DEW-SCENTED LYRICS

1. Downfall

[Music: Walczak, Borchers, Dieken & Pahl]

[Instrumental]

2. Arise From Decay

[Music: Walczak, Borchers, Dieken & Pahl, Lyrics: Jensen]

Unceremonial descent
After all these years of blood, sweat and tears
In a permanent dispute
Just to settle and keep the flame alight

Never to regret one second

A blinding of senses
Comfort compelled as punishment
It’s a moment of bliss
As we cease to be

Inner peace with termination
The skin has shed
Leave the rotten core inside
Arise from decay

Unceremonial descent
After all these years of blood, sweat and tears
In a permanent dispute
Just to settle and keep the flame alight

Never to regret one second
Still alive and gaining on strength

Inner peace with termination
The skin has shed
Leave the rotten core inside
Arise from decay
Forwards into destiny
Arise from decay

Sworn to stay and set to craft in continuation
As the battle carries on, the anger grows

Set to arise from decay
Set to arise from decay
Set to arise from decay
Set to arise from decay

A blinding of senses
Comfort compelled as punishment
It’s a moment of bliss
As we cease to be

Inner peace with termination
The skin has shed
Leave the rotten core inside
Arise from decay
Leave the rotten core inside
Arise from decay

3. The Invocation

[Music: Walczak, Borchers, Dieken & Pahl, Lyrics: Jensen]

A cry of liberation
Soul on fire breaking free
With a heart encaged
You feed on pain and misery
A rapture of impressions
Haunts you down again and again
In absence of remission
Summoning spirits below
Darkness as companion
Bleak your isolation
Fear will reign above it all
The invocation begins

Screaming in silence
The invocation begins

Abolishment born of your will
Indulging in a lifetime of sin

Pray for consolation
A plead for mercy gone unheard
Inner maze of distrust
What remains is dismay
Evoking reprisal
Void of purity
Averse revelation o black
Unholy hostility
Diabolical possession
Sell your soul in the name of revenge
As the invocation completes
Perdition unfolds

Screaming in silence
The invocation begins
Screaming in silence
The invocation

All blood is bound to boil at last
Ripped to shreds, the die is cast

Awaken through the abomination
Upheaval through the invocation
Awaken through the abomination
Upheaval through the invocation

A cry of liberation
Soul on fire breaking free
With a heart encaged
You feed on pain and misery
A rapture of impressions
Haunts you down again and again
In absence of remission
Perdition unfolds

Upheaval through the invocation
Upheaval through the invocation

4. Have No Mercy On Us

[Music: Walczak, Borchers, Dieken & Pahl, Lyrics: Jensen]

Prepare the faithful for the final coming of doom
The sea will part again conjuring deadly plagues
Prayers of dead light, vicious words unspoken
Nowhere to run, no hiding from perpetual wrath

Release damnation
Have no mercy on us

Upon completion the world will be deserted
All that was before has faded into nothingness
Eyes of fire unfold the nightmares of creation
Arising from their failing spiritual demise
We’ll go astray

Armies of Nemesis
Have no mercy on us

Cursed for eternities
Saluting the end
We will never be at peace again

Prepare the faithful for the final coming of doom
The sea will part again conjuring deadly plagues
Prayers of dead light, vicious words unspoken
Nowhere to run, no hiding from perpetual wrath

Armies of Nemesis
Have no mercy on us

A declaration of insidious blasphemy
Blessed by emptiness
Baptized by fire, reduced to ashes
Our souls will never come to rest

Release damnation
Have no mercy on us
Release damnation
Have no mercy on us

Upon completion the world will be deserted
All that was before has faded into nothingness
Eyes of fire unfold the nightmares of creation
Arising from their failing spiritual demise
We’ll go astray

A declaration of insidious blasphemy
Blessed by emptiness
Baptized by fire, reduced to ashes
Our souls will never come to rest

Armies of Nemesis
Have no mercy on us

5. Artificial Life

[Music: Walczak, Borchers, Dieken & Pahl, Lyrics: Jensen]

Out of the body experience emerge as empty shell
Purity of no soul pre-set not to research the will to be
Apparatus unperfected, design unready to resist forevermore
Ban the existential fear, future aflame breaking down

Burning down to the ground
Artificial life
Dead, a fabrication
From the cradle to the grave

Unethical dilemma, horrors of guilt lie down a wide awake
So alive and dead alike in a state of comatose immobility
An abhorrent apparition, inner inertia turning into recompense
A breed created to retaliate and now about to strike back

At the back of beyond
Artificial life
Controlled
A breaking chain of command

Downfall
Artificial life
Breaking out of this confining
Artificial life

Down, burning down
Artificial life
Dead, living dead
Artificial life
Back, striking back

Out of the body experience emerge as empty shell
Purity of no soul pre-set not to research the will to be
Apparatus unperfected, design unready to resist forevermore
Ban the existential fear, future aflame breaking down

Modern reign of slavery, robotic imperium of decadence
Rejecting all remorse in the name of material prosperity
Both a blessing and a curse but who decides the outcome in the end?
Mankind is to pay the high price of living with the funds of self-destruction

Down, burning down to the ground
Artificial life
Dead, a fabrication
From the cradle to the grave
Back, striking back
Artificial life
Dead, living an artificial life

6. Condemnation

[Music: Walczak, Borchers, Dieken & Pahl, Lyrics: Jensen]

Amidst the dangers, so lifeless in pretense
All I see of you are shades in decadence
I have returned to behold the day
As you accept this castigation divine

Never-ending torment
Exclaim in delight
Condemnation

Look through these hollow eyes to understand
That there is blankness no disbelief
Stand up before my face to surrender
Unfold a plead, mercy forevermore

Relive excruciation
Time to rejoice
Condemnation
The dream is dead

You shatter in the cold light of day
Bound to exit in eternal disarray
Broken into fragments of illusions profane
Carry the weight of a dead world on your back

The dream is dead

Amidst the dangers, so lifeless in pretense
All I see of you are shades in decadence
I have returned to behold the day
As you accept this castigation divine

Never-ending torment
Exclaim in delight
Relive excruciation
Time to rejoice
Condemnation
Condemnation

7. Totem

[Music: Borchers]

[Instrumental]

8. Torn To Shreds

[Music: Walczak, Borchers, Dieken & Pahl, Lyrics: Jensen]

Come unchain the demons hidden behind my eyes
Look out, step aside, a fury uncontainable
Uncovered masquerade put into perspective
Into the fire I fully conscious march, I’m out to burn

Feeding frenzy
A closing with style

Prepare for damnation!

The time is come, release the anger
A life, torn to shreds
No repentance, no forgiveness
A life, torn to fucking shreds

Awake with bleeding hands, ordeal of the will
Regaining memory but truth remains a mystery
Another casualty, history repeats
Abysmal morals, torn to shreds

Judgement Day is near
Wash away all sin
Once carved in my skin
Now torn to shreds

Come unchain the demons hidden behind my eyes
Look out, step aside, a fury uncontainable
Uncovered masquerade put into perspective
Into the fire, I’m out to burn

Awake with bleeding hands, ordeal of the will
Regaining memory but truth remains a mystery
Another casualty, history repeats
Abysmal morals, torn to shreds

Feeding frenzy
A closing with style

Judgement Day is near
Wash away all sin
Once carved in my skin
Now torn to shreds

The time is come, release the anger
A life, torn to shreds
No repentance, no forgiveness
A life, torn to fucking shreds

Torn to shreds!

9. Revel In Contempt

[Music: Walczak, Borchers, Dieken & Pahl, Lyrics: Jensen]

Alive but barely breathing
Suffocating in empty hope for survival
Don’t close your eyes just yet
This might be the very last time
For you to see the lifeless lust of horror
In the godforsaken faces

We’re all participating
Orgy of brutality
History of hysteria
Determination’s end
Anti-design of salvation
Buries all remorse
World of no redemption
Blind victims of war

We all surrendered to this program
Knowingly we carry blood on our hands

Pain allied, facing death, revel in contempt
We did all agree to this parade of shame
A fuckin’ movement of disgrace
Humanity, tragedy, revel in contempt

On the verge of perpetual misery
Upcoming doomsday, yet we don’t be deceived
Falling from grace as our destination
And nobody will be able to escape the judgement

Oh how foolish of them to be
Hoping for glory and eternity
Soulless creatures, bringer of plagues
Embrace the fall, relentless, unto damnation

Go, revel in contempt
We did all agree to this parade of shame
A fuckin’ movement of disgrace
Humanity, tragedy, revel in contempt

On the verge of perpetual misery
Upcoming doomsday, yet we don’t be deceived
Falling from grace as our destination
And nobody will be able to escape the judgement

Revel in contempt
Revel in contempt
Revel...

10. A Critical Mass

[Music: Walczak, Borchers, Dieken & Pahl, Lyrics: Jensen]

Intercede, interfere!
Final attempt to re-conciliate but all to no avail
Profane last rites
Human sacrifices to cover lies and to propagate insanity

Defenselessly, helpless, acting powerless
The conflict’s ending and defeat is staring them in the face
Critical mass, detonate!

Infiltrate, instigate!
Upon completion of the fall
They’ll rise above the ashes of destruction
They shine like stars
A gleam of silver
Overcast the impending apocalypse

The crack of doom won’t heal these chronic wounds
The day of judgement has arrived in the end

Acid rain utopia
Come enhance mortality
Radioactivity, praising the fire
Balance reaction
A critical mass
Eradication of all life
Set death free
Critical mass
End of days
Critical...

Intercede, interfere!
Final attempt to re-conciliate but all to no avail
Profane last rites
Human sacrifices to cover lies and to propagate...

Infiltrate, instigate!
Upon completion of the fall
They’ll rise above the ashes of destruction
They shine like stars
A gleam of silver
Overcast the impending apocalypse

Retaliate!
Critical mass detonate!
Set death free
Critical mass
End of days
Critical...
Critical mass!

11. Global Hysteria

[Music: Walczak, Borchers, Dieken & Pahl, Lyrics: Jensen]

Bring on a deadly panic
Wreck the here and now
Elimination of security
Vile acts of sabotage
Accelerate the decline
Open hostility
Weave a web of lies

Collapsing to the ground
Onset catastrophe

Exploited through and through for one last fucking time
Dead end, betray your ignorance
System of true delusion bound to self-destruct
What face do you put with your enemy?

Rise
New world disorder!
Rise
Global hysteria!

Bless the mayhem
Global hysteria!

Perpetual maze down the hell
Knowing your enemy much too well!

Failing endeavor, resistance is futile
Like leading the rats to dig their own graves

Free will deceived
Your world is gone to pieces
Material overload
Enslavement to indulge in global hysteria

Led astray to believe that the truth would show
A theory of decline has turned into the decline of theory

Fall...
Bless the mayhem
Global hysteria!

Rise
New world disorder!
Rise
Global hysteria!

12. Slaves Of Consent

[Music: Walczak, Borchers, Dieken & Pahl, Lyrics: Jensen]

Existential demise
We close our eyes to conceal it
No air to breathe
No time left, it’s all over
Awaken in denial
Evoke a perpetual bane
No way to justify
This inhuman urge to degenerate

We only see what we wish to be
But can’t conceive what we perceive

I see the writings on the wall
Where did we think this would end?
We’re on the verge to tragedy
We are blind slaves of consent

The answer is in the mirror
A constant threat’s within
Words won’t heal but compound
They don’t speak the truth
Disguise the guilt
So nobody can see through
How very foul all doing and undoing is
When carried too far

All our fears come alive
We steal a glance at destiny
And all we sight is born of sin
Bound to atone for infinity

The omission and transgression
Unforgiven, unreleased adversity
Words unspoken, solemn promise
We praise the downfall drawing near
As we approach our termination
We are blind slaves of consent

The answer is in the mirror
A constant threat’s within
Words won’t heal but compound
They don’t speak the truth
Existential demise
We close our eyes to conceal it
No air to breathe
At the verge to tragedy

I see the writings on the wall
Where did we think this would end?
We’re on the verge to tragedy
We are blind slaves of consent

All our fears come alive
We steal a glance at destiny
And all we sight is born of sin
Bound to atone for infinity

13. On The Brink

[Bonus Track]

[Music: Walczak, Lyrics: Jensen]

Under the spell of cherished hopes
Aspirations completely destroyed
In the light of the conflict
Frustration's much too vast to hide

Sense the tention rising, shortly out of hand
Take a step into the danger zone

Watch the pressure growing, soon to detonate
The upcoming confrontation's impact

And in the thick of the fight we let the world pass by

We're going through fire and water for this
Standing victorious on the brink of the abyss

By no means we'll surrender
We have gone much to far to turn back
In the midst of devastation we don't have the vaguest notion of fear

Caught between two fires, in the face of death
No return from this trial of strength
Teach a rightful lesson, take it all away
Time is come to now do as we say

And in the thick of the fight we let the world pass by

Claim an eye for an eye, to the very last breath
Defiant, relentlessly, on the brink of death

Bring out the worst in us
A strife for life, on the brink

We're going through fire and water for this
Standing victorious on the brink of the abyss

Claim an eye for an eye, to the very last breath
Defiant, relentlessly, on the brink of death

Bring out the worst in us
We are on the brink
On the brink

14. Thrashard

[Bonus Track]
[originally by DRI: album "Thrash Zone" (1989)]
[copyright by Our Own Music (BMI]

There's a gig
At 5th and Main
Gonna catch the bus
Or take the train
We'll steal or find
Or borrow cash
And we'll be there
Ready to thrash

The band kickes in
They begin to rage
No-man's land
In front of the stage
Posers in the bathroom
Still looking at their hair
Thrashers in the foreground
Doing what they dare

In the pit

Thrashing and slamming
Like hell in the pit
Tomorrow they know
May not come
Banging and moshing
Like they don't give a shit
To the rapid beat
Of the drum

A boot to your forehead
A knee in your face
Your nose and lips
Start to bleed
Like a wild Indian
From outer space
Drunk and
High on weed

Guitar seems so fucking loud
People walking on the crowd
Diving Off the P.A. stacks
Breaking ankles, necks and backs
Then the circle begins
In the thrashing pit
Fists are flying
People getting hit
Tooth chippers left and right
Skinheads in another fight
Banging heads and broken jaws
Because there are no laws

In the pit

Then you start thrashing
Like never before
Stagediving, headwalking like mad
Doing your thing
All over the floor
The best time that you've ever had

You are hurt all over
But can't feel a thing
Not until the next day
Then you wake up
Stiff as a board
And the pain won't go away

Another gig at 5th and Main
We'll catch the bus
Or take the train
We'll steal or find
Or borrow cash
And we'll be there
Ready to thrash

In the pit







DEW-SCENTED LYRICS