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BURIAL WITHIN LYRICS
"Demo 2007" (2007 Demo)
1. Providence
2. Denouement
3. Dominion's End
1. Providence
They walk the earth among the mortals
The lords of all creation, their healing hands promise redemption for our transgressions
Shunned, the outcasts who disbelieve
From their secret palaces, ethereal and serene
Painted with the blood of Christ, built on the backs of the deceived
Bought with the sins of humanity
The troops mass at the golden gates
At war with an antichrist to reach a fabled afterlife
Seperatists with weaponized faith on the path to dominate
Hate-filled are their diatribes to stir the rage they feel inside
Onward Christian soldiers, march the darkened path to righteousness
Sociopaths with unchecked ambition on a crusade to indoctrinate
With twisted words devoid of meaning, with one truth to sustain a myriad lies
Cathedral bells ring to welcome the conquering kings
Blurring the line between artifice and reality
They walk the earth alone
The lords of nothing
Their withered hands promise deception and damnation
2. Denouement
In a perfect world, we'd all die young
Spared the inescapable ravages of time
Innocence framed in a portrait contains our purity
And the serenity we've left behind
The empty moments don't seem so empty
When you're facing your mortality
With expectation comes disappointment
So many mornings after bridge one into the next
Worn and weary, dreading each predictable conclusion
Beaten into submission, craving an escape
It's not so black and white
As the ebb and flow of life paints in shades of gray
Searching the past in vain, grasping at the remnants of tranquility
How can I get from here to there?
Can I reverse the sands of time?
In a perfect world we'd all die young
Spared the inescapable ravages of time
Ignorance framed in a portrait contains our purity
Oblivious to the destiny that lies ahead
Laid to waste, the semblance of ambition
An illusory concept born of discontent
Progress is marred by my resignation
To embrace the past in all its simplicity
To know no responsibility, to have no aspirations
No complications -- a life of austerity
Salvation through disenchantment
So I erase all of my memories
Of a childhood that seemed so dear to me
And I lie helpless against the torment of my stagnancy
3. Dominion's End
The art of war
The broad brushstrokes of conflict paint a masterpiece of devastation
That bleeds and burns and rips the canvas
Leaving scars across the scorched earth
Horror and carnage as beauty
Peace as the ultimate obscenity
The downfall of all we cherish
Brought about by the viral spread of freedom
Awash in the fetid stench of decadence
Belligerence and arrogance masked as benevolence
Empires rise and fall but never last
Corrupted to their core
Their devious machinations hasten the fall of reason
Imperialistic dreams of conquest
Doomed to failure, doomed to repeat the past
Deceased and decomposed, the distrust of our leaders
The remnants of a skeptical populace replaced with obedience
When men become gods to those whose loyalty erases all fault
One hand washes the blood off the other
The blood of the innocent spilled in the name of this perversion of liberty
Where is the outrage? Our revolution?
Why do these crimes go unpunished?
Carving up the earth with impunity and feasting on the spoils
Why?
Asking why is treason, while the jingoistic answer comes so easily
All things have their end
Witness the end of dominion
When power rests on the edge of a sword
It's nothing more than sowing the seeds of violence and resentment
Waging a war on ideology, mired in futility
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