ONCE DEAD LYRICS

1. Body Parts

Son of virtue
Recede -fleeting youth-
Free will, gluttony
Egotist -Disperse God-
Why turn our back on the One who's done so much for us?

Done for us
Body parts

Lasting, eternal
Creator -of all things-
Tested, unchanged
Tender -benevolence-
There is no contradiction in His glorious perfection.

Perfection
Body parts

Rancid
Torment as knowledge erodes away
Fueling
Rot

Disperse, the dust
Nothing -to become-
Walking members
Aged -fester, rot-
We have become nothing more than breathing body parts

Body parts
Body parts

2. The Contract

Where do we end?
Where do we begin?
Every day we are one step closer to our spirits leaving skin

Our fatal delay
One step away
The day when soul leaves flesh, we have no cards left to play

Morality gone
Death has won
Our choices decide our paths and our gambles have begun

Nothing / Peace or / Pain

Without a soul
Life ends cold
The smell of rotting flesh is all we'll ever know

If spirit is life
And Christ is right
Then all our lives are at the mercy of his might

Death will command
From every man
A choice that leads us to an eternal master plan

Death / Life / Decide,...

Sign the Contract (4x)
Sign the Contract - (You will choose)
Sign the Contract - (You will decide)
Sign the Contract - (It's your choice)
Sign the Contract - (It's your life)
Sign the Contract - (Your heart will stop)
Sign the Contract - (Your family cry)
Sign the Contract - (Make your choice)
Sign the Contract - (For you will die)

Death / Life / Decide,...

3. Devotion

Dejected warrior rise
With resolute and determined mind
Shed the blood crusted coverings from my back
Unhindered, attack

Synergy binds the brothers
Cord of three stronger than the others
Principals of accountability
Will avert defeat

Assertion
Devotion
[X2]

Fortitude unrivaled
1,000 tests, 1,000 trials
Refine this gold, purified in fire
Unequaled desire

Assertion
Devotion
[X2]

Assertion
Devotion
[X2]

4. Visions Of Hell

Up from the dust, the dying groan
The wounded souls, cry for help, with no reply
In the darkest hour, the killer awakes
To kill poor, steal their souls, with his lies

Empty mouths, bloated bowels, the wounded cry
Blistering flesh, feeds the stench, a vision of hell

Protect the poor, thus says the Lord
This is our cross, given by God, the maker of all
A common bond, unites our souls
The rich and poor, are all the same, to God above

Empty mouths, bloated bowels, the wounded cry
Blistering flesh, feeds the stench, a vision of hell
Empty mouths, bloated bowels, the wounded cry
The Father of Lies, The Serpent of Old, sends Visions of Hell

Indifference reigns, in their time of need
All of our strength, will be removed, says the Lord
We are called to love, we are called to give
We are called to do!, called to live as Christ once did

Empty mouths, bloated bowels, the wounded cry
Blistering flesh, feeds the stench, a vision of hell
Empty mouths, bloated bowels, the wounded cry
The Father of Lies, The Serpent of Old, sends Visions of Hell

5. Grave Diggers: The Forgotten Genocide

One by one
Round up into the room
Young or old
Indiscriminate tomb
Black visions
As death descends
Rifles crack
Twisted bodies bend

Robbed
Of my family
Dead
You've taken everything

Desolate
My soul is depraved
Now I crawl
From beneath the maimed
Strickened by
Panic within me
Village "cleansed"
Peasnats, Dignitaries

Of my family
Dead
You've taken everything

Now I flee
The lands once called home
Left behind
Known places now alone
Never return
The pain far too great
Start anew
Foreign lands suppressed pain

Of my family
Dead
You've taken everything

6. Laodicea

Neither cold nor hot, choose one one or the other now
A nation so self-obsessed only to be spat out
America, America
America, America

Take a look at all I have, these possessions define me
To accumulate defines a man, encompassing my being
But now that times are tough, where does that put me now
A servant of this world, from birth til' I'm put in the ground

Moral depravity
Laodicea
You'll pay the penalty
Laodicea
[2x]

Neither cold nor hot, choose one one or the other now
A nation so self-obsessed only to be spat out
America, America
America, America

Moral depravity
Laodicea
You'll pay the penalty
Laodicea
[2x]

[Rev: 3:14-22]

7. Rise Above

"One man with courage makes a majority"
Intense and unwavering authority
Fear nothing for I am with you
Until the end, guiding through

Climb
Ascend to the highest mountain
Rise
Mankind cannot disparage me

Mountains in the horizon crumble
Structure burn and the stalwarts pummeled
Proud, strong, and formidable
Live only in denial

Climb
Ascend to the highest mountain
Rise
Mankind cannot disparage me

Fear
Fades away
...dies...
[4x]

Fear
Fades away
[8x]

8. Feeding My Addiction

Prey upon this mindless defeat
Diversion's captivating deceit
As my world spirals down
Unknowingly I'm drawn all around

Perhaps there's no infestation
I control my destination
Hypocrite, search yourself
You seem to know my fix too well

Feeding my addiction
Feeding my addiction
Feeding my addiction
Feeding my...

Consequence frightfully ignored
Mind stimuli's numbing thorn
Bores deep enslaving me
Captivity's self induced disease

Clarity in destitution
Getting past my forged delusion
Invented behavior
Just easier to stay the course

Feeding my addiction
Feeding my addiction
Feeding my addiction
Feeding my...

God
Remove this curse, this scourge
Lord
My God

Perhaps there is ultimate truth
An escape that is long past due
Crying out, who will hear
Escapist life, obsession wears

Diverging paths sink or swim
If I contest with all my strength
And with the hand of God
Nothing's insurmountable

Feeding my addiction
Feeding my addiction
Feeding my addiction
Feeding my...

Feeding my addiction
Feeding my addiction
Feeding my addiction
Feeding my...

9. Flesheater

Enticing lure
Seducer's varying forms
The obvious
Hatred, gluttony, porn

Subversive distractions
Erode away
My sensitivities
Wide-spread self-destruction

As the world
It eats me alive
I decompose
Yet praise Your name

Put off
My old self
Corrupt deceitful desires
Renewed mind

Falsehoods fall
As truth prevails
My anger reined in
Foothold crumbles beneath

As the world
It eats me alive
I decompose
Yet praise Your name

As the world
It eats me alive
I decompose
Yet praise Your name

Build up
Christ's body
The holy Church
Spirit of God

Leave behind
My wayward past
As a man
Bent on noble ambition

As the world
It eats me alive
I decompose
Yet praise Your name

[Ephesians 4:17-32]

10. Defy Man (A.K.A. Deep Fried Man)

Today I prove my worth
Today I learn to fly
Reaching heights yet unseen
To stand the test of time

The point of separation
Sever the fragile men
The battle's now begun
Survive until the end

Defy man
Defy man
[4x]

Crushing those underfoot
Crushed rivals all fade away
More power within me
Unfathomed intensity

Scoff at the obstacles
Scoff at death's vanity
Exploding through the walls
Relentlessly unleash

Defy man
Defy man
[4x]

Come not simply to play
I have arrived to dominate
Principles we live by
To accept or deny

The point of retribution
The point of calloused hands
Cannot accept defeat
In the end see victory

Defy man
Defy man
[4x]







ONCE DEAD LYRICS