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A Cry for Help
03:54
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Trapped in the deepest places of my mind.
It seems like there's no salvation to find.
My wandering mind will be the death of me.
Unless I can find something to set me free.
Free from the darkness that binds my thoughts.
Free from the elements that I have fought.
Is this real or is this fiction?
All I know is it's a fucking addiction.
The floor shifts, my head spins.
And I can't live with my sins.
Somehow I must regain control
And dig myself out of this hole.
This knife in my hands is the only way that I can feel.
This is a cry for help, I just need to feel
Something other than the cold of the steel.
Someone, anyone that can help me feel.
The monsters you fear are under your bed
Are the same monsters that made their home in my head.
I'm starting to rot more and more each day
As everything I love is slowly fading away.
The darkness, this darkness is crushing my chest.
My demons are nagging, putting me to the test.
But with your help, I know I can lay them to rest.
The darkest nights will bring the brightest days
As long as you promise that you're here to stay.
Again and again, I'm tugged into plight.
But the darkness can't suffocate the light.
Just when I thought there was nothing more I can face.
You showed up and became my saving grace.
You opened up my blinds so I could see the light.
You gave me strength and a reason to fight.
The floor shifts, my head spins.
I found how to live with my sins.
Somehow I have regained control
And dug myself out of this hole.
Your hand in my hand is the only way that I can feel.
My cry for help has been heard, I can finally feel.
Something other than the cold of the steel.
Someone, you're the one that has helped me feel.
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Chaos
02:58
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Born into chaos beneath the wheels.
Crushed by the weight of our own heels.
We fall deep into the abyss.
Every step closer has brought me to this.
Oh my God
This world is crumbling down.
Oh my God
This world will leave you to drown.
Oh my God
This world is crumbling down.
Oh my God
This world will leave you to drown.
Trapped in the darkness beyond our control.
This is the worst pain that you'll ever know.
Let me make this clear.
I hate what you love and I am what you fear.
Oh my God
This world is crumbling down.
Oh my God
This world will leave you to drown.
Oh my God
This world is crumbling down.
Oh my God
This world will leave you to drown.
Oh my God
The future is blacked out, it's blacked out.
Your luck is running out.
Oh my God
The future is blacked out, it's blacked out.
Your luck is running out.
Your life gets shorter with every breath you take.
So keep your lies in your mouth.
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They walked down the aisle with a baby on its way.
Little did they know that this would lead to such dismay.
They walked in to their new life.
Not knowing they would have to deal with this strife.
Their love was something that no one could deny.
All it took was one big life decision.
What did they do to deserve this?
Why would someone rip apart a family?
They spent every single dollar that they had
To find some place to call their own.
Safe to say that didn't go all that well.
Poisoned poor and afraid to tell.
The cops laughed in their faces when they asked for help.
This was the happiest advancement of their lives.
What could possibly go wrong?
The snakes started sliding down the drain (sliding down the drain)
And the water didn't taste quite right (didn't taste quite, didn't taste right)
Let me tell you a story in the first person.
I lost my life, lost my kids, and now my bodies hurting.
I know that life isn't supposed to be this way
So why did I get stuck alone in this grave?
A small dark place, with no sign of a light.
There is nothing to see at the end of this tunnel.
(Steve Dechausse)
When did I lose my purpose?
When did I lose my fight?
I used to risk it all if I knew what was right.
But I don't even know what's right any more.
But I don't even know what's right any more.
I want to fight off the government.
I want to fight off this pain.
I want to fight off the state
That we've been in for to long.
I want to make you live in a world
That
You
Make
Them endure.
What is your reason?
What do you gain?
I want to make you suffer.
I want to make you pay.
I failed the happiest advancement of our lives.
I watched everything go wrong.
The snakes started sliding down the drain (sliding down the drain)
And the water didn't taste quite right (didn't taste quite, didn't taste right)
Now the cops surround me.
They're at my door, they're at my door.
Open up now!
I didn't kill her.
Now the cops surround me.
They're at my door, they're at my door.
Open up now!
I didn't kill her.
I watch them bust down the door.
I'm on my knees but still get beat to the floor.
I didn't kill her
You murdered her
And framed me.
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4. |
Memories
03:33
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Why did this happen to me?
No goodbye kiss, or even a wave.
This isn't how it's supposed to be.
How do you expect me to be so brave?
I survive on these memories of you
And these pictures scattered across the room.
I only hope that you're proud of the person I've become.
I'm doing my best to live my life.
I wish you were here.
Moving on is not what I want to do.
When you were with me
I had no fear.
I hate the
I hate the thought
I hate the thought of you not being
Here with me.
Why did this happen to me?
No goodbye kiss or even a wave.
This isn't how it's supposed to be.
How do you expect me to be so brave?
I model myself on the way you live my life.
I model myself on the way you live my life.
And the principles that you bestowed in me.
I only survive on these memories, these memories of you.
Please come home.
Please come home.
Please come home.
Please come home.
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Endless Night: Tsukuyomi
04:00
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Darkened skies
Sunless light.
My soul tarries in the flesh, shambling with disemetry.
Led by altar's promise
I tortured
Dirty shitty husks cinder with glee
Mindless carnality, your failing reality
Petty pus sacks, stacked so high.
The scorch of death burns holes in God's eyes.
I wander the endless night.
Misanthropy in a world cloaked pyre.
Smokey and alone without a soul in sight
I create
Filling the she starless void with stoking blight
Spreading the ashes of a torchers delight
Burn the bodies, murder the light.
Dawn arrives, nowhere to be found.
My black breath holocausts the morning.
Ceaseless I work to thicken the clot.
Inhale my alrot.
Asphyxiate on your families tears.
Choke on the scorched black bile.
Gaze on their melting fear.
Smell the singed blood.
Dysphagic gag.
Smell the singed blood.
Gaze on their melting fear.
Choke on the scorched black bile.
Asphyxiate on my families tears.
I wander the endless night.
Misanthropy in a world cloaked pyre.
Smokey and alone without a soul in sight.
I cremate
Filling the starless void with stoking blight.
Spreading the ashes of torturer's delight.
Burn the bodies, murder the light.
Burn the bodies, murder the light.
Embers remain, formless and white.
I am blind in a world cloaked blight.
Tarry no longer, I am last, final fuel in a world gone black.
Empty and quiet, not a charred soul in sight.
Destined to be the world's last light.
I throw myself into the dying flames.
Take me release me at last, I ignite.
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6. |
Trigger Warning
04:23
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This is your trigger warning.
Oh.
Yeah.
I don't understand what compels you to
Think that you can do whatever you want.
I don't care how you think that you know them.
They were your fucking friends.
And you didn't think twice.
Your own daughter.
Your own son.
Your own daughter.
Your own son.
Brock Turner.
You're a piece of shit
You're a waste of skin.
I hope you drown in your ideals
As you're haunted by your greatest sin.
Every single one of you are worthless.
You are no human in my eyes.
You rape them of their innocence.
I don't empathise or sympathise with your ideals.
I need you all to repeat after me.
I am not a victim (I am not a victim)
I am not a slave (I am not a slave)
I won't let them break me (I won't let them break me)
This is not the end of my life.
This is not the end of my life.
Jamie Melendez you're a monster.
What makes you think you deserve to see what you've done.
You got off way too fucking easy
And now you ask for more.
You don't deserve to see that fucking child.
You don't deserve to be a father.
Burn, burn him alive.
Drown him in his own ideals.
Treat him like the trash he is.
You are no human in my eyes.
You rape them of their innocence.
I don't empathise or sympathise with your ideals.
There's only one thing I was put on this earth for.
My ideologies.
No, I'm not perfect.
I know that I am no hero.
But I have a voice.
And I will not stop using that voice to fight for what is right.
I'm here to change a villain's mind.
That's my only purpose.
To create more heroes in this world with my words.
And with my passions.
I have these thoughts, these dreams
That one day, when people here these words
We can come together to save this dying race.
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7. |
Conditions
07:59
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There's these voices in my head
That I can't seem to ignore.
These pills and all these medications
It isn't helping anymore.
Anymore.
Scratching and clawing I can't find a way out of this hell.
My blood is dripping all over the floor.
I can't see straight, no I can't think right.
I don't know if I can get through the night.
Why won't these voices stop.
Suddenly my mind is losing all control.
My hands are shaking incessantly.
I can't feel the bottoms of my feet.
As these voices take control of me.
You thought you could get away.
I'll pull you back, you're here to stay.
And you thought you didn't need me.
Just know that you'll never be free.
You thought you could get away.
I'll pull you back, you're here to stay.
And you thought you didn't need me.
Just know you will never be free.
Scratching and clawing I can't find a way out of this hell.
My blood is dripping all over the floor.
I can't see straight, no I can't think right.
I don't know if I can get through the night.
Why won't these voices stop.
Stop.
Sweat drips off of my face as I begin to panic.
My heart starts to race.
Is it even worth it.
This impending doom.
What's the point of fighting off these demons?
What's the point of fighting off these demons?
What's the point of fighting off these demons?
I feel compression in my chest.
As a jolt of pain runs right down my spine.
There's a million different things that are on my mind.
And I don't know why (and I don't know why)
Not a single word (not a single word) escapes my lips.
I try to control my breathing, but my breath begins to stagger.
A few deep breaths, a few deep breaths.
These voices in my head (these voices in my head)
That I can't, that I can't seem to ignore.
These pill and all this medication isn't helping anymore.
You scratch and you claw at it.
You're never gonna find a way out of this hell, out of this hell.
My blood is dripping all over the floor.
I can't see straight, no I can't think right.
I don't know if I can get through the night.
Why won't these voices stop?
All I hear are voices.
Everything I've ever known is failing me.
All I know is these conditions won't bury me.
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Art of the Fallen is a six piece metalcore band from southeastern Michigan. The band strives on blending elements from different genres within metal, i.e. deathcore, techmetal, even branching into post-harcore that they call Scrap Metal. They've earned a nice following and improve live with every show. Teaming with TBL, ER, Animated Apparel, and DEAD Name, AOTF is making a name for themselves. ... more
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