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Set The Fires

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Set The Fires

The 1st Single From Chapter II: Destruction
Inspired By the Legendary Bioshock Franchise, in this installment, the Big Daddies rally on reflection of the cruelty both themselves and the Little Sisters have suffered, and continue their path of destruction across Rapture and time itself to face those responsible

Part of The New Triple Chapter Full Length IO Record Coming Soon

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We set the fires

And watched the ocean as it burned

We set the fires

Cleansing the past to save their future

Now looking back on all the torture

The sordid games we had to play

Until our time became elastic

This was the only way to erase what they’d done


A city fallen

Left in ruins

Due to the corruptible ones

Faces mutilated

Made unrecognisably wrong

Self afflictions from all the addictions

Served by all the moral-less scum

When all humanity’s been lost

Then Society rots

No respect just more neglect

They say you give what you get

All the consumption made them all a fortune

Not a care for the cost

Too corrupted by their greed

They received what they deserved


The cost was what we knew as our future

Manufactured to the duty of a medicated pair bond

Freedoms so forsaken both our lives and the young they’d taken

These families lose their minds searching for the young they'll never find


From the lairs

The puppets

The thieves and false prophets

We took back the lives they'd stolen with our pride

Fortunes kept them blinded

To this flame that we’d ignited

And they met their end from the innocent they condemned


We were born for so much more

Became intent to destroy

From what we’d learned of their misdeeds

That Brought this city to its knees

Raging war between the rich and the poor

It inevitably ends

Yet nobody wins

Just face the flames and disappear

Never to return

Butchers of the body of the mind and soul

No time to repair

Amidst the depths of despair

We saved the young and their future

Before the ocean came to sink with the horror

We set the fires

And watched the ocean as it burned

We set the fires

Cleansing the past to save their future

Now looking back on all the torture

The sordid games we had to play

Until our time became elastic

This was the only way to erase what they’d done



They’d taken liberties

Taken lives with lies again and again

Self deluded fiction

Sold with all malicious intent

Evolution guised as a solution

For their lives that they’d signed away

Illusions of choice

And their delight in the plight of the innocent they’d enslaved in this hell

When More bodies just meant more profit

They didn't care for the rest

Loyalty is put to the test as we sink to the bottom


Of the bottles

The pills

The cheap injected thrills

Tools devoid of morals

Left with all the riches from the slaughtered

It's in their mind

Forcing death when they decide

Once they stole all of the value from our lives



The liars

The puppets

The thieves and false prophets

Their Addictions Left them blinded

To the civil war that they’d ignited

We got out of this hell

And they were shown how vengeance felt

Their blood gave us their memories

Of All the atrocities they’d committed



We were born for so much more

Became intent to destroy

From what we’d learned of their misdeeds

That Brought this city to its knees

And this raging war between the rich and the poor

Brought to inevitable ends

Yet nobody wins

Just faced the flames and disappeared

Never to return

Butchers of the body of the mind and soul

No time to repair

Amidst the depths of despair

We saved the young and their future

Before the ocean came to sink them with



The horror

The pills

The filth injected thrills

Dependent to a fault

Even as this bucket rots

From the liars

The puppets

The thieves and false prophets

Addictions left us broken

With all our homes a faded token

Of the memories when we weren’t of the abandoned

When we were loved

Before they stole us

For all their greed that kept them blinded

To this flame that we’d ignited

And The good that they’d besieged

Came to bring them to their knees


Bring Them To Their Knees

Grovelled To The Monsters They'd Created

Begging for Compassion and Mercy

You Made Your Bed

Now Fucking Rot In It



We set the fires

And watched the ocean as it burned

We set the fires

Cleansing the past to save their future



Now looking back on all the torture

The sordid games we had to play

Until our time became elastic

This was the only way to erase what they’d done


Petulant Scum

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from Set The Fires, track released October 31, 2023
Written, Performed, Produced & Recorded by Mike Webster
Mixed & Mastered at Havoc Studios

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From the Mind of The UK's One Man Metal Machine,
Mike Webster

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