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HORRORSHOW LYRICS
"Rise of Man" (2006)
1. No Escape
2. The Culling
3. All There Is
4. I Am
5. Voodoo
6. Time is Your God
7. Superstitious Monkey Brain
8. Mission Control
9. Righteous Hand
10. Ascension
11. When Worlds Collide
12. Precious Moments
13. Sinking Ship
1. No Escape
Cannot escape the enemy within.
He torments me with glee.
Living with the pain of who I am.
The horror of being me.
Cannot run away from myself.
My pursuer is always with me.
Trying to escape from my shadow.
There’s no where to flee.
I hate what I have become.
No bodies fault but mine.
Do I live this lie?
Pretending all is fine.
Faculties are stretched so thin.
A taught and fraying twine.
High wire act without a net.
I walk a precarious line.
When I look in the mirror let me tell you what I see.
I see the same face but every day it looks a little less like me.
Will there be a tomorrow? You never know.
Are you willing to take the chance?
Suck it up and let it go.
2. The Culling
I am the one, the one who gave you life, and I’ll take it away.
Never revealed myself, my pathetic pets, easily lead astray.
I’ve been watching you, leading your petty lives, the arrogance you display.
Nothing can save you now, the game board is set, your god comes out to play.
With thunder claps, and billowing clouds, I arrive in a vulgar display.
Oceans roil, fire from the sky, and the mountains sway.
I revel in the fear, the terror in your eyes, your world ashen and gray.
Your time is nigh, the culling begins, I've arrived to hunt my prey.
Here you stand, naked before me, on your judgment day.
Your soul lay bare; I see everything, no matter what you say.
Your heart speaks clear, tells of all your sins, the scales of justice weigh.
Guilty as charged, on all counts, now the time has come to pay.
3. All There Is
VERSE1
The struggle remains the same.
How do you make your way?
In this pathetic game.
Its myriad shades of grey.
Cold indifferent world.
Wants nothing to do with you.
Sanity comes unfurled.
It's all that one can do.
VERSE2
Fear creeping in on me.
Darkness closing in.
No exit in sight I see.
A game I cannot win.
My skin is way too tight.
Trapped in this constricting shell.
Should I concede the fight?
Most times I just can't tell.
VERSE3
Crushing weight on my back.
Desire to surrender is strong.
Enveloped in a void of black.
How did this go so wrong?
Fight to keep to keep yourself.
From becoming what it is.
Conscience on a shelf.
This is all there is.
CHORUS
What are you willing to do to survive?
What does it take to make a life worth living?
Where do you draw your lines?
What you bring with you, what you leave behind.
4. I Am
VERSE1
There is one God; there is none other but he.
I am God, there is none like me.
Whose name is Jealous, whose name is hate.
Go after other gods and seal your fate.
Follow my commandments follow my rules.
Despise wisdom and knowledge become my fools.
My compassion and mercy are there for all.
The creation was perfect before the fall.
VERSE2
I know all and my plan is set.
But you still have free will lest you forget.
I am what I am and that's all that I am.
Betrayed and delivered shall be the son of man.
There are three that bear record, and these three are one.
The father the ghost and the word the son.
I come not to bring peace but the sword.
Submit to my will I shall be adored.
CHORUS
I kill myself.
To appease myself.
Save my creation.
From myself.
(I am what I am, I am I Am)
5. Voodoo
I don’t need your faith.
Just get out of my face.
No lamented fall from grace.
No created human race.
Glaring lack of proof.
Belies your claims of truth.
Just a fictional tale.
A mythical hero for sale.
Your false god I will not follow.
The threat “all knees shall bend” is hollow.
I’ve got one less god than you do.
Get over that superstitious voodoo.
6. Time is Your God
Darwin recanted she said.
Moon dust would cover Neil’s head.
NASA discovers a missing day.
Flash frozen mammoths were tasty they say.
Geological column is only in books.
Scientists are godless lying crooks.
Plesiosaur pulled from the sea.
2nd law of thermodynamics and entropy.
Women have one more rib than men.
Who said there were teeth in that hen?
Mutations can't be beneficial.
The lord loves me I'm so special.
No one has seen new species.
You only find plants in dino feces.
Archaeopteryx is a fraud.
I find it quite odd.
Time is your god.
Why are there still apes today?
Can Piltdown man come out and play.
Earths was on a vertical axis.
The good book says I don't pay taxes.
Have you seen the Paluxy man tracks?
Labcoats are a bunch of hacks.
Clam shells on mountain tops.
How long before this lunacy stops.
A water canopy protected the earth.
We were saved by a miracle birth.
Charley said the eye could not have evolved.
Lifes great mysteries have already been solved.
What about the missing neutrinos.
You'd get better odds in Reno.
Lucy is a fraud.
Don't spare the rod.
Time is your god.
The ark was found high on the mountain.
The earth opened and disgorged a fountain.
A comet super cooled the planet.
Take that and carve it in granite.
Evolution is just a theory.
Just like the cow of miss O’Leary.
Speed of light has decreased over time.
I didn't evolve from stinking slime.
There are no transitional forms.
Noah survived the greatest storm.
Seen a Dog give birth to a banana?
Try to teach a cat to play the piana.
Polonium halos found in rocks.
Malarkey I say to your nuclear clocks.
The power of the lord leaves me awed.
Macroevolution is a fraud.
Time is your god.
7. Superstitious Monkey Brain
We’re not that long out of the trees.
Just a matter of some degrees.
The beast is so hard to suppress.
Always there just beneath the surface.
They claim to be so civilized.
Vainly praying to the vast skies.
Down on your knees to your false lord.
Zealots craving pious reward.
You can’t cheat death that’s for certain.
When your time comes call it curtains.
Don’t hold out for godly blessings.
After all it’s just mans guessing.
8. Mission Control
It seeks to control hearts minds and purse strings with a finely crafted spell.
While making up its own brand new terrors and horrors to scare you with as well.
There’s no evidence to support the outlandish claims, save for a vague ambiguous few.
It's so utterly crude as to be laughable. Just count the insecurities it panders to.
Boundless, unconditional love, a fair, sane world with rules and someone in control.
A chance to right your wrongs with a token gesture to assuage your guilt ridden soul.
The knowledge that you'll get yours, and he'll get his. Not having to look forward to just …..Ending.
Not cowering under an infinite sky while clinging to a spinning rock death impending.
Waiting for an indifferent fate to snuff you out like a candle flame, no purpose whatsoever.
Knowing that someone is in charge, taken all into account, planned it out, and is under control forever.
It feeds you sickly sweet reassurance, while threatening you with all your doubts and fears.
It carries the burden of millions dead through a history spanning countless years.
If you even think of turning away the dread wrenches through devilishly insidious torment.
And turning everyone else against you for the least sign of dissent.
9. Righteous Hand
No rest for the faithful til his kingdom is restored.
Eternity in heaven at his side will be my well deserved reward.
All of those who refuse to bow and follow the laid out path.
Will verily suffer as my lord when I unleash his awful wrath.
Undeserving heathens fall to your knees.
I am the righteous hand of god do as I please.
His eternal and infallible word tells all there is to know.
How in the world do I know this you ask? Right here it tells me so.
How dare you in your insolence question the mouth of your creator.
Time to pay the fee that's due to only me by each and every traitor.
I am the righteous hand of god you unrepentant sleaze.
To the kingdom of heaven I alone hold the keys.
Stand on your neck till you profess undying love to my lord.
Allegiance unwavering at the point of my sword.
With my clenched fist smashed into your face I will make you believe.
So tell me what’s it gonna be, subservience sets you free.
10. Ascension
Standing all alone arise from the unknown.
Heights of greatness climb rise into the prime.
My power is supreme awaken from your dream.
Allegiance pledged to me you’ll know eternity.
Wonders will be shown perched on a gilded throne.
Masses at my feet they will know defeat.
Submit to my will or your blood will spill.
Eyes will plainly see all is possible through me.
Victory so sweet failure doomed repeat.
Rule through hate and fear reckoning draws near.
Methods so sublime rule through all of time.
Psychopathic scheme one thousand year regime.
11. When Worlds Collide
Criticizing things you’ll never try to understand.
Just crow on and on about how perfectly it’s planned.
Denying all the evidence that’s right before your eyes.
It’s simpler to hide behind a multitude of lies.
Fear the implications of what you might find.
Decided it’s a mortal sin to utilize your mind.
Idolize those who tell you what you want to hear.
Sooth your troubled mind and quell your baseless fears.
Your God is an invention of Bronze Age minds.
Such a narrow view is no longer confined.
Just a lame attempt to explain what they saw.
The natural world left them perplexed and in awe.
Evidence does not affirm a biblical prism.
Exposed as folklore, myth and mysticism.
Just another proud and glorious legend to tell.
Millennia pass masses are still caught in the spell.
I don’t understand. It’s so plain to see.
Head stuck in the sand. So obvious to me.
Pick and choose your lies. It’s truth that matters not.
What salvation buys. You’ve gone and cast your lot.
God does not provide. A valid explanation.
Protecting your pride. To halt investigation.
Proof can be denied. Just choose to obscure.
When facts and god collide. truth’s fate is unsure.
12. Precious Moments
Thoughts that bring comfort don’t equal verity.
Time on this rock is short live mine with clarity.
Questioning and skeptical down to the bone.
No baseless assumptions to explain the unknown.
Wasted life just hoping believe without a doubt.
But don’t keep your mind so open that your brain falls out.
Rifle through your holy book searching for a clue.
Humanity it slowly took consuming all of you.
Mind is on lockdown with dogmatic chains.
Distrustful scowling frown greeted with disdain.
Hardened you against those who don’t accept your claim.
Vilifying all who chose a contrary path to same.
Tomorrow may never come it may be too late.
Don’t put your trust in some nebulous fate.
No such thing as destiny so far as I can tell.
No magic zombie lord no heaven and no hell.
Each moment is precious treasure every day.
Won’t be long till deaths’ last caress takes it all away.
13. Sinking Ship
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