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1. LADODT (Live And Die On This Day)

I’m trading blow for blow
As I stand to witness
Reflections of the burden I've become
And yes I've come to know
All about this hell that I've
Brought onto myself I now call It home

I have kept (nothing)
Nothing for myself
Just to save this
From all I am

And I’m just a broken man
Set on self-destruction
But I must learn to help myself
And earn my redemption
Blood for blood I wage this war
With all I've got
When I leave, it’s what I am
Not what I’ve lost

Keeping in what I’ve needed to get out
Nothing can control me now that I have nothing left
Holding back so that I can save myself
I’ll face my inner demons now that I’ve escaped my head

This tongue has bitten back a thousand times
I have been giving back since the day I died

I have kept
Nothing for myself
Just to save this
From all I am

Live and die on this day
Live and die on this day
Live and die on this day

Live, die
Live, die

I have kept
Nothing for myself
Just to save this
From all I am

(There’s not a shadow of doubt in this man that you see
I have risen from a war with meaningless
If time is the test then I surely have won
Now you despise the man that I have become)

2. Dissolved

Oh how my hate is beckoning me to give into it
The stench of failure seeps through my skin
And takes me once again
With open eyes I look ahead to find my sanctity
But all I find is disappointment
How will my dreams begin?

With all but my mind
Closed over
I’ll break the hold from this agonising suffocation
That drags me down
They say that I’ve been catatonic
A fragment of a man
Now with the pieces I have now found
Will I be whole?

The choices I’ve made
Have brought me here
The choices I make
Will be my last chance

In times like these we see what has become of man dissolve
Our empathy is weaning and our formula life is wrong
Is wrong

Inside of me the battle rages on with no relief
My mind is ripe with indecision
There’s something more to this
So tell me what am I supposed to do with empathy?
These problems that I see before me are what’s to come

I am hated and
I have suffered and
I have seen the truth for what I’ve become
I have denied and
I am denial and
I have severed ties with all that I know

The choices I’ve made
Have brought me here
The choices I make
Dissolve

The things we see inside are more true than we once realised,
Now we stand and hesitate.
The difference is that I've accepted what I've become.
Erased all I know. Stood on the outside.

Will I get one more chance to redeem myself for what I’ve done?

In times like these we see what has become of man dissolve
Our empathy is weaning and our formula life is wrong

In times like these we see what has become of man dissolve
(we see it all dissolve, we see it all)
Our empathy is weaning and our formula life is wrong

3. Breathing The (D)evil Inside

Caught in the middle of a conflict
And lost with a world
We stir the violence until it takes
Your soul
Disrupt the institutions
And savour every threat
The deal is done when you feel the
Devil’s breath
Our time of violence and chaos
Is coming
Best prepare your affairs
The day has come to change your
Fucking mind
Now choose your side

So did you ask yourself what
You could do for mankind or did
You fall?
Believing that you were the victim
And now your choice is made will
You embrace your new life to show
The world
The choice was in your hands?

Whatever happens now the deal is
Done my friend
Take a look around – what do you see?
You have the opportunity of a lifetime
So take it like a man and take it.
Take it!
The weight of the world had gone
From your shoulders

Take a deep breath and make your
New start
The problems of your past will soon
Be washed away
Never stand idol, your shit won’t
Change
All your life
You were the victim
All this time
You were helpless
Finally you can see your potential
Walk the path the now clear
You can see the beauty is chaos
What you see is not
What you think
It’s easy to walk away
Fromm all the
Choices the you have made

So did you ask yourself what
You could do for mankind or did
You fall?
Believing that you were the victim
And now your choice is made will
You embrace your new life to show
The world
The choice was in your hands?
So did you ask yourself what
You could do for mankind or did
You fall?
Or was the choice there in your hands?

4. Hangman

I’m holding on this time. But does
It matter?
Caught in the hangman’s noose
Black sheep not from your herd, I am
Condemned
To find my own through
A bleak existence and little reward
By end of days, gone mad
I seek no glory, no-one to envy
Another chapter through

I am the one that’s seen and never heard
A distant memory in whispered words
And I too was once a broken man
But this change in me has not
Been easy

These day’s I live for now
Are in my dreams
These words that one rang true
Are now infested…

We are a disease, a deadly outbreak
We are a plague called life
We are the force fed from open minds

Unless we break the hold
We not repent, we will not regret
In pain we scream their names
We won’t stop fighting, but I find
A reason
For those who died in vein.

It’s the end of days

These day’s I live for now
Are in my dreams
These words that one rang true
Are now infested with lies

With lies

Inside I am the broken dreams of man
I will deny an age of suffering
Destroy the foundations on which
You stand
I am the god you are waiting for

These day’s I live for now
Are in my dreams
These words that one rang true
…Are now infested
With these lies!

5. A Strength That Overcomes

As a young boy I learnt
That life was not what it seemed
I saw the truth of human nature
And did what I need to survive
It all started one Sunday
When I was only five
My innocence was taken from me
Fear never got the best of me

Blind eyes, blame and your judgment

Primary school was a constant battle
Fight or hide
I knew that I could never back down
Or I’d lose my self-respect
I never gave up, they never gave in
And my battles weren’t won
But it only made me stronger
And I thought my wars were done

Reflecting
On what I could have been
Remember
I found the strength in me

So I’m reflecting (It changed my life)
On what I have ignored (It changed me forever)
But can I finally put out the fires of hate?

It changed my life
It changed me forever
It changed my life
It changed me forever

I constantly used them when they thought they had used me
And I never tried to impress
Their hypocrisy fuelled the hate in me
But I could see through their masks

Reflecting
On what I have ignored
But can I finally put out the fires of hate?

Reflecting
On what I could have been
Remember
I found the strength in me

So I’m reflecting (It changed my life)
On what I have ignored (It changed me forever)
But can I finally put out the fires of hate?
It’s not an easy thing (It changed me forever)
To walk the path I’ve walked (It changed my life)
But can I let go of the pieces that I’ve kept?
It changed my life!

6. I, The Obscene

So I’m nothing
But to you I am
Voices inside you that fester and scream
Am I conscience?
Does it matter?
The longer you hear me, the more I control
Every conflict
Every issue
For someone so pure your thoughts are obscene
It’s my failure
Are your failure
When you take the shit and accept the abuse

Your deception means you’ve already lost
Despite credibility, it’s your dignity gone

You hear me these voices in your head
(They) Twist and distort what you think
Your obsession sickening
You’re bent on gore stained imagines
Guilt is ripping you in two
I’m the stronger part of you
Set on breaking free again

Can’t you take this any longer?
Why can’t you just accept what you are?

Am I reason
To your impulse
The psychotic drama that plays in your head?
Can they hear me?
You can hear me
I am the persona that you want to be
Are you worthless?
Do you matter?
Are you so insecure that you need to be me?
I am madness
I am freedom
I am what you fear and I am the release

Separate yourself!

Heed the voices that read the warnings
That we have issued to
Make you realize that
All you need to do
Is embrace what you are
You’re love – you’re hate

7. Without Reverence

Lest we forget
When will we walk as one?

Lest we forget
What they gave their lives for
Now they were striving to set us free
Lest we forget
It was the war to end wars
But now they’re faded memories
For the price that they paid
For the lives that they gave
And we can’t stand still for one fucking minute?
For the love of a nation
For the safety of children
And now we’ve nothing to show for that they’ve done

If we stand and we walk alone
On different sides we will fall
We should stand and walk as one
And we will be reborn
United in a war
And fought with all their heart
Now forgotten by us all

When you open your eyes
You should open your mind
And remember how they gave us what we have
We’ve grown tired of blind
Leading the blind
In the aftermath of wars that were fought
A respect that was earned
Is now a power that’s bought
Don’t forget the price they payed was death
They fought for substance not greed
Now we forget everything
They built a mountain
We tore down the sky

If we stand and we walk alone
On different sides we will fall
We should stand and walk as one
And we will be reborn
United in a war
And fought with all their heart
Now forgotten by us all

What are you fighting for now?

War

If we stand and we walk alone
On different sides we will fall
We should stand and walk as one
And we will be reborn
United in a war
And fought with all their heart
Now forgotten by us all

Are we not the ones?
That now have our freedom?
Because of what they
Have sacrificed!

8. Dreaming Through The Dead Eyes

This is the prelude for destruction…

I’ve taken the longest road to reach my destiny
Crawled on my stomach through broken glass
Hoping that one day time will save me
Now things have changed
Gone astray
We will never be the same
Take a chance, take this life
Learn from what’s been fucked before
We won’t die
We won’t change
Through our knowledge we will rise
But we still
Stay the same
All the work that we’ve done
Hopeless
Soulless

Bring me to the life for the last time

We live another day to
Wash the pain
We’re living through our strength
And so…
We live to see again
We have nothing to fear
Right now!

Deconstruct the only things that gave us strength within our lives
It’s in our nature to destroy it
The principals for what we have will betray all the things we save
By pressing on the nerves of failure
The only things that we have left are taken from our fucking hands
While holding us back from our success
And now the faults and past mistakes have come to haunt us once again
Isn’t it time that we did something right?

We live another day to
Wash the pain
We’re living through our strength
And so…
We live to see again
We have nothing to fear
Right now!

9. The Traveller Has Come

We are
In a time of desperation
Living free to shattered lives
In the blind of an eye
Confiding in a liar
False hopes in a packaged illusion
All we see are the broken dreams
And the strain left behind
Now the strain of everything is choking more and more
The consequence of confidence has bitten the last time

And now
I see it all so clear
And for now
The nightmare is over
But the answers that we found all start to fade
Leaving questions that destroy all that we’ve changed

By burning the bridges
New conflicts arise
We story each other
Along with our pride
Now the guilt of everything has clenched the fists of hate
The consequence of ignorance will be our last mistake

and now
I see it all so clear
And for now
The nightmare is over
But the answers that we found all start to fade
Leaving questions that destroy all that we’ve changed

By burning the bridges
New conflicts arise
We story each other
Along with our pride

And now
I see it all so clear
And for now
The nightmare is over
But the answers that we found all start to fade
Leaving questions that destroy all that we’ve changed
That we’ve changed

10. Overthrow

Fall to your knees
Fall to submission
You will surrender (your will)
And not question what I say
Fall to your knees
Prey for forgiveness
Deny your maker
I am how nightmares are made
I find you fascinating the way
You mould to the shapes we set
It’s the prettiest picture: a smile on our face with a gun to your head
What we want
We just take
You will do
What we say

We will take control
We’re watching you become
Numb to everything
We build you up to watch
You fall!
With the illusion that you’re free
We’re pulling harder on your
Strings
To watch you crawl
You are just puppets to us!

Uprise

It seems
To me
That hypocrisy
Is still how the world is made
We can’t
Give in
We should take up arms
To overthrow oppression

Standing tall against aggressors
Fascist kings and mind

Oppressors
Relinquishing what we’ve
Been fed
Are we alive or just un-dead?
You hide yourself in ivory
Towers
And use us as your scapegoats
Now everything we’ve built
For you
It’s time to watch it crumble

When you lose control
Is there a power that we gain?
Or we don’t know
I won’t buy you bullshit
Anymore!
If we live outside of fear
There is no end to achieved
Or what we dream
Or we will never dream at all!

When you lose control
Is there a power that we gain?
Or we don’t know
I won’t buy you bullshit
Anymore!
If we live outside of fear
There is no end to achieved
Or what we dream
Or we will never dream at all!

Sifting through the broken
Pieces
Bitterness is pouring outward
Everything turns to ash in
Our mouths
Our ignorance brought us
Disorder
We built a brand new power
Structure
And now we are right back to
Where we started
We’ve become our own
Oppressors

11. United Our Blood

Am I the only one who can see
What we’ve become?
With a futile path of resistance
And a cause we can’t recall the
Meaning of
This stand we take
To fight our long lost cause
Is only to pass the time
Until we find what we’re
Searching for
So many thoughts of annihilation
Irrational rage that makes
Us blind
Now we are right back
At the start
Can we make it grow or fall apart?

Is there a soul
With the weight of the world
Carried upon their shoulders?
With our strength and our soul
Without wings we can fly
And rise above the defences
The truth of it all
Is we reap what we sew
And lose what we took
For granted
We need to look past
Our gender and race and creed
So it all has no meaning

Now’s the time
We should fly
Now’s the time
We forget all our hate
Now is the time
We should fly
Now is the time
We forgot all our hate

We need to get past our sorrow
And find what makes us love
We need to move past our difference
And unite our blood

And what we’re searching for
Will lead us through the lie
Lacking a depth in knowledge
Seething from inside
How can we entertain this
Prejudice without the question “why?”
Are we so empty that we can’t decide?

Now’s the time
We should fly
Now’s the time
We forget all our hate
Now is the time
We should fly
Now is the time
We forgot all our hate

We need to get past our sorrow
And find what makes us love
We need to move past our difference
And unite our blood
Our blood.







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