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View//Askew
02:16
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VIEW//ASKEW
Fear yourself
Internal visions
Primal thoughts and
Rash decisions
Take control
You're going under
They cleared your mind
To make you wonder
What is normal?
Is it lust?
Is it mental?
Is it trust?
Block them all
And their limited view
Constant thoughts
They're laughing at you
You've hit the wall
Fear remission
This is your fault
Your condition!
What is normal...
Cast them out
The world is colder
Be your own self
And start over
No remorse
A social schism
This is your choice
Your decision!
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2. |
Pickman's Model
00:40
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PICKMAN'S MODEL
Pickman, your artwork scares
Beyond proportion of a normal soul
Images too damnably so
To be mere artwork of a normal man
Ghouls that feed in a subway station
Amongst the living is a normal sight
To what do I owe a detestable man
Whose paintings hold inconceivable fright?
Last I saw was an unfinished piece
Whose victims suffered from carnivorous ghouls
Never again would I visit this man
When looked upon an image of a sight that's REAL
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3. |
Seen And Not Heard
00:55
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SEEN AND NOT HEARD
Fall in line, they force conclusions
Calling out, they scream my name
Telling me my fucking problems
Stem from no one, I'm to blame
Each time turning more reclusive
Telling you what I say is true
That all my messed up social issues
Could just be a reflection of you
Problem child, out of reach
Fall in line, and be brief
Smile and wave, then go away
They'll care for you some other day
I wasn't made to follow orders
With the stupid speeches they give
So many fucking rules to live by
Choking me out, I can't breathe
Scapegoat, they all point their fingers
Like a witch hunt, burning coals
But I'm a living death child
Embracing my world
Problem child, out of reach...
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4. |
Paranoid
01:56
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PARANOID
Paranoia setting in
Is it karma for your sins?
What did you do?
They're hunting for you
All alone or can you hear
The sound of something coming near?
Face the fact
A shade of black
Tortured
By your Fears
Wake up screaming in the night
Pressure, pressure, failing lights
Do as you're told
Your blood runs cold
Your agony is all a game
A pawn, from which you know it's name
No help for you
What can you do?
Tortured...
Try to hide, but no use
Can you stomach this abuse?
What's done is done
You can't tell no one
Footsteps echo in the night
You hear it breathing now alright
But whatever you do
Don't look behind you...
Tortured…
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5. |
Nowhere To Hide
01:37
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NOWHERE TO HIDE
Trapped within this madness
Nightmare thoughts plague unrestricted dreams
Treating us as garbage
Prescriptions shelter all from the extremes
Money amounts to greed
And power produces needs
Tearing the insides
There is nowhere to hide
How did we let this happen?
Disinformation rampant like the plague
Terror stripped and vacant
Become among the masses in their graves
Money amounts to greed...
White walls shape their coffins
Defeated instincts washed away with pills
As with time this passes
And in their grief there's nowhere to run
Tormenting vision or dream
And a silence that deafens the screams
Tearing the insides
There is nowhere to hide
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6. |
Thirteen Spirits
04:47
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THIRTEEN SPIRITS
Something in the distance
Can you hear the sounds?
From somewhere among the tall grass
Something evil is going down
Wake up from the nightmare
But know it has not passed
The hour of death has come too soon,
It's impending doom
Thirteen Spirits 'round an altar flame
Chanting, screaming, black Samhain
Thirteen Spirits of an ancient sect
Thirteen Spirits 'round an altar flame
Chanting, screaming, black Samhain
Feel their presence, you now suspect
There will be nothing left
Feel a cold sweat coming
And an urge to run and hide
Better take your chances out there
Than locked and barred inside
With a caustic turmoil
Outside, the blood red moon
Your mind goes numb, you've gone insane
It's a black Samhain!
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7. |
Blinded By Pride
00:11
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Blinded
By pride
My mistakes I try to hide
Bury them down deep inside
Point fingers to avoid the blame
Lack of knowledge hide the shame
Blinded by pride x4
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8. |
Debauchery
02:09
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I'm the author of death
Destroyer of life
Distilled breath to
Extend my stride
Look into my eyes
I planned my demise
The hero never dies
No the hero never dies
Hand to god on the book of lies
To be gone without a goodbye
There's a beast in every man
And it stirs when you place
A drink in his hand
Oppose Contradictive
Say non addictive
Mask your Misery
In familiar dark liquid
Gets in your skin
No forgiveness of your sins
One can't end ‘til the other begins
Gets in your brain
Only pleasure no more pain
How to maintain
The right mind frame
A lifetime full of drunken shame
Can you wait until it's black?
It's hard to trust a man
Who can no longer trust himself
Far too stubborn to receive
Any form of clinical help
Always hitting rock bottom
While living on the 30th floor
Watching that dead bloated ego
Wash up on that shallow shore
Oppose Contradictive
Say non addictive
Mask your Misery
In familiar dark liquid
Gets in your skin
No forgiveness of your sins
One can't end ‘til the other begins
Gets in your brain
Only pleasure no more pain
How to maintain
The right mind frame
A lifetime full of drunken shame
Can you wait until it's black?
Wait till it's black
Wait till it's black____
You wait, you wait, you wait
Until the morning
And maybe you'll wake up
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9. |
Fraudulent
00:32
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Promise one thing
Deliver the other
Narcissistic lies
Blend with no cover
Over Compensation
Laid out, Cerebral Death
Negative outlook
Wasted Breath
Fraudulent
All my life
Fraudulent
Run my days in
Fraudulent, Fraudulent
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10. |
Angel of Mistake
01:29
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I am the Devil
I'm here to do the Devil's work
I'm the one who watches from the distance
Deemed never to lurk
Our own volatile nature
Seek out and eradicate
The Source of man's
Inhumanity towards man
I'm the Angel Of Mistake
A Smile Can Say 1,000 words
It can also hide 1,000 tears
I’m the cold whisper
To let you know I'm near
As this clock ticks on
And this rock still spins
You are just a speck
A ripple in time
Once you are gone
No one will ever know
That you were here
That you were here
Nothing exists
But empty space
And you, and you, and you
Are but a thought
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11. |
Cathartic
03:49
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People are afraid
Of all the wrong
Social status the global warming
Illiteracy obesity
Unemployment now at ten percent
My minimum wage job can't pay my rent
Mind blowing traffic and global bomb threats
Continental genocide we soon forget
AR-15
Shoots up the schools
Media coverage
The most marketable tools
Shows the next generation
What went wrong
And exactly how
You too can begin
Do your homework kids
Maximize the body count
In order to win
In order to win
A single spotlight in a loner's life
One horrific action to be remembered in time
With all the coverage to boost your rating
Blood, gore and violence sells
But it's rather misleading
I only feel my life
Is as valuable as how many I take
Hollow point bullets
With one foot in 15 graves
Always knew how my tomb would seal
False evidence appearing real
I'm the one who makes a name
I'm the one who takes your name
The one who makes a name
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12. |
Overwhelmed
02:21
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In order to remain in conversational cohorts
Pretend like you know those organized sports
Comment on the popular music of today
Crack a smile for once with no delay
To express my true inner thoughts
Imaginative scenarios complete loss
To blend in so they can't see that I'm not
An actual person, no feelings, no distraught
As I Smile and Laugh
Reality melts pending for collapse
Deadness in my eyes due for relapse
Sit and stare at my spot on the wall
Diminished structure never to fall
I live this lie
I live this lie
I live this lie____
When those years of youth
Faded in the past
Try to buy more sand
For your hourglass
Tears fall like confetti
On the Devil's parade
Tucked away, emptiness,
My masked charade
Sit and stare at the spot on the wall
Diminished structure never to fall
As I live this lie
As I live this lie
As I Smile and Laugh
Reality melts pending for collapse
Deadness in my eyes due for relapse
As I live this lie
As I live this lie
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