1. |
Incandesce
04:05
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Incapacitated
Incandesce
Immolation by desire
Fades distress
Drowning in the lake of fire
That surrounds
The ashes begin to pile up
Your world is upside-down
(Let it all burn) This dream is dying anyway
(Let it all burn) Your greatest fear is on display
(Burn) As you succumb to the flame
(Burn) Soak in the evil of the shame
(We burn the same)
The smoke is rising
As minutes pass
Only moments til
Reduced to ash
Drowning in the lake of fire
That surrounds
Reality’s out of reach
And upside-down
The ending that you want will never show
Broken down to pieces in the glow
Everything is severed in the end
Welcome to your favorite descent
Soak in the evil
Soak in the evil of the shame
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2. |
Pseudo
04:28
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This lie that you live
Is wearing you thin
Burning out the energy
That died within
There’s a monster inside
That is aching to fight
And it’ll kill you tonight
If it wants
Trapped inside your head
Be careful what you wish for
The seal has been broken
And the pseudo skin will dry
Unclean
And melting
Underneath the sun
Into the shape of a lie
How far will you go
Just to keep this façade
Disillusioned
And mortally flawed
You’ll fall victim to
The darkness inside
And it’ll kill you tonight
If it wants
Can’t believe everything you hear
Because the voice inside your head
Is telling you that you’re not insane
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3. |
The Great Dissolve
05:24
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When you wipe away the dirt
The stains remain beneath
Six feet under, skeletons
Continue to grind their teeth
Save me from this world I don’t understand
Force the great dissolve to cue the end
Burn the ground and watch the sky
The absence of humanity
Can not be made more clear
Find the quickest escape route
And disappear
Save me from this world I don’t understand
Force the great dissolve to cue the end
When you shut your mind you close the door
There is no saving anyone anymore
Burn the ground and watch the sky
Your gods have let you all bleed out
You live in their shadow through the drought
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4. |
Divination
05:15
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If you got a glimpse of
What lies in store for you
You would want to watch the end
Come even faster too
I don’t wanna know
An image of your future
As grim as it can be
Lesson learned and mind undone
And now you can’t un-see
I don’t wanna know
Horrified by the visions
Of what is to become
Horrified by the world around
Forever broken
Tore the eyes out of your skull
For all the things you’ve seen
Buried life far away
To never again dream
Horrified by the visions
Of what is to become
Horrified by the world around
Forever broken
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5. |
Datura
01:27
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(instrumental)
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6. |
Missing
04:49
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Welcome to the obelisk
Driven by blind wonder
Sign your name and get in line
And then take your number
No one knows what awaits
No one’s ever been inside
But the hidden evil
Will reveal itself in time
They wanna know it all
Before they bleed you dry
The wait is overflowing
Not a soul knows why
They’re disguised as saviors
Their plans aren’t clear
If you escape
Then outrun your fear
And it’s no wonder that everyone’s missing
Broken by the images
The bodies in the cage
Drained of their humanity
Upon the demon’s stage
Shifting into something new
Faceless with no name
No originality
They all look just the same
And it’s no wonder, it’s no wonder that
Everyone's missing
Nosedive out the window
And hurry to the dark
Find your shelter anywhere
And don’t become their art
This obelisk is hell
With ignorance in line
So keep your distance
And never step inside
If you get out then run
Fucking run
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7. |
Nebula Realm
04:26
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Dissect the subject
And put its brain in a jar
Solve the mystery
To find out what you are
In some cosmic way
You are the one to blame
Inside this disarray
Everything is insane
Play back the tape to pinpoint the vice and
Ascertain merit behind the silence
Entertain value of the disruption
Moralize failure of its destruction
Contemplate combating the distortion
Failure to know is your own dysfunction
This anthropomorphic fault is an eyesore
Humanized lies is a case for new war
This horror
It’s never
Forgotten
Rotting in the void
This silence
It’s virulent
Forgotten
Gradually destroyed
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8. |
Obsequy
02:21
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Lacrimosa dies illa
Qua resurget ex favilla
Judicondus homo reus
Buried and gone
Huic ergo parce
Dona eis requiem
Buried and gone
Gone away
Dwell in decay
This mode of living
It’s permanent
Buried and gone
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9. |
Memoriam
04:39
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There’s nothing to say
That can justify
Your pathetic attempt
At what you called your life
If asked to explain you
In twenty words or less
All could do it with three
And save a lot of breath
(Better off dead)
On the day you pass into dark light
Your memory dies as did your life
Without much of a story to tell
Since all you gave embodied hell
No obituary
So one would know
The attendance is worse
Than an Altered Paradox show
Closed casket service
But that’s more than you earned
Corpse meet dumpster
And let that trash fire burn
Burn
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10. |
Altered States III
03:11
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(instrumental)
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11. |
The Ruins
08:31
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This state of being is volatile
A story so insoluble
You never factored in
The gravity of fear
You’re sentenced to remain in here
The dim light hides behind
The darkest cloud in your sky
This unrelenting world won’t cave
Its only goal is to deprave
You think you’ve had it bad before
Just you wait
You’re locked behind the bolted door
That sealed your fate
Someday we all fall down
End buried in the ground
Nothing for miles to hear a sound
This house of horrors lets you drown
Digging deep into the catacombs
This ruined castle is now your home
The darkest cloud in your sky
Has consumed your dim light
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Altered Paradox Cleveland, Ohio
An abandoned waste barrel of screechy whispered commentary and yowled “what the fuck-isms.”
Heavy and trippy. It all gets weird.
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