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Dead Or Dying
04:28
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There's only fear when it comes near - For the dog or for the man
It doesn't feel, it doesn't care - So you need to understand
You can't win, you're born to lose - You can't decide and you can't choose
You're just dust, you're lost in space - And in time, you'll be erased
Believe - this now
There is - no escaping
Bow down - let go
You know - what is waiting
There is - one truth
There can be no denying
Your time - will come
You're either dead or dying
They like to say that there's a way - To live on forever more
But this is real and how it feels - Walk through and slam the door
They lay coins upon their eyes - For lost souls to live on
And they can wail, they can cry - But you will just be gone
Try hard - run fast
The pain is all that lasts
Turn left - turn right
Your day will turn to night
They sleep - you weep
The Reaper plays for keeps
Get up - fall down
Six feet - underground
You're all gone - it's coming for you
You're all gone - it's coming for you
You're all gone - it's coming for you
You're all gone - you're all gone
There's nowhere left for us to go - We live on borrowed time
Say goodbye to what you know - You get yours, I get mine
There's no hope for us at all - The sun will never shine
Believe - this now
There is - no escaping
Bow down - let go
You know - what is waiting
There is - one truth
There can be no denying
Your time - will come
You're either dead or dying
You're all gone - it's coming for you
You're all gone - it's coming for you
You're all gone - it's coming for you
You're all gone - you're all gone
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2. |
Show Them Your Power
04:05
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3. |
Lust For Lies
04:56
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I’m the mountain you will defy
Despite resistance you will comply
When the truth is a bitter lie
it’s easiest to tell
I will break you through countless years
Exploit your weakness expose your fears
I show no mercy I shed no tears
nor sympathize
To find one’s solace in an everlasting war
The pain within us must be well worth dying for
When death has given you meaning in life
You feed on malice and endless strife
Long for the chance to twist that knife
The beast within your core
I’m the demon down deep inside
In the shadows of your mind I hide
Lust for misery and suicide
Always knocking at your door
The emptiness will feed on everything within
Consume the will to be and let the end begin
I am your lust for lies
I’m your dark disguise
I’m behind your eyes
World turn black
Foundations crack
No turning back
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5. |
Non Defectum
02:56
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Well, I swallowed my pride;
Decade down on my luck.
I’m on a vendetta: Red robin hood dead ‘em;
“Competitor” - stuck up myself at the register - robbing me - “veteran”
Used to trend set ‘em; Now I just transcend ‘em.
I am a conclusion but I have not ended…
Battery; stuttering, stammering: Non defectum
CHORUS 1
DO NOT FAIL: Non defectum.
I DO NOT FAIL: Follow me.
I
Will say as I
DO
I swear I will
NOT
Faulter or
FAIL
Non Defectum
I
Will say as I
DO
I swear I will
NOT
Faulter or
FAIL
Follow Me
VERSE TWO
We pray to a screen and we worship a phone
To distract from the fact that we’re dying alone…
Wake up
HEY, wake up
HEY, the voice in my head
Said take some offense,
Put your heart in your head,
Make tomorrow non sequitur
Well wishers? Bread winners? Flash in the pan?
BRIDGE
Non defectum. We seize another day.
No question. We seize another day.
Non defectum. Non defectum.
CHORUS 2
DO NOT FAIL: Non defectum.
I DO NOT FAIL: Follow me.
I
Will say as I
DO
I swear I will
NOT
Faulter or
FAIL
Non Defectum
I
Will say as I
DO
I swear I will
NOT
Faulter or
FAIL
Follow Me
OUTRO (CHORUS 3)
DO NOT FAIL: Non defectum.
I DO NOT FAIL: Follow me.
Heart on my sleeve like the sign of the beast.
No longer driven by the money, envy, rat race ending.
Time to live my life.
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6. |
My Veneration
06:31
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Watching her from far away
What could I possibly say?
To entice such a thing
Maybe just sit here and think?
Some other time other place
Shattered I left in disgrace
Heaven forbid such a thing
Hell, would welcome my sin
Veneration
Please let me in
Pardon my sins
Damaged and broken and cut
This time I really fucked up
Worthless and timid and small
After I gave her my all
Some other time other place
Shattered I left in disgrace
Heaven forbid such a thing
Hell, would welcome my sin
My Veneration
My Veneration
Down I go
Lord I know and know how
It is all over right now
Tempted to take my revenge
Received, but she never sent
Me a glimmer of hope
I'm at the end of my rope
Down I go
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7. |
Dead And Gone
03:34
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Saddle up it’s time to fight.
End is coming near.
Now it’s time to pay the price
of all things that I hear
From a one eyed liar and a two-faced punk, gamblin’ your soul
Your mouth bought you a shovel
It’s diggin’ you a hole
Chorus
I’ll be here singing my song
You’re there carrying on
Telling lies all night long
I’ll be here when you’re dead and gone
2
Your death walks right behind you
In the light of the moon
If I never see your cold, dead eyes, it’ll be too soon.
Chorus
I will be here singing my song
While there carrying on
Telling lies all night long
I’ll be here when you’re dead and gone
3
I’ll be right beside you
When you’re taking your last breath
Dragging you to hell
When they lay you to rest
Chorus
I will be here singing my song
While you’re there yammering on
Telling lies all night long
I’ll be here when you’re dead and gone
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8. |
Crooked Smile
03:32
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How many problems
Can one man take
Before he starts...he starts to break?
Let down again
Goes the extra mile
I only see
his Crooked Smile
Crooked Smile
Left for dead
a broken man
That's how his life
His life began
Kicked to the gutter
got right back up
full of fire
and one desire
Crooked Smile
The world's not fair
Who said it was?
No excuses
Rise above
All your problems
Are so damn small
Don't compare
You've got it all
end
What you give
Is what you get
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9. |
Heaven Burn
02:57
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Seen too much.
I’ve endured.
Pop the clutch,
Pull the cord
I’m unsteady, deadly, vested, edgy, ready to brawl.
No more trust.
You ignored
My entrustment.
Falling forward;
Chest is heavy, broke the levee, bet he ready to fall.
PRE-CHORUS
Show me light, maybe make me a believer
LIGHT’S OFF
Show me Christ baby, make me believe
LIGHTS OFF - THEY RISE
For the ultimate deceiver
Heaven will burn
Heaven burn
Heaven Heaven burn
CHORUS ONE
Arise!
DO NOT LET SHEEP PREVAIL
The shattered teeth
Of the wicked speak
Almighty, she has fucking failed
VERSE TWO
You can purify a child in the greatest lake
But If it’s terminal, no prayer can save it for gods sake.
Open my eyes
Show me light, maybe make me a believer
LIGHT’S OFF
Show me Christ baby, make me believe
LIGHTS OFF - THEY RISE
For the ultimate deceiver
Heaven will burn
Heaven burn
Heaven Heaven burn
CHORUS TWO
Arise!
DO NOT LET SHEEP PREVAIL
The shattered teeth
Of the wicked speak
Almighty, she has fucking failed
Arise!
DO NOT LET SHEEP PREVAIL
The shattered teeth
Of the wicked speak
Almighty, she has failed !!!
BRIDGE
BELIEVE IN ME
There’s bludgeoning
And plundering
And such a thing as suffering now
SLOW DOWN
Evil, pain, injustice, multiplicity, simplicity plus fiction…
Take a look and
SLOW DOWN
BELIEVE IN ME
There’s bludgeoning
And plundering
And such a thing as suffering now
SLOW DOWN
Evil, pain, injustice, multiplicity, simplicity plus fiction…
Take a look and
SLOW DOWN
VERSE THREE
I have seen too much to fall to faith.
Heaven will burn. Heaven will burn. Heaven will burn.
Heaven will burn
Heaven burn
Heaven Heaven burn
CHORUS THREE
Arise!
DO NOT LET SHEEP PREVAIL
The shattered teeth
Of the wicked speak
Almighty, she has fucking failed
Arise!
DO NOT LET SHEEP PREVAIL
The shattered teeth
Of the wicked speak
Almighty, she has failed !!!
Believe in me.
SLOW DOWN
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Hallowed Be Her Name
03:11
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Inside the church
Anointed with Myrrh
The Holy Ghost
And a innocent girl
He clutches her breasts
As he welcomes death
She goes for the throat
Lays her innocence, to rest
Alright guys!
Get your dollars out
And won’t you please welcome to the stage
Little Miss Death!
She comes in hungry
Teeth on her heels
She’s selling love
Heaven above
Huntin’ for her next meal
She comes on fire
She twists the flame
Got a lust to tease
Got’em on their knees
Hallowed be her name
Hallowed be her name
Hallowed be her name
Hallowed be her name
Hallowed be her name
She’s the shadows
She’s the fear
Lay back and die motherfucker
Your end is near
She’s the treasure
She’s the pain
She’s the potion to the magic
Hallowed be her name
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11. |
Digital Lies
03:34
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Nurture addiction:
Manipulate all their minds with lies
Disinformation:
Conspiracy theories climb and rise
MENTAL HEALTH DECLINE, ONSET DEPRESSION, RISING TEEN SUICIDE
Don’t cry, BIG TECH AND SOCIAL ENGINEERING TUCK YOU IN A DIGITAL LIFE
YOU
CHORUS ONE
YOU worship their digital lies
First kins’ sin; new biblical times
Building their digital hives
The metaverse is where hope goes to die
VERSE TWO
Polarization:
Politically baked in lies, divide
ALGORITHMIC RADICALIZATION;
CLOCK THE SALE OF WASTED TIME:
Tik Tok
BIG TECH AND SOCIAL ENGINEERING
TUCK YOU IN A DIGITAL LIFE
CHORUS TWO
YOU worship their digital lies
First kins’ sin; new biblical times
Building their digital hives
The metaverse is where hope goes to die
BRIDGE
Social media systems were built by manipulative insecure antisocial opportunists. The former Vice President of Facebook has openly admitted that Software architects built these systems with a deep understanding of human behavior and that they abuse a fundamental mechanism of our existence – the need to form groups with other people, communicate, and coexist. Social media is ripping apart the social aspect of human existence by creating a divide in communication, understanding, and unity. Digitizing our lives through free centralized platforms, which profit from human attention, create major problems in society including addiction, behavior manipulation, and misinformation
VERSE THREE
Social media addiction:
Scrolling is the major goal
Engage, SELL YOUR FRIENDS, INDOCTRINATE YOUR CHILDREN; FACILITATE THE EVIL HEIST
Traitor: BIG TECH AND SOCIAL ENGINEERING
TUCK YOU IN A DIGITAL LIFE
CHORUS THREE
YOU worship their digital lies
First kins’ sin; new biblical times
Building their digital hives
The metaverse is where hope dies
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Patriarchs In Black
. Lorenzo was the founding member of both Hades
and Non-Fiction and most recently Vessel Of Light and
Cassius King. He even wrote the music with Bobby Blitz' first foray outside of Overkill in 2007 with
The Cursed. Kelly first came into prominence with Type O Negative and currently plays drums with Danzig, Quiet Riot and Silvertomb among others.
@PatriarchsINBlack on Instagram MDD Records Germany
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