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Ephemeral
04:01
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How far we've come, how far we've fallen. Reverting back to a primordial form.
Balanced on the line
The flesh and the divine
existence redefined
temporal form refined
a slave to none but time
a god that lives inside
now only squandered and left to the side to forget
beams of light enfolded
countless times and coded
by the laws of space and time
from the depths of nothing
marches endless something
esoteric grand design
so full of pride, praising our devolution
such worthless lives, content with this cosmic dilution
surrendered divinity, to dwell in the flesh
sequestered infinitely, only to live as a wretch.
only but a shadow, weakened and made hollow
self-imposed, we've grown content.
retrograde masquerade
wind the hands back, waste bestowal
we're becoming weak and woeful
detrimental to progression
solely at fault for regression
and those who see through the veil
watch as we burn, flounder and fail
children of the ether, now just ghastly creatures. horrid beings wasting life
envy of the angels, sickly and unable
spirits weighted down with strife.
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2. |
Daedalus
03:38
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Confined and fed deception
Falsehood and misconception
A tailor made perception
Cut from a lie
Entwined in degradation
Perverted simulation
Repressing elevation
Cast in the fire
Fly your banners, claim your legion
Nevermind a valid reason.
Give yourself to your undoing
Shamed in public for refusing
Scandalized and paraded swiftly
Through the square, deemed unfit and sickly.
Disregard the science
Bolster the foul alliance
Offer your full reliance
To the elite.
Chastised for noncompliance
Bow down and die in silence
Appease the vile tyrants
Spreading deceit
Logic ripped, like the flesh from the bone
And replaced, with a vile new code
Morals stripped, and annihilated
Events revised and altered
Dissent will lead to slaughter
Poison the food and water
Murder the sky
Make enemies of brothers
And let them kill each other
Soon they'll exist in clusters
Eager to die
Fly your banners, claim your legion
Never mind a valid reason.
Give yourself to your undoing
Shamed in public for refusing
They will be the only god you need
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3. |
The Brace of Pneuma
04:00
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Digging deeper within
And out of my grave
Breaking the shackles that keep me a slave
Burn to the ground, reformed in the fire
Rise from an ashen empire
Wading through the water slowly rising with each step
Just below the surface swims a foe you can't detect
Claw away at the pine
This vessel sealed in time
Undo the strings of fate
Another stone
More weight
Vehement refusal to fail myself
Another stone atop my chest
More weight
Unconcerned with the opinions of a lesser man
A cur unfit to dwell in my shadow
It would be wise to avert your coward eyes
And revere me as a god you'll never be in your worthless life
I've licked my wounds for long enough
Removed the wrappings soaked in blood
What left behind is all the scars that map the pain
Slaughter
Self inflicted
Martyr
Conscious lifted
Farther than predicted, shouldering strife
I'll grab a hold of the reigns
And bear the weight of the yoke
Life is more than just a passive existence
After strength's revoked
The illusion of predestination
Has made us fat with hope
Without the fear of an imminent failure
We dangle from our rope
Rise from the dirt reborn
And clear off the slate
Another stone on my chest
More weight
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4. |
By Deceiver, Beguiled
03:34
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Preachers and pastors all liars and bastards
Indulging in vile temptations of flesh
Godless and wicked, and lusting for children
Bereft of remorse, rip the child from your breast
Writhing in sin
Hailing the sun
Bastardize the masses
And defile the youth
Feed them all a narrative of foul synthetic truth
Fuel their sick desires,
With your sons and daughters
Offered up as sacrament for the satanic slaughter
Fill their minds with terror, flood their hearts with dread
Harvest adrenochrome once their well f*cked and dead
There's no regrets in hell, only hungry shadows
Temples to the darkness built upon a ground unhallowed
Pharisees, the wretched lot of you
Den of thieves, legions inside of you
Yet you're venerated
Your teeth with gnash upon the valleys of the damned
Penance carried out by your own master's very hand
You've sown your rotten seed in life and harvest time is nigh
Infinite lashings for the children who have died
A price is paid for every sin that you've enjoyed
R*ping little girls and s*domizing little boys
A tarnished soul can never walk inside the light
You'll wander endlessly into a frigid night
Rise from gilded throne
In filth forever roam
Revel in the lies
You held so dear in life
Foulest is the soul
That calls damnation home
You've served your master well
Now meet your god in hell
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5. |
Damnatio Memoriae
04:26
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