1. |
Signs
06:02
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Bury me within the sound
And lay upon my head a crown
Of roses that we picked around
This consequential love
Tepid signs are falling to the side
We’ll carry on so we can say we tried
As you drive the nails down
To keep my seat upon the throne
A pedestal I’m place upon that
You bestowed on me
And in darkness
All our actions
Keep us blind to
Imperfection
Tepid signs are falling to the side
We’ll carry on so we can say we tried
Count on me
(Count on me to fight off all your sins)
I’ll comfort you
(And pacify the demons inside your mind)
Till the end
(Till the end of your life, what you owe)
All you know
(All you know is what you thought was right is wrong)
Wicked signs will refute this heart of mine
Can’t carry on, at least I can say I tried
Tepid signs have fallen to the side
We’ll carry on so we can say we tried
Wicked signs will refute this heart of mine
Can’t carry on, at least I can say I tried
Way down the valley
Where the river starts to bend
That’s where my body lies
A moment lost to time
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2. |
Vacancies
04:16
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A bridge collapsing inside the weakened weight of the mind
(As I stand and wait while everything is out of my touch)
Division built with recesses of hard work and time
(Slipping Through my fingers with an emptiness I can’t clutch)
Museums standing so vacant, hollow patch-worked with lies
(Why does everything I love just feel so out of touch)
Why is everything a revelation?
With a golden ending
I see the source within
But continue with these vacancies
We bore beneath out skin
Seeds
We sow
Colourlessly
So lost, holding on to what I think is left of me
With a golden ending
I see the source within
But continue with these vacancies
We bore beneath out skin
And so with brick by brick I pile the rubble to the mound
(As I stand and wait while everything is out of my touch)
Collecting remnants of the past, present and future in tow
(Slipping through my fingers with an emptiness I can’t clutch)
It seems the work is ever building with no end in sight
(Why does everything I love just feel so out of touch)
Why is everything a revelation?
With a broken ending
The fight begins to dim
While I continue with these vacancies
I bore beneath my skin
With a golden ending
I see the source within
But continue with these vacancies
We bore beneath out skin
With a golden ending
With a broken ending
Find me
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3. |
Suffer Your Punishment
03:53
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This indecency
A memory forgotten
Creeping in the night while mourning deeply as you
Suffer your punishment
Being dragged to the edge of the abyss
While shrieking violently
When your reckoning awaits you it will try to
Suffer your punishment
Paralyzed with Anger
Standing Still with rage
(Filled with ashes to the brim)
Bare in mind your failures
And rewrite the silence that you owe
(Scream until your lungs give out)
Swallowed by inferno
Hallowed out destruction
Splitting at the seams, descending deeper
While you suffer your punishment
In a moment your time has come
Suicide is not repentance
Scream while you can
And suffer your punishment
Paralyzed with Anger
Standing Still with rage
(Filled with ashes to the brim)
Bare in mind your failures
And rewrite the silence that you owe
(Scream until your lungs give out)
The deceased cannot speak for what you have paid for
With disease, comes a man of coward, lecherous
Breaking me,
Breaking me down to what he thinks is righteous,
Callous man
Cast away any sense of the freedom fight
Consider yourself paid in full
For all the decent thoughts you stole
A governed law of humanity you broke
Listen to me, this ends here
Paralyzed with Anger
Standing Still with rage
(Filled with ashes to the brim)
Bare in mind your failures
And rewrite the silence that you owe
(Scream until your lungs give out)
You’re diseased while you
Suffer your punishment
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4. |
Losing Peace
04:54
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Death toll paid by years
Of strife and momentary illegal casualties
(Negate)
A long standing social contract
Inflict the law
With genocidal classist instincts involved
Devolve
Our freedom as you tell us to
Absolve
Ourselves of sin we didn’t understand
False strands
Of “truth” paired alongside the lies you
Sold
And all we do is crawl to survive
You all are running on borrowed time
Why not? You say
As you demonize the lifestyle you’ve come to break
Sit down
Class has started now’s not the time to speak
Swept under the rug
As you tear us down
Swept under the rug
As we disappear
And all we do is crawl to survive
You all are running on borrowed time
As you cry out for more
As we
Lose all that we had
Memories are now dust and sand
Washed away by tidal waves
Of colonized decisions force upon us
As if it what was meant to be but
We had no say
And so your kingdoms rise
Built on fallacious pride
Buried in sin and heaven’s right
Corrupted and rotted system, roots spanning to deep to see
Watered by privileged intent and feeding off the people they wish to keep
Heads under ground.
Listening but breaking up the frequency
All milage taken steps backward
Time turned to forgotten misery
You force your opinion on me
You force this opinion on me
You force their opinion on me
Force your opinions so hate can live free
Now I can see the omens
Placed within the stars
Death displaced on each of us
Whose silence breaks
Know now the sun won’t rise
Finally losing peace
I’m finally losing peace
I’m finally losing pieces of me
I’m finally losing peace
End times come
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5. |
The Emblem
05:37
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While bending and breaking
Dilated to entropy
Light descending upon the brink of collapsing symmetry
Bellowing
Harken supposed mystery
Bathing in the decided ways they've carved in stone for centuries
And I'm scared to carry the Emblem
Weight held with everything I know
But I'm scared that you'll carry the Emblem
With no resolve
History
A vicious cycle brought by privilege
Repeats itself fluidly
Paradox
Climbing ladders to nowhere
Boundless wealth in view
Capsized in the ocean science
Drowned in the word of God
And I'm scared to carry the Emblem
Weight held with everything I know
But I'm scared that you'll carry the Emblem
With no resolve
Staring down the barrel of a gun
With your finger on the trigger
Premonitions held with complacency
You acted too late
You acted too late
It's too late
And I'm scared to carry the Emblem
Weight held with everything I know
And I know that you carried the Emblem
With no resolve
I'm scared
To carry the Emblem
I'm scared
With everything I know
I'm scared
You'll carry the Emblem
I'm scared
With no resolve
Shackled by my own failures
Locked behind selfishness
Judgement comes to those who wait
Save me
I'm begging
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