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Sisyphean Task
05:56
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My senses fade to black
My echo keeps coming back
Makes me lose track of myself
Time keeps flowing away
Slipping under my fingers
Like i was sand
That's nothing but dismissed
My everlasting penitence
Lei it commence
Embrace the rage forget all restraints
Embedded constructs that were grinded into place
Faulty pillars made to crumble and quake
Seal shut my only exit
Endure repression for the promise of freedom
The means to maintain this poisonous system intact
"You will not make a dent
Your will is not enough
You wont make it alone
And no one will join you! "
Am I broken?
Am I wrong?
Is it everything else around me
That was built to make me doubt?
Surrounded by madness
Compliance has become method
Learn nothing teach what was taught
Revel in the ignorance
I will change
I will stray from
This flawless path that might as well be a parade
It's time to drop the mask
Pure intentions
Stamp all that has happened
A bargained future
Spent not by oneself
Reaching senseless conclusions
Repeating the same blind reactions
Another pointless eruption
Long lost inside myself
Am I broken?
Am I wrong?
Is everyone else around me
Constantly feeling this same doubt?
Our errant fathers told us to abhor abnormal thoughts
Kind-hearted ignorance can and will draw blood
By myself I'll never find my way out
Find the truth
Let it betray you
And try to forgive
And try to forget
That you're broken
That you're wrong
That everything else around you
Was built to make you doubt
Im not broken
Im not wrong
And though i cant find the guilty
I will expose the flaw
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Lights
02:41
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On top of concrete foundations
Above rivers of shit
The frantic veins of the city
Lit up by cancerous cells
Towers do light up the sky
But don't get anyone closer to the stars
False lights that obscure the real night
Leave all wondering what the sky looks like
An inescapable virus
The touch of man
A being made to move
Trapped by himself
The understanding of greatness
Over the understatement that we're small
Is only ever achievable
When you place yourself in scale
It's time to look further
Seek out the answers
Justify our impotence
It's time to go home
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Diluted
04:30
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Engaging in endless social acceptance
Masking yourself just to change your perspective
Wandering in a faceless crowd, feeling surrounded
You blink only to see you're alone, you forgot your way home
Scorching gazes carbonize your thoughts
Adopting those imposed but they never feel your own
You are no one, just a sheep in a herd
Identity lost, nothing but a clone
Diluted yourself 'til everything is gone
Blasphemous pig, tossed down the sink
Like an undifferentiated piece of shit
Feeling something not your own
Starting to lose sense of self-awareness
Erasing yourself for a glimpse of acceptance
Living in a loop-hole, just an illusion to retain the control
You try to get out, but there is no way
Diluted yourself into a comatose state
Never awaken, consequently forsaken
The part of yourself you allow to be taken
Voluntarily subdued
Forged like an object
Equal to the rest
But you dare not protest
No more control, you're just a drone
Gave up your will to feel somewhat whole
A slave, you've been picked dry
No trace, left alone to die
Brainwashed, utterly gone
Diluted yourself to the point of no recall
Nothing but a slave
Just another number on the line of the abyss that will take you under
But you dare not protest (x4)
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Five To Nine
05:20
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Thrive in negligence
Indifference is bliss
Worship the noise, flee from the silence
And the thoughts it brings forth
Hide all our disgusting traits
Embelish the image, display the outter layer
Gauge out your eyes
Trade them for a manufactured smile
Ignore the real costs behind the price
A routine malice sets in
Mass consuption becomes a reflex
A triggered mechanism sets the clock that's ticking too fast
Adopt self-centered reflexions
Celebrate yourself
Another useless injection
Provides fake sympathy
All you can eat consume your weight in tainted gold
Conscience sold for a local promotion
A fools guide to warm your soul
Induldge all cravings
The less you think the more you can get
Exalted images of self importance
Raise up shrines to these selfish delights
Find absolution in plastic gods
Push the price of progress onto lesser selves
Let the disposable suffer for your material wealth
Assign random value, accept it without question
Cripple the pillars, ignore the damage done
Welcome to the age of information
Destroy everything for a fleating connection
The land exhales the stench of steel
See the child crying in silence
Shape the truth to justify your need
Thus it is set, the mark of our existence
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Wings Of A King
03:18
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A golden beggar with a rotting hand
Accept the invite let the power trip commence
Set illusions for a life stealing fee
Quench the thirst of your sadistic greed
Tainted ruler under a misplaced crown
Fuel thy subject's wrath
Incite their revolt
A victim under your own sick plot
The power trip is gone, your time is up
A chess board where there are only pawns
A single player calling all the shots
Yet an empire's life span's always short
The emperor's end will unfold once more
Tainted ruler under a misplaced crown
Fuel thy subject's wrath
Incite their revolt
A victim under your own sick plot
The power trip is gone, your time is up
There is no point in holding to your wings
You'll find it hard to fly with them while chains hold your feet
Champion of light, bringer of darkness
Another two faced fool to rule
Greed and corruption will inflame your throne
Higher the rise, bigger the fall
A victim under your own sick plot
The power trip is gone, your time is up
Higher the rise, bigger the fall
Higher the rise, bigger the fall
Bigger the fall
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Lebensraum: Scorch
03:30
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The silhouette of a man promising bright futures from afar
His goblet shines as his dark cloak absorbs its glow
Euforic mobs with free hands to play
Rejoice as the blades are sharpened
The crowds merge into a single formation
Staring with eyes open wide at the flags being hoisted
A sense of entitlement compels us
So we all dance along grasping blindly towards the skies
Towards the skies
Stand attention as the shrapnel flies by
Whisper your last breath for a pointless cash grab
Follow the footsteps of the corpses that pile up
Dream of glories that fade as you rot
Smoke a cig while the earth is shattered
And call thy basement your new family quarter
Celebrate the victory among the ruins
Claim the high-ground and refuse to bargain
Erase the history that falls out of place
Incite the crowd with a web of deceit
Move to the frontline for the righteous incursion
Another godless martyr cannon fodder
Endure proudly through a barrel-storm
Exalt the fallen and await your turn
Sign the truce with the edge of a dagger
Innaction only brings diasaster (x2)
Disaster
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Lebensraum: Sow
06:40
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Weaving a web of lies
Slowly building deceit
Concealed the truth, force-fed plot
Assuring immunity
Unblemished hands murking the path
Accolytes saw back-bones in half
Done right before our eyes
Blatantly
Create the results which tarnish the land
Scorched earth policy, start from scratch
Broken bridges bring the stench of success
As the wheel breaks the cycle must adapt
Borrow the chips, stolen stack
Gambling your time away
Tools for the tyrants, pawns moulded
Moulded as clay
Scattered gravesites make fertile soil
Plant the seeds, corrupt its growth
Pestilence greets them at the toll
Through a barrel-scope it watches them fall
Create the results which tarnish the land
Scorched earth policy, start from scratch
Broken bridges bring the stench of success
As the wheel breaks the cycle must adapt
Follow your profit to the kingdom come
Praise the deity who raptured us home
Walk through the gates of Eden towards fire and stone
This dream turned nightmare will collapse on its own
Its own
Collapse
A stage in constant mutation
A leading actor with a hand full of nothing
The curtain brings the same ending
Yet the seats never empty
Stitches holding blind eyes
While the script is revealed
Still you sit through the show
Enjoy your lebensraum
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Weightless
05:30
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A loose trigger pulls itself by my hand
Blank shells loaded to keep me in check
Forcing me to create the perfect setting
Fear myself, fear the unknown
Flow weigthless
Through time
Let the days fade into nights
Lay low your hands
Wait for the day
It's only a matter of time until it all seeps away
The original piece is beyond recovery
As the second skin becomes first nature
Cast a shadow heavier than light
Stumble along and wait for it to be bright
Flow weigthless
Through time
Let the days fade into nights
Lay low your head
Wait for the blade
It was only a matter of time until I seeped away
The shadow cast is my own
The green horizon is always beyond the wasteland
Flow weigthless through time
Let the days fade into nights
I have been in a slumber
Trapped myself under the weight of all this fear
The trigger has made me restless
In motion it all becomes weightless
Flow weightless
In motion
Flow weightless
Through time
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Grasp
10:23
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My sweet deception lays me down
As I commit myself to sleep again
Inhale as it all becomes much clearer
Misleading connections
Struggle not to be attached
Unbroken but wrong
Trapped in a room of my own reflections
Now that my failures lay to bare
I will embrace the mist again
Exhale as my breathe fails to hold the weight of all this guilt
Exhaustion has filled my lungs
Filled my bones
I feel so grounded I barely can move
Barely can breathe
Barely can be at all
So much weight
I’m giving it up
My deceptions have laid me down
So I commit myself back to sleep
Forget the rage, embrace restraints
It’s time I breathe again
Reaching senseless conclusions
Repeating the same old blind reactions
Another ever pointless eruption
I’m lost within myself
Let it commence
My everlasting penitence
That’s nothing but dismissed
Like I was sand
Slipping under my fingers
Time keeps flowing away
Makes me lose track of myself
My echo keeps coming back
My senses fade to black
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Impera Lisbon, Portugal
Impera is a metal band from Lisbon, Portugal. Its five members have been the same since the founding of the band back in 2012. Impera takes influence from many classical rock and heavy metal references, aswell as those of progressive and groove metal. Its sound ends up being an atempt at achieving a balance between those influences while exploring original concepts in their lyrics. ... more
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