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Buried Under
06:16
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Through the darkness of our minds, we awoke the eternal sphere
The celestial and the bestial made their way through our suffering hearts
Stay, race, fail
Caught in a world of forgiveness, but no words will ever heal
You dwell and you drown in your sorrows, to be the one with the seventh seal
Still I treasure beyond measure, on my way to a better realm
Buried under, gates of wonder, feel the spirit as I roll the dice
Tell me where’s the sign, that I’ve been dying to find
And as you break the news, it is my time to choose
As we live our lives in order, we won’t find ourselves again
It ain’t me, I was never down, to break the sounds of pain
Sky lies bleeding in our desperate minds, to the end of time, we’re lost
Reaching the crossroads of insight, paving my way through the darkest of nights
Settling inside but the outside still haunts me, the burden is heavy but I won’t rely
The hatred is constant, this hidden disease, a trench full of demons, are kept here with me
I swear won’t be there to waste your time…
It ain’t me, I was never down, to break the sounds of pain
Sky lies bleeding in our desperate minds, to the end of time, we’re lost
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Havoc
06:47
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Pulling my strings to reach the ultimate havoc, moving round in circles sticking it through
I will face the sudden rage, and move things aside
The feeble and hated will change and turn sublime
The last creation I have seen, has made it through hell and back
Never turned my back to reach tranquility, I still see that the river runs deep
You’re nothing but a wasted demon, crawling back to see the remains,
Of the work that you have realized, no one will ever see your face
It awaits in the darkest of eyes, turn off the light again
Pulling back my plans to feel the ultimate letdown, kneeling to a god with no wish to forgive
For the ones that made it alive, to the ones that were cast aside
Treading water while consumed with pain, it’s the mark of the disdained
Now all the feelings are just gone with the wind, giving in for all the pleasure and sin
Never cease a single minute again, it’s the mark of torture within
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Soul Deceiver
05:38
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A glimpse of past lives becomes what we all believe, sever foundations beneath
With dreams all withered, the future becoming bleak
Question the answers that we all seek
A beacon lost, the highest cost, with actions seal our fate, denial fueling hate
Follow the signs, force fed through lies, the thought we’re all in tune, deceiving all we’ve known
Descend in motions profound, the absence of time, controlling all we realize,
Through time, the presence subsides, a whisper behind, our actions are slowly justified
Delay, rewrite, repeat, deny; create, replace, the end, inside
Reliving echoes of pain lost in prior lives, forgotten souls left adrift
In vain continue the cycle as waves collide, each day more dark than the next
Deny the presence left inside, the path we’ve chosen,
The variations seal our fate with the words unspoken,
Sinister state of mind, with no solution, to fly on wings of deceit
The ending that we seek, will never come to be,
A shell of what remains, lost with the remnants burned beneath
As the world burns at your feet, we watch the heavens as they’re burned from all belief
The purpose, the morals, the sheep, the systems of control which we’ve come to believe
We’re lost, echoes in time, soul deceivers, beyond, our state of mind, a soulless dreamer
Despite your wishes, darkness will find you, the gray, remains, and multiplies
A bitter end, remains instead, good luck with words and phrases
In spite of failure, response in anger, the sky, defy, embrace defiance
A token for the road, the story left untold, the dream, has died, replace compliance
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4. |
Altered State
04:37
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New grounds for the hollow minded, new stakes for the greedier kind
Often lost but we’re all just blinded, by the images that turn our signs
We’re off to the grand illusion now… there’s no escape, we made our vows
We must retrieve all our feelings under the snow, for future generations
Malice, hatred, are all part of our constant dream, learn to justify, then you can start to deny
We’re all a part of the plan, to turn love into a grain of sand
Saved once again, reality will send
Till the day I reach the sky, I will crawl and grow inside
There is no hope, you stole my future, my glance at destiny, my glance at fate
There is a life out there I know I could lead,
From the gutter to the skies, I would lie down and bleed
Perseverance, test of time, reappearance, of my greed
When you look at yourself you see the sign, the sign of your redemption
You will wake up one day and feel alive, to save your own last breath
For the last time, it shall be mine, you never cared to hear the truth
In reprisal, your disciple, you killed, your everything my friend
We must retrieve all our feelings under the snow, for future generations
Malice, hatred are all part of our constant dream
Learn to justify, then you can start deny
We’re all part of the plan, to turn love into a grain of sand,
I see the future now, kneel down and take a bow
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System Override
06:03
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Our hands are tied but we can see if you believe, our fate is surely broken, sworn to your deceit,
All you said was… just a lie cause…
Every day our existence met, with a shadow shroud, consuming all around,
Through the trail made by those who suffer, the last override, disrupt what lies behind
Inside we feel the treasury within, a leap of fate is all we’ve got from all our sins
Deceit… on repeat…
We’re off to an unknown future, a place of forbidden fruits
We’ve let ourselves be beaten, but now the end is near
Longing for shelter, burn with me, our helter skelter
You will return the favor as our foe, greedier than all we’ve known but still we twist and turn
The sun lies bleeding and we’re doomed to save our souls,
From the earth we were spawned, now the demons take control
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Blood Pact
04:46
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Another wish lost in between, a well of confusion,
Mirage of futures left unseen, a glimpse of what could be
No way to write all the reasons, why the beginning never seems what we think,
Below the surface, there lies the answer, a darkness so deep it ceases to be
Reach in to grasp a moment, pay with your soul it feeds
Exchange your life for glory, for all eternity
Your dreams will come to life, a simple pact to sign, with blood it comes to be, delay the agony
With everything that you receive in time, create the story of the fool damned for life
Rewrite the pages for all to see, fame exchanged for misery
Caught beneath your desires, caught and baptized in fire, eternally
The darkness awaits, numbered the days, time will slow for no man,
Numbered the days, accept your fate
A lesson learned in time, simple minded, the fates are intertwined, no way to fight it
In the shadows it waits for the moment, react to progress through designs it can see
No need to wait, numbered the days, accept your fate
Reward for your greed, eternal reward you hold, control that you seemed, lost to, forever
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7. |
Burning Blue
03:44
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So… So you found somebody new
Will he make your dreams come true
Or will he break your heart in two?
I… Won’t let you see me cry
This love will never die
Always burning blue
And the wind… It rages in my heart
It fans a flame
That burns as cold as ice
Burning blue
Now… Now it’s all been said and done
And you’ve only just begun
When it’s time to turn and run
I… Don’t need to see you cry
This love will never die
Always burning blue
But the wind… That rages in my heart
It fans a flame
That burns as cold as ice
Burning blue
Burning blue
Always burning blue…
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I Defy
04:54
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Speeding through the essence of life, destroying my chances by biding my time
The sooner I will defy, the oppressor I know in disguise
We are known to cross the line, faces covered from warning signs, if the need closure inside
Remind the lost of the constant fight, it will revive itself and burn
Come take your chances while you can, take you through hell and then repent
The call came much sooner, but the feeling is dead,
Now bow to the ruler, of celestial spheres
Tell your gods I will never die, always here to defend my throne,
Every step lets me know you’re here, rising up and creates a storm
I won’t change who I am today, saved my soul, I don’t need your words,
Feeding off all the promises that you made, left me broken and torn
The flood is rising, the sky turns red, my blood is boiling from tears I shed
You turn to water, I turn to dust, the way you slaughtered in pure disgust
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The Cleansing
04:24
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We reach the brink of existence, we live to waste, create, destroy all around us
Can’t hide the greed inside, just seems to multiply, we’re past securing our future
Been cursed from the start, in every way, never a hope through time
The ages not far apart, from all today, reversing progress lost
To plant the thought of a seed, would be blasphemy,
With little time which remains, denial is simpler to take
Suffocating in all we know, reaching the peak of, collapse unfolds
A bittersweet relief, to cleanse the chosen, the haunting melody, this world is broken
With a glimpse of what we out to be, embrace this reality,
With the years shrouded in doubt, the truth can be found
It’s all too late, becoming a part of disaster
In waves, return to the sea, a shade of what’s to be,
Too blind the visions that come after me
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Nocturnal Affliction
05:23
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Tearing up the voices of your former life
Now your just cold inside
Voices in your head, but they’re bound to die
To wake is too late, leaves you petrified
Hear the end, I’m bound to explode, now its’s time for you to break the mold
Is it me or the night turns somber? With the greed there’s bound to be
As it lies in the nix of wonder, you can truly crucify me
Carving up your lives will destroy you in the end
The traces will be found through the way that you depend
On the way to your grave
All the symptoms of a sickening wonder, has made its way through thick and thin
Paralyzed by the growing somber, skies that reflects what I carry inside
Reaching for a cause though I’m dead inside, but I won’t be denied
Listen to the sounds of my inner fight, licking all my wounds to maintain my pride
The winds of around all, a blind in my eyes
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This Resolve
05:27
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Put forth the answer, I’ll ask the question
Put forth the answer, I always knew you were wrong
So much anger dwelling, lies just keep on building
Respect isn’t a factor, when you simply love to falter
To destroy, everything, you built for me
Take it down faster than anything that I have ever seen, so prove to me
That this isn’t your bullshit, blind to all this now, I’ll never ask again
Prove it to me
Ask and you shall, never receive, conditioning for, a bitter ending, ask and you shall
I’m searching for the answers for all that I’ve not received,
Between the broken ashes of all I’ve never seen
I’ll never fall... I’ll never fall again
Never falling, will wither away, everything you took away from me,
I can’t keep denying the stupidity in this belief, I’ll never ask again
I’ll never fall again…
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Eternal Machines
05:17
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Another breeze from the wings of deceit, the absence of time, haunting me
Replay dark visions in my head, stuck on repeat, caught in between
Collapse of composure, sent all that’s seen, a mask of corrosion, guides my reality
Dominion of shadows, my thoughts, how it feeds, replace what’s broken, psychotic masterpiece
The wretched, the stranded, the weak, displace the schism that’s buried beneath
No way to replace what’s lost, forever in chaos the pieces are sought
Descend with the ashes beneath, in the wake of despair
Replaced with eternal machines, obsolete and aware
The quarrels of man all complete, a perfect solution
Now we reap the rewards as we realize we’re obsolete
Stuck in a world that’s defined by defiance, no better way for the ending to play
The final peak of the human, the virus
The sickness wiped by our own hand it seems
Reaching out to find the answers, what remains is coded hate
A charade of progress that ignites the torment, no regard for what may come to be
In the static lost to find what lays before us, realization of demise, we finally see
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Chaos Defined
04:06
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With a world gone mad, the only answers are questions read back
Subliminal messages, shrouded by truth
Forced fed from the same words of our youth, a constant denial of dark absolute
With a world gone mad, forced rules and static feedback,
Unclear solutions of how deep it all roots
A picture smeared in blood, bone and tooth
Grotesque reprisal with a swifter pursuit
Realization if a myth that is clouded by progress, changes are the only constant
With progression reversed to de-evolution, the world corrects the sickness,
Exploiting weakness, disseminate the obvious, obsolete knowledge deteriorates before us
A wishful glimpse of existence, forgotten in a beat,
The remains, a part of history, lost in the sands beneath
Simple tasks become impossible feats, with nothing above to assist the needs
We reach the pinnacle of human existence, as population rises
No way to sustain the masses, chaotic inception
We continue as if nothing’s seen
Create the breeding ground for all the obscene
Never a waking moment which will be as it was, lay waste until all is undone
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14. |
Bloodline
06:57
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As the days pass by like the blink of the eye, as we wither adrift and our legacies rise
Though life continues there’s a void left inside, no time for reverse no matter how hard we try
Begin to fade each passing day, beneath the surface our essence will fade
A glimpse in time, look to the sky, reflecting everything our past leaves behind
It’s always the same, with everything that we’ve made,
Another soul intertwined, to leave my heart, my soul divine
Hope for defense to shine through, everything in life I’ve taught you,
You’re of my blood which always guides you, to the sky ascend to see through
It’s all part of design, the sorrow will pass in time
Remember life will pass in seconds it seems, no holding back from turning nightmares to dreams
The shades of gray left beneath, the somber waves beneath a relapse of misery
A cut that burns as it seals inside, a rite of passage as the embers fill the sky
Witness the ascension of souls, weeping skies as the ending unfolds
With all that’s left, an absence of light, caught in the abyss, forever suspended in time
Without a hint of despair, the speed of which can’t be compared
Our essence lost in the winds, forever spiraling in the depths within
Undying, the simple truth of consequence,
Still reaping, the seeds of souls not laid to rest,
Still dreaming, of light without slow decay
Not seeing, the ghosts to roam forever gray
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Nemesis Alpha Fayetteville, North Carolina
Nemesis Alpha is a melodic death metal band featuring song writers/multi-instrumentalists' Rudy Leal (ex-Shattered Sun) and
Joseph Church; and vocalists' Bjorn "Speed" Strid (Soilwork, The Night Flight Orchestra) and Marcos Leal (Shattered Sun, Ill Nino).
The second album "Eternal Machines" is scheduled to release September 13th, 2019 via Sliptrick Records.
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