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Genesis
01:55
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Crusade
02:38
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The time is nigh
Light is shining upon their way
Until they die
My empire’s in disarray
Soul searching
Underestimating their turns
Eventually
Seamless cutting into my nerves
Little men
Marching to the beat of my drum
Innocence
I am still the filth I’ve become
Formed from the hero
Shaped like paladin
Where his world is gone
Its hers left to begin
All of the color
Drained from their face
Everything is getting darker
Drifting into space
Oblique by nature
They cannot come around
When their path has ended
A new head takes the crown
Distant are the battles
At home is the war
She believes in reunion
He knows there must be more
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Isolation
04:54
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Arrogance took us back
Burn the gates, wither fast
I yearn to connect and to bridge the gap
Between my thoughts and I and the dread I can't detect
I am withering in isolation
I must remain silent to protect my nation
I pray that they may find a way to compromise
Be in each other's lives while I still search for mine
Try to pass the days but these years just don't seem right
I am losing time
In isolation
Innocence, drained of that
Fall into the myriad
The hours growing long as I'm dreaming on
This empire is stark, the highest echelon
You are vanishing in isolation
And then what's left of you rots into vexation
I pray that they return and rectify defeat
My son does not know fear, my daughter's spirit leads
They are the best of us, yet I'm finding parts of me
I cannot define
In isolation
Arrogance took us back
Burn the gates, wither fast
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The King of the Gallows
03:31
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The King is alive!
Let him reign!
The righteous rule
On your terrain!
Menace versus victim
The hour of apprehension
The new wave
Who waits for no one
To create their own outcome
Now nothing can disrupt their nation's
Final consummation
The King is alive!
Let him reign!
The righteous rule
On your terrain!
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The Cryptic Chamber
04:23
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The cryptic chamber opens up my vault of secrets just beyond the open door
The walls inside this temple aren’t ever crashing down, they’re guarded evermore
In the crevasse, up above there’s the sunlight dim
I can peek it, but under no circumstance is it coming in
I’m locked inside the cryptic chamber’s cell
My knees are spiked and I’m boiling alive
The key that breaks the code to all the horrors of the fortress lies within the night
In the forest, under watch of beast you must survive
For all the heroes of the darkest dungeon are vilified
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Metempsychosis
01:58
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Acrimony
06:44
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These acrimonious feelings
Are not the product of my being
I wanted to keep you around
And ask for mutual bliss
I am a hollow man
Tasked with the bitterness
Of this fairy tale we're in
That doesn't ever seem to end
Goodbye, let it die
Counteract, you know why
Stay attached 'til I'm back
Where I go, follow
My problems left with you
The secret's overdue
It seems to you I delayed
How I put aside the feud
This acrimony lingers on
While you return
To your joyous atmosphere
But I'm losing hope I fear
Goodbye, let it die
Counteract, you know why
Stay attached 'til I'm back
Where I go, follow
Let's lay low
You can't stay alone
Until you've had it all
Where was my friendly ghost
When I needed him the most?
I cracked out of my hardest shell
Just to land in a cryptic cell
I need a reason to
Wake up and things to do
So I can fall right back down in my bed
And think of you
Goodbye, let it die
Counteract, you know why
Stay attached 'til I'm back
Where I go, follow
Let's lay low
You can't stay alone
Until you've had it all
I need your guidance on this trail
To reignite you never fails
This weight you set, I can't avail
So let's close the map
And trust the mast to sail
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8. |
The Last Ashram
05:42
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Follow me to the last ashram
Where we go, they’ll tear us down from skin to bone
Hand in hand, we’ll come across a better land
Follow me
to the last ashram
What do you tremble for?
I’ll clean you of what you are to open the newest door
Why do you look to me?
Is it for security from fleeing the wars that be?
Now say what you want to see, I’ll break your reality
The power is in the wind to fix how you comprehend
To save and not to spend, to learn and soak it in
The monastery welcomes your deepest sin
Follow me to the last ashram
Where we go they’ll tear us down from skin to bone
Hand in hand we’ll come across a better land
Follow me
to the last ashram
Locked in my body
But take my spirit away
And I won’t be afraid of the choices I’ve made as I decay
Follow me to the last ashram
So demise is at your doorstep yet again
Been betrayed by antediluvian belief
Follow me to our last retreat
Who is a god to you? The men on the hill above?
The crimes they’re guilty of?
Innocence lost in time
A life of oppression is not the only crime
Now give yourself to me, succumb to everything
For freedom isn’t free and you want mercy
I’ll take your life and name and purge you of your shame
The last ashram will break your chains
Follow me to the last ashram
Where we go they’ll tear us down from skin to bone
Hand in hand we’ll come across a better land
Follow me
to the last ashram
Locked in my body
But take my spirit away
And I won’t be afraid of the choices I’ve made as I decay
The last ashram
I give myself and all my riches to the last ashram!
Bring me peace at last!
This pilgrimage
Knows what my redemption is
And where I sit!
Close to the throne!
A filthy soul!
The last ashram!
I’m not alone!
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The Battle of the Brutes
04:19
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The riders of the dawn prepare their arrows
Soldiers looking over every shoulder
The freezing mist inside the air is resting
A cue, the rising sun commands them forward
The battle of the brutes is underway!
Fire fills the sky, the towers crashing down, down down
Bodies fall beside you, empty souls around
The tempest circulating, dark wind and rain
Evil mechanisms operating
Take the toll!
And never let go the life that you know
Hone in!
On all of the might your enemy knows
And as the challengers draw their swords and approach the gallows’ king
A wave of righteousness bestowed upon their loyalty
Freed by his men and now with blade in hand he rides
Another night of evil’s sovereignty will not go by
The crimson lightning in the clouds is cracking
A temporary flash expose the wounded
Attending to her dying brother drains her
While the king is face to face with his dictator
Take the blow!
And drop to your knees, and suffer defeat
Twist the blade!
The king of peace returns to lead
And every piece of armor brittle is coming apart by force
The castle overrun by henchmen beasts and sorcerers
A final blast destroys the legions of the troops of death
The king of the gallows cries and draws his final breath
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The greatest stage ever built
Put on a show for you
And all I’m thinking to myself is
What time alone can do
The greatest lie ever told
Was nothing’d ever change
A wiser man once told me
There is nothing in the way
Smiles bloom across the world
It’s starting to make sense
A remedy for the state I’m in
I’m slowly fading out
As we move on to the golden age
To keep around
The greatest fear ever felt
Eats away at your heart
All the torment that we face
Is the product of who we are
But the greatest stage ever built
Puts us on display
When everyone is watching
It’s a trial every day
Smiles bloom across the world
It’s starting to make sense
A remedy for the state I’m in
I’m holding onto faith
But when we find the stage
We go around
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11. |
Exodus
05:15
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She’s so alone
And waits for anything that he could think about
He’s going home
Later he can rest and tune his feelings out
The land is free
Exodus
The final hour of their story
I cannot do this anymore he says
As she is laying faintly on his head
We are a product of the war and death
That will continue to destroy what’s left
And any remnants of the love I kept
For you will be my memories of everything that I have ever known
For you I
Bled my body dry
And I’d do it again
Wayward, plotted course
It doesn’t matter
I will find you in the end
He is drifting
And one last breath is sent into the air
She is weeping
The burden isn’t hers to bear
Hands locked, he lets her
Share one last moment together
Final bids farewell
She bursts into the ether
For you I
Let my fears die
And I’d do it again
Wayward, plotted course
It doesn’t matter
I will find you in the end
It’s easier to move
When there's no one watching you
As the wall is broken down
And our rebirth is profound
I can let you leave me now
For we will reconvene somehow
For the two of us
To end harmonious
There’s a beauty in your fall
I will reach out to you
And I count on you
To take my call
For you I
Let my fears die
And I’d do it again
Wayward, plotted course
It doesn’t matter
I will find you in the end
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Bad Dad Jokes Denton, Texas
DENTON TX BASED PSYCHEDELIA
Bad Dad Jokes is
CARTER LACY
KEGAN CASTILLO
MIETTE ESTEB
ROGER JOHNSON
SAM FARR
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