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Heathen
04:53
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Heathen
Waking to a nightmare, see them asleep in time
All eyes on you, all eyes are blind
Shifted blame, the slate wiped clean
Every word a fucking lie
Leaving us a future thrown to the sky
Tell me what to believe
Tell me what to see
Tell me now so I can be
Devout in the eyes of the savior
Without judgement again
Pathetic, blind sheep men
Bring them their tortured end
Greasy palms, empty eyes
Serpents tongue sheepskin disguise
Leeches on our side
Brainwashed children of brainwashed children
Your minds are sour ground
Indoctrinate, proliferate with rhetoric so profound
With pride I stand on my own
But I don't stand alone
All I know, all I see
Held at arms length
The power of belief
The wolf is at your door
Wanting more, wanting more
Don't break, you can never break
Don't turn your eyes, see it straight
Convince you to kill, surrender your will
Now shed your blood for what's real
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2. |
From Eden to Ash
03:53
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From Eden to Ash
Moving to fast to see the sign
As locusts swarm and darken the sky
Monuments weeping tears of stone
In our final hours we are left alone
Black heart bastard committing legal crime
Profit margin turning green to grime
Death now creeps in our veins
The winds that howl through radiation trees
Look forward and never look back
Watch as it falls, we turned Eden to ash
We should have known none of this would last
The curtain falls on mankind's final act
Let the dollar eclipse the sun
In twilight we are left to run
Destroy creation with a simple mindset
Sinking as low as it gets
Living through the new dark ages
All our lives locked in cages
Now let fear grip your spine
See what's coming with eyes wide
Hear them howling, the dogs of war
Always so hungry never knowing what it's for
Two steps forward, one step back
A blackened future comes to pass
Revelation falls from the sky
No time left to ask why
Shadows moving in the fog
What is now will soon be gone
We all wear the mark of cain
Share the blame and fade away
Drown together, down forever
In a sea of blood
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3. |
Blind Nation
05:32
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Blind Nation
This weight cannot be carried by one man alone
With our lives directed by self righteous fools
It's always coming back around
No higher entitles, no law handed down
When the wolves have circled and the herd won't move
An example of blood must be made
Have it shown for the cowards above
Kill your congressman
This weight cannot be carried by one man alone
With our lives directed by self righteous fools
It's always coming back around
Disinformation, force fed lies, far past the time to rise
Between the lines you'll find their meaning
Pull the blade on a blind nation
I step back and watch from the outside
Anger and shame
Cover my eyes
The thrall of distraction
The media is government extension
Open your fucking eyes
The empty lull, the painful wait
Scent of a changing season
It's a battle born from desperate reason
Rise and burn everything, the night will glow with flame
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4. |
Bloodgutter
04:45
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Bloodgutter
Separate by race, faith and class
Keep the fires burning, relive the violence of the past
Pit man against his brother, turn one against another
The tension grows
An infected wound
Bone grinds against bone
As the eyes all close
Bloodgutter
Now tell me, what do you see?
Tell it to to me, are you free?
Once again they were let in
And the people turned their heads
A mind held in a vice
Tightened by hands hidden in plain sight
Led to the end by a failed ideology
Fighting a war no one can win
Ignorance built to last
The future screams from the past
Empty whispers of revolution
Hollow words did not bring change
Promise failing to the pressure unyielding
You dance like puppets on a string
Servants of the cause, elimination of the law
They came, they saw, they took it all
Not right, not wrong, all judgement gone
The cost we only count after we felt the loss
Do you know pain?
Or would throw it all away?
Watch as it grows
Eyes wide with fear
As we're slowly drained
Of everything
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5. |
We Carry Our Dead
05:20
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We Carry Our Dead
One more time I'll cross the line
And step into the unknown
Spirit by my side, my light, my guide
Voices from the divide, the ghosts in my mind
So lay me low and let me be
The lost, the forgotten in faded white linen
Hold back tomorrow
Forever the greater of pains
The loss without gain
In fever we dream
In the night we are alright
Walking a path none would follow
As the serpent watches from shadow
The memory that stains our days
The misery that never fades
Baring the weight of ages in the service of sorrow
By degrees we regain
Taking back but then it's never the same
So move on down the road
Weary to the bone
One by one the colors fade into a gray insane
The fist once clenched now relents
The fire fades as I repent
As revelation shines bright
I'm terrified
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6. |
By Initiate, By Rite
02:50
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By Initiate, By Rite
Watch it all from under the hood
Dust in the rays through stained window pane
Moving through centuries, sideways to the top
Carry the arcane and all that you forgot
Undone by all of us
Whispered in shadow, hunted down in light
Spoken so hallowed, by initiate by rite
Human ouroboros
Infecting with corruption, living to destroy
As we were, without form and void
Moving slow but gaining fast
In a world of cobwebs and ash
Power within, invert the will, collector of debt, insurrection and sin
Beyond human, sun after sun, a scorched land between the ages
What its become cant be undone, death saves none, the sacrifice
Barring the weight, beyond the gate, carry the message, apostate
Breath deep, hold tight
Bleed out into the howling night
Lay in wait for the coming dawn
And rise now by the light of the morning star
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7. |
Virus
06:00
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Virus
Drifting, seething, rising from beatings
Could be the end we're always seeing
Damned from the start, hatred choking all our hearts
Numb to understanding, reason left us far behind
Craving isolation, feel yourself going blind
See without seeing, think without thinking
Waiting for a savior, someone to set you free
Speak the word, make me believe
Before the hallowed on bended knee
Deaf to the common language, rejected before the fact
Everything that they've taken you'll never get back
It's getting colder here, the walls are closing in
Bodies on the t.v. screen, the virus under your skin
See without seeing, think without thinking
Good enough to teach, good enough to reach for
But always just outside
Nerves shaking, shocked to the core
Fixed stare of death, the marching hordes
Bones stabbing out from skin, now the message comes again
Living sorrow, evil words
Scream with a whisper, live in dread
Hunter of the mind
Harvester of soul
Reaching out from shadow
Bring the blood freezing cold
Do you see your bright future?
Carried on servant wings
The new world waiting will eat your dreams
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8. |
Sundowner
03:55
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Sundowner
Waking to unrelenting hatred, sickness with every breath
Drag along with the herding masses, to the rhythm of the deaf
Dead leaves cover your heart and give you strength to bleed
Reach for the bootstrap and crawl back to your knees
The witching hour, demon delirium, I've got the cold sweat blues
Moonlight through open windows, shadows accuse the fool
There is no cycle breaking, there is no guiding light
Left slumped, twisted and poisoned
Tripping with no end in sight
There is no reason, don't ask why
Haunted retrospection, from visions I cant hide
The rising tide
Dreaming of cold hands reaching, blindly searching
To find your throat and exact their price at last
Dead leaves cover your heart and give you strength to bleed
Reach for the bootstrap and crawl back to your knees
And out beneath the pines mother is crying in her grave
The glass is full again and its only you to blame
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9. |
Hostis Humani Generis
03:12
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Hostis Humani Generis
Black rot vein burst in bliss
A stare lit with revenge
Sweating visions, final ride into sonic suicide
Everything that matters is here
Wasted space
Bleed yourself to separate
Crawling back to start, the weary children
Ask for something or nothing
The candle in the skull burns low
Worms in the mind, fire in the sky
Death on the wind, giants among men
Obscured forever
Secular devotion leveled the age
The mist and the maze
Twist your heart for all it's worth
Make it hurt, now make it hurt
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10. |
Full and By
11:37
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Full and By
Obey the call from shaded places
You can absolve what you were
The silence is long but can be ended
With the yield to desire
At the edge of none, in the heart of one
Drowning
All forgotten, all betrayed by me
Without this pain you never see
The haunted that waits inside
Watching behind my eyes
The desert sun, skulls in piles
Wander alone, dragged for miles
Now follow me, I will set you free
What I can give, what lies beneath
I'll tell you once, the most you could lose
Is everything
I can't carry this weight alone
It's always coming back around
The fire comes, then you see
The rise and fall, is it you or me?
Face the reflection, occupied destruction
In the cold, vivisected soul
Hear the thunder, split the sky
Carry on now, full and by
Endless abandon to the last emotion
Regression
New resolution to leave it be
The future seed
I can't carry this weight alone
It's always coming back around
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Proprietors of Pure Virginia Metal. Croatoan hails from Falls Church, Virginia delivering a unique, punishing brand of speed, thrash, and groove. Taking their name from the oldest piece of American history and the folklore that has developed around it, the band prides itself on bringing their venomous message to anyone who stands in their path. RAISE THE BLACK FLAG. ... more
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