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AZTEC JADE LYRICS
"Concrete Eden" (2002)
1. Concrete Eden
2. The Machine
3. Black October
4. Someone, Not Me
5. Manifestation
6. Victory Procession
7. Visions
8. Revelations
9. The Final Hour
10. Issues
11. End Of Days
1. Concrete Eden
Step right up, look inside
Max your credit and enjoy the ride
Sap the young, dupe the old
Countless homeless left in the cold
Formulating machinations
Subjugating humanity
What will our tomorrow hold
If we can't even save today
You change this world through technology
Construct this land, the concrete eden
Who'll save this world with morality
Or damn us all to concrete eden
Computers act while minds sit still
Consumed with movies and who screwed who
Science heals, but it killed our faith
Or was it those evangelists
Replicating DNA
Vacillating a pious man
What will our tomorrow hold
If we can't even save today
2. The Machine
Jackin' in and letting go
It's reality in control
Corporate man on the totem pole
Live the net is status quo
VR love and lines of blow
Climb their backs and up you'll go
Always forward not behind
Are these dreams in my mind?
Struggling with the nightmares
Of this cyber psychic dream
I am a man that's lost
In the machine ~
Neon lights and mirrored walls
Corporate killers line the halls
Who's your fiend, who's your foe
Name your price to sell your soul
Watch your front and watch your back
Be the boss's favorite hack
Make your deals with a pretty face
Lose yourself in cyberspace
3. Black October
Lady Madonna turn your eyes from me
Wipe away the tears from your face
Tears no man shall ever see
Hail Mary full of grace
Tainted by the blood we spill
Ours is not the master race
In deciding who to kill
Mother Mary please forgive me
A soldier's eyes are not his own
Blind to what they see
Mother Mary please forgive me
l'm just a pawn in a madman's game
No escape for me
From place to place
And cities they go
To cleanse them of humanity
Executions and cyanide
Disregard their dignity
His soldiers think they have the power
He thinks he holds the key
Killing people from the promise land
A trial weighs your destiny
Take away the pain from my eyes
I can't look upon the shame any more
Take away the pain from my eyes
His reichs not worth fighting for
As I look deep within your eyes
I see my own face of sin
Now I know within my end
A new age will begin
Mother Mary please forgive me
Take away the pain from my eyes
So I can no longer see
4. Someone, Not Me
Reminiscing on my life
Opportunities I let pass by
Everyday that comes to pass
I'm forced to contemplate my last
Times of sorrow and of joy
A joumey on life's road
Wasting my time, pretend to be
Someone, not me
Living my life, trying to please
Someone, not me
Hiding behind, a masquerade
Someone, not me
It's not who I am, apparently
Someone, not me
Acting for the public eye
Conceal my sadness with a smile
Performing for the world to see
Illusions cloud reality
All the choices, good and bad
Define the person that I am
Somehow, someday
I'll find out who I am
I'll find the strength to face each day
Eventually I'll find my way
5. Manifestation
All that's happened in my life
Has led me to this hour
I've made my choice to stand
Before you to challenge history
It's time to seize our destiny
Events have gone as planned
Tonight will always be remembered
The eve of Liberty
Acts of degradation
Frozen one by one
I won't forget you again
I'm not afraid of you this time
I've struggled all my life to overcome
The pain of all my childhood years
Pray for me my fiends I cannot bear to lose
Join me in victory
Our strength will come
From the hearts of the masses
The day will be our's my fiends
We'll take this world for our humanity
And dignity will be ours
We'll break these chains
That bind us to our enemies
We'll take this world
I remember long ago
When I held her in my arms
How I fought the tide of life that night
How I yearned to be set free
On the beach that stormy night
I tried to say the words
To tell her of my love for her
Instead I said goodbye
But it was so long ago
All my life to serve the calling that I hear
Though I buried all my deepest regrets
I remember you now
6. Victory Procession
As you see the people congregated
This truly is my finest hour
Church bells ring in every city, every town
Herald the arrival of a new world order
I am the one who saved your world
I'm the one who gave you strength
This land will rise again
And take her place in history
As you see the masses placated
I have lived up to my every word
Domination of the people under God
Cities crumble in my wake of power
I am the one who saved
Your world from greed and hate
Believe in me you'll see
I'll change this world
7. Visions
In the streets of this once great city
Conquered again as it once was before
Toppled not by bombs nor armies
Impossible promises, impossible dreams
A vision appeared in the dark of the night
A calling to take this great mans life
My heart was struck by fear
Where do my actions lead
He held the world in his hand
And what will come to be
What will come to be
I read the news of this once great man
Who took this world with hardly a fight
An illusion of powers reality
Just as easy can be taken away
Destiny has brought me to this end
A life is ended by my hand
And when the truth is finally known
I pray the world will understand
I pray the world will
Pray the world will understand
What will this world be
And what will this world be
8. Revelations
I've lived my life believing that our souls would never die
We'll all end up someplace one day as our bodies stay and die
As my judgment stands awaiting the light pulls me near
My hate is revealed and my soul wants to die
But a vision appears to me out of the sky
And a hope of salvation is framed in my mind
My death will have meaning, my soul will not die
For the truth of my life becomes clear in my eyes
My hate destroyed evil, for that I am loved
I've killed all their leaders, their laws, and their ways
Their minds are all free now to choose as they will
For the first time in history the world will be free
Two men shall arise to rule after me
And the people must choose with their hearts and their minds
One will deceive, the other is true
One will destroy us, the other will save
Angel undying, folds her wings sighing
Softly she cries in the increasing winds
As the dark clouds gather over scared human masses
Raining down sorrow on those who believe
But for those who stand strong in the face of the night
You will find your reward in the paradise light
As my body lay dying, I take my last breath
My calling has ended and now I can rest
9. The Final Hour
Open my eyes see the fires in the distance
Open my ears hear the cries in the night
Madness has found this city at last
The day of judgement has fmally arrived
Raise your heads to the light
And we have not seen the last sunrise
Read the words one more time
That no one shall know the final hour
Prophets theorize
When the word will end
They created the end
In their own heads
Twisting lines of holy words
Into words of holy war
Faith has turned into escape
A self fulfilling prophecy
10. Issues
What's this world fighting for
Ideals or something more
Free speech was jeopardized
Now that we're urbanized
Oh, no, I won't show complacency
Speak out, it's about equality
Mandates integrate sex, color, creed
Black, white, embrace what's right
Sometimes hatred isn't the issue
Affirmative action
Obsolete practice
Criminal tactics
Help out no one
Zealots tout their civil rights
Spreading their spite
Hollywood formulates
Tensions escalate
Hope for a brighter day
Illuminate the gray
I realize not all mankind
Choose to be "color blind"
That's the way it should be
In society
Legal litigations
Racist allegations
Defense of prejudice
Shouldn't prove innocence
Better ways of yesterday regretfully are gone
Politically correct is now en vogue to be
Finding out that turnabout isn't fair play
You're free to choose a point of view
But that's the issue
11. End Of Days
I see this holy war and I can't believe
How long must this endure before they will see
A mindless game of death
In the end everyone bleeds
There are no winners
No chance for peace
No truce will be called
No common beliefs
Different religion
Different opinion
No hope
The end of days is near
Filled with pain and fear
The end of days I can tell
I see this image of hell
Disagreement in the promise land
Politicians doing what they can
To end the violence, save the day
Will we ever understand the hate
Two cultures cannot coexist
With the differences they feel
Deep seated hatred coming to a head
All they want to see is war
Can you see the desert sands
Blowing through the arid land
Once peaceful, no cross to bear
Followed faith to get them there
Looking for the promise land
Running from foreign hands
Traveled far to find a sign
Caught between the sands of time
Future brings opposing views
Fighting for the right to choose
Trail of tears they left behind
Caught between the sands of time
Will there ever, ever come a day
Will we ever see a brighter way
To live in peace, live a better way
No more killing give us peace that will stay
The seven seals are broken
The time is now at hand
The faithful have now gathered
To cleanse the holy land
A mindless game of death
No one can ever win
Suffer the consequence
For all your selfish needs
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