1. |
Becoming Pariah
07:30
|
|||
I am man
I walk this route
Everyday
Gray streets and billowing smoke stacks
Towards the factory
A slave to the cycle
A slave to my debts
Work this flesh
To the bone
Meaningless
Life, I know
Search for
Sustinence
I exist
Until the work is done
In the blink of an eye
Things transform before me
As I fell to the ground
Life was just beginning
Descending to an end
All hope running from me
When my flesh hit the steel
Darkness enveloped me
Bright
Flash
Never
Happened
Flashing lights all around
Swept away to decay
Pariah is found
Conventional healing ways
Not the answer
This coma
This sleep
Will change
The sands
Of time
Awakenend by the sounds
Of whispers of prototype
Unaware of what it means
My vision more acute
My senses heightened
Most of my
Human flesh
Morphed into
Bionic mesh
Dark thick skin
Dark blood
Scientists
Standing above
As the words leave their mouth
I begin to perceive
All the changes abound
Will now define whats me
Most of what I once was
Now new machinery
Despite what I've become
Purpose surges in me
I am the genesis
And I am the new age
I am becoming Pariah
And I
Am
Hope
My very first steps
Towards the future
Are complete
|
||||
2. |
||||
I am Pariah
Cast out for being different
My body filled with circuitry
My heart is the core of this machine
This world
I walk
Dismisses me
Thrown down and
Cast out and
Relegated
Abhorred
For far too long
My subsistance
A target
For their feeble derisions
The more
They talk
The fury builds
They'll know
They'll fear
This reprisal
Their actions stood for far too long
Now I will share this sickness
With the worst of you all
No pain will be felt
No knowledge of these actions
Close your eyes and dream
Of a life without machines
Now arise
Cold and alone
Feel the pain of machinery
Connected to your very bone
This moment
This movement
So very sweet
You'll awake to find
Bionics for your head and feet
No pain will be felt
No knowledge of these actions
Close your eyes and dream
Of a life without machines
|
||||
3. |
Exponential Growth
06:29
|
|||
Prepare the world
For the new age
Man will advance
Evolution
Progression
In this world
Overdue
Skin and bones
Stronger now
Bionics
The key
To our next level
Borrowed time
We will rise
On our own
The ones who stand directly
In the path we forge
Will be cast aside
Just as we were
Their fate lies in ruin
A casualty, a crime
The eyes of fate are focused
On this time
The cowards
In our path
Bystanders
Casualties
Of this war
The reign
Of the pure
Comes to an end
TODAY
Controlled world
No longer
Broken chains
We will not endure
What was wrought before
No need for the dissension
Of this archaic world
Of blood and machinery
Weíre made to carry on
Beyond the limitations
Of the pure and old
Built with a purpose
To bring about the end
(breakdown)
This is a warning, a chance, a promise
And we scream it on high
The evolution's coming
To bring about their end
(breakdown)
|
||||
4. |
||||
The first memory I have
Is the feeling of winter
The cold breath
Painful against my skin
My youth was spent
Developing a callous
To that pain
My father, a survivalist
My mother, hyperborean
And from them
I learned to love my fellow man
And from them
I learned to protect what I love
The child became a man
The man became a soldier
Sworn to protect this land, these people
From all that stood in our way
The purveyors of technology
The architects of our demise
Are creating shells to control us all
And ive seen what thoese creatures can do
They are not human
And they will be the end
Of free will
When flesh is replaced with circuitry
When you want to make humanity
When you enslave the pure
To the masters behind the screen
I am anathema
And I am the hope you seek
Join me and cleanse the earth
|
||||
5. |
Anathema
04:32
|
|||
Fire
The guns all at once
It's the sound of the victory
Purity
Is born in this flesh
And only the pure deserve life
These bionic shells
These former humans
Are a plague and must be removed
They threaten our freedom
Fire upon the masses
So, we must ascend
Gather the armies
To eliminate this threat
The enemy
The hero Pariah
Was designed to enslave
Disassemble the machines
Eradicate
Eradicate
Eradicate
Eradicate
I am Anathema
I am hope
I am
The bringer of the cleanse
I am Anathema
I am hope
I am
The bringer of the cleanse
I am Anathema
The bringer of the cleanse
|
||||
6. |
Vagary
04:22
|
|||
The silence that surrounds me
A nightmare in itself
Paralyzed by its presence
Hope lost in a single breath
Sleep beckoned me so softly
If only I knew the cost
Conceiving a reality
That could easily exist
Society will collapse on itself
Because of petty difference
No chance to stop
The oncoming storm
No way to survive
The coming end
Fire consuming
Every single last one of us
The smell of our demise
Creeping across the once
Beautiful landscapes
Where our homes once stood
As I lay here sleeping
A revelation in my dreams
Overwhelmed by endless death
As ash replaces our flesh
Overcome by these visions
Afraid I wont awake
Is this the future
That I have made
Just one more day
Until the dream is real
Dreams are forgetting
That I control my destiny
What if this is not
A dream I had
What if this is just
A premonition
In my thoughts
I must change the course
Of the coming future
Of the human race
The fear we share together
Is just a conspiracy
We made to advance
A worthless cause
Hellbent on ending us
|
||||
7. |
||||
Struck down
By my peers
For fear of the unknown
Different and unknown
Because my flesh has shown
Im not who I was
As seen by there eyes
Cast out into the shadows
As my will to live…
My attempts to
Return to
Regular life
Have been met with
Constant and endless strife
Constant and endless strife
No will left
No will left
Hiding in the shadows
No will left
Terrified
By their kind
Terrified
I’ll draw line
Around my neck
In case I have to cut it
And quickly escape
The life I leave behind
Is truly missed
Slice left to right
Eternal bliss
Depressed and alone
No breaks no resolution
They come creeping in
I am man’s evolution
The pain in my bones
Alive and pulsing true
No more fear of man
I know what I must
I must use this
Hatred and fear
I must strike back
And impart fear
I am the arbiter
I am the nightmare
No more fear
No more pain
Rising from the shadows
I am here
They’ll be
Terrified
They’ll be
Terrified
I’ll draw a line clearly
In the sand
To let the world know
This is where I stand
The life that was
Is now replaced
I am Pariah
All doubts erased
I’m reborn
I will rise
I am Pariah
I am Parian
I am the pariah
I am the pariah
They’ll be terrified
They’ll be terrified
I’ll gather myself
As if to say
This my world too
And I wont go away
Proudly standing
Stronger than before
I am the pariah
Forevermore
Forevermore
|
||||
8. |
||||
Struck down
By my peers
For fear of the unknown
Different and unknown
Because my flesh has shown
Im not who I was
As seen by there eyes
Cast out into the shadows
As my will to live
My attempts to
Return to
Basic life
Have been met with
Constant and endless strife
Constant and endless strife
No will left
No will left
Hiding in the shadows
No will left
Terrified
By their kind
Terrified
I’ll draw a line
Around my neck
In case I have to cut it
And quickly escape
The life I leave behind
Is truly missed
Slice left to right
Eternal bliss
Depressed and alone
No peace no resolution
They come creeping in
I am man’s evolution
The flesh and my bones
Alive and pulsing true
No more fear of man
I know what I must
I must use this
Hatred and fear
I must strike back
And inflict fear
I am the arbiter
I am the nightmare
No more fear
No more pain
Rising from the shadows
I am here
They’ll be
Terrified
They’ll be
Terrified
I’ll draw a line clearly
In the sand
To let the world know
This is where I stand
The life that was
Is now replaced
I am Pariah
All doubts erased
I am born
I will rise
I am Pariah
I am Pariah
I am the pariah
I am the pariah
They’ll be terrified
They’ll be terrified
I’ll gather myself
As if to say
This my world too
And I wont go away
Proudly standing
Stronger than before
I am the pariah
Forevermore
Forevermore
|
||||
9. |
||||
Ever since my return
I felt the eyes of those
Surrounding me aghast
By what is under my flesh
Fear and
No want for understanding
My eyes
No longer gateways to me
Scorn fans
The needs to choke the flame
That burns deep down below
The rotten existence
Of those who stop progression
The sad persistance
The longer I am treated
Just like a derelict
The more the want to despoil
All the want emanates in me
Eyes turn
Away from things I once loved
Marrow spurned
From other ways of thinking
I yearn
To stop this dangerous culture
Erase disease from the world
Shadows are only what I see
Climbing the walls around me
Im letting go of humanity
Faces that once searched for amity
Now distorting at the sight of me
Retribution I seek
The enchancements I received
Were given with a purpose
Life surging into me
One less in a pile of the dead
I am reborn
With renewed purpose
With malice and spite for man
Transformed
Into a common weapon
Made for
A means to mass destruction
Torn down
To the very fabric
Into what I've become
Shadows are only what I see
Climbing the walls around me
Im letting go of humanity
Faces that once searched for amity
Now distorting at the sight of me
Retribution I seek
Lines of code
Lead me home
Lines of code
Lead me home
Retribution I seek
Writhe
Writhe
Writhe
Writhe
Writhe
Writhe
|
||||
10. |
||||
Pale
Existence
Born from
My own volition
Torn
From that life
By circumstance
Now I rise
Out
From the lab
Body and mind
Synced and in tune
(Chorus)
Open wide
All their eyes
But the world has shown
That no matter what
It's not ready for
Evolution
They are done
They are gone
It is evident
By their words
Stark
Actions by
The ones I once
Called my family
Scorn
And deceit
Inflicted on
The man I've become
Changed
And contorted
The faces and the moods of
The pure and holy
(Back to chorus)
Open wide
All their eyes
But the world has shown
That no matter what
It's not ready for
Evolution
They are done
They are gone
It is evident
By their words
Pulled
Born anew
Pulled
Born anew
Pulled
Born anew
(First solo)
Call it jealousy
Call it fear of the unknown
I've become the new target
For the world to tear apart
(Second solo)
I WILL NOT COWER
IN THE SHADOWS
Born anew
Born anew
For the face you see
Is still human and
I WON'T FAULTER
On this earth
On this earth
Behind shallowness
Behind fear of the
GREAT UNKNOWN
Same as you
Same as you
A heart beats inside
And I feel all the
PAIN INFLICTED
And it grows
And it builds inside
|
||||
11. |
||||
Solemn
My flesh and mind
Have grown weary
And I've tired of this disparity
Though noble this cause may be
These battles have taken their toll
On my mind, my body, and whats left of my soul
The unremitting need for persecution
The untiring addiction to retribution
A malady driven deep into our constitution
To the point of overwhelming disillusion
Standing firm
In the beliefs that I've acquired
From watching mankind toil and conspire
Drawing lines in the sand at our feet
Starting an end we've yet to complete
A stunning vision, cataclysm
A war we bring upon ourselves
The wrong decision, annihilation
Instead of heaven, we brought hell
Our differences are the cause
Because we've refused other thoughts
We're marching on
Into what we thought was the sun
But the end of man has begun
One by one by megaton
We're marching on
Into flames brought on by the bombs
Slowly we black out the sun
One by one by megaton
One last decision, determination
Utopia or endless fire
Arbitration, adjucation
Join as one or burn in hell
We stand on the final precipice
Concordant or sentenced to death
We're marching on
Integrated or drawing our guns
Unified through one solution
One by one become the sun
We're marching on
Cheating death together as one
The next stage of life has begun
One by one become the sun
The final question, a destination
Survive or buried in the ground
Determination, self-preservation
Surviving past the final count
Either a new age has begun
Or we all cease to exist as one
|
Streaming and Download help
If you like Kronos Resistor, you may also like:
Bandcamp Daily your guide to the world of Bandcamp