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Father I know that you've witnessed a darkness in me
Twas spawned in shadows of the old gallows tree
I'm but a sad depraved reflection of our inhumanity
The warped exaggeration of the lost and darkest of dreams
Bring forth a wrath of cleansing fire
Here now in mankind's bleakest hour
Born of a casket I'm the heir to a corpse
I've eyes that see maggots through the thin flesh they bore
I shall bloody my hands 'til the last breath be torn from me
So blindly we walk the winds of these plagued streets
Dead the once feeling part of me
O lord divine please break this silence
Destroy your race of faceless liars
At the edge of existence
We the clays of intention have ripened in your image
Ah the binds of tradition
Your archaic deception numbs our empty beings
City that stands on a million graves
In a world full of hatred to fear enslaved
Countless the dead slaughtered in your name
Not a utter of your voice have you once repaid
No above no below just a man letting go
When all my earthly desire is disowned
No screaming sirens should sound
No revelations profound
Simply lowered into the ground
That's just what I'll be dead in the dirt
So blindly we walk the winds of these plagued streets
Dead the once feeling part of me
Bring forth a wrath of cleansing fire
Here now in mankind's bleakest hour
O' lord divine please break this silence
Destroy your race of faceless liars
Necropolis
Twas spawned in shadows of the old gallows tree
I'm but a sad depraved reflection of our inhumanity
The warped exaggeration of the lost and darkest of dreams
Bring forth a wrath of cleansing fire
Here now in mankind's bleakest hour
Born of a casket I'm the heir to a corpse
I've eyes that see maggots through the thin flesh they bore
I shall bloody my hands 'til the last breath be torn from me
So blindly we walk the winds of these plagued streets
Dead the once feeling part of me
O lord divine please break this silence
Destroy your race of faceless liars
At the edge of existence
We the clays of intention have ripened in your image
Ah the binds of tradition
Your archaic deception numbs our empty beings
City that stands on a million graves
In a world full of hatred to fear enslaved
Countless the dead slaughtered in your name
Not a utter of your voice have you once repaid
No above no below just a man letting go
When all my earthly desire is disowned
No screaming sirens should sound
No revelations profound
Simply lowered into the ground
That's just what I'll be dead in the dirt
So blindly we walk the winds of these plagued streets
Dead the once feeling part of me
Bring forth a wrath of cleansing fire
Here now in mankind's bleakest hour
O' lord divine please break this silence
Destroy your race of faceless liars
Necropolis
Lyrics submitted by Fantastic_Stu
Track duration: 03:31
"Necropolis" as written by Shannon Lucas Ryan Knight
Lyrics © BUG MUSIC
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Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
-Epicurus
If there is a God, and indeed he does exist in the minds of the weak, sad, pathetic wretches that live for death and reject truth as a fantasy, that God is a total douche, weak, and simply man-made. We that control our perceptions are god and the only flawless thing is oblivion... and assorted depressive intoxicants 8D
We all have a conscious, we all know good from evil because of our premortal life where we too were taught by God, our father and creator. We have a free agency but we are not free of the consequences. There will come a time where all the wrong done to people will be compensated.
So I think Im either complete spot on with that, OR way off.
Destroy your race of faceless liars
key lines here, the person who is asking is obviously tired of war in the 'name of god'.
Countless the dead slaughtered in your name
Not a utter of your voice have you once repaid
although so many people have died in 'his' name, he has not responded to one of their prayers. He has last his faith, the "Dead the once feeling part of me" is his faith.
It's a song after all
Most of their songs have a religious theme anyway
Denouncing god, attacking the church etc.
And that was my interpretation anyway, that seemed the most obvious to me when I read the lyrics
"Dead the once feeling part of me"
Like he's going through a rough time, and turned to religion, but god wont have a physical or verbal response to it
"Father I know that you've witnessed a darkness in me"
He seems to be angry at god for not being an active physical part of life
"Your archaic deception numbs our empty beings"
"Countless the dead slaughtered in your name
Not a utter of your voice have you once repaid"
Like he just wants a response from god for reassurance, and as a justification of the amount of people that have been killed in his name
"No above no below just a man letting go
When all my earthly desire is disowned
No screaming sirens should sound
No revelations profound
Simply lowered into the ground
That's just what I'll, be dead in the dirt"
This verse seems to say that there's no heaven or hell, just him letting go of the concept of an afterlife
And instead of going to heaven or hell when he dies, he'll just be buried in the dirt
I think "Necropolis" is his vision of an afterlife, just a city of people buried.
And there's no heaven and hell as he's lost faith in religion because of god's "silence"
"O' lord, divine, please break this silence"
Sort of like he doesn't want to lose faith in god, but because of his "silence" and physical absence he's slowly losing faith
Such an amazing song
"No above no below just a man letting go"
Like theres no heaven nor hell its just a man ceasing to be alive and once hes in the ground its done.
My favorite off the new album.
just can't wait for all the correct lyrics to come up!
I definitely need money to buy the CD.