Meager existence
(nowhere you can turn when it's all around you)
It's the things you think to yourself
when you don't really wanna talk to anyone else
that are especially scary...
While everything around you burns.
All you can remember is another betrayal, after betrayal, after betrayal
Who do you have to trust? There's no one.
Because
Everyone has a knife and your back is an open target
Bleed like me.
Of all the things I remember you claimed
I can't believe you'd say that about me
that your heart bleeds redder than mine?
I'm a complete man-- you're insane!
But in the end... No.
You like to throw around words without any heart in them
You think you're so unique; better than I could ever be
You claim I'm nothing, that nothing I do is hard
but at least I don't sleep around and over think my job.
Every time you come around, I just don't know
How to behave, what to say, to make you go.
And I didn't know what to say then but I know what to say now:
I invented monsters, you're a monster, I control you forever, anyhow!
Get in the fire.
You never saw it coming.
(In the Battlespace)
Here, I'll make it simple:
if you step forward, I'll step forward
then you'll see, where we'll be, with your blood, all over me!
I don't care what you think, THIS IS HOW IT IS:
IN THIS NEW WORLD, WHERE EVERYTHING BURNS,
EVERYTHING BURNS INCLUDING YOU AND ME.
And I will see it fall apart and revel in all the spoils
Because I am not thinking through what my role is anymore.
I'm out for blood; I'm a cut-throat, and I don't care anymore.
Because the more you throw down I will stand up and
rip out your fucking throat.
(burning)
I mean it.
Very FLA-centric though Cevin’s contributions do shine brightly as well. A worthy successor to the much more minimal Tenebrae Vision, and one of the best albums in the genre so far this year. Jean-Paul DuQuette