Mordred - In This Life lyrics
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Tracks 01. In This Life
02. The Strain 03. High Potency 04. Window 05. Esse Quam Videri 06. A Beginning 07. Falling Away 08. Killing Time 09. Downtown 10. Progress 11. Larger Than Life 01. In This Life
The faces of the figureheads
Are there to fear them but The money bells are ringing For those who hear them and The seeds of your future Await for you to sow them and The sound of your voices Will ultimately show them all The ways you will matter and Perpetuate society The days you will shatter to Bring you notoriety The rules you'll be breaking will be rules for fools and The pains you'll be taking will be your tools and Make your own way In this life Have to find a way to rise above The pain and strife Make your own way In this life Have to find a way to rise above The pain and strife Piles of bodies and bodies We see them and Some that didn't make it Didn't choose to be them cause It's hard to make a mark With a plague of illiteracy But sitting on our asses is a Form of complacency that We can't sit by and tolerate We have problems to eleviate Bad education and suppression The homeless in the street Are a few of the nightmares that we should Wake up and greet to Make your own way In this life Have to find a way to rise above The pain and strife Make your own way In this life Have to find a way to rise above The pain and strife In this life, and there's only One of them There's a means to an end but Unfortunately some of them Destroy the things that we need Like the creatures in the water and the air we breathe and Then we wonder whose fault it all was Well maybe not yours but that's not it cause We take for granted the things that make our life complete So open wide your eyes and Get the fuck out on the streets Make your own way In this life Have to find a way to rise above The pain and strife Make your own way In this life Have to find a way to rise above The pain and strife 02. The Strain
Into his flesh the knife cuts
Inside he wants to survive Surgeons working hard to try to keep him alive He's only fourteen years old Beside the bed a cop sighs Don't think it's fair he's too young to die Pulse slows and then his heart quits Doctor's try to shock his life back They're unaware that in the street he sells crack Bullet hole through the kidneys The man who shot him understood If he could turn it round I'm sure that he would In times of greed and hate One must evaluate The cause of all this pain Social problems stay the same In times of greed and hate One must retaliate The truth is never plain Understand this is the strain Tried to reach society's standard Have wealth makes you a good man Not in the wrong he just wants to fit in the plan Teach our kids of wealth and power If you happen to live on the wrong side Got to live a life of crime just to keep you alive Today morality has lost Everyone's reaching for the top We can't change the world if a bullet can't be stopped In this age we've lost all our values And maybe nothing can suffice If it's true we'll crush ourselves in a self destructive vice In times of greed and hate One must evaluate The cause of all this pain Social problems stay the same In times of greed and hate One must retaliate The truth is never plain Understand this is the strain 03. High Potency
Today's another hopeless day
Downtown surrounds Cohesive thoughts cannot be made The light, it fades I raise my head up to the sky Don't care, can't fly The army forces altered me You pass me by Not hard to see My system used me High potency Interrogated from the government seat Manipulation Mind exploited until complete Hallucination LSD into my system CIA experimentation The real world has slipped away Illusions never fade Not hard to see My system used me High potency Not hard to see My system used me High potency 04. Window
They're making you believe
That what they sell is what you need Your decadence starts your decay Bullshit lies is what you've seen Censorship on the screen This is your window to the world You work - you spend This trend will never end Why don't you open up your eyes? The truth - they hide No doubt the news has lied Why don't you open up your mind? This ain't what life's about Dislocate That ain't the real thing It's a fake I don't beliefe a word Deviate Have it your own way Consuming all we can Wealth and stature make a man Unto this screen you are a slave Images of what is in Controls your mind until the end This is your window to the world You work - you spend No time to make amends Into a wonderland you're hurled The truth - they hide Of wars when lands collide Is this your window to the world? This ain't what life's about Dislocate That ain't the real thing It's a fake I don't beliefe a word Deviate Have it your own way 05. Esse Quam Videri
Faster than the earth is turning
Looking up my eyes are burning At night alone I'm walking Black cat clever stalking In the grotto impatient waiting Before long I see your face and Whisper a word of greeting Secret lover's midnight meeting Chill wind our bodies biting Whipping round like bolts of lightning Full moon to some is frightning Senses reeling pulses tightning In your arms passion rising Looking deep into your eyes and Body movements hypnotizing Scratching biting screaming crying As I'm raised out of my body I'm looking down from above To be rather than to seem Eyes meet no word is spoken Bruised backs and bodies broken Sitting back the pipe we're token Bullets shot barrels smoken Hot sweat our bodies gleaming In our heat and passion steaming Laid back to sleep I'm sinking Of the nights events I'm thinking As I'm raised out of my body I'm looking down from above To be rather than to seem As I'm raised out of my body I'm looking down from the sky To seem rather than to be 06. A Beginning
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07. Falling Away
Someone take this cold from me
And let my mind run free it used to be Easy to deal with the everyday shit Now it seems I'm all alone to deal with it Take me away from here Falling away Falling away from the fear It seems too near it feels too real Have to find out why And cut this cancer from my life Falling away from the fear No one there to hear the inner cry Only I can watch me die inside I live alone among a crowded world I can't forgive myself this weakness Sets my pride to burn I can't believe I find a way To make it through this hell everyday Slip slipping my reality slips away Sleep sleeping it seems the only way Take me away from here Falling away Falling away from the fear It seems too near it feels too real Have to find out why And cut this cancer from my life Falling away from the fear Now it seems there is a way To shed this pain from My brain and walk away I found an ally who is Strong as I I need no other to get me by Inner me inner me I am he I and I set me free I, must, control, the pain Just, for, another day Take me away from here Falling away Falling away from the fear It seems too near it feels too real Have to find out why And cut this cancer from my life Falling away from the fear No one to hear the inner cry 08. Killing Time
Two stars collide in space
I see it clear Star dust upon my face Why should I care A far off hidden place I visit there It makes me feel safe Stops the despair Help me find My way out Can't believe You've no doubt Just killing time On nothing we depend Shattered hopes - for the moment We amend You know you look the same As my old friend I can't recall your name Or where you've been You cannot take the blame For thoughts you send And you can't play the game Around the blend Help me find My way out Can't believe You've no doubt Just killing time Until we meet again Guaranteed - disappointment In the end 09. Downtown
Now that I'm feeling downtown
Like never before Now that I'm folding my fingers Ready for war The painted face of disaster I search for more I light another cigarette Swallow the poison glossy eyed Dressed in fire with empty words It came as no surprise The people conversating Beyond all will to listen The people will stand in lines With great high walls between them Coal black hair china white doll skull With amber slit eyes Bittersweet with a razor tongue See through polished lies The dim light is bathing you blood red Adrenalin shock I light another cigarette Swallow the poison glossy eyed Dressed in fire with empty words It came as no surprise The people conversating Beyond all will to listen The people will stand in lines With great high walls between them Looking through star dust illusions with faraway eyes Pretending they know and understand See through the disguise I light another cigarette Swallow the poison glossy eyed Dressed in fire with empty words It came as no surprise The people conversating Beyond all will to listen The people will stand in lines With great high walls between them 10. Progress
Into the grey sky
Blackness is blown From this great machine breathing smoke Hammering pistons Churning of gears Furnace of coals remain stoked Roar of a turbine Scream of a jet Man's dream to learn how to fly Mimicking nature Study the wind Travel on air through the sky Progress comes from the will to learn Conquest stems from the greed of man Can't fuse science with hatred Can't fuse Advance not with destruction Proceed defying corruption Gain ground keep moving forward Gain ground Towering structures Steel and stone Built on the land that we kill Burning our forest Draining our lakes Forward progression our will Splitting the atom Power to threat Evil we hold in our hands Frighten our neighbours Pointing our guns Until they reach our demands Progress comes from the will to learn Conquest stems from the greed of man Can't fuse science with nature Can't fuse Advance not with destruction Proceed defying corruption Gain ground keep moving forward Gain ground 11. Larger Than Life
Never happy never pleased
maybe not what you forsee These cats don't know what's up Passively observing it all Put you up on a pedestal Try to make you larger than life But how can you be down With your head high in the sky Stand my ground Won't back down Keep my integrity Never compromise Say what I believe Won't be pacified Stand my ground Won't back down Yes we've been around Sound surrounding is sick Staying underground Not on an ego trip No we won't pay to play It puts no food on the table Except the old promoter It buys him a billiard table All these people sucking blood It's a wonder we don't run dry But music's in our blood It's not like they don't try Stand my ground Won't back down Keep my integrity Never compromise Say what I believe Won't be pacified Stand my ground Won't back down Yes we've been around Sound surrounding is sick Staying underground Not on an ego trip Woman here no money there But she said she's help me out I better get some cash some day Of that I have my doubts Make me sick make me cry If you con't compromise But we have our beliefs And our pride so realize |