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Forsaken You
02:58
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Chasing you down, feel the rush in my brain.
Oh, how I want you. It drives me insane.
Take what I want and I leave you behind.
Left with the pain and the suffering that’s mine.
Now, I give the pain,
And take the life I lost.
Victim, I take you.
My body will break you.
This life, this world:
All has forsaken you.
Feel bodies shake as the fear takes hold.
Bow down, submit, and just do as you’re told.
Now that I leave you, broken behind,
Live with the pain and the suffering that’s mine.
Now, I give the pain,
And take the life I lost.
Victim, I take you.
My body will break you.
This life, this world:
All has forsaken you.
[Solo: RJL]
[Solo: CDH]
All has forsaken you.
All has forsaken you.
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2. |
Coercion
03:57
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I have no memories
That I can cherish now
That this place is
Burned to ash,
Leaving bones to shelter me.
He is a ghost who thinks he’s Christ,
But he does not know that he is dead.
He turned my home into a tomb,
From which he will never rise.
His father was his god,
So he makes us his children,
To be the father
He never should have had.
Coercion to salvation.
[Solo: CPD]
I never see the sun rise.
Your wasted life swallowed me,
Just as you swallow this world.
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The Tomb
04:21
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You forced this pain upon me,
To share your suffering.
Submission for indulgence,
You’re vile yet you’re still.
You hurt as you were hurt.
Our hopes will crumble when you’re near.
This house is a tomb where I wish I would die,
But you keep me alive to listen to your lies.
My blood was ink on paper.
I signed my life away.
I drown in your neurosis,
The ocean of your hate.
You hurt as you were hurt.
Our hopes will crumble when you’re near
This house is a tomb where I wish I would die,
But you keep me alive to listen to your lies.
My absence soon will burry you.
You will hurt the way I hurt.
In the tomb I will bury you,
I’ll bury you in my truth.
The Tomb.
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4. |
Surrender
01:47
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(Instrumental)
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5. |
Burn
04:07
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Burn.
When you pulled the innocence from
The haunted tomb,
You passed your own pain on,
And now we all lose.
Knives scrape on the stone walls;
I hear them every night.
The world sees my worry,
And sits idly by.
No one will grieve you when you’re gone. (Burn.)
Under the night sky,
I hear your pain filled cries.
But, I know
The shape of your spiteful lies.
Your icy cold grief slithers
Into my burning wounds.
They heal far too quickly
And I’ve got nothing left to show.
My sympathy flickers;
I know your anguish doesn’t lie.
But still, I can’t help you.
Around you hope dies.
No one will grieve you when you’re gone. (Burn)
Under the night sky,
I hear your pain filled cries.
But, I know
The shape of your spiteful lies.
You taught me how to hate.
Now I shatter the bones
That captured me.
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6. |
Avarice
09:27
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[Solo: CPD]
I wake up with the sun
And it shines down on me.
I have come undone.
Darkness all I see.
Kissed by the lips of this avarice.
Victim of this hateful lust.
There is no forgiving this.
What’s been wronged is always lost.
This Christ preaches a fantasy,
A dream where he is king.
Made to bow down to him.
Made to serve him ceaselessly.
Blessed hateful servant,
Made to kneel and crawl.
Crushed by the anguish.
Crushed by the weight of it all.
Kissed by the lips of this avarice.
Victim of this hateful lust.
There is no forgiving this.
What’s been wronged is always lost.
I surrendered to you,
Bowed to your hateful screams,
You have swallowed my sunrise,
The light that let me dream.
Now these thoughts they come for me,
They beg me to leave.
No hope, no sleep.
The end is calling me.
Kissed by the lips of this avarice.
Victim of this hateful lust.
There is no forgiving this.
What’s been wronged is always lost.
Under the night sky,
I glimpse what I lost
[Solo: CDH]
[Solo: RJL]
From atop this rock,
I see you build
Your doomed creations,
You are one of them,
Believing every begotten
Son is damned,
Just like you are,
And so you condemn.
Wrong.
Always wrong are we.
So you believe.
Wrong.
Always wrong are we,
For we let you live among us.
Get out
Of this house.
Get out
Of this life.
Get out
Of this sanctum.
Get out
Of this sacred place.
Get out
Of this life.
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7. |
Monsters
03:49
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It’s always night in the tomb,
But still I never sleep.
It’s always night in the tomb,
But still I never sleep.
The monster haunts my dreams,
So now I never dream.
His ears are veiled by skin
So he can’t hear this world.
But his deafness shields him
From the sounds of pain he instills.
He finds joy in his creations,
Which he does not know are poison.
He fills my trances with his venom
And wonders why I scream.
It’s always night in the tomb,
But still I never sleep.
The monster haunts my dreams,
So now I never dream.
I wake up from my trance
And see that this world is a tomb
Where monsters feed
And children die.
(Why do we always save the monsters?)
Is there no one here to save me?
Here to help me?
Here to keep me from his clutch?
Here to help me?
(No one is here to save us.)
Oh no,
For there is no way out
Of this hell he’s made,
He lives in,
That he thrives in,
That becomes him, except for me.
(He thrives while I will die.)
Eyes tearing,
I glimpse surrender,
But if I sleep here,
I will never leave here.
(I will sleep when I feel the sun upon my face.)
I hunger for the sun.
I hunger for the sun.
I hunger for the sun.
I hunger for the sun.
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8. |
The Sun
05:43
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The Sun.
The sun filters through the cracked stone:
A life beyond the tomb.
Escape, I see and feel the sky.
But still, he haunts my mind.
The tomb is dark and the monster is asleep.
The air is cool and it’s time for me to leave.
I crash my fists into the icy stone.
It shatters, as does my flesh and bone.
The sun filters through the cracked stone:
A life beyond the tomb.
Escape, I see and feel the sky.
But still, he haunts my mind.
Blinding light greets my eyes.
Release, I collapse into the dirt.
I thought he could not hear,
But still, he awakens.
I crash my fists into the icy stone.
It shatters, as does my flesh and bone.
The sun filters through the cracked stone:
A life beyond the tomb.
Escape, I see and feel the sky.
But still, he haunts my mind.
[Solo: CPD]
[Solo: RJL]
I’ve been awake for far too long.
I’ve been awake for far too long.
You’ve blocked out my sun for far too long.
Shadowed eyes can’t watch me,
So he sends thoughts to chase me.
Those poisoned claws, swung blindly.
The sun never shines when you’re near.
I feel terror.
The time has come for me to run.
I still fear you.
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9. |
Uprising
06:16
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I wake up with the sun,
And it shines down on me.
Remembering all I’ve done.
Remembering all I’ve seen.
And I feel the anguish.
And I feel it tear at me.
But I’m over coming.
This is my uprising.
And we are uprising,
Just like the flowers of spring do.
Why can't you?
Why can’t you?
We are uprising,
And we are calling
Out to you, out to you.
You rise with us and we rise with you.
Look back at what I’ve lost.
Look back at what I’ve gone through.
Look back to my beginning,
To the pain that you put me through.
But I let all that go,
Let go of what I’ve lost.
Let go of the pain and anguish,
Because I’m no longer lost.
And we are uprising,
Just like the flowers of spring do.
Why can't you?
Why can’t you?
We are uprising,
And we are calling
Out to you, out to you.
You rise with us and we rise with you.
[Solo: CDH]
[Solo: RJL]
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April Uprising Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
April Uprising is a four-piece metal band from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, that blends extreme metal with melodic and progressive tendencies.
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