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Scapegoat Season
07:40
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So this is our attempt in accepting a legacy
The wealth of recent prosperous years
Freedom in various forms we grown used to
In numbing decadence some call for revolution
A revolution not in sense of restoration of freedom
But in a harsh limitation to strengthen their own might
To trade chaos against stability
Put corruption instead of integrity
Fill minds with fear and hatred
And to deconstruct an establishment
Eroding integrity until it seems feasible again
To come up with dismal thoughts
Utter them unabashedly
Or even put them into practice
Making atrocities great again
They demand sacrifices for the greater evil
While considering themselves too good to take a part
Therefor new adversaries are readily to hand
New scapegoats singled out as the cause for the trouble
Frustrated by their own despair
Radicalized by prejudice and lies
It seems simple to project the own problems onto the weak
Making them feel unworthy and overburdened by gilt
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2. |
Those
07:35
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Ignore the facts
Spread the fakes
In small doses
Easily to accept
Forming truth and lies
Within your small world
The strong opinion of weak intellect
Without reason
But vociferous
It's only heresy they spit
Sparked in the hearts of the ignorant
Willful and unaware
Or in self-deception all along
If you know nothing you will fall for any lie
It is not the voice of the majority
Yet they tend to speak for us all
Even though they are profoundly wrong
They convince the narrow-minded
Vox populi
Vox idiocy
Ultima irratio
The less I know the more convinced I am
The louder I proclaim the more people will follow
The more who support the more convinced I am
The loudest idea becomes an approved concept
Vox populi
Vox idiocy
Ultima irratio
Risen from the valley of ignorance
Enlisted as a mindless minion
I climbed, I conquered mount stupid
To withhold the law of the dumb
Decapitate the tinfoil hats
With the sharpness of the truth
Let it be known that they were wrong all along
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3. |
Open Wound
07:08
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"Neverending fire"
Haunted and driven by doubt. Silent ever growing wound. Festering.
No pain no conscience. Only darkness. Numb. No remorse.
Done is done for life. For love. This is the price. The price for truth.
Don’t look back. Don’t look to me for answers. Look within. Dig deeper ever deeper Inside the wound. Deeper inside the wound.
I search for truth in a sea of sin. Only to be judged by lesser men. Temptation rising. It’s getting stronger. Give in to it: The power of a bleeding heart.
Relentless pulse, pushing down. Unforgiving. The end approaching.
There are no answers. There is no meaning. Become the darkness and turn into the light.
A festering wound. Feed the flame. The burning truth. My soul ascending.
We are all dead in a world without purpose. Can’t you feel it tearing you limb by limb? Move on through beyond and above and turn towards the light.
Light is fading as I dig deeper. Descending (into the) eternal abyss. (I) Light the flame and feel the wound. Light the flame and feel the wound.
Become the darkness and walk into the light
Become the darkness and walk into the light
We are all dead in a world without purpose. Can’t you feel it?
Temptation rising. It’s getting stronger. Digging deeper. A bleeding heart!
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4. |
Arnoured in Pride
06:40
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To face the problems of our reality
We should start fighting status quo
But the prevailing opinion
Is to abide one's time
We better uphold the illusion
That there are no consequences
No dilemma
And no conflicts in our lives
All the thinking about solutions
Is impossible for the mind
And changing well-loved habits
Only proves to be too radical
No one wants to feel remorse
It's so much easier to rejoice
And with power comes the luxury to reject
For ignorance is bliss
We can't have contemptuous blathering
About what's to be done
We can't admit mental incompetence
For we can't stand any frailty
In our delusion of grandeur we think our system is too big to fail
We just close our eyes to the abysmal truths
We are living up to high standards
And dying to our expectations
To who do we repent when the end is hand
Are we not the gods who fucked it up
So we armour ourselves in pride
And in ignorance we will stride
The downfall is inevitable
We are extinction’s advocates
Is it wise to fight for survival
When the world is better off without us
We proclaim the fall of mankind
we are extinction’s advocates
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5. |
Greatest Of All Species
07:00
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A radically selfish species man is
Proven to be the mightiest for now
But only a fragment of a great diversity
Yet so marginal to life itself
But can we prosper without all the others
Who are cleaning and rejuvenating the environment
And being food and processor of untamed lands
Those lesser creatures evenly developed
And in their own kind and behavior
More advanced in comparison
In surviving and processing than man
The macrocosm wouldn't survive without diversity
If a thousand species would die out
The net of life on earth would be diluted
On which even mankind itself depends
Conditioned by its biological nature
Ultimately mankind is the result
Of a long lasting cross-species collaboration
The claim to superiority appears to be
Inept, presumptuous (and) insignificant
Will we reach the age of reason
Before we have burned down our very own home
Life on earth will continue without us
Oblivious to our own survival
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6. |
Back Into The Ocean
05:37
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Sympathy - compassion
So much valued by the rightful and just
Is the foundation of every morality
Only if it won’t be pleaded for
Else it is just another shape of scorn
Built on the backs of the suffering majority
Or once taken from them by force
Taken by us the privileged ones
Accustomed to a history of opulence
We can not tolerate their longing
For they must not claim what is unrightfully ours
And so we readily accuse the deprived
Of taking from us
A man is only a man
And every man for himself
The sanctity of life we vow to protect
With no other solutions than fences and walls
To uphold sustainable slavery on which
Our sovereignty depends on
Mercy for the mighty
Misery for the poor
An exploited majority
For the well-being of the few
Sympathy for the oppressor
Disgust for the abused
Hiding behind the walls of angst
Protected in our fortress of fear
Entrapped in the prisons of greed
To dismiss an opportunity of empathy
Grub first, then morals
Red lines drawn are red lines crossed
If you finally manage to compete the waves
We gladly push you back into the ocean
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7. |
No Escape
07:16
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Day on and off
It’s just the same old struggle
Too craven to face one's own problems
Ever so often
One tries to escape
Just then to be pulled back into reality
The futile excuses one makes
To pretend integrity out of self-protection
Decomposing in a disgust of despondency
Hostage of self-incurred immaturity
Decadence a monument of arrogance
Nihilistic fatalism
A natural born categorical pessimist
No solace
No hope
No escape
There can not be a right life
Amidst wrongs
Everything is going south anyway
But I am inclined not to follow
As the gap between good will and malevolence increases
I am terrified to put one foot in front of the other
Lest I fall through the floor
But those who do not move do not notice their chains
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