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Ottawa - Holy of Holies
01:21
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The noose around the masses neck, in the form of a white collar. Conditioned from birth to succumb to tradition. People convinced that they need this fix. What are you pushing? Why must we suffer and die for their lies? The way it is and forever shall be. The image of the cross is now burnt into my eyes, so I’ll never forget who my god is. For 2000 years, Christianity has tightened its grip upon the human spirit. From the Crusades, to the Inquisition, to today’s Pro-life movement they’ve created a holocaust—for which they show no remorse. Millions writhe in crucifixion, blindly searching for heaven’s reprise. Chastity and self-repression, for His love and His glory was all must die. Holy of Holies, you’ve bought and sold me. Holy of Holies, a need to create hallowedgrounded lies. Endless devotion and unending sacrifice, for His sins we are crucified.
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Ottawa - Pacification
00:53
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Gentrification, buries the squalor, assimilation creates their soldiers, intimidation keeps us silent, pacification. A system created out of unequal balances, keeps the wealthy enthroned. The rungs have been cut on the social ladder, and you’ll never realize you’re knee deep in shit. Indoctrination is chartered by governments. Glassed over eyes, you’re fucking idiots. Watch as your life is reduced to pile of shit, as you lie down and roll in it.
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Ottawa - Their Ploy
00:39
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In lieu of the segregation directed from the chairs of the multinationals, here’s their ploy: corporate genocide, keeping people less than people. Watched through greed-filled eyes, the hand that powers is the hand that falters. Bred to be consumed, mass production for our families. Our impending doom, trapped in cogs—forever rotating.
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Ottawa - Desensitized
01:05
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Shun, bruise, antagonize. Attempts to desensitize. Take your feelings, grind them down. Lose your conscience; it is no use to you now. You’ll be a man; so demand respect. For these sacred rites; you’ll fight to death. Thoughts, actions so tightly controlled, as all of your emotions are put on hold. A thinly veiled life of fear. Shed so much blood, but never a tear.
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You’ve got millions of reasons to disbelieve this failing farce. What will it take for you to stop it? Blindly clutching on for life, they’ll drag you under despite the homage and loyalty you’ve paid them. You’ll still amount to nothing. Ground under authority’s foot, and business carries on as usual.
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Lock up your children, the end is nigh, for it is the onslaught of the Uruk-hai!
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Ottawa - They Own You
00:31
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You have the power, hidden behind armor. Through our inaction, your crimes are validated. Their power is derived through fear and intimidation, for if one were to experience real freedom they could relate to you that this is a lie. Fuck your police state. Can’t you understand what they are saying? They own you.
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Ottawa - Life Consumed
00:31
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The work machine is thriving. A million lives it is destroying. Human identity is non-existent, be willing and accept your number. In the machine your life is consumed, you are not you any longer.
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Ottawa - Misanthrope
00:27
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Your conditioning—no excuse. Your bigotry—is foolishness. Your brutality—is unjustified. Homophobe—fuck off and die. Death to your fucking biblical morals. It is asinine to enforce gender roles. It is amazing you claim “It’s a free country!” We’ve had enough of you sanctimonious assholes.
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How can you bruise a mind so young? A victim of your dedication. Images that will always live on, this is not beneficial. You promise yourself authority and control, a final link in her education. Is that your love? A fist coming down? Father why? is the final sound. You’ve used her body to vent your inequality and anger. It is hard to believe that you still call her daughter. You’ve turned on her because you know you can win. When will it stop? When will it end? What will it take to stop you next time? There is no resistance, she is only five. You look at her lovingly, now keep this quiet. This is between you and me, now keep this silent. And this is what you’ve taught through your methods, to hate her father for the rest of her life. And what is that you say, when she refuses your advances? You’ll beat her to a pulp, she’ll learn what respect is. She will learn nothing while living in fear, except to mistrust what she held dear.
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Ottawa - Hollow
00:47
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Name was given to me, morals force fed to me, line was assigned to me, bigotry’s cancer bred in me. To be used to carry out your crimes. To be forced to suffer your affliction. Society’s job is to make us feel worthless, to hollow us out to an eggshell existence. We must reclaim our minds and our lives. Your life will never be yours as long as you let them have it.
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Ottawa - Cycle
00:56
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We are we waiting? Our minds our stagnating. No reason to exist—why? Another mundane way of business, another form of mock resistance. I know it’s gone on millions of times, with petty clichés, we are ruining our lives. Cheap rebellion holds no power, nor do your fantasies of autonomy. We’ve been embraced by the barcode cult
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Lifted, impaled groundward. Now stained with the blood of the Mark. Come on between me and my prey, or I will not slay thee in turn. Beared away beyond darkness, left naked to the Lidless Eye. The winged screamed but made no answer, as if in sudden doubt. Amazement conquered, Théoden fallen; a mind flashed memory of face. No living man – shall hinder me! Slender child of kings, maiden of the Rohirrim. Wing-shape crashed to ruin, it was Éowyn that slayed him.
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Jihad - Opinion
01:48
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I don't care what you think
I don't care what you say
keep you opinions to yourself
and we'll both go our own ways
what is right what is wrong
I don't need you telling me
what is right what is wrong
what are morals
I don't need to feel born again
I don't need your shit
the objectives of your type
to force on others
what you believe to be right
the other side doesn't count
the tensions begin to mount
and I don't care
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Jihad - Soulcrosis
01:54
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power envisioned striking
down the conscience
your wants and needs gained
by stepping on others
realize your position when the
time is too late
struggle to get up from the
hole that you've dug
your wrists are bleeding from
the knife of falsehood
each droplet of blood, a piece
of your soul
blackened from greed, leaking slowly,
until there's nothing left
and empty shell, controlled, corrupted
by your wants incarnate
free thought drained
if I could only make you see
how ignorant you are,
you want to get ahead
when every step you take sets you back
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Jihad - Gaia
00:41
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Toxins eating at my body
tearing the fabric of my soul
no longer will I stand idle
no longer will you be in control
forcing my children to flee from their homes
fleeing from your blundering might
no longer will I forgive your sins
I still know how to fight
tearing
ripping
sucking
forcing
bleeding
destroying
dying
I still know how to fight
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Jihad - So Far Gone
01:45
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And to cap on that would be bad
to go nowhere and go fast
so elegantly you smile
so elegantly you smile
so far ahead you think
The wonderful irony
the road it travels backwards
you think your so far ahead
when your so far gone
to another day
to another night
a mindset so incomparable to me
the addiction to two faces
transparent, opaque, in all translucent
I see through you
I see through you
and fake is what you are
fake is what you are
fake is what you are
igniting the fire spreading to life
be careful where you step
be careful where you step
be careful where you step
you think you're so far ahead
you think you're so far ahead
when you are so far gone
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Jihad - Hammer and Nails
01:14
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you and I shared the vision of a common eye
you now I see not so well
you and I shared the vision of a common eye
and now I see not so well
but I remember well romance in the pale ecliptic moonlight
let dissonance ring
let dissonance ring
let dissonance ring
let dissonance ring
for I've learned to see with my hands
and your sharp edges won't cut me again
for I've learned to see with my hands
and your sharp edges won't cut me again
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Jihad - Alone
01:28
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showing me every way
treating the wound of the past
I can't deal with life
knowing that love will never last
the bonds were formed
with dependencies prearranged
meekness transformed into the madness
of lust unchained
the initiation of emotion
transcending the barriers of my mind
all masks are dropped
for such a meaningful time
you may never know
but I want you to hear
the pain I felt
with the shedding of each tear
you may not, choose to listen
that really doesn't matter now
but the strangulation of our relations
and the knowledge of the last touch
has left me truly alone
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21. |
Jihad - Commode
01:27
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I've been waiting for
the tidal wave to come down on us all
to put the power in the people's hands
and destroy the doubt in the simple man's mind
the time for change has to come
time to remove the cyst afflicting society
no longer will we be your pawn
no longer will we play your games
no longer will you flush my dreams
down your melting pot
out with the old school and in with the new
out with the old school and in with the new
out with the old school and in with the new
out with the old school and in with the new
life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
doesn't mean anything to me
when the almighty greenback
runs the country
Commode
I've been waiting for
I've been waiting for
I am waiting for
I am waiting for
out with the old school and in with the new
out with the old school and in with the new
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Ottawa Dearborn, Michigan
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