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OBSIDIAN REIGN LYRICS
"Persevere" (2006)
1. Persevere
2. The Hand of Righteous Hate
3. Split The Enemy
4. Eye For An Eye
5. Follow
6. Pathogenesis
7. Subconscious Evil
8. Useless
9. Trust Betrayed
10. Of Roses And Ruin
1. Persevere
(Lyrics: Steve McDonald)
(Music: Obsidian Reign)
Suffocate! With the air that you provide
Blacking out with the poison you offer everytime.
I can't stay away
You wanted it this way
My brain tells me rich man and my body tells me poor
The strain of every pressure felt keeps beating down my door
I can't stay this way
It beats me down everyday
(Chorus)
Getting weaker
Falling deeper
You can't control me here
I never will adhere
Falling deeper
It will not bring fear
I will persevere
The lies that surround myself keep growing everyday
Torn between my own past perceptions of the truth that made me stay
You won't go away
Won't manipulate
Memories of past lives rekindle my decay
You reach out for my hand but always let it stray
(Chorus)
Can't control me here
I never will adhere
You will not bring fear
I will persevere
2. The Hand of Righteous Hate
(Lyrics: Rob Adams)
(Music: Obsidian Reign)
No greater evil than the hand of righteous hate
Felonious intent. Doubtful morality
Unyielding ethical decisions that will rule our lives
Can we redress shadows of our past?
Knowledge dispels fear until you know the truth in lies
Banning freedom of "whatever they oppose"
Unilateral democracy through martial law
Saving sycophants while the unworthy die
Holy contempt for those who question what's wrong or Right
Are we destined to repeat atrocities?
Recurring ignorance in a new guise
Hate still hate. No matter what the hype
Illegal wars will be just in the history that you write
(Chorus):
Who are the enemies you seek?
Why is it treason to have a different view?
And when there's no-one left to blame
Who will you persecute?
Delusions. Flawed logic proven
Misinformation spurs the malcontent in frightened minds
Global governance. Puerile politics.
Blessed mandate to discriminate and marginalize
Ineffectual intellectuals
Unravel propaganda taut as the Gordian Knot
One nation with no common God
What would it mean to find that we were ALL wrong?
(Chorus):
Where are these enemies you seek?
And when the mission's at an end
What will be your legacy?
Liberation of the dead
Misanthropic
Philanthropy
Killing for peace
Hypocrisy
Selfish demagogue
Criminal arrogance
Who protects us
From your menace?
Citizens suffer
Too dead to die
Under your flag
The end is nigh
No greater evil than the hand of righteous hate
3. Split The Enemy
(Lyrics: Steve McDonald)
(Music: Obsidian Reign)
I can't tell myself
Undo these problems that surround my life
Helpless in this time
Knowing my shadows will always fall behind
We are the ones that trigger all that pacify
Endanger all too close to our frame of mind
You always try to stand tall
And beat your head against a wall
Walk the line but take care
All you have crossed won't be there
Open your eyes and you'll see
A friendship never meant to be
Talk of strength, take your bullshit and be gone
I won't see your face again and it kills me to the bitter end
And all the sleepless nights, the struggle without a fight
The wounds that will never mend
(Lead: Mike)
Focus on the matters and the task at hand
Conjuring thoughts that make a stand
Relive the nightmare out of spite
Consuming all to stop this everlasting fight
I awake from the torment I see arise
Shadow cast my only demise
Wait for the final stone to be thrown
Before we hang ourselves on morals alone
I won't see your face again and it kills me to the bitter end
And all the sleepless nights, the struggle without a fight
The wounds that will never mend
When I look back on this day
I relive the past to see a better way
It makes us all stop and see that the only solution is to
Split the enemy!
I won't mend our scars, they make us who we are
(Lead: Mike)
Split the enemy!
4. Eye For An Eye
(Lyrics: Rob Adams)
(Music: Obsidian Reign)
As I strike down my enemies
I shall smile as I watch them bleed
Their price is high but not enough for me
So deserving of their destiny
(Pre-chorus)
I am an implement of vengeance
Mine to deliver punishment
Penance is harsh but so justly sent
For their sins, there is only death
(Chorus):
RAGE (Piercing their eyes - blind; inhumane)
RAGE (Torture, torment, laughter at their pain)
I cast their souls to the underworld
Pleas for mercy will be left unheard
Damnation for their crimes is what I mete
This is the power granted unto me
(Pre-chorus)
We determine our own fate
You have begged for my hatred
And cried out to be destroyed
Forgiveness has been denied
(Chorus):
RAGE (Retribution on this reckoning day)
RAGE (Vindication; all shall be slain)
Urare contaminates
(Veins dripping with loathing)
With a gelid stare
(Behold existance slip away)
Do unto others
(Before they denounce you)
Eye for an eye
(Savaged by claw and tooth)
Thou ... shalt ... not ...
(Cross my path again)
Thou ... shalt ... not ...
(Draw another breath)
Your agony, my desire
(Revenge is the best revenge)
Bathed in wretchedness
(Rejoicing in their pain)
Sanguinary
(A murder in cold blood)
Demonian
(My unabated lust)
Sanity is lost.
RAGE
5. Follow
(Lyrics: Steve McDonald)
(Music: Obsidian Reign)
I wake up to the sound of my own voice screaming
It's calling my name time and again.
I can't see the end for the sign that things never seem to end.
It haunts my dreams because it ended before it ever began.
You all fight to get higher and step in the fire
of the errors your elders made.
You call yourself a friend and say you see the end
of the fractured souls you left behind.
(Pre-Chorus)
So step up and reach out, act like a man there's no
need to hide behind your simple mind.
The fall out seems to real, the devils need to feel
all the pressures your indulgence brings to our lives...
(Chorus)
Our leaders that follow again won't bring down the powers that hold our hands
The leaders will follow again and won't see us through to the end.
You say you'll bring a solution, though it's only dillusions
of the promises you need to have.
Peace sells although there's no buyer, you keep getting higher
in the clouds that rain on your public's parade.
So step up and reach out, act like a man there's no
need to hide behind your simple mind.
The fall out seems too real, when devils needs to feel
all the pressures your indulgence brings to our lives...
The leaders won't make that choice
It makes no different without our voice
The leaders choose to follow...
follow
follow
6. Pathogenesis
(Lyrics: Rob Adams)
(Music: Rob Adams)
Guarded secrets stained with blood
Obscene experimentation
Under the guise of medical science
Research paid in lives
Ingested. Injected. Exposed.
Infected. Innocent. Depredated.
Government policy policing unwilling subjects
Perfidious leaders betraying their oaths to serve
The public; case studies in biological suffering
Evolutionary revolution
(Leads: Mike / Rob)
Vivisection of sedated victims
Prone to pain but unable to cry out
Merciless doctors consternate their patients
With no true enemies; our neighbours become the mice
Waging a silent war; threatened by peace
Strengthening national security
Who will protect us from ourselves
Genetic manipulation through pathogeny
Altering our species
Modified for superiority
Through trial and error, failure can't be avoided
Justifiable losses in the quest for knowledge
Unleash the epidemics; the massacre begins
Our taxes finance the slaughter.
This is our future (repeat)
Pathogenesis/Pathogenesis (repeat)
7. Subconscious Evil
(Lyrics: Steve McDonald)
(Music: Obsidian Reign)
You will fall...
In the clutches of your fate
Unrealistic delusions your mind has made
Bringing all your beliefs back to one...
While the knot you tie comes undone.
A reassurance of power is all you have
The strength you feel won't make you have
A deeper silence then you thought could ever be
Look in the mirror, do you even know who you see?
You will become your own demise
A safe place to hide...
Chorus:
Knowing that your time is here
Becoming the ocean that drowns all your fear
In the wake of how you live your life
A subconscious evil will darken your light
Break all the empty promises lie
and preach the good of what you believe is right
The blind eye of a simple faith
Will overshadow the demise of rules you make
While forcing your hypocrisy on me
You bottom out in the life you lead
I wonder know if your power will foresee
A deeper meaning brought on by powers that be
You will become your own demise
A safe place to hide...
(Chorus)
Tracing all you have back to birth
And realizing you were not the first
To see a world crumble and chip away
Can't feel the torture you have knowing that...
I won't tolerate it anymore
You will feel me dwelling inside
I won't have it anymore
You won't stop me, you can't break me
You can't embellish all it is you see
And when you world comes to an end
Think back on your life and...
Look into my eyes you'll see
That your delusion was never meant to be
(Lead: Mike)
Breaking down all the walls you built inside
Cashing in on the powers in your mind
A suicide of madness drags you down
(Do you hear it?)
Your voice makes no sound
It seems this time your decay caught up to you
You blind faith, this time, won't pull you through
I now know that the suffering lies in you
Do you think your conscious still holds true?
You will become your own demise
A safe place to hide...
(Chorus)
Shadowing all you have to give
Betraying the power that allows you to live.
8. Useless
(Lyrics: Rob Adams)
(Music: Rob Adams/Mike Davidson)
I hear your voice and every note of it goes straight through my brain
The broken record that you are
What will it take to finally make you understand
I can't take this anymore
No common sense; you bitch and moan and wail to hear yourself talk
'Cause no-one else is listening
Why don't you take some
Responsibility
You brought this down upon yourself
You've got no fuckin' clue
What the fuck is wrong with you?
Can't you see reality?!
Pre-Chorus:
Useless
All you are
Useless
Chorus:
Like a spoiled child
With nobody else to blame
Throw a tantrum
And sulk when you don't get your way
Train of thought derailed
Contradict yourself
Do you believe your bullshit?
Not me!
(Lead)
Chorus:
Like a spoiled child
With nobody else to blame
Throw a tantrum
And sulk when you don't get your way
The whole world owes you
But you don't contribute
This time I've had enough
You're through.
9. Trust Betrayed
(Lyrics: Rob Adams)
(Music: Obsidian Reign)
You said I'd never be alone.
You lied.
10. Of Roses And Ruin
(Lyrics: Rob Adams)
(Music: Obsidian Reign)
(Lead: Arden)
I hear the voices of dying souls
They whisper softly with their final breaths
While I'm awake or when I dream
Images of the dead are surrounding me
(Lead: Arden)
Why are they haunting me?!
What do they want from me?!
(Release us)
Why are they haunting me?!
What do they want from me?!
I don't see my own reflection
When I look in the mirror
A room of strangers that stare at me
A cacophony of pleading
In fear and anger
By those who are trapped or won't let go of this world we see
Then in the background I glimpse her face
And softly she calls to me
(I can still taste your tears)
Is it real or only just in my mind?
(I can still feel your arms around me)
I long to hold her again
Of roses and ruin
I visit her once again
My expression of devotion
The flowers that lay frozen on her grave
This is the only place I know she hears my voice; I bare my soul
The icy grip of loneliness surrounds me
Of roses and ruin.
(Lead: Rob)
A candle flickers with no breeze ... as the tallow slowly melts away
I pray to forces unseen ... as I cry out her name
My blood, it spills across her stone ... My blood, it spills across her stone
My pain, it drives me to this end ... I won't lose her again
And this time would be forever.
(Lead: Rob)
I awaken; I'm so cold ... My body drained; I feel so weak
My blood is spilled across the snow ... All I want to do is sleep
My head hangs heavy on her stone ... Has she crossed over; I can't tell?
I hear a voice but it isn't hers ... I have lost her again
Don't you recognize me?
(Lead: Rob)
Distorted spector
Driven mad by eternity
My beloved angel has turned on me
In desperation
We were both deceived
She sought to escape and I was left to bleed
Her realm is now inside my mind
And screaming she calls to me
(Now we'll never be alone)
I can never find peace
(This is where you longed to be)
What have I unleashed?
Of roses and ruin
She visits me once again
My expression of devotion
Has driven me to the ragged edge
There is no place I know to escape her voice; to free my soul
The icy grip of madness surrounds me
Of roses and ruin.
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