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Heathen Blood
04:39
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Faith drives the dying need of conquest and destiny
Fear loves the company of corpses fed to vanity
Battle cries apostasy banners raised to agony
You’ll struggle better on your knees in front of altars built to fabled kings
White light and savagery in a name that no one speaks
Of right hand and pagan slaves screams rise that no one heeds
Bow down now / Cry out for a reason to live / For a reason to die
Holy holy god of mercy / In these killing fields your will is done
Praise be to hollow dreams tough love and tyranny
Sites aimed at dignity shots fired nothing left to see
The path of righteousness paved with the sweet caress
Of bodies burning to be blessed in the fetid lies confessed
Holy holy god of mercy / In these killing fields your will is done
Holy holy god of mercy / Thy name is born in heathen blood
You better learn to kneel, beg, bleed, and die.
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Lusus Naturae
04:16
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In this room there is a presence in this tomb there is no light
He’s not afraid of the monsters he’s afraid of what they hide
There’s a wall to keep them in there’s a wall to keep you out
It’s scratching just beyond his movements
It’s scratching all the way back down
There’s blood in the air it comes and it goes
A frantic parade that nobody knows
The darkness within the hatred without…It’s burning it’s way.
If all we’ll ever be is broken all we’ll ever know
Sweet malediction burning fire in blessed sin we come alive
The wolves are howling at his doorstep he sings along to their delight
She dances deep within his darkness her eyes ablaze the vibrant dawn
His only key beyond damnation his only chance to be reborn
There’s blood in the air it comes and it goes
A frantic parade that nobody knows
The darkness within the hatred without…It’s burning it’s way.
If all we’ll ever be is broken, all we’ll ever know is misery
These scars will live in infamy
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Skin
04:16
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In this distant silence buried down for way too long
You are writhing chaos, savage love, and higher law
We are blood and invocation sinful pulsing vicious light
Casting shadows on the walls to let the world come alive
You got me out of my mind I got you out of your skin
Breathing fire since the day it all began
This altar screams of heaven in the presence of the damned
This feral wisdom speaks of honor let’s dare to understand
These walls are sublimation where we hide a dark romance
With the knowledge we’ve acquired of the fires within
I’ve got you out of your skin
My mind keeps telling me stop before I go too far
But my heart’s racing to taste the depth of who we are
The flesh keeps calling me home above the stars of your light
And I can’t leave it alone I think I’m losing this fight
You got me out of my mind I got you out of your skin
So let me in.
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Desire
05:01
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Please let me touch the flame and burn just one more time and I’ll return
A taste so sweet upon my lips
I’ve led my life in simple praise and left myself to find your way
But I’m growing restless anticipating fate
I’ve been waiting for you / I’ve been searching for truth
Did you give me desire just to watch me fall
‘cause this pull is much stronger than your mission call
Yeah I’m so bored with the shame and I want it now…yeah I want it all
Did you give me desire just to watch me fall
Frustration grows in depths unreached this pushing pulling silent beast
It’s locked away inside of me
This cursed shell that drives decay is getting stronger every day
And I’ve grown to love its wild embrace
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Damascus
02:54
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Dear old friend this is the end this road begins and ends with death
And I can’t wait here anymore
As I’m called to justify defeat my heart is breaking here on my knees
And every word falls silently ignored
When in the stillness of the night I screamed your name
No shining light no not a word you never came
So I have come to lay these flowers at your grave
And move on in my name
Through these years I’ve lost control traded my life for nothing more
Than fevered dreams of shame and doubt
While I lay screaming bleeding please if you’re alive you’re still dead to me
And I know I’m all alone so I will leave
When in the stillness of the night I screamed your name
No shining light no not a word you never came
So I have come to lay these flowers at your grave
And move on in my name
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Set Up
04:15
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Yeah I was never quite good enough and I could never be the perfect one.
I don’t care cause goddamit I’m the only one I trust
I don’t need the lies you fear when I can smell the flames from here
I don’t need selective love
Doesn’t anyone else feel set up?
Set up
Don't you feel set up?
Set up
I won’t be tested on the terms you wrote when I can write them better note for note
I am the son of dawn and I’ve been selling myself short for way too long
In the temples of sure salvation through self-annihilation
Count me out I’ve had enough
Doesn’t anyone else feel set up?
Set up
Don't you feel set up?
Set up
I’ve given up on the taste of blood in the name of an ideal called love
I’ve whispered holy sacrament
And I’ve screamed my throat raw waiting for deliverance
Your kingdom’s nothing but a hollow shell
There’s nothing left inside to feed the crowds
Just vultures gathered in their sacred nests defining heresy and holiness
As we suffer for the sins they made up
Am I the only one that sees the coming flood
Doesn’t anyone else feel set up?
Set up
Don't you feel set up?
Set up
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Anthemic Hearts
04:57
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What will become of your legacy
Starving masses full of your holy disease
Give up for the kingdom yet unseen
Give up your here and now for what may never be
You’ll never see
Sins of the father fault of a god that made it so
We are the children you let go
Isn’t everyone here sick to death of crimes passed down lie after lie
Bowing down like slaves to be saved from on high
Why be sheep when we can rise
We are free we are wild
This is the anthem of our hearts desire
Took so long to see the truth
Of all the pain and sorrow that leaves you unmoved
Set us all up and blamed us well
Gave us temptation and then damned us to hell
You know very well
With hearts aflame and wisdom engaged
We are alive we are already saved
With no masters no gods we are called to no one
Free unafraid of an unfeeling father that raises his children to throw them away
Supplicant fools with their eyes on the grave.
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8. |
At War
04:11
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Blood flows from the throne room
The beast feeds tonight
I am hatred incarnate
The dawn of new light
No time for contrition
Let the strong come alive
Burn down the empire and take what's mine
I've been to hell now let's go to war
Just you and me let's settle the score
I've been to hell now let's go to war
Let’s go to war
No more hiding in the shadows
No more scraps from the floor
I am my own salvation
I am the God of war
The blinders are lifted
The king is a lie
I am heresy rising as the angel of light
I am the serpent uprising
The destroyer of worlds
Your dreams are empty delusions
I am the first stone hurled
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Remains
04:27
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With tongues of fire below the rising tide
I stand defiant upon the funeral pyre
Built with my own two hands to let the past catch fire
Throw the ash to the air begin the age of iron
So here I stand / Here I believe
That I am free / Because I chose to be
Stronger than death / Louder than shame
Let it all burn away and rise from the remains
Hymns of a native son reborn in Babylon
Calculating steps to hide the damage done
When there’s no hope or grace you learn to fight like hell
When there’s no savior you learn to save yourself
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Memento Mori
04:21
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From death comes new life
Unto wisdom divine
The tree of knowledge is burning bright
The serpent calls to arise
Ignite sabbatic pyres
Call familiars home
The end comes to all alike
To invoke the savage fight
And the walls come down
In this hidden light we burn
We burn much brighter
Hold it close and never let it go
Align the dawn to darkness
Against the rising tide
Of dust howling out for salvation
To a silent empty sky
Ignite sabbatic pyres
Call familiars home
The end comes to all alike
To invoke the savage fight
And the walls come down
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I have found in death alone a life to call my own
A vibrant coming home
Beyond illusion our path becomes more human
Our movements grow more restless
Until the darkness takes us
In absolution a final resting place
There’s nothing left to fear the fire draws us near
Before we disappear
Beyond illusion our path becomes more human
Our movements grow more restless
Until the darkness takes us
In absolution a final resting place in the stars once again
Now I’m at peace at last
Now I’m at peace with death
In absolution our final resting place in the stars once again
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12. |
Jettison
04:18
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Let the plague years burn in effigy
We have earned our own reprieve
Above the silent suffering
Of these slaves who live to bleed
Jettison cast away and start again
Jettison we’re our own deliverance
With my own hands I’ve forged these stones
To build a path through the unknown
With no more sins left to atone
A vibrant dawn of flesh and bone
I’ve come alive and I’m not letting it go
The past is dead and I have found a new home
I am unbound and rising up to my feet
I am reborn I am finally free
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Dark Fire
04:26
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We were banished by the sun
Hopeful sinners prideful love
We were savage and out of place
But in their shadows we found our way
Dark fire in your embrace
Countless hours longing to taste
Fallen angels on the run
Lurid hunger wicked lust
We are savage and out of place
But in their shadows we found our way
Dark fire in your embrace
Countless hours longing to taste
Let it be so, I will not let you go
Dark fire in your embrace
And I will not let you go
I will not let you go
Come hell or heaven, gods or men
I release myself to love again
And I will not let you go
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