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War Machine Crimson
06:22
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Painted Faces
08:48
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Row the antagonist far away
Heap him up with chains
Wooden priests sit in the boxes
Inside they’re all the same
Shining eyes and painted faces
Your life is like a house of cards
Mine is like a river
Blindsided by a vision
Light shines through your soul like a dagger
Shining eyes and painted faces
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3. |
Blue Alley Filth
03:23
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Blonde hair in the bathroom sink
Switchblade in his hand
He was slack-jawed, like a cynic
Spit into the fan
Drove out to the highway
Benjamins in the bag
Pedal down, he drives away
They’re blowin right out the back
Pulled into a gas station
Snuffed the counter man with a chain
For a carton of smokes and a fifth of whiskey
Fire and gasoline
Made out for California
A lesser man fall from grace
Lit up on caledonia
Everything laid to waste
Hungry for the Leech oblivion
Or just a taste
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4. |
Trickle of the Snail
04:42
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A final reservation
To find some peace
The covenant is broken
The answer lies beneath
Puzzled, fears winding
The water hits your neck
Crawling through the kitchen
Entering the End
The terminus of madness
The vestiges of self
Turning to white and gold
The hammer finds the nail
Fearful adulation
A temporary shell
Is this the life you leave behind?
Is this the life you failed?
A deity forsaken
The passenger, he bailed
The mailbox still lies empty
The trickle of the snail
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5. |
Dark Passages
05:55
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One more stands his ground
Soldiers left behind
Wise men come and go
Wise men tell you, “No.
You can’t hide.
You can’t flee.
You must go underneath.”
Ships they sail for shore
Crashing waves of war
Wise men come again
Wise men tell you when
“Can’t you summon
cursed covens?
Won’t you call them?
Won’t you call?”
The raven comes just before the flood
Raven comes, bearing signs of blood
And the rain comes down on the lower plain
The rain comes down, seeking life to drain
Reawakened
Spirits breathe
With marks they once called
The Number of the Beast
The raven comes
The Watcher weeps
The raven comes
The soldiers sleep
The raven sees the presence take them
The yellow night
The darkness feeds again
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6. |
Ice & Haze
07:00
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Symmetrical
Silent inside
Heeding their call
They put their finger in your chest
Valley of the memory
Valley of the dead
They found the color of
Stark remains, impassioned
Not far from the hall
Now the tombs are empty
Now they walk alone
Hampered by the sadness
Listening for the call
Valley of the memory
Valley of the dead
They put their finger in your chest
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7. |
Heathens
05:36
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Heathens - in this town
Gotta round em up
Gotta burn em out
Heathens - in this town
Preacher - he gonna talk em down
Preacher - he gonna bring em round
Gonna lift em up
Gonna walk em out
Preacher - he gonna talk em down
Out in the darkness
The streets have a power that they harness
B-roll, control
Choke through the mist
The bullet or the fist
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8. |
Dawn of the Monolith
05:34
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Shadow leads to darkness
Wickedness to grief
Water finds a way in
Saturates the weak
Do we subsist hiding from
the essence of the thief?
Trembling under cover
We leave the past to sleep
Poison from a viper
Doesn’t need deceit
Searching for a target
The tenderness of meat
Drift beyond the treeline
Waiting just behind
Watching from the willows
Enemies you’ll find
Shadow leads to darkness
Wickedness to grief
Water finds a way in
Saturates the weak
Quietus upon you
Night consumes the day
Begging for forgiveness
On your knees you’ll pray
Ominus, respitus, talonit, vey
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