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CORMORANT LYRICS
"CD-R Demo" (2007 Demo)
1. Trojan Horses
2. Two Brothers
3. Scavengers Feast
1. Trojan Horses
When dogs lick the corpses
Of the soldiers who fell,
Stomped by the Trojan horses
The four horsemen ride to hell,
When town criers shout nonsense
And generals shoot the sand,
When kings hide behind pretense
So the blood keeps off their hand…
You ignore the carnage,
Living just because you spawned.
Saying nothing takes no courage:
Your inaction hangs the wronged.
CONCEPTION
DECEPTION
RECESSION…
RIDE.
When dead gods roll back boulders
To crush human intellect,
From patriotic shoulders
Electing martial architects,
When taxation starves the poor
To feed kakistocracy,
When a nation forces war
To spread false democracy…
You steal a blind man’s eyes
To eclipse a moon charred red.
In the dark you trust the lies
Because you fear the dead.
CONCEPTION
DECEPTION
DAMNATION…
RIDE.
The blind all watch you riding
On those Trojan horses too.
The truth is not worth hiding:
You are Death, and Death is you.
When bushes burn with napalm
And they only chose to say
“The storm’s before the calm,
Just shut your eyes and pray,”
When books deem some the chosen
And all others marked for death,
When sand dune suns have frozen
And the zephyr lost its breath…
You call your Trojan horse
And ride into the dim.
Its hooves know no remorse,
The world crumbles at its whim.
CONCEPTION
DECEPTION
REDEMPTION…
RIDE.
Ride away to Judgment Day.
2. Two Brothers
In a Spanish synagogue,
Two hunted brothers pray,
May God shroud them in the fog,
May night never turn to day,
May the clergy never find them,
Never torture, never burn,
Never die in dungeons dim,
Never satisfy the worms.
Two brothers, two doors:
One sacrifice,
As the molten steel pours,
One succumbed to vice.
When night wilted, withered by dawn
Guardsmen broke the temple gates.
The two brothers had never gone,
Simply kneeled and welcomed Fate.
In prisons built on Christian zeal,
Both brothers were strapped to racks,
With each rotation of a wheel,
Ropes would pull apart their backs.
Priests tore the nails from their skin,
‘Command heretics to convert.
They chose the quieter of the kin:
Each wheel’s turn dug a foot of dirt.
When this brother snapped in half,
The other begged the guards to stop:
“I renounce the devil’s path
Christ leads to heaven’s mountain top”
Two brothers, two doors
One sacrifice
As the molten steel pours
One succumbed to vice
Which succumbed to vice?
3. Scavengers Feast
A million shells like stones in sand
The soil painted by severed hands
Red
Locusts breed in a child’s skull
A hallowed tank, rats in its hull
All dead
Wars keep the vultures fed
Friends and foes, all extinguished
Mother Nature can’t distinguish
Between a killer and a priest
So the scavengers feast
The scavengers feast
Heroes are the victor’s butchers
All their rapes and all their tortures
Cleansed by rains of gold and years of rot
The human god mirrors the human brain
Pray for power and material gain
So the rich die old, and the poor die shot
An armed cadaver on a fleshless horse
Father time knows no remorse
For rifts of West and East
So the scavengers feast
The scavengers feast
A martyred saint’s but a jackal’s meal
And for all man’s pride and religious zeal
Both the church and whorehouse burned
The flies, the ants, the carrion thrive
Hornets dig a ribcage hive
And the world, the world still turns
When all mankind tastes the earth
Mother Nature will give birth
To another king of beasts
And still the scavengers feast
The scavengers feast
The scavengers feast
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