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No More Peace Forever
04:41
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Just another body
Nothing new to see
One more life now broken
In the street
No more peace forever
Just more blood to stain the earth
And flow down to the sea
Just another nameless face
Another you or me
No more peace
No more peace
No more peace
Forever
Growing like a wave of red
Ripples ever spreading
Inner city, foreign land
Bodies never ending
No more peace forever
One more falls to knife or gun
One more roadside bomb
One more fight, one more war
More bodies to embalm
No more peace
No more peace
No more peace
Forever
Earth grows red in one more place
A ruby patchwork quilt
We do not see the pattern
In the stitches of our kills
Meaningless within the hour
Calloused hearts move on
Screaming falls on deafened ears
Attention now withdrawn
No more peace forever
Earth grows red in one more place
A ruby patchwork quilt
We do not see the pattern
In the stitches of our kills
No more peace
No more peace
No more peace
Forever
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2. |
Hell on Earth
04:07
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Hell on earth is here today
Swirling sand and dying trees
And there is no other way
People living on their knees
Atrocity too harsh to bear
Barefoot children in the road
Meeting the accusing stare
Looking up from heavy load
Hell on Earth in the sand
Hell on Earth, forsaken land
Glaring sun beating down
Burning sand beneath your feet
Bleeding dry the little town
Withering in hellish heat
Hell on Earth in the sand
Hell on Earth, forsaken land
Hell on Earth in the sand
Hell on Earth, forsaken land
Look away from suffering
Pretend it’s just a dream
Return to your climate control
Ignore the cries and screams
Allow the gap twixt rich and poor
To blossom, fatten and to grow
And soon this hell outside your door
Will live within forever more
Desert flowers wilt and fall
Hand to mouth and then to grave
And the lie above it all
Sky of blue, no one saved
Hell on Earth in the sand
Hell on Earth, forsaken land
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3. |
The Fool
04:19
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Let me fall into the sky
Take a chance and tumble high
Lift my feet from this dark road
Toss aside the heavy load
Just this once
To be free
I will play the Fool for me
Break the glass that holds me in
Shatter endings to begin
Kiss my fear and set it free
Watch it fly away from me
Just this once
To be free
I will play the Fool for me
Smash the pattern, burn the maze
No more shadow on my days
Break the chain and sever ties
Free me from these wicked lies
Just this once
To be free
I will play the Fool for me
Just this once
To be strong
I will find where I belong
Just this once
Just tonight
I will change the dark to light
I will play the Fool for me
I will play the Fool for me
All the time I had the key
Hidden deep inside of me
And at last I take the chance
Take a breath and join the dance
I will play the Fool for me
I will play the Fool for me
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4. |
The Magus
03:37
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When was it you turned away?
Shut yourself in tower high
Up above the troubled fray
Let our turmoil pass you by
Corrupted by indifference
Complacent behind tower walls
Avoiding this experience
As our world begins to fall
Impassive
Uncaring guardian
Reclusive
So blind
Where is the Magus
Where the charm
Where the power to hold back harm
Where is the Magus
What incantation
Can save us from annihilation
Once the beacon in the night
You stopped our fall from grace
Your words carried with great might
Yet now you hide your face
Impassive
Uncaring guardian
Reclusive
So blind
Where is the Magus
Where the charm
Where the power to hold back harm
Where is the Magus
What incantation
Can save us from annihilation
No power, no shield, No refuge from hell
No wand, no weapon, No breaking the spell
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5. |
Shackles
04:52
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It's a bad night for dreams
Everything is as it seems
Reflection of my haunted eyes
Window to all I despise
Lip service to ideals
Locked inside this broken wheel
Draw it in to heal the pain
Forget it in the falling rain
We all feed the machine
Buying up a twisted dream
Wallow in these shallow toys
Signal turning into noise
Where has all our outrage been
Bread and Circus lured us in
We all feed the machine
Buying up a twisted dream
It's our own chains that bind us
Our own bars that break us
Rhinestone shackles on our wrists
Decorate these bloody fists
We all feed the machine
Buying up a twisted dream
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6. |
Poison Rain
05:34
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This is not the promised land
This is not the dream we had
Intolerance now glowing bright
Where hope once shed the only light
This is not the promised land
This is not the dream we had
This is not the promised land
This is not the dream
Poison rain
Bonds of love so brittle now
Parents children disavow
Hatred blooming where love grew
Scripture drowning out what’s true
This is not the promised land
This is not the dream we had
This is not the promised land
This is not the dream
Poison rain
Ethics masked by mumbled verse
Twisting blessing into curse
Preaching love but teaching hate
Bigotry all we create
Poison rain
Children lie awake and weep
Try to bury nature deep
We ignore their tragic cries
To focus on a book of lies
Poison rain
Rain
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7. |
The Priestess
04:14
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Play the Priestess
Cut the veil
Play the Priestess
Change the tale
Lying tongues fill the night
Obscuring truth, wrong and right
Change the channel
Turn the knob
Nothing different
Turn it off
Play the Priestess
Cut the veil
Play the Priestess
Change the tale
Play the Priestess
Think, perceive
Play the Priestess
Do not believe
Like the spread of a disease
If you’re paying they will please
Try another
Try a new source
Nothing different
Nothing of course
Spill the truth into the light
See them spoiling for a fight
Raise the banner
Draw the knife
Kill the tv
Save your life
Play the Priestess
Cut the veil
Play the Priestess
Change the tale
Play the Priestess
Think, perceive
Play the Priestess
Do not believe
They can whisper
They can scream
If you turn away
They can’t do anything
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8. |
What You Wanted
05:48
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And will it consume you
The hunter of your death
Draw us into darkness
With your dying breath
Power in the night
Reaching for the Stone
Obscuring what is right
Leaving all you’ve known
This is what you wanted
To walk the endless night
This is what you wanted
A world away from light
This is what you wanted
An ever empty grave
This is what you wanted
Darkness shackled slave
Before the final bell
The falling of the light
You lead us all to hell
In pursuit of night
This is what you wanted
To walk the endless night
This is what you wanted
A world away from light
This is what you wanted
An ever empty grave
This is what you wanted
Darkness shackled slave
This is what you wanted
To walk the endless night
This is what you wanted
A world away from light
This is what you wanted
This is what you need
This is what you wanted
That you seek shall devour
Mind, soul and beating heart
Bring us to the final hour
Tear all that you love apart
This is what you wanted
To walk the endless night
This is what you wanted
A world away from light
This is what you wanted
An ever empty grave
This is what you wanted
Darkness shackled slave
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9. |
The Iron Cross
04:25
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Where are the ones of stone and fire
Blood running hot with red desire
Where are the ones of earth and sea
Strong as tempests, always free
We hang upon the iron cross
We burn, we thirst for what we lost
How our forebears must be grieved
To see the yoke upon our soul
How our children are deceived
Believe that weakness is their role
We hang upon the iron cross
We burn, we thirst for what we lost
We hang on the iron cross
We hang on the iron cross
We bow our heads and wear our chains
Complicit in our own demise
What part of past pride now remains
Glittering in conquered eyes
We hang upon the iron cross
We burn, we thirst for what we lost
Oh, oh the iron cross
The iron cross
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10. |
Pestilence
05:05
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Drink of hatred till we drown
Gorging till we all fall down
Soil splinters where we stand
Lines dividing all expand
Fanatic seeds now take root
Seek to make all reason mute
Locusts feeding on the weak
Lies in every word they speak
Drive the sheep to violence
Bigots frothing ignorance
Fragile olive branches broken
By the words of hatred spoken
We shall reap what we now sow
Venom in the vines we grow
Writhe around us in the dark
Fiery death borne of this spark
This pestilence
Our suicide
Intolerance
Our cyanide
This arrogance
Our fatal pride
This negligence
Our downward slide
Our downward slide
Our downward slide
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Cassandra Syndrome Frederick, Maryland
Cassandra Syndrome is a Maryland-based Symphonic/Gothic Metal band brimming with explosive riffs, operatic punch and infectious energy. This female-fronted powerhouse combines elements that are simultaneously dark and beautiful. Forcefully heavy riffs and a healthy dose of groove combine with soaring soprano vocals to create what Metal Bite calls “[P]ure metal magic." ... more
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