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Into the Fray
03:44
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Into the fray once again
Dying for the chance to find what's real
Carve out your truth and hold it close
Cannot falter, or you will surely die
Blinded in a sea of contradictions
Where are the answers?
What is the question?
No one knows
Expression is a struggle of the soul
Filtered through a maze of perceptions led astray
Where understanding becomes impossible
Still the need for another drives against the fear of pain
Even when that pain consumes
Slaughtered upon the grain
When mind and body are defeated
The need it will still remain
Screaming its wrath into your core
Insanity, a welcome paradise
Bloodied, at the brink
Figure in the mirror forever the unknown
Into the fray once again
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Prometheus
02:42
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Butchering the golden god
Carving glistening meat
Unable to die, his suffering fuels our greed
Feast on writhing riches
Chew on gleaming bones
Mute and frenzied fallen one from him we carve our thrones
Everyday
Severed limbs grow anew
Everyday
His torn heart beats once more
We bathe in rivers of his lifeblood
Flaying the divine
His teeth will make our weapons
His eyes will give us sight
His tongue will teach us prophecy to guide us from our plight
From him we rend our future with each jagged slice
Praise the lustrous titan
Eternal sacrifice
Everyday
Eyes return to sunken holes
Everyday
A plundered husk made new
We bathe in rivers of his lifeblood
Flaying the divine
The idol dies
His flesh begins to rot
Limbs are filled with poison
Limbs that formed the core
Of this world, built on divinity
Foundations are rotting
Tainted meat
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Breathe the Tedium
03:10
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What you crave an unmarked grave
Conditioned visions
Give everything, lose all feeling
The price of possession
Chase the promise to find some solace
When is it over?
A yawning distance earns you a pittance
The thought leaves you sober
Why?
And still you try, leaving all for want of a cause
Why do we pine for hollow lives?
Bleeding ourselves into deceiving jaws
Top of the chain, the shackles remain
There's no one to blame
Where is the joy?
You're rich and employed and feeling the same
There is no meaning, tired and needing satisfaction
An empty shell trapped in hell, your lifelong creation
Why?
And still you try, leaving all for want of a cause
Why do we pine for hollow lives?
Bleeding ourselves into deceiving jaws
You're chasing a dream, American dream
Breathe the tedium, Breathe the tedium
Chasing a dream living a nightmare
Ask yourself, why?
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The Killing Joke
03:20
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Body in revolt screaming eyes
Inhaling an endless misery
Quality of life, the killing joke
Preserve mortality at all cost
Their God decides who lives and dies
A line that won't be crossed
Burden that no one wants to claim
Kept alive to waste away
Torture called humane
Tubes feed machines
In an endless symphony of automated screens
Destroying sanity
Voice lost in the void of perforated skin
Utter filth surrounding
Festering within
Life is precious
Nosocomial putrefaction
Devouring a dying human being
Quality of life, the killing joke
Preserve mortality at your cost
Their God decides who lives and dies
All rationale is lost
Mercy from this fate will be denied
Savor every wretched breath
You have no right to die
Everything is pain
Senses overflow
Narcotics pumping endlessly
Faces come and go
Writhing now in agony medicine can't mend
I.V.s embalm a gasping corpse begging for an end
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Do Not Speak
02:28
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Language is infected
Grammar-based disease
Mobs of hosts are growing
Taking to the streets
Do not speak
Contaminated vocabulary
Traumatized, leaving mental scars
Aphasia flooding in synapses in disarray
Toxic cries
Phrases repeated in an endless mania
Consuming confusion pervades
Hordes of the afflicted deafen with their rants
Virulent cacophony seeking to implant
Shut up or die
Bar your doors
Shield your ears from words that claim your soul
If you understand their sermon
You too will extol
In frustration, agony
Desperate need to get inside
Only way, the only way
Gnashing teeth, empty eyes
Comprehension virus
Do not speak
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Machine
03:30
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Feed the machine
An ocean of vacant faces
Sacrificing hours of life on an altar of empty expression
Feeding the glow
Feeding the glow
Minds as one in atrophy
Feeding the glow
Feeding the glow
Surrender all ambition
Feeding the glow
Static monument crafted by the complacent dead
Feeding the glow
Minds as one in atrophy
Eater of all doubt
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Spitting Black Boston, Massachusetts
Guitars:
Seth Wilson
Bass:
Pat Faherty
Drums:
John Gillis
Vocals:
Patrick Rennick
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