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Intro + Front Line
03:05
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Have you felt the thousands cry?
Because those who cry, cry for all
Have you heard the million screams?
Because when we scream, we scream as one
And when one suffers
We shall suffer as equals
Look past the privilege
We need to suffer as equals
Yet you stand with the sanctimonous - still but silent
The heart's layered from the outside - the cement is dry
Reluctant to salve the discontent - willing to stay reticent
But the more you endure, the more you'll reflect
When your weapon is sheathed, know that you're next in line
When your tongue stands still, know that you're next in line
I'll be the voice of the voiceless
The storm in the desert
Never rest, always fight back
Until every chain breaks, until every cage is empty.
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Terror Roams
01:19
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They came to hunt
Brainwashed and blind
Hunt down every dog that refuses to lie down
Armed to keep their masters from hanging on the rope
To satisfy their unhinged thirst for blood
As cities burn, terror roams
Servants of the kings
Protectors of profit
Of everything but the lives of the oppressed
This rotten machine weighs in an evil way
A damage on the goods justifies a death
The blue mob sits on the lion's share
It's just a small price to pay
Just like the lives that perish in the unforgiving hands of law
As cities burn, terror reigns
Preying on the restless
On every corner, on every street
Washed with blood and cleaned without a trace.
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Sacrifice / Sacrilege
03:30
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Pave the streets with claret pieces of flesh
The way to your unjust perfection
A vital delusion of superiority
Everything must suffer for humanity
As the replacement for a patriarch's son
Generations after generations animals die
As the forgotten children who bleed the same
In the shadow of cruel rituals their souls descend
Drop your holy blade
Sacrilegious acts to liberate
To end this bloodshed
No holy creation
In death and destruction
What god would keep you closer
When his love remains inequal?
Break the chain
Liberate the "loftiest" s victims
Empty all cages
Wage war, the voice of the silent
Separate from the blind faith
Reject this bloodshed
When your devotion is to slit throats
My prayer shall be arson
When you take innocent lives in the name of sacrifice
Sacrilige is the right, in defense of all life
Killer, I reject you your right to slaughter.
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Weaning Off
03:29
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It's time to unbuild
Ancient walls of hatred
Weaning off the poisons i'd been on for aeons
The false promise of salvation
you won't infect me, i will break free
I'll make sure that this destruction
is mutually assured
Weaning off
All the promises you never kept
Weaning off
All the lives that you let wither
Was it worth in the end
That the growth is exponential
Clutch to your power trip
Looking down on everyone else
Unaware your throne room is covered in landmines
You may have let the power cloud your judgment
But i won't let my anger cloud mine
Eliminate alternatives, spread addiction, marginalize and repeat
The hand that salutes us is the hand of the complicit
You the chain weaver, withholder, destroyer of entire worlds
Tell me what are you good for if you don't serve
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March Of The Deviant
03:43
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I don't feel victimized
Earned this triumph in my resistance of one
Agressor's reign shall born dead
Rule of fear will not last
I won't be expelled I'm here to stay
These wounds are not the first, neither they'll be the last
Rip off the hands that reach
I am the defiance
I am victorious
I am the defiance
Until my last breath
Punished for the search of self
Stones rain down on our heads
There will be blood if you don't fit the mold
No rain to ease the pain
All I've ever known is darkness
But my blade is sharpened
I'll be the resistance, I'll be the change
I'll be the one to decide who I am
And I'll meet the reaper before I see myself in chains
Cause I'll never find peace if the mirrors keep me from myself.
I will carry the torches of the deviant
For as long as I am alive and well after then
I'll be the one to decide how I love
I'll be the one to decide who I am
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From The Ashes
05:10
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Rotting at the gates of heavens occupied by few
Where we're left to perish in an industrial hell
Confined in this brutal realism
Trapped between 9 and 5
Addiction, to function accordingly
Market freedom is the new slavery
Our minds reproducing the cages
As temporarily embarrassed oppressors
We'll be the ones to break the silence
To set free from this disfunction
Call it justice, call it revenge
As the foundations burn we'll dance
For every knife grinding on our necks
For all innocent life fade incarcerated
And when I take the hammer
I intend to use its both ends
My hopes for future lie in demolition
For total liberation
We slowly march towards a senseless grave
While feeding on nothing but silence and death
The threads we've woven have become
Nooses around our necks
Now we gladly bound ourselves
To fittingly deteriorate
Minds shaded by the culture's dark clouds
Shrouded by apathy and pacified
Let our screams blend into the night
To see the dawn shine upon us for once
Let our throats bleed for the silent
Let our blood run for the drought
Let our laments become the song of defiance
Resist, fight back
Are we doomed to repeat our patterns of demise?
Can't we break these chains like we forged them?
And doesn't every heart deserve a beat
Where our hearts beat the same?
Let our hearts beat the same.
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