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Intro
03:01
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Possibilities infinite, so much on my mind.
A world so vast grows smaller every day.
So many individuals, but we're all the same.
Time fails to cease, but ours is running out.
This 'gift' of free will seems more like a test that we are failing.
This paradox of my existence relentless in it's mystery.
There are no answers, only countless impossible questions.
The meaning of life has no meaning at all.
To exist in this ocean of reality is to drown in perception's illusion.
Life's cruel joke is death, and the inescapable inevitability that is
to be pondered and obsessed upon until it's arrival.
Death is known to all but at the same time unexpected to all.
To be self aware is to be oblivious to the true beauty of the universe.
Ignorance and separation spawned by the ego is the rust of self awareness.
To be completely one with the universe is not to know everything,
but it is to be completely unaware of anything.
Knowledge, gained by existence within this illusion of ego, clouds our true intelligence.
Because this infant universe within a universe is the cancer of our very soul.
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2. |
Raining Dead Crows
05:12
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I feel something warm
In this blizzard of cold
Fear is no option now,
I have to be bold.
There is no going back
I'm going all out
Don't know what I'm cutting
release is what it's about
(Chorus)
I look around feeling lost and empty
Like the crow in my dream
Flung away like a piece of rubbish
Like the crow hear my scream
My breath starts to weaken
The warmth leaves my cheeks
My eyes start to flutter
I can't feel my feet.
I fall to the ground
It's getting harder to breathe
I see an endless darkness
It's my time to leave...
(Chorus)
I look around feeling lost and empty
Like the crow in my dream
Flung away like a piece of rubbish
Like the crow hear my scream
Life is questions without answers
I'm losing site of the point here
I keep reaching out for something
I'm losing time but I have no fear
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3. |
A Haunting Ghost
04:24
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How can you feel awake once you open your eyes,
When prospect of a new day presents nothing but despise?
How do you mourn the passing of a future long lost,
When every hate of your being resists it at all cost?
How do you know the heart beats beneath your chest,
When memories of it beating seem but a foreign jest?
How can you let go of the only shrine of light,
When absent its crystal touch you lose all sight?
(Chorus)
Why is the only thing bearing meaning in your life
Everyday is exactly the same
And why does each day carry yet more strife,
My only feeling is an emptiness that I cannot shake
A haunting ghost that I cannot escape
How can you regret a day not yet started,
When awoken with health and vigor not yet parted?
How do you escape the haunting silence of night,
When yet you have not a single friend to invite?
How do you heal scars within the heart,
When there are no more chances for a fresh start?
How can you forgive what you cannot forget,
When the soul yet aches of regret?
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4. |
You Made Me Cry
04:32
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The act of loving one
Of which you've dreamt
Who brings none
No heaven, moon, or sun
Nor crumbs from...
In your bed, you wonder
Where they've slept
What is real when all is smoke
Trying so hard not to choke.
What's true is the oppression
Am I real you question...
(Chorus)
Wipe away tears you made me cry
The scars you dealt during me high
Back down to earth, we love again
Until the urge comes back times ten
In our tongues, we hold life and death
And we've used the both to resurrect
Pushes us to higher ground
While we're going down
Who causes the other to wane?
recoil back as though in pain
What is real when all is smoke
Trying so hard not to choke.
What's true is the oppression
Am I real you question...
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5. |
The Lone Tree
06:05
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I am the lone tree
Blood red leaf in a sea of green
Ebon stone in a pool of grey
Emblazoned streak at day's end
I am the blood in the street
Pumped my patterned legs
To be under the wheel
Born to hurt,
To be hurt in turn
Born with questions
Too towering to summon
(Chorus)
Sometimes I close my eyes
And the darkness is all I see
But should they step beyond the veil
Nothing stays, nothing stays the same
As I fly through the black sky
There's nowhere I can go
No open arms to hold me
And no one that I know
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6. |
Cruel Fate
05:40
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Words like knives, cutting through my mind with the agony of my eyes
Who we are? not just vagrants looking for answers...
Ruined from the start, constantly in crisis and even though we're falling apart
Like a cloud, separate but indivisible as a shroud
(Chorus)
I don't know who I am anymore
I look around at all these locked doors
Fearing there is no way to escape
Why was I delete this cruel fate?
Trying to explain, from this life I shall not stay..
I'm not insane, working on what little hope and screaming in pain.
All these mistakes, yeah I'm aware they're all my fault.
Too many lies, but from those we all are taught.
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7. |
Stained In Red
09:54
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Wasted, broken, scarred and battered
The mirror before me has been shattered
The shards of glass tore up my wrists
And I'm suffering from my fists.
Opened wounds again are bleeding
Much more than last time now I'm needing
But emptied boxes on the floor
Show that my drugs are there no more.
(Chorus)
Once again I bash my head
All I see is stained in red
I'm holding on by a thread so thin
I take the knife and drive it in.
The dagger sinks deep into my side
Remembering the times I cried
I twist it, tear it, stabbing deep
This life I do not wish to keep.
A sharpened knife across my arm
Hoping I can hurt and harm
All of this seems so surreal
I long far pain, it's all I feel.
(Chorus)
Once again I bash my head
All I see is stained in red
I'm holding on by a thread so thin
I take the knife and drive it in.
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8. |
She'll Keep Me Up
04:27
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Lustful nights in strobe lights & ecstasy
Bringing home what's left of me.
Who opened up to me snorting lines & gulping greed.
Another gram
A dirty deed
(Chorus)
No fear, no anger, no sleep tonight!!!
She'll keep me up...wasted!!!
High as a kite in flight
Stuck in a moment of lust galore
'Til the morning as I walk her to the door
Sex, drugs & Rock n roll
Seducing another to feed my soul.
(Chorus)
No fear, no anger, no sleep tonight!!!
She'll keep me up...wasted!!!
High as a kite in flight
Another night a different scene
I'll reel again
Another night a different scene
If you know what I mean
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9. |
Devoid Of Truth
05:36
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Shards of broken dreams
Cast to the winds by indifference
Then buried by the sands of ignorance...
(Chorus)
Devoid Of Truth
Where the lines blur, and the colors fade (x2)
Devoid Of Truth
Where the shadows are white and the stars are black (x2)
Pining for a rapture
Their eyes will never see...
And run my feet through cocaine sands
Until my legs are so numb i can't stand...
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10. |
Tied
06:43
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In difficult times
All hope has strayed away
And all the dreams
Wait to incinerate
Smoke lifted through the skies
Maybe it's all for show
After all, the masquerade is all we know
Hope is what you make
And prosperity is what forsake
The flames burn bright 'til the fuel dies out
Then you're left with nothing but doubt
There will never be enough for all in this world
Some will always suffer the dark and cold
Seems cruel at first but by the time you get old
It becomes clear why this is how it should unfold
In the midst of despair
There is but one tear
But in that light
The shadow is in the right
And left in the dark
Is the man with little spark
Though never quite clear to me
But every bright day it's easier to see
Still in those dark and musing nights
My soul connects to cosmic rites
(Chorus)
Tied in the compromise of paradise...
Liberated by truth of life
Can no longer feel the strife
When I embrace the light
That exists only in my heart and head
No longer about avoiding being dead
So much more to feel with than these limbs
Though never quite clear to me
But every bright day it's easier to see
Still in those dark and musing nights
My soul connects to cosmic rites
(Chorus)
Tied in the compromise of paradise...
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Conduct Of Flies Barcelona, Spain
Conduct Of Flies, from the province of Tarragona, is the Javi Ssagittar's parallel band. Something totally different from the rest of his projects. Influences of Sisters Of Mercy, Alice In Chains, Depeche Mode, Pink Floyd and Faith No More are some of the bands related to taking into account. But identity and personality are more than remarkable in this dark alternative rock adventure. ... more
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