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The Last Good Age
01:54
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It’s been a long time coming
To the endpoint of our design
To return to a state of nothing
In a blink of cosmic time
Welcome to The Last Good Age
Cry out
Let it roar, let it go
In the twilight
Of the ways we’ve known
I’ll live for love and freedom
I’ll strive for peace in our time
But as The Last Man reigns
We’ll have nothing of the kind
Welcome to The Last Good Age
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2. |
Bear Witness
02:29
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Stamping down on the face of humanity
The boot arrives—as prophesied—to squash your rights with impunity
First they bring you the Trojan horse, those fancy things you can't refuse
Too infatuated with yourself to realize you've been subdued
Where is your rage?
Do you put your trust in those who can take...
Take your rights away?
Tanks invade city streets
Rubber bullets, tear gas unleashed
Upon unarmed crowds
Witness the boot come stamping down
A sobering dose of reality
For those behind the veil of luxury
You now will hear how the unheard speak
And your sheltered eyes will be forced to see
Don't lose your rage
Our lives are cheap to those who can take
Take our rights away
The boot arrives as prophesied
To squash your rights with impunity
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3. |
Automatons
02:14
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They come marching in
Barely recognizable as human
With all weapons drawn
Acting on beliefs and orders
Like automatons
They represent a condition of man
So frail in the world
That he submits to a greater force
To be absolved and relieved of his thoughts
He functions under illusions
That he maintains order and peace
Serving the madness of bad men
Right to your face
Taught to see you as vermin
A constant threat of lower form
Itching to pull the trigger
Right in your face
No rights in times of martial law
Lost in fog of war
Through suppression of the press
He'll "Serve and protect"
Whose conscience does he serve
When he aims his gun at your face?
Lower or higher—a choice we're all free to make
Lower or higher—subjugate or educate?
They come marching in....
They represent a condition of man
So frail in the world
That he submits to a greater force
To be absolved and relieved...
…So the war rages on
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4. |
You Will Be Forgiven
00:35
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Relieve your soul of its burdens
And lay your weary head to rest
Take comfort in your delusions
You will be forgiven
For your willful complicity
In our culture's routine crimes
For all the holy hate you spew
You will be forgiven
Repent
Accept
If there's one world that is true
It's this one that you abuse
But you know not what you do
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Despair in the land of Abraham
Where God's promises remain unfulfilled
And "kill or be killed" is the law of the land
"Thou shalt not kill" forgotten by zealous men
He commanded
And you followed
Prepared to cut
Your own son's throat
As numerous as the stars in the sky
The bodies piled in His name
As your descendants struggle for life
Over territorial claims
Surely a God who can part the seas
Can bring you just a bit of peace
He promised the cities of your enemies
But all you get is unrest...
<i>Because </i> you serve and obey
Despair in the land of Abraham
Where God's promises remain unfulfilled
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6. |
Burnt Offering
00:58
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Instrumental
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7. |
Fragile Thing
02:40
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The human mind is a fragile thing
A tangled mess of instinct and doctrine
Haunted by the truth of insignificance
I know you need to be loved, and I know you just want to belong
I hope we all find peace before we die
Because love is scarce in this world
With life overflowing, expendable
Pledge allegiance to the tribe
Climb the ranks and pray
That you don't get eaten alive
The web you weave is a fragile thing
A clusterfuck of ego and symbols
Threatened by the things you don't understand
I know you are quick to hate ‘cause I know you just want to belong
Few things give us meaning like enemies
Likewise, peace is scarce in this world
With life overflowing, disposable
No room at the table for us all
Climb the ranks with pride but don't kid yourself
We're pack animals
Though I’m judging you, do what you have to do
I'll do the same
We crave meaning in a cruel universe
Sanity's a fragile thing
When the walls close in we won't be of kin
Morals cannot tame the will to survive or be recognized
Civility's a fragile thing
Though I’m judging you, do what you have to do
We crave meaning in a cruel universe
When the walls close in we won't be of kin
We'll plunge into chaos—competition!
Our illusions are fragile things
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8. |
Providence
03:02
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Can you explain your suffering
By other means than Providence?
Don't question His wisdom,
But what about His cruel indifference
To the faithful—those who serve and obey?
To the children—those who didn't do anything?
Fortune, misfortune
No reason, no rhyme
You can have it all like Job
But like Job, you can lose it in time
Why must you suffer
As the wicked prosper?
And must you listen to Him condescend
To you from a fucking whirlwind?
Toil in the realm
Of His holy care
He'll give and he'll take
Exalt or forsake
For reasons He won't explain
You'll never know
The reason for your pain
Or the meaning of the rain
Oh, what mysterious ways
Is He worthy of your praise?
"A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold that the spirit of it was not even that of sadness. There was a hint in it of laughter, but of a laughter more terrible than any sadness...It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life." (Jack London)
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I Repent
03:14
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You were a mistake
I'm sorry, I don't mean to berate
I made you to adore
But you're a monster and I can't love you anymore
I was lonely and desperate
A little too human for my own good
I just wanted a friend
But you're a demon and now I repent
You ruin all that you touch
I gave you the world, but it wasn't enough
I curse the day you were born
What the fuck was I thinking?
You ruin all that you touch
I gave you free will, but it was too much
Now look what you've done
You are my greatest mistake
You were meant to be
The paragon, the missing piece,
My dearest company,
Made in my image, and yet you disgust me
You ruin all that you find
I gave you my love, but you weren't satisfied
Always desperate for more
What the fuck was I thinking?
You ruin all that you find
That is the nature of human kind
So I blame myself
You are my greatest mistake
You—you are a virus
A fucking cancer, a true disaster
And I'm your maker
I—I am not perfect
Not omnipresent, not omnipotent
You are the evidence
And I repent
I regret the day you were born
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10. |
Surplus Life
02:06
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Surplus lives
Condemned to
Suffer for
No reward or cosmic purpose
Stories untold
Worse than your own
Systems can't hold
As numbers explode
Wander the streets
Nothing to eat
World of concrete
Parasites, violence, and disease
Stories untold
Worse than your own
Systems can't hold
As numbers explode
Surplus life
Discarded
Forgotten
No reason
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11. |
Mortal/Eternal
03:17
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Spawned upon "a mote of dust
Suspended in a sunbeam"
Housed in flesh that blooms and decays
With an intellect we deem separate
From the guts of exploded stars
And billions of other precious accidents,
Those forms of life we don't understand
We're more like them than we can admit
Mortal/Eternal, all at once
An evolution of gas and dust
Given the chance to contemplate
The pain of a world made not for us
Born from a mother whose lot is to suffer
The sins of the father unreconciled
He slays his brother, over and over
Till the dying sun swallows the earth
Nothing and something, all at once
With inclinations to violence
Given the chance to multiply
The pain of a world made not for us
Mortal/Eternal
Tread like gods
Mortal/Eternal
Perish like parasites
So you want to live forever?
And so you shall…
Your oxygen as ether
Your carbon as dust
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12. |
Spared
01:44
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Son, you're one of the lucky ones
To be spared what's after birth
To be spared living among
The killers and undead who rule the Earth
You'll never know their world of lies
You'll never succumb to the Lord of the Flies
This is the best I can give you
You'll never have to suffer the fools
Impulse and instinct cloud all judgment sound
Reason and mercy shall dictate now
How could I justify inflicting consciousness
Upon one so innocent with this world as it is?
Son, you're one of the lucky ones...
I let the cancer run its course
And spare you from its wanton hordes
This is the best I can give you
You'll never have to suffer the fools
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13. |
Thorn And Thistle
01:35
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I call, I cling, I want
And there is no One to answer
No One on Whom I can cling
Alone … Where is my Faith?
Even deep down right in, there is nothing…
But emptiness & darkness
How painful is this unknown pain
I have no Faith..
I dare not utter the words and thoughts that crowd in my heart
And make me suffer untold agony
So many unanswered questions live within me
Afraid to uncover them because of the blasphemy
When I try to raise my thoughts to Heaven
There is such convicting emptiness
That those very thoughts return like sharp knives and hurt my very soul
I am told God loves me
Yet the reality of darkness and coldness and emptiness
Is so great that nothing touches my soul…
But emptiness and darkness
How painful is this unknown pain
I have no Faith…
I have no Faith…
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14. |
No Illusions
02:19
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He peered into
The depths from which few ever return
He saw us clinging to a dying world
With petty illusions
Once cast out, the truth becomes clear
And you'll never be as you were before
When the veil of myth is stripped from your eyes
You'll wish you had stayed blind
Set adrift, propelling through space and time
Meaningless in our race for resources
He saw no purpose
And descended further into
The depths of vice and madness, unglued
Craving escape and distraction
To cope with the pain of separation
Once cast out, the truth becomes clear
And you'll never be as you were before
When the veil of myth is stripped from your eyes
You may wish you could die
To be released
Released from this world
At last
Burdened no more
To return
Return to the womb
Of the Earth
Forever more
Released
Released from this world
At last
Burdened no more
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15. |
Resolve
04:09
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I keep living despite my better judgement
Trying to outlast the disappointment
Of living among the absurd and cruel
I keep living in hopes of future raptures:
Little deaths, creative flight, hysterical laughter...
Whatever helps me to forget what's true
I'll lose myself inside of you
To ease the pain of consciousness
But there are aches that love can’t soothe
When one stares long into
This abyss…
I keep loving because love is all we have
It’s all that can relieve and redeem the worst of man
Maybe, just maybe, we can evolve…
I keep loving because I have to reaffirm
A little light and salvage it for what it’s worth
This is my resolve
I'll lose myself inside of you
To ease the pain of being doomed
Only love can fill the void
An illusion I must not undo
Not undo
There was a night in my youth
A lonely moment of epiphany
With my feet planted on concrete, I looked to the sky
And suddenly it all became so clear:
No one up there to hear my prayers,
Nature and man red in tooth and claw,
And all my pain is mine to own (it’s mine to hone)
“How do I proceed from here?”
I thought about dying constantly
I learned to bear the weight of years
Despite the absurdity of living…
Of suffering…
I keep living
I keep loving
I keep learning
I keep growing
I keep living
Because I’m already here
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Die Young (TX) Texas
Texas Hardcore 2002-2009. Reborn to pillage in 2013.
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