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Above Moyobamba
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Ten snow moons have passed | a decade in my isolation | But tonight I actually prayed | I prayed for you to join my fate | I prayed for you to come, and take me away | The cabin fire burns | the embers inside | a blissful contrast | to the delicate flakes of snow | beyond my stained glass window | Where has time gone? | Where has time gone? | I told you that I’d wait until the end of time | but my time is coming toanend|Mytimeisover|Mytimeisgone | Alone I still recall | your eyes the first night that I saw your precious face | Filled with love and pride for me | to watch the color shine, one more time in your eyes | Forty seasons have passed, a decade in my solitude | But tonight, tonight I cannot pray | for its hope that is now lost | I should have foreseen, the wasted years |But,my time is coming to an end |My time is over | My time is gone | Alone I still recall | your eyes the last night that I saw your precious face | Filled with shame, contempt for me | to watch the color fade from your eyes | I would have come back And set this whole town ablaze | if it wasn’t for you | They banished me | cast me like a stone | upon this frozen northern tundra | You knew I couldn’t stay | I told you I’d be here waiting for you | Alone I now declare | as I transcend to this place I will reflect in | self regret and despair | to die alone without another single soul | I thought I was a stronger man | #END
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It was the last time we’d walk away | memories are all to present in slow decay | A mind dictates priorities | yet somehow we’ve fallen so far from these | It’s not what I had wanted | self control was never my strong point in the pursuit of passion | The Workhorse is starving but continues to move | Muscle memories in motion on nerves so bruised | It calls to me, It beckons me, It pleads of me, It’s killing me | It calls to me, It beckons me, It pleads of me, to be completed | This life has never been easy | But the weight of my tasks, are on my back | But even in regret, the show must go on | The show must go on | In the worst conditions these wheels keep on moving | It’s driving me further but am I really losing this time? | Automated | Living life at blinding speeds of instant insanity | Balancing my desires, losing is, fuel to the fire | Is this what I have chosen? Or is this, what has been chosen for me? | Automated | #END
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Rites of Sacrifice
03:58
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Their lies the cause of suffering | They plant the seeds of hypocrisy | Their lies the cause of suffering | There is hope within you | The words spoken from a million tongues | centuries of subtle control | Rethink the teachings of the old | Rethink ideologies | I refrain | Walk away | From this reverie | Of a promised place | Their smile it hides the masquerade | Their tongues incant their treachery | Their smile it hides the mas- querade | Turn an run away | BREAK AWAY | From this shallow place | from the fucking chase | You know the truth | I stood at the helm | with all them on their knees | Begging me for answers | which I didn’t have | I couldn’t lie | I couldn’t give the rites of sacrifice | I served | Now I break free | and only now have I discovered | Divinity | through me | through memories | through history | No longer will I Preach | No longer will I Beg | No longer will I pray | Alas, I can’t cast the first stone | The truths are but a mystery | These lies just harm our humanity | The truths are but a mystery | There is hope within us all | #END
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It is all too clear, a pawn in the game that was life | A purpose less divine than the mask I wore that I shed for true hope | 0’s and 1’s and me | All on the blue screen | I cannot believe this is happening | To be subject of your experiments | To find my life on the shelf in the eyes of somebody else | Tonight I take your life and live for the very first time | The warning of threats while I wait for pre frontal cortex to judge, to re- act | Tonight I face the lies and it’s time to realize | Burn this all to the ground | Let the ashes bury this life | say goodbye | Tonight I take your life | A shortness of breath, senses heightened I tremble | Burn this all to the ground | Let the ashes bury this life | say goodbye | Let me now soar with those that prey from the sky | say goodbye | The adrenaline has consumed the rational | and now I’ll bask in the diligent glory | Burn this all to the ground | Let the ashes bury this life | say goodbye | Let me now soar with those that prey from the sky | say goodbye | #END
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Shadows of Imitation
04:02
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I see their eyes, lost in you | I see their minds, mimicking your every move | Clone after clone worshiping the very ground | The fire is fed, on your pretentiousness | Analyzed and plagiarized | under the scope of the public eye | scrutinized and yet despised but everyone wants to be you | Why do we envy you? | Why not pity you? |Why do we buy you? | Why not ignore you? |This is an art to us | this is our truest passion | Mediocrity | this is your dying fashion | <transmission> | Why do we envy you? | Why not pity you? | Why do we buy you? | Why not ignore you? | Why do we love you? | Why not destroy you? | This is an art to us | this is our truest passion | Mediocrity | this is your dying fashion | The spotlight | is the bull’s eye | Where you’ve lived | and will die | They bred you | to plague this | world with | complacence | #END
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...of The Flesh
04:01
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Self gratification | primitive desire | of the Flesh | I’m walking down this road again | I hate to see you go | but I love to watch you walk away | I feel the urge | the desire | Seduced on the ecstasy | Fuck love | Lust will conqueror all | the joy | the dream | the lust | the scream | my temptress | Seal this with a kiss | Now swallow whole | Bound in devotion | My lovely whore | my temptress | the thirst | the kiss, the touch, her scream | the passion | Seal this with a kiss | Now swallow whole | Bound in devotion | My lovely whore | Say goodbye to this | Abandon love | Lost in the desire | It’s in control | her kiss | her touch | There once was a time | I walked the line of love | decay paved the way | for the dawn of a new sense of appreciation | of the finer things in life | The scream | the passion | Seal this with a kiss | Now swallow whole | Bound in devotion | My lovely whore | Say goodbye to this | Abandon love | Lost in the desire | It’s in control | #END
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The Animal
06:19
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Built from sin | they say I | never had a chance | The darkened eyes | shadowed my path | Never turn your back | on where you come from | Never turn your back | Disgrace can’t hide behind these somber eyes | Despite the dark it shows too clear | Passed down, like fate was carved | into these eyes marking who I am | And the cycle continues | the animal in nature | The animal in me is free | Abash the thought, of something higher | No consciousness could be so cruel | My one thread of hope has been severed | “My child, give me your hand, Take this blade, This is power son, It will al- ways be you or them!” | Don’t forget these words |Now go make us proud and be a man|Don’t forget these words | His words umbilical in nature | Yet something so much deeper | His nurturing meant so much more | The blood isn’t just on my hands | The voice comes back to me | Now face the world | I know you’ll make me proud | Even in the darkest days know that this is our one true path | They strap me to the chair and let the mask shield my eyes | He says to me | “Any last words?” | Tell my son to make me proud and be a man |#END
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I once heard a voice | but time has whispered it cold | Faded into the beyond | like a distant northern wind on my neck | The longing to belong | scratching lies | on the back of my hopes and dreams | Ambitions lost | Dreams faded | Desires gone | All hopes cast away | Ambitions lost | All hopes cast away | This world has passed me by | and now I can only mirror | the ambitions | that I once embraced | I’ll let the seeds | of a new generation | bathe in my blood | They’ll drown in the waves | of the uninspired | souls of another lost time | Until they parallel | the suffering of a better time | and a better place | Ambitions lost | Dreams faded | Desires gone | All hopes cast away | Ambitions lost | All hopes cast away | I reflect on thoughts long past | as my desires flame my discontent | Time knows no Empathy | #END
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Orchid's Curse Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
With over a decade of musical output, Orchid’s Curse create a beautiful amalgamation of brutal metal, progressive melody and intelligent thought provoking lyrics. Over the years, Orchid's Curse has shared the stage with: The Black Dahlia Murder, Children of Bodom, Every Time I Die, Exhumed, Cancer Bats, 3 Inches of Blood, Fuck the Facts, Misery Index. Alestorm and many more. ... more
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