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Wilt
05:02
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This disease
Constantly eating away
Can't even call this my home
Suffocating
Enthralled at the thought
Of wasting away
Teeth grinding
On the curb
Awaiting the moment to take that first step
Untangle these ropes
Untangle these ropes
That are pulling me apart
Constantly drowning
In this sea of anticipating sharks
I pull up the covers
From the sun in my eyes
These wilted remains
In which each flower dies
Heaven can't be real
Cause I've seen hell on earth
Every blade of grass grows
From decay in the dirt
Let the soil wash over me
The end of the tunnel seems so far away
I don't know if I'll make it through
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Mirror View
01:57
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Staring into this abyss
Into this mirror I call hell
It never changes
It never ends
Another coin in the wishing well
I wish you well
Staring into these flames - deranged
That familiar void in you
Eyes clouded grey
Yet i can see right through
This mirror view
Constant trepidation
Over everything yet nothing at all
I've become unhinged
The paint is peeling off of the walls
This noose
Around the neck of my healing wounds
This noose
Enjoy the view
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3. |
Vermin
02:22
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I'm stepping off this ledge
Falling backwards
Spiralling back down this rabbit hole
Did i ever leave this place?
Am i now just coming home?
Or is this my own special kind of hell?
Was there ever a bottom of that bottle?
A needle in my arm is a knife in your back
Here in the gutter with the rats
You're poison - you're vermin
You're rotten to the core
You're plagued - infested
On your knees searching for more
Have i just been wasting my time?
Have i just been waiting in line?
Why do i keep telling myself
Just one more time!?
Sedated all of the problems
Sedated and long forgotten
I've locked it all away
Til i'm staring down the monster once again
Did i ever leave this place or have i just been biding my time?
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Under No Cross
02:11
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Born under the cross
Raised to bow to the almighty
Convinced of his son's divinity
But never any mention of the factual brutality
Deception. Oppression
This book, this tool, a weapon
A systematic way to brainwash the savages and pagans
With all of their traditions, spiritual instructions
Ancient knowledge obliterated by the blessed institution
Laws and lies used to dominate generation after generation
I have rejected the cross, cursed his name, and spit on his non-existent grave
Under no cross will my dead body lie
No heaven to where my spirit will fly
Let the dirt and worms consume my flesh
Let new life push through my ruined chest
Under no cross will my dead body lie
No heaven to where my spirit will fly
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Soil
03:26
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Spines
03:32
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Let's cut apart these stitches that intertwine our spines
Let's break the skin that is stretched across our wretched bones
Let's leave behind this putrid unison
But I'm having trouble concentrating
My goddamed hand keeps shaking
And the corpses of those I've burned at the stake seem to be calling out
"Sir, why do you hesitate?"
"He feels regret, because of the hell he cannot escape."
Just got to dig out the rest of what's left inside
But I keep scraping the bottom
Just got to dig out the rest
Still scraping the bottom
Just dig
Scrape the bottom
I am done trying to appease my diseased heart, love and peace long forgotten
Just got to dig out the rest
Still scraping the bottom
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Tuned (In)
00:59
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8. |
(Tuned) In
01:37
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All the blood and deceit
Keep distracted on your sceen
Eyes glued to that box
Full of lies just to keep you here
Just to keep you tuned in
To our show
Blind leading the blind
As you follow the fallacies
Why can't you think for yourself?
Just slaves and cowards
You won't be heard
You cower behind the masses
They heard like cattle on their way to the slaughter
Forcefed lies and bullshit
Like a captive bolt to the brain
All the greed and power
Means nothing in your final hour
How blind can you fucking be?
To be one with the sheep
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Disposable
02:55
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You over estimate how much I value my breath
You think I've forgotten my place?
Our bodies will break
Our minds will go
Anxiety will not be a virus in my life
and I'll whole-heartedly
Surrender my heart or head
When it's time
You overestimate your role in this
Like you've forgotten you're disposable
That your blood vessels will break
And your skin will bruise
When they're tired of holding you
Above there heads
Immunized, but infected
We'll carry it into your veins
Your Cold feet can't run across the fire
That you lit to warm yourself
You overestimate your role in this
Like you've forgotten you're disposable
And your skin will bruise
When they're tired of holding you
We are all immunized but infected
We'll carry it into your veins
Your Cold feet can't run across the fire
That you lit to warm yourself
You can no longer feel the blaze
They'll wait patiently inside of it
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The 21st Agenda Red Deer, Alberta
Levi-Guitar
Nelson-Drums
Keenan-Bass
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