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Dying Concrete
06:05
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Dying concrete
I won’t give my life for it
I'm not a robot
Still, I am programmed to rot
Cities burn all around me
In flames of corruption
Drowning in boiling gold
I was raised as a simple brick
Among forests of concrete towers
I feel like running
Amid collapsing mountains
Souls and buildings crack
Crowds and metals wrack
Like tombstones above dust
Metropolis sprawl over us
Among shadows of concrete towers
Rats and rust
In our everlasting litters
Steel replaced grass
Silicon replaces flesh
Only ashes will remain
And we are all the embers
Of this chaos
Homelands, reflects of our minds,
Decay beyond human reason
Our veins drive the poison
From our brains to our rinds
Dying concrete
Shelters are fading
We won’t be
Unaware anymore
Dying…
Shelters are fading
We won’t be
Unaware anymore
Dying concrete
I will not give my life for it
Dying concrete
I'm not a robot
Still, I am programmed to fucking rot
"We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty, and to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds"."
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Death
Come to me
I wanna be free
From this world
From this life
From these lies
I wanna close my eyes
And dream of the past
Pray the hurt won’t last
For all the tears I cried
The nightmare’s still alive
Blinded and sedated
Now we’re disconnected
Under a crimson sky
All hope is denied
To sleep forever
Civilization's over
I can see no more hope
Thinking of tomorrow
Please make this silence stop
I'm feeling so hollow
They roam the wastelands
Like broken robots
Without a screen to guide them
Toxic world, empty brain
Living no more yet not dead
A fate we all try to escape
‘till the silence comes again
Blank women, hollow men
I can see no more hope
Thinking of tomorrow
Please make this silence stop
I'm feeling so hollow
What kind of technology
Cuts our kin from reality
Throws them into a pit
Until they commit
What cannot be undone
What will hurt everyone
Emptied by an inner pain
They can't even explain
Death
Comes for all
Dead
Dead
We are the dead
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Moon Scavengers
05:29
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Scavengers
They bit the Earth, they strangled Mother
Scavengers
From reckless spawns to predators
They grew up
Drinking from her wounds
Enclosing her
By millions of chains
World Eaters
Their first prey is nearly down
However
They take their time
Savoring the taste
Of their bleeding toy
Like
Young sadistic cats they are
Predators
In springtime of their life
Ready to drain
The next target’s
Blood
Blind mowers
Reaping the branch they stand on
Will fly away the day
Their mother-world shall collapse
Lords of plundering
Now they have finished off the Earth
The virgin moon
They shall scavenge
For illusory wealth
Brought to the stars
By the vain desire to stain Eternity
Valueless mark among Infinity
For illusory wealth
Brought to the stars
Shark-toothed creatures
Eating their own flesh
Will be swept away the day
Some cosmic forces shall throw them out
Greedy critters
Feeding upon
Most sterile
Landscapes
Scavengers
They bit the Earth, they strangled Mother
Scavengers
From reckless spawns to predators
They grew up
Drinking from her wounds
Enclosing her
By millions of chains
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The Old Ones
05:34
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Mankind always seeks a truth
Endlessly questions the meaning of life
Science, can’t help us ease our pain
Our beliefs exist to keep us sane
Sometimes a lonely man falls into darkness
Trying to bind modern and ancient
Staring into infinity ‘til madness
He finds nothing but this lament
We were nothing
To the Old Ones
We are nothing
To the Old Ones
There is no God
There is no Man
We're just a drop
In the ocean
Stranger to life
Stronger than death
Through aeons rise
Forgotten depths
A tear in the sea is not even close
To demonstrate how insignificant we are
No truth is found inside our mind
We just are, no scheme behind
Sometimes a lonely man falls into darkness
Trying to bind modern and ancient
Staring into infinity ‘til madness
He finds nothing but this lament
We were nothing
To the Old Ones
We are nothing
To the Old Ones
The selfishness of the ancient cannot be explained
Fading fast into the ashes of the past
The void only answers now
In the cold dead gaze of the old one
We are nothing
To the Old Ones
Nous ne sommes rien
Face aux Anciens
There is no God
There is no Man
We're just a drop
In the ocean
Stranger to life
Stronger than death
Through aeons rise
Forgotten depths
The Old Ones are here as a reminder
We’re just a scream through the nether
That’s the only truth we’ll ever find
So Embrace your life before you die
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