1. |
Divide & Rule
02:04
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A national tragedy is a convenient pretext for perpetual war
For furthering US hegemony in the Middle East
Pipeline wars, economic and military supremacy maintained
Sectarian violence, stirring shit, let them tear each other to bits
The empire never ended, it transformed
Same Praetorians, new uniforms
Addicted to fossil fuels, divide and rule
Mutineers on a ship of fools, divide and rule
Emperors of the shadow dynasty
Divide and rule, divide and rule
A succession of power since antiquity
Divide and rule, divide and rule
Humanitarian crises are a convenient smokescreen for intervention
Shuffle allies, destabilize, fund extremists, redraw maps
Stir the shit, watch them tear each other to bits
The empire never ended, it transformed
Same old Praetorian in new uniforms
Addicted to fossil fuels, Divide and rule
Mutineers on a ship of fools, Divide and rule
Emperors of the shadow dynasty
Divide and rule, divide and rule
A succession of power since antiquity
Divide and rule, divide and rule
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2. |
Death Drives a Minivan
01:53
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You're checked out and oblivious
Your sense of entitlement is hideous
What don’t you understand
Death drives a minivan
Trivial gripes about property taxes
For schools where you don't send your kids to take classes
Tuition check in hand
Death drives a minivan
Spaced out, safe
In a monied wonderland
Death drives a minivan
Bubble with a view
Tunnel vision clan
Death drives a minivan
You'd like to speak to the manager please
A wage slave missed a spot on your massive Humvee
Are you lord of this land?
Death drives a minivan
You're wasting my time, not worth my respect
Your purebred life full of genetic defects
Defender of all that’s bland
Death drives a minivan
Another liquid lunch for the VIP crew
I got mine
I got mine
I got mine
So fuck you
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3. |
Cross & Crescent
02:22
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Waiting on a messiah
Who's come and gone
Prophets swarm airwaves
Diatribes brew poison fog
We all share one fate
Life ripens, goes to waste
Lives go to waste
Theocratic terror states
Are veiled reflections
Zealots marshaled
To secure foreign markets
Hasten the apocalypse
With zero sum rhetoric
Hope curdles into hate
This is a violent age
The cross vilifies the crescent vilifies the cross
Ad nauseam
Enslaved by ancient superstition
Seduced by symbols and reductive fairy-tales
Monotheistic
Narcissistic
Petty differences
Inflamed
Hope curdles into hate
This, this is a violent age
The cross vilifies the crescent vilifies the cross
Ad nauseam
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4. |
Rhythm of the Hammers
03:11
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When the bombs fell down
We went underground
We gathered what was left
Of the life that came before
The ashes of the trees
Feed the hungry seeds
We'll build a home in the rubble
And again prepare for war
Only those born to the wilderness
Get to live to see the promised land
The rhythm of the hammers
Find the will
Bend the steel
Wail of the klaxon
Echoes in our bastion
And our blood beats deeper
Than the soil we call home
We heard the whistle
Of the incoming missiles
We struck a note of discord with our song
We went below
Only those born to the wilderness
Get to live to see the promised land
The rhythm of the hammers
Find the will
Bend the steel
Deeper than the soil
Find the will
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5. |
Wendigo
02:17
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A spiritual disease contracted
Cast out, cast down
Through wilderness wander, pariah
To the mouth of Hell
Like a wendigo
The unthinkable act to survive
Like a wendigo
Heartless and buried in snow
No recourse if you want to live
Sleep in caves, feed on blood
Through wilderness wander, pariah
To the mouth of Hell
Go back to the bosom
Back to the beating hearts
Shame burns away like mist
At the feast of life
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6. |
Mala Bruja
01:40
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Wildlife finds sanctuary on cemetery grounds
Their destabilized ecologies
Conspire to set them free
In a rapture of the damned
Welcome to the sixth extinction
All your idols and vestments go to seed
Your relics crumble
Tear them down
Let them forget our history once the humans go extinct
You’re waiting for something but nothing will come
Wrought low and just as your rope’s at an end
Swallowed whole, the audience rises and walks away
The pure air shivers through their fur once again.
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7. |
Hand of Dominion
01:24
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In the midst of peace
We are in war
From rays of hope
Are shadows born
Hypnotized
By the eye of the storm
In the midst of peace
We are in war
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8. |
Quell
01:28
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I changed my name like a dusty coat
In an alley where scraps were plentiful
And the wind tore my hair
Until I saw nothing
Nothing but the frontier
And vandalized altars wreathed in unborn prayer
My batteries run low and memory flickers
You beside me there in the trench
Bone and shit - shelter from the bombs
I changed my name again
To calm them, to calm them
To quell
I hurt the boys I couldn't save
I called them things that were not their names
I blamed them for what I was forced to do
Where the castle laid its shadow
Like pilgrims, we ate in silence
And under torture, gave up
Gave up our neighbors
To quell
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9. |
Hero's Grave
02:00
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The hero became a hermit
His golden mane turns grey
Bitter, alone
His deeds, his legend
All meaningless now
Lost in the fog
Triumphs will be reversed
Warriors replaced
But the end is not the end
The end is not the end
Shed a tear at the hero's grave
Cut all the flowers
Spring will return
The child became a steward
Sunshine on blooms ablaze
A beacon of faith
And like heroes before her
Certain that life will sustain
That spring will return
Empires overrun
Monuments defaced
The end is not the end
The end is not the end
Whet your sword on the hero's grave
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10. |
Encryptors
02:29
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A digital doppleganger
Assembled from your data
To model your behaviors
Coherent, self-contained
A commodifiable voodoo doll
In a hall of mirrors
Confronted by tautology
Predictive policing
Precognition
A swamp man of irreducible parts
Identical to yours
Encoded destiny
Control, delete
All voluntary
Doomed to repeat
Feeding psychometric algorithms
Subjects of information
Whirling in the dazzle
Permanent refraction of your least movements
Pleasure in perpetual desire
Whirling in the dazzle
Encoded destiny
Control, delete
All voluntary
Doomed to repeat
And all will be revealed
By the clone in the mirror in the realm of fear
Encryptors
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11. |
'Til They Choke
01:57
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Through cracks on the street
We grow
When we plant the seeds
They reap from us
They feed
Til they choke on us
We're the ancient weed
We're the invasive species
We wrap our roots around their throats
And we squeeze
Until they choke on our existence
Our resistance
To their rule
Until they choke
Then cast the first stone
Of total liberation
Of community defense
Against the root and branch
And we feed
Until they choke on us
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12. |
Redacted
01:32
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Ribbon and scrolls
Silent as smoke
Redacted
An accounting
A naming of names
Redacted
Scorched and vanished
A weeping wound cauterized
Phantom butchers flee
like wind-blown ash
Redacted
An epitaph to victims razed
Redacted
Widows and orphans
A chance for justice denied
The archive's sole object:
A record of its own eradication
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13. |
Dragon's Jaws
02:26
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Two pillars of survival
Love and resistance
I won't be destroyed
In the jaws of a dragon
I won't concede defeat to this world
I won't retire to a fool's paradise
I've got a secret weapon you won't dare use
Love rules the spirit of mankind
While we wait
For the mouth of flame
Our poison works slow
And this dragon will know
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14. |
The Gorgon's Head
01:03
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What if every choice is wrong
Each act, an arrow dipped in poison
They prowl the maze
And follow my string
My quiver empty
I prepare for their sting
Once shot, an arrow can’t be called back
What if every choice is wrong
A tale already told, conclusion foregone
The labyrinth crumbles (the Gorgon's head)
I hold fast the skein (the Gorgon's head)
Knot after knot (the Gorgon's head)
Each preordained
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15. |
Magus
01:49
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They built the castle
Enduring and sublime
They begged the Magus
To bless their grand design
But he refused all of their demands
He said their castle was only sand
And soon the waves will walk
To make an ocean of this land
So they razed the castle
Tower, hall and gate
They begged the Magus
Foretell another fate
But he refused and brooded by the sea
He said I enchanted you, and you protected me
(Save us, Magus)
He said the floods also come for me
For diviner and disciple
Faith - a grain upon the beach
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16. |
Wolf Mask
02:39
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The old soldier misses the fever of war
The sober thirst for a drink
The saint whose sins defined him
In heaven, dreams of escape
A bargain struck between rivals
They shake hands and turn away
Each looking over their shoulder again
To plot the next bloody raid
Put the wolf mask on
Put the wolf mask on
Wear the skin of night
Put the wolf mask on
Put the wolf mask on
One last time
Dream a life so ordinary
Nothing needs to be fixed
Disquiet, discomfort, heartache and doubt
Taken in hand and banished
Welcome sedation, the calming glow
To keep your fears at bay
Serene, savor freedom from want
And all this freedom to waste
Does real trouble start when troubles end
Victory all but assured
Hardest to accept is hard times are gone
Dazed on a wide open road
Put the wolf mask on
Put the wolf mask on
Wear the skin of night
Put the wolf mask on
Put the wolf mask on
One last time
One last time
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17. |
Plague Dogs
01:20
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In such strange fields we're lost
Hunted by the frost
We fugitives, we cursed
Find warmth in the earth
Through a season of ice
Seize a scrap of life
Swallow the light
Preserve it inside
A lost dog seeks a vanished man
An eidolon of his gentle hand
Beckoning across the sea
If I drown in hope, don't grieve for me
When the sunshine grows sharp
In summer's golden claws
Memory knits our bond
How we outlived the dark
Lost dog seeks vanished man
An eidolon of his gentle hand
Let us drown in hope
And live on
As plague dogs
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18. |
Whip the Ghoul
02:50
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To the wounded and scorned
To specters forlorn
To love's shadow
Howling like snow
Again and again
I will confess
Until the words
Have lost their sense
Will choirs sing
If I've atoned
The dungeon answers
The echoes, my own
Night won't fall
Day won't break
No point in leaving
No reason to stay
A past gone lean
Ghostly and white
I inch on with my cane
By some false light
Of the blues that were sung on a careless day
And the hymns to the sea that were asked to stay
Of the wine-soaked tales of gutter-born grace
I wail like clay
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19. |
The Bog
02:52
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From the rivers of the world below
To the bog runs what Charon sheds
Pockets emptied of all that's owed
Down in the bog they do collect
All these passengers won’t keep
Fall in rivers cold and deep
The ring, the mirror, the story, the song
Down in the bog they all belong
Impedimenta, a lifetime’s hoard
Cast them away, there’s always more
When all the world is repossessed
And still unpaid, that earthly debt
Abject, scrape the clay with plow
Digging for the bog bedecked
Charon’s lamp swings at the prow
Down in the bog they do collect
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20. |
Rex Imperator
03:09
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With primal forces tilling earth up below our feet
Wild manes whip in the breeze
Like myths of speed and strength
Lit by the spark of a fuse
Chasing three ships leaving Spain
Down the road reflected
In the glow of hearts electric
Ride the double helix
To impossible Edens
Beyond the eyes of death
Circling in black pools
Stealing little pieces our machines replace
Beyond the gates of reason
The drums are not yet stilled
Three ships smash their prows
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21. |
I Used to Be a Crow
02:49
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I used to be a crow
Got bit by a snake
I escaped from the tomb
With some fucker’s face
I used to be a crow
I got a family curse
Chewing at my heels
I got a stranger’s soul
I'm a human shield
The devil comes to collect
And steal everything I have
A promising career
A box office smash
There was an accident
But do they exist
Broke every last heart
Worst cardiologist
I’m trapped in a frame
A spirit in a cell
Living on in pictures
Flip book from hell
Do you see what I am
Does anyone care
If there’s nothing outside
Am I even really there
In the coal black sleep
Where it rains all the time
I used to be a crow
Every motherfuckin' night
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22. |
We Bring Fire
02:52
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Forgive us our fires
We only feared the cold
A world of night, a starless sky
Fields of pandemonium
We are home
Carrying drums of bone and wire
Offerings to stone
Sing only for those who set fire
Water yet unknown
Mourning choir
Calling us back home
We bring fire
In our hands of smoke
Nomad child
A season to roam
Freedom knows the roads are liars
Silence stands like soldiers in rows
We are home
Seedlings, tremble as you face the sun
As we burned that future
So now we burn our relics
Learn to peel, learn forgiving
Balance the jars
Carry them home
Learn the songs no one knows
You will not be alone
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23. |
O Villainy
01:49
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Midnight, let the games begin
The wraith arrives
For the reading of my crimes
Showtime at 3 am
Wide awake to watch the past repeat
Ecstatic flagellation
There’s a decade at least I’d be delighted to delete
Condemned to decency, I’ll ride out the bid
Hose me down, dress me up, but he knows what I did
Bodies and plunder locked away in the basement
There’s a demon in the vault who knows the combination
Midnight, another fresh hell
A montage of madness plays in my cell
Dizzy and squirming, torment as art
The demon cackling - he loves this part
Don’t ask what I’ve done
Preserve the present intact
When God opens up a window
Catch me slipping out the back
Memories make enemies
Of time’s merciful repairs
I shudder with shame
And go numb from despair
The dead live again
To swallow happiness whole
The demon bows deep
Then reprises his role
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Swollen wolf with a shepherds crook
Takes a hundred hides for one holy book
In the holding pen, you don't know whose
Never dwelled too much on that pile of hooves
Calling a wolf to lick your wounds
A bolt of truth from the blackest cloud
Your little friends can’t save you now
A prayer before the lights go out
Your little friends can’t save you now
A knife shows up, the lambs lie down
Your little friends can’t save you now
No, your little friends can't save you now
Madness stalks another season
Drives a panicked flock off the edge of reason
A kindly fool claims ignorance
When he’s letting wolves inside the fence
Never was too fond of the pets
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25. |
Drowned Worm
01:14
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It's wrong to eat a worm
But if I had to I hope it doesn't squirm
I'd just swallow
I won't chew
It's wrong to eat a worm
But if I'm asked to, I'll try to make it work
I just swallow
Won't chew
Drowned in a puddle first
Best if it's dead
And in a perfect world
Someone else does them in
And in a perfect world
I might thank them
In case I need to eat another one
And another after that
I just gobble
I don't chew
Now all I want to eat is
Worms
Oh, what a delicacy
Let the Drowner serve them up
Grab them by the handful
What a royal feast
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I climb through his ribcage
To spike a silver vein
With hammer, chisel and dynamite
To line the coffers of Spain
Acetylene and cigarettes for
The mountain that eats men
A devil upon whom I depend
The mountain that eats men
If the devil is generous
He'll let us out alive
The gods old and new
Dance together through the street
I will be buried here
While the spoils of my labor leave
Acetylene and cigarettes for
The mountain that eats men
A devil upon whom I depend
The mountain that eats men
I swore if he spared my brother
I’d give myself to his fire
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The wall rolled shut at dusk each day
And she could not see the field
Or the trucks that bore the others away
She stares as raindrops fill her eye
Green field
Shimmer and quake
Green field
Where, nameless, she roamed
Green field
Tremble and shake
Comes a thunder of hooves
So the black clock’s current never ebbs
No oarsman spared the lash
Pandemonium
The chute and tunnel
Greased and surging
Sluices to bear life away
I can’t keep clean
With blood in my cup
From wells of peace
These waters corrupt
In this hour of calm
Abide as you are
Then comes the thunder
A thunder of hooves
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29. |
Drunk Alone (React)
02:01
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30. |
If Tomorrow Never Comes
03:53
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What loss that time won't fix
One clock that can't remember
When last its wheelworks still aligned
So take these broken candlesticks
And melt them all together
Until we burn through the light
Shelter in the tempest of an hourglass
Love like a loom can repair the past
If tomorrow never comes
If tomorrow never comes
We'll gather all our yesterdays
In a bonfire bright as dawn
If tomorrow never comes
Until the cold rays split
Like bones the night-black feathers
And beckon bells to chime
I'll go to ground with this:
No faith in blind predictions
I close my grip just in time
Shelter in the tempest of an hourglass
Love like a loom can repair the past
If tomorrow never comes
If tomorrow never comes
We'll gather all our yesterdays
In a bonfire bright as dawn
If tomorrow never comes
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