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Out of Ruin
03:53
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I need to kill this feeling inside
Cut the cancer out of my life
Everything I have come to know
Has been destroyed
Ripped and torn
Here I stand
In the ashes of my world
You held the torch
And watched me burn
Your words are knives in my back
Your cold eyes seem to lack
Empathy, you're killing me
It's time I let you go
These lies go on cuts sink so deep
Wounds inflicted you soon shall reap
Our future once so bright
Now tarnished, hollow, weak
Day by day
I draw the line
Forcing me to choose a side
I feel as though I've lost my mind
Gone are the days
Forced to feed
On the truth you're bending
Lies on your tongue
Spewing forth
Rotting disposition
Up in the night
When you're gone
Fear is suffocating
Choke on the taste
Lack of faith
From your verminous tongue
Your words are knives in my back
Your cold eyes seem to lack
Empathy, you're killing me
It's time I let you go
I have escaped from the ashes of my world
You held the torch
But I refuse to burn
Ruins of a battered past
Won't leave me a broken man
Your words are knives in my back
Your cold eyes seem to lack
Empathy, you're killing me
It's time I let you go
Take your knives from my back
You're killing me
You know I'll always want you back
I'll never let you go
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2. |
Eating Dirt
03:23
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Broken
Another vital piece of me
You're human filth
Parasitic animosity
I'm choking
It's time you open up your eyes
You gave into hate
Your humanity is compromised
You gave into hate
What will be left of you
When the world chews you up and spits you out
Only a memory
That means nothing to me
What will be left of you
When the light of your life is smothered out
Only a memory
That means nothing to me
Standing in the wake of your hatred
Wounds exposed
Bleeding, degraded
You are the absence of a soul
A human leech, pitch-black
And your heart is a hole
I found the will to live
I am your means to an end
What will be left of you
When the world chews you up and spits you out
Only a memory
That means nothing to me
What will be left of you
When the light of your life is smothered out
Only a memory
That means nothing to me
Your life is smothered out
What will be left of you
When the world chews you up and spits you out
Only a memory
That means nothing to me
What will be left of you
When the light of your life is smothered out
Only a memory
That means nothing to me
There's nothing left
There's nothing left
There's nothing left
Nothing left of you
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3. |
Black Masts
03:33
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Guided by the moon
Black sails a mast
Silence suffocating
The sounds of the attack
Breaching the tide
The night on our side
Black waters rise
No one gets out alive
Tread lightly
Though not to disturb
Those at rest in the waters below
Carried by mist, rolling in like a fog
Iridescent in the moonlight pull
Doomed are those souls set to sail
The unholy waters of hell
Cannons break the silence
As sulfur burns the air
Lungs overflowing with water
Man overboard
Breaching the tide
The night on our side
Black waters rise
No one gets out alive
Tread lightly
Though not to disturb
Those at rest in the waters below
Carried by mist, rolling in like a fog
Iridescent in the moonlight pull
A slave to the burden of greed
Purged through the bowels of the beast
These waters filled with the deceased
For as far as the eye can see
Breaching the tide
The night on our side
Black waters rise
No one gets out alive
Tread lightly
Though not to disturb
Those at rest in the waters below
Carried by mist, rolling in like a fog
Iridescent in the moonlight pull
Sail to the edge of the world
Leaving the wreckage behind
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In The Company of Snakes
03:36
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I once believed that all your decisions
Were made with our salvation in mind
Now at the end
My head filled with questions
I search for answers I will never find
What have you done?
The horror unfolds
Looking in the mirror I don't recognize me anymore
I can't breathe
Your hold is constricting
Bound by trust now desecrated
Let them in with open arms
They promise never to cause you harm
Exposing your weakness
They sink in their fangs
You are now trapped here
In the company of snakes
Gazing at your serpentine reflection
Dripping fangs and twisted tongues
Punctured by a fatal injection
Poison slowly fills my lungs
Your lies ensnare my very soul
Beneath those scales your blood runs cold
Let them in with open arms
They promise never to cause you harm
Exposing your weakness
They sink in their fangs
You are now trapped here
In the company of snakes
Ice festers through a sickening mind
I shed my skin
Leave it all behind
Dreams of the utmost
Malevolent kind
I find
We're all alone in this life
Your lies ensnare my very soul
Beneath those scales your blood runs cold
In the company of snakes
Sink in your fangs
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Vulturous
04:36
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Howling in the desert wind
Twenty determined souls press on
Visions of riches untold
Hungry for gold
Oblivious to the trials their future would hold
Hopeful of what they would uncover
Blind to the ways in which they'd suffer
Choking on sand and heat
Watch as the vultures circle me
The blind leading the blind
Sun-bleached bones picked clean
The stench of blistering flesh
Slowly poisons the air
Lost wanderers marching on
To graves that the desert prepares
Eviscerated
Incessant hunger setting in
Their doom unstated
But each can sense their death within
Choking on sand and heat
Watch as the vultures circle me
The blind leading the blind
Sun-bleached bones picked clean
The stench of blistering flesh
Slowly poisons the air
Lost wanderers marching on
To graves that the desert prepares
Cloaked hand of the reaper
Coated in crimson cracking gore
Drawing nearer
Prepared to collect
Every walking corpse
Choking on sand and heat
Watch as the vultures circle me
The blind leading the blind
Sun-bleached bones picked clean
The stench of blistering flesh
Slowly poisons the air
Lost wanderers marching on
To graves that the desert prepares
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Beneath The Skin
02:51
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So blind to the love that surrounds you
Twisted by your mind
Depression chokes out the light
Misery is taking hold
Crushing any kind of hope
Losing sight of life
You're at the end of your rope
Searching for hope
Not letting go
You've become a deadweight
Drowning in your own self-hate
Held prisoner
In a cell that your mind creates
It seems there's no escape
But you've got to live for tomorrow
And fight for today
Darkness is creeping in
Hateful and suffocating
It seems like you'll never win
Self-doubt ensues
Bleeding beneath the skin
Invisible to everyone but you
You've become a deadweight
Drowning in your own self-hate
Held prisoner
In a cell that your mind creates
It seems there's no escape
But you've got to live for tomorrow
And fight for today
You've become a deadweight
Drowning in your own self-hate
Held prisoner
In a cell that your mind creates
It seems there's no escape
But you've got to live for tomorrow
And fight for today
Searching for hope
Not letting go
Bleeding beneath the skin
Invisible to everyone but you
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Crawling out of the shadows
On bloody knees
Spitting lie upon lie
A living breathing disease
I know hell has a home for you
That you'll suffer and burn
For what you put me through
Open my eyes
To a vicious cycle where
Deception is waiting
Your noose of lies
Around my throat
Is this the end?
Asphyxiating
I know hell has a home for you
Ingesting the rot of the forbidden fruit
Hollow and hateful
Impending doom
You cut a hole in my chest
And tore my heart from the open wound
Your blackened beauty
Tainted by the touch of another
I thought I knew you
But now I see the monster uncovered
Open my eyes
To a vicious cycle where
Deception is waiting
Your noose of lies
Around my throat
Is this the end?
Asphyxiating me
You killed my trust
Betrayed my love
Promises cut like broken glass
Lacerating my heart
Erasing our past
Spitting malice twisting love into hate
I should've known better than to trust a serpent's gaze
Open my eyes
To a vicious cycle where
Deception is waiting
Your noose of lies
Around my throat
Is this the end?
Asphyxiating me
I know hell has a home for you
You'll suffer and burn
For what you put me through
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8. |
State of Decay
04:09
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No sword or shield can stop me
Fuck your iron will
Cloaked in shadow waiting
I'll cut you down in stone
Here I stand among these
Hopeful heroes left to rot
A captive audience
To applaud my merciless onslaught
For all that are dead
For those they left behind
We seek revenge
Ready to conquer, willing to die
Gaze into my eyes
A monument of life
Built upon the dead inside
I am not to be trifled with
Forever encased in a statuesque
State of decay
The path is clear
This is my destiny
Chosen by the gods
I'll end her tyranny
Into the serpent's den to face her stone-cold glare
The path before me reeks of failure
But I must prevail
I will prevail
Gaze into my eyes
A monument of life
Built upon the dead inside
I am not to be trifled with
Forever encased in a statuesque
State of decay
Eyes as cold as the grave
Bring death's embrace
Hunter and prey
Come face to face
Gaze into my reflection
Face your final reckoning
As my blade dissolves your life
I am not to be trifled with
Forever enshrined in a statuesque
Heroic display
I'll leave your hellish corpse to rot in a desecrated state of decay
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Cosmic Maw
04:00
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I am the sun
I am absolute darkness
The desecration of hope
A shadow forsaken, forgotten
A seer from the world below
For a thousand years I've waited
Bound under a godless sky
Dark powers once abated
Will rise
Sweet sorrow, silence, and suffering
Apollyon looms over the earth
Hopeless saints and faithless hordes
Mark true evil's black rebirth
When the sun ceases to rise
And infinite blackness envelopes the skies
I'll shed this mortal disguise
Take my true form and consume mankind
Fear darkens our eyes
A cosmic maw tears open the sky
Fall to our knees, an unholy shrine
Azathoth rise on the day of God's demise
Smoke billows above the collapsing ruin
Brother turns against brother
As the dark entity looms over the horizon
The wind picks up as the giant draws in a breath
Summoning a storm
Into the throat of the eater of worlds
The earth is consumed by fire
Blasphemy beckons this last Armageddon
In silence the creature devours
When the sun ceases to rise
And infinite darkness envelopes the skies
I'll shed this mortal disguise
Take my true form and consume mankind
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In a place of sickness and death
An angel smiled upon me
Her raven-black hair
The warmth in her eyes
Forever our souls would be intertwined
Stitch by stitch I'll make you whole
Consumption has taken its toll
Forever young and beautiful
Glass eyes without a soul
The madness never sleeps
The sickness is all he needs
God faded away
The devil remained
Trapped in this shell of pain
You're falling apart in front of me
My God I won't let this be
I bathe you in perfumes to hide the decay
Stuff you with rags to keep your body's shape
Stitch by stitch I'll make you whole
Consumption has taken its toll
I'll keep you young and beautiful
Glass eyes without a soul
I will keep you alive
Forever you'll be mine
For me to keep so cold
You're mine
Forevermore
You're mine
Wax skin so cold
You're mine
I promise you this
You can't resist
You'll become a part of me
The madness never sleeps
The sickness is all he needs
God faded away
The devil remained
Trapped in this shell of pain
I will keep you alive
Forever you'll be mine
For me to keep so cold
I will keep you alive
Forever you'll be mine
For me to keep so cold
You're mine
For me to keep so cold
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False Witness Logan, Utah
Hailing from Northern Utah, False Witness is a four-piece metal act dedicated to creating earth-shattering sonic destruction. The band has developed a unique sound that blends elements of modern metalcore with influences reminiscent of The New Wave of American Heavy Metal. Prepare to bang your head! ... more
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