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How do you feel after losing your battles?
Trying to escape me, yet here you are in shackles.
I told you many times to play by the rules,
But no, you decided to become one of the fools.
The many fools who thought that they were above it all
Until being brought down, no longer standing tall
You're in my house now, to pay for your sins.
So welcome one and all, let the mayhem begin!
Today is the day
The day the trial begins
The day that you're convicted
For all your wicked sins
Today is the day
You're branded to our nation
The day you'll never leave
With no chance of salvation
Welcome to the great parade
Of harlequins, banshees and thralls
All of you sinners, liars and freaks
Will pay your eternal toll
No-one has fun in this circus of horrors,
But horrors you all were in life!
Now you will suffer your victims' pain,
Sorrow, trouble and strife.
Do you still feel tough, powerful and great?
We'll find out soon after I eat you off my plate.
You say you're strong, but I know you're weak,
So be very afraid, for your future is bleak!
I won't go easy on you during this trial,
Fair treatment is too good for a man so vile,
Only misery, torture, fear without end,
Where you will be driven too far round the bend!
Today is the day
The day the trial begins
The day that you're convicted
For all your wicked sins
Today is the day
You're branded to our nation
The day you'll never leave
With no chance of salvation
Welcome to the great parade
Of harlequins, banshees and thralls
All of you sinners, liars and freaks
Will pay your eternal toll
No-one has fun in this circus of horrors,
But horrors you all were in life!
Now you will suffer your victims' pain,
Sorrow, trouble and strife.
[Guitar Solo: Joshua Jones]
Here in the courtroom, you stand accused.
The case is now open, you can't be excused.
Your family watches and cries in shame
Feeling as if they are the ones to blame
They never brought you up to become a criminal
You've disgraced their name, that is unforgivable
Murderers, rapists, you heeded the call
To complete ruination, your spiritual fall!
Today is the day
The day the trial begins
The day that you're convicted
For all your wicked sins
Today is the day
You're branded to our nation
The day you'll never leave
With no chance of salvation
Welcome to the great parade
Of harlequins, banshees and thralls
All of you sinners, liars and freaks
Will pay your eternal toll
No-one has fun in this circus of horrors,
But horrors you all were in life!
Now you will suffer your victims' pain,
Sorrow, trouble and strife.
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Hatred towards the secular realm,
Wanting to start a war.
Bringing pain and ignorance,
'Cause "It's what God asked for!"
Using their belief as a weapon
No remorse for who they oppress
Not aware they're desecrating
Their own faith in the process
As the cities crumble around us,
Taking their victims with it
We fear for our lives and huddle together,
Waiting for the next hit
We're wide awake
With our lives at stake
While they still
Have a will to kill!
Traitors to their own religion
A disgrace to society
Every time they kill someone
It angers their deity
In denial, they carry on
Hunting for more heads
They won't ever stop
Until their creed is spread!
As the cities crumble around us,
Taking their victims with it
We fear for our lives and huddle together,
Waiting for the next hit
We're wide awake
With our lives at stake
While they still
Have a will to kill!
For the honour and the glory!
We are the just ones!
Hethen! Heretic! Burn in Hell!!
[Guitar Solo: Charlie Szymanski]
[Guitar Solo: Joshua Jones]
Coercing us with these three words
"Surrender or die!"
No matter what they do to us,
We never shall comply.
They can try their damndest
To enslave all humankind
But they'll never control
Our free, unshackled minds
As the cities crumble around us,
Taking their victims with it
We fear for our lives and huddle together,
Waiting for the next hit
We're wide awake
With our lives at stake
While they still
Have a will to kill!
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The Fascist Law
04:59
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Armed and ready to conquer,
To carry out the genocide
The officers begin the slaughter
Civilians cower and hide
Loathing and hunting the game
No matter if lines have been crossed
Communities feeling betrayed
A spike in the human cost
So it begins, the Civil War
Between the people and the fascist law
Ruling with their iron fist
To crush all those who would resist
Side with the racist militia
Make us blind to their misdeeds
Now the streets are on lockdown
Force the oppressed to concede
Brutality is their new leisure
Their way of reigning supreme
Casting aside half-measures
No atrocity's too extreme!
So it begins, the Civil War
Between the people and the fascist law
Ruling with their iron fist
To crush all those who would resist
[Guitar Solo: Joshua Jones]
Punished for crimes never committed
Orders to shoot them on sight.
No escape for the ones who resisted,
And the world seems deaf to their plight.
The paragon forces stay silent
Impossible to end this scheme.
Morals give way to violence,
All bow down to the new regime!
So it begins, the Civil War
Between the people and the fascist law
Ruling with their iron fist
To crush all those who would resist
[Guitar Solo: Charlie Szymanski]
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Watch The World Burn
06:27
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TV screen explodes in action
Shows us worldly fears.
News reels gauging our reaction,
Mother's floods of tears!
Father's rage at government
Lethargy toward this mess.
Little does he realize,
He acts just like the rest.
Some people simply like to
Watch the world burn
To fuel the fire inside their souls
Spark their inactive fury,
While on the monitors
The war takes its toll
Are we truly human anymore?
Papers stirring up suspicion
On whom can we depend?
Charities move to new positions
"They we shall defend!"
All-consuming apathy
And indecision kills
"We must never act rashly"
Our grist for the mill
Some people simply like to
Watch the world burn
To fuel the fire inside their souls
Spark their inactive fury,
While in the photographs
The war takes its toll
Are we truly human anymore?
Their lives now lie in cinders
And they have nowhere else to go
They cross the world to see us
But we have no sympathy to show
The seeds of paranoia
Begin to blossom in our minds
"We can and will not help you,
Don't have the space, don't got the time!"
The fear of not knowing
If hostility will rise
"There's no place for you here"
Say the men in pinstripe ties
Our conscience dictated
By leaders, press and peers
Our attention fixated
On one unfounded fear
[Guitar Solo: Joshua Jones]
[Guitar Solo: Charlie Szymanski]
Some people simply like to
Watch the world burn
To fuel the fire inside their souls
Spark their inactive fury,
While half the world away
The war takes its toll
Some people shirk their duties
Convince the masses
To not care who lives or dies
We've all been grossly lied to,
Now is the time
To see the fear within them rise
Are we truly human anymore?
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American Dictator
04:27
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As his fame begins to rise
The American Dream slowly died
Everyone loses their sanity
As they worship greed and vanity
Treats the law like a joke
You know what he's like when he's provoked
Unashamed of his own deceit
Commanding millions at his feet.
Fall into line, ye denizens!
Fall into line, ye citizens!
Greet your esteemed dictator
Lest ye be judged a traitor!
Surrounded by his yes-men
In the country he sought to amend
Now the dead the poorest must bury
In his giant walled cemetery
All he wanted was to wage war
Against the lonely and the poor
Blind, unbridled, destructive rage
Destroyed what he tried to save
Fall into line, ye denizens!
Fall into line, ye citizens!
Greet your esteemed dictator
Lest ye be judged a traitor!
U! S! A!
[Guitar Solo: Charlie Szymanski]
Now begins the final downfall
Of a nation once loved by all
Help for the people has come too late,
Now it's his turn to choose their fate.
After buying himself into power
They cower as he starts to devour
A proud nation now lies demolished
Democracy has been abolished
Fall into line, ye denizens!
Fall into line, ye citizens!
Greet your esteemed dictator
Lest ye be judged a traitor!
Greet your esteemed dictator
Lest ye be judged a traitor!
Human WMD!!
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