Ire

Released: 25/09/2015

01. Destroyer

Destroy, destroy, destroy, destroy Destroyer We speak in lies, we speak in tongues We’ll see our damage done We live in dreams, we rest in peace Content to sleep in our chains Seven trumpets sound their discourse, nine circles of our devise Messages writ within our columns of fire No life blooms from the ashes of ire But our hearts beat faster, and our heads hang low Still we kneel for the masters Filthy pigs all in a row Black the sun Hide us from what we have become Black the sun Hide us from the monsters we’ve become Destroy, destroy, destroy, destroy We’re all addicts hooked into a toxic culture Infinite growth in a finite world Empires of gold return to sand As silver tongues rust beneath the guilt of man But our hearts beat weaker, and our heads now roll Still we crawl for the masters As we beg for the killing blow Black the sun Hide us from what we have become Black the sun Hide us from the monsters we’ve become We scar the earth to spite the sky Then burn the trees to feed our fires We are the blind leading the damned A wrecking ball In the hands of a mad man Destroy, destroy Destroyer Destroy, destroy Destroyer Black the sun Hide us from what we have become Black the sun Hide us from the monsters we’ve become

02. Dying to Believe

Like dragging nails through my skin Strip the scar, scratch the itch Dig your nails deep, until the nerve is good and raw Pulling teeth again, to pay for all your sins The blue pill or the red, all you want are enemies Feel the tension set to break We’ve swallowed more than we can take Like dragging nails through my skin Die, die, dying to believe This beast you resurrected won’t break its leash We’re die, die, dying to believe That the ghost of the ills of this world will Find you where you sleep We’ll find you where you sleep God complex, let’s start a war Whose prayers will you answer, whose will you ignore Paint it black and torn apart Baptised in hate to the beat of a hollow heart Feel the tension set to break We’ve swallowed more than we can take Like dragging nails through my skin Die, die, dying to believe This beast you resurrected won’t break its leash We’re die, die, dying to believe That the ghost of the ills of this world will Find you where you sleep We’ll find you where you sleep Because it’s a sick fucking world in a sick fucking time Splitting at the seams as you desecrate the hive The cancer’s in your heart The poison’s in your mind Forked tongue motherfucker tell me how the hell do you sleep at night How do you sleep at night Dying to believe Die, die, dying to believe This beast you resurrected won’t break its leash We’re die, die, dying to believe That the ghost of the ills of this world will Find you where you sleep

03. Vice Grip

A system of complete control The pressure builds It wraps its hands around your throat A constant battle A silent war of mind and soul Get up, get up One life, one shot, give it all you got Get up, get up Keep the flame alive Hope for the hopeless A light in the darkness Hope for the hopeless A light in, a light in the dark The chains set to break your soul Day by day You know the choice you have to make Freeze up and fade Or be the flame that lights the way Get up, get up One life, one shot, give it all you got Get up, get up Keep the flame alive Hope for the hopeless A light in the darkness Hope for the hopeless You’ve got one life, one shot Give it all you got Ill’s got a vice grip, like ice running down your spine This world, it’s got you in its sights Rise, rise It’s all or nothing Rise, rise It’s do or die Rise Get up, get up One life, one shot, give it all you got Get up, get up Keep the flame alive Hope for the hopeless A light in the darkness Hope for the hopeless A light in the dark We stand for the faithless and the broken Hope for the hopeless A light in, a light in the dark

04. Crushed

Brothers, my brothers Is this all that we are Sisters, my sisters We’ve been crushed by the fists of god Welcome to the free world Where nothing’s as it seems Tell me, can you find a cure When you can’t see, and you can’t feel the disease Can you seek a higher truth When you’re living on your knees Where freedom grows from blood soaked soil In the lands of hypocrisy Because if you can’t see the chains tell me what use is a key It’s cash, blood and oil, in the age of the refugee They’re trying to buy our minds, we ain’t selling Bang, bang, bang, hear they’re nailing down the coffins Cut the strings, feel your heart start Cut the cord Crack this code of silence All our lives in the hands of tyrants Crushed by the fists of god Crushed We’ve been crushed by the fists of god To the left I see the rats and to the right I see the snakes In my ear they’re whispering sweet sermons of cruel hate So do you buy the fear, or do you buy the lies Tell me, what will set us free Do we kneel before the crooked few Or do we bite the fucking hand that feeds When death casts no shadow and hope carries no weight Rise into the light and feel the shackles fade away They fear what we know We know how they break Bang, bang, bang, drop the hammer of conscience Cut the strings, feel your heart start Cut the cord Crack this code of silence All our lives Crushed by the fists of god Crushed We’ve been crushed by the fists of god We’re just waiting for the sky to fall Yeah I’m just waiting Feels like all our lives we’ve been waiting for the sky to fall Feels like all this time we’ve been Brothers, my brothers Is this all that we are Sisters, my sisters We’ve been Crushed by the fists of god Crushed by the fists of god Crushed

05. Fractures

The devil’s at our door The Bloodwoods shiver in the glare of summers haze Dust of ancient lands breathes beneath our feet Since the dawn of time, giver of life divine Shadowed by dark ruination, looming down the line The poisoned lies of narrow minds Now spread into the soul of life Bitter blight fractures life This call for change won’t be too late The devil’s at our door Selling fool’s gold and a miracle cure Hearts of fire unite and man their barricades Truth is overwhelming and yet Hollow men still talk in vain Sowing sickness, shifting focus away Setting in stone a future we cannot sustain We can’t quench our thirst on profits gained And we can’t turn back once it begins Bitter blight fractures life This call for change won’t be too late They poison the well and expect us to drink When the river runs dry only then Then will they see You can line your pockets, but you can’t buy back your soul These gates are locked, this future is not yours to own Bitter blight fractures life This call for change won’t be too late

06. Writings on the Wall

When you’re born in the dirt the only way to grow is up So we reach for the sun but it seems Every rung that you climb is another crooked line That you cross off the tally of your dreams Don’t step out of line kid, you learn it pretty fast Every face has its place in the crowd They’ll give you all the answers, so you don’t ask any questions Then they’ll march you with a smile into the ground And we all go to heaven in a little row boat So put your hands up, put your hands up If crawling for the scraps won’t ever be enough Put your hands up, put your hands up The writing’s on the wall, this ain’t ever gonna stop Put your hands up, put your hands up If crawling for the scraps won’t ever be enough Put your hands up, put your hands up We’ll fight until we die, this ain’t ever gonna stop This stray dog world, this sick sad place Got a belly full of maggots and disease Every apple here is rotten, every blessing is a curse Every word is a lie you best believe We take one step forward, then two steps back In a race to the bottom of the barrel They teach us how to fear They teach us how to hate Then they arm us and they march us off to hell And its left, left, left right left So put your hands up, put your hands up If crawling for the scraps won’t ever be enough Put your hands up, put your hands up The writing’s on the wall, this ain’t ever gonna stop Put your hands up, put your hands up If crawling for the scraps won’t ever be enough Put your hands up, put your hands up We’ll fight until we die, this ain’t ever gonna stop Because they came for our minds We said nothing They came for our hopes We said nothing They came for our souls And still we said nothing Now they’re coming for our lives So what’s it gonna take What’s it gonna take See how they run, see how they run So put your hands up, put your hands up If clawing for the scraps won’t ever be enough Put your hands up, put your hands up The writing’s on the wall, this ain’t ever gonna stop Put your hands up, put your hands up If clawing for the scraps won’t ever be enough Put your hands up, put your hands up We’ll fight until we die, this ain’t ever gonna stop

07. Bottom Feeder

I’ve heard enough No more, no more You’ve had your time in the sun Keep your head down kid, your fifteen seconds are done I know it hurts, I wanted it this way All these years, I’m still the voice you can’t destroy I know how this one ends Lying in the gutter spitting teeth at the sidewalk I know how this one ends So bite your tongue if you can’t tame it Let’s get this straight, while you’re listening In my world you count for nothing Bow You’ll be the one to Drown With the rats and the snakes Bow You’ll be the one to Drown Bottom feeder I’ve heard enough I’ve heard enough to know Who talks the talk, who walks the walk And who’s for fucking show I know it hurts, I know it cuts That i’m still standing I’m everything you’re fucking not I know how this one ends Running from the world as your lies begin to cave I know how this one ends Your hollow words make shallow graves Let’s get this straight, while you’re listening In my world you count for nothing Bow You’ll be the one to Drown With the rats and the snakes Bow You’ll be the one to Drown Bottom feeder See I feel no guilt, like I feel no pain, like I feel the fire running through my veins You can’t draw blood when my heart beats cold And I’ll take your word like I take your name An ego lost in the valley of self disdain Pride cometh before the fall And you’ll break as I watch it all collapse No mercy, No peace You can’t escape this beast You can’t escape now snap your neck to this No mercy No peace You fucking bottom feeder

08. The Sound of Violence

We cut our teeth on sadness We hunt our sorrows down We fought the nights so sleepless We made our beds on the cold hard ground Seasons come and go, traditions rise and fall We watch with hunter’s eyes We found the place to call our own What we have, we hunt What we kill, we keep Shadows never die Darkness never breaks You built your bastions of ivory and pride We see your gates, but do not knock We stay out in the wild What we have, we hunt What we kill, we keep Shadows never die Darkness never breaks This is the sound of violence These are the songs of war We are everything you fear And we’re clawing at the walls I see a kingdom of closed minds and shallow hearts So tell me this, would you fall in line Or rip it all apart What we have, we hunt What we kill, we keep Shadows never die Darkness never breaks This is the sound of violence These are the songs of war We are everything you fear And we’re clawing at the walls This is the hour of the wolf We’re clawing at the walls This is the hour of the wolf This is the sound of violence These are the songs of war We are everything you fear And we’re clawing at the walls

09. Vicious

Live, with your back to the wall The bigger they come, the harder they fall Live, with a heart made of stone Slings and arrows and broken bones One by one by one by one Kings rise and fall One by one by one by one Heavy lies this crown of bones Darkness behold This hell we call home Live, with the eyes of the beast Never the prey, the weak or the sheep Live, with the strength to believe Dead to the world, but we’ll haunt their dreams One by one by one by one Kings rise and fall One by one by one by one Heavy lies this crown of bones Darkness behold This hell we call home Burn it, burn it all Burn it all to ash Burn it all to ashes Darkness behold This hell we call home

10. Dedicated

Twelve years I’ve fought for this Twelve years, my heart still beats For the ones who’ve stood beside me Still strong You can’t break me Twelve years I’ve fought for this Twelve years, my heart still beats For the ones who’ve stood beside me Through the values that define me No compromise, no surrender These beliefs, they make me whole Never the breaker, promise keeper Remains the ethic instilled in me Never one to bite my tongue Never turn, never run I’ve seen with my own eyes The price of life and the cost of lies You can’t shut this down I still spit fire This truth rings loud You better listen up You Can’t You can’t break me Twelve years I’ve fought for this Twelve years, blood sweat and tears For my family here beside me True to the ethos held inside me Life pushes hard, you push back Time makes its mark, you gotta stand the test Every dog has its day We make it count We find our own way You can’t shut this down I still spit fire This truth rings loud You better listen up You Can’t You can’t break me Twelve years I’ve fought for this Twelve years, my heart still beats For the ones who’ve stood beside me Still strong motherfucker so step back Through blood, sweat, tears We’re still here Unbreakable

11. A Deathless Song

Let me beat in your heart Be your drum of war and love Let me hide in your arms Be my cage, my key, my lock Let our bones collide Until the light falls like anvils from our eyes When our dreams ignite Disappear in their fire Be my deathless song Fill my aching lungs Breathe your life into me Because I drown in your shadow Like salt in the rain If my fear is tomorrow Your memory’s the fight in my veins Let me beat in your heart Be your drum of war and love Let me hide in your arms Be my cage, my key, my lock Let our bones collide Until the light falls like anvils from our eyes When our dreams Ignite Disappear in their fire Be my open sky Fill these wild eyes Breathe your life into me Because I drown in your shadow Like salt in the rain If my fear is tomorrow Then your memory’s the fight in my veins