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Gravestones
06:12
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The perfume of burning flowers
Gravestones in the sky
The decay of lost dreams
A crucifix of flies
Destroyer of worlds
Harbinger of the unknown
Prey to the neon gods
Let all mind and body go
Dismiss all earthly passions
To the fire in the sky
Let war replace the hymns
Of mother’s lullabies
There’s nowhere to run
And there’s nowhere to hide
Surrender your identity
And don’t question why
I wander through the ruins
Of our crumbling world
And I want to believe
That there is something more
Future is but fantasy
In our decaying world
A holocaust to cleanse the earth
Of every boy and girl
A cancerous womb for every child
A crib of cement walls
Plastic dreams of treeless nights
Repose for one and all
Ignore all of the shadows
Consuming all we know
Surrender love for hatred
And cast every stone
March to the beat
Of the broken machine
Relinquish your soul
To the bright glowing screen
The only shred of hope
Lies in a dying dream
That there is something more
For you and for me
Where we can all be free
From this broken machine
A dying dream of liberty
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Gears & Bolts
03:20
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"I realize that someday I'm going to die, but for right now I'm still alive."
I am gonna show the world
Exactly what I am
I’m a product of my environment
And a crumbling society
I’m alive and I’m angry
And I want to be heard
I want to take back what was stolen
‘cause I’m a product of your broken world
Of your broken world
I refuse to be like everybody else
Heartless and soulless
Just gears and bolts
The people around here will devour your soul
And if you don’t fight back
They will take control
Society is a masquerade
And everyone wants to play the game
So you grab your mask that hangs by the front door
And you put it on like all of the days before
Well I don’t wanna wear a mask
I just want to be free
There’s nothing you can do
To stop me now
I refuse to obey
To blindly follow
Naïve and afraid
I refuse to be like everybody else
Heartless and soulless
Just gears and bolts
The people around here will devour your soul
And if you don’t fight back
They will take control
I look into your eyes
And see that you are dead inside
You’ve become a slave to the screen
A slave to the screen
I’ve got to get out of
This phony land of make believe
This vile place isn’t meant for me
Can’t go nowhere without a fight
Can’t even walk down the street
Without shadows lurking over me
I’m alive and I’m disgusted
By the brain-washed neon lies
Pray to the wasteland
And close your eyes
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Cheap Salami
03:19
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Where’s the self-empowerment
In being a piece of meat?
The price tag in the window
Says you’re really cheap
They’re hungry and they’re drooling
And everybody wants a slice
They’ll eat you up ‘till nothings left
Then disappear into the night
You say you’re liberated
But I see through your disguise
You’re exposed and alone
In front of all the staring eyes
Sometimes you feel exploited
And you relapse to a child
And when no one is around
You just feel used up and defiled
When will you realize
You’re doing it to yourself
You only want the hurt
You won’t accept the help
Your pain is self-inflicted
You love the agony
It’s all you’ve ever known
To be a slab of cheap salami
Where’s the self-empowerment
In being worth a dime?
These hungry wolves don’t care about
The contents of your mind
They’ll never see you for the beauties
Of the pains that you’ve endured
Or the poems you used to write
But you don’t write them anymore
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Maleficium
04:44
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In a forgotten cemetery
Below an unmarked grave
Lies the soul of Mary
Who was burned at the stake
Her and her child met the flames of demise
The land was in plague
There was no compromise
Someone had to pay
Judaist lepers
Black magic wielders
Moon-howling wolves
And accursed wax figures
Maleficium
She pried open nailed eyes
Awake on the other side
That storm-raising priestess
Is back for our hides
You were unjustly accused
Tortured and abused
Deemed a heretic
Goddess of the underworld
Queen of the night
She’s waiting at the cross-roads
To show us her might
Night-flying female
The Sabbath is coming
She’s back from the grave
And the insects are swarming
With tears in her eyes
She accepts her demise
Scapegoat to the lies
Have mercy, ‘o wrathful witch
For you were once innocent
But now revenge has consumed your soul
She claimed to hear voices
Of sprits and saints
But darkness and shadow
Are all that remain
She wanders the Earth
In the shadow of God
Traded her soul
For eternal unresolve
Traded her soul
She sought retribution
For her souls pollution
Overtaken by madness
And false persecution
Justice will come
To the wicked and wrong
But faith must prevail
Justice will come
To the wicked and wrong
But faith must prevail
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Hate
02:53
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He hurt me so I hurt you
They hurt me so I hurt them
I don’t care about this world
World never cared for me
Gimme gimme it’s not fair
I want more
Me me me
She gets more attention than me
There’s none left for me
I’m all alone
I am ugly
I hate everything
No one loves me
I don’t care about this world
World never cared for me
He’s got more money than me
He’s got more power than me
Gimme gimme it’s not fair
I want more
Me me me
I don’t care about this world
World never cared for me
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autopilot.wav
04:35
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Power grids and satellites
Holograms in my eyes
Circuit board anatomy
Autopilot sensory
Digital world is not for me
Illusion of reality
Can’t you see we’re losing our souls?
Computer chip is in my brain
Life is just a video game
Radio-active molecules
In cyber space I make all the rules
We’re losing our humanity
To cold steel and technology
Have we gone too far?
Chemical dreams of a dying world
Watch the nuclear chaos unfurl
From the safety of your telephone
Hypnotized by the cosmic glow
Fading creativity
To convenience and accessibility
I can’t breathe in this cancerous world
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Fairydust & Razor Blades
03:31
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Fairydust and razorblades
No one cares anyway
Words they have no meaning here
They want to expose your every fear
They want you up against a wall
They want to watch you crawl
Firing squads and guillotines
We’re all gears in the war machine
We’ll punish the very thieves we deprive
We’ll corrupt the young and innocent minds
We’ll send all of the boys off to war
We’ll turn the girls into whores
Macdonald’s and Disneyland
I’m so happy to be an American
Atomic weapons and GMOs
Plastic world where nothing grows
It’s the land of the free and the home of the brave
I am a slave
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Imaginary Lines
03:02
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You’re on the other side
Of the walls that divide
And everybody feels the same
Always looking for someone to blame
Imaginary lines
You’re on the other side
Imaginary lines that divide
Outlander, you are much different than me
Your culture and religion are as strange as can be
You are on the other side
You are an outsider looking in
I can tell by the color of your skin
That I am a barbarian
Your way of life is alien to me
Imaginary lines
You’re on the other side
Imaginary lines that divide
I must reject what I can’t understand
Your people speak in tongues and you are of a foreign land
You are on the other side
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9. |
Hard City
08:24
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Live to serve and sever your worth
It’s a hard city to love
Live to serve and sever your worth
It’s a hard city to love
Pray to the neon cross
Pray to the LED order
Prey on the weak
Prey on the lost
It’s a hard city trying to keep what’s yours
Prey on the weak
Prey on the lost
It’s a hard city trying to keep what’s yours
Dollars and days
Spent in a haze
There’s no escape
Dollars and days
Spent in a haze
There’s no escape
It’s a hard city to love
Pray to the neon cross
Pray to the LED order
Prey on the weak
Prey on the lost
It’s a hard city trying to keep what’s yours
Prey on the weak
Prey on the lost
It’s a hard city trying to keep what’s yours
Below plutonium clouds
19 hundred 19 feet above the sea
Chattering TV screens
Blinding society
Trade your old tired soul
For that 24 karat glow
Let the capital ‘T’ envelope you
Let the screen take hold
Let the screen take hold
And fear the rain
The acid rain
Taste of the grave
The neon grave
Fear the rain
The acid rain
Look away
Look away
Shadows outlined
Glowing inside
Bright from the heart
No distance apart
Beat of the devil
Black from the start
Cling to the aura
Escaping your soul
Overlord whore
Emblazoned in gold
Atop neon skyscrapers
Burned down into stone
Screw their land
Shut up and learn something
In this surveillance state
Blood isn’t immortal
Everything has a record
Every wince, nod, and grin
The screen can read your mind
One flash, and it’s in
Look up to the screen
Smile in the sun
Omnipotent one
United screens as one
Neon order has begun
Neon order has begun
Neon order has begun
Neon order has begun
Dream soul will wander
Harness your dreams
Keep the light close
By closing your mind
Preserve your worth
Discard mother Earth
Unplug yourself from the circuitry
Awaken yourself from this lucid dream
Remove your chains and open your mind
Or our Earth will surely die
If we can’t question the lies
The neon web of lies
The neon web of lies
The neon web of lies
The neon web of lies
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10. |
Material Confusion
03:47
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I try to separate
From the material world
It doesn’t matter anyway
Forget about
Your troubles for now
I try to meditate
Ignore the guns and sirens
That cry all through the night
But I can’t quiet
My noisy brain
I know only my senses
See, hear, smell, taste, touch
Tangible stimuli
Who am I?
Simulated dreams
Of questions that have answers
A simpler point of view
A path laid out
Before me
Time is not linear
There’s no beginning or end
Nothing ever dies
If it once existed
My world is flesh and concrete
It’s all I know
Whatever lies on the other side
I’ll be there soon
I hope to see you in a distant life
I hope to see you in the afterlife
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Candy Warpop Las Vegas, Nevada
Candy Warpop is a nihilistic storm of art punk and dark psychedelia. Incubated under the debauched neon of Las Vegas, this audacious trio is unrestrained by conventional musical standards.
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