1. |
Life Of A Stupid Man
03:53
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Bleed for your sins
Keep the blood in
Spare us your pain
Bleed out again
SILENCE
YOUR WORDS ARE POINTLESS
I’m left no choice
Silence yourself
Art flows through you
Like sandpaper
YOUR CRAFT DEAD
YOUR LABOUR ROTTING
SPARE US YOUR PAIN
KEEP THE BLOOD IN
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2. |
Borders
02:18
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Vibrissal
Your actions aren’t on my conscience
I’ll wipe the milk away
And carry on
And you’ll hate me
And you’ll always hate me
Your actions aren’t on my conscience
Your promises are not my concern
The downfall of a nation
The borders remain
But not tonight
The nosecaps of the warheads
Threaten my freedom
Decrease my value
And the strings sound
As the stasis sets in
I AM THE TRUEST SELF
CUT OFF OUR HANDS
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3. |
Semantics
03:54
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Decadent bourgeois obfuscation
Neo-fascist warmongers
I hailed the coming day
When the revolution would be complete
And the state withered away
Stale phrases rang like music
Tell me of your impotence
I am one of them
Intentional contrast
Immense strength
Intelligence
And the state withered away
Stale phrases rang like music
Spilled alcohol and sexual current
And the state remained the same
Stale phrases rang like music
And the state remained the same
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There is no time for us
There is no place for us
What is this thing that builds our dreams
Yet slips away from us
Who wants to live forever
Who wants to love forever
There is no chance for us
It’s all decided for us
Who wants to live forever
Who wants to love forever
Who wants to live
When love must die
Touch my tears with your lips
Touch my world with your fingertips
And we can have forever
And we can love forever
Forever is our today
Who wants to live anyway
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5. |
Modern Combat
02:06
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Sate the discourse
The modern man
A bastard child
Of promise
Enveloped in comfort
Consumed by blinding flash
Twice the meat
Condensed space
Stomach the pain
Distraction
Sat with cattle
We are the cold hard trash
We are the cold hard trash
Bastard child of promise
Sat with cattle
THE MODERN MAN
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6. |
The Ambition Of Death
03:29
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The cold morning light
Evasive and sterile
Burned on our skin
Our bodies perpetually futile
The seed of the day
Clubbed into our heads
Bloodied and in retort
We find our faces split in two
Our organs on show
Tongues flapping
Muscles contracting with
Precisely nothing to say
So we mourn the remains of our experience
A fade to white
Passionate exit
We rid ourselves of pretence
Rip out our spinal cords
And pray for dignity
But it never comes
And we never meet again
And it works
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7. |
I Am The Same
04:37
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Please refer to previous works and interpret accordingly.
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8. |
The Way Out
03:27
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I hide behind my leaves
Each a cascade
Each a regret
Your visage appals me
I sicken myself
I see everything and
I refuse my deepest tragedy
A BLADE RIPS THROUGH MY FACE
A WEAPON CUTS MY EYES
THE TENDONS TEAR AWAY
THE PROP WILL NOW SUFFICE
I am the truest self and
I refuse my deepest tragedy
Hide behind my leaves
Each a cascade
Each a regret
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9. |
The Chorus
06:59
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Outstretch your hands
Receive redemption
Your name does not change
The music that plays
Silenced in haste
And a lone voice sounds:
‘I am the truest self I am the truest self I am the truest self I am the truest self I am the truest self I am the truest self I am the truest self I am the truest self’
You can’t get rid of me
Bowed head in slapping waves
Green glimmers through salt sting
Knowing nothing but the need not to breathe
And what have you achieved?
What does your death mean?
Is your art improved?
Will your sex be missed?
Can you answer these
Before you’re knocked back by the waves
And the pain recedes
And the ledge you cling onto narrows
We accept our loss
Cut off our hands
immortal invisible god only wise in light accessible hid from our eyes most blessed most glorious the ancient of days almighty victorious you knew what you were about when you created me
NO SHOCK
IN UNISON
WE ACCEPT OUR LOSS
CUT OFF OUR HANDS
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