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Burden Of Obligation
04:49
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Promise, potential, given to us all,
Not to be wasted,
Gifted, bequeathed, this treasure at our feet,
Not to be wasted,
Responsibility, maturity, to steward this purity,
Not to be wasted,
The burden of obligation, to the gift of this creation,
To know our place in gratitude,
To know our fate in servitude,
The burden of obligation,
The gift of this creation,
Not to be wasted,
But what have we done,
What has this become,
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Raped Into Being
02:20
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Raped Into Being
No other reason to exist
No desire to desist
Too willing not to see
Too willing not to feel
Born unto ignorance
Living your life at freedoms' expense
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Poine
04:21
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For a lifetime you've covered your eyes
Willfully blind to your crimes but we have seen it all
For an age you have drowned out the sounds of pain
Indifferent to the cries of billions of innocent deaths
Lives in vain
But their screams are symphonic to our ears
And your silence speaks a deafening fear
And no excuse will shield you
And no excuse will save you
A knife to the throat
A cut for every victim
A bullet for every abuse
A bullet for every excuse
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Deaths Companions
03:13
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Illusions of grandeur,
Procreating beliefs and systems,
Built on assumptions, built on ego,
Believe that you know, know that you believe,
Your entrenched beliefs will be your downfall,
The firmer your ground, the harder you fall,
This truth is free, sovereign, unchained,
uncompromised by your accusations,
unsullied by your debasement,
Indifferent to you indignation,
---“Let everything that's been planned come true.
Let them believe.
And let them have a laugh at their passions.
Because what they call passion actually is not some emotional energy,
but just the friction between their souls and the outside world.
And most important, let them believe in themselves.
Let them be helpless like children, because weakness is a great thing,
and strength is nothing. When a man is just born, he is weak and flexible.
When he dies, he is hard and insensitive. When a tree is growing,
it's tender and pliant. But when it's dry and hard, it dies.
Hardness and strength are death's companions.
Pliancy and weakness are expressions of the freshness of being.
Because what has hardened will never win.”
― Andrei Tarkovsky ---
Your resistance will break you,
Submission will save you,
To the truth of the whole,
From the depths of the soul,
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Leave Her Barren
04:29
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The blood of my children pools at your feet
We watch you raping our mother
Turn your face to the sky pretend not to see
No respect for creation I hear her silently screaming to me
Shaving her virtue strip her of honour
In the womb of her beauty planting your seed
Leaving her barren victim of your greed
Violently plundered but locking-lacking in need
Your denial will not save you
Your ignorance cannot save you
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To Your Knees
03:50
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This is the consequence,
This is the result,
Of your stubborn ignorance,
Of not admitting your faults,
All of the reasons,
The wrath of the seasons,
You can act like you don't know,
But your nature will show,
For your absolute disregard,
For your total contempt,
For your lack of empathy,
For the world you have spent,
There will be no forgiveness,
There will be no reprieve,
Before the wrath of this world,
You will be forced to your knees,
But then it will be too little,
By then it will be too late,
For the light of my love,
You eclipsed,
With the darkness of your hate,
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Just To Die
02:22
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Endless repetition
Cycle of horror unimagined by those complicit
Worse than any hell described
Darker than any demon
More wrathful than any god
Life of terror naively thought impossible
Systematic unending abuse
And for your part
A role in the evil you chose to ignore
Now for your part
For your eternal role
Existing just to die
Your life your actions
Now live your lie
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The Divine Promise
05:59
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We have watched eternally, we have observed,
All of the pieces set in motion, Their roles have been served,
Within these rules, within these boundaries,
Momentum has been built, forged of passion, in boundless foundries,
The sum of these parts, to the end from the start,
Causes based on effects, the blind asking questions,
Suspicious of the select, Succumbing to pressures,
To the minority we gave ability,
For the whole picture to be seen,
For their souls to move free,
And now is the time to reset,
From the ruins,
From the failures,
From the disappointments,
The future to beget,
To sum up the parts, to the end from the start,
We promised you this, this was promised to you,
Nothing new... Something new...
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Life As A Dream Records London, UK
One man record label. I dedicated my life to music. And I meant it.
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