1. |
Awakening
00:08
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2. |
The Absent
05:41
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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
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3. |
Voices
04:12
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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
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4. |
Peace
00:51
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5. |
[Truth]
07:38
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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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