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Traveler - Prequel To Madness lyrics



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02. Take The Wheel

Runnin' thru the night
Nothing holds me down
Tearing straight through
The streets, feeling fire

Revved up beyond adrenaline mark
A corridor, blood-eye of neon

Running wild, feeling reckless in my brain
Society's chains won't be clamped down on me
Fly relentless, evading all the law
Terrified faces, they don't understand

Now

Pray for your life
You're my ride or die
We'll speed until our effigies
Ignite across the sky
Live fast and die

And in the afterlife, it's not like what they say
It's better to rule, cuz you win when you play
Tanked and I'm leering, the devil is steering
Hold on tight, now we go

Pray for your life
You're my ride or die
We'll speed until our effigies
Ignite across the sky
Live fast and die

You've paid the fare
Already there
Let Satan be your guide
As in the book, your soul is took
Live fast and die

03. Dark Skull

The Appian way saw
Less death than this
On this bloodiest night

Now rue the day, the juggernaut
Challenge barbarian might
The players march and
The blood sport begins

Dark Skull - The bane of heroes
We live in peril'd times
Dark Skull - The bane of heroes
We see through feral eyes

Fend off the attack
Wolven men at your back
Capture the bleach canine, skull in hand

In wasteland times
There's nothing to prove
But to fight for your life

Dark Skull - The bane of heroes
We live in peril'd times
Dark Skull - The bane of heroes
We see through feral eyes

The murderous prize
The gleam in his eyes
As shown in his pride
The gleam in the night

Dark Skull - The bane of heroes
We live in peril'd times
Dark Skull - The bane of heroes
We see through feral eyes

04. The Law

It's a violent world,
A dream absurd,
A victim I'm not,
It won't claim me,

There's predator and prey
Dipping out of sight beware my might
You will not see until you bleed
It's nothing personal

I'm not so deceptive
As I'm for objective
So make room for casualties

The Law
This life that you see
Don't come easy to me

The Law
And you know
We'll never be free

Give me all your money
Mind and body now
Your body works for me

There's predator and prey
And every single day
The people will still die

It's a merck's way for me
If it's justice you seek
They'll put you on screen
Buy you off you won't see me

The Law
This life that you see
Don't come easy to me

The Law
And you know
We'll never be free

Plead for your life
Your families presence
Only teases my itching malevolence

05. Rebels Of Earth

I don't come in peace, I come alone
There's something in the stars, you ought to know

A cry from outer space
We've lost our home

But I only come in warning
Heed the message, don't take long
Abandon all your research, as it's wrong

You know not what you do
But we know all of you
Time is running out
And we're...

Deep sixed in the morning light
Can't you hear me?
Foundations have been laid
The lord will soon invade
Three suns will fade away

I beg, be rid of us
I heed your message loud and clear
A twisted, vile race exists in paradise, in space
And I say we must fall

I am but a Rebel of Earth
Appraised for all that it's worth
No long will you burn or freeze

Deep sixed in the morning light
Can't you hear me?
Foundations have been laid
The lord will soon invade
Three suns will fade away

Sunset for humanity
One last chance for gravity

Deep sixed in the morning light
Can't you hear me?
See these battle scars
Sound a curse among the stars
The sea will dry away...

06. Heavy Hearts

Long nights wasted
Staring at the sky
Tortured by thoughts of you and I

Though things seem seamless
The spark just fades away
The true colors paint the walls, that's where they'll stay

Clouds have engulfed me
And risen to the sky
No more thoughts of you and I

Now one can dream
Of living life as it's clear
With a fistful of dollars, a day without fear

Heavy Hearts
Heavy lungs
I'll never kneel to you
I'll swallow my tears
Heavy Hearts
Sure, they bleed
I'll never bleed for you
This time, you'll bleed for me

To tread the constant slopes of misery
Inviting all my foes
In finding me

Give it all you got
Ill return it ten-fold
In a context of might, you will need a

Will to die
To justify
Kill after kill
Removing their divined power and will
Your skill is now sanctified

Heavy Hearts
Heavy lungs
I'll never kneel to you
I'll swallow my tears
Heavy Hearts
Sure, they bleed
I'll never bleed for you
This time, you'll bleed for me

07. No Fate

Locked in the madhouse
If only you knew what I knew
Temporal fate
Death is but a door
And time is but a window

Pursued now by the high elite
The hunt is on, and we're the kill
But we'll evade attack, surviving narrowly
A hell on wheels, the machine makes haste

And he relentlessly, pursues his chase

Now, the only way to survive
Is trust their rogue machine

Connor, in your honour, I die
And finally
I now know why humans cry

Now you're torn away, from all that you knew
Survivors of the blast and you are our only hope
We carry out, this feeble war
In the future and the past
You must grow up fast, and learn to last

They will have their way, even though it seems we've won
How can we stay alive?
I've seen the vision

I understand how you must feel
But now, the threat is real

Connor, in your honour, I die
And finally
I now know why humans cry

The damned machines arise
Through circuits and the wire
Bring forth mankind's demise
Served through nuclear fire
Out in the desert vast
Recall the past
Awaken from your daydream, it's not real

Connor, in your honour, I die
And finally
I now know why humans cry

08. Vagrants Of Time

Nothing is real anymore
All you see is fabricated
Variables and code

We once had a wire where all the true could last
And meet wherever we desired to rage

Don't you feel like we're being pulled apart?
By outside forces we don't know

Our common bonds that we once shared are scrutinized
Our differences are all we're told

We're all being driven mad

Now you're a technoslave
This way you'll never die
Never have to cry

Have you ever thought
What this could be like
For the forlorn youth, the children cry

They're confused
All they know is what it said
No idea
How it was before the modern lord

Now you can try
To assimilate
But you're nothing
People that you once held close are gone
They've checked out
Can't participate
It isn't real, they're technically not wrong

This just can't be getting old

Now you're a technoslave
This way you'll never die
Never have to cry

We are Vagrants of Time

Now you're a technoslave
This way you'll never die
Never have to cry

You are their subject from birth
You are their slave for all time
All of your time
We are Vagrants of Time
I swear I haven't changed

09. Prequel To Madness

Long ago in the future, the grave was the birth
A very fine existence in the knowledge
Of all precognition
As bold and strong as soloman

Total control
They own your soul
Down to the decimal
Fear by the decibel

A crisis had begun
What reasons were there to carry on?
Each soul raged against the grand entanglement
Mythology had synergized with misanthropic energy
I can't believe the masses and their post modernic poverty
Of words that dance and screens that flash a quantum wired romance
That rivets in their minds, we've wired their negativity

I'm the man with no name
I'm the mind that they cannot contain
Ethereal Traveler
I've seen what the future brings
Destroyer of everything
Ethereal Traveler

I remember the days from before they controlled
From their nexus, a tower of data and code

Their bio-technical implantation's
I survive with a decoy to drive them away
I subsist in the underground
Though, I suspect I will be found
Whatever they can do to me
I'll fight to be free

I'm the man with no name
I'm the mind that they cannot contain
Ethereal Traveler
I've seen what the future brings
Destroyer of everything
Ethereal Traveler

The power to see, weathered me beyond all recognition
How could I have let my guard down?
How could I have been so blind?
She was only their informant
I forgot, I'm their hunted prize
Now the time diamond is lost
And hell is here

Hell is here and I've found that which I seek
Comfortable mantras, repeated week by week
Now these tranquil waters can inspire healing
I can't see the darkness they weave

(Prequel To Madness)

I'm the man with no name
I'm the mind that they cannot contain
Ethereal Traveler
I've seen what the future brings
Destroyer of everything
Ethereal Traveler