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Here it comes
To bring this pain to me from what was never meant to be seen
There's a special place in hell reserved for those Who did this to me
No forgiveness no regrets
Cause I’m not even close to done yet
Guess who’s back its the irregular anomaly
The thing that’s fighting for more than just mere hostility
The thing that’s come to break down the confines
And carve a path With the chronicles of a lifetime
They thought that they had beaten me
They thought that they had cheated me
They thought that they could get away with all the sordid little games they play
I Will not be discounted
I possess the will to move mountains
Oh But You’re never the same once you’re betrayed by the ones you tried to help along the way
I refuse to be another mindless slave
Or let the sycophants of this world send me to an early grave
I just couldn’t take another wasted day
As if it wasn’t enough for them to try take my life away from me now
They thought that they had beaten me
They thought that they had cheated me
They thought that they could get away with all the sordid little games they play
I will not be misguided
I bring the wrath of all the titans
Oh no trust left
And it’s amplified when you’re betrayed by the ones you trusted
Here it comes
To bring this pain to me from what was never meant to be seen
There's a special place in hell reserved for those Who did this to me
No forgiveness no regrets
Cause I’m not even close to done yet
As I look back I remember why I had to go
So many years I wasted for nothing and gone before I knew it
All the effort I spent just to be taken as read
And I tried as hard as I could
But some things just can’t be forgiven
They thought that they had beaten me
They thought that they had cheated me
They thought that they could get away with all the sordid little games they play
I will not be misguided
I bring the wrath of all the titans
Oh no trust left
And it’s amplified when you’re betrayed by the ones you trusted
What have they done
I am the one
The one who’s taken so much pain
From a world so dark and so numb
And make no mistake
They knew what they were doing all along
Then tried to play their games
With every trick that they could
And all their hollow promises
I’m not done yet
Liars and thieves
And all the tools they deceive
Destroying any shred of respect
From a lifetime of neglect
Subjugate all their threats
Because they’re meaningless
No care of whose lives they separate or terminate
Stealing the life’s blood from the soul
Well I’m taking it back
I’m taking it back
I’m taking it back
Let it rain
Cause I refuse to be another one of their victims
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T.F.I.
02:21
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I’m so
sick of always hearing what you wanted of me
It’s like you never understood how to feel
I know it’s been hard with many bumps in the road
But I can’t take another day its fucking suffocating me
I’ve been holding my tongue for too long, and you know damn well that you’re wrong
All these childish games, just driving me insane
You do this every fucking day going round and round again
What the point in wasting more time on you shit?
I told you one more time
That’s fucking it. for me.
I don’t want to hear it again
And sorry won’t make up for all the things that you’ve said
Life too short to try to heal or to mend
And once again I’m saying Goodbye my ‘friend’
Would you take it all back if you could?
Coz I very much doubt that you would
Can’t believe that I fell for it again and again, can’t believe I ever called you my friend
I’ve been holding my tongue for too long
And you know damn well that you’re wrong
All these childish games it’s driving me insane
Oh you fucking lied to me
Ahh you know you did
Oh That’s fucking it
That’s. Fucking. It.
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3. |
Break It
04:52
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I wana Break it til the atoms are displaced and erased
Til a void of space is left in its place
Til the weakened system that they had so poorly designed turns to ashes right in front of their eyes
I’m not here to say I’m sorry and I’m tired of the games, justifications for your actions that can never be explained
I have suffered too much pain too much misery to date just look into my eyes and see the fire you can’t contemplate
Break. It. Until. There’s nothing left of it
Break. It. Until. There’s nothing left of it
Grease this path with the filthy putrid lies I tread upon
And line it with the names of the fools that attempted to enslave me all along
Now they’re rotting in pain
Paralysed in fear at the mention of my name
Too ashamed of the awful things that they’ve done, lying awake at night afraid of what they’ll see, cause when they close their eyes they see Me
I refused to be another victim of their schemes
They’re continuing to try to enslave whole generations of humanity
To suppress the rage took an inordinate amount of Me
I guess my nerve got too damn short
Do you know what I mean?!
I live to bring this fire that will never be contained
And all the rage that manifests inside of me has a never ending source of fuel for the flame
There’s more pages to this story not concerned with fools of folly, let them live with all the things that they’ve done
Simply no taking back the time and I refused to fall in line, I became what they always feared
And now I’ve come to
Break. It. Until. There’s nothing left of it
Break. It. Until. There’s nothing left of it
Tell me why did they have to go and lie
Every time
Do they think we’re fucking blind?
We’ve seen their evil doings and all the good lives that they’ve ruined
And an apology just won’t cut it this time
They knew all along that they crossed the fucking line
Now I’ve welcomed them to the nightmare of their own design
There is no escape, from the monster I have made
This is an unstoppable force born of suffering and rage
Misery
Your own medicine doesn’t fucking taste good does it
Misery
Endless psychopathic voids of misery
Without Help
Just know there’s no saving yourself from me
“This is how it’s gonna be”
I will never be
That zero that they told me, I had to
Just accept it right
And it came down to one night, I’d just had enough
Of all of the misery
And what
They tried to do to me
I just had to break it
Sick of all their shit
What the fuck did they think was gonna happen?
What? I’d accept all the lies?
No
I will not just lay down and die
Best expect a surprise
No
I will not just lay down and die
What in the Fuck did they think was gonna happen?!
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The Black Summer
04:22
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How can this be
Where are your morals n decency
No trust left to save
I have had as much as I can take
It’s endless
So senseless
Relentlessness of the same thing
I knew all was not as it would appear to be
And the deception is something I cannot stand to see engulfing me
All the scars left behind to remind me
Of the painful memories haunting me
That I tried to forget for so long
And lost myself along the way
Tried to quell it with the sauce and the excess
But all that it did was make it worse for me
Life’s too short to look for a remedy that never existed or ever will
My blood runs thick
With all the poisons I have done
Distractions fading too quick
With no peace I wasn’t capable of
Feeling Or even
Seeing I Couldn’t foresee what you’d do to me
Disgusted by the thoughts but what’s done is done
The black summer
Come to take me again
I’m circling the drain
Nothings what it seems
Was it ever?
Does it even matter?
The black summer
Cannot face it another way
It’s the season of all the debauchery
It’s the season
It’s the season of another way to make it better
Take it down
The black summer
Come to take me again
And All the scars left behind to remind me
Of the painful memories haunting me
That I tried to forget for so long
And lost myself along the way
Tried to quell it with the sauce and the excess
But all that it did was make it worse for me
Life’s too short to look for a remedy that never existed or ever will
My blood runs thick
With all the poisons I have done
Distractions fading too quick
With no peace I wasn’t capable of
Feeling Or even
Seeing I Couldn’t foresee what you’d do to me
Disgusted by the thoughts but what’s done
is done
I need for things to get better now
But they just keep getting worse
So sick of being taken for granted
And every time I saw you It’s the same
That arrogance and the stupidity
No care for dignity
Your names not worth the paper that it’s been written on
I have seen
That Self imposed entitlement once before
What’s more
You’re agendas paper thin I can see right through it
You thought that I was done
But I’d only just begun
I’d only just begun
I’ve accepted the pain I want it
I need it to remind me I’m still real
That I can still feel
Been Numbing myself for too long
My visions burring as the colours return
To let me live with what I’ve learned
as The black summer comes to take me again
To replace all the misery
With much more of the poison
The black summer come to take me again
To detach me from all you’ve made
And I’ve had as much as I can take
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The Needle
03:16
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Wait so we’re not supposed to live for tomorrow we should only live for the sake of today
But if today’s just the same as tomorrow that’s such a very pointless thing to say
Coz it plays on repeat like you never went to sleep can’t escape no release
Ijust want a little peace
Is this a moment just passing in time?
Stop saying everything’s fine
It’s clearly not x2
The needle x3
I told myself never again..
I told myself I wouldn’t do this to myself again
And again it starts all over
As the pills go down like water
All the pain still weighs
In the the hope one day it finally go away
So Still clinging onto hope
Ever reached the end of that rope
With more progress comes a sense of relief
All you needed was belief in yourself
And in time it will come
But In the end the pain comes round again
Stop saying everything’s fine
It’s clearly not x2
The needle x3
Not again...
Don’t lie to me again
Just do It
I said don’t lie to me
Just do it again
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Just Another Mistake
05:33
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Oh what’s it gonna take to replace all the mistakes that I’ve made
Trusting too much and letting myself believe that they cared
It was all just a farce and I couldn’t foresee the tragedy that came next
But I never gave in no matter how much pain I had to take from it all
I’ve wasted so much time so many years I’ll never get back
Holding solace in the fact that they couldn’t corrupt this mind of mine
With my conscience held intact, its redesigned and so much more defined
There’s no point in looking back with regret coz it shaped the very thing I came to be
Embrace it, your life is only ever what you make it
Re-lace it, numb all the feeling and the pain til you can face it
Suffer through it, pain is temporary, glory is eternal
Refuse it, all the lies that they told us for so long
I’m tired of the same thing day after day after day
Re-wired it, same mind new tricks to destroy their game
Didn’t expect it coz they wrote me off so long ago
Manifesting, I’ll make ‘em eat their words every single time
I’m not associated
They Misappropriated
Now they’re left with nothing
Nothing but their petty whines and squabbling
Enough is enough
So many bigger problems to deal with-ah
Not a chance I won’t be your tool
Pair delusions with low vibrations
No time to be lectured by fools
Just another mistake
Oh what’s it gonna take to replace all the mistakes that I’ve made
Trusting too much and letting myself believe that they cared
It was all just a farce and I couldn’t foresee the tragedy that came next
But I never gave in no matter how much pain I had to take from it all
I’ve wasted so much time so many years I’ll never get back
Holding solace in the fact that they couldn’t corrupt this mind of mine
With my conscience held intact, it’s redesigned and so much more defined
There’s no point in looking back with regret coz it shaped the very thing I came to be
Couldn’t deny me It won’t change the fact they came up short
I had to go Forced to save the little sanity that I’d retained
Then tragically had to watch as all the pain devoured everything
And the insanity was there was nothing I could do to take it all away
And I’m tired from the same thing day after day after day
What’s required torn out of me again and again and again
Never relenting, I couldn’t stop trying even if I wanted to
Coz if I did I’d never learn to live with myself
Help came in little measure
A life Devoid of pleasure
I never thought it’d turn out like it did
Or just how much that I had lost along the way
So many bigger problems to deal with-ah
Not a chance I won’t be your tool
Pair delusions with low vibrations
No time to be lectured by fools
Just another mistake
I had
To break
That cycle
Of slavery
So I carved this path
Made of sheer will and wrath
Despite the odds
No matter what the cost
I came to destroy all the evil that they’ve done
To make life liveable again
This is not the end
Way past the point to mend
This is not the end
IO
become the vision, dissolve the friction
Become the visions, dissolve the friction
They were always one and the same
Oh what’s it gonna take to replace all the mistakes that I’ve made
Trusting too much and letting myself believe that they cared
It was all just a farce and I couldn’t foresee the tragedy that came next
But I never gave in no matter how much pain I had to take from it all
I’ve wasted so much time so many years I’ll never get back
Holding solace in the fact that they couldn’t corrupt this mind of mine
With my conscience held intact, its redesigned and so much more defined
There’s no point in looking back with regret coz it shaped the very thing I came to be
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E-nough
03:22
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Man I’m tired of being told that I don’t matter at all
Ever since I was a kid always told that I did not belong
They said my achievements were always theirs to take
Never getting noticed for anything that I’d created
It doesn’t matter one bit what your title says
You’re such a worthless piece of shit
good luck you’ll need it
Just spread depression and disgust wherever you go
Even garbage is disgusted by the sight of you
Enough
I’ve had enough of all of this shit from you
I’ve had enough of all of it
Enough
There’s not a thing you could ever hope to say or do
To make me want to help you
Fall To sleep
And breathe in deep
Lay it all To rest
To pave the way For the best
I had to kill that part of me
That ever cared for you at all
I just couldn’t forgive myself
For ever trusting you
And all the shit that you put me through
You don’t possess me get the fuck out of my head
I’m so much more than anything you could ever comprehend
The sheer audacity to cheat me out of what’s mine
Then devise another scheme to try to make me fall in line again
How quick they forget
I told them once we’d met
I’ll produce great things
but don’t you ever try to stab me in the back
Or try to take the credit for my work
So they did both
Enough
I’ve had enough of all of this shit from you
I’ve had enough of all of it
Enough
There’s not a thing you could ever hope to say or do
To make me want to help you
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8. |
The Suffering
05:15
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So much grief so much pain it’s gotten heavy
As if I didn’t have enough of both of them already
Give me peace give me time for some release
With No time to waste, I’ve gotta get out of this place
Suffer, until the misery is your only friend
Endless and no one cared to lend a helping hand
Never will I endure it again
Wanting for some joy that never came
The suffering
These endless days
The suffering
These endless days
Force fed all of the empty platitudes of life
Falling out of the pack like grains of rice
None of this seems right so tell me why?
Does it have to be like this?
The suffering
These endless days
The suffering
After I’ve endured this I’ll never be the same
I’m longing for the day
No matter what they say
That all of this had led to colour in the grey
I’ll always find a way
My will just can’t be tamed
I’ve come back from the precipice again
Again.Again. And Again if that’s what it takes x2
This isn’t over until I say that it is
I thought I’d said it before
This isn’t over until I say that it is
What’s more
This isn’t over until I say that it is
I thought I’d said it before
This isn’t over until I say that it is
See this I’ve never given up on a Single thing I’ve Ever set my mind to create
Face it I don’t succumb to the pressure
Failure don’t exist here even with the
Suffering
These endless days
The suffering
After I’ve endured this I’ll never be the same
I got out of the maze
Then went back in again
I knew I had no choice but to decimate their game
With the knowledge I have gained
To heal him of his pain
And break out of this hell that he’s been living in
I’d do it again and again if that’s what it takes x2
This isn’t over until I say that it is
I thought I’d said it before
This isn’t over until I say that it is
What’s more
This isn’t over until I say that it is
I thought I’d said it before
This isn’t over until I say that it is
I won’t give up
And I refuse to give in x2
Over this
I don’t know much longer he can take it
No matter what happens in the end
Know I did everything I could x2
I did e-very thing I ever could
You didn’t give up on me
So I won’t give up on you x2
I won’t give up on you
I made a promise and I intend to keep it
I will find a way to kill the pain
I will find a way to take it all away
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Be-Leive
In Me
Like I Believe in You
Look at Me
Now You’re free
Finally made it out of the pain game as of today
For the time I’ve spent upon a path so few would tread
It Finally came to something more than I could have ever dreamt
I never questioned why I wanted to make this
I guess I knew deep down I had to
To break the cycle that continued on repeat
Had to break that pattern of the endless strained monotony
It was doing no good for my sanity
And it nearly killed me
I could see my life slipping away
I could see the light beginning to fade
No matter how much effort I had put in to save it
I lost more time than I’d care to admit
I lost more friends that I’ll never forget
All for more empty promises
It so sadistic Sociopathic Psychosematic
I am the one they couldn’t handle
Forget sentimental
Tried to use me then threw me away just like the rest
They wouldn’t listen
More concerned with the friction
Be-cause I saw through the petty little lies that I despise
Be-Leive
In Me
Like I Believe in You
Look at Me
Now You’re free
Finally made it out of the pain game as of today
It never made much sense
Why work on false pretence
So over burned with the pain
No end in sight again
But I still have my force of will
I Won’t take it standing still
There was clearly more to know
Frustration overload
I could see my life slipping away
I could see the light beginning to fade
No matter how much effort I had put in to save it
I lost more time than I’d care to admit
I lost more friends that I’ll never forget
All for more empty promises
It so sadistic Sociopathic Psychosematic
I am the one they couldn’t handle
Forget sentimental
Tried to use me then threw me away just like the rest
They wouldn’t listen
More concerned with the friction
Be-cause I saw through the petty little lies that I despise
And I will not be denied
I wont be their victim
Or be a part of their rotten system
I’ll never forgive I won’t forget it
Why promise something when you never meant it
So long and good riddance
Tell me what’s real
All they did was lie and steal
Their words were just that
Empty rhetoric and that’s a fact
How do they sleep at night?
Holding their loved ones so tight?
I wish them the worst
As I hold on to the best
Of me
Come get some
With no resolve
Their power dissolved
Into thin air
I am the input and the output
I’m the thing that they’ve been craving
I’m the one they’re always needing
And they made the mistake of trying to take what I’d made
Bad call
They Can’t take away what they dint create
I’m free
I’m free
Finally I’m free
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10. |
re-Birth
01:13
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Heavy Music for Heavier Minds
From the Mind of The UK's One Man Metal Machine,
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