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Preconceived Notions

by Amber of the Land

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Oh, I'll kill you all For what I seek, my fellow man's acceptance Your blood paints my ragged hands I'll light it all, right where they stand Your blood is no longer my own You surrender, but that will never stop me You're scalped and beaten dead Your screams feed my appetite Giving purpose to my life Please accept me, it's the least I could do Regaining sanity I awake from this dream Crushing sobriety Not all is what it seems Anna, please forgive me But I owed a lot of debt (to myself) Little did I know how much it would hurt I can't let that man get away Comstock, let her go Goddamn you all to hell Zachary Hale Comstock I'll never forget your name Don't think you'll get away with this It is "you" who's gonna die in the end Your birth is no longer my own You'll surrender, but that never stops me With this fountain I'll crack your head Killing feeds my appetite Giving purpose to my life Please die already, your resilience knows no bounds
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You speak of a moral decline Politicians fighting for a better day When blacks were in their place (the cotton fields) Women, effeminate and fine Racists, bigots, "Followers of Christ" America as you knew it, never existed The good ol' days, a facade of ways The white man raped and pillaged In the name of God divine Writing's on the wall Not in your book of holy law Preconceived notions In perpetual motion A manifest destiny doomed to fall Ideas best left entombed Divide and conquer the indigenous life A reservation will do them good For they don't know the word of our Christ The savages, all damned buffoons
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My Ideal 05:02
Wind the tape back and take a breath Try again and again Hit record and start anew Pretend the past is gone But don't you know the wounds won't heal When the cuts keep coming back The only thing that will pull us through this hell is burning Worlds apart You know it's the truth And yet you invite me with open arms Not so soon I won't be your fool Goodbye and good riddance My ideal Can't you see what's happening The storm that soon unfolds? Morbid curiosity Leads me back into that home A blind hope that all is well When nothing's ever changed Will carry me from whence I came Endless suffering Worlds apart You knew it was the truth And yet you invited me with open arms Not so soon I'm not your fool It's been a long time My ideal Get the fuck out of my mind Don't you know your fucking place? In the past, a distant memory To recall with a knowing smile Not this pain, nor this misery Won't let it fill my empty days I don't see this in my future So forgive me, let it die!
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It's a declaration of war All be damned except the ones who call the shots Haves against the have-nots Victor's always the same It's a game the wise men play With the pawns we call the poor Draft them up Their blood will paint the new revolution False dichotomy It's either us or them Don't need your sympathy We won't rest 'til the world is ours 'Til the weapons of our time are sheathed with blood Man's own conquest of itself has just begun Fiscal responsibility As long as it's not defense The biggest, the best, to compensate For all that's missing It's a game That we play Draft them up The new revolution!
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Lord knows why you think I'm brighter than the stars Out of anyone, it's you who's seen the hate inside my heart Deceived by emotion, a towering regret That I must hold dear Unlike the things you wish I had before the fall Spinning aimless through time and space Without a worthy cause Direction-less without a fault Believe in all that's lost Running from the things that make me break apart like shattered glass I cannot escape My death is soon to pass It was you Who thought I was brighter than the stars Look forth and see the wretchedness within An ever-dimming light with no more fuel to burn No matter where you turn The shadows aren't so thin
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Yearning for a change, but little did you know what you wished for "Just give him a chance!", you say, "everything will go so fine and well" "It will be okay", we say as another day goes by Complacency How many more will have to die? I think it's time to realize That we're going nowhere fast on a pack of lies Follow the money, it will take us where we all need to go By that, I mean, the corruption that is soon to follow "Will we be okay?", they say, yet another day goes by Complacency How many more are still to die? I think it's time we realize That the man behind that desk is not alright Indoctrinate Temporarily embarrassed millionaires Legislate Our worldview brings "truth" to power Desecrate Any semblance of common decency Devastate Everybody who is in its wake Wolves in bank clothes, feasting on a meal of cash But like all great things, it was never meant to last
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With a sigh, I carry on again Nothing like a brand new day Just another way to feel the pain We should learn to live a life with regrets What it means when we lose everything And that it really hurts Yet at the end of the day I celebrate anyway Believe me, the burden was too much Begone, memories of once passed Keep going forward, anything is possible I am me Nothing that you do will change that I and only I can choose what's best for myself
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Now available under a Creative Commons Attribution license.
11/1/2020: Reuploaded all tracks in true 24-bit. Track end silences may be longer or shorter due to how I originally autocalculated that.

A mix of styles but mostly rooted in speed or thrash oriented soundscapes.
Probably inconsistent in quality given they were originally written across the last seven years.

Composed and produced in REAPER 5.
No real instruments were played in this production.

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released October 17, 2017

Adam O'Dell-
Vocals, writing, programming, mixing and mastering

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Amber of the Land Hillsboro, Illinois

A programmed metal project by Adam O'Dell.

I also put my electronic projects on this page under my actual name.

My music is now CC Attribution licensed.

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