1. |
Requiescat In Pace
01:39
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They thrive on Mount Olympus
On the construction made of our bones
On the soil that we laid
They silence our thoughts but cannot cage our words
Still we choose a king that bears ill will each and every time, and we ourselves pay the price
We walk in slumber
Alive but dead inside we continue to please them
Their acts of violence continue throughout time
Time and time again they paint their banners with our blood
The sell us a false paradise for our souls
They keep us in the dark, and yet we refuse to see the light
The ugly truth
But our voices will be heard
One day voices of millions of forsaken souls will join as one
Still they suffocate those voices by forcing us to kill each other in their fucking wars
In the end none of it will matter
Their castles will perish. Our soil will wither away
The fault lies on us all
Thy name is man and thy art is murder
All you are is soil organic matter for society
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2. |
Soil Organic Matter
05:39
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Welcome to the family
Fresh out the womb, now it’s time to bleed
Wisdom
Religion
Fill your head
Fill it with lies
Fill it with dread
Empty promises they give you
It’s only your soul, that they take
You’re a currency, a brick in the wall, another infant to enthrall
All you are is soil organic matter for society
All you are is soil organic matter for society
From our remains, cities will rise
From our remains, society will thrive
Our bones create the carcass of construction
We’re nothing more than livestock for reproduction
Welcome to society
You signed the contract, when you chose to breathe
Processed. Oppressed
Whipped and shipped
A product sold to the highest bid
Your fate is sealed
Take one last breath
Wrap the silken noose around your neck
Swallow your dreams
Follow the stream
Grind your bones in the great machine
All you are is soil organic matter for society
All you are is soil organic matter for society
Lead the cattle to the fires
Fuel the furnace of empires
Harmony will reign forever
If your sacrifice your entire life for the greatest lie romanticized
All you are is soil organic matter for society
All you are is soil organic matter for society
From our remains, cities will rise
From our remains, society will thrive
Our bones create the carcass of construction
We’re nothing more than livestock for reproduction
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3. |
Silence Is For the Dead
03:50
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If liberty stands for anything
It's the right to tell you what you do not want to hear
In a world so grim
Break the silent oppression and fear
A slit of the tongue won't kill the message
A slit of the throat won't take off the head
What can't be killed will never die
Silence is for the dead
Take our
Freedom
Away
And eventually we'll be...
Silent
Brainless
As we're…
Led like sheep to the slaughterer
Let the dictated rise against
A dictator so malevolent
As everything else is gonna fail
The spoken word will prevail
A slit of the tongue won't kill the message
A slit of the throat won't take off the head
What can't be killed will never die
Silence is for the dead
Take our
Freedom
Away
And eventually we'll be...
Silent
Brainless
As we're…
Led like sheep to the slaughterer
Freedom of speech
Freedom to impeach
Your reality will never be mine
Silence is for the dead
Silence is for the dead
Silence is for the dead
Silence is for the dead
Silence is for the dead
Silence is for the dead
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4. |
Ape of State
04:18
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Ape of State
Leading the state of decay
Divide us all into disarray
Who’s the fool?
The people or the one they elected?
Ape of state
Leading the state of decay
Idiocracy
I guess prosperity is obsolete
Once again, the commoners have chosen a jester as king
Eternal desire for revolution
Condemning this world for a quick resolution
We are knocking on Death’s door
Lobotomizing choices made by the…
Ape of State
Leading the state of decay
Divide us all into disarray
Who’s the fool?
The people or the one they elected?
Ape of state
Leading the state of decay
The end is near
Till death we follow the great puppeteer
Egomaniac
Make this country hate again
With a mindset so dense, why even bother?
We’re all just monkeys throwing shit at each other
We are knocking on Death’s door
Lobotomizing choices made by the…
Ape of State
Leading the state of decay
Divide us all into disarray
Who’s the fool?
The people or the one they elected?
Ape of state
Leading the state of decay
Blinded by promises of make-believe
We always choose a vile regime
Nothing left of truth but ruin
(Nothing left but ruin)
We chose our own undoing
As another fool ascends to head of state
(Ape of state)
We devolve to the state of apes
Bloodshed will forever remain
As long as there’s hate to fuel the flame
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5. |
March of Mannequins
06:45
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Wake up to the chronic cycle
To the daily grind in the treadmill
Every day melts together
Sleep
Eat
Work
Repeat
The numbness of no purpose, creates a void so hollow
No misery
No bliss
Emptiness is all you know
Watch the time slipping away
Bleeding through one more day
Repeat the never-ending march of mannequins
Now decide if it’s a life worth living
This is the greatest neglect of life
Sleepwalkers that never wake
Alive and breathing yet dying inside
Marching on
Waiting for the end to come
Empty faces
Pale bodies
Roaming endlessly
Organic machines obeying every pull of the string
All connection to the living is lost
As man continues down the beaten path
Pounding the pavement
Forward march
Until the end of time
No way out for our wretched kind
Repeat the relentless march of mannequins
Now decide if it’s a life worth living
This is the greatest neglect of life
Sleepwalkers that never wake
Alive and breathing yet dying inside
Marching on
Waiting for the end to come
Making a living is not the same as creating a life
Rushing through existence to reach a goal too far beyond
In a race against time
Death’s the only peace to find
From the cradle to the grave
The mannequins march on
This is the greatest neglect of life
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6. |
Blood-Spangled Banner
03:51
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Bloody red stripes and fifty stars of gray
This is the American way
Ignorance is bliss, where fear rules supreme
Is this the American dream?
Burning crosses defiling another backyard
Cowards
Culprits
Concealed in white malevolence
Love thy neighbour but shoot him if he gets too close
So, stand your ground
It’s your right as an American citizen
In the land of the free
Blood runs deep
In the home of the brave
There is fear
Law enforcement now enforcing your demise
The first kill comes for free, as long as you deny
Pledge allegiance to your blood-spangled banner
Uncle Sam wants you to spread your country’s cancer
In the land of the free
Blood runs deep
In the home of the brave
There is fear
You’re your own worst enemy
(America)
You’re your own worst enemy
(America)
You’re your own worst enemy
(America)
You’re your own worst enemy
In the land of the free
Blood runs deep
In the home of the brave
There is fear
Bloody red stripes and fifty stars of gray
This is the American way
Ignorance is bliss, where fear rules supreme
Is this the American dream?
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7. |
In Darkness We Dwell
03:40
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Trapped in the blissful void
Sanctuary from knowledge
Bathing in false light
A world made by design
A world to be controlled
A world we know nothing about
A stage
A show
We are the puppets and they’re the crowd
Oblivious we fly
In darkness we dwell
Such a beautiful lie
In darkness we dwell
The eternal hunt for answers
Crawling in the back of our brain
But what we want is not what we’ll get
So we hide in shallow shelters
In the sweet caressing darkness
Filled with pretense of prosperity
Blindly we follow the blind
Straight into the abyss
Thinking paradise awaits
The future is uncertain
Because the great big eye
Is busy gazing over its clueless slaves
Oblivious we fly
In darkness we dwell
Such a beautiful lie
In darkness we dwell
We know that they’re hiding something infernal
We crave and hunger for proof
Still we overlook the ugliness of truth
True freedom lies beyond the concepts of our own construction
We’re too deep in our self-involved corruption
I only know one thing for certain
At our own hands
Mankind will end
Oblivious we fly
In darkness we dwell
Such a beautiful lie
In darkness we dwell
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8. |
Voices Unheard
05:07
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Face down once again
Drowning in the filth of contempt
Paying the price of being different
Stepping towards the end
Trapped beneath the weight of oppression
All your wounds will build your throne
Feeding upon your hate and aggression
My friend, you’re never alone
We are the forgotten
But we will never forget
We are the scorned
But we have no regrets
We are the wayward
The ones that you neglect
We are the dawn
Our voices become one
All for one
None for all
Used then discarded and left to crawl
Born in the shadows of better men
We were never gonna meet their expectations
Don’t surrender
Never let them silence your tongue
Always remember
My friend, you’re not the only one
We are the forgotten
But we will never forget
We are the scorned
But we have no regrets
We are the wayward
The ones that you neglect
We are the dawn
Our voices become one
This is it
It’s time to distort the conventional way of life
It’s time to rise against our oppressors
Bite the hand that feeds
Because it only feeds you lies
We are the neglected
The freaks
The misfits and the geeks
Let them hear it
Let them fear it
As a million fucking voices come together as one
We will no longer fight just to exist
We will no longer lay down and submit
Now it is time for us to resist
We will tear down your walls brick by brick
We will no longer fight just to exist
We will no longer lay down and submit
Now it is time for us to resist
We will tear down your walls brick by brick
Step out of their shadows and relish
In the dawning genesis
Step out of their shadows and relish
In the dawning of a new age
We are the Wayward Dawn
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9. |
One of Us Must Die
03:36
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Target approaching
Drops of sweat is rolling
You line up your sights
Measure the trajectory
Eye locked on eye
Fingers twitching weary
Blood will soil the earth and shame will soil the soul
One of us must die
Only the least humane survives
Crosshairs never tell a lie
So suffocate the child inside
Standing at the gates
Who will be the casualty?
Standing face to face with your mortality
A liquid holocaust is lighting up the blackened sky
The smell of putrid burning flesh festering in your mind
Losing a piece of yourself with each bullet hitting the ground
Killing so many, somewhere along the way you lost the count
And when the hero returns to a broken family
Neglected by both country and kin
Down your throat
Drown the nightmares of the calamity
At least you’ll get a hero’s funeral
When you lose the battle within
Alone you stand and alone you’ll fall
The promise of silence will always be kept
Forgotten by all, but the ones whose blood you spilled
Live or die
You’re still stuck in hell
One of us must die
Only the least humane survives
Crosshairs never tell a lie
So suffocate the child inside
Standing at the gates
Who will be the casualty?
Standing face to face with your mortality
One must die
One must die
One must die
One must die
One must die
One must die
One must die
One must die
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10. |
Thy Name Is...
05:48
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Eons ago a sickness was born, and the downfall had begun
A proliferating epidemic making all succumb
It steals from the living and supply the dead
In a kind and loving disguise
It’s easy to forget
That this parasite will leave you to die
Spreading like the plague
Leaving you nothing but desolation
I hope your kingdom finally may come
How could we be so eyeless to blight?
There’s no stopping the virus of life
Like autumn leaves you wither away
Your illness sinks its teeth of decay
Digging
Drilling
Probing your skin
Its gluttonous ways leaves you hollow within
You welcomed it with open arms
You left yourself exposed to the swarm
You’re the creator
This you can’t deny
You invited the leech that bled you dry
Spreading like the plague
Leaving you nothing but desolation
I hope your kingdom finally may come
How could we be so eyeless to blight?
There’s no stopping the virus of life
Dependent on one another
Yet slowly killing each other
As you watch the world in flames
Know that you’re the one to blame
Thy name is…
Thy name is…
Thy name is…
Thy name is man
Thy name is man
Thy art is murder
Thy name is man
Thy art is murder
We are the end
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Wayward Dawn Skanderborg, Denmark
Formed in October 2015 in Skanderborg, Denmark, Wayward Dawn plays intense and relentless death metal with a massive sound barrier of double bass pedals, heavy guitars played through classic Marshall amps, and a vocal that goes from abysmal growls to rancid and rotten screams. ... more
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