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INTRO
01:14
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Our impulses are being redirected. We are living in an artificially induced state of consciousness that resembles sleep. The movement was begun eight months ago by a small group of scientists who discovered - quit by accident - these signals being sent through... The poor and the underclass are growing. Racial justice and human rights are nonexistent. They have created a repressive society, and we are their unwitting accomplices. Their intention to rule rests with the annihilation of consciousness. We have been lulled into a trance. They have made us indifferent to ourselves, to others. We are focused only on our own gain. Please understand. They are safe as long as they are not discovered. That is their primary method of survival. Keep us asleep, keep us selfish, keep us sedated (They live, 1988).
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AMONG RUINS
03:30
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Among the ruins
We shine like a bright light
Feet nailed on the ground
Eyes lost in the sky
A dry throat in this dry land that never rains
Yet in this drought we have grown solid and great
we're still alive, in these times, in this alienation
a beating heart in this flatline
We parted ways, we cannot be a part of this
Get off our ruins and take along your sympathy
Cause we refused to live a life in daily doses
fuck your white robes, batons, suits and golden crosses
Below dark skies a bright light
All hell is here we don't need to die
Below dark skies a bright light
All hell is here we will never die
Among the ruins
We shine like a bright light
Feet nailed on the ground
Eyes lost in the sky
A dry throat, no rain us for us today
No comfort fountain in our way
Everything's fine enjoy your day
Birthward, obedience then an early grave
Like we are stuck on starting line
This race lasts a lifetime
Days and decades passing by
No finish line in our sight
Below dark skies a bright light
All hell is here we don't need to die
Below dark skies a bright light
All hell is here we will never die
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3. |
LOCKED AND LOST
04:59
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You try to make me believe
They would do that thing to me
I thought we had a deal
The others suffer, it is never me
Now I'm trying to find
Where the warm world's gone
I wait alone and betrayed
In this soul stripin cold
I gave up trying because, I am afraid
I can't think clear because, I'm afraid
They know better than me, I'm afraid
I want my safe old space, I'm afraid
I'm afraid, make it go
I'm afraid, make it stop
I'm afraid and they know
I'm afraid
They no more hide the lies
Tyranny now thrives in plain sight
Buried inside counting the tiles
Bury me inside see what's left alive
The killers seem so worried
So they must be right
Let me pay the price
The age of helix arise
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4. |
SUE IS IDLE
04:30
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He holds a clock above my head ticking backwards
Resentfully laughing to himself
He's climaxing more and more as he's holding
My intestines in his dirty hands
Steps on my feet on every step I'm taking
Putting is ugly face 'tween me and joy
One promise to myself is that one day
I'll hug him tight and throw us into the void
He was a stranger but now he's in my veins
It was just cloudy but now it started to rain
He heard the sound of a life collapsing
my lighter's flame gave his eyes a spark
He smelled the rotting and the cheap poison dropping
and found his way to me into the dark
Now he's my shadow on my trail of shadows
Sees with my eyes and he breaths with my lungs
I'd love you all to meet my deadly tormentor
No way I live and no way he dies
He was a stranger but now he's in my veins
It was just cloudy but now it started to rain
She left a note with shaky letters and a wine stain
Unpaid bills upon her bed and pills to numb the brain
Sue had it all but not enough to kill the pain
Sue had it all but not enough to flee her fate
Sue had no more of her blood to give
Her knees got weak climbing this slippery hill
Got a one way ticket to the land of the free
Where she could finally rest and sleep
Now Sue is idle but Sue is ok
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5. |
VIANNOS, KALAVRITA
07:23
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Black clouds gathered above our heads this dawn
No sign or warning that we are on death row
The fields are trembling from iron heading our way
What curse fell upon us to witness such a day
Just give them death no walls for nests
Plunder and rape then burn the rest
No river flows to wash the shame
and no wind blows to clear the stench
Who is a foe and who's a friend?
who shoved this bullet in my head?
Is this a work from a man insane?
or are there more digging my grave?
There is no way it's heaven sent
only the mortal can do this to men
Twisted minds with deathful eyes
Bringing the horror to our land
No need for running our fate is sealed
We'll meet our maker and pay for his sin
Left nothing breathing but names on the stone
Will keep reminding what we died for
Motionless girls thrown on the dirt
with dresses ripped, spread open legs
What shoved its teeth in infants' throats?
what kind of beast came here to feast?
How come it's time for me to die?
Why is my head split into half?
Can I have some of my wine
Before I kiss this world goodbye?
There was no hope, there were no saints
The prayers never made it to the clouds
And in this time of need and doubt
Devil wept in vain while God averted his face
The chimney is smoking but no one's cooking
The candle's burning but no one's reading
The baby's crying but no one's listening
The clock is swinging (ticking) it keeps on swinging
Mother I'm lying down by our kin’s infertile slope
My blood is pouring, our trees will now get to grow
Your man, your father, your son is laying on the rocks
Go wear those blacks now, protect my carcass from the crows
For I am gone but I ain't lost
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6. |
LOW WAGE VIGILANTES
06:16
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Gaze at the fire across the nation
took an oath, got a gun, god bless you
evil in your eyes
Living life undignified
A puppy to the hand that feeds
a shark against the one who bleeds
one suit commands and you stand still
one suit commands you bite and kill
But we know it, you are something sick
And you know it, you are just a prick
And they know that you can kill for food
Ant they know that servant ain't no pure
Gaze at the fire across the nation
took an oath, got a gun, god bless you
evil in your eyes
Living life undignified
A puppy to the hand that feeds
a shark against the one who bleeds
one suit commands and you stand still
one suit commands you bite and kill
But we know it, you are something sick
And you know it, you are just a prick
And they know that you can kill for food
Ant they know that servant ain't no pure
Someday I know your smile will fade
Knee on your throat, you'll meet the real law
One day I know your smile will fade
Knee on your throat, you'll meet the real law
One fiery night you'll meet the hate
That stupid grin you have will turn into a frown
No consequences for the harm you're doing daily
you hate the scum that’s why the scum will hate you equally
Omonoia P.D means people dying frequently
Taking a share from prostitutes, dealing cocaine and weed
You are above the law that's why the law's so low for me
You've never beaten up a millionaire in custody
You're playing punisher only to those who’re broke and weak
so when it’s time to pay you’ll never see a tear from me
Someday I know your smile will fade
Knee on your throat, you'll meet the real law
One fiery night you'll meet the hate
That stupid grin you have will turn into a frown
Born to be hated and cursed to obey
Fate of a hunter who turns into prey
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NINE TO DEATH
05:42
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I'm asking for pension, they say that I got to work more
Forty more years but I'm already bored
It's not nine to five, it feels more like nine to death
Serving your tables spittin your coffee and bread
I hide in the cellar, stealing some minutes again
I'm daydreaming of bending you over this deck
Some assholes need me to put on my chain again
Put on some manners, abide by my nine to death
Unloading and loading the same truck again and again
what is the purpose of those fuckin things that you send?
Black Friday products for morons to stand in the line
Losing their dignity trying to save them a dime
Doodling some lyrics for songs that will never be played
Pour me one more, tomorrow I'm showing up late
Instead of your ass I am grabbing my too heavy head
Still can't comply to my working nine to death
Nine to death is the life of the people I know
Charged with unbearable, lifelong sentence to work
Wrists all-destroyed, spines that cannot take no more
You are a fuck-up so shut up and mop me the floor
Planning for day off, or maybe I'm taking a trip
Who am I kidding? I'll smoke and I'll drink till I sleep
Making you moan is the cause fulfilling my life
What are your work hours? Babe, it's not nine to five
It's nine to death.
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8. |
DEATH ISLAND COCTAIL
04:48
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Rodents, they want a piece of me hungry for lives not meant to be
They never rest their hateful eyes along with these flames, hate will rise
It is me who heard the sirens
choking with their own voices
I had the waves crash into me
Struggling to drown my misery
I see the lightning through this fabric
I hear the waves reaching for me
Pestilence spreading all around me
Now watch me bleed, you love when I bleed
Rodents, they want a piece of me hungry for lives not meant to be
They never rest their hateful eyes along with these flames, hate will rise
Now look at me you know me well
I live the tale you love to tell
I am your myths I am your past
Different times but times that last
So come along enjoy yourself
The drink is cold, the sun is red
We made a comfy, bloody bed
For you to lay and to forget
Wipe your tears, it's getting late
this life is always painted gray…
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9. |
THE JESTER
01:18
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