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Hornets Nest
02:02
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Welcome
To the swarm
Come on in it's warm
Get your stinger ready
Battle won’t be pretty
Fighting for survival in the venom city
This is not a game
An expression outside the norm
Refusing the uniform
could be met with explosive anger
Undesirable at best
Don’t leave yourself under duress
Conforming
Fall in line to the beat of the drum
Make sure your colours don’t run
You're in the nest now brother
It’s family run
So Keep your cards close to your chest
You’re an outcast, you’ll be seen as less
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2. |
Hate Campaign
01:03
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You’re trying to tell me
Having enough money to eat
At the end of the week
Is our fault?
I
Never will
Choose to
Ever allow
My trust
To be taken
For granted
Our children will hate us for refusing to change a choice still remains
Your family ain’t a priority
Blame the dingies floating in the sea
The snakes don’t rattle, they bite
Waive your rights
Sign the dotted line
Never Will
I
Ever allow
My trust
To be taken for granted
This
Hate Campaign
Must not
Triumph again
Our trust
Can’t be taken
For granted
Not ever again
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3. |
Trial by Choice
01:51
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Faced with decisions for better or worse
I forced myself to overcome this curse
Making the wrong choice comes naturally to me If I make one at all
Trudging the same path
Flogging a dead horse
Help me to safety
Let me loose
I wish there were fruit to pick from this dead tree
Change is the door but I can’t find the key
Does it taste bitter or sweet?
Hell, I don’t know if I want to find out
Jump off the bridge
Just to see if I’ll drown
I’ll sail on the sea of embarrassment and drain my heart of anxiety
Trudging the same path
Flogging a dead horse
Help me to safety
Relinquish the discourse
My head is stammering, spluttering and clogged
Trying to navigate the brain fog
delusions of nothingness destined for me
I need to decide if I’m dying to live free
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4. |
Infamy in Retrograde
02:22
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Riding to battle in a blacked-out car
Make sure that everyone knows who we are
Hailed as a hero for doing nothing
Stealing a culture and claiming the win
They shoot and terrorise
Don’t give in to the prying eyes
The glitz, the glamour, red carpet, the camera
The rise, the fall, the odium of all
Cover Up Mistakes
You’ll Never Win
Pray for Prey, keep them away
I’m here to stay
The glitch the glamour, red carpet, the camera
The lies, the gall, heritage my pedestal
The payoffs, the crimes, a spit-shined lullaby
Who cares what I’ve done?
As long as I’m still number one
Cover Up
Mistakes
On the back foot now
The secrets out
One of those cheques must have fucking bounced
There's no come back happening
The ice you skated on was too thin
You’ll never take me alive
As long as I’ve still got my prime time
You can’t take what I’ve got
It’s written in my blood
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5. |
Dead Cat Strategy
00:37
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6. |
Black Balloons
04:13
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Trying to wake
From the dream
Where paranoia gets the best of me
Walking through
These streets alone
In a place where I’m not sure which way is home
I Can’t Wake Up
Here we go again
Another night draws close
Bombs as balloons raining from the sky
Floating gently down
With silent grace
Destruction is all that’s left to embrace
Explosions and visions
Of body parts scattered
A littered decent
This madness speaks only one word “Hate”
I see it now
A great black door I venture through Into a great hall
In this haunting scene, bleak figures surround me
I’m staring back
Every eye is jet black
Wake me up
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7. |
Cycle of Self Loathing
01:17
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These cold eyes staring back at me
Long for the day when my mind can see more clearly
I suppose there’s not much I can do
Just need to have a drink or two
So come on boys
Hair of the dog
Get fucked
Dark days are coming
In the corner of our minds
But that’s ok
Tequila renders my thoughts blind
No more problems
It’s the easy life ahead
Forget real solutions
Leave those brain cells dead
The cycle repeats itself
The good times slip away
I knew that you would come back I was hoping not today
The cycle repeats itself
Only blurred memories
I knew that you would come back I was wishing not again
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8. |
Plight
03:35
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“Do not resist
This is your final warning
There is a better choice
You won’t see morning”
Fear bites and calcifies the finger on the trigger
In their minds programmed to believe they are above the law
Judge, jury and executioner
Where are our rights?
They’re being stripped away
What we all take for granted is finite
A new day dawns again
Life restarts anew
Accept the next time you protest they might choose to arrest you
“It’s not my problem, Jack”
Some may say
But there might be a right you wish to uphold one day
“That’s it, we’re coming in
It’s gone too far
You’re making too much racket The language is too crass”
Is this what you really want?
An opportunity to be silenced
Ignoring the right to protest
Will only lead to riots
A new day dawns again
Life restarts anew
Accept the next time you protest
They might choose to arrest you
“It’s not my war to fight”
Some may say
This situation will escalate If we turn our eyes away
We let it go too far
A line’s been crossed
Picked off one by one
Until there’s nothing left to be lost
It’s getting close to the cliff edge
We must push back
Falling with all our comforts
Down to the rocks
Tumbling, dropping
The sense of self is crumbling
Lying in the jagged broken earth
Some may say “we chose to jump first”
Turning on each other we attack
Ignoring the knives plunged in our backs
A new day dawns again
Life restarts anew
Accept the next time you protest
No one’s going to fucking hear you
“This is all your fault”
Some may say
“You have no right to complain sir, Move along or be tased”
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9. |
Collateral Damage
03:20
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Hunted for their views
Difference of opinion
Used as an excuse
There’s an emergency
Bodies broken
Because they don’t look the same
Lifelines fractured, children orphaned
Bruised with scars
of yesterday
The bullies who assaulted
Enablers that looked away
Holding a dark cloud in front of the sun
You’re playing with a loaded gun
20 people chased one boy
Threatening his life
He could only go for so long
Trying to outrun the knife
Crimson fountains
The ballet of strife
Here lies the body of an innocent
Fighting to stay alive
Keep trying to wash the guilt off The stains are in your mind
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10. |
Reboot
03:04
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Gather round
Get down to my level
Give me your eyes
Ears and fears
The falsifier has the floor
For another decade or more
“Don’t like it? Well, we’re here to stay.
Make this all go to hell in a big way”
Brainwashed through the screens in our hands
The devil in a glass mask
Dodgy business
Dangled hooks
Trying to play fair with the crooks
Praising the ground they walk on
Absorbing all of the lies as gospel
Preachers hear the calling
Dig those hands in your pockets
"Privates jets don’t pay for themselves give me money or you’ll burn in hell"
Treat yourself to something nice
Vintage armband
Bath water of your dream wife
Something I don’t need?
Singing from the same old hymn sheet
Get your fix
Scratch the itch
Feel the release
Ignore the odd twitch Let the sickness sink in
Dodgy business
Dangled hooks
Trying to play fair with the crooks
Praising the channel that was last on
Catching all the latest stream 16 hours long
24 hour dopamine hit
Drip fed wirelessly
The best hit you’ve never felt
A needle turned into a screen
Take everything I’ve got
Fingerprint, my address, my blood
This is everything I want
Big dreams, get-rich-quick schemes
You are everything I’m not
Click 'I agree', continue to scroll
Transferring over your soul
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11. |
Farewell King
02:53
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JOHANNA REY Birmingham, UK
Fierce Four Piece
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