1. |
(Agony)
02:50
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[Chorus]
Agony
Like an ocean of trees
And I wish I could sink
Agony
Like salt water
Filling my lungs
[Verse 1]
PAIN
PAIN
WITHOUT END
(And I crave repose)
PAIN
PAIN
WITHOUT END
(But I have no home)
[Chorus]
Agony
Like an ocean of trees
And I wish I could sink
Agony
Like salt water
Filling my lungs
And I wish I could drown
[Verse 2]
No solace
No peace
Ataraxy
escapes me
And I scream
until my ragged
lungs collapse
And I scream
For relief
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2. |
Nature's Nightmare
03:17
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Diogenes' lantern
Shall illuminate no one
Hysterical primate species
Tribalistic to the point of frenzy
Oblivion
Holds us like a mother
Whispering promises of a
return to nothing
CONSCIOUSNESS, NATURE'S NIGHTMARE
THE SELF, NOTHING BUT CHEMICALS
DIRECTIONLESS, ACTING ON INSTINCT
HELPLESS HUMAN ANIMAL
Fratricidal
Blind to the cosmos
This planet will be our grave
Thank god we're not here to stay
Oblivion
Will drown us like a mother
(...)
NATURE'S NIGHTMARE
THE SELF, NOTHING BUT CHEMICALS
DIRECTIONLESS, ACTING ON INSTINCT
HELPLESS HUMAN ANIMAL
NATURE'S NIGHTMARE
NOTHING BUT CHEMICALS
DIRECTIONLESS, ACTING ON INSTINCT
HELPLESS HUMAN ANIMAL
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3. |
Aino
03:53
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Matron, cast out by her tribe
I feel the pain you've felt
Your enemies are mine
RETRIBUTION!
COME TO ME
AND I WILL
LIFT YOU UP
WE WILL ENSURE
THEY WILL
SUFFER
AS WE HAVE SUFFERED
I know
they've turned
the fruit of your womb
against you
I've felt every lash
Wiped off every spit
Your hate roils black
as the eyes of my mire
Sink to me
I will give you what you seek
I WILL EAT YOU WHOLE
REGURGITATE YOUR TRUE FORM
YOUR FLESH, REARRANGED
A BEING OF PURE REVENGE
Your ribs
snap into teeth
Your open torso
now a maw
Always gnawing,
a gateway to their graves
CRAWL BACK TO YOUR KIN
FEAST, YET REMAIN UNFULFILLED
BATHE IN THE BLOOD OF YOUR FLESH
BASK IN YOUR KINDRED'S DEATH
DEATH
DEATH
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4. |
RITVAL SACRIFICE
02:18
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[Verse 1]
Fear not,
O unbeliever
This is the will
of a loving God
Stop kicking
Stop screaming
The path to Paradise
is built on pagan corpses
[Chorus]
Every filthy heathen life
Sanctified as sacrifice
Though they still lack faith
Death will cleanse their heresy
Every filthy heathen life
Sanctified as sacrifice
Though they still lack faith
Death will cleanse their heresy
[Verse 2]
Through daggers
Through fire
You'll embrace
our Savior
God's Glory
unimpugned
Flames lick at your
open wounds
[Chorus]
Every filthy heathen life
Sanctified as sacrifice
Though they still lack faith
Death will cleanse their heresy
Every filthy heathen life
Sanctified as sacrifice
Though they still lack faith
Death will cleanse their heresy
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5. |
Hell
02:30
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[Verse 1]
This life is
A slow inferno
Of perpetual perception
Soaked in ennui
This proverbial Valley of Hinnom
Doused in eternal fire
Of sights, of sounds
You're forced to walk through
No hope for peace
Even dreams you have to see
Just to wake up to be
plagued by humanity
All living things
Always making noise
What an argument
For an Earth laid barren
[Chorus]
THIS IS HELL
WITH NO ONE TO REIGN
WHERE SUFFERING
IS THE ONLY CERTAINTY
THIS IS HELL
WITH NO ONE TO REIGN
WHERE SUFFERING
IS THE ONLY CERTAINTY
[Verse 2]
Knees buckling
Organs crushed, you vomit blood
Under the measureless weight of
ceaseless chronic consciousness
Constant fucking bombardment
Stimuli over and over
You will never be free
This planet is a pit of torment
Manic faces crowd around
Your breathing corpse they've bound
Frantically kicking and stabbing
Not letting you suffer in peace
[Chorus]
THIS IS HELL
WITH NO ONE TO REIGN
WHERE SUFFERING
IS THE ONLY CERTAINTY
THIS IS HELL
WITH NO ONE TO REIGN
WHERE SUFFERING
IS THE ONLY CERTAINTY
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6. |
Renki
03:22
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I walked the fields
of Death himself
Death tilled
I watched and wept
Thus he spake to me:
"Son of man,
lend me thy hand"
"I shall grant thee a patch of my field
and wood
for thy coffin"
"Truly", I thought,
"Death cares for his own"
Since then have I
worked his fields
On harvest each
many has he reaped
Now I'm all alone
My heart's grown cold
O Death,
when can I rest?
Silent as the grave
he remains
I watch him till
and I weep
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7. |
Infertile Minds
03:52
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[Chorus]
MARTO MIELI, MARTO MAA
TURHA LAJI, KALMANHARMAA
VÄÄJÄÄMÄTÖN TULEVAISUUS
ON IHMISSUVUN MARRAS-KUU
All that grows here anymore
Calluses, suffering, constant war
Salt the soil of humankind
Nothing will be left behind
[Verse 1]
For long we've struggled
Under the yoke of human
coexistence
Nothing gained, everything lost when
we realized there's strength
in numbers
If there's one thing you can trust
it's our talent to fuck things up
Civilization to keep us safe
Brand new agonies, a mass grave
How we revel, so grandiose
born together to die alone
Herd mentality in our genes
will spell our end, watch and see
Watch and see
[Chorus]
MARTO MIELI, MARTO MAA
TURHA LAJI, KALMANHARMAA
VÄÄJÄÄMÄTÖN TULEVAISUUS
ON IHMISSUVUN MARRAS-KUU
All that grows here anymore
Calluses, suffering, constant war
Salt the soil of humankind
Nothing will be left behind
[Verse 2]
All we have on our barren minds
Pointless politics, modern tribes
Trying to save our wretched kind
We're just polishing coprolite
A swift end would be a mercy
Slow death-throes of humanity
All despair, gone in a blink:
No coming back from going extinct
[Chorus]
MARTO MIELI, MARTO MAA
TURHA LAJI, KALMANHARMAA
VÄÄJÄÄMÄTÖN TULEVAISUUS
ON IHMISSUVUN MARRAS-KUU
All that grows here anymore
Calluses, suffering, constant war
Salt the soil of humankind
Nothing will be left behind
MARTO MIELI, MARTO MAA
TURHA LAJI, KALMANHARMAA
VÄÄJÄÄMÄTÖN TULEVAISUUS
ON IHMISSUVUN MARRAS-KUU
MARTO MIELI, MARTO MAA
TURHA LAJI, KALMANHARMAA
VÄÄJÄÄMÄTÖN TULEVAISUUS
ON IHMISSUVUN MARRAS-KUU
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8. |
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What a hell
We were left with
Trees withered
Minds as barren as the earth
Unable to die
Crawling over each other
With no light
Starving for decades
forced to survive
Roots begin to move
Underfoot they crawl like we do
I close my eyes and I pray we're doomed
I pray we are doomed
The trees come alive
Roots wrap around
My wretched kind
I run and hide
Unable to die
Absorbing my kin
They keep them alive
Unable to die
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10. |
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[Verse 1]
Now I lay me down to sleep
O Fathers, I pray to thee
Last ones whom death has blessed
Let me join you in thy rest
Like bread, I crave release
Please let me be at peace
Take away my infirmity
let me starve and pass away
[Verse 2]
Last ones whom death has blessed
Let me join you in thy rest
Lift me off my tired feet
Lay me down and let me sleep
O Fathers, I pray to thee
Take this plague away from me
Give me shelter in thy home
I beg thee, don't leave me here on my own
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11. |
IV. At Rest, At Last
05:07
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I
descend
the mountainside
Into the woods
Now evergreen
A graveyard
As far as the eye can see
I hear my kin
how they breathe
More bone than flesh
Yet they seem at peace
I find a tree
Like I, withered still
Laying at its roots
I start to sink
As I lay
Here at our end
I see nothing
But the roots around my head
They writhe
under my skin
They writhe
wrapped around my spine
No sense of self
No sense of time
Only pain
Unable to die
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