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Illumination
07:15
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We've been here for far too long
looking through a repressive window
Incarcerated in failure
We bleed for those in greed
All in search of a way out of here
if we keep looking back we'll never move forward
Deceived by this lie of progress we thought to be true
we've inflicted our own solitude, we are all alone
we are alone
So short sighted we cannot see our demise lies not within the sky, but our very own minds
We've never been so blind, so scared of tomorrow we refuse to open our eyes
We are trapped in a perfect world
so far from the truth; we're lost in ourselves
Incarcerated we are alone
We are the cancer we've fought to resist
Living our lives to the line "Ignorance is bliss"
All pawns in this sick game we call humanity
To us life is nothing more than a dream
The day we stop dreaming is the day that we dream forever
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Erased
04:23
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Day by Day, our lives slowly slip away from us
night by night we run and we hide from a sky that is as empty and as dark as our hearts
We're running from our own reflections
Refusing to see our imperfections
We're running from our own reflections
refusing to see our own imperfections
Behind the curtain of lies and deceit we hide
we run for eternity from the shadow of our own demise
In this world full of evil we are all transparent
Just specters in the fog of humankind
The clock ticks there's no rewind, we have all...
we've all run out of time
I don't want to live in a world built on hate
I don't want to live in a world built on deceit
We've already lit the fuse of extinction
In the flames of humanity's depravity
this world will burn
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Perspective
04:12
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Looking at and artificial world through synthetic eyes, eyes that aren't our own
We are all lost in a world embedded in code, where deception is sewn.
All they see are numbers to them there is no past and no future
ones and zeros incarcerate us forever in a world where there is no tomorrow
Those who corrupt must be dethroned
if we're to live this life we call our own
We must rise against them all
break down the digital wall
that separates us from our future and show the world
We were born, eyes closed
and it's time to see the world for what it is
We were born, eyes closed
and it's time to see the truth for what it is
Remove your blindfold and see the world for what it is
remove your blindfold and see yourself
Born in a world where it's naught to be human, astray for too long
We are so lost.
We let the falsehearted direct our lives, we are living blind.
Because we were born, eyes closed
and it's time to see the truth for what it is
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Clockwork
03:12
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... The Earth now ashes beneath our feet, for far too long we've escaped our own defeat
Our self destructiveness has brought this on us all, Where we built to fall?
A solution lies among the stars, the clocks must be reversed; turn back the hours
To a time when the earth was still at peace
Far from humankind's destructive reach
We are the ones who've brought on this all
Architects of our own downfall
We've been cheating on death for far too long
in the jaws of fate we don't belong
Machines tear holes in the sky; a final chance of survival for humankind
The universe collapses as time rewinds, as we leave the corpse of the earth behind
Through time and space we will rewrite the fate of the human race
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We come from the heavens and we bring hell to this dying world
Aeons spent among the stars have left scars in our legacy
We are just a mere shadow of our former selves
with an everlasting hunger for destruction
We traverse constellations
Carving reality, re writing the fate of all humanity
We no longer know a place called home, all we have is this emptiness we call our own
We come from the heavens and we bring hell...
We come from the heavens and we bring hell to the Earth
"Status report? Is the earth still intact? the atmosphere supporting the living?"
"Our calculations suggest we may be too late"
Mankind cannot be allowed to achieve its fate
Arm all weapons! Deploy dooms day machines
This is the end of humankind
We are the architects of your demise
There is nowhere to hide...
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Collisions
03:49
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Above our heads in the darkness of the sky you observe
Slowly casting your shadow over the Earth
Soon hell will rain down on us from the heavens
We cannot save ourselves
As they fall from the sky, I have now realised; we're in our final moment
This is our departure, this is our last breathe
We gaze upon the sky for the very last time
We cannot save ourselves
Hell pours from the heavens destroying everything in sight
Machines descend from the sky as the earth is plunged into eternal night
"The world will shout save me, and I will whisper no"
This is our departure, this is our last breathe
We gaze upon the sky for the very last time
Our worlds collide
Killing everything that resides within this atmosphere
Poisoned by our self-destructive ways
We are trapped, under a falling sky
There is nowhere to hide
We cannot run from our demise
This is man's long awaited end
The sun will never rise again
This is our departure, this is our last breathe
We gaze upon the sky for the very last time
We have failed
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