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Angelus Apatrida - Aftermath lyrics



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01. Scavenger

Those fangs will have grown long if you think you can hunt me
Deceitful parasite
Beneath the appearance, every step’s a twisted truth
Eternal pretender

What it takes, I won’t sway, heart and soul to prove it
Arrogance to sweep away
You’re a fraud, you’re so fake, a cheap replica of me
All smoke and mirrors

Come crawling, scavenger
With curled nails, heedless of fails
Come crawling, skuldugger
Devours the light with eyes shut tight
Come crawling, scavenger
On hands and knees among the sludge
Come crawling, with no sense of shame
Through dirt and dust, night prowler

Your fool’s paradise from its foundations Is coming to an end
Imitation, replicate, to fill your empty space
Leftover collector

Come crawling, scavenger
With curled nails, heedless of fails
Come crawling, skuldugger
Devours the light with eyes shut tight
Come crawling, scavenger
On hands and knees among the sludge
Come crawling, with no sense of shame
Through dirt and dust, discarded scrap

Hear my words!

Plant the seed of vengeance, eye for an eye
Face undercover long enough
I see through your deception, maggot shit-eater
Feeding on jealousy and envy, ha!

Come crawling, scavenger
With curled nails, heedless of fails
Come crawling, skuldugger
Devours the light with eyes shut tight
Come crawling, scavenger
On hands and knees among the sludge
Come crawling, with no sense of shame
Through dirt and dust, insidious reptile

Hear my words!

02. Cold

I find myself in places that I’ve never been before
Tried to beat the weakness but I’m not even close
The sands of time are falling and it’s hard to get this far
Left behind in chaos I keep going the best I can

Cold, the weight of the world seems so strong

My eyes staring soulless as I feel myself unsafe
The menace of the watcher a persistent race to hell
(To… be…) Told the unforsaken sins to the mirror in the wall
But the pain implicit is constant, it feels like heavy chains

Cold, my heart that weighs like a stone

I can sometimes fall away from me
And I can other times hide and disappear… from me

I’ve lost the immortal part of me in a vain attempt to heal
The tears that carve my face in scars tell what I was meant to be
(Meant… to …) Be someone I am not, someone I have always been
Duality of existence as unique and useless creed

Cold, the weight of the world seems so strong (so strong…)

I can sometimes fall away from me
And I can other times hide and disappear
‘Cause I can sometimes turn away from me
And I can love and hate myself and run away… from me

Bleeding dreams of self-affliction
Living in an endless hole where I fall away from me

In the darkest hour I can see the light
When the world around me fades from sight
Sanity, ignore the screams of agony from the other side
Reality, so artificial that it feels so wrong and makes me drown in tears

I can sometimes fall away from me
And I can other times hide and disappear
‘Cause I can sometimes turn away from me
And I can love and hate myself and run away… from me
Far away!

03. Snob

So, this is how it ends for me and you, my friend
And I don’t give a fuck
You made me feel like a clown, the way you let me down, selling off my trust
I can see how you’ve succumbed to arrogance
Stinkiest pig of the herd
You’re just another prig, a classist piece of shit who served my head on a plate…
Just fucking wait!

So, this is how it ends for me and you, my friend
Why should I give a fuck?
You tried to fool me but I’d rather expose you
Get back on track
My life’s too precious, I have no time to waste
You’ll never admit a mistake
I can see the truth right through your disguise
There’s nothing more to say

Pretentious snob, with high held nose, above us all
I found your trap, you can’t deny, those words were gold
Pretentious snob, from head to toes, above us all
I got you trapped, you can’t deny, truth must be told

Truth must be told!

You point your finger from your golden throne
Threw me to the wolves
Chase me out from the place I could call my own
What are you waiting for?
Truth must be told!
Sad that I had to learn the hard way
Let’s get this straight
You tried to lock me up and then throw the key away
No, we are not the same! We are not the same… no!

I gave you my faith but you spat in my face
And you wanted me to hold my tongue
Burying me deep and pretend you don’t know me
Just shove off, get the fuck outta here!

Pretentious snob, with high held nose, above us all
I found your trap, you can’t deny, those words were gold
Pretentious snob, from head to toes, above us all
I got you trapped, you can’t deny, truth must be told

You’re a fucking snob!

The higher you fly, the harder you will fall
Always be careful what you wish for
Whatever you say or wherever you will go
You can’t hide you’re a fucking elitist snob

04. Fire Eyes

It was at nightfall when you felt the cold blade
The sharpened steel of the scythe
Can you remember yourself barely crawling?
Escaping from a certain death
Afraid, afraid, regretting your disgrace
Your scrawny body crept, wrapped in striped rags
You made your way among the bodybags
Went on the run, nowhere to hide

Coming to get you
Towards you with fire eyes

It was at dawn when they found your hideout
Aiming with their dominant eye
How did you feel when you watched the world burn?
Held on to the fence from inside
You begged, you cried, you pled for your life
Your trembling feet stuck in the cold mud
Your only sin was being born on the wrong side
That side

For they will come and take you down
But now it's too late to realize
A burning gaze will hypnotize
Staring so deadly, their wrath, with fire eyes

For they will come and take you down
With fire eyes

And now you’re standing in front of a harmless child
Aiming with your dominant eye
How does it feel to be the hunter now on the other side of the fence?
She begs, she cries, she pleads for her life
Her trembling feet stuck in the cold mud
Her only sin was being born on the wrong side
That side

For they will come and take you down
But now it's too late to realize
A burning gaze will hypnotize
Staring so deadly, your wrath, with fire eyes
For they will come and take you down
They will come, take you down
But now it's too late to realize
A burning gaze will hypnotize
Hypnotize
Staring so deadly, your wrath, with fire eyes

Fire eyes

05. Rats

A new intimidation is spreading like a plague of ticks
A regressive condition
Threatened by a growing stream of uncontrolled hostility

Contaminated preachers with their word as sole reality
Highly toxic pollution
Selling an infectious speech, we're paying with our sanity
No boundaries!

Rats!

Their voices rise in anger, consumed by fiery lies in pathetic minds
Mass media propagating fake news at prime time
Got something to say!

Rats!
Filthy!
Fucking!
Rats!

Masks are falling, their true face showing
Damn filthy rats they are!
Their tongues are rotten with lies begotten
Stand against the rising tide
Filthy rats they are!

What's going on? Why's the whole world gone insane?
Mouths wide open but nothing rational to say
Sleepwalkers lost in slumber's deep embrace
Tormented minds in search of truth going the wrong way
They can snap their fingers and hold you inside their sphere
You're desperate, they will tell you what you wanna hear
They smile then bite
They cure with fire
They choose the path with power to cloud your mind

Watch out!

06. To Whom It May Concern

In this void where hope is hard to find
Alone I sit within my mind
I lay surrounded by despair
Lost without a trace
I sit in a cold and empty place
Where I can hide myself away

Here I stand embraced by darkness
Unknown faces all around the place
The silent echoes bring their pain
It reminds me all my struggle was in vain
The lurking shadows in this room
Chasing demons blinded by disgrace
Beneath the shadow of the gallows
Motionless, I firmly hold the rope

Don’t let me go / I’m not ready
What would it take to keep me here with you?
Don’t let me go / Hold me tight
I don’t wanna go, don’t let my memory fade away

Trembling fingers scratch the surface
Of an endless tomb of twisted thoughts
The wounds that bleed my broken heart
A constant fear that tears this world apart

Don’t let me go / I’m not ready
What would it take to keep me here with you?
Don’t let me go / Hold me tight
I don’t wanna go, don’t let my memory fade away

Don’t let me go… guide my way through this valley
The fading light, my soul’s so lost
Don’t let me fall… this road is dark and dreary
The shadows creep and crawl behind me

Reaching out for a helping hand
But no one seems to understand
In this vast and distant space
Soundless noises unbearably loud
A lonely figure in the crowd
Would you ever recognize my face?

Got a time bomb ticking in my head
Erased by time and wasted years
Would you ever say my name?
Then I wish I could be someone else
And I know it’s okay to feel this way
The thing is I’m scared as fuck
So, I can’t blame anyone

Suffocating grasp of madness
Let the devil come and take his toll
Whispering sins are due to pay
Left behind my fate down in a hole
A black abyss behind my shoulders
Carrying this burden through the eternal cold
Trembling fingers scratch the surface
I write this letter to whom it may concern

Don’t let me go / I’m not ready
What would it take to keep me here with you?
Don’t let me go / Hold me tight
I don’t wanna go, don’t let my memory fade away

07. Gernika

It's time, the sirens are screaming aloud
Approaching with thunderous sound
Death is making its way through the clouds
They're here, the metal wings swing in the air
A deafening roaring ahead
The symphony of death drawing near

Fear is a tool
Used with power
Controlling the fools
Darkening the skies with a sinister might
"Be fierce and take no prisoners"

Leaving a trail of nightmares as they're flying low
Raining fire from the skies above
Shake the ground, burn the crops, tear hills down
Damned be the liars who talk and the cowards who shut up
The madmen who press down their guns
Taking thousands of lives as they pass

Hear me now, among the bombs around
We were all tears in the storm
Hear me now, with rubble all around
Our spirits will rise above

Behold the ruins of a world now gone
The carved scars on each and every stone
Silent streets, shattered and drowned
The echoes of a war still yet to come

Hear me now, among the bombs around
We were all tears in the storm
Hear me now, with rubble all around
Our spirits will rise above

Hear me now, among the bombs around
We were all tears in the storm
Hear me now, with rubble all around
Our spirits will rise above

08. I Am Hatred

I am darkness when the light shines bright
The voice that whispers in the blackest night
I'm the nightmares that feed on your fears
The shadow that creeps when no one's near

I am hatred
Sin by sin, I am hatred

I'm the chaos that tears worlds apart
The serpent dwelling in your very hearts
I'm the one who lurks within the soul
The hunger that drives you to lose control

I am hatred
Sin by sin, I am hatred

Inside outside, a corpse in a cage
Profane perversion, twisted impulse of rage
Temptation lures you like a siren's song
I am fire that spreads devastating the world
My hate that devastates your world
My world

I
I am
I am hate

I am hatred
Sin by sin, I am hatred

Hate
Hatred
I hate you all
I am hatred
Hate!
Hatred!
I hate you all
I am

09. What Kills Us All

White, white sheep clothes cover the great wolf waiting for weakness
A latent menace
Choked, choked with blood, drown in tears
Senseless police brutality, life doesn't matter

There's no way to make them understand
This world got outta hand
Not a single reason to deny this treason
Inviolable human rights, yeah

Rules, rules followed by fools ready to pull the trigger
No brains with badge and gun
Threat, threat of the new world order
You know you can do something but look the other way

There's no way to make them understand
This world got outta hand
Not a single reason to deny this treason
Inviolable human rights, yeah

Infierno en la Tierra
Hell on earth
La mente siempre en guerra
What kills us all
Más armas que almas
Human nature
Lluvia de fuego el mundo en llamas

Al suelo y las manos en la nuca
El hijo de puta primero dispara y luego pregunta
El miedo y el gatillo fácil malos aliados
Ver una teta sonroja más que un muerto en el asfalto
Juegan al tiro al blanco, más si eres negro
El sueño americano es la pesadilla en las calles, infierno
Esto es U.S.A. crimen y discriminación
Sin discreción abren fuego a discreción
Vamos a cambiar el juego, vamos a degüello
Mi rodilla es de la talla de tu cuello
Aquí un asunto turbio es ser un antidisturbio
Te van a dar más palos siempre si eres del suburbio
¿Un poli nace nazi, o se hace?
El tonto la clase se crece con su puto traje
El taser en los huevos a esa autoridad abusiva
Mi mente siempre activa, efectiva, hoy agresiva pero siempre antifa

Systemic racism
Progressive armed fight
The enemy is prowling around

Law, law in corrupted uniforms
Same acts of phrenology as racial profiling
Sick, sick of all this apathy
Blindness is taking over, mass ignorance

There's no way to make them understand
This world got outta hand
Not a single reason to deny this treason
Inviolable human rights, yeah

What kills us all
What kills us all
What kills us all
What kills us all

10. Vultures And Butterflies

Consumed by grief, I was so lost
So far away without you
For years and years, I blamed myself
But I couldn't find all those mistakes
The dreams we shared were just a lie
When you said you'd never let me down
You made me weak, so fragile

The struggle within, my breath burns like stars
Pleading to hold you tight just one last time
But forced to believe I deserved every scar
The pain and the anguish screaming from inside

As deadly as a vulture
As fragile as a butterfly
Both dancers within nature

You lied to me as you drew a smile
Smashed my chest like shattered glass
You made me weak, you broke my heart

Pieces they scatter far and wide
For each shard collides every tear I cried
A torture's enforced, the unspoken words
The pain and the anguish screaming from inside

As deadly as a vulture
As fragile as a butterfly
Both dancers within nature
Circling till they die

Love is a promise so bright, now ruined, crushed and undone
To end all our memories, to be dust, our flesh and bones

As deadly as a vulture
As fragile as a butterfly
Both dancers within nature
Circling to its sacrifice
As deadly as a vulture
As fragile as a butterfly
Both dancers within nature