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The Absent

by Punished

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1.
Awakening 00:08
2.
The Absent 05:41
Then and only then are we alive Lost but still there fueling our every step We wield a secret weapon powered by the missing by the lost, the absent but never truly gone When the time came they were torn from us taken forever leaving us behind By cheating death we cheated life Punished to carry Their missing weight Why are we still here? Just to suffer? Why do we still exist? Is it just to suffer? The pain, it burns bright white Phosphorus lungs breathe both deep and silent The ghosts of endless grief They haunt every moment The ghosts of endless grief The loss that shapes who we’ve become Memory within our dna cannot be undone It burns Residual impulses coagulate Like festering wounds Dormant, in absentia Never forgotten nor forgiven We hold our rifles in missing hands We stand tall on missing legs We stride forward on the bones of our fallen We cling to our dreams, to our phantoms
3.
Voices 04:12
Forced into a single consciousness Liberty a faint illusion Existing alongside but never together Unity a strong delusion Opposites attract But can’t assimilate Words can kill Murder the innocent For their innocence can destroy For the unitary needs the binary But the binary needs a one and a zero Create poison, but not the cure Let it spread Words can kill Together is a paradox For as long as we want to unite We’ll try to stay apart Turn words into parasite Eradicate from the source No longer can we unite Through one common tongue Let’s share a new language A new understanding Let’s speak the words of war Because words can kill
4.
Peace 00:51
5.
[Truth] 07:38
You sunk your hands in bloody dirty But it’s me who’s stained red You burnt them to a crisp But it’s my footprint on the ashes You blew off their heads But it’s my finger on the trigger You took took away their breaths And it’s me who has to pay A vague shadow in the distance A distant memory, long gone No longer about who I was But what you’ve made us become Twisted perspective laced with truth and death The die cast leaving naught but bodies and bereft Choked and choking on the iron The leaden lies blood red The rattle of a thousand shells of metal Parting like the sea at the tip of my boot Charred corpses frozen solid With your face forever printed on their eyes I can hear their voices Calling out your name The name I now carry A cursed legacy forever in me We’ve cheated death Thanks to us We have no tomorrow There is no truth No facts to grasp No veracity or principle Only interpretation

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released July 28, 2016

All music and lyrics written and performed by Punished

Ben Read - Vocals
Antonio Freyre - Guitars
Aldo Mora - Guitars/Bass
Ignacio Rizo - Drums

Guest vocals on 02 by Josh Smith and Austin Weber
Guest vocals on 03 by Phil Tougas, recorded by Xavier Berthiaume at Studio Tehom
Guest vocals on 05 by Antti Boman, recorded by Jari "Tupi" Tuomainen

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