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Job
04:28
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The willingness to submit
Drowning in the darkest sea
Grant us your temptation
By giving us your sin
Let these idle hands play
The idle hands of creation
Bringing those anguish
To the begotten
The councilors decree
“Stretch out your hand
And strike at him,
To test his resolution.”
The needless folly of the divine
The pestilence and nudity
Curse the day you were born
For your petty veneration
The crime is not the son's
But the arrogance of Father
Swelling with conceit
Exploiting wretched beasts
The innocent will suffer
In their ignorance
They languish in His vanity
The majesty of creation
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The Lie
26:57
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This is the lie
Built upon the threads
Of a stifling
Tapestry
Woven from the blood
Of children ripe with hunger
Following the piper
To be crush by the machine
You can hear their wailing
As they stare into the sun
Blinding themselves
From the horrible truth
For the empty wealth
Called prosperity
This is the lie
We feed it to our children
To kill their innocence
In blind reflex
We name it happiness
An invisible prison
You are its slave
And casualty
Its promises of shit
Lead a sad optimism
When it comes for you
You will be erased
You aspire to
To become a lie
Father leads to the highland
To throw us from the cliffs
Mother leads to the ocean
To drown us beneath the waves
Brother leads to factories
To grind us with machines
Sister sits in the churchyard
To bind our hands and mouths in sin
In the middle lies a stream
A stream to quench the thirst
Soapy with the blood
Of human offerings
This fucking lie
Standing at the edge
Of water black and cold
It only ends in death
The waves distort the light
What once was, never will be
A spring unwinds itself
The rust will never shine
Becoming memory
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The Beast
07:25
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I am the beast
I will destroy you
I will devour everything
In my blindness and anger
The animal perversions
In the abortive wilderness
Caked in blood
I will devour you
Like bone upon bone
The sinew of flesh
Bend this dying life
Into sustenance
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4. |
Wasteland
12:28
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This is the wasteland
The parched, barren earth
Spreads its veins in shadows
The sky bleeds into the soil
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South of the River
05:38
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Your image is golden
The instruments bind your name
The silver reflecting pool
Draws a signature of blood
Assemble congregation of flesh
Stripping off your skin
Stretched upon a hollow temple
In cosmetic manufacturing
Slivers of milky bone
The wet gleam of a chisel
Cutting away marble faces
Amid the vacant chasm
A fabricated mask
Born of muscles and wire
It is a coping mechanism
Stitched together from abuse
It erases psychology
Of distorted vision
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Sin and Ugliness
10:00
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Father
Loves his children
Breathing
In them life
They grow
Ugly with shadow
And he kills them
For he is the beautiful light
Kill them
Kill them
Kill them
Kill them
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We
05:55
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The beauty of a mechanism
Is in its rhythm
As steady and precise
As a pendulum
It is a testimony
To the lasting wisdom
The wisdom of man
Inscribed in blood
The inevitable mark of fire
Is that it burns
The inevitable mark of truth
Is in its cruelty
They longed for an answer
A final proclamation
To the ultimate meaning
The meaning of happiness
The final answer
In an adamant chain
The fetters by which
They bind themselves
This is the worm
That gnaws at your veins
We bring you the fever
That drives your escape
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Thieves
30:26
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These waters never ceasing
This flood will drag you down
Nothing stems this tide
Devoured by the torrent
Drown beneath muddy waters
Darkness steals the day
Nothing stems this tide
Devoured by the torrent
Extinguishing our hearts
An enemy to steal our lives away
Touching the earth
At a single point
Stretching out our arms
To the immobile sky
There is no escape
From the incessant duration
The boundary of our prison
Cannot constrain the arching sky
The pulsing of our blood
Ties bodies to their destruction
We are bound to this wheel
Its crushing motion curbs the tide
If it ever ceases
The breaking waves will take our lives
Screaming muted heralds
Deafening with silence
Twilight’s piercing vision
Binding you with blindness
Speaking cleaves the tongue
Spiraling decay
Dancing blood and fire
Embracing you with death
Touching the earth
At a single point
Stretching out our arms
To the immobile sky
There is no escape
From the incessant duration
This silence
Harnessed to a searing steed
Conducting a throne of fire
Upon wheels of eternal flame
Four points of a compass
Three tiers of the sky
You won’t see the burning hand
Crushing you
Every ring belongs to him
Perfect in eight divisions
Residing on the shifting page
Of motionless eternity
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SFUStudios Taipei, Taiwan
SFUStudios is composed of various studio projects, spanning a diverse catalogue of musical genres including: Indie Rock, Progressive Rock, Ambient, Electronic, Psychedelic Rock, Jazz, Goth, Industrial, Doom, Grindcore and Metal.
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