1. |
OFFICE FIRE
03:48
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Textbook descent
no chance of sudden collapse
Defying reason, fallen like a house of cards
sustaining minor damage
games of the mind cannot be won
lies & deceit
the symmetry will be the smoking gun
What has happened here?
The smell of helplessness & evil
plague(s) the frigid air
symmetric decimation
corrupting absolutely
Silence the arbitration
Never ending search for answers
As if there’s nothing left to find this
Motive manufactured
Stare to long and you’ll go blind
architectural impossibilities
creators band together to uncover its demise
unearth the lies
under-investigated deception
Devoid of scientific merit
Studies easily defied
Conquer the divide
Peeling back the layers
look the serpent in the eyes
Unearth the lies
Retrofitted structures
Piece together all the ties
Roll of the dice
Symmetric decimation
Textbook descent
no chance of sudden collapse
Defying reason, fallen like a house of cards
sustaining minor damage
the symmetry will be the smoking gun
Never ending search for answers
As if there’s nothing left to find
Motive manufactured
Look to long and you’ll go blind
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2. |
A CONTROLLED NARRATIVE
03:26
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Discredit those
who came before us
Methodically and technically advanced
as they may be
Shield the herd from the truth
Directing everything they see
The evidence dissolved
Collect it and destroy
Prevent the further questioning
Fill the gaps and seal the void
Silence the murmurs of the lost and great ones
Towering over us
Leave the mystery unsolved
the monuments in place
Excavate the answers
And tarnish the remains
Tombs of the forgotten
Deliberately removed in vain
Blinding the sheep from their past
Calculated movements of pieces in play
Time will truly be the test
Of this ancestry locked away
Pit one against the other
Discussion allows the secrets to remain
Those who question become the sick
Deluded and insane
Tarnish their remains
Never speak of this again
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3. |
RAT
04:43
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Remaining encased in this dormant place
Anchored by hate & disgrace
Wipe the dust from your ego, a new body will arise
Let the evil show its face
Time has been erased
The evil will show its face
Hoping for a mercy you’ll never see
In the end you will repeat this again
you wrote your victories in sand
Oblivious to what's coming next
You Attempt to recollect
the purpose of your being
To which You can't recall
Someday should You find yourself
You’ll be rid of these walls
Much like the rat in the alleyway
You’ve led your feral existence
You have been dismissed, dishonored
Much like the rat in the alleyway
You’ve led your feral existence
Drifted
In time and space we shall remain
Hopeless, you count the moments
Until you’re ridden of this disdain
Pushing back the shadow inside
Your eyes wide shut as they’ve ever been
Repression until darkness subsides
You have been dismissed, dishonored
Diagnosed with a plague
Now the dust settles
as your plans unfold
Blinded no more,
your subjects seek redemption
In the form of blood & gold
Time has been erased
Let the evil show its face
In the end you will repeat this again
you wrote your victories in sand
Remaining encased in this dormant place
Anchored by hate & disgrace
Wipe the dust from your ego, a new body will arise
Let the evil show its face
Let us see your face
Show yourself
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4. |
DISTURBING REALITY
04:38
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Placed here to rest in a state of decay
Withering away
Hoping to find yourself in embers
You will remain awake
Patiently you await
This frigid cold
Will scorch your spine
One too many times
Never ceasing
To release it's dreadful sting upon you
Your pain will see no end
The reality of all of this will eventually set in
Until then you'll push forward denying your intuition
So there you stand
Reduced to nothing with little to rebuild
You've not considered a fate like this
The frigid cold will scorch your spine time after time
Rooftops as far as the eye can see
Walking into the distance
Far enough to see through the darkness
Finding solitude in emptiness
A light at the end of it all
Will they be there to greet you
With memories of your past
Or condemn you further
To nurture this task?
How long will it last?
The frigid cold will scorch your spine one last time
These buildings clouding your vision of the nothingness beyond you
You’ll lay your head here in the end
The reality of this situation will eventually set in
Until then You'll push forward denying you intuition
How many months must pass before You are forgotten?
You will remain awake
Reduced to nothing with little to rebuild
You've not considered a fate like this
These rooftops cloud your vision of a better life before them
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5. |
CREATURE
04:35
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Lost In this place
No retribution for these acts of hate
You have been Taken away
To these hills of fear and regret
Where I will stay until the break of day
Alienated by your kind
You’re running away from from a life you thought you could escape
The suffering is relevant to the creature you create
They will not play further renditions of this worthless game
They will remember your name
The creature you create?
Vile
You will pay for your crimes
Vilified
Accepting the lies
You'll Take them for what their worth
Lost in this place
Accept this payment for your debts erased
Let them take you away
To these hills of fear and regret
Where you will stay until the break of day
This disease will spread inside of them
Causing secretion of the truth
They will not play any renditions of your worthless game
They will remember your name
Taken away
Atop these mountainous hills
You'll be encased
Until the break of day
They will remember your name
The creature you create
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6. |
UNTITLED DOCUMENT
03:47
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Possessed by the infinity
This is the second mind
Within a not so distant realm
the second self resides
Examine it a thousand times
Look at the fucking signs
Spoon-fed existence, just fall in line
Lean back & open wide
Shrouded in mystery
This is the burden to bare
So insignificant
Damned & internally aware
Suspended here eternally
This place is far too cold to flee
Awaiting a purpose not yet disclosed
And it may never be
They say ignorance is bliss
I guess we’ll fucking wait and see
What happens when they’ve had enough?
Visions of insanity fill a thoughtless cavity
Reaching beyond the fabric of reality
Find truth in nothing & begin this mental ravaging
Gaze into eternal nothingness
Spiraling towards a worthless consciousness
A Disturbing longing hopelessness
Infected by a sense of lifelessness
Visions of insanity fill a thoughtless cavity
Reaching beyond the fabric of reality
Find truth in nothing & begin this mental ravaging
Shrouded in mystery
This is the burden to bare
So insignificant
Damned & internally aware
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BYSTANDER Portland, Oregon
We are Bystander
We play Metal.
Portland, OR
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