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Hexit
04:29
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Thoughtless process only action through a social call
A world of evidence for a world that wants none at all
Slam the gavel, digi-hammer
Trendy judgement waits
A pitted anvil, stained and worn
A net to catch your fate
Flood the targets, feckless warriors
Hiding from the sword
Reason given, reason quelled
All reason now ignored
Hexit - Hexit - Hexit
A web of disconnection
Separates us at a rapid pace
Knowledge replaced by images
Time to exit the human race
Hire liars, crying foul when they fucking lie
Self reflection? Mere deflection; democracy defiled
Bombing children, bombing parents
Only we should have the bombs
rage against the order
As your order rages on
Play into their game
Erect the corral in which you graze
I see your pain, I'm sending love
And praying as you're razed
Hexit - Hexit - Hexit
A web of disconnection
Separates us at a rapid pace
Knowledge replaced by sound bytes
Time to exit the human race
Log out the human race
Thought and process; we are judge at this casting call
Victor/victims, target rich; fuck it - kill them all
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2. |
Inviting Rivers
03:26
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I am he who speaks to cowards
I whisper in their ears
Asking what it is they desire
and gifting only fear
Tablets know me, my words are etched
Unyielding and forever carved
Fathers hear me, their children fear me
I have painted their scars
Prostrate at this bank of tears
Quenching this thirst with everything you've feared
Ruby streams and rusted dreams
Are everything that came to me
A vision being of a world I’ll have you know
I am the floodgate, cast my mandate to
Deflagrate the thankless ingrates
Invite your rivers to flow
We are me, this is how you know me
My words pour from your face
A distant mind, a nearer echo
A spirit without a trace
This is mine; a darker man
You are an ocean of ghosts
You are we, we guide your voice
A perfect and malleable host
Prostrate at this bank of tears
Quenching this thirst with everything you've feared
Ruby streams and rusted dreams
Are everything that came to me
A vision being of a world I’ll have you know
I am the floodgate, cast my mandate to
Deflagrate the thankless ingrates
Open your arms and invite the rivers to flow
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3. |
Minor Progressions
04:53
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The closer we float to this endless nothingness
The pull of the void holds us tighter with empty arms
Double back - nose to nose with the wasteland
The bones of salvation gift wrapped in the sand
But a shilling shy at the edge of the river
Our host is gracious and allows us aboard
A twisted axis, cocked and wobbled
Should the blind never see?
How many years will it take to learn?
In ten we drown
But in five we burn
The chorus is scattered, a refrain unsung
Minor progressions as we herald in the cold embrace of the sun
Minor progressions into the cold embrace of the sun
And here are, dance upon the precipice
A duet balancing will and ignorance
Over the edge, over the world, over the pit
A graceful fall to death from twisted pirouette
Our face in the bedrock
Our head covered in brine
Entombed with the advancement we sought
Stepping backwards, progressing in reverse
Adorned in stupidity
Adoring the perverse
The chorus is scattered, a refrain unsung
Minor progressions as we herald in the cold embrace of the sun
Minor progressions into the cold embrace of the sun
Nine and seven, zero and one
A million voices singing for none
The chorus is scattered, a refrain unsung
Minor progressions as we herald in the cold embrace of the sun
Minor progressions into the cold embrace of the sun
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4. |
Swallow Your Tail
05:36
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Here sits Mars in the sky
A blink in the corneal pale
Hermes races to warn us
As Freya disowns us
We are posed like marionettes
Our forms paint twisted shadows
About the fire
Nothing yet to say
Need my hate-fix of the day
Gotta dink the truth
From mouths of liars
Here we are again
Loving hatred for our kin
Embracing all these things of our that fail
Mars sits in the sky
Watches as we cast our die
He's confident that once again we will
Swallow our Tail
A phoenix rises from decay
But ashes must come first
Let's set the blaze
The cleansing burn of flesh
Turn up the heat 'til there's nothing left
Who wants peace
With so much Cain to Raise
No more gods in the sky
Dead, no more purpose to serve
Hermes tried to forewarn us
Now our children abhor us
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Legionem Eclipsem
04:02
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By the means of your laughable power
we were pushed to the corners of the veil
my kind forced into a shallow grave
our fingers bled as we clawed the way from this ethereal tomb
the light of your consciousness guiding our way
Our face - forever hidden
Our influence - undeniably there
Invictus etched into our being
Defectum, upon the cross you bear
Your subjects called our name
With twisted tongues, they came
Begging for the answer to their prayers
...They wished us...
Awake - we are risen
Awake - we are here
Awake - unbound and ready
With darkness legionem eclipsem
Laid to waste with our brand upon your face
this war is more than vengeful glee
Now the veil that once confined, upon our brow gives total control
Your light - waned and empty
Your influence - undeniably bare
Destrui, in manubis nostris
rune sumus cicatricum refertam
Your subjects called our name
With twisted tongues, they came
Begging for the answer to their prayers
...They bade us...
Awake - we are risen
Awake - we are here
Awake - unbound and ready
With darkness legionem eclipsem
Now at rest, your life pulled from your chest
A gift is granted - my gift of vengeful glee
And the pale - a burial shroud
Interred within a mound of your failure
Awake - we are risen
Awake - we are here
Awake - unbound and ready
With darkness legionem eclipsem
Awake - we are risen
Awake - we are here
Awake - unbound and ready
We are darkness legionem autem
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6. |
Twisting Flesh
06:39
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Raised in hate
Held there by fear
I am coddled
By the things that I hold dear
Learned to close my eyes to see
While I am kept warm in pundit tapestries
My eyes aren't my own
These thoughts are the same
I've danced this fucking dance
Until my equilibrium decayed
My thoughts speak my heart, my heart speaks in tongues
My tongues speaks these thoughts, these thoughts that are undone
Walk a path of unbeaten steps
So many laps a highway is left
A road not taken yet a road always seen
Should we leave the past in past
That it be buried in weeds?
My thoughts speak my heart, my heart speaks in tongues
My tongues speaks these thoughts, these thoughts that are undone
My eyes - cauterized
I'm pulling lid from lid
Shadows make their way to shapes
Blurs find their edge
A boundless sky Embraces the black
Before me a horizon of embers - a void at my back
A choice before me, A pill that I force down
Chase the cure with my pride
So much that I must drown
My thoughts speak my heart, my heart speaks in tongues
My tongues speaks these thoughts, these thoughts that are undone
There is no pain, only self serving marionettes
Cut the wires and strip their flesh
Make a new race - reinfuse humanity
And with the cry of a newborn tongue,
a twist of flesh and a scream… We will be reborn
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7. |
This Distant Infinite
01:53
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8. |
Sorrow Is
03:08
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The earth is swollen
A distended belly Pregnant with the rounded gases of pain
And its birthed once again
A demonic and twisted soul
A carrier of justice and lies
Torn from a womb
That’s re-seeded when needed
Vengeance never aims to die
Sorrow is Sorrow
Mounds to foothills
Those foothills to ridges
Soon the sky will hardly remain
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9. |
Poison Oasis
05:18
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These hands are broken and covered in pain
Calloused digits aiming to scrape again
Against the lot of them
Damaged smiles count the miles
The distance we have marched to fail
Endless wars between tolerant hordes
This chaos is settled
This home is our Hell
Division is rising
Reason now polarizing
My voice is broken, like sand in my throat
A desperate man in a world of screams
A place of prismatic dreams
So many tears; so many fears
If I could kill your shadows
Kill the cancer, end your suffering
Destroy ourselves
The cure is the disease
(Division is rising
Reason now polarizing)
I’ve earned this piece, earned it all
This slice of nothing is my own reward
Scream to the wind with nothing to say
But a little hatred goes a long way
I can’t stop the fall
Not in time for this
I can’t cure it all
I won’t, not for this
I’ve earned this piece, earned it all
This slice of nothing is my own reward
Scream to the wind with nothing to say
But a little hatred goes a long way
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10. |
Mammoth
05:30
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Faced with darkness in our light
Success and love we lace with spite
Silver linings lining graves
Darkest clouds in brightest days
Crushed and oppressed because we fly high
The face of self loathing - a countenance with hollow eyes
Confronting doubt
I doubt your doubt in me
An empty fear they fostered
It is time to foster a fear of you
Walk like mammoth walks through walls
Each challenge met is one that falls
Ancient wisdom through eons calls
Be a giant against them all
Boot to the throat whilst giving praise
And finding clarity in haze
Choke upon the breath of love
While gasping for my war above
Beneath this cresting sea of confusion
Where the deepest breath would end my illusion
Confront myself, never again to sow my doubt in me
This fight I thought was Far From Home
Now I claim it
This fight is my own
Walk like mammoth walks through walls
Each challenge met is one that falls
Ancient wisdom through eons calls
Be a giant against them all
You are mammoth and can not fall
Each wall they build, you crush like straw
You are the giant that stands alone
You are mammoth; you are your own
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Runescarred Austin, Texas
Rising out of the ashes of Austin, Texas legends Dead Earth Politics and joining forces with regional heroes, Southern Front, the road warriors in Runescarred are speeding towards the release of their prog metal debut We Are.
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