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Neaera - Armamentarium lyrics



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01. Spearheading The Spawn

The world's eyes are getting sore
A boot in humanity's face
This camp makes your country a target even more
A sacrifice (on the altar) of security

The side-effects of your selfish deeds
Grew bigger than what you tried to defeat
By fighting terror with these means
Your enemies only unite and increase

Suicide, torture, hunger-strike
Can't prevent you from your path
Arrogant monopoly of being right
Privilege of the powerful and hurt

Praising the war on terror
A great recruitment trigger
It all comes back to you
You reap the wind you sew

Sow wind - reap storm
Sow wind - reap storm

Praising the war on terror
A great recruitment trigger
It all comes back to you
You reap the wind you sew

Spearheading the spawn

02. Tools Of Greed

We are the weeping mass
Born into emptiness
Abandoned in the center of your disregard

Tempted by hope to escape from despair
Naivity led us
To fall for your charms

Spirits numb with fear
These voices laugh no more
Whispers to deafened ears
These crying eyes are sore

Blinded by the light of your false illusions
We walked in vicious circles
Into our doom

From a place where nothing is at ease
We pray for the aftermath
As we dwell in perpetual gloom

We are the ruling class
Your woeful unexistence
Is the essence of our lies

We turn your hopes to chaos...

We turn your hopes to chaos
With blind precision
We dissect your minds
Your loss is our gain

You are tools of our greed
We turn your seconds to hours
We sacrifice your empty shells
To our false gods
Helplessly devoured

Spirits numb with fear
These voices laugh no more
Whispers to deafened ears
These crying eyes are sore

03. Armamentarium

Fit out for the dangers of our century
It's not the time to disarm
Arm against social decay
Anonymity, decadence, neglect

Armamentarium
Get armed against the poison
The antidote is almost under way

Armamentarium
Get armed against the poison
The antidote is almost under way

Get armed against social cutback
Unemployment, divide
Arm against social terror
It creeps through the veil of democracy

Get armed against withdrawal
Only offense will survive
Only offense will survive

Beware of depression
Your soul shall be a palace
Get armed against yourself
The roots are always within

Armamentarium
Get armed against the poison
The antidote is almost under way

Armamentarium
Get armed against the poison
The antidote is almost under way

Armamentarium
Get armed against the poison
The antidote is almost under way

04. Synergy

This is for the fragile and weak
Serenades of the yearning
This is for the strong and ambitious
Anthems of power and pride

Tunes for the burning inside
Pouring oil in your fire

We stand in tranquillizing flames
Kill the quiet with the storm and the storm with the quiet
Quenching the ordinary pains
In the quiet ablaze

This is for the angry and pissed
The sound of denial made flesh
This is for the scarred and withdrawn:
Build bridges instead of walls!

A shell of swords and knives
Protects the core inside
Tracks from the womb of life
Bring angels and demons to light

Tunes from the depths of our hearts
You pour the oil in the fire

We stand in tranquillizing flames
Kill the quiet with the storm and the storm with the quiet
Quenching the ordinary pains
In the quiet ablaze

In the quiet ablaze
In the quiet ablaze

05. Harbringer

Inside this infant shell
I prematurely came of age
A childhood's remnants
For nightmares of abysmal suffering

I carried the burden
To the edges of my soul
To spread the tale for those
Who are forced to scream without a mouth
Who are forced to scream without a mouth

You thousands, you millions
Behold the sound of my voice
You children of children
Remember the sound of my voice

Harbinger of the past
Keeper of a better tomorrow?
Harbinger of the past
Keeper of a better tomorrow?

My eyes have gazed into a vortex of brutality
From the undertow
I surfaced and was washed ashore
I am an orphan, yet a child to all my memories
I am alone

Yet there are so many more
Like me

One of millions
Descended into chaos
Victims of minds infected
With all consuming hate
With all consuming hate

You thousands, you millions
Behold the sound of my voice
You children of children
Remember the sound of my voice

Harbinger of the past
Keeper of a better tomorrow?
Harbinger of the past
Keeper of a better tomorrow?

The rain of all these tears
Has cleansed my mind of anger
It has erased the urge
To retaliate

Remember the sound of my voice
Remember the sound of my voice

06. In Loss

The tree grows sturdy
The rock withstands the raging floods
Fate wields the axe
Turns the tide that will one day

Cause the stone to break
Inside this painful dissonance
I commend myself to dark oblivion
Petrified and crippled
Petrified and crippled

My safe harbour lies in ruins
A life never to be lived
Joy never to be felt
Laughter never to be heard again

Never to be healed again

Estranged and marked by loss
I lash out at the unreachable
Disposable creature
Denying the uncomfortable

Your soul will never cease to pulse inside me

My safe harbour lies in ruins
A life never to be lived
Joy never to be felt
Laughter never to be heard again

07. The Orphaning

Storm and sea
Punish us piece by piece
But world economy must grow
If we drown, we drown in luxury
But world economy must grow

Why should we save lives we'll never meet?
Why should we not destroy?
Why should we not destroy ourselves?

Orphaning the future - orphaning ourselves

The change we cause
Will slowly destroy your tiny world
And you have nothing to stay
You're helpless
Consumed

We're dancing to the end on volcanoes
Screaming pantomimes in our ears
At night, we set our beds ablaze
Orphaning the future - orphaning ourselves

Why should we save lives we'll never meet?
Why should we not destroy?
Why should we not destroy ourselves?

Orphaning the future - orphaning ourselves

We're dancing to the end on volcanoes
Screaming pantomimes in our ears
At night, we set our beds ablaze
Orphaning the future - orphaning ourselves

08. The Escape From Escapism

I have been thinking the wrong thoughts
Misread the signs
Walking on false paths
I misjudged life

I was chanting the wrong songs
Too deaf to hear
Playing nostalgic tunes
Anywhere, but here

Anywhere, but here
Anywhere

You can't get the right answers
When you're asking the wrong questions
Following familiar tracks
Is seldom the best

Strength is not how high you can climb
But how you cope when you bounce
We are all in the gutter
But some of us are looking at the stars

Don't let the past
Reign you forever

Strength is not how high you can climb
But how you cope when you bounce
We are all in the gutter
But some of us are looking at the stars

09. Mutiny Of Untamed Minds

I am the breeder of my fear
Apathy is my tender liar
Immerged in leeches pond
Cowardice the disgraceful vice

Paralyzed by barking jaws
Hurricanes become a whisper
Claws of the powerful
Enchain angry raised fists

Widower of my delusion
With disobedient flesh
I refuse to gorge
The bowels of decay

Afraid to bow down again

In the dungeon of submission
They flagellate rebellious hearts
Close mutiny of untamed minds
Where boldness will be first mate

Widower of my delusion
With disobedient flesh
I refuse to gorge
The bowels of decay

10. The Need For Pain

Your curse the inner demons
Condemn all that aches
What you thought would kill you
Also keeps you alive and breathing

Don't deny your inner demons
Don't try to kill them away
Make use of your passion and pain

Grief, melancholy
Sources divine to creativity
Grief, melancholy
Sources divine to creativity

This life is just a fragment of a dream
What would drive us if we were complete?
The desire anchored inside
Is haunting, but makes you tick and move

What has died in you that must be resurrected?
What has died in you that must yet be buried?
That must yet be buried

Some things you simply cannot tame
The need for pain
Sometimes you simply cannot tame
The need for pain

This life is just a fragment of a dream
What would drive us if we were complete?
The desire anchored inside
Is haunting, but makes you tick and move

11. Liberation

The house, the storm
Feather and tar
Art, existence

The house, the storm
Feather and tar
Art, existence
The flower in the sewer

The days of mourn are pass
All sorrow aside
I finally arrived
In a realm I thought not be true
Here I dwell forever
Eternal ease

Found a lotus in the sewer
A lake for the sword
No longer sick of shining
No longer scared of burning

Grand, imperial peace
I left the wretched
The scarred despise all grief
Antagonism

Grand, imperial peace
I left the wretched
The scarred despise all grief
Antagonism obsolete

The world has silenced
The voices are gone
I made oil my water
And dust my air

Found relief, salvation
Quit the downward spiral
Sad years, bygone
Future - the brightest white

Grand, imperial peace
I left the wretched
The scarred despise all grief
Antagonism

Grand, imperial peace
I left the wretched
The scarred despise all grief
Antagonism obsolete
Antagonism obsolete

The house, the storm
Feather and tar
Art, existence
The flower in the sewer