1. This Rotting Sphere

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2. The Blight

We're bound by truth
And gagged with fear
Held ransom by desire
Corruption, sin
So crystal clear
Deceit for all conspired

Reward the fools and liars
Angel of disease
We're dead inside
Infect us, feed on our appetite
To bleed the world

In the machine
The churning gears
Death factory's burning fire
Spread of decay
This rotting sphere
Lifeforce for all expires

Construct the funeral pyre

Angel of disease
We're dead inside
Infect us, feed on our appetite
To bleed the
Angel of disease
We're dead inside
Protect us, help breed this parasite
To bleed the world

Dead – DEAD
We are destruction, we're dead inside
Dead – DEAD
We are devoid of life
Dead – DEAD
We are infection, we're dead inside
Dead – DEAD
We are the parasite

Unleash the plague inside us
Unleash

Dead – DEAD
We are destruction, we're dead inside
Dead – DEAD
We are devoid of life
Dead – DEAD
We are infectious, we're dead inside
Dead – DEAD
We are the parasite
We are the blight

Angel of disease
We're dead inside
Infect us, feed on our appetite
To bleed the
Angel of disease
We're dead inside
Protect us, help breed this parasite
To bleed the world
This bleeding world

3. Empire Of The Blind

Dead souls dressed in black
A wake to mourn a nation
Social heart attack
The cause of death, temptation

Blood lust, consuming power
Brings us to our knees
Great tolls paid in filth
Metastasize infection

Sick flood, washing over
Pulls us under
And drowns us in disease

This shroud of shame restricting sight
The past, a corpse we carry
Dark clouds of fear obscuring light
The future long since buried

Behold the rising empire
Behold the empire of the blind

Deep hole, full of spite
A hateful seed for sowing
Roots rot, systemic plight
The poison fruit still growing

Pale flesh, tasting sour
Fills us quickly
And kills us with such ease

This shroud of shame restricting sight
The past, a corpse we carry
Dark clouds of fear obscuring light
The future long since buried

Behold the rising empire
Behold the empire of the blind

Dead souls dressed in black
A wake to mourn a nation
Social heart attack
The cause of death, temptation

Blood lust, consuming power
Drains us slowly
And brings us to our knees

This shroud of shame
restricting sight
The past, a corpse we carry
Dark clouds of fear obscuring light
The future long since buried

Behold the rising empire
Built on a mountain of shame
Bathe in the rising hellfire
Behold the empire of the blind

The empire of the blind

4. Dead And Gone

Take me, break me
Split me in two
Dig mea new hole
And fill it with you

The love, the hate
Sorrow your seed
Plant it for me
In your garden of need

The darkness in your head
Lives with me, long since wed
Please kill me with your dread
And then pronounce me dead

Dead and gone
The broken one
You're dead and gone
The lifeless sun

Slice, dice me
I'll never tell
Cut me to pieces
Sende me to hell

The love, the hate
Misery breeds
Bear it for me
In your womb of disease

The darkness in your head
Lives with me, long since wed
Please kill me with your dread
And then pronounce me dead

Dead and gone
The broken one
You're dead and gone
The lifeless sun

You're dead
Dead and gone
The broken one
You're dead and gone
The lifeless sun

5. Sun In My Hand

I climb the ladder, but I slowly descend
Into a dark place that's dead at the end
I watch the world decline
Or is it just my mind?
Restraining the need to transcend

I will live
To see another day
I will fight
And die to...

Choke on air and drown in water
Burn in flames with the sun in my hand
Earthly sacrifice unto the altar
Burn with the sun in my hand

The path is laid out and paved with fear
My shadow looming, drawing near
When I leave this acts define?
The past is the future unclear

I will live
To see another day
I will fight
And die to...

Choke on air and drown in water
Burn in flames with the sun in my hand
Earthly sacrifice unto the altar
Burn with the sun in my hand

Held in the grip of time
Part of the grand design
But will the choice be mine?
To mare the stars align
I will touch the sun

Choke on air and drown in water
Burn in flames with the sun in my hand
Earthly sacrifice unto the altar
Burn with the sun in my hand

6. Blood To Be Let

Open your veins and give to me
Your vitality can set you free
Feel the pain start your therapy
Your sweet relief is found in agony

Can I cleanse your soul?
And rid you of decay
Can I make you whole?
It's just a bloodbath away

Bleed for me
Only good can come from suffering
Bleed for me
Only blood can give you everything
Bleed

Bleed will flow when there's
blood to be let
A splash of red will help you to forget
Feel the drain set your mind at ease
You'll find release and end your misery

Can I cleanse your soul?
And rid you of decay
Can I make you whole?
It's just a bloodbath away

Bleed for me
Only good can come from suffering
Bleed for me
Only blood can give you everything

Can I cleanse your soul?
And rid you of decay
Can I make you whole?
It's just a bloodbath away

Bleed for me
Only good can come from suffering
Bleed for me
Only blood can give you everything
Bleed for me

7. In Black

Take me underneath your wing
And show me everything
Then shelter me and guide me to transcend
Save me from the age of old
Embrace me with your cold
Then smother me and lead me to my end

Help me decompose
I stand before you
Watch me as I rot

Paint me darkened scenery
Then shine a light for me
Envelope me, illuminate my soul
Bathe me in your drowning pool
To cleanse a world so cruel
Then summon me in payment for my toll

Help me decompose
I stand before you
Watch me as I rot

Let's carve the stone
With flesh and bone
No holding back
Just swallow me in black
Let's dig the grave
Death, be a slave
No turning back
Just swallow me in black

Help me decompose
I stand before you
Watch me as I rot

Let's carve the stone
With flesh and bone
No holding back
Just swallow me in black
Let's dig the grave
Death, be a slave
No turning back
Just swallow me in black

8. Shrine Of Apathy

Inside this maze in which I dwell
A hollow man, an empty shell
My thoughts betray me
Memories enslave me

Lost in this time, lost in this place
My soul is gone without a trace
A spirit taken
Can't reawaken

Can you hear me as I warn you?
This journey into darkened night
The fading sound, the burning light
My sorrow beckons
And silence deafens

Trapped in this mind, trapped in this space
My sentence long, no sign of grace
Life in remission
Can't leave this prison

Can you hear me as I warn you?
Can you see me as I mourn you?

I'm all alone
Inside this shrine
I've built to apathy

Turn blood to stone
Sweet pain divine
Let life just slip away

Can you hear me as I warn you?
Can you see me as I mourn you?

Inside this maze in which I dwell
A hollow man, an empty shell

9. Devour

"Yeas I can do miracles!"

One chance to do this
One chance to get it right
One chance to show the world
The monsters inside
They'll hear me
They'll see me
Believe me
And eat their precious...
Pride, swallowed like broken glass
Lies fed to a hollow mass

One chance to kill bliss
One chance to darken light
One chance to mold the world
To this monster inside
They'll fear me
They'll hate me
Deceive me
And eat their precious...
Pride, swallowed like broken glass
Lies fed to a hollow mass

Devour
Born to break the unbroken
Devour
Speak the lies unspoken
Devour
Hopes and dreams to unburden
Devour
Hearts and minds of lesser men

"Yes, I can do miracles! No matter
what you think. Yes, I can heal the sick
and cure cancer! You write it down.
You can call me an egomaniac or a
megalomaniac or whatever you wish,
with a messianic complex. I don't have
any complex, honey. I happen to know
I'm the messiah!"
-Reverend Jim Jones

Pride, swallowed like broken glass
Lies fed to a hollow mass

Devour
Born to break the unbroken
Devour
Speak the lies unspoken
Devour
Hopes and dreams to unburden
Devour
Hearts and minds
Break their spines
The hearts and minds of lesser men

10. A Fine Red Mist

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11. The Gods Divide

Blood sacrifice presented
As the fangs are bared
No drop is wasted, none is spared
A swift annihilation
Offered to the doomed
No quarter given, none assumed

They beg for mercy
Cowering as men collide
The weak submit, the gods divide

Suppress insurgency, compulsion to resist
The crushing blow of iron fists
Replace determination with a broken will
The obligation to fulfill

They beg for refuge
Sanctuary from the storm
The weak submit
The gods divide and conquer

DESTROY, REBUILD
And watch them fall
A resurrection for mankind
DESTROY, REBUILD
And make them crawl
A modern era for the blind

The rule of law, acceptance of a will confined
No thoughts escape a stillborn mind
To limit knowledge is to limit all debate
No shroud of darkness to negate

They beg forgiveness
Abdication by design
The weak submit
The gods divide and conquer

DESTROY, REBUILD
And watch them fall
A resurrection for mankind
DESTROY, REBUILD
And make them crawl
A modern era for the blind

They beg for masses
Worshipping the sovereign son
The weak submit, the gods divide
Divide

12. Monument To Ruin

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