The Agonist
Album • 2007
This track is instrumental.
This human incompetence and its consequence Sub-human intolerance hitting home This stupid old prejudice and its consequence Civilian rights are not right For all deserve rights, large and small Rise and fall Each breath could be the last Chances have all come and passed Why can't we just shake the urge to end everything? Property lines slice through the earth The sudden urge to control our surroundings Money and time now define Their worthless we rise and we fall Rise and fall Each breath could be the last Chances have all come and passed Fighting for land to own And man will always find reasons for war Fighting wars yields bitter rewards So let's contemplate what to fight for From the oceans we rise To the ashes we fall All for one, not one for all Where do we go when we no longer exist? Apologies are useless, they're nothing, they're impotent To savour the taste of youth and sweet control Hierarchical classes split the masses Pray your ranking's high Off-white, low-life, nuisance in a flawless life Ground underfoot like ashes The world's a fucking gas chamber Populations rise and fall
Submitted by Sexy Gargoyle — Apr 26, 2025
The bloodline traces back to the past from whence the first real Christians came The racist procreation remains in every God-damned rally, riot and rage Eternal damnation divided by nation Fighting for land, language and souls A kick to the face of pride Leave hypnotic control behind How is it that even now, to this day This poison we're born with still runs through our veins? Brainwash young minds They will learn what you teach Practice what you preach Brainwash young minds Breed corruption Didn't you expect when you built your empire on pillars of cadavers (Genocide yields power You built your empire on murder) That it would corrode with time? Say how do you justify systematic eradication Of the diversity, the foundation of all humanity? Say how do you justify Putting words in my mouth Blood on my hands Hate in my heart? The bloodline traces back to the past from whence the first real Christians came The racist procreation remains in every God-damned rally, riot and rage Eternal damnation divided by nation Fighting for land, language and souls A kick to the face of pride An insult to all those who've died I lock eyes with the black monolith towering over me In my reflection I see our name printed Far too many times, over and over again You cannot know the warm touch of the vengeance that calls Without the sting of the betrayal that afflicts us all
Submitted by Morgoth — Apr 26, 2025
Powerless, depressed I try to conceal all the wreckage inside But they are denied the basic rights Hand-delivered to all of mankind My patience tried Forgiveness died My hands are tied Let go All of the scars built up the walls Life drifting far below Instinct can't save you now Man stand up, take a bow The sun always hides behind the clouds, always Tell me when did we lose our way Why is the whole world our prey Inhumane is the trend nowadays How much more can they pay In the end How blind we've been to let destructive forces fly Deaf ears hear them, closed hands feel them Empathy begins when all this ends End all innocent lives right now For we bring nothing and claim the crown
Submitted by Morgoth — Apr 26, 2025
Often misjudged are the criminals among us Guilty and their sentence is not yet served How broken and dead the reigning race would be If we all got what we deserved All sentient beings are only those that we dictate How can you judge what you lick off your plate? The Giver now has been brutally raped Who knows if the future has so good a taste? Although we know what the future has for us in store A consumption society just breaks right through the door In blissful ignorance the fists of power thrive Now look at your hands Your command tells who will survive Fresh mermaid carcasses wash up on shore They're a prize to be won and a cheap thrill, no more Paranoid grins on fake colourless smiles Fear of the hollow between wrong and right Sobriety is no longer an option When digging upwards from the trench you fell in At the top of your game, who cares? The ones below are too far down But we're the ones who kill our neighbours to stay safe and sound In blissful ignorance the fists of power thrive Now look at your hands Your command tells who will survive Trophy kill We are such great masochists Fuck you, fucking hypocrite Too bad you do what you do to score True, that you knew what you knew before
Submitted by Immortal — Apr 26, 2025
Stillborn pride Let me hide Once more I've stepped across the line Repeating to myself that everything is fine Once more I'm shipwrecked far from shore This time the war and blood and gore are mine Approaching the end thinking it's all pretend Then clarity, so close to me Although I knew it killed me to I came back to life The key is flexibility Guard your strengths and drown the rest Out of mind, out of sight The chains on my wings still tight but loosening The age of wondering led me to a place never revisited again Stillborn pride Spare my mind Don't regret all of your past you can't change Tears dry but they're never your last That won't change The first stone has just been cast Show restraint You can't take all my apathy You can't fake such a tragedy You can't break all my fallacies Let serendipity Okay, so things don't always go your way We may see things for what they are today So things will never go your way See things for what they are today Stillborn pride Truth denied
Submitted by MetalElf — Apr 26, 2025
Can't you see how far I've bent? Fuel abuse at my expense The limbs that crawl up silken threads And swift entomb the not quite dead That sickening numbness hindsight hides Like spiders creeps out from inside Remember, simply don't pretend Both good and bad will come to end How love's blindfold wears so thin The world's too strange when seen without The arrow's head plunged so far in My body taught me just how to live on without You tore away a part of my body So virgin pure You fed off blood from my soul No longer will your silhouette haunt me Reject obsession Let it burn in the cold Writhing, wriggling free From all the superficial constraints But that sickening numbness hindsight hides Like spiders creeps out from inside How love's blindfold wears so thin The world's too strange when seen without The arrow's head plunged so far in My body taught me just how to live on without Your fingers burn their prints on my skin But greedy hands can't grope their way into my mind No more will your venom reach my awe-glazed eyes (Permanent scars) Though my last hope was strangled Although you've burned me That corpse constantly shadowing my every move With each step I take pavement grinds my flesh away The precious static rest beneath my slumber holds me up Though persuasion pulls me down
Submitted by Infernal Flame — Apr 26, 2025
I remember the way your hand reached out and closed doors I remember, though memories serve no purpose anymore Wrong direction I now see what I didn't look for Feed off perfection and bite the hand you once adored Because now you've gone too far So let me show you how I will win every war And the battlefield is all mines Thieving, grieving, believing the opposition Failure to say you're devoid of sympathy Your forced oppression is one thing that I can tell you for sure Just won't affect me, so just keep trying to push it more Your sub-human surprise keeps my hatred alive Be thankful to survive because I'm just getting started now See how you've gone too far? Attempts to put me down won't succeed anymore But your actions will leave a scar Thieving, grieving, believing the opposition Failure to say you're devoid of sympathy Now I'm taking away, breaking away This torment ends now Blinded willingly Until recently Suspicion was set free That was then So what? This is now
Submitted by Grave666 — Apr 26, 2025
This track is instrumental.
Fall into flames Well all that remains of me Is a stepped-on, thrown-out piece of your enemy All that remains of me is about to hit the ground When you begin to deny all of your past lives When you begin to deny that you can't defend your lies In total In control Get thrown overboard Get pulled below Wait patiently as it surrounds me In vitro Freakshow Go home, go Set me free The end is only a bloodloss, coin-toss tragedy Blind-eyed guilty plea So caught up in here and now Walk on, walk on Life expectancy goes down Corruption The weakest mind will wear the crown Because we all need protection Escapism is a dangerous art Addiction is the easy part Please don't let me fall into flames Night falls and darkness rises deep inside his skin Blood, sweat and tears will soon pay for this sin Wait patiently as it surrounds me Walks towards home, thinks he's alone Wait and you'll see The frost glows in his eyes Exhalation is only a disguise for Death's new enterprise Infiltration Self-destruction Left so lonely What a tragedy
Submitted by The Void — Apr 26, 2025
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