1. |
Return to the Shrine
03:16
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Are you out there?
Can you hear me now?
Or am I all alone?
All I can do
Is stand and tell the truth
All I can say
Until the end of days
Are you in there?
Can you hear me now?
Is anybody home?
All I can do
Is stand and tell the truth
All I can say
Until the end of days
Just down the street there’s something going on
Only got time to sing another song
So listen up lovers, and listen up well
We’re each holding the keys to our hells
So will you go or will you stay
Just like yesterday
When they come looking I’ll be long gone
Won’t catch me in town for too long
So hang another hero, kill another king
Can’t take the power that makes this hammer swing
Another perfect getaway
Just like yesterday
The noise keeps coming
Staying up late tonight
Up all night
Can’t get enough
And it rolls like thunder
Shakes my brains tonight
Burning bright
Burning me up
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2. |
Out of Mind
05:09
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The time is here
The age of fear
You lie awake
Somewhere someone’s being raped
In the dead of night
Another seven suicides
Terror waits outside your door
Could be you it’s waiting for
Cause we all know
There’s no control
Beyond the walls
There’s a war against us all
Which road will you take
For your escape
What leads you to the end
Which way will your river run
When all is done
Everflowing to our death
Grind the mud
Join the ranks
See the world from inside your tank
Shoot them up
Shoot them down
Throw their women to the devil’s hounds
Taste the blood
Lick the blade
You’re just another savage slave
And when the time
For you has come
You will feed the beast with your own sons
Burning in the distance
Another city falls
Divided and disabled
It’s coming for us all
In the name of freedom
Says the voice of heaven’s truth:
Go and get thy neighbor
Before he gets to you
So hide amongst the shadows
Hide behind the gun
Hide your piece of guilt
For all the evil being done
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3. |
Paradise Lust
05:25
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She was all that I needed
She was all that I had
And when they took her from me
It turned a good man bad
They were carnivorous
That night they came to us
Our deadbolts couldn’t hold
Gun barrels icy cold
I heard the last one say
This only ends one way
Then threatened deadly harm
And took you from my arms
What was once love in me
Is now my vengeful need
You bastards crossed the line
You took that child of mine
Now in this evil place
For you no mercy waits
You have a piece of me
There is no victory
Why
Tell me why
The last light in the world
I can’t believe this
It’s finally real
I’ve got to flee this
I can’t explain the fear I feel
I’m not there
I’m not there
These are desperate days
And the nights are even worse
These are desperate days
And the nights are even worse
Wish I could hide away
From this dying world
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4. |
The Idea of Progress
04:35
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Stand up
Watch your back
Here comes the next attack
You better sharpen your knife
No time to run for your life
How much fear can you survive?
If the streets will burn tonight
Ain’t no time to run
Got to stay and fight
Shut up
Hold your fire
Did you just call me a liar
I see you making that fist
I know you aim to resist
How much hope can you survive?
If the bomb goes off tonight
Ain’t no time to run
Got to stay and fight
Through our hypocrisy
We find new enemies
We watch the mirror well
Turns us against ourselves
And when the joy is gone
Time just keeps moving on
We stand too proud to cry
Wait for the world to die
If I’m the last survivor
How will I know
When it’s safe to go
All the ground is shaking
All the light is gone
Our battle rages on and on and on and on
If I should live forever
Longer than the sun
And I’m the only one
Would I still remember
Before the endless night
Would I even know whether I was still alive at all
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5. |
Twisting the Nest
06:22
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If you go out tonight
Don’t you join that fight outside
‘Cause you can’t win
They will shoot to kill
You know they always will
And that’s no sin
We heard that broken glass
They came inside
They left us beaten, broke
And terrified
I saw the last one laugh
With venom in his eye
They took the young as slaves
And let the old ones die
Every night there’s less control
Soon nobody’s safe at home
You can stay or you can go
But your fight is bound to come
Hard times with the doctors gone
Been feeling sick for too long
If I get water, I get by
Til that secret well runs dry
We shall burn
We shall burn
We shall burn
We shall burn
I hear a weary voice
Always in my head
Or maybe riding on
The storm outside instead
Either way I must find out
If she’s still alive
If it takes a trip to hell
Til I’m satisfied
And I’m never going home
That place was gone long ago
So long ago
Take me back
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6. |
Underworlder
05:03
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Just up the road
The bombs explode
And now the last remains of order start to go
Fight Steal Rape Kill
Fight Steal Rape Kill
Fight Steal Rape Kill
Fight Steal Rape Kill
With our city on its knees
As our blood runs down the streets
Our life is on the line
Is this the end of time?
Down here in the dungeon
Somehow I stay alive
Trapped here in constant fear
One more sleepless night
Anybody thinking of me
Probably thinks I’m dead
Or that I’m part of this
The madness overhead
Do you know the way
Will you now recant your lies
If all of you betray
Then all of you must die
Live by the fear
Die by the fate
If you see my face
It’s already too late
One more night
One more night
One more night
One more night
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7. |
Loyal to Death
05:40
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So few the faithful
So long in our gloom
We can’t get to safety
We hasten to our doom
Death goes on
Hope is gone
Check your breath
There’s nothing left
Now comes the chaos
Black sm oke hides the moon
The violence is greater
We’ll all be dead soon
Seen before
Door to door
Evil eye
Join or die
Hard life for a lonely man
But I do what I do and I do what I can
Hard life for a lonely man tonight
Hard life for an honest man
But I stick to my guns and stick to my plan
Hard life for an honest man tonight, tonight
Civil war
Civil war
Your worst enemy
Right next door
Civil war
Civil war
Taste humanity’s
Rotten core
And when the lights go out forever
And you forget that you were ever young
She has come this way I know
Her scent is strong along this road
I will follow
I will follow
They know that we’re coming
And I like when they’re scared
See them run for their children
As if somebody cares
We are the devil
We are the end
Get em down on their knees now
Make em look in your eyes
And if they start praying to god
Don’t give em the time
‘Cause we are the devil
We are the end
Until all of us are gone
We must stand together strong
So another day will dawn
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8. |
Requiem for a Coward
04:26
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Thinking back to the beginning
Couldn’t see how this would end
I should have known
I would die alone
With no love here
Just a feast of fear
There was comfort in the shadows
I never liked the taste of blood
Then I turned my back
Fell in my own trap
And the blood is mine
Turning into wine
They are hiding deep within the walls
By morning we will find them all
Stand and face them
Stare them down
Growl and chase them
Claim your ground
Stand and fight them
Curse and spit
Brawl and bite them
Don’t you quit
Murder in the alleyways
Torture in the streets
Slaughter right at your front door
All that you can eat
Better get your gun
Better get your gun
Now before those bastards
Just burn us all alive
Show ‘em what they’ve got in store
We’ll give them the knife
If they want blood
We’ll give them blood
They’ll get it good
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I stood beside it all
As they fought like hell
Will anyone survive it all
Who will live to tell
How suddenly and wickedly
This burned out city fell
As I walk into the war
I find what I’m searching for
Like an angel from the sky
She descends before my eyes
She has no
She has no
She has no face
I fear her
I fear her
I fear her pain
My hand becomes a shaking fist
How could this have come to this
I strike her devastated head
And strike again until she’s dead
We’re all abused
Bloodied and confused
We know the end is coming soon
We’ll never know who was the one
To send us headfirst to our deaths
Did you join the action
Did you take the bait
You’re an easy target
And my aim is great
If it helps to know
You’re the last to go
And I know
I’m taking you down
Could you smell the glory
Did you feel the rush
You’re a brainwashed killer
With too much guts
When you expire
Burn out your fire
You’ll just be put down
Scared to death, we set our spirits free
Our flesh will follow by the rising sun
We understand, we understand
We gave our lives to the chosen ones
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10. |
Two Survivors
01:37
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Most dead
All gone
In the darkest hour before the dawn
Rise up
Two appear
Both from very far from here
So cold
In their eyes
In a city where the life ran dry
Now stand
Man to man
Going back to where it all began
I know what this part is for
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11. |
Inferno
10:20
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They come to us with starry eyes
We shelter them in ancient lies
Tempt them all with paradise
Then cut them down to size (cut them down to size)
Their living souls are not enough
Their bodies all will rot for us
A tale of how the world once was
Written in their blood (written in their blood)
Sacrifice, sacrifice
Take them all, don’t ask why
Sacrifice, sacrifice
Waste them all, let them die
We’ve come for all your riches
We will desecrate them
We’ll turn your children vicious
As we manipulate them
Your fear of us is paramount
We serve our devils well
As beasts we are so arrogant
And make our ways to hell
Into the black, to our memory’s end
The faces of death now in line
I can still see them, twisted and bent
Stare from their grief into mine
Now in our sadness, everything fades
Into the cosmic expanse
We should have known, we lost our way
Back when this nightmare began
No surrender
I remember you
No surrender
I remember you
Take me back
Take me back
Take me back
Clinging to what’s left of us
We are the last, we are the last
Nauseous from our hunger
And the stench of burning bone
We walked the road you laid for us
We have come, we have come
We want whatever waits for us
We grovel at your throne
I hear your deathly cries
I know you’re hoping I
Might pull the plug and let you die
I love your sorrow so
Your torture hard and slow
Don’t think I’ll ever let you go
I am the one, Orgasmatron, a cold and trembling hand
Endless and insidious, a trap for every man
I am all your nightmares, I hobble your free will
Numb in your depressions, I paralyze you still
I will rule your cities, make every nation my whore
For I am fear, the death of love, and I will win the war
Told you so
Now you know
Gently weep
Back to sleep
Tears are in my eyes tonight
Can’t get the words out right
It’s hard
No matter what we say
Our time still fades away
Like yesterday
Goodnight
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