1.New Dark Ages
The world will be erased our kin will be
Yeah can you hear the call in our rambling land susurrations,
A pall on truth and reason,
It feels like hunting season
So avoid those lines of sight and we'll set this right
Welcome to the new dark ages
I hope you're living right
These are the new dark ages
Now come ye children one and all
let's heed Ezekiel's call,
And bide until the word is good and ripe
The world will be erased our kin will be
Immaculate ejaculate in space
Before the kind of king's love, he'll snatch us
Welcome to the new dark ages
I hope you're living right
These are the new dark ages
So how do you sleep
There's nothing to keep
Because we're animals - with golden rules
Who... who can't be moved by rational views
Welcome to the new dark ages
I hope you're living right
Welcome to the new dark ages
And the world might end tonight
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Now come ye children one and all
So how do you sleep
Welcome to the new dark ages
A pall on truth and reason,
Because we're animals - with golden rules
2.Grains Of Wrath
Back in '83 a man came to men and
he told me 'Son, our way of life is done'
With an eye to the fields speculators and
yields rotten to the core,
I don't wanna be in the land known as destitute and free,
With the grains of wrath blazing a path from sea to shining sea!
Oh the sinuous trails of concrete and rails and exhausted roars,
Population wars setting our future course,
Is profit and greed the only conceit on a scale between
I don't wanna be in the land known as destitute and free,
With the grains of wrath blazing a path from sea to shining sea!
I don't wanna be in the land known as destitute and free,
With the grains of wrath blazing a path from sea to shining sea
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With an eye to the fields speculators and
I don't wanna be in the land known as destitute and free,
I don't wanna be in the land known as destitute and free,
3.Fields Of Mars
In the garden where he was cast out by the lord
Flames an Omni-directional sword
For he as ever failed to gather up the fruit
He cantered aimlessly through endless permutations of night
Seeking a purpose and the meaning of kin
And when it finally came to him
The women wish him well
Every time he cast off marching to hell
Now if you've never seen a terrible sight
Stroll the garden of earthly delight
Maybe we can make it right - someday
He knelt down before the unholy mob - who cried
'War is god!'
Gleaming outwardly with great pride - and
The women wish him well
Every time he cast off marching to hell
Now if you've never seen a terrible sight
Stroll the garden of earthly delight
Maybe we can make it right - someday
Who cannot fight anymore
Never asking what it means
When mother nation
Blood and religion
Sanction killing upon the Fields of Mars
High above the Fields of Mars
He cantered aimlessly through endless permutations of night
He knelt down before the unholy mob - who cried
Who cannot fight anymore
To live a life of hostility
The women wish him well
The women wish him well
4.Germs Of Perfection
Lacerate eviscerate and perforate and mutilate
We all fall down, all fall down
Deprecate repudiate ameliorate adjudicate
Clip the wings of progress, turn the direction
Delegate facilitate investigate and obviate
The black turns green, black turns green
Separate evaluate and cultivate and propagate
Sing the fears of history with renewed inflection
Machine of life, oh can we make it run？
We have the tools, but have only just begun
Machine of life, oh can we make it run？
Clip the wings of progress, turn the direction
Enrich the fallow soil with germs of perfection
Perfection!
Delegate facilitate investigate and obviate
Clip the wings of progress, turn the direction
Sing the fears of history with renewed inflection
Clip the wings of progress, turn the direction
Machine of life, oh can we make it run？
5.Requiem For Dissent
Oratory of hope and glory a whisper and a rhyme
An effigy, a soldier out of time
Citizen and patriot you can't be far behind
Requiem
Bring the dissident from slumber
Requiem
Raise the rebel from its grave
Requiem
Sound the revolution's thunder
Dig around the cemetery a record of the day
Friends and neighbors in stages of decay
But the saddest thing of all eludes discovery
Requiem
Bring the dissident from slumber
Requiem
Raise the rebel from its grave
Requiem
Sound the revolution's thunder
The sanctimonious minions how they grovel at the feet
Authority is populist deceit
Pity yet another casualty's demoralized decline
Requiem! Requiem!
Requiem
Bring the dissident from slumber
Requiem
Raise the rebel from its grave
Requiem
Sound the revolution's thunder
A monumental blunder averted and betrayed
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Dig around the cemetery a record of the day
The sanctimonious minions how they grovel at the feet
Requiem! Requiem!
Requiem
Requiem
6.Submission Complete
Dedication is the price you pay：the initiated are
Coddled and caged
Before you walk, as soon as you crawl
Fuck the freshman lectures and brandishments
They just betray impoverished accomplishments
The puppet masters fear originality
They tighten up the tethers and they shackle your feet
Young recruits never have a chance, enticed to
The drill, admonished to dance
Early to rise and early to shine,
Break the guilty trammels from yesteryear
Remember how rejuvenation conquers all fears
Lowly opportunists take commanding roles
The sad reflection of dead ambition
You live for nothing
Yeah, break the guilty trammels from yesteryear
Remember how the taste of failure makes it all clear
The lowly opportunists take commanding roles
The sad reflection of dead ambition
Expectation, indoctrination
Life's a damnation
Submission complete!
Dying on your feet
Submission complete
A total defeat
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The sad reflection of dead ambition
The sad reflection of dead ambition
Fuck the freshman lectures and brandishments
Young recruits never have a chance, enticed to
Yeah, break the guilty trammels from yesteryear
Expectation, indoctrination
Break the guilty trammels from yesteryear
7.Grand Delusion,The
If I could only get the tools, the stimuli and
Molecules, frozen moments in time
I could be the archetype, a credit to the
But the storybook sages fill their pages
Hiding from the warming sun
Limitless distractions give no pause to distort a
Did you see the moralist retort and raise his fist
'You can't make man a machine!'
I can see the edifice crumbling in foggy mist,
But the storybook sages fill their pages
Hiding from the warming sun
Limitless distractions give no pause to distort a
Precious delusion
But the storybook sages fill their pages
Did you see the moralist retort and raise his fist
But the storybook sages fill their pages
8.Honest Goodbye
That sick brass boy day dreamin'
God it feels like an honest goodbye!
Now get up and give in
I'll crack your knuckles again
Supplicate and survive this transubstantiation
(Did you laugh？) You know I did
(Did you cry？) I couldn't get it right
(Did you live？) Always on the edge
(Did you lie？) Causing such a fright
(Did you love？) Oh to be forgiven
That sick brass boy day dreamin'
Cry baby convict demon
Hands so clean - a sympathetic cold blooded killing machine
(Did you laugh？) You know I did
(Did you cry？) I couldn't get it right
(Did you live？) Always on the edge
(Did you lie？) Causing such a fright
(Did you love？) Oh to be forgiven
God it feels like an honest goodbye!
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(Did you laugh？) You know I did
That sick brass boy day dreamin'
(Did you laugh？) You know I did
9.Prodigal Son
Oh can't you feel the nostalgia son I wonder about ya
Modernistocrat Horatio Alger
For the canticle of manacles abating
Do you ever forget - you had a regret - and what you only
guessed at
Clever never hesitating in the baiting ever waiting2
When the prodigal son with a caroming shadow of hate comes to
land at home
Well he's a mourning star with a champagne heart at his curtain
call
And father never understood just how the work gets done
Don't look at me, no I ain't one, no prodigal son
When everybody about - is read to bout you
- about controversial values
Don't you think you better readdress
the level of the cowardice rising to drown you
Did you ever connect - or come to reject - or even inspect
When the prodigal son with a caroming shadow of hate comes to
land at home
Well he's a mourning star with a champagne heart at his curtain
call
And father never understood just how the work gets done
Don't look at me, no I ain't one, no prodigal son
When you least expect it he's going to run
Like the blood red path of the western sun oh yeah
Well hell no, don't look at me
Can't you see, I ain't one, no prodigal son
no I ain't one, no prodigal son
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When everybody about - is read to bout you
When you least expect it he's going to run
When the prodigal son with a caroming shadow of hate comes to
land at home
When the prodigal son with a caroming shadow of hate comes to
land at home
Well hell no, don't look at me
10.Before You Die
Porcelain and alabaster,
Decaying' ever faster.
Under wear all the imminent disaster
As you ruminate the hopeless ends of time.
Did you wander out your days lost and resigned？
Everybody is a bastard
The world is, like plaster.
And the momentary pleasures take their turn,
As the wistful boy runs out of things to learn.
Scare up some hope,
You're gonna need it just to cope,
You are the decision, numbers don't rely.
When you bite the dust,
Wasn't the purpose all for trust,
You'll never relive it,
Think before you die.
Deficit and depravation,
In the wake of desperation.
We write the morals rectify the nation,
As you ruminate the hopeless ends of time,
Do you wonder how your life has been defined？
You know eternity can't ever change your mind.
You know eternity can't ever change your mind.
So, think, think before you die.
Whoa, think, think before you die.
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And the momentary pleasures take their turn,
As you ruminate the hopeless ends of time,
As you ruminate the hopeless ends of time.
Everybody is a bastard
Scare up some hope,
Deficit and depravation,
11.Lost Pilgrim
Pilgrim, those are dry and bitter tears,
And lonely eyes look way beyond your years.
Pilgrim, did you drink the mercury,
Your lips turn blue and you're struggling just to see.
You were too far gone to carry on, now your life has stalled,
Pilgrim, when you left them all behind,
The lonely mess destroyed your able mind.
Pilgrim, see the writing on the door,
And the next in line, paces his stride, waiting for your fall,
Pious eyes, ignoring passersby.
And go to their grave.
Don't despair, this world of toil and care.
Pilgrim, will you ever find your call？
Pious eyes, ignoring passersby.
And go to their grave.
Don't despair, this world of toil and care.
This pilgrim lost his way.
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Pilgrim, when you left them all behind,
Pious eyes, ignoring passersby.
And the next in line, paces his stride, waiting for your fall,
Pilgrim, will you ever find your call？
Pious eyes, ignoring passersby.
12.Heroes And Martyrs
Amid the heat and the wrack
Hot boots invested and cracked
Poor candidates jacked into gray light
An ultra-violent call summoning both poet and thrall
Our heroes and martyrs
Present two points of view
Into a welter of night
Flack, rounds and roiling blight
Cracked vertebrates stacked by the wayside
An ultra-violent call summoning both poet and thrall
Our heroes and martyrs
Present two points of view
Tell me which deity you're praying to
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Our heroes and martyrs
Into a welter of night
Our heroes and martyrs
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