1. |
Burnt Edges
02:28
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Etch it deep
Exsanguinate the ones that hide behind their blue wall
Not just the force but the whole fucking system
Burn it to the god damn ground
Bring the fucking hammer down
(Bring the fucking hammer down)
This is no joke so don't you get it fucking twisted
Don't you get it confused
These are no small altercations
They are calls for revolution
Heed the words of the rage we take in
We don't need a key
We'll break in
Day by fucking day
People killed in the streets
Left for dead on the concrete
We're running out of time
The punishment don't fit the crime
Break the vines
(Of authority)
Break their thumbs
(And pull them through the cuffs)
Break the chains
(That bind us to their laws)
Break it
Down
Burn the edges of the book that holds
Those pages of the lives they took
Collect the scraps (collect the scraps)
Rewrite the script
Give them a taste of their own fucking judgment
Back off
Right Now
This is a takedown
Liberate the land of the free
Take back this fucking country
Liberate the land of the free
Liberate the land of the free
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2. |
No Hope To Begin With
03:47
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Everywhere I turn there is no end
Need to find a way to break the mold again
I have drifted apart from myself
Giving into everyone else
Feed the machine
Leave me to bleed
Rinse and repeat
Suffer defeat
I donβt feel in touch with the world or anyone in it
Used up and stripped to the core
Unsure of what we suffer for
Strayed too far from the path
I drag my face through broken glass
Bleeding out just to be last place
It's the same damn masquerade
True evil lingers
Rid me of this disease
Real monsters hide in plain sight
Their presence cannot be denied
Pure evil wears a smile
You can't run, you canβt hide
This is a world of snakes
Camouflaged to the naked eye
Built solely on lies
This is a world where truth is blind
Slither away
Jealousy, greed
Spread far between
Humanity's hopeless, lost at sea
This is the burden of our lives
I had no hope to begin with
I am numb from all of the bullshit
Face to face with a two faced world
Unfazed by evil
Doomed from the start
We are all afflicted
To live is to die
Take me under
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3. |
Anguish
01:09
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[Interlude]
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4. |
Peril
03:48
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It's a generational curse
Relegated to outsiders
The result of a nation
Ranked by pigmentation
Masses misled to believe
In dreams not meant for all to achieve
How much longer can we afford
Working twice as hard for no reward
(No reward)
Equality is just a mirage
The melting pot is just a facade
Of a system holding us down
(Years lost)
Devastating lives
How much blood will have to spill
To convince you this is real?
It's not a tragedy (to you)
When the lives lost don't resemble yours
(How much blood will have to spill?)
It's a generational curse
Relegated to outsiders
The result of a nation
Ranked by pigmentation
There's no protection
Under horizons of oppression
Desensitized to life
Equality is just a mirage
The melting pot is a fucking facade
Of the hate that will never go away
It has been this way for too god damn long
Victims overlooked
Issues swept under the rug
We don't want your pity
We don't ask for much
Just human decency
Do you give a fuck?
Those with other gods, different hair, darker skin
Deserve respect you fucking hypocrite
Those with other countries on their birth certificates
Are welcome here too
Bitch
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5. |
The Curtain Call
03:07
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The honest truth, it hurts it's endless
Through strife I feel I am worthless
Give it all for a sense of direction
The light is weak from behind the curtain
My sanity is wearing thin
Time and time and time again
The pain takes center stage
And in the dark it serenades
Everything went black
(Pitch black)
Giving into the rage
Is all I'm left with
I'm clawing tooth and fucking nail
Digging deeper into hell
Pray I'm falling faster
Diving head first into disaster
The honest truth, it hurts it's endless
Through strife I feel I am worthless
Give it all for a sense of direction
The light is weak from behind the curtain
AHH
Is this the way it is
Claustrophobia cages my soul
Entrenched in self-loathing
Disintegrating
Hellbent on my dead end
My sanity wears thin
The honest truth, it hurts it's endless
Through strife I feel I am worthless
Give it all for a sense of direction
The light is weak from behind the curtain
The absence of light envelops me
Leaving me in moral ambiguity
I just want to see
I can't fucking see
There is no light
Cut me down
Peel back my blistered skin
I must learn to suffer to reap what I have sown
Strike it down
Ha
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Gradual Slip Maryland
MDHC.
Metallic hardcore from Maryland.
Fat dudes, fat riffs.
...No Hope To Begin With out everywhere on 04/15/2022
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