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Dying Concrete

from Archive 200 by Once Upon the End

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When cities come collapsing around us, will you become the destroyer of worlds?

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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"."

credits

from Archive 200, track released September 29, 2023
Vocals - Ezalyr
Rhythm Guitar - Koal
Lead Guitar - Loerk
Bass - Groly
Drums - Tentrom

Lyrics - Seditius & Robert Oppenheimer
Music - B0rn & Loerk
Artwork - Seditius
Logo - Daphné Vichot

Produced by Loerk (Eleventh Angle Music)
Mastered by Frédéric Gervais (Henosis Studio)

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Among the silent ruins of the Ancient world, and inspired by used recordings of old, five survivors roam the broken streets to blast and shout the loudest music: a testimony of this last age.

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