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Swimming in Sorrow
05:30
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Intro
00:00 to 00:17 (Ominous Intro)
Her demise cannot be…
Destined to eternal misery…
I await the end of days…
00:18 to 01:10 Verse I
Born worlds apart,
The wildest dreams,
Didn't hint this union,
Out on a hunt one dark night,
Our fiery eyes met in malice,
Fiendish stares turned to snarls,
A courting of primordial order,
A bloody brawl kindled passions fast,
Our match made in dim starlight,
An omen of death we looked past,
1:11 to 1:40 Verse I Solo
A thousand moons,
Spied us together,
I was the wind fanning your fire,
You burned so bright, spun so fast,
Even time was frozen in its tracks,
1:41 to 2:36 Verse II
Thinking back, I fall into the void,
The beast in me turned to stone,
Hardest black diamond, you'll ever know!
Lost to the abyssal depths unknown,
The scourge of rot, origin unknown,
Made its way eating through our bond,
One last fight I walked away from,
Turned to see you shriveling up,
2:37 to 3:02 Verse II Solo
All my muscles, all the bravado,
Gave way to see you whimper,
In my ARMS, you breathed your LAST!
Your last, last WHISPER! "DON'T LET GO…"
3:03. to 3:58 Breakdown
No, no, no, no, no… (match "no" count by guitar sustain note count)
Tender tears boiled on my cheeks,
As I resolve to thrive on in your name,
My love through hate, WILL PREVAIL!!!
3:59 to 5:21 Final Verse (endless suffering)
Every last crevice, every last spotlight,
Every left shadow…
I will live to avenge your DEMISE, my sweet,
Your name will echo among the stars,
Till the end of time and beyond,
My love will swim through this sorrow,
Feed more, do more, kill more,
Most of all, remember you ever more!
A goddess slain to return someday.
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2. |
Blood Dance
04:06
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Lock me up,
Take away my rights.
Sell my soul,
For the ultimate fight.
Gotta kill 'em all,
Gonna cut me loose.
Freedom isn't free,
And murder gets me juiced.
Wreck their skulls
With a bullet to the brain.
Slash their throats,
Just to see the blood rain.
(Blood rain)
Job ain’t done,
'til the last man is dead.
Sharpen up my axe,
Then it’s off with his head.
It’s just evil versus evil,
So, I do what I do best.
I feel no shame or pity,
Slaughtering the rest.
Slaughtering the rest.
Slaughtering the rest.
Slaughtering the rest.
Now you’ve opened up the door,
And I cannot be contained.
Decimate the city,
Blinded by my rage.
Can’t you hear the call?
I must end it all.
Can’t you hear the call?
(I must end it all)
Never going to stop,
'til there’s no one left to kill.
Globalized genocide,
That’s how I get my thrills.
*Gotta kill 'em all,
Gonna cut me loose.
Freedom isn't free,
And murder gets me juiced.
*Wreck their skulls
With a bullet to the brain.
Slash their throats,
Just to see the blood rain.
(Blood rain)
There can be no peace and quiet,
Just screams of pain and fear.
Embrace the coming darkness,
And know the end is near.
Surround myself with corpses,
The stench of rotting flesh.
Behold the sound of silence,
Emptiness and death.
Emptiness and death.
Emptiness and death.
Emptiness and death.
Murder
Murder
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3. |
Amen's Disgrace
01:46
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4. |
Hooked in the Head
04:53
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Unspoken terror among legends,
Armed by paranoia, gorging on fear,
Foregoing of spiteful souls,
Souls slain, condemned evermore…
Prowling the shadows on lonely nights,
On the lookout for meat to slice,
Petrified in fear, they lose their lives,
As lustful thoughts garnish their flesh,
Hooked in the head they twitch,
A white-eyed smirk glows,
Drained beyond kashrut,
Bewitched and boisterous,
Foolish freshmen bet their lives,
Loaded their guns, gulping Jagers,
Basted in salted, marinated within,
Hooked in the head and hunted,
Sobered and lucid while deveined,
Cardiac arrest avoided,
Yearning for death, told "No",
No, no, no, no, no….. (adjust "no" count)
Vivisected and decorated with care,
Mounted exhibits they succumbed,
Hooked in the Head,
They sing hymns in praise,
The stars line up in synchrony,
A God of death will soon be.
Unsated it beckons aloud,
It's echos and shrill kindle,
Fatal curiosity....
Morgues overflow, the law takes notice,
Piles of bones act as sigils,
Inspiring morbid vigils,
Autographs of the murmur.
Spellbound and petrified they stand,
Chants are over it is time to kneel,
The ultimate offering as trumpets blow,
Hordes of follower's hail and pale,
As blackness billows around their veils,
The Murmur ascends as the god to fear!
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5. |
Dead Humans
03:04
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(00:18)
He’s in a daze.
His mind has strayed.
He’s lost in a maze.
And the only way out
Is to destroy and set this.
Fucking place ablaze.
(00:35)
Run!
You don’t know what to do.
He’s coming after you.
People scatter to hide.
While the mad man
Is here to take lives.
(00:53)
Dead Humans!!!
(00:58)
The bodies pile up.
One after another
His motions abrupt.
Acts of strife from the evildoer
Nobody can stop him.
The rampant executioner.
(SOLO)
(01:22)
Is about to take another life.
The human exterminator.
(01:47)
Time has frozen.
And it is by determination.
The chainsaw strikes.
A moment of silence
As it descends
Towards the victim.
(02:02)
This is power,
This is totalitarianism.
A strike back to the forces at be.
The room is painted red.
A fresh smell of the dead
Bodies everywhere.
(02:18)
His victims, unwilling
This is the murder, extraordinaire.
(02:26)
Run!
You don’t know what to do.
He’s coming after you.
People scatter to hide.
While the mad man
Is here to take lives.
(02:49)
The sweet smell of flesh
A consequence of unrest
He starts to devour.
The body still twitching.
The cold-blooded killer
Loves to overpower.
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True Shame
04:15
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My mind cannot contain it,
Life lost in misery.
Feel myself start to spiral,
Submerged in agony.
Nowhere to vent frustration,
No place to bear my soul.
Withdrawing into darkness,
Nothing to make me whole.
Inside it starts to fester,
Ideas that never cease.
No more pain or anguish,
Lost in eternal sleep.
(PART 2)
Some people call it courage,
Perhaps a craven act.
To seek the final answer,
There is no turning back.
A final end to suffering,
A swift and painless death.
Mind clear of all the madness,
As I draw my last breath.
Death lingers oh so close.
Erasing all I loathe.
"No more pain or anguish,
Lost in eternal sleep." - (Had to repeat this verse to fill an empty space)
(BLAST BEAT)
It shapes me, this feeling.
Falling through the light.
Evaporate to nothing,
Preserved in electric life.
(MELODIC PART) -
Machines maintain my body,
Leaving my mind to rot.
Tortured by existence,
And by conscious thought.
Scream and beg for mercy,
Locked in I cannot see.
Trapped by my own failures,
Nowhere left to flee.
Hearing voices now,
They speak of God above.
This is what I want,
Let me die.
There is no greater wisdom,
In the stars above.
There are no simple answers,
For a life devoid of love.
What gives you the right,
To decide my fate?
Please just make the call,
Allow me to escape!
I must escape.
Open the gate.
I must escape.
Open the gate...
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Bastard of Bethlehem Colorado
Lance Lickteig:
Drums/vocals
Dru Majors:
Guitars/bass
EST. 2021
Colorado, USA
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