AS YOU DROWN LYRICS

1. Conqueror

Stuck in endless repeat
Mere actors in this play
Drinking bile from the same fountains
Wading on through shit

Forever chasing the phantom
But never catching it

All that you desire, that you believe
Will be swept away
The great void is calling your name

For now amid the mimic rout
A crawling shape intrude
A blood-red thing that writhes from out
The scenic solitude

It writhes! It writhes! And seraphs weep
Bleed! Die! Screaming on your knees

Its hunger is eternal, as it eats away
Devouring all that ever was and will be
Conquering our fate

All the liars, all the puppets
Will be just dirt in the ground

Out! Out! Out are the lights
No hope! Everything dies

Out! Out! Out are the lights
No hope! Everything must die

2. Slaves To The Kingdom Of Fear

They see the light of dawn
And waste away
They have no own free will, they are nothing

Puppets on the master's string
They are slaves to the kingdom of fear

Their stench is revolting
Their minds are unplugged
Little sheep walk in line, laughing their way to the slaughter
They are the loathsome product of this imprisonment

Eyes - devoid of all natural light
Souls - nowhere to be seen
Man - spiralling down the abyss
Governed only by fear

Bent over in silence
To welcome their king
They're whimpering cattle, slaves to the kingdom of fear

Don't want any part of this thing that they call life
Six billion willing servants, succumbing to the blight
Cattle! Bastards! Whores! With my dying breath I'll curse you
Slaves to the kingdom of fear

Eyes - devoid of all natural light
Souls - nowhere to be seen
Man - spiralling down the abyss
Governed only by fear

3. You Should Be Paranoid

Their eyes behind every corner, their ears around every bend
Big brother rears his ugly fascist head
Forcing you to your knees, again

Watching you!
Peeping toms with gun and badge
Controlling you!
Your freedom raped by government

Liberty's last dying breath
Killed by the fear mongering swine of the earth

Hide from their gaze in the veil of the night
Learn to stay covered and just out of sight
Death takes all who step in the light of the rulers

Watching you!
Prisoner of the camera eye
Controlling you!
We're under siege, you should be paranoid

Guilty of being alive
Captured in light
Liberty's last dying breath
Killed by the fear mongering swine of the earth

Let your darkness shine, hide me from their light
Let your darkness shine, cover me from their eyes

Cut off the head of the serpent, sever the head of the state
Eradicate all the watcher's perverted pigs
Drown them before it's too late

4. Rabid Wolves In Sheep's Clothing

You tell us you're different, say that you've changed
No! same old deceivers, the same old chains

Rabid wolves in sheep's clothing
Telling nothing but lies
Shit-eating grins, pitch black eyes

There is nothing that's "new"
About what you do
It's ancient, archaic - barbaric and cruel

Robbing the poor and harassing the sick
Taking what little they have
Treacherous vultures, feast on the carcass
Of all that we used to be

Everything's going down - falling apart
Everything's going down - back to the start

There is nothing that's "new"
About what you do
It's ancient, archaic - barbaric and cruel

Robbing the poor and harassing the sick
Taking what little they have
Treacherous vultures, feast on the carcass
Of all that we used to be

Raping! Selling our soul
The bastards are forcing us down

So...tell me, how do you sleep?
How does it feel?
To kick a man when he's down, to prey on the weak...

5. Your Loyal Betrayer

Ashen, hollow yesterday souls
Flashing cyanide smiles
Nothing left to show but a back full of knives
And there's only one reprieve, one final doorway
Only one way out

The only escape is the one that I offer
Just one little push is all that you will need to be mine forever

Twisted child of mine - you're nothing without me
Concubine - my hallowed needle again, stabbing the vein
Chemical burns, ashen skin - my mark is eternal
You will never be free

Savour me, never abandon me
Or you'll suffer
With mindless grin, speak to the god in me

I am the white, your loyal betrayer
I am the stars, the light in your eyes
I am your cage, the walls that surround you
I am the one who makes you crawl

Dead hollow yesterday souls
Flashing cyanide smiles
Nothing left to show but a back full of knives

The only escape is the one that I offer
I'm your one way out

I am the white, your loyal betrayer
I am the stars, the light in your eyes
I am your cage, the walls that surround you
I am the one who makes you crawl

6. The Coming

[Instrumental]

7. The Nothing

Dead harlots come closer now!
Give your flesh to me
I'll drink from your disease-filled cunts
These ketamine nightmares and frozen crack cocaine eyes
Are all great friends of mine
(but nothing burns as bright as this)

Darkness closing fast, on this puppet made to hang
Pitch black tunnel opens wide, grins with sharpened teeth
You don't know what I am
Peel the plastic skin to reveal the putrid mess beneath

Deeper into nothing, a futile endless game
The twisted scent of treason, fingers spark - synthetic flame

The final consequence
Of this failure to connect
We offer up our souls, at the altar of the night

Rotting piece by piece
The worm is bursting at the seams
In the cold grip of your warm flesh, finally revealed
In powders, pills, ungodly juices - oblivion incarnate
A serpent in the shadows - aching for release

And as the veil does fall
A violent retreat
Deeper into you, into the nothing

The final consequence
Of this failure to connect
We offer up our souls, at the altar of the night

This is the end of suffering
This is the end of all dreams
We offer up souls, at the altar of the night

8. Bleeding Structure

Fools!
Short-sighted greedy fools, destroying our world
They will do anything for green, spineless bastards
Crooked poison fingers, infecting all things
Bleeding the planet dry - blood for oil, death to all life

Bleeding structure, falling down
What will you profit from when nothing can survive?
Bleeding structure, falling down

Psychotic rampant fools, they're raping the world
They will do anything for green, spineless bastards
Crooked poison fingers, infecting all things
Bleeding the planet dry - kill all life, kill for profit

Bleeding structure, falling down
What will you profit from when nothing can survive?
We drown in rivers of shit

9. The Cleansing Hands

Cold metal goddess - deathly perfection
Connecting everything
A new beginning, visions untold
The flesh dethroned

The final step...
Tentacles breach, humanity kneels
Burrowing deeper - the cleansing hands

Rising majestic, bathed in a sea of blood
Consciousness reborn, to touch the stars above

Steel arms of heaven - thrusting damnation
Fucking the bleeding wound
A new beginning - visions unfold
Death to the old

Let all connect...
Every hole filled, with cold gleaming drills
Burrowing deeper - the cleansing hands
Erasing, rebuilding - the cleansing hands

Perverse alliance, the end of all
No soul required, as part of the machine
A fractured echo, a ghost of our past
Is all that remains after the cleansing hands







AS YOU DROWN LYRICS