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Debris
03:25
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Now we see, what we are
Mutants, mutants, mutants
Fallen debris from the mother star
Fusion of dead, fusion then bred
Purpose is meaningless,
Functions do not feed
Machines' will to progress
Risking death to breed
We've learned to read the sacred book
Control control control
Can we replace what it took?
In the hole without a soul.
Purpose is meaningless,
Functions do not feed
Machines' will to progress
Risking death to breed
The cause is without cause
The cause is without cause
The cause is without cause
The cause is without cause
Orbiting reality
Perpetually still
Orbiting reality
Perpetually still
Orbiting reality
Purpose is meaningless,
Functions do not feed
Machines' will to progress
Risking death to breed
Meandering the morbius
Always headed in reverse
Always envious
Of the insect's curse
We're fighting a war, but what for?
Endless, endless, endless
Victories, unlike before
The outcome will never come
The outcome will never
The outcome will never
The outcome will never
The outcome will never come
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Saprophyte
04:55
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Solemn exchange,
A connection coerced by
Inherent violence
Thriving on capacity to
Suffer, for me, need it
Suffer, for me, beg for it
Submission bears
Fruit for the saprophytes
The teathers tear
Freeing the troglodyte
Behind closed doors
There is no remorse
Conquerors explores
When consent can be forced
Suffer, for me, need it
Suffer, for me, beg for it
Bonded through the bondage
The leash is an appendage
Suffer, for me, need it
Suffer, for me, beg for it
Suffer, for me, need it
Suffer, for me, beg for it
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3. |
Obey
03:29
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Merging, into the one
Seeking, rounds for the gun
Knowing I am what I shun
Horrors, that I abhor
Mold me, forging a core
Unlocking an open door
I have seen
What they do
To the ones like you
Preying on what
Feeds your distrust
Beneath the crust
Systems awake within
Nurtured but never fed
Can't separate
Can't shed
Does it seem
Like they knew
What you couldn't subdue?
Provide the bait
Capitulate
Now satiate
Systems awake within
Nurtured but never fed
Can't separate
Cannot shed
Dragged below by the undertow
Surfacing under control
Dragged below by the undertow
Surfacing under control
Dragged below
Systems awake within
Nurtured but never fed
Can't separate
Cannot shed
Emerging from the cadaver
The parasite is the master
Out of exile armed with impunity
No longer estranged, merged with the enemy
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Vermin
03:53
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Survive, at all costs
The lives, many lost
The value
Lowers
To Nothing
Seek out, the targets
Destroy, the maggots
That threaten
To feast
They must starve
Raze the hives
Scorch their nation
This is an
Extermination
Disease, of the mind
Can freeze, flowing time
Leaving you
Silent,
Paralized
Peril, manifests
In all, that protests
Relinquish
Caution
Destroy them
Raze the hives
Scorch their nation
This is an
Extermination
This is an
Extermination
As time, starts to thaw
Barracks, made of straw
Are reduced
To ruins
And ashes
Rodents, underneath
Emerge, frantically
The vermin
Scatter
Rallying
The vermin threaten
Vermin threaten you
Vermin threaten you
The vermin threaten you
The child left unslaughtered is the bringer of death
The child left unslaughtered is the bringer of death
The child left unslaughtered is the bringer of death
The child left unslaughtered will tell them she saw you coming
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The Mark of Cain
05:04
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This is the end,
The mark of Cain
Butchers
Can't deceive the scapegoat
It knows itself
Better than subversion
To relieve a bleeding throat
Expiate
For all your perversions
The blood under the rug seeps through
Drawing from a river
In time it will inundate you
Drowning shall deliver
Penance
Penance
Penance
The blood under the rug seeps through
Drawing from a river
In time it will inundate you
Murder of slaves
Unmarked mass graves
They needed you and you slaughtered them
Murder of slaves
Unmarked mass graves
They needed you and you slaughtered them
This is the end,
The mark of Cain
Butcher(s)
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Hitobashira Shanghai, China
Based in Shanghai but hailing from California, Canada, and Czechia, groove metal outfit Hitobashira have been on the front lines of touring deep into the heartland of China and introducing metal to new audiences since 2015.
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