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Sickening Annihilation
05:41
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Born into a terrifying world
A crushing fear your adversary
Annihilation the constant in your life
Subjugated, devastated by your vulnerability
Torn from your makeshift sanctuary
To witness cracking earth and burning skies
A cataclysm you would never have believed
Running blind, petrified, disintegrating mentally
A city on its knees
Ravaged by death and disease
Darkness enveloping them all
They fall To a hopeless Genocide
The sky, an inferno
Death raining down on the innocent
No refuge from an overwhelming evil
That absolutely will not stop
Desperation, Sorrow and despair
But how many of us really care?
We galvanize while we prevaricate
A pageant of barbarity and hate
Sickening Annihilation
Still the atrocities go on
An incomprehensible malevolence
The dead will have no voice and the living fear to dream
And the genocide machine maintains its murderous regime
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2. |
Statistical Apocalypse
07:17
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Fear Calculated
Distilled to broadcastable fact
Death Analyzed
To the point where natural cause
Is a thing of the past
Contradicting opinions deceive
What narrative are we safe to believe?
Chaos Decoded
Into concrete digestible rules
Faith Redundant
Our new god statistical tools
Scientific conjecture controlling our lives
Determining when we will live and will die
Traditional wisdom
Out of its time
Evolving our knowledge
A new paradigm
freedom to live
has been eclipsed
By a Statistical apocalypse
Deceptive Routine
We are fed what we want to believe
Conceding So easy
We don’t question the things we perceive
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3. |
Self Centered Reality
04:42
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How You live
Reflects your understanding
Of the world
And those who surround you
Distorting
Your perceptions of how
People should
Relate to one another
Slave to
An endless tirade of Banality
A contest of ones Popularity
Pull yourself free of this Travesty
Of personal expression
A Self Centred Reality
Free your mind
Of this corruption
Your very own
Personal tyrant
Take time
To appreciate the world
Around you
Build relationships
On solid ground
That transcend transitory
Empathy
And stay with you forever
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4. |
Inconvenient Truth
04:22
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Feeding on technology
Ruling every facet of our lives
Relentless advancement the seed of discontent
Not knowing what it is to be deprived
An epidemic form
Where consuming is the norm
Programmed to ignore
The inconvenient truth
Mountains of discarded
Products of our convenience
Oceans of waste
Beauty defaced
Humanity ignoring consequence
An epidemic form
Where consuming is the norm
Programmed to ignore
The inconvenient truth
This planet was not intended to sustain
These levels of irresponsible waste
Every day we hide behind routine and history
To justify the gradual, relentless suffocation of our earth
An epidemic form
Where consuming is the norm
Programmed to ignore
The inconvenient truth
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The Worst of all Scum
06:54
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Years of sacrifice
To build an honest regime
Developing infrastructure
An ideal a proportionate dream
Steeped in history
An establishment we should not resent
A political Institution
There to serve those it represents
You belittle
Your predecessors
And the things they worked hard to achieve
Your behaviour
A travesty
You mock, insult and deceive
Steeped In arrogance
The rhetoric
That spews from your mind
Infantile Ill informed
Like the Politics you hide behind
Integrity
Is the important word
We expect sincerity
Or haven’t you heard?
Your mandate was
Built on Trust
Just Remember
You serve us
Power Misplaced
When all is said and done
You are the worst of all scum
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6. |
Ionosphere
05:32
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7. |
Pacification Machine
05:40
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Existing in
A complicated world
the weight of expectation
Bearing down on you
Avoiding confrontation
Never working face to face
its no surprise you break eas y
And cannot find your place
In this world
In this world
Expecting
others
To regulate your life
Absolve
Yourself of all responsibility
If things go wrong
Its not your problem
And it cannot be your fault
Peeling back the film
exposing your fragility
The damage unseen
Through placation we’ve distorted your beliefs
So confident and yet so weak
We build We feed
The Pacification Machine
Your ethics
Your ideals
Amongst your many fallacies
Its time to join the real world
And real life
How will you live
when you are finally on your own?
Discard these myriad excuses that you hide behind
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8. |
Catastrophic Uniformity
04:14
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Endless repetition
Of meaningless interactions
Hyperbolic normalisation
Intellectual limitation
Global veneration
Cult of personality
Inconceivable
Mass conditioning
Planetary stupidity
Relentless information feeds
We are slaves to the machine
Catastrophic uniformity
Erodes identity
Consuming, overloading
Indiscriminate gluttony
Unquestioning, devolution
Retrogressive tendencies
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9. |
Nature Imperfect
05:23
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Nature
In its most complex form
Threads
Of pulsing information
Microscopic
Interruptions to this precious code
Causing
Genetic mutation
Living
Breathing
Existing in a broken shell
Nature
Imperfect
Caught between a life and living hell
Contorting
The body and the mind
Pain
A permanent reality
Labyrinthine
Anguish in a maleficient form
Torture
Accomplished genetically
Living
Breathing
Existing in a broken shell
Nature
Imperfect
Caught between a life and living hell
Organic barriers
are torn
Flawed perfection
Twisted forms
Corrupted sequence
Chaos reigns
A natural law
So inhumane
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Terrible Claw UK
A group of old, long time death metal fans writing and playing our own fusion of all the songs we loved as
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Paul Harrington - Guitar
Aleem Raza - guitar
Stuart Pendergast - drums
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