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Intro/Anemoia
02:27
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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
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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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False Dichotomy
02:56
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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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Towering Regret
04:13
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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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To Whom It May Concern
05:09
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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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Summer's Fortnight/Coda
03:44
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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.
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