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Khemosynthesis

by Gardarika

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1.
Power, duty, liability It's a loser's choice Those who understand the life Always play innocence Do represent naivety Learn those little dirty ploys Fail and let the others down Anyway forgive yourself Blink your eyes and always shift the blame To the cruel fate or foul play Hold your honest name Be a part of something big An adipose cell It provides a benefit, Your conscience now is always clean There is no more crime for you No punishment as well No more doubts and no remorse For the screw in the machine Free will is a curse, not a gift at all Matters only warm pen in a stall Liberty apalls Innocence bloody innocence The perfect indulgence When one guilt splits into the thousand little “by accident” Innocence it's a sacred cow And be aware my friend Don't encroach on the sacred Innocence bloody innocence Is the idol nowadays Innocence became a common sense Contest it if you dare Everyone needs to justify his own weaknesses So declare them the virtues You don't have to make a fair name You already have it You have rights to delight and fame Who says that it's all a cheat? You can do anything you want You'll never be condemned, but Don't encroach on the sacred Innocence bloody innocence The perfect indulgence When one guilt splits into the thousand little “by accident” Innocence it's a sacred cow And be aware my friend Don't encroach on the sacred
2.
I'm the centre of attention, I am sine qua non Nothing goes without my participation But nobody knows that I am on the wreckage door And they see my freaky incarnation I'm hiding in my shell So silent, never making a sound I count just on myself If I could trust the people around. I'm focused on my aim 'cause my departure must be left unseen I must keep the face I can't let the disgrace I never met a trouble So play my freaky double Freaky double is laughing, kidding, charming everyone Elusive, invulnerable and strong He's my eyes and ears outside and when he comes to me We become one being not for long I'm hiding in the shade My skin is foreboding the flame I'm just about to fade The only way to get rid of the shame I cannot cry for help The silence will be the only reply. I must keep the face I can't let the disgrace I never met a trouble So play my freaky double Our connection's getting weaker Soon I'll fade away You'll stay to amuse yourself and others I shall be unable to control fierce game you play Breeding strife and seeding the disorder Be on the spree Live instead of me Woe to those who meet you when you'll be left on your own But for now just cover me as long I'm hiding in my shell So silent, never making a sound I count just on myself If I could trust the people around. I'm focused on my aim 'cause my departure must be left unseen I must keep the face I can't let the disgrace I never met a trouble So play my freaky double
3.
There's a train of thousand freight cars The longest train in the world over It's leaving a secret railway station In the darkest midnight time Gathering the breakneck speed it's Rushing through the sleeping country Directly towards the ocean To conceal the trace of crime Freight cars are full of the shot Who came to the square This morning to speak with the authorities A machine gun can't hear a voice But it's good to convince With no fire on the wings of the bat The train is tearing at full speed But one passenger is still alive Conscious and winced The longest train in the world Makes the important work It helps to purge the inner enemies. Carrying stealthy load across The land of joy and harmony The only survived among the dead In the cold starlight the faces he sees Distorted with horror the faces of the people Whom he knew Trembling with fear squeezed among bodies. Slipping in cold blood he moves to the doors Guessing what can wait him in the dark outside He's staring into The longest train in the world Makes the important work It helps to purge the inner enemies. Carrying stealthy load across The land of joy and harmony Jump from the train Jump from the train Save your life Jump from the train Jump from the train And run away as fast as you can Jump from the train Jump from the train Save your life! Lonely fire in the gloom Maybe it's a shelter, he presumes “Goodnight, you don't look yourself Take a seat and please calm down Meanwhile I will make some tea By the way, I've heard the news Parties came to an agreement Now the common people are free” “You know nothing, I was there On the sunny morning square When the bullets filled the air Oh, I should be dead by now Who knows how I ran off unhurt But I'm here and still alive” “Oh, you're probably overtired I assure you all were right for sure, radio never lies My best friend was in that crowd And he could confirm my words But he had to leave us for a while” “Yes, I saw him in that place Then I recognized his face In that train with a bullet trace Oh my god, why do I dispute If you listened to the radio I have no chance to change your mind" There's a train of thousand freight cars The longest train in the world over Rushing through the sleeping country In the darkest midnight time There's no more unwished attestors And unwanted sympathizers Just one harmless crazy person Has a thing about some crime.
4.
I'm self-imprisoned in this room The tiny room with green wallpapers The window's boarded up and draped It's my atonement for all night long I've lost the way to the sacred place That disappeared long time ago, yeah Where I rejected a gift of knowledge And chose a life of a simpleton I hope one day I'll go out not to the stair landing When the door opens I will see the sunny glade And I will find the path forgotten notwithstanding But not today, but not today, but not today I've lost a chance that I once had Since then my life became so shallow There's no more spirits in the shadows There's no more magic in the air But I keep looking for a sign That door's still ajar for latecomers And with the dull eyes of the goner I search it's traces everywhere I hope one day I'll go out not to the stair landing When the door opens I will see the sunny glade And I will find the path forgotten notwithstanding I'm ready now, this time I will not be afraid Towards the old declining Sun Through ancient spruce wood I will run A happy little boy responding to the call of endless void
5.
I'm one of them who were born for the life which no one deserved Highest peaks of our land are incredibly deep for the delicate dwellers of surface Creatures of the Sun do not care what goes on right now down below But the have our whole unfriendly world We never had neither light nor warmth from the sky luminaries What we call our sky is shattering pressure and impenetrable darkness But we're living beside the nipples of mother earth, boiling rills And we've learned to devour their poisonous milk Khemosynthesys Feed from below We cut off the Sun but we found our own Heart of darkness, inverted skies We've learnt to prosper where everything dies. They try not to think ‘bout us 'cause those thoughts are unbearable scaring If they could they would hate us because they are guilty of our fate, that burden we bearing But we have no hate, no impatience and have no thirst for revenge When the Sun blows out things will be changed Khemosynthesys Feed from below We cut off the Sun but we found our own Near the Earth mantle we are suckled by abyss If your Sun blows out Should we care about? We didn't choose our fate but it made us strong Now we're unreceptive to anything wrong Wrath of the underworld is our commonness We'll inherit the world after the Sun's death Don't reflect upon it, enjoy your time Keep thinking that we are just the silent slime Our prayers do work, your days're 'bout to shrink Your Sun burns out faster that you even think Khemosynthesys Feed from below We cut off the Sun but we found our own Heart of darkness, inverted skies We've learn to prosper where everything dies. Khemosynthesys Life-giving vents We'll turn our curse into the blessing Near Earth mantle we suckled by abyss If your Sun blows out Should we care about?
6.
August morning or the twilight of the damned I awoke I don't remember who I am Only fire is in my lungs And the mournful premonition Sky is veiled by the green lacerated shroud Trees are naked, I'm enveloped in weird cloud Scraps of memory return I still have some work undone All my brothers have been slain I must battle instead of them Besieged fortress and we hardly held defense They assaulted But hadn't got a single chance And to force our troops to bow they inflicted treacherous blow Where their bullets and the shells were powerless There succeeded the green fog, the toxic gas But they can't just pass us by One of hundred has survived Seems its time for me to die But my rifle is still beside I can't fire, I'm almost blind Anyway I still can fight In place of my brothers who fell I am rising to my feet I am gazing to the mist Not a man but a furious beast Wanna face our enemies So eager to send them to hell When I've done my brother's work We will join beyond this world Ranks of shadows horned helmets with frog eyes are approaching I hate the creatures of this guise I shall have to reap them down And my bayonet is thirsty Stopping this horde Is the only way to earn the rest And my award is bloody foam upon my chest Glorious work fell to my share That's the reason why I'm still here Brothers, I won't let you down Brothers, you will be avenged I will make these cowards groan I will drown them in my rage They only have thousand or two We haven't ordered to retreat Death can wait for me for an hour Though my lungs are harshly bleed But the fortress will be ours In honor of Russia and you When I've done our common work We will join beyond this world August morning Wind has dispelled the mist I can hear it Whispers me that I'm dismissed I am free now I am going to you my brothers
7.
Legion Calls 04:48
Rome fell, Hannibal has prevailed The free ones are exterminated or jailed No more law, just the whims of cruel overseas idols Those who survived are turned to the scum Oppressed and absolutely dumb No hope, all complaints and prayers from this abyss are idle But we haven't forgotten The glory of Rome We trust that one day We'll bring back our home In our tabooed dreams Battle lines of iron Standards crowned with eagles Rebirth of the Empire In the night of Rome We bring near the daybreak Even dead will rise when legion calls We're hiding in the dark heart of Carthage We're still reliving that carnage But cowards turned themselves into fatherland haters They catch leftovers from the table They think that our shame is stable And glorify the generosity of the Carthage liberators They will never bribe us With their false well-being They play as worthy men But their contentment stinks We will brush away The dust of the traitors There's no sight more fair Than death of the dictator In the night of Rome We bring near the daybreak Even dead will rise when legion calls
8.
Thirst 08:33
Here I am unseen, unheard I just left behind the world With my memories and fears Locked in my own stream of time I can feel things passing by I can see all but I'm not here There is nothing more to gain No more pleasure, no more pain Only aloofness and ennui No more colors, no more taste, Only rest of life to waste Slowly falling from the acme I am used to live this way I'm just spending day by day Doing little things for no one Yellow dusk and icy stars Treacherous weakness, hidden scars That's the only world I know now But a part of inner self Still awaits for something else And keeps trying to arise But its an unequal struggle Direct threat and dirty juggle Always force it to remise Then thirst rises up again Then thirst rises up again Maelstrom's in the sky That's engulfs my mind There's thirst rises up again When I slake my deadly thirst All around drowns in the mist And relief comes for a moment I can spread my withered wings I can cope with anything I'm a god until next morning And I run delusively free Canopy of dying trees Covers me from hostile glares I have just the rest of night To forget my constant blight ‘till the sunlight brings despair Then thirst rises up again Then thirst rises up again Maelstrom's in the sky Dead soul last desire Is this the occasion To make the self donation? The gates are open wide for a slave. I spurn this path I have my pride and wrath Another golden way I pave I don't cry See my grin Here I am to stay in "You haven't got a place among the living You are not welcomed in this world Your mistakes are not forgiven" Said me the the angel with flaming sword You don't care about me So I will never beg you I'll just take the place that's mine Deny me, betray me I spit upon your favour I won't remain inside this shrine There's the world we maintain I'm a link of that chain "Son of a bitch, next time try harder But anyway now we are done Trees are like horsemen in your garden Leave with them before the dawn" Then thirst rises up again There's thirst rises up again Maelstrom's in the sky A prolonged dying There's thirst rises up again

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released December 25, 2014

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