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(Instrumental)
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(VERSE 1)
The German machine rages on,
Corruption at Court of the Cross,
A symbol of terror corrodes at the core,
Behind the walls made of madness,
Souls break, for the Master Race canvas,
One stroke of the paint, then six million more,
(CHORUS)
No! I must become more than machine, more than we’ve been,
More than the Gods, more than their spawn and on and on,
I am the shear, at hedge of maze, I am the spear through the throat of the Camp-
(VERSE 2)
Enslaved, under guise of civilian,
With intent to defang Ophidian,
I enter the camp on a quest for the cure,
Bring knowledge back from abyssal,
In mind, as translucent as crystal,
And don’t let it break in the blazes of Surt,
No, I must become more than machine, more than we’ve been,
More than the Gods, more than their spawn and on and on, and on and on,
I am the shear, at hedge of maze,
I am the spear through the throat of the Camp, Auschwitz Birkenau, Gungnir reborn,
(BRIDGE)
Stripped of all humanity, all is lost but cause,
Still, the spear, it calls to me, can I reach beyond, to these tribes,
(ENDING CHANT)
Będziemy wolni (repeated)
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3. |
The Tides Of Man
06:50
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(INTRO)
Beyond the sun, beyond the moon,
I fear the hands of fate will grasp me soon,
My sins are vast, my past awash in red,
But am I evil? Or just a man instead?,
The shape of plight’s colossal; it's draped in broken dreams,
It sits atop a throne, constructed from our legacies,
There is no hope of conquest; no chance for victory,
We shall be diseased.
(VERSE 1)
A race of bleak miasma, a flourish in the dark,
A quandary to be made, for hand on flint to spark,
Are we the key to cinder? Perhaps the phoenix flame,
An ouroboros sent to ash, to be born again?,
There is a beauty yonder, more vast than oceans deep,
But many monsters do encircle ‘round salvation’s keep,
We craft the carnage tightly, to take catharsis clean,
But just become the creatures; another devil's dream,
(CHORUS)
Another devil's dream,
(VERSE 2)
A book for moral guidelines, what tides when words are lost,
The crimson floods creation, eras old sins are wrought,
Is there some scant salvation? The human heart to ark,
To be a bastion for compassion when collective’s stark,
I have a sliver’s fragment, of hope, to be redeemed,
That there's a light inside the darkest parts of you and me,
To craft the carnage tightly, to take catharsis clean,
To not become the monsters; another devil's dream,
(BRIDGE)
Tides of Man,
Rise, disband,
Sands we grasp,
Damned, we laugh...
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4. |
To Cinder
03:50
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(VERSE 1)
As the lords in leisure play their age old game,
Down among the rot the wretched rise,
Not content, to clamber for the thrice split grain,
Or amass to fight the few fleet flies,
To the torch and sword like man approached Prometheus so long ago,
We climb Olympus corporeal,
We’re the titans forged of flesh and bone, and sinew, born anew of ruin, wreckage, smoke
And rended steel, and endless wheel, the dreaded noun,
(CHORUS)
We want to burn it to the ground,
We’ll strangle tyrants with their crowns,
We want to burn it to the ground,
Burn it all,
(VERSE 2)
While the lines of blood dictate the complex creeds,
All the natural insight in sight dies,
There instead’s a blossom; born an ego’s seed,
And the breed of meager rot the vine,
When all your subjects are subject to agony,
Are you a King or a count,
There is a stake in the grandeur of gallantry
Rise up a fist,
with a knife to resist,
Be the bite to the wrist,
In the fight for a system, profound,
(CHORUS)
We have to burn it to the ground,
We’ll strangle tyrants with their crowns,
We have to burn it to the ground,
Burn it all,
Burn it all,
Burn it all to cinder,
(ENDING CHANT)
Flames consume the flesh,
Gains infumed in death,
Flames consume the flesh,
Wane will fuel the hexed,
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5. |
The Maggots Dance
06:30
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(INTRO)
Spark in the night,
Bark to his bite,
Wrath twisted shadow,
Crafted with aloe,
Where did you weave,
Terror and greed,
"The Maggots Dance",
Come, Magnus, grasp,
(VERSE 1)
Deep down in the dirt,
Warriors stirred to mirth,
One laid claim to throne,
One stayed flame with bone,
(VERSE 2)
Blackness bleeds the night,
Tragic seems the slight,
Knowledge fuels the flame,
Down amongst the slaves,
(CHORUS)
To raise the dead once more,
To graze the edge, come war, he remains,
(VERSE 3)
In the endless embrace,
Of the undying light,
Lies the lord of the worms,
All his eyes in the white,
To all Nirn do they scavenge, they seek for the strange,
The dead like a tongue to the teat,
They clamber and shamble for aeons retold,
The language of some other beast,
Like a mass infestation in maw of the throat,
The writhing, the alphabet’s bound,
Like a festering wound in the ears of the men,
A carnal abhorrence in sound,
From the crypts does malevolence waft like a fog,
His words hither forward from foot,
The master of maggots is singing his song,
The triumphant trumpets the roots,
(CHORUS)
To raise the dead once more,
To graze the edge come war, come void, come lords, comes Gods come life, come all, I remain,
(VERSE 4)
The Dragon Break had redefined my mind,
Three from one, but whole of conscious thine,
Reconnected, we are thrice in might,
Moon and master at the throne of night,
(ENDING CHANT)
Live va, die va, live, va, die va, live va, die (Repeated)
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(Instrumental)
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A Circle Of Crows South Bend, Indiana
A Circle Of Crows are a South Bend, IN-based black and death metal group with deep roots in traditional heavy metal. Their music is varied and conceptual in nature, and probaby has too many crow sound effects, tbqh.
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