FALL OF CARTHAGE LYRICS

1. Upon The Small Things

Consciousness, reflection, consideration
Words we all have long condemned
And with the everyday over-stimulation we're exposed to
Our eyes became blind to the beauty and the concealed

We need to rely and focus upon the small things...
Upon the small things...
To make the large things count

Supplication and faith
Won't prevent from the greed dividing us all
Sadly this much is true
We are called upon to recollect and burn the riches down

Don't dance with the witches which ain't switchin' on, no
Burn the riches down, turn the fire on, bring the harvest home son Recollect yourself and clear your name
Before this world goes up in flames

Drop all the doubt, chop all strings
Rely upon the small things
Drop all the doubt, chop all strings
Build upon the small things

Upon the small things

Atop of the wastings, not much left here
Upon the small things, grow some value

Upon the small things

Consciousness, reflection and consideration
Words we all have long condemned
Upon the small things

2. Degeneration

Pain, disgust, degeneration

What you see?
A stranger backing out, leaving humanity blind
A crack whore soon to fall, breathe no more
This stranger left the course to walk without remorse

Oh, what's left?
A self-righteous life, amends for the wrong sense
Prevent from a first-hand-degeneration of skin and bones
And mind and everything, I'm done

What I'll be?
A winner breaking out leaving society stunned
A top-dog biting deep, see me score
This stranger left the course and brought the boat ashore

Oh, this self-righteous life will break me

Not gonna take this, no more
Degeneration
Can't it be forgotten now?
Degeneration
No room for doubtful chances
Degeneration
No more wasted days, wasted life
Degeneration
Caught in my thoughts
Degeneration
After all the years of suffocation
Degeneration

3. Dawn Of The Enemy

Let the fucking games begin
Bring the foes right in
We're ready for the dawn of the enemy
Choose your weapon well
Or go straight to hell
This is your last chance, use it now

And then again...

You keep hiding from the call
You ignore the deamons calling
They set sail beneath the stars
Just in time to see you falling

You and me alone
The smell of boiling chrome
Unleash the beast inside yourself

Trust yourself and you will find
Your way to peace within

You kept hiding from the call
You ignored the demons calling
Trust yourself, believe in life
And everything will fall into its place

They set sail beneath the stars
Just in time to see you falling
You will see it's worth the fight
The darkest days are numbered

Let the fucking race begin
Bring the foes right in
We're ready for the dawn of the enemy

4. Imperfection

All the centuries and all the memories
Of all the families on all the cemeteries

What is your source of inspiration?
What is your secret to find love within?

Lost generation, a million dreamers before you and me
Have taken their knowledge and wisdom to their graves
They're holding it forever to be lost
They've not done well

Time we're given on earth, wasted and forbidden wealth
So precious it needs some privilege
Some more true attention now, for the sake of our children's lives

What is your source of inspiration?
What is your secret to find love within?

With a minimum of self-esteem
It's so ravelling, challenging, discouraging
Questioning everything, start accepting
No one's unfailing

Imperfection
Born with it, deal with this imperfection (now)

Imperfection
There's nothing wrong with imperfection

And when you're buried with your dreams and secrets
Then you will take them all the way, no recreation
And when you're buried with your dreams and secrets
You'll keep them forever with your talents and fears

All the centuries
All the families
All the centuries
All the memories gone

5. Home In A Wasteland

Dishonor, rush and mocking will unmask the denier
On to deliver the secrets to the wind and fire

All the years we grew around it
Holding onto what we've founded
Shallow ground and draining quicksand
We're feeling at home in a wasteland

Destiny was lost and found here
With a melody so resounding

Hateful thoughts outspoken
This record is broken
With a melody so resounding
Complication abounding

Disregarding this retarding
But in fact we were crumbling long before
We can't fight it, just divide into none
Nothing's gonna be fine like before again

(no more disgrace, no more false hope)

Disintegration

Hold on
Enough is enough
When you're left to crawl with wounded knees
Enough is enough

Stop the hurting
Enough is enough
When you're left to freeze with a burning heart
Enough is enough

Enough is enough
Stop it
Enough is enough

6. Menace To Myself

You suffer, such a stray
Scored again, one more fault
The night's gone to sleep, vale of tears
A strong impulse as you keep searching

Just hangin' in there again
Hangover, hang with seven jacks, a menace to myself
(something) balls have gone wild
Tankin' up since 1990, as I been (fucking it up)

Searching for something, searching
Something, searching

There should be no indifference, no fuckin' compromise
A menace to myself, I need to regain my life

Stop

Can't stop to pull the plug on me

I tried to do without for a hundred nights in a row now
Still tired and unhappy, nothing has changed

We suffer, such a stray
Scored again, one more fault
The day's gone to sleep, vale of tears
A strong impulse as we keep searching

Something

Just hangin' in there again
Hangover, hang with seven jacks, a menace to myself
Gonna toss more
Tankin' up since 1990, as I been searching for something

Searching

Unconscious, unstable
Hopelessly breathing my last breath
I'm leaving to regain my life

7. Necessitarianism

This is for your body, this is for your mind
We'll collect the honey
Then everything here blows into nothing
We control your body, we control your mind
We'll fuck up your party
And everything just blows into nothingness

Necessitarianism

Here is to your daddy, here is to your mom
Bottoms up to your granny, tell everyone we came for the bluffing

We are the ones you looked for
Elevate a cabaret, we won't let you get astray
We're fueled with wrong decisions
Get 'em in the bag until they call the authorities
Witness the things we truly came here to do
When everything is torn to pieces we're through

Oh, we could really use a bottle or two

We're on it

Necessitarianism

The damage is done

We control your body, we control your mind
We'll collect your honey
And everything here blows into nothing

8. Means To Be Alive

What have, what have we come to
What have, what have we done

Now we are counting mistakes and each others flaws
Instead of supporting and lift what we're dreaming of
We wake up to gray days and paint black what is so bright
We're dying slowly just like...

Just like somebody in our dreams
Condemns the sorrow and dulls all the extremes
Just like somebody in our dreams
Takes our hand to follow and remember what it means

Oh, what it means to be alive, create a world of joy and harmony
Apart from what is pulling you and me
Down and underneath, down and underneath
This sore and bitter fainting reality

What have we done...

The diggin' inside won't succeed, the diggin' inside won't succeed
The diggin' inside will result in more depression
The diggin' inside won't succeed, the diggin' inside won't succeed
The diggin' inside will result in even more suffering

Just like somebody in our dreams
Condemns the sorrow and dulls all the extremes
Suffering
Just like somebody in our dreams
Takes our hand to follow and remember what it means
What it means

Remember what it means to be alive...

9. Leave Them Behind

13 years later well-known demons beat me down the same
I dwell on die-hard disbelief and hide beyond the lie I have become

Because of all the fucking therapies that made it worse
And all the pills and meds that fixed nothing
Lost within the memories of days long dead
Dead but sleepless, sleepless since you're gone

As I see all the pretty flowers (that) decorate your grave
And when I'm talking to your brother 'bout the good old days
I can't hold back the steady grief, this recurring pain
Life is not bad, I must admit, but it's just not the same

Destructive thoughts, the ages win
I'm giving up, I'm giving in
Left with myself, this shit's devouring
And power-draining

Sick of the echoes inside
Recall memories twist and rewind, 'bove all
Leave them behind
Slowly dispatching the soul now
Spitting and throwing up gall
Loss predefined

One day we will meet again and talk it all over
Until then I will just try and hang in there, what else can I do

Sick of the echoes inside, that's all
Memories twist and rewind, let go
Leave them behind
Slowly dispatching the soul
In this personal war, spitting and throwing up gall
Loss predefined

(get things straight)

As I see all the pretty flowers (that) decorate your grave
And when I'm talking to your brother 'bout the good old days
I can't hold back the steady grief, this recurring pain
Life is not bad, I must admit, but it's just not the same

10. More Than Nothing

Becoming more than nothing

Is it so? Is this everything life is offering?
Is it true? Is this happening?
Really happening?

If this is all then I'm considering
I'm becoming more and finally stop bothering

Becoming more than nothing

We're built to self-destruct and function for the profit of a
Misleading industry, we drop with no surprise
We're skilled to plan and manage over-complex situations
Yet our intentions to enhance are kept denied

We're drilled to swallow all the bullshit that they serve us daily
We're burning out unless we're fired, one by one

Oh, this ain't life, this is robbery
This isn't worth all the bothering, no

Exploring new horizons
Becoming more than nothing

Been down there one too many times
This warning is honestly serious
The morning we won't wake up breathing
There will be no last chance to start again

More than nothing

11. Behold

Sit back, switch on, the comprehension is strong
The curtain fell, the confrontation's pounding, truth surrounding
Born free and open, criminal identities now (in)
A world torn for rage and something more malicious

Behold, betrayal
Allow yourself to disavow

Minute after minute there's endless gore
Can't take it anymore
Humiliation, the military
Religion-guided, far from rational
War, you're signing in
Kin extinction, this is operation descent
Doomed, doomed you'll go down
With the enemy's soul in its domination and it's on

Unless you...
Drop tradition, terminate
Drop religion, liberate
Your life is not, religion, tradition, fake

Shot dead, drop dead
(the throwback of a nation)
You're dead, shot dead
(dictation)
Shot dead, drop dead
(foul obligation)
You're dead, shot dead

Shot dead, drop dead
(mother earth, devastation)
You're dead, shot dead
Shot dead, drop dead
(limp generation)
You're dead, shot dead

Here you are right by yourself, realizing this one life you have
Embrace it, embrace yourself and live







FALL OF CARTHAGE LYRICS