BURIAL VAULT LYRICS

1. Periodic Destruction

[Instrumental]

2. Heretic

They called me a heretic
So I deserved nothing but torment
For what they seemed to see
In my views

First they arrested me
And locked me into a cell
A chamber that was out of reach
For the light of day

In The darkness, I heard things
I've never heard before
Step by step I began to feel empty and faint

After days of attrition
They started their procedure
A bestial torture

They called me a heretic
So I deserved nothing but torment
For what they seemed to see
In my views

A mummed torturer entered the room
A relentless man without remorse
Bloodshed wasn't allowed by the church
So he used other ways to violate me

He put screws into my thumbs
And into my knees
He blemished my body
With blistering steel

My neck was enfeebled
By a tremendously heavy rosary

With broken bones
And luxated arms
I was no longer able to walk,
No longer able to grip
Mutilated because of my ideas

They called me a heretic
So I deserved nothing but torment
For what they seemed to see
In my views

3. Dominate God's Creation

Since time immemorial
Mankind tries to ‘correct’
From its point of view
Plants and creatures
Don’t seem to be perfect

‘The pride of Creation’
Humans carry things too far

Their megalomania fathomless
Their greed is never satisfied

So human beings start vandalizing
Their natural environment

By studying their roots
They set up a theory of evolution

The examinations show
That mutation defines the biological progression

This fact causes a huge fascination
They started some experiments
With vegetables and animals

Breeding new races
A competition at the cost of a virgin earth

Ruthless, cold-blooded and disrespectful
Towards flora and fauna
They dismember their surroundings
Just striving to dominate god’s creation

With every step they take
They go deeper into the secrets of genetic
To dublicate life

Now human beings annul the nature
Defying their evolution
Theory

Men laugh into the face of a god that
They’ve created
Now that he is obsolete
Outmoded

The domination of god’s creation
Delusions of grandeur

Men laugh into the face of a god that
They’ve created
Now that he is obsolete
Outmoded

4. Genesis. Trinity. Carnage

Atomic Warfare – A horror vision
Becomes reality

Only three steps – Base for the calamity

In the beginnings of the 20th century,
A chemist starts atomic research
After operose years he discovers the fission
This day marks the birth of the atomic age

A detection changes the whole world
Its malpractice could end it all forever

Genesis: Birth of the atomic age
Trinity: They experience the annihilating force
Carnage: Ekpyrosis

During the war the military gets hold of
This knowledge

But the chemist doesn’t want to be part of
Their scheme
And armed forces search for a way to
Exploit the fission energy
For a weapon of mass destruction

The world leaders open an inexorable struggle
For the realization of the first atomic bomb
Then some scientists crack the riddle
They devise trinity
Like an explosion that’s not of this earth
The harbinger of carnage

Genesis: Birth of the atomic age
Trinity: They experience the annihilating force
Carnage: Ekpyrosis

Just to demonstrate their lethal weapon
They attack and kill thousands of innocents

Craving for
Global ascendance

For him it was a groundbreaking discovery
But now the chemist wishes that he could
Revoke everything

5. Icon Of Indignity

Ignorance, intolerance
No acceptance from your vicinity

Nonobservance, ejection
You are trapped but you want to flee

Ostracized and disdained
Your life feels like a heavy burden
Social exclusion
Is part of your daily routine

You’re searching for recognition
But no one regards you
Not anybody

You start creating your own world
A world that exists in your head
Where you can not be passed over
No outcast anymore

The illusion grows inside your mind
You want it to be real

All shall be left behind
Forgotten
You’re going deaf, dumb and blind

Totally numb
Depressive
You lose relation to reality

It begins to dawn on you
The only to find peace of mind
Is to fulfill your desire
It’s going to dominate you

Lost
Possessed
Driven by your phantasmagoria
You start to execute it
Now it’s time for revenge
They all must pay
For what they’ve done

Nobody knew your name
But from this day forth
Everyone will know who you are

You thought it would
Be your catharsis
Too see all your
Tormentor’s suffer

You’ve lost yourself
In animosity
And there is still no other person
Than yourself

Look at you now
You’re still alone
Your face will be remembered
Remembered as an icon of indignity

Indignity

You couldn’t change
What hurt you the most
And now this horrible pain hurts you
Even more

Ignorance, intolerance
Nonobservance, ejection
Social exclusion
Defines you

6. The Embodiment Of Animosity

Obsessed by power
They want to eliminate us
Their urge for mastery
Makes them merciless

They spread their doctrine
Full of racialisms
An inhuman
Race ideology

Deported to this baneful place
Just waiting to be slain
We are treated like the
Unadulterated filth
We are treated like toxic waste

Although they discern us
By the colors of our badges
In the end
We will die the same way

Persecution
Due to hate
“Final solution”
For what?

Who can do this with a
Clear conscience?

Violent
Lunatic
War leads to nothing
Disrespect of human rights
Keep World War II in mind

An awful endeavour
An insane outrage

In the concentration camp
We’re split into groups
Groups formed to us suffer

Some of us shall simply be shot to death
Others become victims in human experiments

Doomed to work for the enemy
Several camp inmates
Have to prepare
The most vicious murder instrument of
All time

The gutless guards dread the infestation
So we have to fill in the deadly gas

Zyklon B
Our lives end in screams

Sickening
Savage
War leads to nothing
Negation of human rights
Keep the holocaust in mind
This rancid felony
This iniquity
The allied forces see behind the curtain
They notice that they must intervene

As they arrive at the place of our
Martyrdom
Our dastard tormentors – already
Absconded
Too coward to pay for their atrocities

7. Weapon Without A Choice

Born into this world
I learned the bitter truth
About living in a world of war

Since I was a child
I was always drilled to kill
Constant rejection of my free will

Impelled by their wrath
They rear troops of rage

Biological warfare – I shall become their gun

My childhood controlled by their lies
My innocence raped by their ignorance
No individuality – Domination of the group
My childhood, torn to shreds

Absurd phrases
Raven my thoughts

Despondency takes command
Black despair compels me

Destroys me

Pestilence

Pointless malediction

I’m the spawn of their malevolent nation

My war starts at the sharp end
I have to face what they call ‘fiend’
Now I’m a weapon
Without a choice

Who is the villain? Who is to blame?
I wait a second and I aim

In my ballistic curve
There is just my head

I’m no longer part of this terror

I’m no longer part of this disease

Salvation by suicide

8. Those Things Which Were Thought Can Never Be Unthought

Observe
Supervise
Survey

No liberty for the masses

Pursue
Control
Monitor

My function was to find out
New system to protect humans
To bring more security

I was the engineer
For a new era of surveillance

In times of egomania and hypocrisy,
All the world seemed to be corrupt,
Conniving and dangerous

The menace was in every corner
People didn’t know who to trust,
What to think
Or whom to follow

The gap between the rich and the poor
Grew bigger
A two class society was born

The rich became victims of their own greed
While the poor fought for their existence
As long as people live in fear,
They’re manipulative
So the affluent ones
Tried to stoke the fears of the weak
To enact new laws
These laws should bring more safety
But they just made the public
More glassy

The government wanted
To be omnipresent
I developed techniques
For their ideas

Now could follow every footstep
With their interception-machine

When times became harder
A new breed of surgents
Started their rebellion
Against the observation regime

Most of them were put away
Before they could cause substantial changes
A minor treatment

By taking material about these riots out
Of context
And by broadcasting it,
The regnancy wanted to seed more anxiety

Panic
Hysteria

Ready for anything
The public allowed
New ‘safety measures’

I had always been the tool
To fulfill their plans
But now my employers
Wanted me to leave

Driven by their persecution complex
They realized that
Even I became a risk
I knew too much about their monitoring system
After years of supervising
I understood what I did
The total violation of privacy

I misused the fears of the infirm
To quiet the paranoia of the strong
I was trapped in this world
That I generated

No longer free to do what I want

It was impossible to stop this progress
Those things which were thoughts
Can never be unthought

An evolution backwards
The downward spiral







BURIAL VAULT LYRICS