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Taken from the Annihilist 7", out December 2nd 2016 on Combat Rock Industry.
lyrics
LYRICS
The land trembles from your so-called dance of emancipation.
But when I press my ear against the ground
I hear your whisper through the deafening sound:
This world is cold, void, devoid of basis
A family portrait made of empty spaces.
Faces fading away into oblivion
Undifferentiated, spirits emaciated.
Strap your ideological dynamite around your chest and hide it with an unassuming vest.
You’re ready to self-destruct for your faith, whatever it takes.
All those flowery words about standing for truth and celebrating life,
they wilt from the breath of cold air that ruins your gardens every year.
Turn the lights out, no one’s home. Turn the heat off, let the house turn cold. Threads of gasoline will tie the rooms together one last time.
Like a savior you walk among the masses with promises of salvation
from tradition, superstition and false intuition.
But could you tell us all what’s your alternative: that we never existed and we never will
hear no one, see no one, feel no one no more.
CHORUS:
Annihilist, internal arsonist.
Let the flames lick you clean of identity.
Rest in peace humanity!
Annihilist.
Let the flames sing you to sleep.
Predetermined smiles and limp hand shakes, biochemical ghosts exchange niceties
as the threads of coherence are running loose one by one.
You claim to pledge allegiance to rationality but to me it’s pure insanity
to deny that you exist at all!
Silence, silence. The world is quiet.
When life becomes a lie.
The lie of a lifetime.
Silence, silence. No, you can’t silence me!
I’ll spit fire through your suffocating philosophies
These screams will burn right through. Right through you.
Your face is fading away
I wish I could convince you to stay.
But you have cursed yourself
like poisoned poetry it spills from your lips.
You have cursed yourself
to be free where freedom won’t exist.
You have cursed yourself
to walk into the fire of true knowing
but it’s burning you down.
Burning you down.
credits
Words & music by Tuomas Mäkinen and Tapio Vartiainen
Tuomas Kainulainen played drums on this track
Mixed & mastered by Antti Malinen
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