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Teramaze - Australian Metal Compilation IV - Falling On Deaf Ears lyrics



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01. Virgin Black - Veil Of Tears

Walk my dismal path
Pursue my much walked ways
Two Hells I've found,
Two deaths I'll die
Mere fools choose to stay

Shut out the sky
In this darkened room
As I prepare myself for slumber
Where the weary are at rest

Scraps of acrid marrow
Dried and whitened spine
Wasting of the limbs
Abbreviated death

Such a bitter satire
I'm content to rest alone
Leave me here and I will lie
Composed and undisturbed

Oh where can I find sorrow
To relieve me of my grief
I've shut my eyes to God above
And walked my dismal way

I've drunk the dregs of a wooden cup
I've trampled on His blood
I've smeared Him in my arrogance
I grieve I can't turn back

Walk my dismal path
Pursue my much walked ways
Two Hells I've found,
Two deaths I'll die
Mere fools here remain

02. Virgin Black - Mother Of Cripples

A restless shadow of a fiddler's elbow
Plays a tune to staggering feet
The burden of his songs, the looking glass scorns
At this disfigured, odious face

Indeed alone, hugging my breast
The sun I neglect, in darkness I roam
Offerings of flowers on a barren grave
Where my body will lie, uncared and unwept

Idle bait, my shawl on the lattice
Someone may see it, perhaps look my way
No thread of sympathy unites me to man
I lay softly down once again

Within my aged walls taunts and vexations
Fragments of a tune play most mournfully
With sadness in my voice I break the solemn stillness
My drooping head falls on languid hands

Ancient of days, creator of life
From the womb you have formed me, my vile sight you love
Covered by your shadow, held within your hand
Made within your likeness, precious am I?

The glare of a sinking flame binds me to my clay...

Offerings of flowers I rest in the earth
My body will lie uncared and unwept

03. Virgin Black - Anthem

You shared flesh with me
Danced with me in the ancient circle
Of birth, life and death
But you live again...

While autumn leaves fall
In the summer of my life
It is the millstone
Around the neck of us all
But you wore it like a crown
Weaving to the shrill
That makes cowards of us all

But to you it was harmony...

You knew shame like no other
You tasted death like no other
You shed tears like no other man
You shared flesh with me, danced with me...

This incarnation repelled me
But threw me to my knees
Could I be anything
But a moth to the flame

Your cross compels me
You are the breath that gives me life
You are mystery, you are beauty
You are the risen Christ

04. Embodiment - If God Exists

Name it the sin your choice!

Fall to tempt
Veins vice addiction of needle life
Earth terrorists sap the land desert like
Blames God for it's mistakes
For shortfalls! Shortfalls!
One on a million, one in a million

So self divine
You blame God for your mistakes
Plankeye, you blame God
But it was freedom of choice

To the fame seeking scientists, inhumane!
To find prestige under the spotlight and a place in history
The resonant dollar sign
(In your eyes) Labeled as greed
Steals from the starving child sick!
One in a million, one in a million


So self divine
You blame God for your mistakes
Plankeye, you blame God
But it was freedom of choice! Choice.

One in a million, one in a million

05. Embodiment - Meantime Saviours

It was your god?
Liquor your saviour
That's what you thought
You'd think it died and rose for you
The way you consume
Too blind to know, know!
To blind to see, see!
I hope you realise
The meantime saviours never last!

Drink, drink all that you can
Blind, blind you're so blind
I hope you realize
The meantime saviours never last!

With your lids hung over your eyes
As you follow blindly, blindly
Your saviour dependant on your needs
Your binges brings it's wealth
You praise it like a God!

Liquor your saviour
Too blind to know, know!
To blind to see, see!
I hope you realise
The meantime saviours never last!

Drink, drink all that you can
Blind, blind you're so blind
I hope you realize
The meantime saviours never last!

06. Teramaze - Generation X

The world gets run by political thugs who think they know it all
The stuff around with nuclear too powerful for us all
They fill the air with chemicals to keep our families fed
We were born innocent but we were born GENERATION "X"

What's the future hold for the people of tommorow?
Do we keep dreaming thinking that its going to be OK?
What's the future bringing, is it just more sorrow?
We've got to to do something before it's to late..
Our house gets run by T.V., hope our brains don't rot,
They fill our shops with cigarettes,
And hope the we don't choke
They live thier lives their time is up
They don't care what they do
We were born innocent but we were born generation "X"

07. Teramaze - Ever Enhancing

Fatal memories the come and they go
A life of left downs, they feed my foe

You came, you saw, you stopped me from falling
You came, you saw, you reached out your hands

My sorrow, my blunder are cast into the sea
A whole new distinction ascribed in me

You came, you saw, you sheltered me through the attack
You came, you saw, you reached out your hands

08. Teramaze - Emancipator

All alone, you sit and wonder why we are here, why we die
You can't stop the infusion, the static confusion
Of what we are supposed to be

The war within your soul
Is far beyond our control
It's in Him you've got to believe

Can't you see
It's far beyond you and me
Will you believe
That he will set you free

When I look back to, the moment God touched you
was when you were slipping away

Its shows me that the love of his hand
Is so much stronger then the love of today

12. Rageflower - Prepaid

Bloodied cross, empty tomb
But that was yesterday
All around me is pain
Urging me to forget
In weakness I cry
I will hold on

I believe in yesterday
I believe in yesterday
I believe

13. Rageflower - Do Not Destroy

Bring her to me
She shall be mine
No-one will know
My act of betrayal

Give me more!

I cannot see
I cannot breathe
I cannot leave
I never knew

Leave me alone!
I'll take what I want
It's not my fault
If things go wrong

No-one was supposed to find out!
No!

Get away from me
You are not mine
No-one was supposed to know
That I had betrayed

I cannot see
God open up these eyes of mine
I cannot breathe
The stench is overpowering me
I cannot leave
Trapped within bars I've made for me
Do not destroy
Though I have nothing to offer thee

I have rendered myself fatherless
I'm in desperate need of mercy