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Kuru
04:19
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Look at what you hold inside you
Do you feel the fire there?
Chewing at your mind like a disease
Blackened indoctrination
Feeding your rotten thoughts
Forcing it inside your brain
To work its deeds
Kuru!
CHORUS:
Eat the mind but mind the teeth
Cut the sickness free
Break the skull but eat the truth
Dead men cannot see
Can you feel the body tremble?
Have you got the kuru in you?
Never eat the brain of rotten ideology
CHORUS
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Vae Victis
04:49
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Order of the battle underneath the sky
Armies of the strong stand among the slain
Cowering in terror, begging for reprieve
My sword upon the scale makes it all in vain
Pleading for mercy, futile in its need
Forever following; never lead
CHORUS
Hail, victor’s right
Cry Vae Victis to the weak
Hail, victor’s right
Cry Vae Victis to the meek
Kneel before the conqueror
Pray for lacking gain
Woe to you, the fallen
Weakness, your bane
CHORUS
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Black Bones of Set
04:47
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All you sons of Egypt under Amun-Ra
Walk the ancient rites of Alexandria
Look beyond the world, bathe in Duat
Take heed of hidden darkness seeking out your Ka
In the darkest tomb of the blackest god
Lies the hidden truth of lore
Sarcophagus of lies keeping treachery
Bones of Set lie beyond the door
Don’t trust your eyes
Bones do not lie
In the sands of time
Even gods will die
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Locked around your hair
Binding you inside this spell
I will make you see
Gods and demons heed my words
Chiseled on the tablet
I invoke darkest amnesty
CHORUS
I know I will harness the fire inside you
I know you will fall at my feet
My curse, the only time I’ll hold you
My curse, a language you don’t know
Mystic voices call to you
Speaking to your soul to come to me
Nevermind your will
Hell I’ll eat for you
Curse tablet written secret words
Only gods instill
CHORUS
I know something you don’t know (x4)
CHORUS
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Agōgē
04:34
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Catch the Spartan sun, wield the spear
Only powerful and cunning will survive
Burning muscle, burning fear
Play with death so you can feel alive
CHORUS
There is nothing but your goal
There is nothing that you can’t overcome
Find the Spartan in you, let your power flow
Pain and agony is nothing to the will
Only discipline is law
Feel the sting of your potency take hold
Let your energy be raw
CHORUS
Never let them take your vigor
Never let them take your right
Harness all of your aggression
It is time to fight your fight
CHORUS
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Snake Oil
04:42
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Venom in a bottle
Vial of iniquity
Essence of the snake
You drink willingly
Across the desert plain
Feeding all the lies
Drink the serpent’s poison
As the wise man dies
Blasphemous elixir
Here to heal and care
Selling all the snake oil
Heretics beware
Venom in a bottle
Vial of iniquity
Essence of the snake
You drink willingly
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As I see you, I will form you
By your face, my pencil is my heart
As I feel you, I’ll create you
In the sky I’ll paint you as my art
By my power, I invoke you
On my canvas you will come to being
As the tenth muse, unrequited
Use my skill in secret honouring
So I draw you, I implore you
I am tenth, for muse of art I am
I am near you, always present
Though my flesh is from a foreign land
I’m the tenth muse, undetected
For my art lives only in your grace
You’re mine own muse, for I love you
And my mirth, I find it in your face
Do you see me? Do you feel me?
As I haunt the poetry you write
Muse of music, not a fair one
At your feet, my pencil is your might
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Widdershins
04:58
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Shackled as a hostage of the faith
Mother Lilith guard over the burning
Widdershins we curse them
Widdershins we cast to make them pay
Sword of Moses feeds hypocrisy
Impotent, the beckon at the wall
Misbegotten heroes
Widdershins, we cast by Lilith’s way
(Speech)
Broken bowls in spiral script
Not false, nor folly
These are the mystical tongues of the old gods
I will not lie below
Countering, we mean to undo you
Flying overhead when you’re asleep
Widdershins we bind your tongue
Widdershins we travel from the Deep
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Will of the Worker
06:20
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(Speech)
You say it cannot harm you because you do not believe
Yet, what you do believe is folly in the eyes of the one who seeks to cross you
Your beliefs are wrought from your mother’s lies
Your beliefs are born from your father’s arrogance
It is not your will that decides the spell
It is in the will of the worker
I walk at night time, three upon the clock
And bring I left hand works
Where the ravens rap and knock
I’ll call your name; you’ll do my will
You have no power here
Against my spittle skill
By the laws of all that dwell around us
Bound are you to its force
Wicked or benevolent, the will is with the witch
Let the dark within you run its course
Pazuzu, hear me
Pazuzu rush
Pazuzu Hatra
Pazuzu Ush
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Head of Perseus
05:17
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A common coward who needs the gods
A golden boy in name and name alone
A son of power, but not his own
Adept at stalking, his ego to bemoan
But in the cave I do perceive you
The head of Perseus my prize
There’s no assistance to relieve you
There’s only parchment filled with lies
Prey of Medusa, the killer queen
Your godly gifts are as impotent as you
Your only hardness comes from her gaze
There is no mirror shield to rescue you
Wrath of Athena won’t hold her
The Gorgon is very alive
Holding the head of her hunter
Medusa still kills with her eyes
Gorgon eyes eat your soul
Perseus cried, paid his toll
Tales reversed, heads will roll
Medusa’s leer, black as coal
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