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Archaic Torse - Sneak Attack lyrics



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01. Beyond The Great Divide

The lifeline is broken, spineless gaunts passing by
Words of psychic warfare is all I can remember
Let my spirit drift away
From that weak shell of earthly life
Enter my private rooms of infinity
Imaginations of visions so bizarre
Bred from within
Complex machinery begets flux of thoughts
Remove this pernicious bleakness inside
On my way to eternal bliss
I fly above the wind yet can not arise
I'm going back to where my cradle lies
Disconnection with the world
This is the final redemption
Yearning for performance in a different reality
Pity not the dead, for its the living who suffer
Released motion
Leave the body in the pauper grave
Rise above the sea of morons
Taste this flamboyant art
Peerless hypocrisy is all I leave behind
Each second takes a part of you
Am I am avoiding your name...
I fed me in sorrow and laughed in all my pain
Desired to perish yet asked for a better life
Misguiding abundance, this is insane
A trance on the verge of absurtity
Pity not the dead for its the living who suffer
Released emotion
Leave the body in a pauper grave
Richness of human capacity goes versus
The poverty of human achievement
Basest knowledge is the one that's hardest to find
Something you can't analyze
Formits within yourself
The mechanics of the mind
And all thats related to
Are subject to the will
No gods, no masters, no hierarchy
Conviction goes beyond these boundaries
In this world that you cant see
There is a different reality
Pity not the dead for it's the living suffer
Released motion
Leave the body in the pauper grave

02. The Value Of Your Soul

We rape the earth for money and might
Ignore the victims we leave behind
Millions of people suffer from our aims
But we lament the hungry
While feasting on chocolate bars
No reason to blame the politicians
Realize we are as guilty as them
For all we benefit
From the submission of the world
And our arch begins to crumble, too
But now our time has gone
Last judgement day is on
Just one question for you:
'What's the value of your soul'?
When death tears our souls apart
And we belong to hell
(Realize, see) the value of our souls
We hope that we will live long enough
To enjoy our lives not having to renonnce
But our kind of live means destruction
Wounded world never to recover again
Our sense of responsibility
Is paralyzed by a thousand excuses
So misery can only increase
We still can't practice what we preach
But our time has come
Last judgement day is on
Just one question for you:
'What's the value of your soul'?
When death tears our souls apart
And we belong to hell
(Realize, see) the value of your souls

03. Message To No One

Yesterday I woked up dead
Looked around me
And realized it was too late
Then in the mirror what did I see?
A frightning zombie was staring at me
This body all over black and blue
I suddenly guessed 'Boy, thats you!'
There was one last hope
But – What a pain !
I dint want to be dead – no
I would like to be a man – again
I was completely down and out,
Got myself a beer
And walked away from here
Then out on the street I turned to stone
The Whole town lokked like a danger zone
Destroyed houses, burned out cars
Glowing atmosphere just like on mars
And suddenly I realized the fact
A nuclear war had been
The cause fort his defect
But I dont wanna be dead – no
Crazy, it's really unfair
Noone asked me if war was to declare
But now I suffer from the same disease
Responsibility decreased
All the leaders who cried for war
Are not now what they've been before
But I swear they will pay the price
When we shall meet in paradise
If only I wasn't dead 'cos
I dont want to be dead, oh no
I would like tob e a man again
A timeless age, no future, no past
Is what mankind reached at last
No more trouble no more fear
No more pollution, the air is clear
No more weapons, no more arms
But there are no heirs
To Enjoy this advance
However it's my turn to confess
That there is what is called
'Life after death!'

04. Snuff

Fungus of decay dwells in the mind
Human values completely denied
Art for money's sake, the price is the law
For moral obligations no-one cares a straw
Aiming for concrete realism
Buried in its blinker mentality
The audience won't mind real brutality
Leave your grey matters behind
And the instinct to kill turns out to be
The driing force within your mind
'Snuff !

The action sets off on the silver screen
Symbols and lies, just filthy and mean
Mental sanity is swallowed by the void
Life, pictured as it is, what's right and what's wrong
Choose your own hero from among
As long as there's voilence, blood and death
This gaudy film must be good, a financial success
Leave your grey matters behind
Enter the quick arena of illusion
Rapid eye movement makes you go blind
Snuff !

The play is well cast, the rim of nothingness near
Utter culmination soon will be here
The moment she dies without mortal fear apparant
Accoring to her own will-
(There's) no use for lament
No more using living, so she sold her life
Exploitation of the soul, discrimination-
One final strife
A sudden pang – but now it's too late

Leave your grey matters behind
Suicide on comment, a nasty experience
True excitement for all those voyers
Who carefully hide – sign of the times?
'Snuff !

05. Sneak Attack

Gaze into the darkness watched by invisible eyes
Saterday night in the park and no one's fear
Hear the breath feel the thoughts of one who is
None cally bound to be the antagonist
Glowing earth the atmosphere is loaded
-Distorted- and ready to explode
The final attempt to deny what is truth
Solution is near, no use of defending the pride
When you're sneak attacked
New hopes and brights dreams vanish in the air
One will steal your star and drive you to despair
And the long distance calling shall never be
Heard by any shielded ear
As its saurce is filled with energetic force
Bound to overload
The is no way to deny the truth
Solution is here, no use of defending the pride
When you are aneak attacked
Reach out for the distant shore
Where honour is destroyed
Even th ehardes core is torn to pieces
When a strong hand is ready to deliver as you
Decline and fall
Shivers sent up your spine
You reached the point of no return

06. A Valediction / Forbidden Mourning

In this world of thrift and gibe
I realize the flattery of time
What was once is not now
I drown in my own lies
My life I feel floating away, consciousness refused
Painful toughts besiege me
Find the real me
Mourning for the things lost and forgotten
Wont help to set me free
In solemn grace I try to talk
My aim is not or real
Weird scenes inside my head
No more goal for me
I know the die is cast, this is my final plea
Fragments of broken dreams that I once enjoyed
Overshadow my life
All hopes are destroyed
A frightening silence rises over the eternal seas
I gaze into bleak darkness
Will it ever cease?
Forlorn and distempered I am dwelling in remains
Clung to matters long gone, priding in disdain
Caustic word words still terrify my mind
Everyday life proves so unkind
To slip into the past is all aht I have tried
To have a grip on matters so malign
Wanton alienation breeds mindless absurdity
Atonic refusal of a blatant lie, utter futility
Weird scenes inside my head
No more goal for me
I know the die is cast, this is my final plea
As times moves on, you have to shift your lap
Domancy want contribute to fill the growing gap
This viscious circle has got me almost down
There must be ways to cope
With all the crap around
I've seen that all these goldem momories
Are but a method to my minds disease
Here and now I have to face
The problems that have evolved
Use my experience to have them solved
Look behind the scenes,
Forbid myself to mourn

07. Compulsion To Kill

Blood – stained walls in front of me
The sensual colour of this delicious wine
Strong sentiments of cruelty
Guide my way in all these dreams
Influenced by forces unknown
My life gets out of hand
The obstinacy of reason is overthrown
Corrosion spreads day by day
I hurt my skin with glowing fag - ends
To stay in reality
But the physical torments are absorbed
By my frenzied soul
Steeped in a frantic mood
I'm obliged to ambiguity
Compulsion to kill!
Wrapped in rugs, my body inflamed
Depraved and sinister in all my ways
I approaced the stalement of time
Cold sweat is running down my neck
Machinegun blasts sends shivers up the spin
Frowning looks upon me
I have learned there is no need
For frothy designer – voilence
A savage decision paves the way
To practice what I have conceived
The curse of my blood is ready to evolve
I'll teach you tings you could never achieve
Your life I will make undone
Feast on your splattered blood
I feel fever and synchronous freeze
Once – covert vileness now to seize
The slash of my hand is quicker than your eye
Delicate view to watch you bleed dry
Compulsion to kill!

08. Fraud

Drop by drop, rain falls down
Damp scenery, grey and cold
Dreary streets are driving me insane
Weird world around me, kingdom of old
Misdirected identity,
passing through remains
I am lost within the concrete jungle
Wings of perception faint away
As the urge to fly high grows perpetually
I need some junk to relieve the pain
I'm chewing on glass but I even dont bleed
The mechanix of delusion
A cure fort he shattered mind
A trip through the brain, comfort in tribulation
Bathing in the void, I have come his far
Disasters gains monumentum,
No fear beyond the flesh
Disjunct from that moral coil I wil stay forever
If you look into my eyes
You could see the living wreck inside
Dearth of hope from which depravity derives
Grace the sins that have no grace at all
Steadfast infamy embodiment
Born from the darker aspects of life
Bathing in the void, I have com this far
Disasters gains monumentum,
No fear beyond the flesh
Disjunct from that moral coil I will stay forever
Dont try to safe those
Who were meant to decline
Excrescense of a sick society
That kills what it bred
Clear out or be taken with me
Into the land of no return
Victims of a crooked deal
Artefacts of a species gone mad