Plague of Vermin
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It starts as just one
But soon it multiplies
Spreading its seed
One-hundred-thousand times
Disrupting thoughts
As it's infecting minds
Reasoning is killed
Awareness rendered blind
Ignorance knows of no bounds
It spreads like a disease
Its subjects so dependent
They refuse its release
A contagious hypnosis corrupting
Corrupting countless souls
Turning them against those who are
Immune to its hold
Billions drowned within
The Plague of vermin (x2)
Idiocy runs rampant
The mentally weak outnumber the strong
Those who it claims hunt those it cannot touch
Its far reaching hand makes victims of them all
Billions drowned... (x2)
Ignorance knows...
Billions drowned...
To defy its grasp
Its to be free
Beyond the Shroud
A vast world can be seen
But that is rare
As the blind masses thrive
Under their fist
Ideas cannot survive
Idiocy runs...
The Selfish Honor
Dutiful tasks, your sole purpose
Living to serve, serving for life
Neglect the self while so eager to please
You cannot realize that you're just a pawn
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Your valor has no value
Your cause is not your own
Always looking outwards
A drone to be led
Condemn and curse others
Who don't follow your path
You are selfless by duty
I'm self-centered by choice
Embrace the selfish honor, it's a truth
Don't be a slave to others, you'll get used
Take up the selfish honor, you can decide
Live for your freedom, discover your pride
Now look within, what do you see
Merely a husk that is your empty soul
Scorn at my ways, but I've no guilt
It is you who is drowning in shame
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Mindless self-sacrifice has dug your grave
I grin and laugh as you fall down
Your valor...
Condemn...
Embrace...
Spiritual Masochism
No man possesses a god's flesh
No book reveals a divine's will
Lost within blind ideals
Your faith your guiding light
You praise its benevolence
And wear the cross with pride
Your ignorance is not bliss
Your ray of hope is the root of your fear
The church's creed builds resentment in you
Idealism slowly poisons your mind
Preach and impose your view
Propagate your faith
Oblivious to truth
We are not the same
Your set of values means
Less than shit to me
Your holy practice I deem
Useless and obscene
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Force-feed your religion
Receive mass distrust
Self-righteous presumptions
Fill me with disgust
Ensnaring your children
Cut off their escape
You call it baptism
I call it mind rape
Fuck your strict dogma, fuck your narrow mind
Freewill and free choice shall prevail and shine
Spiritual masochism, your soul is enslaved
Preach of salvation, but you cannot be saved
Spiritual masochism, curse of the oppressed
Denounce the doctrine, or be a pawn till death
Burdened by constant guilt from your so-called sins
Human desires are branded as unclean
Threats of damnation leave you terrified
The hell of your creed has you frightened of death
Sacred is my freedom
The will to reject your christ
Envy my potential with your
Self-defeated eyes
Spiritual masochism...
Gaze at this world
Through eye of flame
Rife with contempt
And righteousness
Unprovoked and hasty
Is how you judge and blame
And at your conclusion
You're sacred and we're profane
So little you favor
So much that you despise
We are all atrocities
Through your draconian eyes
What you emit
You shall receive
Scream your distrust
Get what you give
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Behind your glare
Within your soul
Cowardly fear
Grows with self-hate
Self-loathing, the only cause of your rage
Now you can see that you are what you hate
Curse and be cursed, damn and be damned
All your moral highground
Has crumbled and burned
Only in your failure
Have you come to learn
Your mind is dissected
And stripped of its disguise
You are the atrocities
Through Draconian eyes
Atrocities Through Draconian Eyes
Fighter's Wounds
My fear was your food, my weakness your feast
My sanctity your kill
Left with nothing, but all is not lost
Ruination has not stripped me of resolve
Now the scale sways, roles are reversed
Hunters are hunted. the tables turn
I see through your scheme, your strength is false
With motivation, I vow to make you fall
I am your fucking nightmare
I'll bring your karmic death
Predator is victim
In this fateful punishment
Suffer or slaughter
Lament or bring doom
Exist in oppression
Or bleed from fighter's wounds
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Invincible no more, your shield has broken down
You're only flesh and blood
All that you've taken, I'll forcefully reclaim
At the dregs I can only ascend
Feel my pain, reap what you sow
Experience anguish, which you've never known
For my survival, your blood I spill
I tear down your being, and go for the kill
I am...
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One you deemed inferior
Is one to whom you fell
Unforeseen defeat brings you
Traumatizing hell
Perish in the bloodshed
Which you lived to create
My victory upon you
Will make your essence fade
I am...
I've surmounted much repression
Tries have been made to hold me down since birth
Fuckers! You can't restrain my thoughts
Nor can you void the uniqueness of my being
Convinced you bring harmonious order
By enforcing mass herd conformity
But in reality your law of numbers
Severely unbalances the scale
Sedate and nullify, remake in your image
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Mentality of one, the pariah
I am the dark thorn in your picture-perfect grove
Mentality of one, the ambitious
Alone I've more potential than your full collective herd
Deathly afraid of what you can't perceive
Fearing what you don't understand
Your feeble weak mind seeks to inpose
A strict decorum which I can see through
Mentality of one...
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Hordes of the nondescript
Won't fulfill your lust for control
Your iron fist tightens
The art of my thoughts is your fear
I am the future
Fuck all your codes, they render minds void
The masses will rot and decay
And those of knowledge with thrive
Deathly afraid...
Mentality of one...
Mentality of One
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The stars shine bright
Gleams in the black void
Links to the ancient past
Timeless secrets to behold
They burn with strength like our minds
They shine as beacons like our souls
Watching for aeons they observe our mortal lives
We are but extensions of creation's domain
Revel beneath ancient splendor
Solve the puzzles of the cosmos up high
Ascend spiritually and embrace
The dark serenity of a pitch black sky
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Enter new dimensions
Portals to the grand unknown
See new perspectives
Only perceived in dreams
Transcend the doorways between realms
Of real and metaphysical
Construct paths to constellations
Explore frontiers astral realms
Reach a higher field of existence
Which even the hardest of logic cannot deny
Heighten the essence while basking beneath
The dark serenity of a pitch black sky
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Energies flow through space
Tracing a symbiance
To souls and their hosting worlds
A universal chain
Continuum flows like a stream
Compositions of an intelligent design
Manifest of divine celestial art
The dark serenity of a pitch black sky
Energies flow...
The Dark Serenity of a Pitch Black Sky
Under moonlight
In misty air
I recall the blind hope
I recall the despair
Failing wishes
Unchained resolve
Confused ideal
My soul felt all
The image shown
In the lake stares into me
Reflecting all that I am
And all I've been
Tangled emotions
Stories to each on
Revealed to me
In profound desolation
From specters of the past
To the glimpse of the future world
This meditation
Grants me clarity
Unmasked is my role
In what was and what's yet to become
Mastering the threads of fate
I'm my own destiny
The keys to the future
May lie in the past
Wisdom I attain
My truth I behold
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Memories flood my conscience
Visions caress my mind
Hindsight stimulating
Foresight stimulated
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On wooded hilltops
Amid whispering trees
I'm granted acute senses
And receive lucid dreams
Banished is the void
And questions I have asked
Their forgotten answers
Rest within my grasp
The image shown...
From specters...