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These Terrible Depths

by Split The Abyss

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Bloodshed in Sarajevo The summer of 1914 Ignite the fuse in the Balkans By an amateur assassin Two bullets fired/ an heir expires On St. Vitus Day The pull of alliances A conflict comes to stay They would call it “the great war” A grin placed on Ares’s face As declarations are made Millions march into place The lights are going out This never seen catastrophe to be So the August guns thunder… To make the ages shudder… “Its nothing” the archduke said Before he pasted away Lot cast, could Europe turn back? After that fateful day Agenda in Vienna To finally crush the Serbs With a blank check from the Kiser Hapsburg ambition will not be curbed Enter the Russian colossus Committed to Slavic interests Provoking the German war machine Into a conflict they are intent to see The west is watching and waiting Preparing for the war to pass While national pride is in all their minds There are those filled with dread They would call it “the great war” A grin placed on Ares’s face As declarations are made Millions march into place The lights are going out This never seen catastrophe to be So the August guns thunder… To make the ages shudder… Solo: Max Of glory and destiny Mobilization has begun Diplomats struggle in vain Time table/ unable to restrain Guest Solo: Joshua Murphy July 28th/ The war is finally here The Austro-Hungarians declare Armies race to the fronts On the railways they are brought By August 4th all doubts are gone Europe is now in arms “You’ll be home by the fall” they say As a world order is undone. They would call it “the great war” A grin placed on Ares’s face As declarations are made Millions march into place The lights are going out This never seen catastrophe to be So the August guns would thunder… To make the ages shudder…
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Spared the ravages of time An author from Halicarnassus Abundant personalities The lore surrounding events The fall of Croesus /The rise of Cyrus The kidnapping of Europa The Lacedaemonian defiance The tale of east and west Chronicled events Drawn from myths and facts Vengeance and conquest Empires and their kings A multitude of deities The offerings they received Question or believe The fabled histories The prose of the oral tradition Autopsy of the past Fires that still may be burning Accounts that still might last Marathon and Thermopylae Crossing the Aegean Sea Executions and rebellions The insanity of Cambyses Echoes in the centuries Among the ruins of kingdoms A bygone time and place Of brutality and grace Bloodlines and blood feuds Fatal omens proclaimed Desecrated epithets remain The burial of kings Solo: Max Solo: Carter Hicks The cultures and kingdoms An ancient world and its legends The wars of a land's destiny People spared or sacrificed Beginnings of an era By spear, sword and shield Empires rising and falling In lands that can bear their being
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Broken world as whispers start to chant my kid's name An evil presence with no body or shape Stranger things starting to form on the wall mesmerizing staring at me Attention from an evil source A mad hatter tea time of disparity While I watch as I tremble in my sleep A notion a hint something breaking at the seams Just so I can tell myself this isn't reality Is this reality or just another dream Why has my mind turned into my greatest enemy! I've tried to open my mind for the millionth ~ Just to open and see A schizophrenic nightmare! Noises following coming from an empty closet Imagination creating conjunction of horrific entities No one listens, or answers to my pleading call Just a burden dashed to the side like them all Falling in a while with no salvation to call A chilling feeling no chance to be awoke A diagnosis no longer viewed as man Just pill to take by everyone's demand Scratching noises coming from the closet The feeling in the room starts to be more unsteady Lost all sense in reason anxious thoughts- turning into visions But all I can think to do is scream! Is this reality or just another dream Why has my mind turned into my greatest enemy! I've tried to open my mind for the millionth ~ Just to open and see A schizophrenic nightmare!
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Deployed operative/ one man invasion Classified combative serpent Mission objective/ final directive A solemn rite of passage Cold war going white hot Super weapons at risk of running amok Calculate every move and breath Stay one step ahead of death High stakes stealth action Fatal confrontation A personal ordeal To the world concealed The pain lingers/ the fear strikes/ the end looms/ the fury burns/ the sorrow rises/ the joy dies New wars wait for me when this mission ends Unless I find myself crawling into Armageddon 1964/ Nuclear war Nations ready for their suicide Beat the time/ pass through the lines Thinking tactical espionage Through the jungle terrain Evade or kill the enemy How many lives claimed Dodging bullets/ clandestine weaponry High stakes stealth action Fatal confrontation A personal ordeal To the world concealed The pain lingers/ the fear strikes/ the end looms/ the fury burns/ the sorrow rises/ the joy dies New wars wait for me when this mission ends Unless I find myself crawling into Armageddon Trigger pulled/ mission complete All wrapped in the fog of war Bloodless wound/ act consumed Giving ghosts echoes in the grave Blood and tears mixed with rain and mud Rage from war burn the face of the earth One man's battle/ symbolic matricide Foreign policy sacrifice Unseen wounds remain Victim of an upturned plan Hollow victory Disillusioned man
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Yanked across the galaxy Back from the dead 186 light years Into another human’s head Back to the cradle of humanity A 25th century society Trashing out of incubation Downloaded through the needlecast Now taken off the stack Playing the role of investigator With powerful people in a contract Renegade, solider, criminal, envoy Recidivist A real death, so employed, soldier to envoy Recidivist Body augmentations/ Chemical enhancements Resleeved at their discretion Trained to deal with the circumstance Know the altered carbon With ghosts and maniacs Navigate the rain, mud and rust A Methuselah vaporized A conspiracy of murder and suicide Under the setting of an ancient sun Among the watchful eyes of an A.I. A strange case of homicide Where the victim is still alive Charging personal vendettas Breeding a string of crimes At the fringe of an off world law Playing for time Far from the warzones of the future Non the less there still is danger Enemies are ever morphing So risk the body of a stranger The organic damage relevant If your fatality is not. As humanity heads to the future Old tendencies still remain An old narrative of corruption And monsters in their domain Technology advances Redefining life as never before Keep your head clear of your issues On a data file they’ll be stored
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I see myself as rational Above the fears of average men But here I have delusions That I cannot comprehend Faces that I should not see Voices that I should not hear In darkness I am trapped On this crippled ship Amongst a grand ruin Horrific and magnificent There is no escape I face the inevitable And set my mind at rest I meet my fate In these terrible depths Against this lost terror I don't fear death I fear the loss of my sanity An iron will may yet break Against this abnormality The voices of the unknown The faces of the dead From that temple of dread A demonic laughter Sounding in my head I face the inevitable And set my mind at rest I meet my fate In these terrible depths Solo: Max Solo: Tony Barhoum The time drags on to nothing Even here I can't assume Take heed of this account That some record may survive I send myself to death In a world beyond mankind I face the inevitable And set my mind at rest I meet my fate In these terrible depths Solo: Tony Barhoum
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Year of the partisan Over the edge we go again Social time bombs ticking A miasma of conflict rising Someone has a bloodlust Someone has to foot the bill All the choirs screaming Fires spreading around Capitol Hill The universal pessimism/ Hangs in the air Mutating the contempt and spreading the despair The universal pessimism/ Hangs in the air Putting the world on a golden path to nowhere Feeding a lizard brain with contempt Making discord all the faster Fanatics at the reigns Incompetence is the standard Atrophy in governance There is a hung jury on the cause Overhaul of domestic disasters Piles of bi-partisan failures Soaked in so much venom The rancor of the ideologues The better angels have expired From so many shots fired Extinction seems like a better option Compounded problems increase Trends in mediocrity An envy of the deceased
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River Marne 10:04
The opening salvos and maneuvers To the hour of the greatest drama While the fate of a century is hanging In the weeks and heat of summer Seven German armies/ Facing to the west They'll make a path through neutral Belgium On the way to capture Paris Crushing the fortresses of Liege They'll shatter all resistance A river of grey uniforms advance May they rendezvous with destiny In the heat and dust South of the River Marne Starting four years of calamity Seeking the critical victory South of the River Marne The emboldened French republic In the cult of the offence They rally their splendid army With wary support from the British Attacking in hopeless valor Before the muzzle of machine guns No sense of honor can endure The loss of life immense Contact across the front An era of history blown to shreds May they rendezvous with destiny In the heat and dust South of the River Marne Starting four years of calamity Seeking the critical victory South of the River Marne Engaged in Alsace Lorraine/ Offence in the Ardennes On a biblical scale/ Sweeping movements of men. Attacking in a fog/ To charge with the bayonet Outmatched and repulsed/ 75,000 left dead The charging troops left on their own Ripping fury/ death abound The cries of the wounded This war's cataclysmic sound Fighting in the Mons/British Expeditionary Forced back to Le Cateau/Overrun by the enemy The casualties have be terrible/ Doctrine to evolve Confusion in the high commands/ Invaders resolved The whole allied line retreating/ So it may fight again May they rendezvous with destiny In the heat and dust South of the River Marne Starting four years of calamity Seeking the critical victory South of the River Marne Furious momentum/ A deadly pace is set The massive retreat eastward/ Heading back to Paris Army pursues army/ Rearguard action on the drive The Germans seek an envelopment/ To make their final strike in time Difficult terrain stretching supply lines/ Disrupted commands Von Molke/ German Commander/Alters his plans Two corps sent to East Prussia/ A weakened right flank While on their own ground/ There is reforming allied strength Solo: Max Solo: Colton Deem Kluck's flank turned/ Critical point/ Hour of decision here A gap between two German armies appears Troops carried forward by taxis Saint Gond and Ourqe/ Furious combat at several points Though both sides are ragged This is the final moment to exploit September 10th arrives/ No longer can the Germans advance Paris is spared as they retreat beyond the Aisne A tainted miracle granted/ For here the war had not ended. Somewhere destiny fell slain In the smoke and fire South of the River Marne Starting 4 years of calamity Missing the decisive victory South of the River Marne

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released January 23, 2021

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