DEATH OF AN ERA LYRICS

1. Create, Sustain

You feel yourself clawing forward
In a never ending battle for progression
But there is no progression here
We are a race of maggots
Endless exaggeration of self-perfection

This is weight of the end
I show everything
This is finally finished
We have come to a point
Where there is no redemption
(Redemption)

No chance to heal what you've created
We, as humanity, are at a loss
Look at these false interpretations
You have become a common beast
We are nothing like the ones we set out to be.

Cause we are nowhere near (No!)
Near a perfect society
No, we're not.

Everywhere you look,
There is simply an agony beyond their words
You have spent your life,
Full of meager attempts,
To polish your vices,
And you no longer strive
To be gods among ants
There's no point in existing
If you're standing there dead.

My name is cognition
I am the realization that will save you
From the scourge of innocence
Save yourself from the deceit
Become something which can and will not be ignored

An attribute of resolution
For all of the world to know
You must create, you must sustain.

No,
We are, we are nothing
Like we, we set out to be.

2. P.O.S.

Spite fills my veins at the thought of you
An unquenchable malice that cannot be tamed by any

Your demise is the only way
I will ever be at ease
I will ever be

The fact that you think that you ever meant anything
Sits in my stomach like a brick of cyanide
So run your mouth and chase your stupid fucking fame
I'll always know I'm fucking better than you

So blow your lines like the cunt you are
Face it
Your kind is poisoning the world
Fucking face it
You're just the venom in our blood
You are nothing
A drugged addicted piece of shit
You're such a piece of shit
Strung out bitch
This is pitiful
You claim it's all for fun
Truth is you have no self control

And you say this isn't always the way it's going to be
They say forgive and forget but I won't when I know what you did to me
I won't forget what you did to me

I will make you beg
I am fear itself
I am the root of your self loathing
I am hatred, I am dread
I'm fear itself
I'm fear itself

Give in to your fears, give in to me [x4]

Spite fills my veins at the thought of you
I am above you
Look up at me from your place at my feet

3. Shapeshifter

Pathetic doesn't begin to describe you
Your personality is counterfeit
Your life is a string of attempts failed miserably
To gain recognition that you don't deserve
You can't keep pushing the blame
Stop saying we've changed
We know the truth so fuck your reasons

You are the shapeshifter [x3]

I bet you'd like to know
Who will be there for you in the end
You will have nothing
You will have nothing

You need to feel safe
You built it all in vain
It will all come crashing down
All come crashing down

I will not be your excuse fo failing
This is your fault, so stop pretending
Stop pretending that you are one of us
We won't stop feeling sorry, it's your loss
Your self worth is meaningless

So take a look at yourself
So take a look at yourself
You will have nothing
You will have nothing

You need to feel safe
You built it all in vain
It will all come crashing down
Down

You ostracize yourself with
Weak attempts at fitting the mold
Weak attempts at fitting the mold

You need to feel safe
You built it all in vain
It will all come crashing down

You are nothing to me

4. The Helpless Settlement

I am filled with an insufferable rage
Like everything I ever do just ends up
Hurting me it's hurting you
Tormenting weight of frustration
I am so weak, but I still need you

All of this time
You could have left but no
You stayed and pulled me in
Look at me
You had the time, you could have walked away
Show me your worth
Tell me you'll always be

Just because they can't feel
Doesn't make it any less real
To the two of us, standing here
How could you let this happen
Go on and tell me
The truth doesn't hurt like it should
You should learn to let it go
Learn to let us go

Just cause we're young doesn't mean it's careless
You should have let this go
You walked away from me
You're only causing pain
I need your love to heal me
Let me go
Let me go

Just because they can't feel
Doesn't make it any less real
To the two of us, standing here
How could you let this happen
Go on and tell me
The truth doesn't hurt like it should
You should learn to let it go
Learn to let us go

Fuck
You

5. American Dictation

I’m fucking torn by indecision, divided into two worlds.
everything I am is torn asunder, and taken all away.

All that I know,
this tormented world around me.
I'm failing to show (and I can't find myself)
I'm failing to know (and I can't find myself)

Truth is, we're not so free.
I hate that I call this my home.
This is crushing me (this is crushing me)
Born in a prison without the walls

I can't keep shut, my heart is dying to speak of what is always avoided.
Can't you see, you're slaves to ignorance (ignorance)

Cut your chain.

I'm expected to follow this command of what you are.
But tell me where have you gotten yourself when you hate yourself?
Living is not a sin, just cause I live like this.
I won't be what you want, stop.

I will not live your life. (fuck your life)
You can't force me to give up mine.

All that I know,
this tormented world around me.
I'm failing to show (and I can't find myself)
I'm failing to know (and I can't find myself)

[Saud Ahmed of The Crimson Armada:]
There's a flame igniting
from the stone steps of freedom's face,
destroying everything that kept us from all this hate.
There's no fucking escape.
This nation stands in its own way.

All that I know,
this tormented world around me.
I'm failing to show (and I can't find myself)
I'm failing to know (and I can't find myself)

6. A Mother's Love

You always said you were doing the best for me,
And in the end, I would agree,
But here I stand with a childhood wasted,
Just a shadow of the man I could be.

You never thought of me.

For all the lies, from you, I trusted,
And all the God that you would shove down my throat,
For all the pain and suffering that you've caused me,
One day you'll pay, I know you'll fucking pay.

You were a monster,
All in the name of mindless religion.
Your duty as a matriarch, you should have known,
You should have seen the truth.

You broke my mind. [x3]

Young hearts are damaged,
In ways that cannot heal,
We only wanted our mother to care.

Instead I'm left here, a child that can't feel home,
And everything that you taught me to be was wrong.

And did you know, that what you did, would ruin your sons?
That I, your child, would look into your eyes,
As you quenched the fire in mine?
That every time, you hit me I died,
and I drew myself more inside?
Young innocence is more fragile than you could ever even know.





DEATH OF AN ERA LYRICS