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Intro
00:33
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They say actions speak louder than words
And life’s less hopeless when sang over chords
And it’s been some time since I lost you
No one to get high with and tell secrets to
This ones for the beaten looking for a way
From broken homes to live another day
Boys raised to overlook their pain
Girls not allowed to have their say
Even though now your grasping at straws
Don’t let them crush you with their laws
I don’t care if we’re doomed or what they say
We’re gonna carry on and find our way
It’s hard to fight to world
When you’re all alone
It’s hard to go on when
You’re not sure what is real
Midnight drug confessions and
You dread the coming dawn
Midnght drug confessions and
A thin white line in the dark
A thousand things to say
To the people in my life
Will anybody sing about me
When I die
Make your weakness into armor
Be your own ship leave the harbor
Don’t give in to the weavers of your life
This is for the dreamers with nowhere to lay
For the kids in love, fighting the state
Carrying our burdens causes strain
Don’t be shy to ask for help in pain
There’s bravery in weakness, strength in tears
Thin white lies just veil your fears
Were in this together all alone
I’ll be a shelter to rest your bones
Don’t be fraid to feel
Don’t be fraid to hurt
Don’t be fraid to mourn
Don’t be fraid to be in love
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52 Demons
02:09
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Suppressed lust for power
A little nasty game of hate
Living in denial
Why do I hate the ones I love
And love the ones I lose
A greed driven desire
So I draw a sigil
For every demon in my head
Gimme strength
Or at least come fuck me in my bed
I call upon your higher powers
Sound the final bells
Do I really hate myself
Or everyone else
I got holes in my head
Like the holes in my teeth
I got holes in my head
When I go to sleep
When I go
I got 52 demons when I go to sleep
When I go
I got visions of my death when I go to sleep
Every time Im coming up
The world seems coming down
The Abyss getting closer
Is that the godhead speaking
Or delusions of the ego
The spears are digging deeper
So I draw a sigil
For the Aeon up ahead
Take the pain
Or at least hear out what I said
I call upon your higher powers
Sound the final bells
Do I really hate myself
Or everyone else
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20 Demons
02:32
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I invoke my 20 demons
And leave it all behind
When I saw you dancing in your step
In your hand a bottle of wine
Broken wishes and their lies
I forget them for all time
With a witch and a song by my side
And heaven on my mind
My holy guardian angel
I state my intent clear
Here I am and here I stand
My sun rise, come to me
Living with demons, dancing with angels
I give up all
For the angels in your eyes, your eyes
The tree of life
Youre on my mind
Ill overcome
One day - With you
In a systematic disassembly
Wiping of our minds
We get lost we hide the truth
Thats inside your eyes
A thousand spoken wishes
In the dark and disarray
Looking for the answers
To light my way
But when we step together
In the circle laying forth
Look into the abyss
And embrace the void
We push thru the darkness
We pave our sacred way
Light the flame internal
Till we all fade away
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Southern Story
03:11
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Been on the road for weeks
Barely stood on my feet
Through Philly and Chicago
Running forum the Gainesville heat
Been waiting for a girl
But the girl never came
You worked in a little bar
Not close but not that far
So I sat down to get a drink
Said I got nowhere to go
You gave me a beer and said I stink
Offered your couch at home
So when you roam along an unknown road
And you got nowhere to fucking go
Weirdos find each other along the way
There’s virtue in getting lost
The south has stories to be told
But this one I know I’ll hold
I’ll hold close to my heart
About a hobo and a girl at a bar
So we got drunk and walked thru
The streets of the town
We listened to Blitz records all night
Then we made a trip to New York
Was the time when the Pope was in town
Went to see a friend play a show
Till the whole fucking place burnt down
And sometimes, when you’re feeling lost
A light shines from above
And life’s all right
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Deep Below
02:48
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Enemy of the people you got no one
Controlled by the system who’s time is done
Your insecurity is violence you racist scum
We won’t let you pass
Not talking with fascists the tide has turned
With love compassion the borders burn
All the crimes, blood on your hands
Your victims will remember
The ones who couldn’t speak will now push back
Against your toxic mindset nazi pack
We the downtrodden harness our voice
Hey fascist, we are bound to
Smash the fash
Cause unity is freedom
Your gods are dead
Rotting in the ground
Say smash the fash
Diversity is freedom
Your gods are dead
Rotting deep bellow
Liberty stirs in the womb of time
Your hate wont pass it isn’t mine
When our hearts become one
You are undone
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Broken Shards
04:16
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Hiding behind clouds of smoke
Trying to remember you
Remember the last song I wrote
Under the glow of traffic lights
This city life is killing me
With sleepless nights
Nights without you by my side
I despise my dreams
It’s time I set the record straight
Put the needle on the right track
The pieces back together
Of the record of my life
I love ya I don’t know ya
In my visions you’re my savior
Reflections of your face
In a crown of golden spears
And then I found it all
Within the broken shards I found it all
We sing our own hymns
We chart are own path
And we won’t stop looking
No we won’t stop searching
We make our own gods
We mend our own hearts
And we won’t stop looking
For peace in love
A million thoughts always running thru my mind
Always worried never knowing what I’ll find
For the ghosts of my past chasing me
Eyes wide open but still blind
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Anti-Social Heart
02:46
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Augusts a blessing and a curse
Suffering ends and lifes to start
But lonely souls tear apart
Would you cross half the world
Just to mend a broken heart
And two hands trying to hold
Ill build a refuge in the cold
From Chattanooga to Baltimore
Truck stop nights
Motel mornings
Another forty and bed today
Forget the past and let a greyhound
Take it away
Now I know you played a part
Another anti-social heart
This ones for every lonely fucked up
Another anti-social heart
We build towers to knock them down
And In scared you wont be found
Another anti-social heart
Another anti-social heart
Sleepless snowy summer nights
Cant tell if Im winning or losing a fight
Its last goodbyes and no hellos
Its another highway stop to go
Not knowing where to go
Two hands trying to hold
Ill build a refuge in the cold
From Berlin up to Baltimore
And Ill always keep you in
I will keep you in my heart
I will never let you go
My Anti Social Heart
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White Stains
04:45
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Sweat and spit and swollen sin
Fuck the world and let me in
Burning idols, burning skin
Rise and rule
The velvet sea calls us to lay
Well doom each other for a while
Lay with me in flowers abloom
White stains all over the tomb
White stains on the pastures of pure
We drink from the fountain that will cure
White stains they will set you free
To suffer and to plea
White stains feed on unborn spawn
The moon will ride the sun till dawn
Devour the sinfull holy seed
So life may never reap
Decadence is where we shine
Give me blood or give me wine
Give me power or bring me pain
In heresy I thrive
The world is cruel and life is vain
I wont condemn you to a life of pain
Revel with me in joyful doom
White stains all over the tomb
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Farewell, Goodbye
02:56
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There is a veil, the veil is black
The veil of sorrow, the pull of death
Did you fall, are you sorry
Is there fear in your heart?
Did you have dreams, did they all shatter?
Your hopes have crumbled into dust
Are you alone, are you sick
Did you stray from the path?
Despair not, ignite the flame
The end is a start I invoke your name
Are you lost, or forgotten,
Have you been there from the start?
We had a good run
We had our share of lows and highs
Heres to all the good times
Farewells and goodbyes
The animals and trees
They will reclaim our souls and bodies
They will store our memories
Farewells and goodbyes
And when were all gone
The fog will sing our song
And the bones become stones
Farewells and goodbyes
And in the end, well all say farewell
Well do away with the agony
The spears become keys
When we lay down to sleep
And what of the promise, will I see you again?
I never left I took you with me
Where our hearts become stars
And in the skies we’ll shine
And those, who’ll follow in another times
Will feel the soil and hear our rhymes
And from the dirt a new age
Where our wild children roam
Now you can let go
Of the struggles and the fear
The sorrows are but shadows
And in death we found peace
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The Shifty Grifts Prague, Czechia
Ska-Core, Prague
Risen from the ashes, to fall right back into the gutter.
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