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Gates of Paradise

by Torii

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I am a slave Laboring into my grave Bread and circuses to entertain A pawn in this system that they've made I have served my country well Even if that meant trudging through the very flames of hell The bombs fell all around me, while the bodies piled in mass These horrific visions will not allow me to escape my past I thought that I was fighting to keep my country free As I upheld moral values in the name of justice and liberty Yet now I see that those talking heads have indeed lied to me For I've only been fighting for the sake of a rich man's greed Trapped under a mound of debt I cannot pay This world needs no more masters and no more slaves These lingering bloodstains that I'll never wash away This world needs no more masters and no more slaves Break free of your plastic chains Break free of your numerical chains High above in a citadel, they sit with the world in their hands Nothing else on their minds, except to control every man Manipulating entertainment, religions and world events As they create new lies to sell on our television sets Allowing the workhorses to believe that they'll escape poverty Through ads with paid models on their tablet screens We're slaves that strive for beauty, we're slaves that strive for fame We're slaves that haven't yet realized the grip of our invisible chains I'm sick of your culture and it's glaring weakness Tired of religion and it's worthless Jesus When will you realize there's no one to save us Modernizations made just to enslave us Cogs get replaced as fools become famous You open your books and are considered blameless Puppets portraying extravagant lies For pawns to daydream before they die They'll chase you down as your rights become bereft For a man who rebels is a man who is dead Wars are fought for profit and gain While soldiers are sent off to be wounded or slain Returning home to find you've got nothing Surely that effort was worth at least something Forever we live trapped inside these walls Nothing will change until the empire falls
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Comatose (Deaf and blind) Cadaverous (Dead inside) Corrupted (These feelings not mine) Constricted (Within this hell I'm...) Trapped inside these invisible walls Wandering through labyrinthine halls Another dose to save me Another dose to change me Another dose to protect from those who wish to harm me They've enslaved me, they betrayed me I was nothing more than a variable Just a pawn in their experimentation A child with a mouth stuffed full of pills An industry with a pocketful of thrills A government paying for every single dose To ruin the life of just another foolish host Corporations filling my head with their fetid lies As their poisons warped and twisted the conclaves of my mind I was imagining things that I knew were never there Hallucinating demons, but no one ever seemed to care And it still goes on everyday My story is rather tragic, though it's sadly ordinary The human race is on display As the very health of a man can be bought and sold in this age They keep pushing capsules, tempting man with a chemical fate Playing gods, while bowing to the altar of greed This medical caricature will not give you what you need Demonizing natural cures, yet publicizing experimental blurs Side effects that could even bring death Poisons marketed to those who have no options left Why don't you just prescribe them cyanide Slow kills to deprive humanity of the very gift of life Pills Drugs Moods Escapes Take it all away from me (Lyrics Omitted) Just shut up and take your medicine Just shut up and accept this new self Just shut up and become a statistic of this modern age Could someone please help me Could someone please save me from me Could someone please make me more than me Could someone please numb me Please let this pill kill me Please let this pill erase me Please let this pill set me free
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Can't you see that our world is dying They've stolen and destroyed my dreams This culture that they've created has stepped boldly upon me They don't want equality, they don't want liberty They only want what they've been told to believe They don't want happiness, They only want loneliness They're a cancer and they should not breed We need to open up a dialogue Because this world isn't fair You're nothing more than parasites Brainwashed by corporate flair This world is a business As I hope you're all aware You'll willingly give up all your rights and strip the constitution bare Curse the mothers Curse the fathers Curse the children of our dying world Curse producers Curse consumers Curse the bleeding pregnant moon Curse the agendas Curse the pretenders Curse the billions funding mankind's doom Curse their soapboxes These modern poxes Curse the children spilling out from the womb You don't care that you support the rape and murder of millions overseas Yet complain about being a victim, when you're the only one to blame You criticize old ways of life, when they contrast against your own You don't want equality, you only want the world to build you a safe zone Spineless useful idiots! If you're the future, then may asteroids pound heavily into the surface of the Earth If you're the future, may they rip out my insides before I ever see your prosper If you're the future, then I'll look with both eyes upon this Brave New World Where I can't even remember if it's still 1984 Let us worship him on high, his bold mustache and bronzed eyes I will pray to him every night, so that I may receive a blinded sight Help me to close my mind, from this reality they push on me Censorship is all they'll find, deep within this toxicity
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Here I stand outside the threshold That lies between pleasure and pain No arms to embrace or hands to guide There's nothing here but the pattering of rain Oh, though I can lead you Those gates are closed for me Where you go, I cannot follow This bliss not meant for me A dream of decay only waits for me Crushed hopes of the past, the essence of being lonely A heart so torn and shallow Ripped like a child from the womb Beyond may lie a better tomorrow Yet all I foresee is doom Oh can't you see me? I'm the one who leads you through Oh can't you hear me? I'm the lone voice that disappears with the coming of the moon I've walked with many down the path to alluring lovers Their fingers to fondle, their eyes to caress Their mouths to utter saccharine adoration Though that cannot be said for me The one who is barred behind these wretched gates As I scream out in agony, there is no key that fits for me I hear screams of ecstasy on the other side, Yet shadows are my only comfort As I converse with those whose dreams have died, Inside this grave of dead passions Hell doesn't burn with fire, It stings with the icy chill of love unfulfilled In this land of the living dead, I find myself comatose and unable to speak Such a calamity inside my head As the storm rages on with the pounding of the rain What folly that such a tiny heart Is forced to shoulder such a unbearable amount of pain Reap the benefits of hopelessness See the horrors of emptiness As the surge of depression increases I am joined here in loneliness Forever I'll approach these gates of paradise Never will I reach the golden land I seek to find Forever I'll approach these gates of paradise They are just another fiction in this world of lies We're still cursing We're still scratching We're still pounding At the gates of paradise We're still clawing We're still crying We're still dying At the gates of paradise Oh so many have come here to palaver with me We shall all feast on this bitter banquet of dead and broken dreams...

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released March 23, 2016

Vocals/ Lyrics: Eric May
All Instruments: Bill Masino

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