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Dawning of an Era
01:29
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2. |
The Ages Shudder
05:45
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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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3. |
The Histories
04:00
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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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4. |
Schizophrenic Nightmare
04:56
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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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5. |
Crawling into Armageddon
04:58
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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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6. |
Envoy Recidivist
05:30
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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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7. |
These Terrible Depths
05:29
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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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8. |
Universal Pessimism
03:45
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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
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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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