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Prophet's Eyes
04:43
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I never had much vision
But I know what I saw
I try to push away the memory
Still it returns once more
The endless cries of suffering
The firestorms and the blood
To lash the fallen people
Slaves in a fallen world
This comes when I close my eyes
To all else I am blind
I tell of coming times
Unwilling, forced to prophesy
As the eternal torment
Will be brought down on us
So I foresee my own pain
Blamed for all mankind’s curse
Unable to silence truth
So shall I bear the brunt
Fear of a fallen people
Slaves of a fallen world
My future decided
To such I am resigned
All I hear is my own screams
As they put out my eyes
This I bear for their sake
Knowing my end will come
Killed by a fallen people
Slave to a fallen world
This comes when I close my eyes
To all else I am blind
I tell of coming times
Unwilling, forced to prophesy
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2. |
Advocate
04:17
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Fetid remnants of a bastard breed
Mired in ignorance, corruption and greed
There's no hope of salvation
Annihilation
The one solution to the human disease
I am the one who sees
Combined realities
The fine line between insight and insanity
The one who dares to face
The wanton waste of our race
Advocate for the eradication of humanity
Eviscerate, annihilate
Consign the virus to its fate
To cleanse the earth
The eternal mother
Calling forth a planetary purge
There's no time left for us now
The earth itself will cast us out
The earth itself will cast us out
There's no fate more deserved
Than to see the death of all our futures
Human catastrophe on a global scale
Mankind's destiny is to stain the earth no more
There's no fate more deserved
Than to see the death of all our futures
Human catastrophe on a global scale
Mankind's destiny is to stain the earth no more
Eviscerate, annihilate
Inspire death throes to castigate
Excise the infection
A final rejection
A vast ecstatic planetary purge
There's no hope left for us now
The earth itself will cast us out
No option left but to abort the atrocity
Advocate for the eradication of humanity
Execrate the creations of an unsound mind
Advocate for the eradication of mankind
No option left but to abort the atrocity
Advocate for the eradication of humanity
Execrate the creations of an unsound mind
Advocate for the eradication of mankind
Eviscerate, annihilate
Consign the virus to its fate
Eviscerate, annihilate
Inspire death throes to castigate
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3. |
Slave to Demise
04:28
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Affirmation of disease
Tunnel visions undermined
Deaf to reason, slave to demise
Led astray to lead the blind
No challenge - a blind faith is no faith at all
No question - a blind faith is no faith at all
No knowledge - a blind faith is no faith at all
A blind faith is no faith at all
Too afraid to speak your mind
Too afraid to break the spell
Blind to reason, slave to demise
Double cross yourself again
Pass judgment and turn your head
Defender of ill faith
Whose hand writes your book of life?
You’d drown the world to save yourself
Afraid of reason, slave to demise
Order your creator to make true your lies
Affirmation of disease
Tunnel visions undermined
Too afraid to break the spell
Too afraid to speak your mind
Afraid of reason, slave to demise
Order your creator to make true your lies
I challenge
I question
Your answers
A blind faith is no faith at all
A blind faith is no faith at all
A blind faith is no faith at all
No faith at all
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4. |
The Bringers of Despair
03:20
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I am the first
I bring the blindness sought
By those who would not see
To make empty lives easy
And to ease vapid conscience
In certainty of their knowledge
They know only what they are
The second, mine is all right
I come to show what should be theirs,
Who would have all and more besides
Enough is never enough
The soul is an empty vessel
Full of holes and filled with nothings
There can never be enough
I am third but would be first
I would abandon all to ease my path
I take away all promised aid
No cause so precious that it cannot be sold
To scale another rung
I would give all that I was
And all that you have
I am the crawling, craven one
Who cannot bear to face the light
Nor allow any semblance of truth
To penetrate my self-made world
I must have what is not mine
And would claim ownership
As it has ever been mine, in my own words
We four in conclave
Would rule an empty world
Would taste your tears of despair
See only ourselves and each other
Hear only cold laughter
As all we touch is dust
And dust is all we touch
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5. |
These Mortal Chains
05:53
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Broken and torn, shattered beyond hope
Nothing moves outside these bounds
Raging, screaming, damaged beyond thought
All words expulsed in this reinvention
The defiler defiled, defied, decried
Scourges purged and cast aside
As we walk alone
There is one who watches
Waiting for weakness
I walk amongst you – defy me not
I speak to move you – defy me not
I am alone in all the world
I alone am in all the world
I walk amongst you – do not deny me
I speak to move you – do not deny me
You will not deny me
I walk amongst you, breathing fury
I speak to move you , you fear to retreat
Dragged by the tide that pulls me under
Look far below and scream forever
A dragon flies, leaves lies, tears skies
And shackles grip tighter still
Dragged by the tide that pulls me under
Look far below and scream forever
A dragon flies, leaves lies, tears skies
And shackles grip tighter still
Who would walk such a path alone
If not for the vision I’d waited for?
The silence in the darkness
The agony of the emptiness
The emptiness that feeds
The agony that feeds
Broken and torn, shattered beyond hope
Raging, screaming, damaged beyond thought
Who would walk such a path alone?
Who would walk such a path?
Such is knowledge, such is power
Such is wealth, such is influence
All things in haste
Are wasted
All things in haste
Are wasted without wisdom
Who would walk this path alone?
Who would walk this empty path?
Who would walk this path alone?
Who would walk this path?
Alone I walk this empty path
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Mortal Chains Durham, UK
Thrash 'n' Death influenced metal shenanigans from the North East of England
Martin Elliott: Guitar & Vocals
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