Arch Enemy
Album • 2017
This track is instrumental.
I heard there was a place where we’re all one race Color, gender, age never could dictate I saw there was a time when we valued all life Nobody oppressed, everyone had rights Suddenly, in an age where the distance between us is binary All we see, is an internal war friendly fire in the sky and respect on the floor Constricting like a heart attack A mythomaniac on the loose in the streets! Blood boiling with the burning heat Of caustic defeat, now there’s no turning back Ha! So we laugh while the tides all turn Mating grey matter, voluntarily slaves Always searching for the one real truth So we can misconstrue it to sun our needs Constricting like a heart attack A mythomaniac on the loose in the streets! Blood boiling with the burning heat Of caustic defeat, now there’s no turning back... Ingesting, operant conditioning Divine contamination, like lye on flesh – it stings Trust your leaders, trust the system, reproduce, repeat Never question authority, never suspect deceit! Always on the run Can’t remember where we’re running to or what we’re running from But we’re picking up speed All the books and broadcast? Jettison! Without their burden true ethics are freed Extract the labels that lobotomize And you’ll realize we are all one Fly or swim, fur or skin We’re alive! Abolitionists rise! Constricting like a heart attack A mythomaniac on the loose in the streets! Blood boiling with the burning heat Of caustic defeat, now don’t go turning back
Submitted by MetalElf — Apr 23, 2025
There’s blood in the water There’s fear in the air An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth And we’re all running scared! Ashes to ashes And dust to dust while bombs never rust Watch the war on your screen Yesterday’s ideals were just a dream There’s blood in the water Round and round we go Where this will end nobody knows There’s profit in prophets Too much money in lies Missiles fueled by hatred As the blind lead the blind! Round and round we go Where this will end nobody knows Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide Have we finally run out of road? You can’t build a wall high enough Can’t dig a deep enough hole Equality, now a profanity Wave goodbye to normality There’s a monster under your bed You created it so don’t be scared Round and round we go Where this will end nobody knows Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide Have we finally run out of road? You can’t build a wall high enough Can’t dig a deep enough hole There’s blood in the water... There’s fear in the air An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth And we’re all running scared! There’s blood in the water An eye for an eye There’s blood in the water! There’s blood in the water! An eye for an eye
Submitted by Corpse Grinder — Apr 23, 2025
When I was born the seed was sown I will not obey, my life is my own Battle those, who wish to enslave me Expose the lies that enrage me I don’t believe in heaven, I don’t believe in hell Never joined the herd, could not adjust well Slave/master, it’s not for me I chose my own path, set myself free I – I go my own way I – swim against the stream Forever – I will fight the powers that be I – I go my own way I – swim against the stream Forever – I will fight the powers that be The eagle flies alone Reject the system that dictates the norm This world is full of lies and deceit I have felt betrayal, cut so deep Suffered defeat only to rise again I – I go my own way I – swim against the stream Forever – I will fight the powers that be I – I go my own way I – swim against the stream Forever – I will fight the powers that be The eagle flies alone Alone! I – I go my own way I – swim against the stream Forever – I will fight the powers that be I – I go my own way I – swim against the stream Forever – I will fight the powers that be The eagle flies alone
Submitted by BloodShrine — Apr 23, 2025
Turning a blind eye won’t make the world disappear The second sight returns So, too, does the pain and fear I’ll refuse to acknowledge I’ll refuse to accept Reality force-feeding me anguish and regret You... once so close to me This once-so-sacred place is now a murder scene Your name? Just a soliloquy, dead to me Your presence forever will be exposure therapy There stand strangers where the world used to be Can’t take change or are retinas still not letting me see? I’ll refuse to acknowledge I’ll refuse to accept Reality force-feeding me anguish and regret You... once so close to me This once-so-sacred place is now a murder scene Your name? Just a soliloquy, dead to me Your presence forever will be exposure therapy No “we”, no “us” Two halves un-whole I’m your Sisyphus You laugh every roll And you will suffer And you will drown You are the victor? How heavy’s the crown? You... once so close to me This once-so-sacred place is now a murder scene Your name? Just a soliloquy, dead to me Your presence forever will be dead to me
Submitted by Sexy Gargoyle — Apr 23, 2025
Torn from home, sent down death’s railroad, are we When we wake up tomorrow Will we still be wearing this curse? Will we wake up tomorrow? Which punishment is worse? Day one: no sun Stripped of our names Now we are merely numbers Permanently inked in the flames Our kind – our existence lights the fire Igniting hell on earth Archangels bending crosses, hooked Innocent men, women, children Sentenced before conviction With golden stars to guide them Their gavel is the end of a gun Day two: lived through More culprits arrive Every cage so crowded How will we survive through the night? Our kind – our existence lights the fire Igniting hell on earth Archangels bending crosses, hooked First day in hell... First day in hell See the terror in abandoned gates... Fear sunken eyes Get the guards and walk a dozen paces, saturnine First day in hell... Incarcerated without reason Doomed by blood Anti-venom for a poisoned nation Our birth right Week five: alive Soon out of time After all that I’ve, here, witnessed There’s no value in life Our kind – our existence lights the fire Igniting hell on earth Archangels bending crosses, hooked First day in hell... First week in hell See the terror in abandoned gates Fear sunken eyes Get the guards and walk a dozen paces, saturnine First month in hell... Incarcerated without reason Doomed by blood Anti-venom for a poisoned nation Our birth right Last day in hell
Submitted by SerpentEve — Apr 23, 2025
This track is instrumental.
Screams echo through the halls Fingernails dragging down the walls Broken down, betrayed, abandoned Never thought you’d see my face again? Behind barred windows I watch the sky Not an hour goes by without asking why Broken down, betrayed, abandoned Never thought you’d see my face again? Well, did you? Plotting my revenge is the only thing keeping me alive Then they administer the medicine Straight to my heart Listen to me! I’m not insane! Leave me be! Set me free! In a place so dark that demons fear I’m rotting away, year after year You’re on the outside, you’re laughing at me One day, you’ll pay, you will see Plotting my revenge is the only thing keeping me alive Then they administer the medicine Straight to my heart Listen to me! I’m not insane! Leave me be! Set me free! You made them believe In the lies that you weave Now everyone’s an enemy Who to believe? They shut off the lights Another sleepless night awaits Dreams of retribution keep me awake My vengeance will be glorious, victorious Plotting my revenge is the only thing keeping me alive Then they administer the medicine Straight to my heart Listen to me! I’m not insane! Leave me be! Set me free! You will see!
Submitted by Nargaroth — Apr 23, 2025
The memory lingers on when you were the same as us Three months old a child, still you lived off love and fuss City baby, city baby, city baby attacked by rats Residing in a squalid place, it can't be too much fun Your brain is getting eaten away by the rat living in your skull A mutant at the age of one, a human rodent cabbage It's hard to think a tiny thing can do that much damage
Submitted by Cyberwaste — Nov 07, 2025
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