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A More Perfect Union (2013)

by oneclipleft

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1.
I, turn on my TV every day And sit counting the dead we celebrate I, cannot believe what density People selling a new philosophy Tragic, our love of life lost Talking money made Ecstatic, only balk at the cost Someone else has paid After the story runs We’ll forget you one by one Lie, covering endless details Fabricating the whole tale wholesale Lie, audience and ad revenue Blur what is false and what is True in, the careless camera A bought mouth and biased eye Ruin, impartial media Watch integrity die All blame, no shame, sensationalize pain Condense, nonsense, fear and death entertain Control Fear breeds obedience The powerful elevate their place Ten-fold In each public tragedy A golden opportunity Trade in your rights to feel a little more safe From a magnified threat you feel you can’t escape And in the process, do less, live less Be less than you are for their benefit Are we so bored, to never see the light inside the storm? Are we so dull, to never flinch one inch when triggers pull? Are we so scared, to admit that life itself is unprepared? Are we so dumb, to embrace the armchair-gods we have become? They hunt dead kids to sell And pay their parents to spill the tale They prey on the insecurities Of indolent viewers, too inured to think They’ll tell you that you’re going to die Or lose all your money or all of your rights They’ll tell you just to sit right here While they keep cashing in on your fear
2.
The Lie 06:03
I believe the lie That I’m doing something worth doing something about I cannot deny Selfish words burn firewood, fueling my doubt Leverage the thoughts, you redesigned, to put me in my place Keep the limits blurred, hard to find, but so simple to displace The derisive laughter you emanate Saturated so deep in distrust and hate Revealing hundreds of hidden enemies Trying to claim authority over me The trial, the jury, the sentence is for life Denial, the fury, will I see through this infinite strife? Make yourself, right at home, there you go Anything you want, is achievable If you seek, suffering, we can have that, too You know what to do I see nothing wrong In my ignorance I Blindly carry on through Landmines buried in silence Ignore all offered information It contradicts what you know Lost in confirmation bias Cannot learn to let go Idealize, humankind, to fail me See the wrong, point your finger to blame me Use your hammer and chisel to change me I just fulfill a role So say nothing’s wrong Forgetting your dead god Abandons the strong Sneak it in to my head No need thinking through accusations Obsessive feeling is law Never minding the due elation Only focus on the flaw Obsessive feeling is the law So only focus on the flaw Why is it so hard to let it go? It contradicts all that you know I believed the lie I cannot deny No matter how I try The sentence is for life And still I miss anything wrong In ignorance I carry on, through landmines Until a finger points the blame And so I know what I must change That I believed the lie
3.
349 04:17
Every man and woman who has chosen to risk their life In this endless conflict with no recompense for their strife Will always live with the memory Fighting a stress we cannot see Dreaming for some small relief Training cannot prevent trauma We did this Lining up the shots of booze, a clenched fist full of pills Loading up a pistol, aiming for one final kill Hopeless, can’t take it any more Pointless, what are they fighting for? Heartless, nearly one each day Every day one more may give up 349 in one year Consecrate the ground they lay you into Speaking a prayer for everyone They can’t comprehend all that you went through Consoling themselves for what they’ve done Knowing full well it is they who killed you Knowing full well things will not change Shedding their tears on television Sleeping at night in deluded dreams We should be ashamed of ourselves for failing those in need Instead of waving flags, we should clog up every street Our enemy now holds a pen and not a gun Ordering our youth to fight a notion Without support Without a break Without respect Without a way to live again
4.
They know you better than your mother Closer than the closest lover Electric prying eyes Collecting your whole life We’re too willing to release Our right to basic privacies After it’s gone it’s gone for good If you have nothing to hide Then you have nothing to fear ‘Till you are thought a threat But speech is not illegal yet Still one day you may disappear One more name on the list Of suspected terrorists Run by idiots So Goddamn stupid They know you better than your preacher (hey) Far more than your God (oh no) Hovering cameras keep Infinite data logs We’re too willing to ignore The power creeping through the door And when it’s there it’s there for good If you have nothing to hide Then you have nothing to fear ‘Till you are thought a threat But speech is not illegal yet Still one day you may disappear One more name on the list Of proudly murdered militants We only notice after it’s too late When someone else is stripped down Patted, prodded, sent to impound We barely bat a fucking lash Our hands bound in metal cuffs Watching our own power break us It happened elsewhere in the past How quickly we forget Assume by virtue we’re immune Quickly, quietly, soon they will own And every action they will know And we will let them go Until it’s our turn Break free now
5.
Violence 05:00
Violence is concession to human weakness Like vengeance, it need cowardice to thrive Violence is obsession with our own ignorance Of infinite potential lost in death Disobey the laws of the brute Or continue to eat poisonous fruit The lies of humankind If we go on pulling long distant triggers Like children, push/kill playground/battleground Solidifying worldwide distrust and disdain In a decade-long display of force, insane We cannot just crush our way to peace We are not the world's goddamn police No logic in such loss If one man fails, the whole world falls And as the means, so too the end Be ever wakeful, ever vigilant, or we'll kill ourselves In the name of our beloved freedom Mothers hold onto your children And sing them a song To drown out the bomb Mothers lie to your children Say father's coming home Gunned down by a drone
6.
No more clever thoughts, just clever words Spoken by cowards Afraid of growth, troubled by change Terrified to lose their hallowed place In name, they’re leaders In action, all deceivers Lightning quick, rhetoric Oh, how quickly we’ll forget (And all things will be destroyed) Lay, down, and take it Or stand, up, and fight Fight, back with pride Yet now, we enter Together Intellectual winter And never Question the men Whose power we may Sever from, enacting An evil plan Our silence, loudly cries Yes they can No more people here, just business Tended by princes Afraid of some, troubled by few Terrified of a people renewed In name, criminals In deed, they’re fucking heroes Helping us, all wake up But that alone is not enough (For all things to be renewed)
7.
Our fathers promised us A land free from tyranny Centuries of disgust Oh, how sly we humans be In ’85 I was born I heard “What luck! To live free!” And learned an empty heart Is so much better than one filled with greed Without the lies I’ve been told, I may Have never realized the truth at all We’ve built a nation far from The brick and mortar misery they call A more perfect union My mistakes, as a man, cannot amount, to what we collectively carry out As an ant alone can bite, but without the colony there is no fight Forgive and let it go, why can’t we Forget and let it go, we never Forgive and let it go, why can’t we Forget and let it go And your deeds, all alone, cannot resist, what they force on us bit by bit As a wolf may kill the runt, but without the whole pack there’s no hunt, we never Forgive and let it go, why can’t we Forget and let it go, we never Forgive and let it go, we always Swear revenge and murder everyone We can’t go back and change it There’s no new land to run to now No place to overtake Did no one else bother To read The Prince? They practice it so perfectly They love it like their Bible Twisting God to fool all mankind Twisting all mankind to fool themselves All these pretty words designed To make you resign All your fucking power And it will crumble Oh, how it will fall And every one of us Will be responsible Our fathers promised us A land free from tyranny Centuries of abuse Oh, how broken humans be
8.
Home 05:08
Our shores erode away You can't come home, you need to stay Since you've been gone they say The world's moved on, so you can't come home Two young men angered by the way other men behave Sign a page believing they can help those men to change Their families, sad to see them go, smile as they wave They nod and train, learn the ways to identify the strange They'll never know another day Without some goal for the agency The more they see, the more they want to run 'Cause they can't free a dead man with their gun One comes to a foreign land full of his enemies He's told he's got the shot, and should fire as he please But he's unsure who to aim for, he can't tell them apart Still pulling back on that black trigger, he shatters his own heart All sides treat their own like pawns in nature's game Then when they die they're honored, and the other is to blame And when they kill they're honored still, though no one knows the name Although we think we think so differently, we all still feel the same Our shores erode, away (We've got a box stamped with your name) You can't come home, you need to stay (Until we ship your body back across the sea) Since you've been gone they say (This duty ends on your dying day) The world's moved on, so you can't come home (Even if you come back, nothing will be the same)
9.
The roaches we have bred Are so well fed Bursting wide open With their shit They, too, have done Too much to live So killed by their Own decadence Feeding, writhing, All scavenging, all a corpse Start going crazy, think "God will feed me, God will save me" Searching the sky above, believe "God will help me, God will love me" But there's... No reason to believe In anything Unless you, too, need That old dream Seems we have done Too much to live And die by our Own arrogance Chomping, tearing All cannibals, all remorse So start embracing, hope "God will heal me, God will reach me" Hunt the sky above, and trust "God will hear me, God will love me" But there's no more savior (misguided) No more savior (discarded) You may believe your deity will listen You may believe your deity will be here again Blind yourself to claim your reward Repeating to yourself all you have heard
10.
Unqualified, suture no lives Just point out hives from my distance Away from sick, our plague is quick Stench, acrid, thick in pestilence No one can teach me anything And of course I'll save you all You may allow me to treat the plague But I am so blind, unqualified Observing some, I bang my drum And rattle bones to cure syndromes Safe in my mask, all questions asked No answers last for long, if ever I cannot promise anything But of course I'll do my best You may believe me in all I say But I am designed only to bleed you dry Vomit up black blood, divide one another Kill the lesser groups, infect the other fucking mind Deep within dead brains, showing in the skin your Forgotten remains, filthy and rotting everywhere Puke, bleed, die Lie, kill, deny I'm no safer than you are Understanding naught belies a cost (betray) Noticing not (yourself for) So still so lost (small comforts) Getting Nowhere, if "there" is still there Not like I would know the way to go (at all) Stuffed through my nose (you follow) A wilted rose (dim leaders) Masking all I apply reasoning to everything I see But providing answers is not one of my specialties Save yourself, one man cannot do anything Weak alone, together nothing is so far from our Reach that we cannot find a solution, now Try to come up with what all of us together can do What have they done for anyone but themselves? Once they've won there will be nothing else Stand up, speak out, one man cannot do anything now Sing loud the end of this revolutionary stagnation Repetition Call for an end
11.
One Nation 04:59
Instrumental
12.
Silverfish 05:13
Free from all disease But still so unclean Despite our hunger We don't need to eat In metallic shells we live In metallic shells we meet Devouring our books and glue Shed and eat old skin to become the new Do you want this dance? Back and forth and trembling If I run away, do you think you would Chase after me? Leave silver shells behind And swim on land and shine Will you be my pest? After I'm gone you'll get your wish I am just one of billions Gleaming in an endless brilliance I am just one small silverfish
13.
Ruined by assimilating all minds to want what they're after To kneel Not stand All ancient empires fell by greedy Hands They're taking life after life Forsaking everything that brought us true strength Freedom rings with shortening length Just listen for it Take it in and then forget again, silence all dissent Blind trust Blind rage Sit and wait and follow them to your Cage The capture A truly man-made rapture Washing out the voice of reason Litigate an endless season Of death and darkness Draw lines for all to cross Carpet-bomb all nations And never mind the loss No more fucking bullshit No more fucking wrong No more fucking murder from this nation once so strong No more fucking treason No more fucking faith No more reason to believe in these United States Bathed in blinding light Planet with a living blight Creatures filled with hate Quickly abandoned all debate Far reaching reproach Lonely frozen roaming roaches Burrow in our skin Whispering the way to win Turning metal keys Evaporate the seven seas A million megatons Devolving our skeletons Stampeding we rushed Bones and vital organs crushed A killing cavalcade Swimming from the cloud we made All things will be renewed Nowhere to run or hide From radiation ionized Those saved from the blast Shit and shake until they've passed Buried under snow Smothered mothers, kids in tow Fathers once so strong Realizing they were wrong All things will be renewed Melting cloud and sky Even living gods may die New equality The truth of death shall set you free Pitch black, icy rocks Instantly unwinding clocks Washed in human strife Planet minus all its life All things will be renewed

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released October 21, 2013

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oneclipleft Valdosta, Georgia

Oneclipleft, a one-man metal band, began writing and recording his debut album "A More Perfect Union" in 2011. Covering a wide range of metal styles, the album may surprise even the most seasoned metalhead. A harsh criticism of the U.S. government, AMPU draws inspiration from bands like Pantera, Meshuggah, Gojira, Jesu, Metallica, and many others. oneclipleft currently lives in South Georgia. ... more

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