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THE KOVENANT LYRICS
"S.E.T.I." (2003)
1. Cybertrash
2. Planet of the Apes
3. Star by Star
4. Via Negativa
5. Stillborn Universe
6. Acid Theatre
7. Perfect End
8. Neon
9. Keepers of the Garden
10. Pantomime
11. Hollow Earth
12. Industrial Twilight
1. Cybertrash
Superstition, disguised as faith
The Fear of death plagues their eyes
Automated animation, a fingerprint personality
Born of desperation,
So terrified that you just might dissappear when you die
And that there is no difference between right or wrong
Elimination of the modern nation
No need for the excess population
Twisted monuments of human decay
Old death to new beginnings
Remake the world in genocide
Everything they taught you is a lie
Would you die for this?
Fake and fractured, soulless and manufactured
Would you die for this?
Crossbred and numbered, we are cybertrash
Proclaimed by a thousand prophets
Believed by a million fools
Its an endless line of tragedies
What is faith but another word for superstition
On the ruins of the old
Free of the moral waste
Perfect and gleaming
In the light of the morning star
Would you die for my sins?
Or would you take my life and try to make it yours?
Prove me wrong, but I'll still see it my own way
Would you die for this?
Fake and fractured, soulless and manufactured
Would you die for this?
Crossbred and numbered, we are cybertrash
2. Planet of the Apes
To many lies breeds to many flies
It's evolution through confusion
Hate is never without reason
Love is never without treason
Monkey see - Monkey do
Evolution was never true
Of all the lies they feed to you
What you see is what you do
Monkey me and monkey you
"Godly" parasites in massive invasion
Deformed creation... Unnatural Invention
Procreate, then desecrate - Inseminate, then devastate
No hope for humanity...It's a planet of apes
Monkey see - Monkey do
Evolution was never true
Of all the lies they feed to you
What you see is what you do
Monkey me and monkey you
Nothing new ever came out of someone like you
Don't decieve yourself thinking that you know what to do
What will you do when all your toys are broken
What will you say when all your lines are spoken
No hope for humanity.... it's a planet of apes
Gently violated and desecrated
The quintessential art of self-destruction
You left behind the will to believe in nothing
You are never going to be what you want to be
Monkey see - Monkey do
Evolution was never true
Of all the lies they feed to you
What you see is what you do
Monkey me and monkey you
3. Star by Star
We were alone and on our own, in the dark between the stars
From the shadows to the pyre, amidst the chaos, from the stars
Love, life and liberty, Hate, death and captivity
Like a stain of starless darkness, across the canvas of space
Star by Star
Corrupting all of humanity
So much alike are we
When I see you I see me
Galaxies glitter in the black night sky, Towards progress, towards death
From the stars we have come, and to the stars we will return
The violence of passion - The passion of violence
The perverse impulses - The savage egoism
The wicked presence - The wicked essence
The thing that unites us - The thing that divides us
Star by Star
Corrupting all of humanity
So much alike are we
When I see you I see me
4. Via Negativa
The arrogance of angels, the heresy of Christ
The stupidity of humanity, the skeletons of society
It's time to separate the saints from the sinners
Judgement day is coming - Evacuate then renovate
Proclaimed by a thousand prophets, believed by a million fools
But the day will come when everything falls apart
All it takes is a single act of animal desperation
And what if all the things we believed in were true
Decades of decadence and aeons of evil
Worldwide terror in the shape of a shining star
From the center of damnation to the outskirts of Hell
Redemption only comes with a pair of numbered wings
In our quest for miracles, we started a war of genitals
Disguised as the bearers of justice, we took your fears a made you a God
Why are you afraid of something you're not even sure exists?
I am the maze of God... I am the true face of fraud
Embrace the pain, and I will lead you to another heaven
For who are you to belive in another paradise than mine?
The Infant Prodigy - The Bearer of Light
Without me you would be nothing at all
The beginning and the end are the same, the circle never ends
And the more things change, the more they stay the same
Decades of decadence and aeons of evil
Worldwide terror in the shape of a shining star
From the center of damnation to the outskirts of Hell
Redemption only comes with a pair of numbered wings
5. Stillborn Universe
Lost in this place, like fragments of another time
I close my eyes and see myself from above
Drifting apart, like splinters of scattered glass
But we all have our own reasons to continue
Don't you want it this way?
(I can't go on)
Don't you need it this way?
(I can't go on)
Don't you love it this way?
(I can't go on)
Don't you need it anyway...
I can't come down when your around
I lose control and hit the ground
So everything must change
and all remains the same
This is a stillborn universe
We are battered, we are torn
(it pleases me to see you broken)
We're the hate that you adore
(it pleases me to see you broken)
We are hollow, we are bruised
(it pleases me to see you broken)
We are numb and self-abused
(it pleases me to see you broken)
I can't come down when your around
I lose control and hit the ground
So everything must change
and all remains the same
This is a stillborn universe
You thought that life would be so wonderful..
You thought that all could be so beautiful..
You thought that everything, would be so simple
You thought that everything would be so perfect
[Chorus]
I can't come down when your around
I lose control and hit the ground
So everything must change
and all remains the same
This is a stillborn universe
6. Acid Theatre
Liquid phantom fields of motion
For those who cannot see the future
Like masked sands of deception
The wave of the future foundation
Green fields of euphoria
A disfigured replica of paradise
A distant enigma light
Splintered apart in spatial distortion
Never believe the things they tell you
Never trust the lies they feed you
Never do what the want you to do
Never be who they want you to be
Shade and shadow, through glory and ecstacy
Erotic sensations arising from the misery of others
Believe what you will,
untill experience changes your mind
For the day is not done,
and I have miles to go to make them sleep forever
Never believe the things they tell
Never trust the lies they feed you
Never do what the want you to do
Never be who they want you to be
7. Perfect End
Look at me and tell me what you see
I am not what you think I am
Too weird to live, too rare to die
Haloed in the headlights of death
Is this Hell disguised as heaven?
Is this death masquerading as life?
So much is said, so little shown
I see no reason, I feel no end
This is not a happy ending
This is not a last goodbye
Open your eyes and stop pretending
This is not the perfect end
This is not a new beginning
This is not a last farewell
Open your eyes and stop pretending
This is not the perfect end
Stitched up like a ragged doll
Wrapped around your naked soul
I am what you know as temptation
I am the ancient deception
I wish I could leave this world behind
I wish I had the will to end it all
But I shall paint my nightmares
And things will never be the same again
This is not a happy ending
This is not a last goodbye
Open your eyes and stop pretending
This is not the perfect end
This is not a new beginning
This is not a last farewell
Open your eyes and stop pretending
This is not the perfect end
8. Neon
Bastard proclamations of a dying nation
Social deconstruction through deceit and deception
Hit us with your pointing stick
Golden arches crucifix
We will never be like you
Subliminal derangment of the human senses
Corporate illusions of holy intervention
Vulture culture history
Television ministry
We will never be like you
Let me be your neon god
We've got brand new illusions for your plastic souls
Were all wired up and ready to go
Because gravity means nothing now
A man made messiah of concrete and steel
Instant salvation through your t.v.screen
Let me be your god....
Subdue your maker - Subdue your maker
I am the giver and I am the taker
Subdue your maker - Subdue your maker
All succomb to me...
Let me be your neon god
We've got brand new illusions for your plastic souls
Were all wired up and ready to go
Because gravity means nothing now
A man made messiah of concrete and steel
Instant salvation through your t.v.screen
Let me be your god....
9. Keepers of the Garden
In the darkness of space, they suffer in temptation
Dementia creeping closer, but what difference does it make
Sometimes the best way up is down
And for some moments in life there are no words
The sky is filled with dead stars
There is no escape...There is no return
In a state of terror and confusion
With euphoria as an ambition...
Through the doors of perception
We will leave this place behind
Wide open space, so out of place
We were exiled and we were disgraced
Eye at the center, dawn of our race
Edge of the cosmos, heart of all space
The ancient deception, the so-called fall from grace
And Eden was just a place in outer space...
The shining ones, the keepers of the garden
The ancient ones, those who came from the sky
Wide open space, so out of place
We were exiled and we were disgraced
Eye at the center, dawn of our race
Edge of the cosmos, heart of all space
10. Pantomime
Burning bright in the industries of night
Between the stars like a wanderer, across the sea of suns
I reached out for the radiant shadow of a figure with horns
Drawn like a moth to flame, and into the lions den
Space cities of wonders, at an evolutionary dead-end
Pale electric shadows, locked together in common self-hatred
All it takes is an idea, a single word can change the world
I tried as hard as I could to make you understand,
There`s no difference between up or down out here
Xenophobia...Five fingers are no longer enough
Xenophobia...We lost control along time ago
The Judas halo - The betrayer spirit
The human ambition in all its disfigured glory
Liars of Light - Masters of Night
We all get what we deserve in the end
Xenophobia...Five fingers are no longer enough
Xenophobia...We lost control along time ago
11. Hollow Earth
Dead center in the middle of nowhere
Coma existence...surrounded by the living dead
There is no hope, there is no tomorrow
You took our world and bled it dry
These are the last days of planet earth
(and) We will be there when they realize the truth
We're spinning around on our way to hell
We can never get off this carousell
These are the last days of planet earth
Victims of a defective genepool
Soulless existence...forever in pointless directions
Out of tune with true evolution
There are no answers, there is no solution
These are the last days of planet earth
(and) We will be there when they realize the truth
We're spinning around on our way to hell
We can never get off this carousell
These are the last days of planet earth
These are our last days
Twisted synthetic generation
Dead animatronic nation
These are our last days
Tapestries of tangled motion
Self-inflicted hate implosion
"The heart of a mystery is seen through imagination
but obscured by our inability to control chaos..."
We're spinning around on our way to hell
We can never get off this carousell
These are the last days of planet earth
We're spinning around on our way to hell
We can never get off this carousell
These are the last days of planet earth
12. Industrial Twilight
United we stand in shared perversion
The love of death - The paradise of Hell
This infinite limbo, like a great black engine
Ultimate abomination, no one here gets out alive
Let the posion arrows fall
Let the pillars of "heaven" crumble
Martyrs to no one but ourselves
We are the rusted pillars of a better tomorrow
Give me your crippled hand, and I?ll drag you into evolution
Compassion is obsolete, the answers are no longer true
To many sides to chose from, fascism in masked control forms
Paradise...prepare for deconstruction
Welcome to the radiant silos of Atom
Man-made misery, the perfect anti-life
Divine radiation, the corruption of flesh
Ours is the God of nuclear winter
Synthesized evolution of tomorrow
When we tried to become, the world turned negative
You were the words in my mouth
When I was just trying to save their world
Welcome to the radiant silos of Atom
Man-made misery, the perfect anti-life
Divine radiation, the corruption of flesh
Ours is the God of nuclear winter
"Once I was the carrier of wounds,
featherless and without direction,
Never a saint nor a saviour,
relentless in my search for a higher existence...
In a nuclear war...All men will be cremated equal!"
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