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I always feel like I'm losing my sanity
All around me humans yet no humanity
Withered not by age but by hate
Come and see
First as tragedy then as farce
What will it take to learn from the past
Fallen out of one the two is drew
Never needing me and you
The third to hate lost in a quaternary fate
Oh I don't know what to mend what to leave behind in the end
Do I save the cabal? Or free them all
It's time we learnt that we're out of sight, we're out of mind
Forever lost and left behind
That's not a chip on my shoulder
It's your foot clamping down on my fucking neck
Out comes an evil that lives amongst us
It is not you or I, it is us, and it will be the last of us
All that is solid will melt into air
Where will you stand when all that's left is their despair
Come and see, soon enough every one of you will see that
They won't die for the Dow
At the end of the day, at the end of it all
Did we learn anything? Anything at all
This crisis is us, we're going out with a bang
We don't deserve a second chance, we deserve to hang
They bid me
Come and see us
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Say their names
And in the absence of us
What might come about?
Maybe power would grow?
Or might they beat it out
We are not able to vote this away, the time has come for us to disobey
No, we’re shattered now
All that’s left of us, reduced to dust
We’re draining the sun, of all the light it can give
Ripping the lifeblood they gave as a gift
What is the end that will justify our means?
How will we justify their screams?
Does it truly run in our veins?
(Dylan Gillies-Parsons of Gravemind)
Or is it injected into us? Does it feed off the fear? Leave us to hate and poison the atmosphere. We are to sleep, never to wake, never to even learn to make, something of ourselves
We’re shattered now
And all that’s left of us
Will be reduced to dust
Must I unchain the earth from the sun?
Just to show you what we have done
Is this really all that’s left of us
We’re going nowhere
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Utopia
04:01
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Like a bird above a flooded land, we circle eternally
We try to find a single strand of humanity in the human condition
Stuck in this looping regression, nothing short of obsession
We're addicted to the pain, we love our chains
I want it to end, an escape from the descent
The endless descent
The plains are high on fire
But I'll sit back and admire how composed you remain, all throughout it stays the same
But no, it doesn't feel the same
Now that we're this way
Emphatic hatred will be all that remains
When they get their day
As words wrap themselves in a damning silence I give up on myself and accept their violence
No it's not about me, nor him or he, it's what comes about in unity
I couldn't even fathom what it meant to me to reconcile with infinity
I thought all these thoughts were all I was ever to be, that there wasn't more left to find right inside
No signs from heaven came today so I subjected myself to an object of hate
Not a second to think, nor a chance to abate, oh I've been washing away
The light that guided me, now wilted and decayed
As words wrap themselves in a damning silence I gave up on myself and accepted their violence
I forgot who I was, I forgot what it meant to be
How many times must I right this wrong? I sing as if this is a joyous song
Say their names, speak aloud, don't forget, don't ever relent
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Creatures
05:26
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If I glare beyond the sky, above the clouds, into the eye
Will I see what I want to see?
Or will there be nothing left of you and I?
So get into the spirit,
The spirit of violence
It's all that remains
To keep us righteous
Oh aren’t we righteous
Do you even know my name?
Do you only think of me as that which is not the same
An empty vessel to lay your blame
We are more than that, you will learn our names
Feel the beat of the drum overload your senses
Feel your heartbeat synchronize, with the crowds softest sighs
This burden is mine, and there is more to us than you and I
There’s a strength in unity, more than we know
There’s true love to find, real places to go
But none of that will ever be real
If we give in to ourselves, and forget out to heal
Dissolve in the fear, acquiesce to the hate
We are not creatures that live by a sense of fate
Its high time we realised
“We’re not outnumbered, we’re out organised”
We just needed someone to blame
Something to hate, one that’s not the same
There is no end, there is no reprise
This is not suicide. They’re killing me.
And we’ll all have died inside, before we see
That there is more to us, than you and I
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You cannot sit in silence if you stand for change
There's nothing stopping us from making waves
Waves in the stasis changing who we are
But we were never to know what could have been
And when we break these chains they'll become our whips
No longer will we be stuck throwing bricks
Forced to embrace the flames by marketing scum
Reminding me of a nation's stains
Reminding me
Endless
Calls for an end to the endless bloodshed
Screaming into an ear but the nerves are dead
We can run all of this without them
But without us they'd be condemned
It's us versus them
While they drink up hate like it's fucking water
Will we bide our time and just watch the slaughter?
I guess we've found our way learning to love the disarray
Engendered with such misery it is clear to me
That you're your racist ancestors' deadbeat progeny
The humane face of the human race will disintegrate
It's looking bleak at best
Will we ever rest
Or will we kill it at the root?
Kill it at its toxic root
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