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The Engineers (Intro)
00:31
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Dead Kids
02:27
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We’re the engineers of waste, death, and destruction
The universe is ours (at the center of nothing)
Empowered by the gas we shoot and flesh we decimate
Along this fuel-soaked path, flames coursing thru our veins
Until triggered
Our voracious need to go bigger
To fill the emptiness quicker
Without thought, regret or sorrow
For the dead kids of tomorrow
You’ll be dead and gone
Swallowed up by the earth that birthed you
In the years that come, your damage will be done
Leaving ashes at your grave
By fire we survive
By fire we will fall
Machines tell histories, a million stories tall
But welds like stem cells, can’t save this human blight
We, architect, peddler and casualty of our own demise
Our relentless need to get bigger
Will bring the emptiness quicker
Precious time we lost, now borrowed
From the dead kids of tomorrow
You’ll be dead and gone
Swallowed up by the earth that birthed you
In the years that come, your damage will be done
Leaving ashes at your grave
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Tongues
03:00
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We sons and daughters,
Must change the ways in which we play
Impulse cannot be the driver
Of desire unwanted and unchained
Wolves veil themselves in suits of power
Untouchable and without shame
Until the (un)silent army beckons
Tongues like weapons, unrelenting
Words are vengeance
Death to name
May the bullet you eat taste as sweet as the life you stole
Innocence lost
Love soured by pain
Flames lick
Naked wounds
Every breath that he takes
Words are vengeance
Death to name
May the bullet you eat taste as sweet as the life you stole
We sons and daughters
Must change the ways in which we play
Impulse cannot be the driver
Of desire unwanted and unchained
Wolves veil themselves in suits of power
Untouchable and without shame
Until the (un)silent army beckons
With tongues like weapons
Death’s her name
Words are vengeance
Death to name
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4. |
Bones
02:49
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Judge not, believers
Brainwashed misleaders
Your hypocrisy has no bounds
Your glass house is in ruins
Scattered fragments of lies like uncovered mines
Turn a blind eye
A messy reminder of the bones beneath your throne
Holy wars you condone
The bodies you aren’t shown
A danger to your fettered mind
Consumed by ancient myth
Force feeding make-believe
Gun and shackle at your hip
Inconvenient truths of the worlds beyond your own
The ties that you disown
These bodies aren’t your own
In fear of beastly monsters
Damned in ancient scripts
Buried safe inside you
Noose and gavel in your grips
Do you hear the hollow clack-clack-clack
Of rolling bones beneath your feet?
Do you hear the silent screams
Of those who’d rather die in truth than grovel in defeat?
Face it, let pain bring you to your knees
Head down, look now at what have you done
These bones are your bones, Ghostfather and the immortal son
When the reign is over, only bones will remain
A grave reminder that in death we are one and the same
When the reign is over, only bones will remain
A grave reminder that we are one
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5. |
Lost Cause
02:09
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This is a thinly-veiled, strategic strike on sanity
Dizzy from false rhetoric and scorched earth fantasies
We take another detour to the streets with jaws agape
Chanting patchwork protest songs, in loops we can’t escape
And still we rant till words crack static, another cause forlorn
As from their quenchless, bloated guts another order’s born
A conveyer belt of rift accords to expand the chasm floor
And shatter vision like a mirror
forgetting what we’re fighting for
What are YOU fighting for?
What are WE fighting for?
This is a loose-lipped, rambling trip to power’s slippery edge
Twisting hallowed halls of fallen idols, phone in hand
Hedge words left unchewed upon the screen he hides behind
Retching vile network views, in sound bites for the blind
Behind the veil, reveal the stalking eel amongst the coral
Preying on the little fish, who pray before his glow
All living things within jaws reach, shall cease to exist
Resist! Resist! Resist!
Orange is the new white
Power is what they’re fighting for
Orange is the new white
Power is what we’re fighting
Resist! Resist! Resist!
What are you fighting with?
This war of words is futile
Fuck a sound debate
Actions are much louder
When fighting hate with hate
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6. |
Bring the Fear
02:38
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May the walls he resurrects
Seal you in from the rest
And smother you like a concrete pillow
Choking the air from your fucking chest, you pig!
The clouds are rolling fast but everything’s okay
You’re white and fine, they fought and died
you’ll live to see another day
All that is sacred, all that we hold dear
Will up and vanish in a shit-storm when the man brings the fear
Empty millennium is the only fucking hope for change
Unless it’s instant, then we might as well get off the stage
Don’t heed the warning, it’s fucking boring
Hey man, believe me, you’ll be choking when the man brings the fear
You can’t imagine the chains that will come
As long as you’re swiping, you’ll still be number 1! 1! 1!
Turn around at that camera man and give those fans a big thumbs up
You’re just a waste of sprawling space
All covered and superficial, GO
That is, unless of course, you’re colorful with no fucking voice
Rode the backs of the white working class
For backroom deals, with elite appeal
And you’re just no use to them
You’re helpless! You’re feckless! Now Fear!
You won’t be laughing you’ll be crying when the man brings the fear
You won’t be bathing you’ll be frying when the man brings the fear
You won’t be laughing
When the man brings the fear
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Deja Vu
00:37
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Blood will spill on the streets tonight
To spare the gallows tree
Wild pigs hunt for rattled prey
Forced to fight or flee
Fear engrained, so deep
History repeats
Hidden by a badge
Or a fucking sheet
Blood on the sheets
Or blood on the streets
History repeats
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