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Antebellum
04:21
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The War Came Swiftly
03:31
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Adrift aloft a net hangs in tow of dirigibles secured by tether to the ground below invisibly misplaced from hydrogen displaced in the twilight harbinger full moon glow summer skies September ’39 sounds of thunder obscured sly-feathered devils cast shadows and underneath wingspans they’re seeding the low-lands as the shell-stocked battleship's battery blows no solidarity now I let go Danzig my port of call furloughed so my written note dire words by letter set in envelope most precious of cargo I sent to the bureau when the wall rumbled tumbled down they’d taken the post taste of solemnity now I let go sudden upset sunset postmen soaked in gasoline they cure set ablaze in a haze of smoke their magazines rendering ashes endlessly so my message will never make it home no vacancy for liberty an enemy victory massive catastrophes casualties injuries and families sentenced to pillory a failed delivery the war came swiftly grappling breathlessly now I let go
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3. |
The Audacity
03:28
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Trying not to fight to live another day I pray to god I last my plight they desecrate this temple of the mind all the while I wait with nose to grindstone I’m thrown deep into mania I find myself wandering ponderings stuck in my cranium sweet schizophrenia at scenes of hysteria trembling violently this is the fear that will bury ya several millennia faced with adversity at last We fall on the merciless arms of our homeland nomads once again We march our clan faces a purge yet another scourge the plague to scorch with tongues of flame to wipe our names from history are We not destined for liberty marching off to certain death, to waste away to be oppressed the mind decays there’s no escape from this duress today We cannot wait the time has come to rise surprise them with our own pyre the tempest keeps churning round burning down ghetto and camp fires starving the life from our bones We are going to die if We stand by idly brothers We must defy this frigid cold strike a blow to loosen their hold their grasp on your soul is tight so once again, I pray We all see this plight through if you believe what they tell you you might as Well do nothing loving the lies and just trusting the tempest is coming take to the enemy with a thirst for serenity lost to the sands of forty years to wind up in the flames maintain your faith and pray for your freedom the audacity when war finally came We were callously reviled and defamed in their blasphemy conspiring our shame feel the apathy community feigned God in apogee our prayers were in vain systematically imprisoned and framed now mortality the most inhumane labeled malady then tortured and slain!
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Brain Teeth
03:34
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We the travesty admiring the flames as they lick at our legs defying gravity tragically We came of age adept sages a wily blood courses our veins this tenacity hasn’t exactly helped to save Us from harms way there’s a riot at the gate when your ride is running late on the coldest damn day frantically shaking from aching bones in a deep freeze these synapses slaughtered with orders of memories the tap water fluorine destroying your brain teeth gnashing and wailing while lost in a daze dull them down driving Us crazy it’s just disgusting We speak quietly pent in bastions trusting marauders sit idly behind enemy boundary lines wherever We wanderlust just lost in reverie only trusting our TVs fear for your brain teeth there’s a tempest on the way it’s a riot at the gate when your ride is running late on the coldest damn day frantically shaking from aching bones in a deep freeze these deadened synapses seem like a head full of cavities fear for your brain teeth the tap water fluorine destroying your brain teeth gnashing and wailing while lost in a daze dull them down driving Us crazy making Us slaves they’ll say it’s just a phase work to your graves or until better daze when your eyes begin to glaze embrace the malaise fear for your brain teeth the tap water fluorine destroying your brain teeth gnashing and wailing while lost in a daze dull them down driving Us crazy making Us slaves embrace the malaise
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5. |
Locust Warriors
03:30
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In respite We stand twitching nervously reciting our last rights crossing boundaries in the pitch black We abide poised to attack side by side now adrenaline feel it kicking in then feel nothing grasping for something as the dopamine takes hold And We are dying to see this battle unfold We’ll be diving through the sky perilous and cunning message to your people tell them to be running forced out and asunder We will stop at nothing they’re damned to flee their detritus to the Black Sea if it’s left up to Us fearlessly free falling in Soviet legends secret Weapons descending amassed death’s couriers outlast the rest the locust warriors now adrenaline feel it kicking in then feel nothing grasping for something as the dopamine takes hold and We are dying to see this battle unfold We’ll be diving through the sky perilous and cunning message to your people tell them to be running forced out and asunder We will stop at nothing they’re damned to flee their detritus to the black sea If it’s left up to Us one last ride through the mire hands clenched in desire for the fall in our fast approach hold wait watch for the sign then jump for your lives In a free falling dive when We let go steadfast We balance at the edge of the front line the hull breached a fire ignites lighting up our eyes spiraling trailing out of reach undermining our siege face annihilation In a tailspin bracing for impact counting back three two one
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Leigh Light
03:42
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On the orders of their tyrant wartime pirates cost Us millions razing convoys in defiance slaying guiltless civilians they’ve severed our atlantic ties pressing matters for the allies merchant ships torched as beacons upon the churning sea laid maimed for bereavement adorned with tongues of flame shame which I requite having the time of their lives catch those axis boys by surprise I’ll leave them blinded hypnotized and waste them in my Leigh light This clandestine savage recourse has my taste buds salivating utilizing every resource hound the wolf and We’ll go hunting the single echo of a u-boat by aerial oscilloscope frequencies of hydrophones might guide Us to their bearings locations known hulls bursting under wing justice served this night rapt by their apt demise the axis boys caught by surprise blinded and hypnotized I waste them in my Leigh light having the time of our lives the allies put up such a fight to their relief and my delight laid to waste in the Leigh light intelligence across the wire the code arcana is deciphered I will leave no survivors wreaking hell upon their vessels till death become our dissolution a cannonade of my desire doused souls drowned within twisted metal to recompense their restitution in the lives of the innocent all trespassers shall be subdued left bereft disgraced indigent your enigma machine has failed shame which I requite justice served this night rapt by your apt demise having the time of your lives you axis boys caught by surprise blinded and hypnotized Having the time of our lives the allies put up such a fight to their relief and my delight laid to waste in the Leigh light
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Loose Hands
03:56
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Horrors of reflex not trained throbbing of shakes not tamed time of which lies no restraint the motor functions feel faint victims lie here unresponsive wide awake and nonchalant maniacally smiling traumatized from when they fought I can’t can’t go go back back out out on on the battlefield loose hands Patton the bed frame falling down beyond insane My mind doesn’t hold good traits for My fate deteriorates shake My skin side to side give Me all of the hindsight and as I ride into the night forget Me not that I will fight I don’t don’t want want to to go go back back out out on on the battlefield shaking down the street feel the rhythm in their feet muscles contract and expand tension rises in the bands see their cheeks not go down no time to ever frown happy go lucky pessimist suffering narcissist I can’t can’t go go back loose hands Patton the bed frame falling down beyond insane My mind doesn’t hold good traits for My fate deteriorates shake My skin side to side give Me all of the hindsight and as I ride into the night forget Me not that I will fight recovery undesired hospital stay expired all of these men are but cowards as long as they are shaken heed not any of their calls leave them lying if they fall back out on the field they go behold them they are so slow loose hands Patton the bed frame falling down beyond insane My mind doesn’t hold good traits For My fate deteriorates Shake My skin side to side Give Me all of the hindsight And as I ride into the night forget Me not that I will fight I am, I dread, I am dead
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Volga's Fire
03:48
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There is no land behind the icy Volga charge forth my comrades holding shoulder to shoulder now the Nagant shivers in my fingers the land shudders as Stalingrad crumbles down on burning banks the taste of death lingers river Volga river Volga I’ll not be coming home the motherland calls Her children have answered and I’ll not die alone Hell knows not the wrath of Volga’s Fire the wolf howls in thirst the blood which is shed that the oil be cursed by the souls of the dead the perished million peer into Volga’s Fire We’ll take the brunt soldiers in their lawlessness pushing the front to conquer the Caucasus they the unstoppable force We the immovable object feverish the sweat from my brow now the Nagant shivers in my fingers the land shudders as Stalingrad crumbles down on burning banks the taste of death lingers river Volga river Volga I’ll not be coming home the motherland calls Her children have answered Hell knows not the wrath of Volga’s Fire the wolf howls in thirst the blood which is shed that the oil be cursed by the souls of the dead the perished million peer into Volga’s Fire fighting house to house floor to floor the bullets rip through the ruins of our once great city We’ll turn back their starving frozen grip My mind explodes into their ranks driven to Your bloody burning banks river Volga river Volga I’ll not be coming home the motherland calls Hell knows not the wrath of Volga’s Fire the wolf howls in thirst the blood which is shed that the oil be cursed by the souls of the dead the perished million peer into Volga’s Fire
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See The Rising Sun
04:00
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See the rising sun See the rising sun falling from the sky falling from the sky little do you know little do you know coming from the West coming from the West awoken just before the dawn The ocean glimmers ebbs and shimmers the deepest blue crashing loud into December now forever I’ll remember menacing infamy tidal waves Winter breeze and here comes the rising sun see the rising sun see the rising sun falling from the sky falling from the sky coming from the West coming from the West beaming between life and death over my head out of body the hands of time tick ever on and I wonder how long will your breath hold after the lights flicker fade and fail tread and shiver see the rising sun see the rising sun falling from the sky falling from the sky little do you know little do you know coming from the West coming from the West battleships are listing, heeling torn in tatters hull in tremors in the harbor sunk and reeling smoking embers now forever I’ll remember menacing infamy tidal waves winter breeze see the rising sun see the rising sun blacked out as the smog enshrouds falling from the sky falling from the sky the darkest crashing cloud coming from the West coming from the West on the horizon see the rising sun see the rising sun ten thousand years of Winter
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Besieged by enemies animus closes in Stygian enmities temporal dues for sin let the ichor flood they’d love to find Us brutalized in blood cyanide skin flushed We’ll just bite the dust this isn’t how it was supposed to happen millions will dance on the soot of our ashes so bite the dust within this capsule bear no blame for this battle long before We’re ever found I can set the steel to temple full-tilt We’ve crimson pools to drown in on our way down into the ground all forsaken virtues We can disavow I’ll let the stream perfuse beneath the tempest cloud aloud the thunder proves I’ll not be arraigned instead I’ll follow you undetained with a bullet through the brain this isn’t how it was supposed to happen now millions will dance on the soot of our ashes so bite the dust within this capsule bear no blame for this battle long before We’re ever found I can set the steel to temple full-tilt We’ve crimson pools to drown in on our way down into the ground now debased the merciless head of a master race is faced with the prospect of failure disaster graces the pages of my campaign my pride is replaced with regret fear and shame as a figure appears screams in My ear can you guess my name oh no they’ll anguish our languid bodies Eva darling let’s be sanguine nazis
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The uppers in one arm the other the downers another session spinning visions within these eyes of snow been half-asleep a hundred years dreamt of my worst fears no escaping this psychedelic crisis swept into silence and the darkness before enlightenment torturous agony suicidal tendencies gripping me is this reality or an abject fantasy lunacy not sanity is this the tripper’s mentality in a sleeper cell family out of body on the other side dosed delirium anesthetized I am awake to hallucinate sever the the ties of my mind push my limits to the end of my wits I testify the test of time committing a crime under government guise put the snow in my eyes to corrupt and make spies coverups are just lies imprint new memories identities falsified the barbiturates tire the amphetamines wire set me on fire the uppers in one arm the other the downers
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12. |
Little Boy
03:32
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Toppling tumbling tactful the warning authored to caution a vengeance is coming the war machine thrumming these are your options cease and desist and withdraw your advances to your homes return or spurn this request hold steady your stance and watch the city burn upon Us the moment now tumult a portent spanning the threshold of reason or annihilation assimilate or face damnation where all stand aghast at the vision abate this onerous revelation over your nation one little boy vortically conjures a maelstrom with Pandora for a bride eight miles high when atoms divide doom is looming just beyond the rising sun end this now soon the gloom is broken by a light you can’t outrun cease to resist failure to surrender cannot ever be undone no delays to think the horrors of this war have only just begun cease to exist it’s come to this now fade to vapor and meet your maker hallowed are the shadows lying silent in the ground through the streets and buildings shockwaves ripple racing razing suffocating scathing searing scorching crushing leveling devils meddling beyond deafening this penultimate reckoning
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13. |
Fat Man
05:53
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9th of August at 11:00 (in the AM) cackles Satan constant warnings culminate into the dropping of the big one tens of thousands in an instant rushing through a potent whirlwind suddenly they’re soaring through the air with debris all around them little did they know little did they know indeed old foundations wrought to ruin homes uprooted innocent men scarred in sclera blinded baffled breaking up like threads unraveled up above the wasted city sinister the cloud is rising from ground zero poison traces airborne toxic radiation little did they know little did they know indeed shattering lives there is nowhere to run this time everything dies at the might of this ungodly rage none can survive be it justice or war crimes shockwaves collide to awaken the atomic age sirens haunt my waking life my dreams at night are interrupted lives disrupted just above the fat man plummets savage comet I can hear the children screaming scared and Weeping crying faintly buried in the broken building helpless victims death is chilling little did they know little did they know indeed shattering lives there is nowhere to run this time everything dies at the might of this ungodly rage none can survive be it justice or war crimes shockwaves collide to awaken the atomic age the judgement came swiftly punishment overkill civilians found guilty remnants left to rebuild little did they know little did they know, indeed little did they know little did they know
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