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Only Robots
04:43
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Punk, thrash, aggrotech
Politician on the decks
Stick your keyboards up your arse
It's not scene to play guitar
Black death rivethead
Gothic neo-classic trad
Hardcore dancefloor
Darkwave disco doom
Pick a side, bunker down
And find out who's the enemy now
Music is worth more than this
Divisions are society's
Be your own identity
Only robots need to think in binary
So many claiming wisdom
But everybody's floundering more or less
Each tribe promises freedom
Except in how you think, speak, act and dress
Like an infant seeking Mother
Switching one cage for another
Be your own identity
Only robots need to think in binary
Only robots need to think in binary
Only robots need to think in binary
Is there a God above
Or is there just oblivion in the end?
Or is there something else
Our minds could never start to comprehend?
The scope of your reality
Is nothing to infinity
Be your own identity
Only robots need to think in binary
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Evil wears many masks
None more dangerous than a mask of virtue
Evil that you put away
Building, brooding, waiting to consume you
Hypocrisy is your only friend
Your one defense against your own true nature
Justifying your every move
So you think that you're better
Pray you never see yourself without your tinted glasses
Pray your sanctity is all that you believe
Deny your demons at your peril
You shut them deep inside and feed them with your pride
Deny your demons at your peril
Lest they ever get out
Dopamine slowly welling up
Until it bursts out in a huge explosion
Adrenaline disconnects your brain
Speeding you right to your self destruction
Convince yourself that it's all OK
As you head into a downward spiral
Justifying your downfall
Think you deserve no better?
Pray you never see yourself without your tinted glasses
Pray your sanctity is all that you believe
Deny your demons at your peril
You shut them deep inside and feed them with your pride
Deny your demons at your peril
Lest they ever get out
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3. |
Paper Army
04:28
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Building power from your false friends
An illusion of the next big thing
Exalt your bland mediocrity
Everybody's liking but nobody's listening
Be the Lord of the wasteland
In a world built on waste
Artistic mutton, go purchase a flock
Integrity is the cheapest commodity
But fairy gold turns to lead with the sunrise
You can't fool the world forever
When you get called out on all of your lies
Your paper army won't be there to help you
A desperate play for attention
So anxious to be a star
What kind of person would be King for a day?
Well, that's the kind of person you are.
Be the Lord of the wasteland
Be the King of Shit Hill
When your face is forgotten and your money's all spent
The music will continue on still, without you.
'Cause fairy gold turns to lead with the sunrise
You can't fool the world forever
When you get called out on all of your lies
Your paper army won't be there to help you
Your paper army
Your paper army won't be there.
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4. |
The Good Guys
04:01
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Our biggest fear
Isn't that we're powerful beyond measure
Our biggest fear
Is that we're shitty, shitty people
Raise your hands if you think you're the good guys
Make some noise f you think you're the good guys
I say "Yeah!", you say "We're the good guys!"
The good guys
The good guys
So much better than those guys
Our biggest fear
Isn't that we're powerful beyond measure
Our biggest fear
Is that we're not the heroes of our own screenplay
That we might not be the ones that save the day
Or have the smartest lines to say
Is that OK?
Raise your hands if you think you're the good guys
Make some noise f you think you're the good guys
I say "Yeah!", you say "We're the good guys!"
The good guys
The good guys
So much better than those guys
Are we on the side of angels,
Or on the side of demons,
Or are we just sitting on the side?
Raise your hands if you think you're the good guys
Make some noise f you think you're the good guys
I say "Yeah!", you say "We're the good guys!"
The good guys
The good guys
So much better than those guys
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5. |
Monsterise
05:04
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Humanity consumed in global animosity
Killing and dying in someone else's name
It's not our differences that send us off to war
But the things that make us all the same
Fledged from a flight from freedom
Each generation monsterised
Rebuilding God in their own image
A book, a higher power
A paradigm, a utopia
Fame, beauty, wealth, power
Deify anything
I cannot tolerate this situation any longer
I cannot suffocate the beast inside my brain
Red mist descending
Empathy ending
Make me a monster to kill
We are all equal
They're all the same
We are all equal
They are all the same
The age of energy needs fuel to feed the hungry machine
Mineral rules animal
Vegetation sacrificed
Fire ants combusting to keep the engine turning
Hate, fear, pride, envy
Deify something!
I cannot tolerate this situation any longer
I cannot suffocate the beast inside my brain
Red mist descending
Empathy ending
Make me a monster to kill
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6. |
Edith Alone
06:43
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You ran a tight ship back when the children were growing up
Under your feet
They had to be broken, or else how would they ever learn
The done thing
The weak can't appreciate
The loneliness and necessity of strength
You stand alone
And then they had the audacity
To grow up as themselves
Forgetting who they are
Associating with 'Not Our Kind Of People'
They had to be left to die
They'll soon come back
To beg for your forgiveness
You stand alone
What do you stand for
Now that the world you ruled is shut outside your door?
Mighty on your throne
But not even the strength to pace the floor
Consumed with being right
And getting righter every day
You stand alone
You stand alone
You sit alone
You lie alone
You die alone...
What do you stand for
Now that the world you ruled is shut outside your door?
Mighty on your throne
But not even the strength to pace the floor
Consumed with being right
And getting righter every day
You stand alone
What do you stand for
Now that the world you ruled is shut outside your door?
Mighty on your throne
But not even the strength to pace the floor
Consumed with being right
And getting righter every day
You lie alone
You die alone.
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Player Versus X? Northampton, UK
An industrial metal project created by 'Quicksand' Kerry JK (formerly of Zeitgeist Zero, Miles From Anywhere) combining metal, aggrotech, synth and progressive influences.
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