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Failure By Design
01:01
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Parasite Core
05:26
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Bloodless veins of mine
Carry only scorn and sorrow
Heart of gold which once encumbered me
I carry no more
Dim light I had inside has faded away
And it's gone
Like a moth into the flame
I'll burn and fall as one for all
Enemies, nemeses, archvillains of the story
We tell ourselves everyday
To justify our parasitic state
Consume, convert, conform, convey
Delay this escape just to die another day
See our sons, forsaken and undone
Stand alone in line to follow blind
Mask worn for so long
Becomes the face of a self erased
Self-absorbed angels of disgrace
Emerge as wraiths
Take me someplace else, away from it all
Away from prosperity, away from the fall
Freedom to sing to the malady of war
Reveals us to be the parasites we are
See our sons, forsaken and undone
Stand alone in line to follow blind
Disconnected discomfort
Pushes us parasites towards
Desperation thus defeat
Let the agony of a new day begin
See our sons, forsaken and undone
Stand alone in line to follow blind
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Words on a Page
04:25
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Discordant thoughts, as I pour them out
In-sight, they're words on a page
Words on a page
Take a stand and rearrange the words on the page
Through the fires of hell I fall
Admire cold destiny (breathe in)
The flames burn my skin
Expose the effigy within (unforeseen)
The king and the clown
Incinerate just the same here (cremated)
From ashes to coal
Becoming fuel for this cycle of suffering
Discordant thoughts, as I pour them out
Of mind, they're words on a page
Words on a page
Take a stand and rearrange the words on the page
The pain will subside
After the flesh melts away (breathe out)
With bones petrified
Infused into the ground (no doubt)
And from rotten remains
Grows out new roots (new life)
In body, in soul
Becoming bound to this circle of solitude
Discordant thoughts, as I pour them out
In-sight, they're words on a page
Words on a page
Take a stand and rearrange the words on the page
Disturbing thoughts, as I purge them out
Of mind, they're words on a page
Words on a page
Take a stand and rearrange the herd on the stage
Breathing the fumes of a barn
Doused with gasoline
In here, my tiny flame
She'll pray for me
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Yesterday 2.0
05:34
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Mourning each morning, the sunrise, it suffices to burn
Burn it all away, a new start, all but a remedy for the heart
The heart that's grown cold, cold like a stone
Stones, broken bones, and the words that kill
Deconstruct the core of sanity, why?
By decree, this mandate to self-destruct
The urge to obstruct and disrupt and corrupt
Remember to forget it all
Remember to throw away
All you've ever learned
Chastise and demonize all those who oppose this
Being docile and in control
Surrender to the machine, he who knows it all
Remember to throw away
All you've ever earned
No more reflections off the portrait of me
When the voice that echoes in the streets forgets my name
Spread my ashes far and wide as I return to the Earth
Mother, mother, mother Earth!
Carry me back to you
My every tomorrow's yesterday 2.0
Truth of perception comes from blood spilled
Or is it somewhere in between?
For man is but a vessel for the machine
Such a hopeless cause, it's all the same
All we'll ever be
With a bit of final breath take in the scenery
Harmonious solidarity encapsulated, frozen in
Timeless incongruity
A snowglobe shattered and drained
All we could foresee
Father forgive me for the shadows I've casted unto thee
Father forgive me, all I've done was for I had thought I was free
Faith in the defeat of all that's good
This phantom in pursuit
Maybe we're meant to be the enemy
An adversary misunderstood
Such a hopeless cause, it's all in vain
Yet let there be light
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Mediator
03:59
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Buried alive in this nine-to-five
And I've survived, sleep deprived
Next week if I refuse to pay
They'll take the house away
(Deep inside we're the same)
There go the children who
Never knew we were this screwed
So as you're cleaning up
Please take my wife too
Words! Speak! Louder, it rings
You live like kings, under our wings
Try to blend in and pretend you're one of us
I promise you everything will be alright
Off with his head
Shut up, I'm fed up, so have it your way
I'm quitting right today
I do have every right to yell
And you can just go to hell
(Deep inside we're the same)
Oh, there goes the chance I blew
What have I got myself into?
Wait, before you kick me out
Here, take my bamboo too
Words! Speak! Louder, it rings
You live like kings, under our wings
No severance package left me with a severed head
With debt collectors on the way I'm better off dead
Oh God! Please! No, don't take that!
Give it back! It was my mother's! Give it back!
Why is this happening to me? Is this how it ends?
By God, I swear! I'll bury you with my own hands!
Try to blend in and pretend you're one of us
I promise you everything will be alright
Try to blend in and pretend you're one of us
I promise you everything will be alright
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Philosophers' Stone
03:13
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Nevermore will I be searching through the shadows
Magnum opus, my great work
Evermore will I seek immortality
For I may die, but my work remains, my legacy
Can you hear the sound of
Sands of time flowing through the hourglass?
Time is slipping away, chime rust flipping gray
Can you see the flame?
My candle burns at both ends
To find at last death cure, immortal and pure
Subject defies nature
Design cells that divide perfectly
No more infection, one simple injection
The missing piece of the puzzle
Why does it fail every single time?
Maybe we're meant to be, riddled with misery
Nevermore will I be searching through the shadows
Magnum opus, my great work
Evermore will I seek immortality
For I may die, but my work remains, my legacy
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Become as Angels
03:13
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Wish for escape, even though all is well
Surrender, surrender, throw it all away
This feeling strikes harder
Stronger than the hammer falls
Where's the final nail of the coffin?
Find it, put it back in
This razor's edge is a fine line
To walk across
Only takes one step to be lost
And it spirals down entwined
Confined in a prison of my own making
Desperate I became an angel so I could fly away
Ready or not here we take
The final plunge into
The heart of the other world
Leave behind wings never ours
Why never appreciate all the things we have?
The heart always yearns for more
Confined in a prison of my own making
Desperate I became an angel
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Abstract271
03:07
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As mind believes the existence
Of illusory persistence
An instance of incoherence
Appears in the distance
The paradox grows and festers
Rooted in our definitions
Abstract overtakes cognition
(Beware of beliefs, convictions deceive)
Eliminating the improbable
Emanates from fear of the unknown
Truth is meant to be left alone
Subvert the sublime redesigned
This contamination has spread
Corrupting vagrant intellect
Yet they defend it and pretend
To awaken is to introspect
If you justify the extreme
As faith meant to be
Go on, dig yourself two graves
One in reality, one for your dream
Scenic substance reprograms
The brain to perceive it as such
A cunning ruse, the sages' muse
Empires fall in a day
Built in hundreds of years
The old cliché, on replay
(Beware of beliefs, convictions deceive)
Assimilating the improbable
Alleviates fear of the unknown
Truth is meant to be left alone
Subvert the sublime, redefine the divine
This conflagration has spared
None but the most insolent
Yet they remain and so retain
The audacity to claim innocence
If you justify the extreme
As faith meant to be
Go on, dig yourself two graves
One in reality, one for your dream
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Mors Vincit Omnia
01:27
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Parham Gharavaisi New York, New York
Parham Gharavaisi started as a solo instrumental project with the release of its debut album titled Identity Cipher, the style then promptly transitioned into metal with the release of the second and third albums titled Replicas/Hollow and Resurrection respectively. ... more
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