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500 days have passed since my frail sense of normalcy was ripped away
Like a whirlwind tearing apart my world,
shattering life as I knew it
Such a shock to the system
Now it seems that time is short
Can you feel the power’s end
What once was an ally is now the instrument of our undoing
This is the end
I’m standing here confused at a complete loss for words
Trying make sense of what I’m seeing around me while trying not to let this brooding perception of doom seep in and choke the life out of me.
It’s maddening. Don’t know who to believe, not sure which way to turn, I’m suffocating in my own anxiety.
Everywhere I turn, misinformation, lies, smiles to my face while cold steel slides in my back.
Brother versus brother as our will to survive is being tested.
When we should be banding together they find more and more ways to separate us!
This can’t be, we can’t give into this if we hope to survive.
Now it’s time to stand up for each other
Before we all fall in this struggle
We’ve been stripped of our feeling of community, traded in our brotherhood so that we can grasp at a false image of safety.
We have to wake up and see that we’re dying
We’re all dying
From the inside!
From the inside!
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(Breathe, Breathe out!)
Don’t let them pull you under.
Don’t let them pull you down...
You’ve seen me try to get away,
You know the pressure on my heart.
Most days it feels that I’d been
Better off not getting up at all.
One step is all it takes,
To see the error of my ways;
That each moment that I try
Finding balance feels like a waste.
How can one keep breathing,
Under all this weight?
How can one prepare for the waves?
Don’t let them pull you down,
(Breathe in. Breathe out)
Just keep your head from going under...
My heart’s still beating.
My body feels like sinking down,
But my heart’s still beating...
So hard to keep on swimming
When you’re surrounded by the sharks!
When everything
seems more than you can take,
Look the world in the face,
And say, “This is not the day...”
(This is not the day)
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Divided we stand alone
We base success on what they own
Prey,
Just like a writhing starving sea of rats
Forever fighting one another for scraps
This is
This is the end of days
This is
This is the end of the human race
This is
This is the end of days
This is
The end of all we used to fucking want to be
There is no light without the dark
But we deserve to shine brighter
The darkness is not supposed to extinguish
what embodies the power of fire
We have been stepped upon for far too long
And now rely on wires
Subjected to a false reality
Hoping one day to retire
We are nothing but a swarm of flies
Self-righteous spiders spinning the webs of our lives
This world of ruin
A corpse laid out to dry
A sickened burden
Confined with demons to lead our lives
World of ruin
A corpse laid out to dry
A sickened burden
We are doomed to bow down to lies
World of ruin
Your corpse laid out to dry
A sickened burden
We search for hope in blackened skies
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Thatcher
03:33
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Will Add
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Primal forces marauding against me
laboring to rip me apart
I will be undone
Elemental powers will take me
Annihilation incoming
It looms over my head
Devastation is imminent
splitting me in the smallest fragments
Mass destruction
Entropy
Laws of nature tear me apart
Elemental powers will fractalize the only world that I've known
Separate, Asunder, Disembodied
Separate, Be Undone, Obliteration
Disembodied, Obliteration
Mother Nature tearing apart
No mercy igniting a spark
Mother Nature tearing apart
No mercy ignite the spark
The inevitable ending, universal rending
Universal rending, the inevitable ending
I will be undone
Primal forces marauding against me
laboring to rip me apart
(Lyrics by Anthony Tardiino, David Pezzanite, and Chris Jenkins.)
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We fanned the flame
Until it burned out our eyes, blinded to the lies
We swam too deep
I never gave you an anchor to keep yourself from me
I’m hypnotized by feelings that no longer exist
I’m lying through my teeth and turning my back on this
I’ve been too selfish to realize the pain I’ve created
We fanned the flame
Until it burned out our hearts
Now everything I try to say
Feels apathetic from the start
I still feel you all around me
Won’t let you go it’s too inviting
One last breathe to keep from drowning
I’ll wait at the precipice for you to rejuvenate
Contextualizing that I’m never alone with my thoughts
You’ve made your home here you dwell within the darkest parts
I’m hypnotized by feelings that no longer exist
I’m lying through my teeth and turning my back on this
I’ve been too selfish to realize the pain I’ve created
I’m hypnotized by feelings that no longer exist
You’re learning to rebuild a life you never wanted
I’m still decaying on the inside desperately wishing for you to rejuvenate
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Mine
I see no colors
No black and white
There is only orange
In the tinted lens of mine
The face of greed leaves nothing but arms reach to see
A parasitic visage corrupts and now it sets me free
I see no colors
No black and white
There is only orange in this fucked up lens of mine
The face of greed leaves nothing but arm’s reach to see
A villainous visage
This orange corruption
Parasite seduction
It sets me free
I’ve got to have it now
I’ve got to feel it against my burning flesh
I’ve got to taste it
I’ve got to take it
I’ll fucking do anything to steal it for myself
FUCK
The face of greed leaves nothing but arms reach to see
A villainous visage
This orange corruption
Parasite seduction
It sets me free
I see no colors
No black and white
There is only orange
In the tinted lens of mine
The face of greed leaves nothing but arm’s reach to see
A parasitic visage corrupts and now it sets me free
It’s all mine
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We sailed across the planes of water and serpent infested seas
Primordial Voids below us beckoning us into the deep
The gods will guide on our path with Winds of Valor in our sails
All that we know, our quest for dominance
All that we know, we die or we row
Only our instruments to guide us hewn from simple grain and steel
All that we know, living in confidence
All that we know, we die or we row
Only the stars to show us the path to our ideal
All that we know, guided by Providence
All that we know, we die or we row
Only the sea will know us the legends there are real
Live by the Stars, Prophets, and Fire
Die by the earth, be one with the sea
Their Gods haven't seen the martyr inside me
Stone will give way to new age of steel
At the edge of the ocean our ship was swallowed by the deep
A portal in the water
Translucence beckons me
Here at the End
Far from the Sun
Awakening - A strange land envelops us
Wading in blood - Poison rains from the sky
Great Beast in wait - cries out in the mist
Fate calls my name - in the halls of the dead
There’s no mercy here for the Slain Condemned
Where no Gods enter and no light descends
Here at the end watching the Damned eat the dead
Here at the end Hope has expired
So far he sees, the dead wait in lines
Here at the end hope has expired
Here where he eats, At the end of our lives
Blood boils in the water where we fight and break our leash
The blackened soil whispers tales of cursed speech
9 days and nights we fought there fleeing for our lives
Until the day of safety crossing the divide
Here at the End far from the Sun
(Lyrics by Alex Conner)
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Anthony Tardino Frederick, Maryland
Hey everyone! I'm Anthony Tardino a guitar player and songwriter from Frederick, MD. I try to write songs that are both fun to listen to and fun to play. Somewhere between progressive metal, djent, and metalcore. Thanks for listening!
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