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A world with emptiness surrounding
So many haunted people, we are all drowning
In our infinite greed, the jealousy, the hate
that we hold within
Fortune, fate, and restitution
Rest upon the will of our generation
Our numbers are dwindling yet few will rise
Lost and abandoned hope
Where seldom we know of those who lost the most
Chorus:
Grasping, clawing at every last scrap
Like vultures to a carcass left rotting for dead
Blindfolds won't comfort me, I've seen what we lack
We built this hell for ourselves, there is no turning back
I bring to life these dreams of mine
Without a blessing, without a right
I'll never fade 'til my lungs give way to decay
Restless streets raise a needle to the vein of a man in mundane
Always pining never searching for a cure
This was my worst fear
(Chorus)
I haven't been through a failed life
I've been through a failed death in its prime
Maybe there's a reason my wounds never close
I didn't choose that I was chose
Maybe letting strangers pick my scabs
Will always be embedded in my bones
Grasping, clawing at every last scrap
Like vultures to a carcass left rotting, left rotting for dead
Blindfolds will not comfort me, I've seen what we lack
We built this hell for ourselves
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Now the curtain's fallen
It can't be taken back
You cannot run from what can't be unseen
Judgement without innovation is as fuel is to fire
Hopelessly obsessing over what could or might have been
You think you're no longer blind but
I'll be the one to show the extent of the scars you've sewn
With death in your eyes we'll wait and see how far you will go
(I know you've seen it
What I refuse to acknowledge will cease to exist
How long are you going to continue to feign ignorance
Plague me with your sight no longer
The time for trepidation has long since passed
My actions will speak for themselves
Look behind you
Please stop
It's here)
Walk with me
Forget what you think you can do
What you thought you knew
And walk with me
Break the cycle and escape this path
Draw a line between future and past
What can our lives still be
There's another reason that you're with me
Chorus:
Far though we fall, strong we break through it all
Paths we'll see taking hold of me
Blacken my eyes, open my ears to the sound of change
And leave my name
Waiting with baited breath, this is your last chance
To make good on every word you've said
Bright lights in the face of your pretentious guise
Your world of mist and smoke is dead
A line holds fast between our minds
A place is held for me in the waking world
Take heart for the die is cast
We'll fly at last
Baited by the sound of every scream you hear
I alone am the prophet of this fallen world
Pride is as destructive as the world you fear
Identify the persistence of life and irony
(Chorus)
Walk with me
Forget what you think you can do
What you thought you knew
Forget what you think you can do
What you thought you knew
And walk with me
Forget what you think you can do
What you thought you knew
Forget what you think you can do
What you thought you knew
And walk with me
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The Ultimatum
04:49
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All hail the savior
Now you'll show me what I need to see
The path you walk is paved with your intentions
One of seven is enough to fall
Go forth your kingdom waits before you
Now my reign begins
I'll show you weakness, I'll show you hate
And the choice will be yours to make
Watch what you pray for
What of your strife when your own life you can't save
I've watched this scene unfold upon me
You share a state of mind with the ignorant eyes
Connect the circuits of our conscience and illuminate the skies
What purgatory doesn't show lays claim over what we know
And begs us to let go
Fiction now exposed
Cast your doubts aside
Forgo conviction and continue as my guide
I am infinite
An end will come to those who walk the story's pages
Then look
We have so much more to see
I've set the stage for your selfless endeavor
Two souls, examples of your soldiers of light
Approaching death though one's body I will not take with me
You asked for this now tell me who will you save
How can you wage a war against existence
When existence holds you back
And how can you stake a claim in your new order
With the screams of innocents behind your back
What will you do, what can you do
I am your gun, your will be done (x2)
What will you do
What can you do (x3)
You said that you weren't afraid to walk in Hell
I've given you the power that you asked for
So embark on your crusade, I'll watch the world be reborn
Take it back, take it all back
Reality takes form as your new nightmare
Never will you wake
I've shown you weakness, I've shown you hate
And the choice now is yours to make
I am your gun, your will be done
How do you like playing God
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Pale Blue Dot
06:13
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The death of a thought to rival my notions
As waves crash around me, a spectacle in motion
Cosmic figures in harmony forever deforming unity
Catastrophic inception of fate suggests a willingness to recreate
This task that's set before me here
Is one of ultimate consequence
What of the choice I make when who will mourn
A life relative to a great picture
You aim to halt my stance but life will be born again
Chorus:
Compassion calls us all to be who we are
The strong invest in what we see
While hesitation hinders what we strive to be
Stand proud and tall upon our failures
Pushing further on the path unwinding
Finding solace in the arms of the rising sun
(Make your choice) but how am I to know
(Confirm your claim) what right is it of mine to bestow
Now is the moment I crush your resolve
Enable your senses and let fear evolve
My hands forever stained (A stain will wash away)
A life not my own but forever remembered
I am my own enabler
Bathe in their blood, we'll watch them writhe
Pave the way to your endless prophecy
Fate's will recalled, the empire will fall
I will kill with these hands yet my soul remains
Clear of the weight of a conscience
Let me be the one to initiate the purge
Of this infernal sphere
(Chorus)
Pushing further on the path unwinding
Bathe in their blood, I'll watch them writhe
Pave the way to my endless prophecy
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A life of involuntary interaction
Defining destinies of those who define you
A vast array of intertwining consciousness
Combats the stigma of the world we knew
Reality is relative to expectation
Perpetuating fear and apprehensive tendencies
An entity cannot be valued by its faults alone
A broken finger will not retire the arm
While there will be opposition
The very darkness we despise necessitates a will
To fight the endless night
A motive found underneath the scattered remains of my perception
Efflorescent arguments to live
Action overwhelms a painful existence
Forever enforcing your new found ideals
Intentions aside, your methods speak infinite volumes
If blood is to be spilled, it must flow from the hands
Of the perpetrator and into the veins of the propagator
Dismantling infrastructure kills the regime
A kingdom reborn
Disconnect from the world in your head
Inspire the drowning spirits
Those who cling at the mouth of the endless void
A palace lies beyond the Sun
A seat at the edge of the universe waiting for us
Follow the light, though stray not from the path in sight
A new cycle of existence commences upon your will
Prepare to engage
(Celestial structures finally begin to align
Though recognize the paths that you chose not to take
For you are only one of many misguided souls)
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The Path Unwinding Baltimore, Maryland
6 piece Progressive Metal band from Baltimore MD. Formed in 2014, The Path Unwinding looks to bring a fresh, new approach to metal. With sweeping guitars, superb drumming, heavy bass riffs and soaring vocals with intuitive lyrics, TPU has set out to bring you music you can feel, not just hear. ... more
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