EARTH CRISIS LYRICS

1. Raise

Out of the ashes,
Out of the ruins
In the eye of the storm
Justice is the paramount priority
Restore order
Our standard raised aloft
To waiver above our heads
On reconquered ground
All under the darkened smoke filled sky.

No, we never forgave
Now the axe blades descend
Always seared in our minds
Strands of piano wire constrict into the guilties flesh

Out of the ashes
Out of the ruins
In the eye of the storm
Justice is the paramount priority
Restore order
Our standard raised aloft
To waiver above our heads
On reconquered ground
All under the darkened smoke filled sky.

2. Neutralize The Threat

Neutralize the threat!

I'm encircled by filth and chaos.
Self-preservation.
Surrounded by parasites and vileness.
Self-preservation.

In the abysmal depths of urban decay
A nightmare
Humans exist without humanity
Rotting cores inside of a rotting core
Brutalized
Now the doors are torn from the gates of hell.

Rise solitary from the concrete.
Self-preservation.
Bloodied and smashed, haunted by pain.
Self-preservation.

Resolve hardens to never again
Now must crush
Suffer at the hands of walking demons
A climate of criminality
Must resist
Enabled by traitors who live in delusions.

The hunters and the prey.

Defense mechanism, instincts overtake
Lights flicker as the subway car shakes
And now the weapon's drawn
And now the weapon's raised

Fire again and again
Severing the spinal chord
Fire again and again
Blood pours onto the floor
Fire again and again
Lifeless they collapse
Fire again and again
Escape out the door.

Neutralize the threat!
Neutralize the threat!
Neutralize the threat!
Neutralize.
Neutralize the threat!
Neutralize.

3. Total War

Disrupt, destroy.

Fuses burn 'til pipe bombs detonate
From the blasts concussion shattered walls quake
Rain falls through the pools of light
Beneath the street lamps as we run
Striking back against those who afflict and infect victims with the plague
Left strung out condemned to die
Suffering in horrific pain.

Reason and warnings
All went ignored.
Amnesty's over.
Now total war.

The soldiers of the peoples revolt retaliate
With force against force
Determining their fate.

Districts in the Emerald Isle sink
Into a venomous flood
Their hands are forced
Driven to quell
To draw out the guilties blood.

Reason and warnings
All went ignored.
Amnesty's over.
Now total war.

The soldiers of the peoples revolt retaliate
With force against force
Determining their fate

Ravaging
Every class
All against
Balance offset
Disrupt, destroy
The antidote
To the sickness
The only way

Restabilize
Regain control
Restabilize
Regain control

Restabilize
Regain control
Restabilize
Regain control

Reason and warnings
All went ignored.
Amnesty's over.
Now total war.

The soldiers of the peoples revolt retaliate
With force against force
Determining their fate.

4. 100-Kiloton Blast

Prey upon
Prey upon

The desperate and lost
Despite the cost
Creating nothing
Except misery
To live out a Scarface fantasy
To look into their eyes and see
Watch them diminish day by day
Grim reapers disseminate the heroin.

Contrivers of a false escape
Indifferent to the suffering
It creates.

Died with a needle in her arm
Her son knelt at her side
The end of a world
A 100 kiloton blast

With legalese
Police hands are tied
Or profit from payments
To turn a blind eye
Manipulate their way through the
System unscathed each time
Slither there way out only to
Poison more lives again
Poison more lives

Not all are frozen in fear
Dismiss the offer for a reprieve
Rounds tear through the purveyors flesh
Dead in a pool of blood.

Died with a needle in her arm
Her son knelt at her side
The end of a world
A 100 kiloton blast.

5. Counterstrike

Black smoke pours from hollow windows
Palace of justice under assault
Cartel mercenaries on the warpath
Fighting police in the street
Cocaine flows out through hurricanes of violence
Their forced to comply
Manipulated by their darkest fears
Withdrawn into silence

Traitors
Do the devil's work
Fevers
Lost in avarice
Beyond
A means to survive
Fevers
Lost in avarice

Civilians, judges, police zeroed in
Centered in the crosshairs with no way to win
Live from day to day, trapped in a nightmare
Of bloodshed and terror
Bomb fragments tear
Lead pierces through
Mutilated victims fall to the ground
Tortured to death ghastly murders
Left decapitated

Traitors
Do the devil's work
Fevers
Lost in avarice
Beyond
A means to survive
Fevers
Lost in avarice

The bold resist
Overt and in stealth
Pursuing their enemies
Through the city

Chased down killed on site
One by one they fall
The cartel's terror ends with each demise

Counterstrike
Counterstrike
Counterstrike
Traitors
Do the devil's work
Fevers
Lost in avarice
Beyond
A means to survive
Fevers
Lost in avarice

Traitors
Do the devil's work
Fevers
Lost in avarice
Beyond
A means to survive
Fevers
Lost in avarice

6. By Conscience Compelled

They're defenseless creatures
That were sentenced to die.
Held captive from their inception
Throughout their lives.
Instinctual yearning to escape, to be free.
Their only value to humans is monetary.

A silhouette in the dark,
Bolt cutters slice through steel
To emancipate the condemned
By conscience compelled
Clouds cover over
Each mink disappears into the night
By conscience compelled
Adrenaline surges. Anxiety boils.
The sense of empathy
Overwhelms the fear
Compassion overpowers all the hesitation
Animated by the urgency
Fate has handed their rescue down to me.
A silhouette in the dark,
Bolt cutters slice through steel
To emancipate the condemned
By conscience compelled
Clouds cover over
Each mink disappears into the night
By conscience compelled.

The net slowly closes. Can't slip away.

Stay paces ahead
With nowhere to hide
They were always one step behind
It was only a matter of time
Now nothing to regret
Locked inside a prison cell
Driven by conviction
Nothing near their hell
A silhouette in the dark,
Bolt cutters slice through steel
To emancipate the condemned
By conscience compelled
Clouds cover over
Each mink disappears into the night
By conscience compelled.

There are no regrets.
There are no regrets.
By conscience compelled.
By conscience compelled.

7. Black Talons Tear

Viscous and sadistic
Savages run rampant.
Fear waits in the dark at every turn.
The assailants
Brazen murderers
Evil floods the vacuum.
Moral guidelines erode away.

The shadow rises
Against them in wrath
Avenging wraiths.
The shadow rises
Against them in wrath
A hail of lead

Enforcers of the law
Forced to operate
Above the law.
For the sake of justice
Lives put on the line.
Sweep the scythe to see
The wicked fall this time.

The shadow rises
Against them in wrath
Avenging wraiths.
The shadow rises
Against them in wrath
A hail of lead.

Intolerant
For the unforgivable,
Won't capitulate
To the enemies
Of a sane society.
Exterminate the infestation
Black talons tear.
Black talons tear.

Beneath the palms
Moonlight gleams on metal roofs
Footsteps on broken pavement
Advancing to execute

The shadow rises
Against them in wrath
Avenging wraiths
The shadow rises
Against them in wrath
A hail of lead

Black talons tear
Black talons tear
Black talons tear
Black talons tear

8. Askari

Crumbling buildings,
Predators in the streets
Ruthless and cruel
They're not uncontested
Resistance soldiers
Alter the course
Illegitimate capitalism tax
Take by force

Drive-bys and shakedowns
Militant to the core
Armed to the teeth
Waging a war

Vigilant guardians
Defend their kin
From abusive authority
Strive to be free
Push back against the pushers who
Push doses of death
Against nefarious traitors who trade
In human flesh

Drive-bys and shakedowns
Militant to the core
Armed to the teeth
Waging a war.

At last
Criminals
Are the ones
Who look back in fear.

Who will fight by my side?
Who is not afraid to die?
Who will fight by my side?
Who is not afraid to die?

Crumbling buildings
Predators in the streets
Ruthless and cruel
They're not uncontested
Resistance soldiers
Alter the course
Illegitimate capitalism tax
Take by force

Drive-bys and shakedowns
Militant to the core
Armed to the teeth
Waging a war

At last
Criminals
Are the ones
Who look back in fear.

9. The Eradicators

Through any means

The thunder of rotor blades
Bares them into the sky
From above the treetops
Nothing eludes their eyes
Search to find to eradicate
Hover descend surround
Every footstep forward could be
Their last one on the ground

Locked in a struggle
Without an end
Fighting to hold back
The poisoning

Leaves and grasses waver
Draw in for the attack
Lethal force implemented
Advance assault and clear
Charges detonate
A flash as they demolish
The drug labs incinerate.
Hundreds die every year.

Locked in a struggle
Without an end
Fighting to hold back
The poisoning

The addicts
Are prisoners
The wealth grows
Now the terror spreads like a cancer
Innocent blood is spilled
By their hands
Now the terror spreads like a cancer.

From the
Front line

Through any means

Eradicators on the front line
Eradicators on the front line

Locked in a struggle
Without an end
Fighting to hold back
The poisoning
Locked in a struggle
Without an end
Fighting to hold back
The poisoning

10. Raze

No power, no police
No sustenance or communication
Every human for themselves
In a landscape of devastation.

The only guarantee is that
This won't last forever.
Past cultures never thought that
Theirs would end either.

The terror strike that leveled cities
A way of life has ended
Electromagnetic pulse weapon
Technology deleted

The only guarantee is that
This won't last forever.
Past cultures never thought that
Theirs would end either.

A biological weapons attack
Fear and plague wreak havoc
Nuclear accidents
Unnatural disasters
The planet crushed by a meteor
Volcanic debris rains down
Polar shift brings our demise
A climatic cataclysm.

Assured of civilization's end
Now trapped in the aftermath
The planet is now transformed
All life altered forever

The only guarantee is that
This won't last forever
Past cultures never thought that
Theirs would end either

Raze





EARTH CRISIS LYRICS