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Create​/​Conquer​/​Destroy

by Ascend the Fallen

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1.
Wastelands 04:51
THIS PLACE IS A WASTELAND AND THIS WASTE IS NOW IS OUR HOME WE KEPT ON BUILDING MACHINES TO CONQUER OUR DREAMS STRIPPED OUR EARTH DOWN TO ITS BONES WE'VE CLIMBED THE PILLARS OF HEAVEN TO BURN THE MOTHERFUCKER DOWN LET THE DEBRIS FALL AND GIVE NEW SKIN TO OUR GROUND WE'VE CLIMBED THE PILLARS OF HEAVEN TO BURN THE MOTHERFUCKER DOWN BURN IT DOWN THIS IS THE END - THE END OF THE END A NEW BEGINNING FOR THE THINNING POPULATION WE'VE PENNED THEY SAID APOCALYPSE IS COMING THROUGH THE RADIO WAVES WITH AN EPIPHANY OF SYMPHONIES SO PERFECTLY PLAYED I AM A FRIEND - A FRIEND OF A FRIEND IN CONJUNCTION WITH DYSFUNCTION I AM HERE TO DEFEND I'VE GOT MY BACK AGAINST THE OCEAN - I HAVE SHARPENED MY BLADES THEY ALL SAID EVACUATE BUT I'M AIMING TO MISBEHAVE AS I LOOK OUT UPON THE HORIZON I CAN FEEL A STORM APPROACHING YET ITS PRESENCE IS SILENT NEVER HAVE THESE WINDS FELT SO VIOLENT OUR FUTURE HAS BEEN STOLEN BUT I'VE CHOSEN TO FIND IT WE'VE CLIMBED THE PILLARS OF HEAVEN TO BURN THE MOTHERFUCKER DOWN LET THE DEBRIS FALL AND GIVE NEW SKIN TO OUR GROUND CRAWL UPON YOUR CRUCIFIX THIS GENOCIDE – OUR IGNORANCE THIS IS AN EYE - AN EYE FOR AN EYE A NEW POLLUTION EVOLUTION FOR YOUR POWER SUPPLY IN THIS APOCALYPSE I'M HUMMING TO THE CHAOS BRIGADE WITH AN AUXILIARY ARTILLERY SO PERFECTLY PLAYED THIS IS THE END - THE END OF THE END AN INTRODUCTION TO DESTRUCTION I AM HERE TO ASCEND WITH THIS PLANET AS OUR TROPHY WE HAVE SIMPLY RETRACED ALL THE FOOTSTEPS OF OUR FATHERS AND THEN LAID IT TO WASTE THIS PLACE IS A WASTELAND AND THIS WASTE IS NOW IS OUR HOME WE KEPT ON BUILDING MACHINES TO CONQUER OUR DREAMS STRIPPED OUR EARTH DOWN TO ITS BONES PURIFICATION - AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS WELL I HAVE FOUND OUR FOUNDATION THE WATERS POISONED BUT I'M THINKING I MIGHT HAVE JUST A SIP TO TASTE THE EVILS WE'VE BEEN BRINGING TO LIFE CONTAMINATION – IN THE CENTER OF THIS HELL WE’VE BECOME THE FOUNDATION EATEN AWAY BY THE PARASITES THERE’S NOTHING LEFT - NO WILL TO SURVIVE THIS IS THE END THE END OF THE END MY FRIENDS THIS IS THE END WE'VE CLIMBED THE PILLARS OF HEAVEN TO BURN THE MOTHERFUCKER DOWN LET THE DEBRIS FALL AND GIVE NEW SKIN TO OUR GROUND WE'VE CLIMBED THE PILLARS OF HEAVEN TO BURN THE MOTHERFUCKER DOWN AND IN THE ASHES OF OUR MISTAKES WE WILL NOW DROWN
2.
Consumed 04:40
TO FEED UPON THOSE DARK DESIRES MY SOUL DISSOLVES AS I'M CONSUMED WE'VE STRUCK THE MATCH TO LIGHT THE FIRE ENGULF THIS WORLD WE NEVER KNEW TAKE BACK THESE SHATTERED DREAMS SWEEP THEM UNDERNEATH THE RUG OF YOUR MATERIAL NEEDS CONSUME - CONSUME FROM BENEATH YOU IT DEVOURS COMING - IT'S COMING SOON HERE WE WERE - WE WERE HERE AND THERE WE WENT HERE WE ARE - WE ARE HERE BUT ARE WE DEAD? TO TASTE THE FLESH OF THOSE DESIRES WE WAIT AS BAIT TO BE CONSUMED THROW OURSELVES RIGHT INTO THE FIRE ENGULF THESE SOULS WE'VE NEVER USED CONSUME - CONSUME FROM BENEATH YOU IT DEVOURS COMING - IT'S COMING SOON THE EARTH HAS TEETH- WE'RE GUNNA OPEN IT UP IT'S GUNNA SWALLOW US WHOLE HERE WE WERE - WE WERE HERE AND THERE WE WENT THE EARTH HAS TEETH- WE'RE GUNNA OPEN IT UP IT'S GUNNA SWALLOW US WHOLE HERE WE ARE - WE ARE HERE BUT ARE WE DEAD? DEAD? CONSUME – CONSUME FROM BENEATH YOU IT DEVOURS JUDGEMENT DAY IS COMING SOON
3.
Vultures 04:45
THESE PLAGUES HAVE BEEN DELIVERED BY THE HANDS OF A SELFISH WHORE A SEA OF WAVES FROM OPEN LEGS HAS CRASHED UPON THESE SHORES NOW YOU'RE DROWNING IN THE TIDE SCREAMING FOR HELP AS I WATCH YOUR DEMISE TORN FROM YOUR DISGUISE CHOKING ON THE BLOOD THAT YOU'VE SPILLED WITH YOUR LIES AND ARE YOU SORRY? ARE YOU SORRY FOR WHAT YOU'VE DONE? YOU CAN SEEK FORGIVENESS BUT ALL THE SICKNESS HAS JUST BEGUN AND I'M NOT... A SWARM OF VULTURES WOULDN'T FEAST UPON YOUR INSIDES YOUR TASTE IS FAR TOO ROTTEN, YOUR TASTE IS FAR TOO ROTTEN YOUR TASTE IS FAR TOO ROTTEN THIS IS A LOAD OF BULLSHIT, THIS IS A LACK OF PASSION WHEN LIFELESS DREAMS AND HONEST MACHINES ARE NOTHING BUT DISTRACTIONS THIS IS THE END OF LOVE, THIS IS A CRIME OF PASSION HOW TWISTED DREAMS AND BACKWARDS ROUTINES CAN BRING SUCH SATISFACTION THESE PLAGUES HAVE BEEN DELIVERED BY THE HANDS OF A SELFISH WHORE NOW YOU'RE DROWNING IN THE TIDE NOW YOU'RE DROWNING IN THE TIDE AND ARE YOU SORRY? ARE YOU SORRY FOR WHAT YOU'VE DONE? YOU CAN SEEK FORGIVENESS BUT ALL THE SICKNESS HAS JUST BEGUN AND I'M NOT... I'M NOT SORRY... A SWARM OF VULTURES WOULDN'T FEAST UPON YOUR INSIDES YOUR TASTE IS FAR TOO ROTTEN, YOUR TASTE IS FAR TOO ROTTEN
4.
Consequences 04:40
SHAKING - OUR HANDS ARE SHAKING FROM THE COLD THE CONSEQUENCES WE NOW SUFFER SHALL PAVE THEIR WAY WITH GOLD OUR FUTURE - NO FUTURE - EVERY CLOUD HAS CRUMBLED TO DUST PROMISES - PROMISES - FEEDING OFF THE WEAK WITH SUCH LUST POWER - YOU USE YOUR POWER FOR CONTROL BUT WITHOUT STRINGS SOME PUPPETS STRUGGLE TO CLIMB OUT OF THIS HOLE JUST TO FEEL ALIVE AGAIN... THEY SAID, THEY SAID... JUST TO FEEL ALIVE AGAIN... DIGGING DEEP YOUR CLAWS INTO THE CADAVERS WE PORTRAY THE INSTRUMENTS OF GREAT MISFORTUNE - A WRETCHED SYMPHONY HIGH UPON YOUR TOWER YOU PRAISE OUR KINGDOMS SLOW DECAY BREAKING - OUR BONES ARE BREAKING FROM YOUR HOLD AND WITHOUT SPINES THESE SERPENTS FEED OFF THE HOPE THAT WE HAVE SOLD POISON- THE VENOMS POISON TAKES CONTROL BUT WITH LUNGS COLLAPSED SOME FOOLS STILL STRUGGLE TO CRAWL OUT OF YOUR HOLE JUST TO FEEL ALIVE AGAIN... THEY SAID, THEY SAID... JUST TO FEEL ALIVE AGAIN... DIGGING DEEP YOUR CLAWS INTO OUR CADAVERS DIGGING DEEP YOUR CLAWS INTO OUR CADAVERS NOBODY IS FREE UNTIL EVERYBODY IS FREE NOBODY IS FREE UNTIL EVERYBODY IS FREE BUT WITHOUT WARNING HOW WILL WE KNOW WHEN TO RUN? CAUSE WITHOUT POWER THEIR HANDS WILL SEAL THESE WALLS SHUT AND WITHOUT WINDOWS HOW WILL WE SEE THE SUN?
5.
Nameless 04:52
THEY ARE THE ORPHANED ONES NOT GIVEN A NAME BORN TO A WORLD WHERE THEIR EXISTENCE IS PLAGUED BEHIND A MASK – FORCED TO LIVE IN DISGUISE IF THEY EVEN GET THE CHANCE TO SEE THE WORLD WITH THEIR EYES BECAUSE NOT EVER WILL THEY BREATHE WITHOUT FIRST GIVING A FIGHT AND NOT EVER WILL OUR IGNORANCE BRING DARKNESS TO LIGHT THEY SET THE FIRE TO THEIR FOREST - SO WE JUST WATCH THEM BURN ALIVE THEY ARE THE ORPHANED ONES NOT GIVEN A NAME THE MISSING PIECES IN THIS PUZZLE OF SHAME THIS IS NO LIFE - WHO HAS THE RIGHT? TO THROW AWAY LIFE – YOU HAVE NO RIGHT I HAVE NO FAITH IN A HUMANITY WITH NO RESPECT FOR IT'S SANITY WE MIGHT AS WELL BE LEFT DYING WITH THE CARCASSES OF YESTERDAY NO SWEET VIRGINITY - NO TOMORROW THIS DEEP AFFINITY THAT WE MUST SWALLOW I’VE COME BEARING AN URGE TO UNRAVEL YOUR MECHANICAL LANGUAGE I’VE COME DARING THE SCOURGE TO UNRAVEL THEIR PURITANICAL WAYS BECAUSE NOT EVER WILL THEY BREATHE WITHOUT FIRST GIVING A FIGHT AND NOT EVER WILL OUR IGNORANCE BRING DARKNESS TO LIGHT THEY SET THE FIRE TO THEIR FOREST - SO WE JUST WATCH THEM BURN ALIVE OFF THE FLAMES WE WILL THRIVE - WATCH US BURN ALIVE I HAVE NO FAITH IN A HUMANITY WITH NO RESPECT FOR IT'S SANITY WE MIGHT AS WELL BE LEFT DYING WITH THE CARCASSES OF YESTERDAY NO SWEET VIRGINITY - NO TOMORROW THIS DEEP AFFINITY THAT WE MUST SWALLOW THIS IS NO LIFE - WHO HAS THE RIGHT? TO THROW AWAY LIFE – YOU HAVE NO RIGHT THIS IS NO DREAM – WHO PULLS THE STRINGS? TO THROW AWAY LIFE – WE HAVE NO RIGHT
6.
Nothing 03:45
7.
Nightmares 05:01
HERES YOUR CHURCH AND HERES YOUR STEEPLE YOUR DOLLAR SIGNS IN THE SHAPE OF PEOPLE TWISTING THEIR FAITH INTO A PROFIT MACHINE YOU'VE SPREAD THIS FILTH ACROSS OUR EARTH FILLING YOUR POCKETS WITH GREED YOU HOLD THE HAMMER OF HYPOCRISY POUNDING AWAY WITH SUCH ATROCITY POUNDING YOUR LIES INTO THESE COWARDS WHO NOW DEVOUR YOUR FRUIT SO SOUR - YOUR SELFISH GAMES NO SOULS - DRUNKEN OFF POWER YOU ARE NO MASTERS - WE ARE NO SLAVES HERES THE CONTRACT - THE DOTTED LINE YOU'LL ALL BE SAVED IF YOU ALL CAN PAY THE PRICE EMPTY YOUR WALLETS - GET ON YOUR KNEES AND SPEAK YOUR PEACE FOR SAVING YOU BY FEEDING ME WHERES YOUR HONOR? - WHERES YOUR PRIDE? YOU ARE A CRIMINAL - A MASTER OF DISGUISE IN YOUR WORLD OF LIES THE BIGGER YOUR GUN - THE LOUDER YOUR VOICE THE SMALLER YOUR WORTH - THE WEAKER YOUR CHOICE TO KNOW “AM I SAVED?” TO KNOW “AM I SHAMED?” TO KNOW “AM I PLAGUED?” TIMES CHANGE - TIMES CHANGE BUT IGNORANCE NEVER LEAVES TIMES CHANGE - TIMES CHANGE BUT NO THESE WORDS ARE NOT FREE BLOOD OF THE FATHER BLOOD OF THE BLIND BLOOD OF OUR MOTHER BLOOD OF MANKIND IN YOUR DISGUISE POUNDING YOUR LIES INTO THESE COWARDS WHO NOW DEVOUR YOUR FRUIT SO SOUR - YOUR SELFISH GAMES NO SOULS - DRUNKEN OFF POWER YOU ARE NO MASTERS - WE ARE NO SLAVES TIMES CHANGE - TIMES CHANGE BUT IGNORANCE NEVER LEAVES TIMES CHANGE - TIMES CHANGE BUT NO THESE WORDS ARE NOT FREE
8.
Reflections 03:59
I WAKE UP ON A MOUNTAIN TOP I DONT KNOW WHERE I AM BUT I KNOW WHERE I HAVE BEEN BURNING UNDERNEATH THIS SUN FOR TWENTY-FIVE LONG YEARS AND ON THE DAY THAT ROCK DIES OUT I'LL SHED NO FUCKING TEARS LET IT DIE - WATCH ME FALL I DON'T GIVE A SHIT ABOUT THIS WORLD OR ANYTHING AT ALL IN THE MIRROR I DON'T SEE A FACE ONLY THE OUTLINE OF A MONSTER THAT HAS TAKEN ITS PLACE AND FROM HIS NOSE UNTO IT'S CHIN THE WORMS CRAWL OUT–THE WORMS CRAWL IN I WALK UP TO THE EDGE AND OPEN MY ARMS WIDE DIVE HEAD FIRST INTO THE DARKNESS, NEVER SAY GOODBYE THE BRIDGES HOME HAVE BURNED, MY HISTORY IS DUST NO ONE LEFT TO CATCH MY FALL, NOBODY LEFT TO TO TRUST I GAVE YOU EVERYTHING EVERY OUNCE OF MY SWEAT, EVERY TEAR OFF MY CHEEK I GAVE UP EVERYTHING THROUGH THE CRACKS IN YOUR SMILE YOU HAD MADE ME BELIEVE I'VE BROKEN EVERYTHING EVERY BEAT OF MY HEART, EVERY BRANCH OF MY TREE I'VE GIVEN EVERYTHING EVERY DROP OF MY BLOOD, NOW I NO LONGER BLEED I NO LONGER BLEED (I'M FALLING DOWN, I'M FALLING DOWN...) I NO LONGER BLEED IN THE MIRROR I DON'T SEE A FACE ONLY THE OUTLINE OF A MONSTER THAT HAS TAKEN ITS PLACE AND FROM HIS NOSE UNTO IT'S CHIN THE WORMS CRAWL OUT–THE WORMS CRAWL IN IN THE MIRROR I DON'T SEE A FACE ONLY THE OUTLINE OF A MONSTER THAT HAS TAKEN ITS PLACE AND FROM MY NOSE UNTO MY CHIN THE WORMS CRAWL OUT–THE WORMS CRAWL IN LET IT DIE - WATCH ME FALL I DON'T GIVE A SHIT ABOUT THIS WORLD OR ANYTHING AT ALL
9.
Unwanted 04:46
I'VE BECOME ONE WITH THIS BLADE CLENCHED IN THE HANDS OF MY FATE LIVING THIS LIE FOR WAY TOO LONG WIPING THE BLOOD FROM MY HANDS, ON THESE FEET A NEW MAN NOW STANDS I'VE DONE MY TIME BUT IT WONT BE LONG... IT WONT BE LONG UNTIL YOU SEE THEY'RE ALL DEAD ALL DEAD THIS HUNGER DEEP INSIDE US THAT FUELS OUR DARKEST NEEDS THE SUICIDE NOTE THAT WE WEAR RIGHT ON OUR FUCKING SLEEVES THIS HUNGER DEEP INSIDE US THAT MAKES US FEEL ALIVE WILL ONLY PROVE TO BE THE DOORWAY TO OUR OWN DEMISE WE HAVE ACCEPTED THE REASONS THAT WE'VE BEEN DEFEATED RETURNING TO A PLACE NO MAN SHOULD CALL HOME WE'VE DONE OUR TIME BUT IT WONT BE LONG... IT WONT BE LONG UNTIL YOU SEE THEY'RE ALL DEAD AND DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES UNWANTED - SWALLOWED BY THIS HELL THE REASONS WE'RE DEFEATED THE REASONS ARE NOT STOPPING WE HEAR THIS SILENCE COMING, IT'S COME AS NO SURPRISE I NEVER THOUGHT A PULSE WAS SOMETHING WE COULD IMPROVISE THE HUNGER DEEP INSIDE US THAT FUELS OUR DARKEST NEEDS IS NOT STOPPING LIVING THIS LIE FOR WAY TOO LONG WE'VE DONE OUR TIME BUT IT WONT BE LONG IT WONT BE LONG UNTIL THESE ROADS REACH THE END AND IT WONT BE LONG UNTIL YOU SEE WE'RE ALL DEAD WIPING THE BLOOD FROM MY HANDS ON THESE FEET A NEW MAN NOW STANDS WE HAVE ACCEPTED THE REASONS THAT WE'VE BEEN DEFEATED RETURNING TO A PLACE NO MAN SHOULD CALL HOME IT WONT BE LONG UNTIL OUR ROADS REACH THEIR END AND IT WONT BE LONG UNTIL YOU SEE WE'RE ALL DEAD AND DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES UNWANTED - SWALLOWED BY THIS HELL ITS NOT STOPPING ITS NOT STOPPING
10.
Eulogy 05:16
OUR HANDS WILL ROLL THE DICE OF OUR FATE I WAS NEVER ONE WITH LUCKY NUMBERS SO I'M PRAYING, DISOBEYING ALL THE THINGS WE'VE EVER TOUCHED, THE SIGNALS I'VE RECEIVED TELEVISED THIS TRAGEDY, OUR ROTTING FANTASY OFF WITH THEIR HEADS - THAT'S WHAT I SAID - OFF WITH THEIR HEADS OFF WITH THEIR HEADS – PAINT THE TOWN RED KEEP ON MARCHING, KEEP ON SEARCHING, KEEP ON MARCHING, KEEP ON HUNTING KEEP HUNTING, LETS UNLEASH THE HOUNDS FOR THEIR PREY AND I WAS NEVER ONE FOR PLAYING JESUS BUT I’M SAVING, RESURRECTING EVERY BRIDGE YOU'VE EVER BURNED, THE STRUCTURE IN THESE WAVES SINK THE SHIPS THAT WE ONCE SAILED, THE BEAST WE COULDN'T TAME TAKE A LOOK AROUND, WE'RE LIVING WITH THE LOST AND FOUND RISING FROM THE GROUND, THE LIVING DEAD ARE ALL AROUND EVERY BRANCH WE'VE EVER TOUCHED, THE MAGGOTS IN OUR GRAVE FEED OFF ROOTS OF WHAT ONCE WAS, THE TREES WE COULDN'T SAVE LIARS - WE ARE ALL LIARS FUELED BY DESIRES - LOSING OUR SPEED FROM THESE CIRCUITS PROGRAMMED TO WORSHIP ANYTHING WORTHLESS – EVERYTHING FROM THESE CIRCUITS PROGRAMMED TO WORSHIP ANYTHING WORTHLESS – EVERYTHING YOU WERE A GODDESS OF MANY NAMES FROM THIS DUNGEON I'VE BROKEN YOUR CHAINS FUCK YOUR KINGDOM, FUCK YOUR CROWN CAUSE FROM YOUR THRONE I'VE PULLED YOU DOWN TO GRACE THE PEASANTS WITH YOUR PRESENCE FROM YOUR THRONE I'VE PULLED YOU DOWN TO CREATE – CONQUER - DESTROY

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released June 11, 2011

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