1. |
Rise
03:59
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Verse 1
They have provoked us…
Pestered until we bleed out
The burning impatience
Deadly; noxious to breathe.
They tell you what you’ve got to do to
Accommodate the propaganda
Stay calm, hold still, they will
Take care of you
Chorus
Rise up
Don’t give in to their lies.
You must rise up
The hate is building inside us.
It’s time, c’mon mother fuckers
Rise
Verse 2
We have been broken
Machines are controlling us
Watching us, stalking us
Brother say would you
Just stand and salute
You could service
Our purposes...
FUCK what they say.
They are a cancer.
Convert the mind,
Pervert the answer
Never obey; never give in
Enough of the suffering
Chorus
Now is the time to rise up,
Don’t give in to their lies.
You must rise up
The hate is building inside us.
C’mon mother fuckers
Rise
Ending Chorus
Rise up
Don’t give in to their lies.
You must rise up
The hate is building inside us.
C’mon mother fuckers
Rise up
Don't give in to their lies.
You must rise up
The hate is building inside us.
Now is the time to
Rise! Rise! Rise!
Now is the time to rise.
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2. |
Alive
03:13
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Verse 1:
Scratching walls in a prison cell
Is not what I imagined
When you beckoned me here
My darling, I come running
Chorus:
My blood, you want it
My god, you stole it
I can’t escape the pain
But I swear
You’ll never take me alive
Verse 2:
I’ll find a way to kill the poison
All the noise is drowning out
The caution I ignored to be the hero
If you want to see what I am made of
I’ll be glad to show you
If you want to bend me till I break
Let’s see if you can take me
Chorus:
My blood, you want it
My god, you stole it
I can’t escape the pain
But I swear
You’ll never take me alive
I know that look in your eyes
You’ll never take me
You’ll never take me
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3. |
Leviathan
04:30
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Verse 1
Heaven didn’t make this beast,
And I don’t know what did.
I can feel the earth beneath me, trembling.
Brace yourselves; the worst is yet to follow.
Behemoth comes; it’s all but over.
Eradicate the ones that have the courage left to stand
Eyes up, reach for
Reach for the heavens, blinded.
Chorus
Now we pay for all the sin
Helpless when the Gates of Hell are open
God has forsaken us again
Left us at the mercy of Leviathan
Verse 2
We seem to break like fragile dolls, made of clay.
Sinning wasn’t worth the overwhelming pain.
I just want to wake up; is this all a dream?
This must be a dream…
Someone shake me
Bridge
No where to run
(The gods could stop the madness but they don’t)
No where to hide
(We’re hiding out in fear of what will come)
God won’t save us now
Chorus
Now we pay for all the sin
Helpless when the Gates of Hell are open
God has forsaken us again
Left us at the mercy of Leviathan
No where to run
No where to hide
Left us at the mercy of Leviathan
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4. |
The Faceless Army
04:54
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Verse 1
I am an outline of a man
A hollow shell left in the sand
I march along with all the other
Duplicated lookalikes
Follow, Conform!
That is the plan
Chorus 1
Left, right, left
Right, left, right
Stay in line
Leave your identity behind!
Verse 2
I am a skeleton,
I’ve no marks upon my skin
Like immaculate canvas,
Untouched by the creator.
No beauty, no defining marks of any kind
Inciting apathy and obedience
Is my call, and I’m complying.
Chorus 2
Left, right, left
Right, left, right
Stay in line
Leave your identity behind!
Verse 3
I see The Leader, standing tall.
Somehow, He claims to know us all.
Everyone else seems to agree,
That He looks just like you and me…
Chorus 3
Left, right, left
Right, left, right
Stay in line
Leave your identity
Left, right, left
Right, left, right
Stay in line
Leave your identity
Left, right, left
Right, left, right
Left, right, left
Right, left, right
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5. |
Save Some
04:45
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Verse 1
I’m a firm believer
In nothing at all
Who you callin’ deceiver
So I’m a little bit unpredictable
I don’t really care
Whatchya gonna do about it
If you got something to say,
Then say it.
I’m on pins and needles
Evil like the sins of all the saints
You must admit
There’s something wrong
Yeah there is something strange
Call it what you want
Never really got that far myself
Maybe after all
Every time you said you couldn’t help
Said you were the victim
Said you’re out of luck
Save it for the sermon, man…
I don’t give a ____.
Chorus
WAKE UP!
‘Cuz you gotta look good
For killin’ the enemy
SAVE SOME
For the rest of us too
I’m way ahead of you
Yeah I’m way ahead of you
Verse 2
Waiting, patiently poised in
Paradox, an open box
Of hand grenades for toys
Saying grace for the boys
In standard issue green
Could someone please
Cut out the noise?
I can see
How you could be so
Overcome with
Guilty grief
Silently you watch yourself
Watch yourself bleed
Sever any ties anything
That binds you to the other you
Sacrifice the lives of another
Million men a point to prove
To everyone who’s watching
Waiting for the chance
To strike, proceed with caution
There’s a devil at the dance
The devil’s dance is dirty
Dark, different indeed
And if you wanna see it there’s a warning you should heed
Terror is a troubled man
Fear is what he feeds
Serve it up with stories there’s
A sea of hungry mouths to feed
Chorus
WAKE UP!
‘Cuz you gotta look good
For killin’ the enemy
SAVE SOME
For the rest of us too
I’m way ahead of you
Breakdown
Say-Say-Say it,
well then say it
Say-Say-Say it S-Say it
Final Chorus
WAKE UP!
‘Cuz you gotta look good
For killin’ the enemy
SAVE SOME
For the rest of us too
I’m way ahead of you
WAKE UP!
‘Cuz you gotta look good
For killin’ the enemy
SAVE SOME
For the rest of us too
I’m way ahead of you
I’m way ahead of you
I’m way ahead of you
WAKE UP!
I’m way ahead of you
SAVE SOME
I’m way ahead of you
I’m way ahead of you
I’m way ahead of you
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6. |
Airwaves Gone Corrupt
05:14
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Verse 1
All around, they listen for you
To miss a beat and break the ranks
Paranoia never could do (anything at all)
Anything but keep you sane
Chorus
Forget the message if the airwave’s gone corrupt
You better get a hold of yourself
They’re not stopping and there ain’t no sign of love
You gotta listen to the lies they sell
Get a hold of yourself
Get a hold of yourself
Verse 2
Collect the proper information
With just one search of your last name
You made it all possible
You made them unstoppable
Wrote a blank check
And signed your name
Oh, Sell me on the bullets
Sell me on the blood
Tell me it’s a necessary evil
And I should
Fall in line behind the blind
And kindly shut my mouth
And tell everyone under the sun
Exactly what it’s all about
Chorus 2
Forget the message if the airwave’s gone corrupt
You better get a hold of yourself
They’re not stopping and there ain’t no sign of love
You gotta listen to the lies they sell
Keep it coming, over every quiet home
Satellites gonna watch you sleep
Smile pretty and wave your broken bones
Living isn’t everything it seems
Bridge
Sell me on the bullets
Sell me on the blood
Sell me on the silver lining
Play off of my love for buying
Scramble the message
And pull the fucking plug
Final Chorus
Forget the message if the airwave’s gone corrupt
You better get a hold of yourself
They’re not stopping and there ain’t no sign of love
You gotta listen to the lies they sell
Keep it coming, over every quiet home
Satellites gonna watch you sleep
Smile pretty and wave your broken bones
Living isn’t everything it seems
Forget the message if the airwave’s gone corrupt
You better get a hold of yourself
They’re not stopping and there ain’t no sign of love
You gotta listen to the lies they sell
Keep it coming, over every quiet home
Satellites gonna watch you sleep
Smile pretty and wave your broken bones
Living isn’t everything it seems
Get a hold of yourself
Get a hold of yourself
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7. |
Let Me Be
04:33
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Verse 1
We are all as good as dead
They call us parasites and viruses
They don’t know what we can be
Stand up and arm yourselves and join with me
Join with me
Tag
I don’t want to be part of a future
I don’t want to be part of the scheme
If all you want to do is try to make me
Believe in everything that you believe in
Chorus
Let me be, yeah
Just let me be
Let me be, yeah
Just let me be
Verse 2
We’re above them, they don’t know.
We watch them play; they come and go.
They call us ignorant and say
Shut up and harm yourself just go away
Tag
I don’t want to be part of a future
I don’t want to be part of the scheme
If all you want to do is try to make me
Believe in everything that you believe in
Chorus
Let me be,
Just let me be.
Let me be,
Just let me be.
Outtro
We are all as good as dead
They call us parasites and viruses.
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8. |
Nemesis
04:36
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You are the only one
I could never best
My perfect opposite
My nemesis
We fight like titans
Tear the world to little bits
But I cannot overcome
My nemesis
So you sold me down the river
Mmmm
You betrayed me and delivered
Me to my enemies oh
I will make you suffer
I will make you beg for death
But you’ll make me work for it, mmmm
I will make you suffer
I will make you beg for death
But you’ll make me work for it
My nemesis, mmm
My nemesis, mmm
My nemesis
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We fight like titans
Tear the world to little bits
My perfect opposite
My nemesis
You are the only one
That I could never best
I cannot overcome
My nemesis
We fight like titans
Turn the whole world into shit
You’re closer to the only
God that I worship
Come forth my brother
Let me see what I can do
To destroy the very fucking thought
And trace of you
My nemesis
So you sold me down the river
Mmmm
So you sold me down the river
Mmmm
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9. |
Time Is Running Out
03:34
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Verse
They took you away from me
And now I’ll do anything at all
Just to find you and hold you
Closer than before
I don’t think you had a clue
They were coming for you
But if there’s anything that I can do
Chorus
I will try to save you
But you have to tell me how
I can feel you fading
You’re waiting, time is running out
Verse
They took you away from me
And now I’ll do anything at all
Just to find you and hold you
Closer
(Chorus)
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10. |
Send the Message
04:00
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Chorus
Send the message
I’m coming for you
Send the message
I’m coming for you
Verse 1
Send the message
I’m coming for you
I got my .45 revolver
Aiming through
The back of your head, honey
So you better be true
With every word,
It might be the
Very last thing you do
Chorus
Send the message
I’m coming for you
Send the message
I’m coming for you
Verse 2
I sent the message
I don’t know what it said
I should be locked up
For all the shit in my head
I know it’s got something
To do with you
But for the life of me,
I don’t think I ever knew
Bridge
Ten thousand words in my head I’ve got
Ten thousand words in my head
Ten thousand words in my head I’ve got
Ten thousand fucking words in my head
Chorus
Send the message
I’m coming for you
Yeah, send the message
I’m gunning for you
Yeah, send the message
I’m coming for you
Yeah, send the message
I’m gunning for you, you, you, you
Send the message
Send the message
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11. |
The Fall
05:50
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Verse 1
Thirty thousand shields and swords
All glistening in Diana’s sweet light
Await the order to destroy
The very breath of life
And just before the Great Apollo
Lifts the veil of night
We rise up and deliver
A fatal strike to end the tyranny
We cut like knives on naked skin
We cut them
Chorus 1
Rise up and follow me
Over the sea of enemies
They will never take away our home
I will not fall alone
Verse 2
Vulcan, forge the steel we need
To cut apart an army;
That we meet them at the Gates of Hell,
Fight the beast and live to tell
Is nothing short of you to do.
Pluto waits to welcome you,
That die before the dawn today.
I’ll be quickly on my way with
Coins over both my eyes
That should come as no surprise,
Overcome by Roman greed
Death will come, but first we bleed
Final Chorus
Rise up and follow me over the
Endless sea of enemies
They will not take our freedom
Rise up with metal and bone
Some fall so far from home
But they will not fall alone
Rise up and follow me over the
Endless sea of enemies
They will not take our freedom
Rise up with metal and bone
Some fall so far from home
But they will not fall alone
Rise up and follow me over the
Endless sea of enemies
They will not take our freedom
Rise up with metal and bone
Some fall so far from home
But they will not fall alone
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12. |
The Cannibal (bonus)
03:26
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Verse 1:
You might say I’m addicted
I’d rather think that my “existence is contingent”
Compromise my innocence to fill
My cup to the brim and I’ll over flow it
Just to feel my
inhibitions lower as I feel the hunger grow
and that’s why
Chorus:
This is my obsession
Running through my hollow bones like
Eloquent aggression seizing my whole mind
Violent reaction
The cannibal must taste the blood to
Find the satisfaction and drink it down like wine
Verse 2:
Run and tell the other ghouls in the ghost yard
Somebody found my skeleton
Decompose when all the little devils
Turn around and take control
Now a shotgun pointed at my head
Makes me kind of sentimental
And I’ve always had a thing
For the taste of gun metal
If I hold my breath long enough
Maybe I can see the sun shine
Right through the body bag
Love it when the rush
Hit the vein, indulgence is a bitch
With a gold-plated brain
And a cold dead kiss
[Chorus]
Final chorus:
This is my obsession (this is my obsession)
Running through my hollow bones
Like eloquent aggression
Infects my mind and I might have a
Violent reaction
The cannibal must taste the blood to
Find the satisfaction
And drink it down like wine
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13. |
Zombify (bonus)
03:41
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Chorus
Take me to the bottom of hell and leave
Me and my demons got a story to tell
I know there’s a way to get up out of the grave
But I got no soul left to sell
Something strange, maybe deranged, is lurking here
Zombified, it died, and heaven denied salvation
And now it’s coming back with a vengeance
Flesh rotten, no one ever forgot the lifeless look in its eyes
In the eleventh hour, the creature devoured our sanity
Humanity’s no longer alive
Tag
You feel it creeping in now
Thoughts all turn to sin now
The hunger, hate, and death await
Reanimate me now
(2x)
Chorus:
Take me to the bottom of hell and leave
Me and my demons got a story to tell
I know there’s a way to get up out of the grave
But I got no soul left to sell
Zombify me, zombify
Zombify me, zombify
Bridge
Do you feel that?
It’s happening…
Oh god….
(Chorus)
Zombify me, zombify
Zombify me, zombify
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14. |
Wonder What (bonus)
03:38
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Verse 1
If you have to ask yourself
Do I have a soul?
Then you don’t really belong here
You better find your way back home
We don’t take too kindly
To your demons in these parts
Preacher man come fast you can
Deliver us from the devil
and oh my god I’m singing
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh
Do you have a soul?
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh
Do you have a soul?
Verse 2
Oh, you’re in a bad situation
Ready rifles!
Emanating from a poor boy’s mouth
Is a beggin’ for a salvation
And a oh, no
What am I doin’ in here
I think I took a wrong turn
Down the back road
Right out the door
What’s left of it is something truly terrifying
Trick a bloody puddle on the floor and
You’re looking pale white
like you might just have seen a ghost
Tag
You might have seen an apparition
Standing in the door
Or was it God coming to you
With a warning to deliver you
To settle the score
Final Chorus
Oh, Raise your rifles
Soldiers, sons
We don’t speak to the devil
Till we get the guns
Over my dead body
Are you leavin’ here
Never let them see the fleeting
Fear in the eyes
Is your disguise hollow
Oh no, they see you
Go and hide under cover of a
Another secret and
Wonder what your soul looks like
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15. |
Kerosene (bonus)
05:22
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Verse 1:
Silent rage, disengaged
Fire on an empty page
Quiet still
ignorance is bliss until
the fire spreads and singes
all the hairs off of your face
No remorse
Oh, but of course
That’s the way the burning goes
impetuous force
The taste of smoke
Is only harsh until you choke
Then welcome suffocation
Awful nice of you to show
And everything around you starts to go
Chorus 1:
Kerosene ignites the evidence
But it leaves a mark for all to see
I take my chances
but it makes no sense at all
to watch the world around you burn and fall
to watch the world around you burn and fall
Verse 2:
We watch the savage spit and curse
The ground he ravaged
It reminds us all how fragile we forgot
We always were
You cry, and I try to explain exactly why
This bastard took our home and broke our bones
And made us all suffer
But I find that I am at a loss for words
Yes it seems that I am at a loss for words
Chorus 2:
Kerosene ignites the evidence,
But it leaves a mark for all to see.
I take my chances
But it makes no sense at all
To watch the world around you burn and fall
You watch the world around you burn and fall
You watch the whole world burn
And fall.
Chorus 3:
Kerosene ignites the evidence,
But it left a scar across my arms and I can’t feel anything
so it makes perfect sense to me
to blame it all on inhumanity
and stand aside as fire climbs the walls
so I’ll watch the world around me burn and fall
so I’ll watch the world around me burn and fall
Oh yes I’ll watch the world around me burn and fall
I’m gonna watch the world around me burn and fall
I wanna watch the world around me burn and fall
I wanna the whole world burn…
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Cryxus Murfreesboro, Tennessee
American Industrial/Electronic Rock Experimental Project formed in 2011. Similar to Nine Inch Nails, Tool, A Perfect Circle, and Marilyn Manson.
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