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01. Moronic Colossus

So this is what they got?
Bitches pouting like
Someone stole their candy
Guess I should shut my mouth
Kindly accept what I receive

I tend to disagree
My diagnosis, it will definitely
I am the antidote
And you are a stinking disease

Moronic Colossus
Imbecillicus Rex
Oh yeah!

So let's see what you're made of
Open up this good ol' can o' worms

Ain't it all so wrong?
But I just can seem to help it

It grows definition
A stronger conviction
Turn words in to action
And not back down

Sick sick sick
I'm only speaking my mind
All right, here it goes
I'm just another country boy
And I don't really give a god damn
What you say-hey man, no way

Moronic Collosus
Imbecillicus Rex
Oh yeah!

It's alright, you'll be fine
Once you finally see
There's only so much you can do

It grows definition
A stronger conviction
Turn words in to action
And not back down

[Solo]

It grows definition
A stronger conviction
Turn words in to action
And not back down

You're so predictable
So full of confidence
Some people say it's only
Natural progression-well now
Coo coo katchoo all ends in
Essentially nothing at all
It's so ridiculous
And that's all that you really know

02. Pieces

Traces-
All the shadows of what was
We crawled through defeat
Until it comsumes you
Until we were empty
And nothing but hatred remains

Your holiness displayed
Ashen and hollow

To tear you apart
Piece by piece
Unfolding

Losing all

Through you
It flows in abundance
You will carry this treachery
'Til it breaks you
Until you could see it clearly
We live like ghosts

Your weakness on display
Hollow

To tear you apart
Piece by piece
Unfolding

Lesser than god
Snake
Goat
Harlot

[Solo]

To tear you apart
Piece by piece
Unfolding

You say this is the path less travelled
Well, how come there's no room to breath?

03. Little Cage

How precise
I see that you finally caught on
I am a inconsiderate
Bastard on most accounts
I plead guilty
Now that it´s all out war
Let's make it clear
You were never more than a lousy score

We miss out by default
I'm not even trying that hard
Outside, let´s see you carry your own

This is no surprise
It's not that I never told you
We both know I did
I´m sick of the intricate confusion you
Lay like bait
From here to anywhere but you
Or where you stand

Did you really think
I'd make a change to suit your skin
I don't quite fit
Your precious little cage

No more distractions
Why waste a prefect day
On your decay

So this is the first time I'm not lying
When I said I'm fine
Cause I'm sick,
Sick of being sick
Sick of being told what or who I am

I'm worth it-every single act of love
That comes my way...

Did you really think
I'd make a change to suit your skin
I don't quite fit
Your precious little cage

I will not break myself
No more

04. Trenches

Who are these people?
Where do they come from?
Are they some extra-terrestrial breed
Of super fool?
What was is not
For fuck's sake let it go!
The past is dead
This is now
And its all gone like that...

Can't you see you where beat?
And every time you repeat
Your firm belief
You're only digging yourself
Deeper down
The trenches we left behind

If only the strong survive
How the hell is it you're still here?
Your ignorance only exceeded
By your complete lack of
Human skills

So slow
Oh slower still
The paradox in your claims
To a force of will

Can't you see you where beat?
And every time you repeat
Your firm belief
You're only digging yourself
Deeper down
The trenches we left behind

Mirror mirror on the wall
Who's the biggest fuck up of all?
It's getting ridiculous
And we're all supposed to play along...

We're all potential for the bank
And we don't bleed
No different shade of red
All my life I've been lonely
For no good reason
All we have is this...

05. Ceremony

Raise the dead
To hear them scream again
It's a prize in its own right
Equal in death at last
With no expectation made
There's no escape in this
And that's how it ends

This is my ceremony
A blood rite to spite your kind

Smalltown kings and queens
Falling over-it's so concealed

So let this day remain and linger
(Until) the memories
Come crawling your way
Sinking deeper
Closer to who you were
The pain will truthfully
Bring you home

This is my ceremony
A blood rite to spite your kind
A fire burning deep within me

Become stone in time
Sink into oblivion, endless..
Crawl
Become the master of this pyramid
Venom
Runs like blood through you veins

The more you deny it
The closer it gets
Resisting is futile
This ends in a coffin kiss

This is my ceremony
A blood rite to spite your kind
A fire burning deep within me

06. Skuld

They'll try to pull you away
For all their kind intentions
They will fail
Til takes a beast to stand and bleed

Vila nu stilla
F'rutan maran
F'rutan skuld

Breath- no fear
Breath- no loss
Breath- no rage
Breath- no blame

To be once more, like first snow

07. Crusher

One two three four!
If you can't hold your own
Don't point your fucking finger at me!
Cough, spit, scream, HATRED
All inclusive
And yes, it's a question of class and experience
Consider yourself dismissed

Lesson A:
This lifestyle is not for sale
Give it up, again, and again
And that's how we do it!

To crush
You must love

No false pride
No fashion
No fake set of values
A primal force-to completely absorb
Transforming, serpent-like
Infernal and true

Lesson B:
Imitation equals failure
Surrender to this-
and that's how we do it!

To crush
You must love

Character grows from pain-
Sealed and approved!
And the strength to overcome-
Trial by fire!
No slackness
No wasted chase
This is the discipline

[Solo]

To crush you must love
The fine art of crush

08. Rivers Run

Well the same dull
Darkened, rain keeps
Comin' down
Whisper little secrets
To spite this little mind
See the sunlight in McAllen, TX
Burns my skin in Rome
Salt on my lips
Cracks in the pavement

Are we going blind, or is there
Something I've been missing?
Black coffee, somehow soothing
No matter where I go

Well there's no place to hide
There's no shelter so far away
All rivers end in the same sea

Petty thieves
All hail, the one percent with
A bullwhip résumé
Die slowly, in weeping misery
And drape the bitch in a
Steel plate eulogy

Skull and bones, no hope
Burning fields and
The dead game is up and go
All my life I wanted something right
But today sure ain't my time to shine

It's all falling to pieces but you know

There's no place to hide
There's no shelter so far away
And all rivers end in the same
Cold lake

You came so close you'll
never know...

09. Iron Mask

These are the tools at hand
And this is what you came for
So rest your faith
On some solemn note...

When I give up on you
It's not me being callous
Send me a letter
Tell me how it's going

Just stay the fuck away from me
Until you reach some understanding
I give up

The first one is the worst one
Took all I thought I ever had.
Well, maybe it's supposed to hurt
Some, but I can face it knowing
That after all this there will be some kinda prize to find
But I'm not the man to chance it anymore
I spent a lifetime being locked up
In expectancy
Dreaming of truce...

Without these chains and iron mask
To drag me down
Through veils of bone and bloodline
I can see the lie

It's up to you now
Completion of this
Eyes staring blindly
Back at nothing

So this is where it ends
Your promises mean nothing
I will leave you here to die
Alone
A pale shadow of what was once

Without these chains and iron mask
To drag me down
Through veils of bone and bloodline
I can see the lie

It's up to you now
Completion of this
Eyes staring blindly
Back at nothing

10. Faultline

An address to the stillborn
Lost brothers in arms;
To see the cursed earth
Claim to providence;
A pyramid New Jerusalem

The dream is dead
We're burning the carcass clean
We pretend- but we never sleep

500 mules to the faultline
We decompose and decay

Captivating the moment
Spread the disease
We come in peace
As if we almost believed it...

Strapped to the back of a live grenade

If there was ever a saviour,
She'd be the first to leave

500 miles to the faultline
We decompose and decay
Ten thousand leagues
Through the coal mines
We hesitate and comply...

Equal in death only, subject to
Our own betrayal
Inhuman, suspending reality:
What you see is truthful, but lacking
Misinformation is the new black

Perfect rejects, we're all incomplete
Disfigured at birth
We're the human debris
We're freaks

We live...
We die...
Beneath the faultlines...

One more truth to bury

500 miles to the faultline
We hesitate at the light
One day we rise
Through the cold tide
And face away from this
Dead end failure to see

11. Imperial Death March

Left! Right!
Eyes forward!
The infinite must be
Controlled (by lesser men)
A raging chaos burns inside
Pay tribute, kneel before this throne

Death; Supreme divinity
Master; Death
Imperial. Lord. Insanity

See these bright young men and
Women gladly go to face
The unseen trials of what our enemy
Might have in store for them
There is no terror too great
For these aspiring youths,
Marching onward to protect
Our joyful future
For the love of God and Country...

Prepare the sacrifice;
The firstborn is the lamb.
Consume the offspring;
The innocent and the weak.
Caesar Caligula we yield to thee...
Caesar Caligula;
Endless and complete

12. Seize The Day

Come closer, take a good look. Learn to love this face,
you won't ever undo this reality.
I'll be right at the edge of your thoughts,like it or not.

Hey! Wait! Don't you walk away.

Like a snail,
crawling down the edge of a straight razor,
Losing no matter what.
There's no escape and no way to circumvene this.

Dead meat, dead beat, dead weight
we're all fucked and you know I'm right.
Here, get a load of this!
It's time you make up your own mind for once.

They will suck you dry like vampires until you do...

Your choice!
Don't let them steal your choice!
No more.

Remember yesterday,
to seize the day

I've travelled more miles and looked into more eyes
than most men could ever dream.
The taste of blood never does quite leave,
once it's in it's hard to wash away
If you could see through these eyes of madness
perhaps you could understand?
These words go deep and deeper still
is where you'll find the strength to move.

They will suck you dry like vampires until you choose...

Your choice!
Don't let them steal your choice!
Go forward!
And seize the day.

13. Narcotic

Crud scraper.
Lowlife solutions.
Trapdoor fucking exit out.
A new level of debasement.
A klansman mentality in a crackwhore corpse.

Mass psychotic,
assassination of free will.
It's narcotic,
a sickness from within the flesh itself.

You live it alone.
Hopeless.
Deaf dumb and blind.
So loaded.

Bought and paid for.
You become a liability on your own.
At least you transformed into something you promised
and learnt how to crawl.

Dissolving - losing definition.
Distorted - Your vision's lost in a blur.
Impotent, self-absorbed,
filled with despicable pity for nothing.
A DIY masterpiece of absolute bullshit.

It's narcotic,
a sickness from within the flesh itself.
You live it alone.
Hopeless.
Deaf dumb and blind.
So loaded.

It's a perfectly comfortable substitute
and I'm allright
(I'll just sit here and scratch all night)
can't you feel it crawl?
can't you feel it crawl?
(I've got something inside me)
can't you feel it crawl?
can't you feel it?
Crawl.

14. Versus

[Instrumental]

15. Devolve

The path of least resistance
a straight line from here to nowhere
Nothing but silence of mind remains.

Standing in line at the guillotine
to be liberated from
the burden of free thought

No sense of consequence - take another bite
Devolve (This might hurt)
Devole (In fact it does hurt)
Devolve (But you've already learnt to like it)

Idiots rule

Zombie parading the trick or treat
disguised to look human
Dead skin contortionist
hunger for what you can never be

All that you've ever known - something's missing
Devolve
Devolve
Devolve

"Cut the vein all the way through, to the bone.
Have some fun with it, like someone said.
Give it some time and let the sedatives and
the euphoria of bloodloss set in.
Enjoy that swimming feeling, saviour this."

When the time comes to move
I will deactivate my sense of humanity
These words will be how I wield my hatchet.

Do you think you'll see me coming?

From here on out there will be no forgiveness
No further pretense of mutual bonds,
you and I have nothing in common.
Remember your name and know it will be erased.

Devolve
Devolve
Devolve
Devolve