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Nothing
04:42
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Pain filters through what Iʼve become. The infection spills right through me. They say the sands of the hourglass will seal the wounds, but my open wounds will never mend. Now I spread my arms - embrace me. Drive your stake an offering - unto me. Entwined by your charms - canʼt break free. Forced to hang but not to die. And now I see...nothing.
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Take from me...take from me...take from me...take from me. Razorblade smile conceals your severed tongue. A hard lesson once taught now learned, learned through the barrel of a gun. Take from me...black eyes no longer see. Take from me...black tongue no longer speaks. Take from me...black lungs no longer breathe. Take from me...black heart no longer beats. Lost...alone...I reach out to grasp hold of nothing. All you control...continually fades to nothing. Yet still I try...yet still I try...I fight to survive.
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Living Backward
04:44
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Torn from inside as my eyes absorb the false state of my life...passes by transcended through a tearful eye. Now my eyes...now my eyes...burn with the acid truth of a suicide. Hear my laughter cry. I ask you why. I ask why. Floating through this lake of tears, will I not drown? Clicking steel, abrasive skin, it all surrounds. Floating through this lake of tears, will I not drown? Calloused soul, calloused flesh it all surrounds.
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Cultivation Of A Heart
03:52
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You planted your seed into my very being. The season ends, now reap your bounty. Harvest all weʼve grown. My throat holds back the pride. But I cannot swallow my own heart. Our lifesblood drained, our bond, decomposed. Now I cradle the remains as I cry alone. Sewn amongst the others, now the unforeseen has come true. I fall to the earth again, my atrophy caused by your blade. Is it true all this time youʼve sought refuge from another in my soul?
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Black
03:21
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Shallow footsteps echo across the floor. All that once was, I can see no more. With the eyes of a child, you offer us the world. With the wounds of the overlooked, I trust in you no more. Bitter(sweet), now Iʼve realized. Drain from me, bleed me with a smile. In the eyes of the impressionable, your silhouette shines gold...but in my eyes the truth be known...all is black. Bleed me and you will find deep inside...all the pain youʼve glamorized in me. They say reflections never lie...at times I find that hard to believe. That which you project and that which you reflect I now truly perceive. The filth you excrete, sickens me like nothing else. As you walk away, and the distance between what we once knew increases, I find solace in the simple fact that I know...I feel...truth. Youʼre walking a suicide mile with destiny. And me...Iʼm five steps away from forever.
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My Own Invention
04:48
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Twisting path and rolling hills, imprisoned by thy selfish will, this wonderment suffocates me. Twisting path and rolling hills, I doubt virtues you instill, this wonderment suffocates me. Twisting path and rolling hills, secrets told while truths lie still, this wonderment suffocates me. Through my eyes, I have seen majestic ends justify poverished means. You exemplify preconceived connotations, I symbolize eminent transformation. Contrive your obscure repetition. Conceive my ascension from self-ambition. Twisting path and rolling hills, impossive petulance it kills, this wonderment suffocates me. Twisting path and rolling hills, your vassal shell cannot fulfill, this wonderment liberates me. The time has come now child, there is no turning back. Succeed to yourself, transcend reflections mirrored in those eyes of glass. RISE!
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Identity...expression for me, my inner sanctum. No compromise, spiritual inspiration is not assigned by the masses. Iʼm offered answers to questions I have never asked, Iʼm given solutions to problems I never saw as present. As I falsify your lies, that were promoted as truths, I donʼt want whatʼs true, I want whatʼs real. You give to me that which can never be, you tell me to reach for tangible goals in an incoherent world. Reflect upon a mirror of broken glass, look upon things not for what they appear to be...but for what they are. (repeat) You cannot judge what you cannot see, hear, or feel. You have judged me evil as I hover in my apparitional state. But when we gaze into each otherʼs hazed eyes, which of us really sees the other?
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Pulp
04:09
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Light is unleashed, let it burn the flesh of those who disbelieve. Hear the thunder roll, see the mountains fall...wait for judgement to fall on you. Mercy dissipates, anger overtakes. The light surrounds, it saturates the darkness that you bleed. You cannot pacify the purifying sapient one. I ascend above your remains...light unleashed. You descend unearthly plains...light unleashed. Seething anger fills his veins...light unleashed. I revel in your pain...light unleashed. Light is unleashed, let it scorch a path to the spiritually divine. Now I tread the pummeled bones, that lie dormant, bleached by the light. Mercy dissipates, anger overtakes. They once were you, all you stood for, all you let yourself be. Now they fade, I lift, sovereign is the light. I ascend above your remains...light unleashed. You descend unearthly plains...light unleashed. Seething anger fills his veins...light unleashed. I revel in your pain...light unleashed.
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I cannot sacrifice, this gift youʼve given me. All else just disappears, itʼs all that I can see. Sweet laughter beckons me, it heals all that surrounds. Baptize me with your touch, this gift that I have found. It is in you that I see...all that I could ever need...all that I could become. Close my eyes...see her smile...all my pain...fades to grey. Soft kisses penetrate me, without a touch from her lips. Shining eyes speak volumes, without an uttered sound. Her smile overtakes me, silhouettes all my fears. All doubt of divine existence, washed away by joyful tears. It is in you that I see...all that I could ever need...all that I could become. Close my eyes...see her smile...all my pain... fades to grey. Now I have something to give. Youʼve shown me all I have to give. Now I have something to give. Weʼve become all I have to give.
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I refuse to drown in this sea of hate that continues to engulf our earth. I believe in the right to speak your mind no matter my opinion on your fuckinʼ words worth. Take a look around and see the people everywhere being judged upon the color of their skin and the length of their hair. You choose to degrade othersʻ lives, their religion, gender, and race. I can deal with your words but your actions go too far. Itʼs infringement of rights, get the fuck out of my face. (bridge) Youʼre not a GOD. Freedom of speech can be a catalystic tool in the hands of evil, ignorant, minds. If you were the GOD you think you are, I wouldnʼt want to be a part of your mankind. (bridge) (chorus) I fight because of my anger, you fight because of your fucked up pride. If your ignorance is your defense, itʼs your fuckinʼ kind that I despise.
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Jabberwocky
05:24
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It feeds off fear, our souls its prey. Black eyes burn through the path it takes. Soft pulse...soft gaze...am I too late? Project...protect... absorb...create. Lost within my own identity. Shadows converge shedding light beyond eternity. Shed that grin from your featureless face. This tongue now speaks your language. And what I now taste is bitter...lifeless blood. Tempting demise. Hollow in its guise. Its appearance lies. Vindication arise. Ludic luster, transcend the flame. Consume, exile, sever the hate. Acrid blood flow exudes coarse veins. Confront...surpass...absorb...create.
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Prelude To Forever
07:45
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Innocence of a child...child of the pure, unclouded brow. Seeking answers...reciting wonder...apprehension declines from this looking glass house. Projected secrets...so familiar...calling me...behold the ecstasy. Riddled perception...riddled perception...as their game unfolds from my looking glass house. Majestic blade severs time. As forever is cast through eternal eyes. Majestic blade resonates time. Premonition transpires. Behold...the wonder. Soul torn...asunder. Majestic blade, sanctioned sign. Regressive progression obliged. Behold...the wonder. Soul torn...asunder. Conform and mimic me. Obey and mimic me. Affirm and mimic me. Consent and mimic me. Accept and mimic me. Submit and mimic me. Comply and mimic me. Do my eyes reflect the things I must protect...and will my soul neglect the strength I must project?
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Fulfillment
04:38
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And so...itʼs come to this, wrought with the anguish. Consumed by spite, morphing towards what I despise. And yet, things continue on, construe my spite to suit me. I see the world through hardened eyes, set free my past, (for) tomorrow never dies. And so, I reach towards hope once more and yesterday fades away, and I set myself free...again. Fall down, rise again. Cast shame, shed this skin. Enlighten me with the power to succeed, help me wash away the impurities that shame me. True strength comes from the empowerment of self-fulfillment, and self-fulfillment is only achieved by those who shed bear shame.
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My Laceration
03:29
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Cast among the waves, you reach for me. A familiar hand of strength and guidance, I must push away. As the sky above me grows dark, I am paralyzed by pride. I struggle with my own freedom, as the oceans waves encompass whatʼs ahead. Cast among the waves, you reach for me. A familiar hand of strength and guidance, I must push away. And now I drift, I have cut the cord. Chaos drives me forward, blind into dismay. Now I rely on whatʼs inside.
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We Just Might
01:44
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Impenetrability
03:50
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Pedant...Godhead...affix...madness. Immune me from all I see. Secure me in all I see. Pedant...Godhead...affix...madness. Immune me from all I see. Secure me in all I see. Cleave through numb proof. Consume vile truth. You immune me from all I see. You secure me in all I see. Sedate my ego. Impune my virtue.
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Decadence surrounds me, but I will not submit. I watch subservient demons suck individuality away by the ounce. Life burns, I watch it disappear in trails of blackening smoke. Life drowns, I watch it sink in pools of hell spawned blood. What lies ahead for our children but hazed discord? How can they be taught to love their neighbors by those who donʼt love themselves? Divest your entity. Now you make love to four inches of plastic every day, where did it start where will it end? Youʼve become a lustful slave to a being that survives as a parasite of weak wills. Break those chains of pressure and transcend the cold darkness. Drift free with me now my bloodied wounds have healed. Just my heart bleeds for you, crucified to the “x”. What lies ahead for our children but hazed discord? How can they be taught to love their neighbors by those who donʼt love themselves? Divest your entity. I will not now, and never fucking will, divest my entity.
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Angel
04:01
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Iʼm twisted into a knot that only you can unwind. Untangle me so that I may prepare to be twisted back again. I crave your caressing touch, I crave your loving eyes. I crave your enveloping arms, as
Iʼm crushed the pain overtakes me. (Resurrect me...Reincarnate me) Thoughts of you fill my mind to the point of emptiness, I hear your voice, sweet sounds...but sounds are battles on the surface of silence, and silent are my screams to you as you burn me. Iʼm left mummified in ice, please comfort me again. Grab my hand, pull me close, and together weʼll fly away. Your branding words of devotion and love, forge the blade i use to cut myself, watch me die. I wither into nothingness. But with one sweet word, one touch, one kiss, you bring me back to life. (chorus) Without the pain there would be no pleasure, without the sorrow there would be no joy.
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AFTeRSHOCK Massachusetts
AFTeRSHOCK was at the forefront of the New England metalcore evolution that birthed future giants of the genre. It was an amazing scene and movement to be part of. Although AFTeRSHOCK never toured outside of New England during their lifetime, they were fortunate enough to do a reunion tour of Japan in 2001. ... more
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