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Thy Art Is Murder - Human Target lyrics



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01. Human Target

Turn the land
Sow the seed of our destruction
Force the hand
Spin the wheels of our corruption
Quench the thirst, starve the fever, taste the harvest
With nothing left to feed the combines
We move onto a human target

Ravenous
Choke down the bones of all below
Unholy masochists
Feeding on the weak, population control
They will devour us
Excess consumption, life reduction
We're so cowardice
We want the kill but we won't pull the trigger

Dig the holes
Open the caves
Pile the bodies in an unmarked grave
The gears in motion
Humanity is frozen
The fear is in the eye of victims we have chosen

To suffer at the hands of man
To wither in the heart of the wasteland
Tremble, fall to your knees
Collapse from the weight
Trampled beneath

Machinery
Surgical precision
Lacerate the limbs of the poorest of the children
Watch them scatter through the fields of departed
And take aim at your prey
Human target

Life in the crosshairs
Kill to survive
Life in the crosshairs
Swallow the lie
Life in the crosshairs
Blood in your eyes
Blood in our eyes
Swallow the lie
Kill to survive
Take aim at the human target

Ravenous
Choke down the bones of all below
Unholy masochists
Feeding on the weak, population control
They will devour us
Excess consumption, life reduction
We're so cowardice
We want the kill but we won't pull the trigger

Insanity
Far beyond remission
Sacrifice the souls for the spoils of attrition
Scatter the ashes of the innocent departed
And take aim at your prey
Human target

Blood in our eyes
Blood in our eyes

Kill or be killed
If you won't pull the trigger
Then they fucking will

Everyone is a fucking target
Everyone is a fucking target
Everyone is a fucking target
Kill to survive
Kill to survive

02. New Gods

New gods
Arise
Your followers are weaponized
New gods
Arise
Your future is genocide

New gods
Arise
Your followers are weaponized
New gods
Arise
Your future is genocide

A lust for artificial heroes
Validating our vice
For moral sacrifice
This isn't culture
This is mind control
The network feeds us a life
Void of all social device

Can't look me in the eyes
When you only see optical illusions algorithms provide
Intentional suicide
Calculated collateral
Man is expendable

New gods
Arise
Your followers are weaponized
New gods
Arise
Your future is genocide

This isn't culture
This is mind control
This isn't culture
This is mind control

Cult leader
Show us the light
The blind will follow the blind
Cult leader
Show us the light
The blind will follow the blind

New gods
Arise
Your followers are weaponized
New gods
Arise
Your future is genocide

A lust for artificial heroes
Validating our vice
For moral sacrifice
Dehumanized as ones and zeroes
Cult leader show us the light
The blind will follow the blind

This isn't culture
This is mind control
This isn't culture
This is mind control
This isn't culture
This is mind control
This isn't culture
This is mind control

03. Death Squad Anthem

If the mob wants blood
Then they'll fucking get it
You started this war
Now you'll fucking regret it

21st century death squad anthem
Your life is on the line
Your obedience is their ransom
21st century death squad anthem
The methods of peace are obsolete
So grab your guns and sing with me

Impatient in our rage
Force fed this disillusion
Missing a torn-out page
Suppress the revolution
All eyes on the big stage
Swept to the institutions
Complacent in our cage
Ready for the execution

21st century death squad anthem
Your life is on the line
Your obedience is their ransom
21st century death squad anthem
The methods of peace are obsolete
So grab your guns and sing with me

If the mob wants blood
Then they'll fucking get it

Riot, resist
Tyrants cease to exist
Riot, resist
Tyrants cease to exist

Divide and conquer
While they conjure
Divisive means
For the stronger
Addicted by design
To a system in decline

Arise the scourge of man
Divide the foolish
Dilute the masses
Deprived of liberty
We'll not stand by while
Society collapses

Impatient in our rage
Force fed this disillusion
Missing a torn-out page
Suppress the revolution
All eyes on the big stage
Swept to the institutions
Complacent in our cage
Ready for the execution

21st century death squad anthem
Your life is on the line
Your obedience is their ransom
21st century death squad anthem
The methods of peace are obsolete
So grab your guns and sing with me
Tyrants cease to exist
Riot, resist
Tyrants cease to exist
Divide and conquer
While they conjure
Divisive means
For the stronger
Addicted by design
To a system in decline

Arise the scourge of man
Divide the foolish
Dilute the masses
Deprived of liberty
We'll not stand by while
Society collapses
Impatient in our rage
Force fed this disillusion
Missing a torn-out page
Suppress the revolution
All eyes on the big stage
Swept to the institutions
Complacent in our cage
Ready for the execution
21st century death squad anthem
Your life is on the line
Your obedience is their ransom
21st century death squad anthem
The methods of peace are obsolete
So grab your guns and sing with me

04. Make America Hate Again

Hostility
Your leaders are now your enemies
They'll make America great again
Fuck no!
Let's make America hate again

Peace talks are off the table
It's time for violent action
Pushed to the brink
Tell me what the fuck ya think would happen
Suffered through holy wars
But now the fight is at our door
Natives are restless
We will not accept this

I dream of endless floods
Let freedom rain in buckets of blood
What will it take to be free
The only answer is

Hostility
Your leaders are now your enemies
They'll make America great again
Fuck no!
Let's make America hate again

I'm done with pacifism
You can't debate with demons
Burn down the house that betrays us
I want blood
I want chaos
More chaos
More chaos
More chaos
Let's make America hate again

The propaganda machine
Spills its patriotic pus in the streets
We lap it up, drunk on fantasy
You never practice what you preach
A servant's life is incomplete
What will it take to be free

I dream of endless floods
Let freedom rain in buckets of blood
I dream of endless floods
Let freedom rain in buckets of blood

Hostility
Your leaders are now your enemies
They'll make America great again
Fuck no!
Let's make America hate again

Let's make America hate again

Hostility
Your leaders are now your enemies
Hostility
Your leaders are now your enemies

05. Eternal Suffering

Look at the mess we've made
Our house is merely a vessel for the rust and decay
We tear down the walls, we dig up the dirt
We've orphaned our dreams, but we still can't bury the hurt

In the center of the Earth
In the warmth of the fire
Hurl the scraps on the embers
Fanning the flame of desire
Igniting the pains of our memories
Yet we're still ashamed
Was it too late or was it not enough?
Did we fail or did we just give up?

We are the broken, we are the cursed
We are the stain on a dying Earth
Chained to each other in misery
Our eternal suffering

Grind down
Upon the bones of what was perfect
We've had our fill
Now we're left to wonder was it worth it?
Tortured souls
Ever haunted by tortured minds
How on Earth will we survive?
How in hell can we reverse it?

How on Earth will we survive?
How in hell can we reverse it?
Was it too late or not enough?
Did we fail or just give up?
Submit
Our fate is a grave
In which we dig

Grind down
Upon the bones of what was perfect
We've had our fill
Now we're left to wonder was it worth it?
Tortured souls
Ever haunted by tortured minds
How on Earth will we survive?
How in hell can we reverse it?

We are the broken
We are the cursed
We are the stain on a dying Earth
Chained to each other in misery
Our eternal suffering
We are the broken and the flawed
We are the sickness in the fall
Chained to each other in misery
Our eternal suffering

In the center of the Earth
In the warmth of the fire
We throw what's left on the embers
Fanning the flame of desire
We buried the pain, we buried the flesh
The memories, the feel of regret
Oh, the graves we dig just to live in sin
We don't give up, we just give in

Chained to each other in misery
Our eternal suffering
Chained to each other in misery
Our eternal suffering
We are the broken
We are the cursed
We are the stain on a dying Earth

Chained to each other in misery
Our eternal suffering
Chained to each other in misery
Our eternal suffering
Chained to each other in misery
Our eternal suffering
Chained to each other in misery
Our eternal suffering

06. Welcome Oblivion

To exist, a cancer needs a living organism
But it cannot ever become a living organism
Its whole malice lies in the face that the best it can do is to die with its host
Either that or its host will find the measures with which to outlive it

Feel it in your bones
Welcome oblivion
It consumes your soul
Welcome oblivion
We embrace the cold
Welcome oblivion
As we fall below
Welcome oblivion

Cancerous veins
Smother the landscape
In waves of infection and rot
Tunnel through the sinew and bone
Weaving its way through the hollow heart
Open the floodgates
Legions of lepers swallow the poison
Open the floodgates
Drowning the flesh with the blood that we boil in

(Destined to die)
Destined to die
The virus kills the host
It does not question why
Calloused leeches in sickly cells
Calcified in lifeless shells
Shortness of breath
Imminent death

Feel it in your bones
Welcome oblivion
It consumes your soul
Welcome oblivion
We embrace the cold
Welcome oblivion
As we fall below
Welcome oblivion

Open the floodgates
Collapse the lung, inhale the poison
Open the floodgates
Drowning the flesh with the blood that we boil in
There will be no asylum
White hospital walls only stained in violence
There will be no more brightness
Only darkness now upon the horizon

(Destined to die)
Destined to die
The virus kills the host
It does not question why
Calloused leeches in sickly cells
Calcified in lifeless shells
Shortness of breath
Imminent death

There will be no asylum
White hospital walls
Stained in violence

Welcome oblivion
Welcome oblivion

07. Atonement

These demons
Build you to break you
Rise to watch you fall
These demons inside
They know where you hide
And I don't know who I am anymore
These demons
Build you to break you
Rise to watch you fall
These demons inside
They know where you hide
And I don't know who I am anymore

Visions of atonement
A path that leads the broken
Into endless night
Horrified to face the light
For shall they see
Endless torment
Endless pain
The veins constrict
The heart is strained
Torture
Infiltration of the soul
All revealed for you to see, stricken of all dignity

I don't know who I am anymore

These demons
Build you to break you
Rise to watch you fall
These demons inside
They know where you hide
And I don't know who I am anymore
These demons
Build you to break you
Rise to watch you fall
These demons inside
They know where you hide
And I don't know who I am anymore

Numb to the touch
Numb to the feeling
Powerless to find passage to healing
The heart is frozen
The body broken
All revealed for you to see, stricken of all dignity

I don't know who I am anymore

These demons
Build you to break you
Rise to watch you fall
These demons inside
They know where you hide
And I don't know who I am anymore
These demons
Build you to break you
Rise to watch you fall
These demons inside
They know where you hide
And I don't know who I am anymore

Our past collides like shorelines and sand
Scatter the ashes into the distance
Victims of existence
Oceans carry you to the cold
Tired vessels cleansed below
Eternally
You and me
My demon

We sink together

08. Voyeurs Into Death

Children to the cages
Institutional enslavement
Monitor resistance
Smother all existence

Animalistic mentality
Desperate to escape
This mental penitentiary
A nihilistic society
Voyeurs into death
Embedded into circuitry

Disconnect the lines
There are devils in the wires
A dark passage for the empire
Refined technology
Reporting from the towers
There is no privilege
You are property of the higher power

Sleep with the beasts at our feet
They taste your sorrow
They feed on broken dreams
Sleep with the beasts at our feet
They see you
They hear you
They swallow everything
Do as you're told
Fall in line
Know your place
Stay with your kind
Do as your told
You're under control
You're under control
You're under control

Children to the cages
Institutional enslavement
Monitor resistance
Smother all existence

Animalistic mentality
Desperate to escape
This mental penitentiary
A nihilistic society
Voyeurs into death
Burning through humanity

Torchbearers
Sadistic lust for pain
Turn embers into flame
Void of remorse
For the ashes
Scattered in the wake
Chained to the floor
Like rabid dogs
A rage intensifies
A call to crucify
The lords of lesser men
Corrupted nemesis
Exterminate with
Extreme prejudice

Exterminate with extreme prejudice

Sleep with the beasts at our feet
They taste your sorrow
They feed on broken dreams
Sleep with the beasts at our feet
They see you
They hear you
They swallow everything
Do as you're told
Fall in line
Know your place
Stay with your kind
Do as your told
You're under control
You're under control
You're under control

Children to the cages
Institutional enslavement
Monitor resistance
Smother all existence

Exterminate with extreme prejudice
Exterminate with extreme prejudice

09. Eye For An Eye

A mighty flame erupts to the sky
Raining down in ashes
An arctic surge swells to the sand
We mourn as heaven crashes
The child weeps now for the loss of his only brother
Entombed in a shell of ancient stone
Cold and smothered

Mother Earth
Invoke the bones of all below
Return to the surface anew
To begin again

Drain the oceans, swallow the shores
Burn the forests to the floor
The ruin of man, the Earth endures
There will be nothing more

The rabid beast stalks the land
Stole the body from the tomb
Raped the sin into the lamb
Taste the fruit of thy womb
Now all is forsaken, all is undone
Consumed in the fire of the setting sun
The day shall come to pass
As the dark of night falls
The light slips from our grasp
The plight of rapture calls
There's no escape from what we've done
The mother's redemption
Reclaim your sons

Drain the oceans, swallow the shores
Burn the forests to the floor
The ruin of man, the Earth endures
There will be nothing more

And so the beast was turned on by the stock
No longer the shepherd, now hunted by the flock
Our blood shall nourish the fields in crimson and rust
Eden to dust

As we destroy ourselves in endless cycles
A patient killer awaits reprisal

Eye for an eye
Reprisal
Eye for an eye
Reprisal

Drain the oceans, swallow the shores
Burn the forests to the floor
The ruin of man, the Earth endures
There will be nothing more

Mother Earth
Invoke the bones of all below
Return to the surface anew
To begin again

In the wind
We fade away
In the tides
Sink and decay
All we were shall be replaced
All we've done shall be erased
Set free the fire in your heart
Mother Earth
Take us back to the start

10. Chemical Christ

Do you know your demons?
Do you yearn for pain?
Do your lethal addictions
To self-prescriptions
Numb the ache of the darkest days?
Why do you blame the world
For the ghost you have become
When you should blame no one but yourself
For your self-destruction?

Sword swallowers
The pills have a way
Of making us hollower
Addiction to emptiness
Begging for opioid utopia
Grovel at the feet of your father

Chemical Christ
Heaven is a nihilist paradise

A loaded gun with no trigger
An itchy hand with no fingers
Claw out the eyes that cry for relief
God is gone
He left his broken creatures
Solemn victims of self-defeat

Chemical Christ
Offer your souls to sacrifice
Chemical Christ
Heaven is a nihilist paradise

Grovel at the feet of your father

Sword swallower
Make us hollower


Why do you blame the world
For the ghost you have become
When you should blame no one but yourself
For your self-destruction?


Sword swallowers
The Lord has a way
Of finding His followers
Obsidian fever dreams
Of endless purgatory
Grovel at the feet of your father

Chemical Christ
Offer your souls to sacrifice
Chemical Christ
Heaven is a nihilist paradise

Why do you blame the world
For the ghost you have become
When you should blame no one but yourself
For your self-destruction?
Why do you blame the world
For the ghost you have become
When you should blame no one but yourself
For your self-destruction?