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Overture
12:55
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2. |
Insidious
12:59
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You're kind enough to lift me from the mire I'm in
But I'm self-destructive, I choose my fate
I'll drag you down with this ship so please just let me go
You're too good for me, I don't deserve this
I've done some terrible things,
Things your nightmares are afraid of
I've made some terrible choices,
Choices the Devil couldn't forgive
Make me suffer for my sins
Make me suffer more
Take me to the gallows
Punish me for my crimes
Your grace is like silk to the cinders
A fountain of repentance couldn't wash me clean
Like a tumour I'll grow inside the seams of your mind
You are the sun in the cold of winter
You don't deserve this
I cauterise the flesh wounds I cut open
I compromise myself just so you can say
you still have hope in me,
it tortures me though I can't tell you
I've killed your dreams
I've killed your dreams
A young man on the run from his childhood
Pushed by the winds of fate
Rebel to society, the prison he can't escape
Dragged into the cold white room,
He kicks and screams and claws against
The trait'rous arms, the trait'rous arms that bear his mother's hate
Sticks and stones thus broke his bones,
And vicious words of truth
Would dig into the fortress of his mind, rendered mute
Amidst the haze and wreckage of his psyche
He found solace in her arms
(in hindsight)
We all should have seen it coming
(In Retrospect)
The empath never had a chance
(What a complex)
He latched on to the shining light
And pulled an angel to her demise
(With Clarity)
Safety and health abounding
(Unwittingly)
He took her to the dance
(Seduction)
Clean shaven and dressed to the nines,
Sobriety was the surprise
(Malicious plan)
Regression was always lurking
(On bated breath)
He knew he couldn't win
(Manipulation)
Her dream of compassion in plight
Was a star whose light he could not abide
(Betrayal)
Abusing her trust and faith in him
(Concoction)
He slipped it into her drink
(Toxicity)
One taste was not enough
So the dosage prescribed was amplified
False face
Deception and lies
Regression, the poison
The fall of the chaste
Conception so blind
The dreamer brought down to the depths of addiction,
The cost of her kindness was this affliction
Hope cast aside
Abandoned for love
The dissonant cognition
The victim of prey
Though never enough,
Submission to will through the rose coloured glass,
The strength of conviction eroded at last
I've done some terrible things,
Things your nightmares are afraid of
I've made some terrible choices,
Choices the Devil couldn't forgive
Make me suffer for my sins
Make me suffer more
Take me to the gallows
Punish me for the crime of existence
How could I let this happen to you?
How could I let this happen?
How I could I let this happen to you?
How could I, How could I, How could I, How could I?
How could I let this happen to you?
How could I let this happen?
How I could I let this happen to you?
How could I, How could I, How could I, How could-
I needed more time to heal
I needed more strength to feel
Like I was a victim of abandonment no longer
A caustic burn in my chest
For every moment passed in ecstasy
The acrid smell of charred flesh
As my soul burns in this living hell
Your innocence was always intact
Belief in the good of your impact
But the sobs between the sheets as I awoke said otherwise
The slippery slope was never there
I could have been honest, laid out bare
But the toxic love I had for you was always the victor
Chasing the dragon
Dreaming of the sun god
Rushing down the powdered scorpion
Crack the crystal code and
Hunt the violent beast
Beware the leapers at the crossroads
Galloping the rainbow
Stumbling cross the hero
Thrusting forth the cryptic bozo
Beauty black carrying the essence of his love
Dancing under sparkling stars above
Fire
Fire
Fire
Fire
Conjure the vision
Sacrificed future
Darkness clouding mind
The truth came out at last
Forgiveness sought for his past misdeeds, he cast
Aside the poison in his blood for he knew he was free
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3. |
Practical Joke
03:59
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Here lies the king!
He was a benevolent ruler;
Oh sure he pillaged and plundered the stocks and the wares
Of the freezers and coolers,
But at least he didn't fancy high schoolers!
Alone in the throne room, his advisors would
Shovel that shit in his ears and it'd come out of his mouth;
like a carnival ride from the depths of hell
The only thing that seperates us is the shallow belief that our worth is poorer or greater
When you cast off the chains of your self-enslavement, only then will you truly be free
Working from 9 to 5 every day, is far more pois'nous than cyanide
When the cash runs out, and the banks run dry you'll know
The plastic in your wallet is the practical joke
The plastic in your wallet is the practical joke
The plastic in your wallet is the practical joke
The plastic in your wallet is the practical joke
The denizens of the hills disguised in principles, throwing us off the reek of their bias
The piles of corpses they've stacked in the corner of their empire WILL see the light of day
Working from 9 to 5 every day, is far more pois'nous than cyanide
When the cash runs out, and the banks run dry you'll know
The plastic in your wallet is the practical joke
The plastic in your wallet is the practical joke
The plastic in your wallet is the practical joke
The plastic in your wallet is the practical joke
The plastic in your wallet is the practical joke
The plastic in your wallet is the practical joke
The plastic in your wallet is the practical joke
The plastic in your wallet is the practical joke
Joke
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4. |
Face The Truth
04:52
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Craven lard balls imitate our deepest fetishes
Rolling in the filth of their shallow interests
Saccharine remarks to the press, ghosting the policies constructed from shit
You'd believe the first word you agree with
You act upon the cause you choose to see
You only care about the war that affects you
Your moral compass is a cyclone of piss
Democracies fall with the rise of the undeserving righteous
Oligarchies thrive so long as the poor fight the weak
Chasing pennies while they guzzle our scores of years away
If they had a conscience they would stab us in the face
Consequences only serve your confirmation bias
Your actions prolong the suffering of millions
Selfishness is core to your identity
Generations of your kind inherit this kingdom of glass
Conspiracies have torn us asunder, you've dragged us all under
You gotta face the truth
When insufficient minds can't seperate the line between belief and a lie
We're all gonna lose
Lose
Conspiracies have torn us asunder, you've dragged us all under
You gotta face the truth
When insufficient minds can't seperate the line between belief and a lie
We're all gonna lose
To dispel the state of dissolution, we must shatter the grip of this illusion
To dispel the state of dissolution, we must shatter the grip of this illusion
This cycle of abuse must end by our hands
We must disintegrate the coagulation of our sloth and greed, accumulated by the wealthy, derived from the unprivileged
To rid the land of its abusers and return it to its rightful inheritors, is our birthright and our destiny!
I say again, it is our destiny!
I say again, it is our destiny!
Our destiny!
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Callous Charlatan
06:33
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Await the gallows for murder
(Murder most foul, a massacre wrought)
Cry out for mercy, pleading innocence
(Your conscience, dug a shallow grave)
Wade through the shallows, hunting treasure
(Glimmering teeth in the skulls of the young)
Cut through the smoke, see the burning torch
Callous charlatan
Dangling strings profound
Power stolen from
Your people and their children
Our skies turn black, hear the thunder
(Rolling in from the hills and valleys)
The crackling fire burns all in its path
(Hear the sizzling flesh)
Cold air blows through the door, shudder
(A portent of what is to come)
Plague wind seeps into your bones on the hearth
Callous charlatan
Dangling strings profound
Power stolen from
Your people and their children
Tides of dead will wash away your righteous proclamations
Falsify your moral standing, reveal your machinations
Callous charlatan
Dangling strings profound
Power stolen from
Your people and their children
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6. |
Djeneric
05:58
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7. |
Testimonium Calumnia
14:00
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in montem apicem finditur in duas,
quia fulmen Iovis.
cruentus pluit super terram.
luto et solo habet purpuram facti sunt.
clamate querella, qui salvati fuerint,
clamoremque ferunt campi resonant.
nullus erit audiri ignes ad inferos.
in montem apicem finditur in duas,
quia fulmen Iovis
clamate querella, qui salvati fuerint
nullus erit audiri ignes ad inferos.
in montem apicem finditur in duas,
quia fulmen Iovis.
cruentus pluit super terram.
luto et solo habet purpuram facti sunt.
clamate querella, qui salvati fuerint,
clamoremque ferunt campi resonant.
nullus erit audiri ignes ad inferos.
in montem apicem finditur in duas,
quia fulmen Iovis.
cruentus pluit super terram.
luto et solo habet purpuram facti sunt.
clamate querella, qui salvati fuerint,
clamoremque ferunt campi resonant.
nullus erit audiri ignes ad inferos.
obscene rationis popularis sunt.
caecus autem infirma cludere,
inprobae cuiusdam iram suam.
mali autem homines ab ipsis Dei
misericordia quam pares.
decursu temporum tuorum cucurri mille annis.
dico solenniter; "Omne saxum Deorum ante portas."
quell superbia tua manifestum te humilitate,
fructum gravis inevitabili hostiis cedet in primitias tuas.
venundati estis te.
te emit mortis nostrae.
in sinum praecordia.
temporis completum.
nihil fiet.
si fatum est fides, tum scientiae libertas.
si fides est veritas, tum testimonium calumnia.
Testimonium Calumnia
Testimonium Calumnia
Testimonium Calumnia
Testimonium Calumnia
TRANSLATION:
Jupiter's lightning cracks the mountain peak in twain.
Rain falls upon the blood-stained ground.
The soil has become crimson mud.
The survivors cry plaintively; their shrieks are echoing in the valley.
No-one will be heard in the fires of Hel.
The populace are misguided.
The weak are blinded by their misplaced rage.
The wrong people are strengthened by the compassion of their peers.
I have run the course of time for a thousand years.
I tell you this solemnly; "all crumbles before the gates of the Gods.
Quell your hubris, manifest your humility, bring forth your offerings to the inevitable grave."
You have sold yourself. You have bought our death. Fold your arms on your chest. Our time is over. Nothing more will/can be done.
If faith is fate, then science is freedom. If conviction is truth, then evidence is slander.
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Van Leucia Sydney, Australia
Van Leucia is a multi-instrumentalist, recording producer, mixing and mastering engineer and studio owner based in Sydney, Australia. Van is also a graduate accompanist from Sydney Conservatorium of Music, national educator and regular touring performer. ... more
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