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The Front
03:46
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Liberation never tasted so sweet
Fresh grass, first time on my feet
Now it's your turn, subjected to the hunt
Take me out, keep me safe, trash your shit, meet the front
Your time has come to give it up
Don't want to hear a fucking word from you
Your tools of torture all rendered corrupt
Your life's work in flames on the news
Every life you take holds a consequence, so face it motherfucker
Face the consequence of your actions
A career so sick and depraved
Face the resistance, the final faction
As we crawl noiselessly through the pitch black night
Working quick, burning everything in sight
We gaze at your fucked up world and we begin to destroy
All are free, including those you exploit with employ
The front comes for you in the dead of night
Smash your work, make you fear for your life
Smoke blacks out the stars in the sky
A tooth for a tooth, and an eye for an eye
Smoke blacks out the stars in the sky
Tonight's the night you learned you can't hide from the front
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Denied
02:25
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Denied the right to life life free
The things I've seen you wouldn't believe
Sights meant for fantasy
Unspoken horrors would make you weak in the knees
My life encaged, enraged, deranged
Cast to the fires, damned to eternal flames
Sentenced to burn
Sentenced to die
Sentenced to life inside a cage where I can't hide
There's nothing left to believe in
A sad sick excuse for a life
Given up the fight for freedom
Our days spent under the hunting knife
Live to grow
Born to die
You couldn't fathom what this life is like
The day I was born, my execution was already earned
Deemed unworthy of life, cast to the flames, sentenced to burn
Sentenced to die
Sentenced to life inside a cell in my own mind
Stuck in a cage
Withered away
Where I'll stay
Enslaved by the human race
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Expect Resistance
02:32
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Pushed to the fucking edge
Nothing left but the end
Those trapped in cages
Will have their day, just wait
Blood spilled brings peace
Blood spilled brings peace
Earth keepers disgraced
It's been too long your time has come
You've sealed your fate your rule is done
Eat shit and die slow
Don't ask what you did, you already know
Grown quick, no regard
Sometimes karma works fast and bites hard
Running fast through the toxic wasteland that you once called your home
So few humans left
Taking back the planet that you thought you owned
No one left to save you
Alone in the unknown
This mass killing gives way to
A new era of peace where all may roam
Heavy breath
Raising hairs on necks
Stalking prey
Bathing in the blood of my enemies
Nothing helps
Fear spreads across your faces
All that's left
Are only empty cages
Painted blood stained teeth
Your guilty verdict has been reached
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Beyond Nonviolence
01:17
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August Mourning
03:16
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Night falls
Fear crawls
All because of his hands that he can't keep to himself
Promises of safety and love
Shelter and warmth
Broken yet again
When will the violence end?
Shot
Gone
Dumped into a ditch where you fucking belong
No life and nothing left
People aren't things you possess
In due time you'll get what you've earned
Crossed the line, life lessons learned
All your family and all your friends
All the ones on which you depend
Turned their backs and walked away
You won't be mourned on your final day
Night falls, fear crawls
This time it's all over for you
Liberated from your grasp
None shall mourn when you pass
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Haunt Me
00:58
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Your face comes screaming at me when I lay down to sleep
Your eyes
Your eyes burn through my lids like a thousand suns
It kills me to think
What could have been
Had I only not taken your life
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No Compromise
00:55
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When money rules the world
And the evil man's plans unfurl
The clouds rain down an acid shower
We're all victims to the quest for absolute power
When all you do is look to make your profits bigger
All the oceans and land are then sold to the highest bidder
Gasp, choke on the air that you breathe
The blame rests on people like you and me
We will disrupt or we will choose to perish
The people destroying this earth have names and addresses
It's about ensuring our survival
Or giving it all over to the ones that control the capital
Funding ecocide makes you an enemy of everybody on this fucking planet
Choke on your final breath
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9. |
Betrayal of Birth
03:06
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The whole world's had it out for me
Ever since I was born
Everywhere I look I see pain and death
It's good to learn to mourn
Thinking I was born into a safe place with love around me
Was my first mistake
This life will guarantee pain
Forced in the world kicking and screaming
Those we love turn their backs or pass
Happy endings don't exist in the real world
Betrayal of birth
The experience of being alive on the earth
This world is cursed
Born into pain
Born to be betrayed
This betrayal is one you won't move on from
This life is violence sacrifice
The exit signs always stay bright
This life is a roll of the dice (fool's paradise)
All bonds broken, the exit door for life stays open
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