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DAWNBRINGER LYRICS
"Catharsis Instinct" (2000)
1. The Day The Deaf Went Blind
2. Shoot To Kill
3. All Hell Breaks Loose
4. The Man Who Could Not Die
5. Mudslicer
6. Bleeding City
7. Halfman
8. What Are You Running From ?
9. Heart Particle
10. Beggars & Children
11. Cosmos Disease
12. DNA
1. The Day The Deaf Went Blind
The world disappeared,
but only for an instant
Then boundaries died
and shape went extinct
And the world reappeared as blackness
Nothing was something,
as huge as a thousand oceans
They ripped pages out of books
to build their fires
They felt the earth vibrating
like a newborn child
They stripped off all their clothes,
they gave themselves new names
Even god himself fell apart,
life itself became profane
Notions of nations became a joke
All bodies became beautiful
On the day the deaf went blind
The world disappeared,
but only for an instant
Then boundaries died
and shape went extinct
And the world reappeared as blackness
Nothing was something,
as huge as a thousand oceans
They ripped pages out of books
to build their fires
They felt the earth vibrating
like a newborn child
They stripped off all their clothes,
they gave themselves new names
Even god himself fell apart,
life itself became profane
They touched grass for the first time
They made love with
every inch of their bodies
On the day the deaf went blind
They touched grass for the first time
They made love with
every inch of their bodies
On the day the deaf went blind
2. Shoot To Kill
In a cage with poisoned bars
Filled with snakes and fire
You shiver, sweat, and cry
I fear the hunger in your eyes
In a land with poisoned fruit
Filled with viruses and bile
Your sobs drowned out by hurricanes
Step aboard and feed the flames
Sign and seal, hand deliver
You have only yourself to blame
I will never reconsider
Things will never be the same
Shoot to kill
That's a promise - That's an oath
All or nothing - Choosing both
It's a habit - It's a sin
Born to Lose - Live to Win
On the throne of consequence
Built on debts and tragedy
The hand that bites you back
Is ready for attack
Under rubbled happiness
Buried in a hole of mud
Feel your coffin shrink and narrow
Chew the bones and suck the marrow
Sign and seal, hand deliver
You have only yourself to blame
I will never reconsider
Things will never be the same
Shoot to kill
That's a promise - That's an oath
All or nothing - Choosing both
It's a habit - It's a sin
Born to Lose - Live to Win
Behind the glass you're cut and scarred
Suffer with the wicked
After all the sweat and piss
Only beggars die like this
Rape and murder, kiss away
Jester crying, children dead
Psyche quartered, cut and dried
Only craving cyanide
Sign and seal, hand deliver
You have only yourself to blame
I will never reconsider
Things will never be the same
Shoot to kill
That's a promise - That's an oath
All or nothing - Choosing both
It's a habit - It's a sin
Born to Lose - Live to Win
Kill!
3. All Hell Breaks Loose
I''ve got fucking teeth for eyes
I am the smell of concentration
Bite and chew and never swallow
Never close the fist
I will only crawl or sprint
I will only starve or glut
I will only love or kill
I'm too big for that cross
Don't make me say it
I can't even watch
All hell broke loose
Haunted...
Telling lies is getting old
But the truth has lost its purpose
Inside the torn apart
A spiraling self-hate
You will only stand and stare
You will only cut and run
I am only eyes and mouth
You only feed my appetite
Don't make me say it
I can't even watch
All hell broke loose
Haunted...
4. The Man Who Could Not Die
I am the ending of a life
No getting better now
The white zone spilling on the black
My patience, my patience running out
Fear of god and fear of life
I am cut and ready
I want to die
I am afraid I won't
In the torture of a sleepless night
While my body rots to blood
But this is never what I wanted
I'm just begging you to stop
My days bleed into weeks
All my arms are open
This is the blurring of edges
The softening of shapes
The mercy and forgiveness
In death is real
Time for you to seal me up
And roll the stone into place
In the torture of a sleepless night
While my body rots to blood
But this is never what I wanted
I'm just begging you to stop
I am the ending of a life
No getting better now
The white zone spilling on the black
My patience running out
The mercy and forgiveness
In death is real
Time for you to seal me up
And roll the stone into place
In the torture of a sleepless night
While my body rots to blood
But this is never what I wanted
I'm begging, begging, begging you to stop
Oh... begging you to stop
5. Mudslicer
Hacking through it - Swinging blades
Undercover nightmare killer racing through your veins
Cutting corners - Chopping limbs
Devil-lover finger-pointer changing all your names
Secret weapon - Trapdoor key
Vengeance hammer, pay the debt, the bringer of the curse
Razor fever - Skin collage
Blinder of the sacred and the rapist of the dead
No... No...!
Running wild - Inside out
Cut to pieces, rearranged, then cut to shreds again
Forcing entry - Pulling teeth
Been here before but I'm sure I don't remember when
Eating soil - Burning bridge
No one is protected from my whipping discipline
Kill the traitors - Kill them all
Compost maggot, jack the ripper, paying for your sins
No... No...!
6. Bleeding City
7. Halfman
Better sleep with one eye open
Better check the doors again
Murderers will swarm you now
Avoid the strangers, fear the friends
Enemies in numbers march
Half a man in half a house
Black betrayer, incest pig
Treachery, the mob is on
Don't you even make me say it
What's on my mind is murder and torture
I could never hurt you slowly enough
You'll only be safe in your grave
Lie force-feeder counterfeit
My hands around your throat
Shining weapon, alibi
Mask, disguise, windows smashed
Upstairs creeping, breaking sweat
Bedroom open, blade comes down
Your blood all over me
Laughter, cutting, bleed to death
Don't you even make me say it
What's on my mind is murder and torture
I could never hurt you slowly enough
You'll only be safe in your grave
Better sleep with one eye open
Better check the doors again
Murderers will swarm you now
Avoid the strangers, fear the friends
Enemies in numbers march
Half a man in half a house
Black betrayer, incest pig
Treachery, the mob is on
8. What Are You Running From ?
Am I the enemy? Am I the wound?
Is this the only outcome waiting?
Am I the poison? Am I the cure?
Am I the mirror to your ugly insecurity?
Look under rocks
Behind closed doors
Secret passageways
I can't believe
Am I the monarch? Am I the slave?
Is this a chase for consequnces or naught?
Am I the venom? Am I the snake?
Am I the emblem of your vicious insincerity?
Look under rocks
Behind closed doors
Secret passageways
I can't believe
I won't believe
Look under rocks
Behind closed doors
Secret passageways
I can't believe
Look under rocks
Behind closed doors
Secret passageways
I can't believe
I won't believe
9. Heart Particle
Nestled in the petals of accomplishment
The naked truth of failure and glaring green
Never forgiven and never forgotten
Between the poles of infinity and pain
And that's all over now
Swallowed up as history
Reaching for the sky
A thousand lives in misery
Dead men rise and speak to me now
And all my spiralling vision turns to snow
Blackout, whiteout, greenout!
Eyes burning red
I will build palaces with my own rotting bones
And that's all over now
Swallowed up as history
Reaching for the sky
A thousand lives in misery
Giving away the answers and telling secrets
Breathing toxic air and filling our own brains with lies
We're all victims and we're all going to suffer
We're all in the same sinking ship, but we all die alone
And that's all over now
Swallowed up as history
Reaching for the sky
A thousand lives in misery
10. Beggars & Children
The beggar takes a wife, takes her right on cue
This mountain is growing, growing as I climb
Architect of poverty, that crystallized endowment
Ripped from home into the wreckage of heaven
Hunger hiding behind the sheltered, wicked feast
The paradox of consumption: even blood evaporates
The child open wide knows his world in one dimension
Before he cries that final unconsolable tear
Architect of poverty, that crystallized endowment
Ripped from home into the wreckage of heaven
Hunger hides behind the sheltered, wicked feast
The paradox of consumption: even blood evaporates
11. Cosmos Disease
Tucked away behind a black hole
Inside the bleakness of dreaming
Obsessed with the ticking of my watch
Betrayed by the turning of your head
Lured by the shining of promise
Into a vortex of eternal tension
Unresolved, unresolving, resolute
I'm wrapped in the quilt of stars
And after all I keep on living
And after all I keep forgiving
I've seen where the stars go to die
Where truth is a serpent and justice a lie
This sickness was all it took
Even planets are suffering
From cauldrons of astral plane
Rising, intoxicating fumes
Filling myself with the ashes
Of an entire burning galaxy
Washing myself in the blood
Of a thousand, a thousand murdered kings
And after all I keep on living
And after all I keep forgiving
I've seen where the stars go to die
Where truth is a serpent and justice a lie
Three-headed rescuer passes us by
Blood never freezes and tears never dry
Seen through the eye of a needle
Spectrum, refracted eclipse
Spinning meaning from symbols and shapes
The great cosmic atrocity
In the mystery of intellect
In the writhings of chaos
Gravity picks its victims
All stories end too soon
And after all I keep on living
And after all I keep forgiving
I've seen where the stars go to die
Where truth is a serpent and justice a lie
Three-headed rescuer passes us by
Blood never freezes and tears never dry
12. DNA
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