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Velamentum (What They Do)
Come on out Damien, Jesus got your goat?
Hurry up Damien, you've opened up another throat
Don't try and be discrete
These secrets that you keep
will call you out Damien
and see you in this sleep
Damien leaves cancer in the wake
and Damien is a dancer and a snake
but your charms are worn away
better feast upon this prey
Have you anymore to say?
By your deeds you shall be known
from the ruin you have sewn
By your deeds you shall be known
from the ruin you have sewn
Damien, Damien you run
Better leave our dreams
Better leave our dreams
Better leave our dreams, alone
Damien plays virtue in his mind
but Damien prays to another kind
but your charms have worn away
better feast upon this prey
Have you any more to say?
By your deeds you shall be known
from the ruin you have sewn
By your deeds you shall be known
from the ruin you have sewn
Damien, Damien you run!
Better leave our dreams
Better leave our dreams
Better leave our dreams, alone.
Hover virgins over
Don't upset the order
Cover now it's over
You didn't feel a thing
Be silent now
Don't give away a name
It will be our little game
Better leave our dreams
Better leave our dreams
Better leave our dreams, alone
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We're sold...everyone in every way
Unless you're in the club, you have no say...hell no
I writhe in these sheets of mud
Watching dreams turning green to blood.
I'm staying up
Won't let them dig this bed
Or serve these ones who've signed away my head
Do you see all the people?
Slipping on the noose.
Counting on you people!
Slipping on the noose.
Do you see all the people?
Slipping on the noose.
Well I'm wide, I'm wide awake.
Mama said “I can't justify it son..
They're keeping warm a new uniform in the front
No, don't you sign up!”
So keep up, step up and add it up you
or be dead
Don't swim too near the crooked thread
They're not your friend, but pretend to be
and obligate you once they bait you
This paper claims your fame is guaranteed
until you start to bleed
Do you see all the people?
Slipping on the noose.
Counting on you people!
Slipping on the noose.
Do you see all the people?
Slipping on the noose.
Well I'm wide, I'm wide awake.
I'm staying up and stepping up.
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REIGN DANCE
03:42
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Reign Dance
It's fraud for our labor
Yet we sleep and trust away
Who makes the bullet and the bandage?
Who doesn't recognize the law?
Army of the operant craves obedient slaves
shaping everything we know
They're running up the zeros, zeros, zeros
It's on you
It's flawed to enslave us
right from our veins to vintage wine
wars, revolving doors force the binds
numbing minds, it's by design
Army of the operant craves obedient slaves
shaping everything we know
They're running up the zeros, zeros, zeros
It's on you
So run the race
in an aimless graze
to seed the fall to your knees
not on your knees?
Or my knees!
Army of the operant slaves
come out of your graves
claiming everything of ours
this time is ours
this time is ours
this time is ours
It's ours.
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A Distress
Come down to us
They're tearing down through us
Culling away
They're burning books
burning brains
burning teacher's aims
these are the games
Culling away
Burn who looks to undo this wicked face!
You brutal race
What's become of you?
So shut down
and unscrew your head
cause your wiring's gone so wrong
did you forget?
Culling away
They're burning books
burning brains
burning teacher's names
playing games
Culling away
Burn who looks to undo this wicked face!
You brutal race
What's become of you?
Closing up the window?
I'm praying for this window...
Lure
One by one
turn you on
one by one
and you're gone...
So rise tonight
Your serpentine is burning ripe
Surprise tonight
Your serpentine has bloomed
to cut you in two
Quietly
Escape! Escape!
The nanny's come to spoon the bait
and to show you home
Console the views
which keep them whole
their eyes won't refuse
they're gonna use
Infiltrating light
to medicate
but don't you try to flee
the slumber party
This nighty-night is old
and certified as proof
you might not do
as you're told
So down you go
to lose a day
when the only winning move
is not to play
Infiltrating light
to medicate
won't you try and flee
the slumber party?
Frozen in this space
A cold and nameless face
Draws you inside
Drains you, trains you
not to fight!
Infiltrating light
to medicate
won't you try and flee?
Won't you try?
Won't you try?
Won't you try?
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Heard it siphon one more soul today
They pay these fines or wear the irons
Feeding children to the lions
I'm seeing signs in all this rise of rabid minds
These blurry lines remain divided
Master shines its key, delighted
Setting fires
and spreading fire
I'm catching fire
Step into these eyes
these eyes brimstone
Step into these eyes
these eyes brimstone
They train to harvest for new inmates
They're stinging lives to fill their hives
You think you're wise behind infernal gates don't you?
Well careful what you say
What you say burns you....
....in these eyes
these eyes brimstone
Step into these eyes
these eyes...
Won't you step
into these eyes
these eyes brimstone
step into these eyes
right into these eyes
....brimstone
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VIGILIS Oakland, California
Unfettered art rock implying moments reminiscent of a gripping novel or film.
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