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OVERCAST LYRICS
"Fight Ambition to Kill" (1997)
1. Apocalypse Upon Us
2. Spun
3. Filter of Syntax
4. Styrofoam Death Machine
5. Your (Destructive) Self
6. More Metal Than Your Ma's Kettle
7. Seven Ft. Grin
8. Dousing This Flame
9. Forecast
1. Apocalypse Upon Us
Gag on ash dust
Orange clouds loom in the summer's frozen chill
Winding down, grinding down
As our snowballing karma begins to titan
Apocalypse upon us
Emptiness is our end
Emptiness
Legions of dark divide and surround
Coming from all parts of this forsaken town
And how to you keep from laughing
When you tell me it's alright
And why do you keep from weeping
When you tell me we will see tomorrow
So easily depressed
So deeply obsessed
Worthless we've succumb
Meaningless you've all become
So much freedom in carelessness
Everything is in the palm of our sweaty paws
Rust to dust, fool proof solutions that draw flies
Oh how your legs tire
Muscels seize and bones crumble
But the urge to run carries on
The fire in your eyes rips through the streets
My taste for it has soured
Dead to the world am I
Cause I never had faith in your kind
Will you still hide your face when he is standing at your back door
When he is sulking through your kitchen
Till he is scratching under your bed
Closer than you think
We are all nothing
2. Spun
Scrambling to regain the shards of ideals shattered before me
Terror to release all that binds me to this pitted Earth
This day remains charred
Immersed in the pools of reason
Deny the weight of gravity
Spiralling in rhythm of heartbeats
Embracing this virgin reality
Chemical agent transforms me
Angel wings rise, unbound from flesh
Sight open to all dimensions
Revel in the power on this day of rebirth
Like the moments of death...
My life streams by in flashes
Interwound...
With the dream of the ancient
Annotated with knowledge from journeys of past
Bleeding slowly into the streams of the everlasting
Not losing myself but growing into everything
Spiraling, pondering, unwinding, never ending.
3. Filter of Syntax
Wading in the midst of this singularity
Universe condensed to the size of a wave
Alien thoughts invade my mind, focus attention then denied
Opiate dream soon realized and I am left half stranded
Wading in the midst of this singularity
Inspiration and expression in union as one
Children rally round Jah's fire, destroy Babylon desire
Scrape away the city lies, nature only masks the divine
Purging dispair through a filter of syntax
Bridge to Zion built with the words of the righteous
But I will transcend
I will exceed
I will transcend
I will suceed
I will transcend
I will exceed
You will not deny me
4. Styrofoam Death Machine
5. Your (Destructive) Self
Can we live through this?
Agents of the devil are you all
Prostituting mundane revolution
March on man/machine
Fear should only be of yourself
Fear should be of yourself
You rape all human pleasure
Harvest economic slavery
Bleeding whores of greed
As our montrosity turns on us
Still I struggle to remain conscious
Because you idea of right
Has always been wrong
Always been wrong
Always been wrong
Always will
Enriched by disease
We fuck this planet dry and my question to you is
Can we live through this?
Mother squelch your children
Far too out of hand are they
Stumbling and stuttering your purpose
On this day of reckoning
You will be the death of you all
6. More Metal Than Your Ma's Kettle
In the shadow abyss
Of the wilderness
The call of a dear brother is but the sound
Of a stranger
Ancient fires will arise
Power of the lifeless to stand once more
Punishment for our sins
Payment is due
7. Seven Ft. Grin
You alone are abuse
You alone are pain
Extinction held within your fist
All good things come to those who slaughter
Bursting with laughter your anecdotes agonize
I would shatter that grin
Depression, the rust that binds this soul together
Corrosive entropy
Here you will not find solace beating savage madness into primative
innocents
It is the purity the broken question
It is the morality the promise broken
Serenity sanctified inside your microcosm
You stench of vile irrelevance
Shards of glass bleed bloody knuckles
I would shatter that grin
Well I want nothing more of humanity, I've finally
Become this evil within
Letting lose my inner beast as I grip your neck and twist
Welcome to the opposition bastard
Enjoy the validity of brutality
Bestowed upon us in return
As I grip your neck and twist
8. Dousing This Flame
Handing the invitation over
To the dark figure in the corner
I stare at the glaze that forms over your eyes
As the pain leaps from these lips
It's all coming back to me now
With everything I've become it's a wonder I'm still me
My breath refuses to be caught
Although I've tried to force this back
I let the numbness win
I return with a sieging vengeance
Back in pour my starving habits
Dousing this flame with anger as my eyse dig deep into your face
Forget this time like your smile
Lays broken at my feet
Can't you see you never had a chance
You never had a chance
I don't stop
I don't stop, I won't stop
Hold still while all this passes
I won't stop, I don't stop
Be still my will is not my own
Why can't I out run what I've been known to lose?
Sticky sweet with sarcasm
My mouth is sealed shut
Yeah, don't you wish you could forget me now?
You will never forget me now
9. Forecast
I view deep in this reflection
It's just the outside world looking in
Even if I could escape is
Is suffocation
Cascading bursts of light
Illuminating from the silence
But I still wonder if pulling free is
Is necessary
What else could I do?
I feed off of your cruelty
Once again I torch this day
It probably never existed
I used to think I had a grasp
That door closed years ago
I predicted the armageddon
I predicted the absolute
My lack of insanity held me back
I could have saved you all
But why?
The sheep retain their wish
Swallowed
Swallowed in Hell-fire
Why?
The sheep retain their wish
Swallowed
I don't listen to tomorrow
I don't look beyond the overcast
I won't see the forecast anymore
I won't look beyond the overcast
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