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ARBOR VITAE LYRICS
"The Plague" (2006 Demo)
1. Eye For An Eye
2. The Journey Of Many Ends
3. The Plague
4. Paria
1. Eye For An Eye
An eye for an eye
They give him the arms
Deprive him of bread,
Yet wonder why he
Couldn't have fed himself
They feel no remorse
They feel no shame
When selling their souls
For someone to blame
Relieving their conscience and clearing their minds
Of past injustice and bygone crimes
An eye for an eye, so let him die
Let them believe that he's evil
A tooth for a tooth, conceal the truth
So that things will never change
Walking that road
For many a day
Is more than one can
Expect him to pay for his crime
Bring out the block
Tie the noose
Spice the wine
The vultures will choose
The means of quenching their thirst for blood
Basing their act on a mandate from God
An eye for an eye...
Where have we gone
If lights are put out
With vengeance in mind
And mischief in mouth – the lies, oh the lies
When hate is the cause
And prejudice thrives
They fall into taking
Innocent lives
The same atrocity for which they
Just have made an innocent pay
An eye for an eye...
2. The Journey Of Many Ends
The Journey of Many Ends
In your head the voices spread disarray
Heed their call and you will fall in a day
Turn your eyes to the skies
See the swan lift its wings
And fly back home
To its haven of love
Why does man lose his way
When reaching another road
And venture deep into the void
So you graze on lush pastures green
Hoping that you ruminate unseen
With misty eyes you swallow the lies
See the swan...
Search in vain for joy or a new beginning
In the battle where neither side is the winning
Turn your eyes to the skies
See the swan...
3. The Plague
The Plague
Darkened clouds cover the sky
Rays of light suddenly turn out shy
Distant pyres burn in haste
Send both lives and innocence to waste
Vident, vident, domini vident
Quam pestis perimet hostes et amicos
Probant in quo modo ea auget
Et multum muribus panem et vinum dant
Fear, tears, the reaper is here
Coming to take them away
They coughed, they scoffed, they spat and they leered
And all gave in to the plague
The open book covered in clay
Pages torn, blown away
The Crown and Thing made a decree
The Plague and the Reaper will agree
Vident, vident...
Fear, tears...
Name the beast, say it was fate
That slew your kin and bred your hate
Seek no more, for it is you
Not discerning false from true
Vident, vident...
Fear, tears...
4. Paria
Paria
There's a sheet coloured pink
Deceiving you to think
That the workings of the hive
Is the goal to which we strive
Lend a thought to the one who's set to fail
Because of notions gone stale
Do not spit on the ashamed
Don't be the one to claim
That being numb and tamed
Was a choice they made
For they wished not for the stocks
They need no reins or locks
Your truth is not the one
And it will never be
When calamity ahead
Haunts children in their beds
When eagles close their eyes
And dare not see the mice
Standing up to the mirror on the wall
Is a pain as the image will fall
Do not spit...
Accepted but inane
Does not equal being sane
There's a price to be paid
For each foe that can be laid
Split the herd, a façade can be a gain
But your soul and your conscience is slain
Do not spit...
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