay in the mess that you’ve created.
Make amends for this recklessness, that you have fabricated from the start, make amends for this reckless behaviour, guiding us towards being torn apart.
You get what you give, when it’s all been said there’ll be nothing left. Yeah. Make the most of your damnation. You get what you give, when it’s been said there’ll be nothing left. Yeah. Lay in the mess that you’ve created.
Discard. Release. Find your inner peace.
You get what you give, when it’s all been said there’ll be nothing left. Make the most of your damnation. You get what you give, when it’s all been said there’ll be nothing left. It’s breaking point so let it go.
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After Effect
05:26
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There’s a lie, a decay, this oppression. Times are changing but it’s too late for me. Wrong place, wrong time, I’m sorry. My heart beats fading. The pressure builds and it weighs me down. Coming at me like an atom bomb. You took the light that was burning through me, with a knee to the lifeline.
Get off me, leave me alone, what did I do to deserve this?
His blood is on their hands with the killing of the innocent screaming on the outside, let me go. Life drains within his eyes, can’t hold on one last time, screaming on the outside, let me go.
The cities up in flames and the world shall know his name, screaming on the outside, burn it down. Life drains within his eyes, can’t hold on one last time, screaming on the outside, burn it down now.
Staring .22 in the eye. As I resist, I ask them, why? I am afraid and I am terrified. There’s no reason for this madness. I can see this is it for me, my hands are tied and there’s no room to breathe. The struggles real and I’m losing the fight, nothing will stop them from taking my life.
Who cares for us? Who helps us when we are so lost? Who prays for us? Is the life we’ve chosen worth the cost? Is this the price we pay for living life our own way? Rise up and revolt the issues that we face each day.
His blood is on their hands with the killing of the innocent screaming on the outside, let me go. Life drains within his eyes, can’t hold on one last time, screaming on the outside, let me go.
The cities up in flames and the world shall know his name, screaming on the outside, burn it down. Life drains within his eyes, can’t hold on one last time, screaming on the outside, burn it down now.
Burn it down now,
Burn it down now,
Burn it down now,
Burn it down,
Burn it down now,
Burn it down,
Burn.
Does one's past give someone permission to end a life?
Psychotic, deranged, merciless.
What gives one man the right to take another man's life?
We are the virus; we will never ever change.
His blood is on their hands with the killing of the innocent screaming on the outside, let me go. Life drains within his eyes, can’t hold on one last time, screaming on the outside, let me go.
The cities up in flames and the world shall know his name, screaming on the outside, burn it down. Life drains within his eyes, can’t hold on one last time, screaming on the outside, burn it down now.
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Blessing
03:43
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My time has come, a chance to hold my head up high. I should be proud of the man I have become. I don’t know why but I swear I feel alive. It dwells inside, the darkness is taking over.
It takes control of me, so much so I cannot breathe.
No more pain, no more agony. The price to pay for parity. No more pain, no more agony. It took my life to find some clarity.
Is death the victory? It never used to be. Would you bleed for me?
Do we suffer at the hands that feed or do we kneel before authority? Who thought the end would set us free and take control of our destiny?
They say it’s euphoric, I’m not so sure of this. This game is relentless, the sufferings endless.
Do we suffer at the hands that feed or do we kneel before authority? Who thought the end would set us free and take control of our destiny?
Our destiny.
Our destiny.
No more pain, no more agony. The price to pay for parity. No more pain, no more agony. It took my life to find some clarity.
Do we suffer at the hands that feed or do we kneel before authority? Who thought the end would set us free and take control of our destiny?
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10. |
Who I Am
03:37
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I am betrayed, I am imprisoned, my life’s a lie, my soul delivered. I have to say, I have a problem, I can’t explain, I never understood why my inner rage comes crawling out of its cage. Trapped forever, forever.
I’m not so sure I want this, I’m not sure who I am. I’ve tried so many times before, I just can’t understand. This life it has no meaning, no control over me. In spite of all the demons that will haunt me when I sleep.
Am I another wasted soul? Just another faceless toll. Blind hatred, what is my role? I am fixated on coming home.
I’m not so sure I want this, I’m not sure who I am. I’ve tried so many times before, I just can’t understand. This life it has no meaning, no control over me. In spite of all the demons that will haunt me when I sleep.
Under control by the hands that made you. Under control by the man that gave you. Under control by the hands that made you, made you suffer alone.
Alone
Made you suffer.
I’m not so sure I want this, I’m not sure who I am. I’ve tried so many times before, I just can’t understand. This life it has no meaning, no control over me. In spite of all the demons that will haunt me when I sleep.
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Let It In
04:22
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Change in life so bright, replaced with chains so tight. You saw but stood there still. A rising tide that kills.
Looking at the stream of lies behind you, burning of the bridge that holds you up. A snake for a spine, money for a life, greed and a blind eye to the helpless. This never should have been our mind’s decline, an enemy invisible mistaken. Let it all in, this festering sin. Rise of the wave, imperceptible.
Don’t turn your back on us. Don’t feed your lies to us.
Looking at the stream of lies behind you, burning of the bridge that holds you up. A snake for a spine, money for a life, greed and a blind eye to the helpless. This never should have been our mind’s decline, an enemy invisible mistaken. Let it all in, this festering sin. Rise of the wave, imperceptible.
A growing sorrow that yields inside of me. A nation left, plagued with agony. A system broken against community; a system broken against humanity.
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