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Ronkonkoma
04:40
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Lyrics
No truth can be lost forever
Only concealed, one day to be revealed
The tides of change they wash away
the unexplained filling empty hands with what remains
Feel the weight lift away as the lies evaporate
No more pacified by the promised everafter
We're here and now the sun shines down and exhumates
resurrecting from the underground
Break with outdated tradition
and reclaim your freedom singing
abnegation, revelation welcome the light
Their past becomes their future
We'll find our own way home
on the path that knows no hope
in idolizing forms misleading in their deaf repose
so we break away the thorns from rose
We are fed punishment always fearing for the end so our lives,
so confined, never speak with the divine
One day, their altars will fall and crumble to the Earth a fallacy to burn endless returns
No truth can be lost forever
only concealed, one day to be revealed
The tides of change, they wash away the unexplained
and what remains will fill their empty hands with fuller hearts and able brains
Feel the weight lift away as the lies evaporate
no more pacified by the promised everafter
we're here and now the sun shines down
and exhumates resurrecting from the underground
Their past becomes their future
we'll find our own way home on that path that knows
their past becomes their future we'll find our own way home
find our own way home
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How Far We Fall
04:49
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Lyrics
Heeding what the prodigal son would say
I take what I want and I lay beyond what you're worth
Not a man, but a God that's in the palace of satisfaction
Speaking out from the side of my mouth when I let go so let go
I'd rather die than be barely alive You're gonna die livin' nine to five
Feed the innocent to the fire
one day they'll learn
in this game where pawns all burn
take the birthright of my kin
standing on the backs of mortals
that'll make him proud
He returns
He is silent, downcast, hollow Not the path I sought to follow
How far we fall (Who are you?)
Won't you take it away
This pride that remains
I'll tell you everything
this bridge isn't built to burn
Every day, these questions evaded
tell you everything
the lessons you've yet to learn
Putting blade to back if I want to (Et tu, brute?)
When I see that you do not what you say
What of your gold? (I let it go) What of your lies (I let it die)
Your dreams did not survive
Won't you take it away
This pride that remains
I'll tell you everything this bridge isn't built to burn
Every day, these questions evaded
tell you everything
the lessons you've yet to learn
Heeding what the Prodigal Son would say
I've run, I've lost I've lived to pay the cost
and my past shows me the madness in the future of your thoughts
and now I see, the only remedy, turning doubt into belief
to set my brother free
His blood is the key
He is smiling, high and mighty hand of iron I cast to thee
How far we fall
who are you?
Et, tu brute?
You are traitor
You are monster
I condemn thee
Fray your ties
Hell awaits you
Avarice Ignorance
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Silk & Gold
05:02
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Lyrics
The answers live and die with me
I found the key to A place kept far
from prying eyes
She emerges and she’s beautiful, unknowable
Liberate and follow where she leads
Follow where she leads
Lure me to the waterfall
Show me things that I cannot unsee
Letting go is impossible
By silence of mind and the will to create,
As the goddess reminds that Eternity waits
Why doesn’t anybody listen
When we already know
Like children laughing at the boundaries
We’ve got so far to go
The truth might hurt, but wounds will heal
Through the pain I heard her say
Immortality is only fingertips away and I see
That the stone beneath the waves
Hides itself in doubt and whispers,
Showing me what hides behind the eye
Why doesn’t anybody listen When we already know
Like children laughing at the boundaries
We’ve got so far to go
The truth might hurt, but wounds will heal
The truth might hurt, but wounds will heal
I follow her road
A path made of silk and gold
I Follow her road I follow her road
Stay with me Stay with me, won’t you stay with me?
Stay with me Stay with me, won’t you stay with me?
Showing me what hides behind the eye
Memory of all my former lives
Showing me what hides behind the eye
Deity Hiding Within the Mind
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The Hive
05:52
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Lyrics
Dear love,
There’s something too dear for us to sacrifice
I know the price for such egregious cries
but my mindsets failed to accept these lies
We’ve bowed to unholy men,
now they hear me as they kneel
One hand wondering why,
the other one sailing ships to the sky.
Breeding out. God, why even try?
The world is blind to your deafening cries
Our thoughts were picked from a hive
Another free thought left out to die
Rip off the veils and open your eyes
We’ve sent our children off to a lie.
Strangers return to see what I’ve wrote,
I'll plead out with every tear down my throat.
Are we the outcasts of society?
Or are there others who think like me?
Remembering it's only skin.
They break through the clouds.
Flee with me, insanity is staying here on your damn knees.
Psycho cybernetic lies we’re all gunna die.
(I'm down here)
Pay no mind!
Not this time.
Your world will now accept
the line I revoke,
through cannon smoke.
The ends are justified.
I'm through giving up, through giving up
I'll never give up again these memories of you die with me
I'm through giving up, through giving up
I'll never give up again these memories of you die with me.
Impossible is just a word small men throw around.
Who find it easier to live in a world that they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it.
Impossible is not a fact, it is an option.
Look it straight in the eye.
Grab it.
Now we must decide.
Do we have the strength and the bravery of society to release this demon trapped in me?
We haven’t begun to understand.
Like cybernetic beings torn worlds away.
Let's open up design and misery.
Show me what's there to become one.
Illuminate your room just like the Sun.
Love,
have we forgotten.
That his eyes are kin.
From nowhere to now here.
I am only justifying lies.
For I am, that I am.
We have never witnessed my life.
Idle hands, devil's land.
Ego so embarrassed by death.
Death and life are undone
by tongue.
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5. |
Fractured Light
03:52
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Lyrics
Just fractured light (spilling off our carousels)
Allows us to trust each others' spines (Animus Divine)
Still bundled up (cutting down through the coats of rust)
Yet lost in the limestone, I silhouetted out these notes.
Descending to these eyes I’ve known.
As I grow old, asking time, what will they show.
This saline has refused to meld with sound.
So when it’s safe and sound, I’ll see you both in the ground.
Be sure to stoke the flames
and scribble out their pathetic childish useless names.
Descending to these eyes I’ve known.
As I grow old, asking time, what will they show.
This saline has refused to meld with sound.
So when it’s safe and sound, I’ll see you both in the ground
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6. |
Away With Words
04:25
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Lyrics
I have never had my way
away with words.
Now I remember days where I just felt insane
and loved the pain
You’re wasting eternity.
Believing the worst in me.
While the march of the days takes you farther away.
Listen to me.
Light floods, see again the sun...
Light floods, bitterness undone.
Grand designs release me from the mire.
Let forgiveness guide us to the shore.
Away with words.
.What we define loses its worth.
Away with words.
Old thoughts confine us.
Away with words.
Death of desire is rebirth.
Away with words.
Make peace with her.
The balance can end the tragedy.
The poison will pass without harm (You'll see)
Grow fallow fields once more.
Grow fallow fields once more.
Let the march of days take you far away.
And the balance restore your harmony.
An eternity spent in tragedy.
Let the balance restore this memory.
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Incorruptible
04:26
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Lyrics
Numb, twilight promenade
stumble in the rain pitying the roll of the die.
I've thrown, on my own, on my own.
This night, so silent, I fill with arias
to mourn the death of honor and damn the murderers.
I know your bargain I don't accept the terms.
Walk away.
Strangle the sacred.
All your crimes have gone unpunished,
and I am the exile.
made unclean by what I've seen now who can purify me?
Gone - all the innocence I protected,
mendacious viruses have killed them in their home.
And I chase away the memory just one drink at a time
In just rebellion it's always just one drink at a time.
Fight for the futile.
I can't tell myself the lies I'd need to walk a step with you.
I don't need your bribes,
I'll just keep what is mine.
Just keep pretending,
that your choices here will come with no consequence.
I played the fool,
obeyed the rules.
The theft of everything ensued.
And once again, see empty hands,
the price I pay for following my conscience.
Heed the quiet heart,
and refuse the concede to the den of thieves,
before they drag me under.
At the bottom of their malice, sunk down by ill-won prize,
I'll become the thing that I despise.
If the odds are stacked against me and I can only lose,
I'll still play my hand, best I can.
My own man, head held high, and incorruptible
On my own.
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Try to blot it out in with the crowd ink dry and the money down
but, fuck, what do I know?
Muting out the sound and now I'm found picked up what you're putting down how 'bout you?
Fill the cup when love is gone,
and commitment earns its name.
In the thick of it, and I'm sick of it.
Try to blot it out I never found this part of me.
Drowned in water,
bound in sin,
doubt he makes it,
never swims.
On the rocks we wait for shore,
glass half empty,
drink some more.
Fill me up when love is gone and commitment earns its name.
Where's the audience for the hobbyists?
Try to blot it out I never found this part of me.
Drowned in water,
bound in sin,
doubt he makes it,
never swims.
On the rocks we wait for shore,
glass half empty,
drink some more.
When the weight of the deafening silences promises break you in two, Forward.
when the fall guy's the person that you need,
I could do great at that, too.
Forward...
We've been lying here,
feeling dying here.
Conversations are the missing chaser.
Feeling clouds appear,
happens every year,
drunken horses and painted pictures.
Forward...
With a glass half gone,
I'm halfway gone.
No you didn't care.
Blotting out the sound, and now I'm found,
ink dried and the money down.
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9. |
Into The Breach
03:39
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Lyrics
Just gimme the weapon.
Get out of the way.
I'll do it my goddamned self
'cause you're too scared to die today.
Cower in the corner.
Your secret's safe with me.
You'll take the accolades when I vanquish the enemy
I peel back the lines just one blow at a time
live the lie, when I die steal my legacy.
I live on the front lines favored by angry Gods.
Succeed me on the throne,
your crown weighed down by albatross.
I'll face the nightmare.
Stay hid inside your dream.
So useless on the day of wrath and reckoning.
It is beyond comprehension
choosing security.
I'll trade my life for eternity.
As they fear me, pushing through the pain and misery.
I have learned that outside your cage I'm free.
All you'll see in your reflection isn't true.
For you know that this greatness wasn't you.
Eight times fallen, nine times rise.
False glory fades as your soul begins to retrograde.
And on the deathbed, a spirit cannot rest,
That traded luxury for sins left unconfessed.
In war and peace we die.
You chose the coward's life.
A soul dissatisfied,
all cowards live this life.
It is beyond comprehension.
Choosing security I'll trade my life (I'll trade my life) for eternity.
As they fear me, pushing through the pain and misery.
I have learned that outside your cage I'm free.
All you'll see in your reflection isn't true,
for you know that this greatness wasn't you.
If you feel fear, then fear will feed ascendants arise in bravery.
'cause if you fight, you'll never die.
I'm still alive
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10. |
Freak Show
06:30
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Lyrics
In doubt, I succumb failing life bound in weathered skin.
All the torment I've known the crippling cold
to focus on a soon-entombed gaze.
The heart that was shared was it ever really there?
Grows toxic with time.
I'm colorblind but does the light truly shine?
Erased from life, it'll be too late to hear my cries
(love us)
Reaching in deeper than I have experienced,
trying to let love forgive myself in all my irreverence,
trying to let love...
Hold on to hope.
It's alright alone tonight.
Reside by candlelight.
(love us)
Reaching in deeper than I have experienced,
trying to let love forgive myself in all my irreverence,
trying to let love...
My world's falling down.
Black out the sun.
Soon everyone will know.
Welcome to the freak show.
Weighed down by thoughts of fear to fail.
I've been deceased before I let myself breathe.
I know it seems like a pitiful thing still holding on by the skin of my teeth. As it beckons, I can't deliver myself from my past,
deliver myself from my past,
to save my pride,
or what is left.
I keep it all,
locked up inside.
Locked, safely inside,
to save my pride,
or what is left.
I keep it all, locked, safely inside
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Raiju San Francisco, California
Vocals: Scott Wagner
Guitar: Bobby Carroll
Bass: Max Coley
Drums: Vinnie Hecht
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