1. |
Paper Slaves
03:07
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You were born and they stamped your life on paper.
You went to school
You learned the rules
Were written on the page.
You learned the whole world runs on paper.
You trade your sweat, breath, and labor.
Just to get the worthless piece of paper that you crave.
Paper slaves
Born to serve the nation state
Working hard to your grave
And coming back for more
Soon you saw that it was all a big charade
They keep you locked up tight
And take away your rights
Unless you play their game
Politicians drunk with power
Use the paper to devour
Humankind and make them cower
At their feet like dogs
Chorus
Now you find that it’s impossible to change
The system’s set in place
And the whole human race
Says paper’s here to stay
Hopelessly you live out lies
And no one hears your urgent cries.
Until the day of our demise
You’re still a paper slave.
Paper slave
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2. |
Blood Reaper
04:52
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Gone are the days
Of blue skies
Replaced with red scars
Of the bleeding children
Everything is gray
In this blackened world of pain
The eyes of huddled masses watch
As we throw them all away
Dark is the storm
That we’ve cast over these lands
The Sun was warm
But now it bites our eyes like the winds of sand
Chorus (x2)
Blood Reaper!
Take us from the ones we’ve slain
Blood Reaper!
We’d rather die than see this pain
Blood Reaper!
Worldwide mistake
Blood Reaper!
Take the bodies fill the grave
Now is the time
To face the things that we’ve done
Erase the lies, and perhaps in time
We’ll see a healing world begun
Chorus x4
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3. |
Broken Man
02:44
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Look at my body; see the remnants of a human.
Peer deep inside my mind and see my grand delusion
My brain’s been washed with every kind of disinfectant
I love my country and my god just as expected
I am a broken man who does just what he’s told
I’ll give my life for all this bullshit that I’m sold.
You see me marching to the beat with no expression
I am a part of this apocalyptic weapon
Don’t recognize you as belonging to my species
If you refuse submission then you are enemies
I am a broken man who does just what he’s told
I’ll give my life for all this bullshit that I’m sold.
You cannot stop me; I consume the population
The million more just like me march across our nation
Were mobilized and we can march right through your town
And we won’t listen when you say we’re going down
I am a broken man who does just what he’s told
I’ll give my life for all this bullshit that I’m sold.
We’re all just broken men who do just what we’re told
We’ll give our lives for all this bullshit that we’re sold
Broken man, can’t you see me?
Crying out for you to stop our misery.
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4. |
Black Sunset
04:14
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I wander the street for something to eat
To satisfy my basic needs
It not as easy as it used to be
Getting from day to day.
Put my hands in my coat
Rap a cloth round my throat
To protect me from the poisons afloat
In the atmosphere, it’s so unclear,
I can barely see the sky.
It seems so long ago, when the world didn’t know
That a few bad men were taking control
We thought it was grand and a wonderful plan
Til they left us here to die
Now we wander alone with nowhere to go
Waiting for the day that we die in a hole
Ragged and worn, we are the swarm
Hear our horror cries
The ashes swirl into the air
As all the living victims in despair
Scream out for anyone to hear
Their cries of anguish
How can you leave them in the street?
Listening to children’s hearts that beat
As they drown in their own sweat and blood
Welcome to the flood
Chorus
Black sunset comes again
And this is the end
For us, for anyone
Who can’t comprehend
How we were easily led
By shadow men
Under the black sunset
Never will we know another night
So freezing cold and filled with fright
Did it just to please their appetite
And now we pay
Stare into the Sun
Mark it well and long
Let it burn into your mind’s eye strong
Feel the ashes entering your lungs
Say goodbye
(Chorus)
Were we fools in chains?
Were we all deranged?
Mindless robots working as their slaves
As they went to war and they dropped the bomb
All that we knew is gone
We could’ve lived in peace
We could’ve been as one
We could’ve worked together to see the Sun
But now our lives have just begun
And it’ll never rise again.
(Chorus)
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5. |
Dusk of Man
03:41
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Looking out on our horizon
All we’ve achieved and how far we’ve come
And it’s so hard to see it all crumbling
Under the setting sun
And now we run for our lives
Just to stay alive in a world where we have no time
Time to heal and time to rewind
To take back the hatred that we hold inside
Dusk of Man is the age we live in
All our plans have been lost in time
See the fall of the chosen nations
All hail to the worldwide suicide
Voiceless victims we stand and wonder
How we let our world get so bad
Is there anything we can change
To return all the passion we had
And now we fight to survive
Trapped inside a world filled with violence and endless crime
Crimes of greed and crimes of corruption
To take what is human and throw it all away
Dusk of Man is the age we live in
All our plans have been lost in time
See the fall of the chosen nations
All hail to the worldwide suicide
Voiceless victims we stand and wonder
How we let our world get so bad
Is there anything we can change
To return all the passion we had
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6. |
Rats in a Maze
03:31
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One more day in this universe
And I can see not much has changed
We're all still looking for our purpose
In this endless causal chain.
Chorus
After all, we're just rats in a maze
Following the scent of cheese
All our lives we spend just chasing
Something we can't even see
We keep running persistently
But do we really know what's on the other side?
No time to stop and climb the walls we live in
And see that this whole maze is one big lie.
(Chorus)
Why do we crave meaning in our lives?
Why do we need a reason for our being?
(Chorus)
We're just rats in a maze.
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7. |
Oblivion Children
04:27
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Who am I but a son of the devil?
Who are you but an angel from hell?
Who are we but oblivion children?
Running up and down the same old hill
Cast aside by the ones who have raised us
And brought us into this world
But in your eyes I see the same isolation
That fills the void in my soul
We are the last generation that will
See the light of day on this earth
And in the minutes before we die
We’ll realize we were doomed from birth
Chorus
Oblivion Children
Standing on the edge
Hold on to nothing but time
Rotting away in our chambers
Slowly, Waiting
For the day we all die.
Insanity is our measure of freedom
Rebellion my sense of self
And apathy is our daily agenda
For us there is nothing else
I’ve got no plans for the future because
Who knows if the future will come
And you and I, we’ll just watch the sky
Til they blow us to bits with a bomb
(Chorus)
Watch us crumble as we stand and wait
There’s no hope of being saved
This is not ours to fix; we inherit it
We are not in control; were irrelevant
Apathy over greed, cause we’re sick of it
We’re just children on the edge of oblivion
THIS IS NOT OURS TO FIX; we inherit it
WE ARE NOT IN CONTROL; were irrelevant
APATHY OVER GREED, cause we’re sick of it
We’re just children on the edge…
Who am I but a son of the devil?
Who are you but an angel from hell?
Who are we but oblivion children?
Running up and down the same old hill
Cast aside by the ones who have raised us
And brought us into this world
But in your eyes I see the same isolation
That fills the void in my soul
(Chorus x2)
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8. |
Solitude
05:44
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Child wake from your dream
Enter back into reality
You dreamed of a world where redemption was possible
But that’s not the way it works
Chorus
Child please listen I have advice for you
Learn to love yourself and live in solitude
There’s no place in this world for us we are all alone
They tell us that we’re special and then cast us to the cold
You spend your life searching for the truth
But they will cast you out as soon as you fail
No one cares about intentions
They say actions are enough to condemn you to hell
You thought that you could learn, you thought one mistake
Wouldn’t burn all that you were
But now look at you, you’re frozen all alone
Alone
(Chorus)
They told you love would conquer all
They told you that you could be someone
They told you all you had to do was try
And all would be forgiven
But now they’ve replaced you, they’ve kicked you down
You are nothing to them; you are their clown
You are a body in a sea of naught, and you will rot
Alone for now
(Chorus)
Oh child I see in your eyes that you do not believe
That when people look at you, the flaws are all they see
You think this world is the place you have seen in your dreams
Maybe we should all just go back to sleep
Because reality is not where we want to be
(Chorus)
Live alone in a cold, cold world
Lock yourself inside your tomb
You might as well be living in the grave
Cause this world will be your doom
Don’t be looking for warmth cause all it will do is burn
All your life you live alone
And no one can save you from your solitude
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9. |
Treadmill of Lies
02:52
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Keep on running
No time to look around
All you have to know is
If you stop you’ll hit the ground
Cause you’re running on the treadmill
Chasing all your dreams
But every step you take you see it’s farther than it seemed
And the more you run the more you come to realize
That this is not the way to achieve all that you desire
Can’t catch your breath
But don’t you dare slow down
They pump you full of propaganda
Hate those fallen clowns
Cause you’re running on the treadmill
Wasting all your breath
And every step you take is just one closer to your death
But they keep telling us that we are all just running strong
Stay on your little treadmill, come on now move along
One by one we stop
And see you’re standing still
And you just kept us running
So you could sit atop your hill
Cause we’re not running on the treadmill
Anymore for you
And the millions strong will raise their fists for something new
With planted feet and glaring eyes we start to shout
When we run again it will be to chase you out
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10. |
Stolen Lives
03:32
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Let the church bells ring
Let them go and sing
Let the massive façade ensue
Hear them march and die
Hear their battle cries
Hear the bloodshed continue
Watch them buy and sell
Watch them drain the well
Watch the Earth destroyed
Send the ones with minds
Send the hypnotized
Send the unemployed
Chorus
Stolen Lives
Society
Stifling our every thought
Stolen Lives
Anarchy
The only way to freedom
Watch your box and be brainwashed like a good citizen
Pay no attention to the men with guns
There only here for your protection
Brain-dead and ignorant
Materialistic masses distracted
Stagnant, mental decay
Shallow, fake, and entertained
(Chorus)
Apocalypse is hanging on the lips
Of anyone who hasn’t yet become
So numb and cold and blind
That they’ve traded in their spine
Don’t speak up
Don’t stand out
Stay in your seat
Stay in your house
Waste your life, but afraid to die
The hailstorm’s coming, but you sit inside
(Chorus)
They took our hope
And they called it religion
They took our lives
And said that it was our decision
You can join the parade or be trampled by it
Either way, they’ll keep you quiet
Don’t think you’re unique
You don’t even have the right to speak
(Chorus)
Don’t you see that we have been defaced
All our individuality has been erased
Don’t you see that the real enemy
Offers security for freedom
Happiness was never worth this
We are…Stolen Lives
Society stifling our every thought
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11. |
Outro
02:34
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{Instrumental}
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