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Mutant / Scum
06:00
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Flies in the ointment
Bumps in the night
Radioactive cocktails collide
Brack
A slippery past
Time cracks the cask
Brine
The odor of lies
Is not so benign
Dreck
Dross
Curd
Hypervigilant scientist mind
Mutant triumvirate
Chimera kin
Wrought
Iron
Ore
Color distorted
Cultures disguised
Cancer discarded
Crimes fossilized
Scarred shorelines
Marred with time
Stains remind us what
Remains unrefined
Scarred
Marred
Stains
Remain
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Rise And Slime
02:37
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Rise and slime
Welcome to this life
Open your eyes
Go forth and terrorize
An ancient tome, lost abandoned long ago
He holds it now, it's secrets yet remain unknown
His words ring out, echo through the darkest night
He turns the pages now
Rise
and
Slime
The book, it lives, speaking in forgotten tongues
Cries out for blood, death the only thing it loves
Turns to the waste in absence of another life
He takes a drink
Rise
and
Slime
Mutated flesh, changes deep within his bones
From the slime, creatures now begin to grow
Of your waste they were comprised
Now they'll bring forth your demise
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Dirt Bath
04:00
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Hourglass unturned
Alchemic obsession with permanence
Hard pass, cruel terms
Natural toll is just a means to an end
Hot trash, earthworms
Synthesized / Desensitized
Dirt bath, fools urn
Engulf the planet in the image of humankind
So know the world means nothing
To those who facilitate
Decontaminate! Decontaminate!
Incinerate! Incinerate!
Decontaminate! Decontaminate!
Sepulchered in embers and debris
Germs smirk
Worlds burn
Unfurled futures
Now enshrines the purveyors of pestilence
Ruptured sutures
Refuse of an age, refuse to wither away
Sludge-filled sewers
The aqueducts, ichorous earth
Septic stupor
Abhorrent waste becomes the veins of the world
So know the world means nothing
To those who facilitate
Dissociative fabrication
Planned obsolescence of the human race
Decontaminate! Decontaminate!
Incinerate! Incinerate!
Decontaminate! Decontaminate!
Sepulchered in embers and debris
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Sludge Castle
03:17
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Slime Wizard!
Your power grows and you expand your mind
Scum Sorcerer!
You and your children need a place to hide
Far below their modern tower
Under the influence of dollar signs
A river flows of toxic oil
Left ignored so they could gentrify
Thunderbolts, catapults
Castle walls reduced to pillars of salt
Toxic lust, left to rust
Moats of bubbling sludge poised to erupt
Noxious fumes call to the Wizard!
Through his second sight
traverse the sewers in the dead of night
From the book he recites the passage
With a single word, he can command life
Radiates, it churns and boils
The dormant waste begins to twist and writhe
Thunderbolts, catapults
Castle walls reduced to pillars of salt
Toxic lust, left to rust
Moats of bubbling sludge poised to erupt
Slime Wizard!
Your power grows and you expand your mind
Scum Sorcerer!
You and your children found a place to hide
Viscous tendrils crash through the windows
Enwreathe the structure all along their climb
Consider this your notice of eviction
From land-lords of sludge and slime
[unintelligible]
Monuments of excess
Monoliths of excrement
The sum of all man hath wrought
Scum always rises to the top
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5. |
Cognitive Pollution
04:05
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Haunted by demons
Of this waking life
Confronted with horrors untold
I want to tear out my eyes
Insurmountable chaos
Beyond the veil of what's seen
Do you accept this burden of knowledge
Or complacency?
Realize you're blind
Cognitive pollution
No regard for the ancients
Civilization laid waste
Hypnotized to bend to their order
To conform and behave
A whole world bathed in slumber
Why won’t they open their eyes?
Remain complicit as their actions unfold
Unaware of the lies
Realize you're blind
Cognitive pollution
Utilize your mind
Cognitive pollution
Realize…REALIZE!
Cognitive pollution
Utilize your mind
Rend yourself from these shackles
Venture outside the cave
Release yourself from this horrific nightmare
You’ve nothing to lose but your chains
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Casualties
Of stagnant seas
A violent swarm
Of half breeds attack the streets
The grand disease
Of apathy
The eye of the storm
Humanity gasps to breathe
Scum of the earth
Serfs of the lord
Blood of the ancients
Reborn
Out of the sewers
Onto the streets
Into the bloodstream
Disease
Cleanliness
Godliness
Fraudulent
Promises were all nonsense
Pandemic
Circumvents
The continent
All share common descent
Scum of the earth
Serfs of the lord
Blood of the ancients
Reborn
Out of the sewers
Onto the streets
Into the bloodstream
Disease
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Scabpicker
04:04
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Traitors!
Infiltrate helpless proles
Tremors!
Perforate blackened holes
Closer quarters
Open sores
Scabbing over
every pore
Scratch out
Tremors within
Black clouds
Under the skin
Scratch out
Cut to the end
Black clouds
Leper's chagrin
Traitors!
Fingers raked over coals
Tremors!
Desecrate tortured souls
Closer quarters
Open sores
Medic!
Blemished brains
Invite deeper scrutiny
Vanquished veins
On hands red with mutiny
Panic, stress
Manifests
Scratch reflex
Scratch out
Tremors within
Black clouds
Under the skin
Scratch out
Cut to the end
Black clouds
Leper's chagrin
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Caesium-137
06:22
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Caesium decay
Coursing through our veins
Crippled and afraid
Prussian blue puree
Circling the drain
Flush all hope away
Fragments from the firmament
Settle into sediment
Flush all hope away
Alpha
Beta
Gamma
GAMMA!
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9. |
Black Mayonnaise
03:30
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Late September ‘78
Disastrous spill discovered decades too late
Polluting the creek, tainting the soil
Millions of gallons of hazardous oil
Drill out the black
You’re out of time
Never look back
This toxic grime
Out of your hands, the onus and blame
Your skin of evil has been shed away
Layers of filth, fathoms of waste
Manifesting into black mayonnaise
Drill out the black
You’re out of time
Never look back
This toxic grime
Brick behemoths
Concrete beds
Caustic runoff
Toxic spreads
Centuries of ripe decay
Waterways coagulate
Surface sheen reflects the gray
Of industry’s emaciated face
Brick behemoths
Concrete beds
Caustic runoff
Toxic spreads
Drill out the black
You’re out of time
Never look back
This toxic grime
Drill out the black
Will eat your mind
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10. |
The Nightmare Of Being
03:58
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Unforeseen consequences of godplay
Ignorance takes its toll
With each breath, anguish accumulates
Time to extinguish the spark
Recreate the mistake
Relegate a wretched fate
This hideous existence should not be
Racked with guilt and grief
The fruits of labor, the folly of man
The nascent nightmare of being
Senseless suffering
Left with nothing
Nightmares of being
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