Infest

in the shadows of towers
we rage against the sky
call out the cowards
who avert their eyes

this twisted structure
erodes from within
clings to its foundation
until the bitter end

you will never know my name
until your paper castles
all explode in flame
then you'll know that it's too late
you will pay the price
for how you fucked the human race

We've died for liberty
Eyes fraught with defiance
You commit forgery
Infest to force compliance

In our very own homes
Retake the swamps and hills with stones
For flags and fathers we die young

pull the wool
Over thine own eyes
the shepherd is the piper
leads you to your demise
(Life lives as I decide!)

All the time
We lose the sight of your disguises
Simplify this plan to bring upon the demise
Of this STATE
Of emergency we're in
We got to rip out this corruption
Rethink the bliss
We're blessed
Forever sleeping, heading West
Replacing carriages with chests
In jest? No!
We just know
That we are the people
And we will not quarter kings

break the silence
the promise
the balance
the separating walls
the windows of the palace

downpressed, united
nothing left to lose
to the enemies of man:
"we will not bow to you"
"we will not bow to you"

The secret dossier
That holds us to this blade
Exposed with cyanide,
Silk, and plots from the shade

Your knaving, raving hands
Grip one last neck
You stand
Behold! Behold! (gang vox)
E pluribus unum

in the shadows of towers
rage against the sky
call out the cowards
who avert their eyes

infest
infect
infiltrate
obsessed
no rest
no rest till we annihilate

you will never know my name
until your paper castles
all explode in flame
then you'll know that it's too late
you will pay the price
for how you fucked...
you will never know my name
until your paper castles
all explode in flame
then you'll know that it's too late
you will pay the price
for how you fucked...
for how you fucked the human race


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Figured it may as well get posted. Finished the lyrics that I wrote for this a while ago, but the other part was written by EKP. This is the product as it currently exists, but that's not to say I won't add or alter something to it. Most of the altering I do with songs is on the melodic level and is in regards to HOW I sing it, not what I sing, which goes unnoticed when you just look at the lyrics anyways.

Switchboard

It was harder than I thought
Sunken eyes but a sunkissed face
The hurricanes have passed us
Relics; we are now misplaced
I pulled aside thy company
To where we stand unthreaded
Commit 10,000 fouls against myself
For endings' mend
"言うようにして"
But these fingers failed to work
I can't hardly wait or stand it
Paired against what makes men lurch
"息を吸う夜中まで”
Yet somehow this world exists
Where I can toss within the earth
And to myself resist


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Ok, sorry if you don't speak Japanese or know how it sounds, if you heard me read it it would go a little smoother. But it felt really natural for those parts to fall there, so deal with it. I wrote this yesterday.

To This Siren, I Heed

How can it be?
That this silence of the sea
Persists despite waves
That come crashing over me
For there never is just one
Just one warning sent to me
From my siren of the sea
Through each breeze a century
That I've burnt under this sun
Of the sun that shines for none
But is simply set to be
The torch for all of us to see
Just how can it be?
That this silence of the sea
Persists...just ask me
What it's worth to be free.


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Well would you look at that, it's St. Patrick's Day now. I dream of corned beef.