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PostNuclear

by Dismantled

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1.
Armed And Ready 06:06
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Enforcer: Post Nuclear Surface probe Scanning for Life signs All either dead Or praying for the next impact Couldn't rise Past all these sworn perimeters And besides, All their wars Were just cheap breeding contests And unearthed Their ripped jaws still screamed Survivor: Awoke to find the sky below a swollen ground as it all lifted up I heard no voices in this storm and even as they overburned I've never felt more alive They built me well against this dawn until They led me through their righteous armored gears And as they grinded on I realized that I've swallowed whole The corpse of my belief Yet still... I am all armed and ready My faith's all strapped The blood runs colder The days drain past I go on I'm ready for war Except raised flags and all the pride you spit Will never make an impact I'm still all armed and ready This mind is all torn They ripped this faith off They'll have it ready to blow I'll go on They're still praying for war Enforcer: So let them Praise their swarms And worship their every Impact While they Grind their wars And sell them to every last Perimeter They have bred Beyond all hope Of a resolve Let their jaws Rip into their last Oblivion
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Backwards 05:07
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Their heads on backwards Decisions frozen in vain The fate grows colder Illusion of power prevails No conscience left They'll die to resurrect their fallen As long as the faith holds The outcome will never change Cut them off from the tubes they feed you In to keep the worms from crawling out Faith on concrete Their meltdown is as predictable As all these strings they pull To keep their faith in line Face down The mind rips open Open core
3.
The Swarm 05:09
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They swarm Whenever you're on For others They swarm without an on or off Self-sufficients breed best always on Ignore, but bioforced never to bypass a swarm Overfed the self with their faith Tried to tear it all off But could not It all stayed on Strapped myself to the faces that'll never give me anything more On or Off On or Off Somehow I always turn it off But I'd rather live a lie that's always on Upright They form their walls They had their eyes carved out To lead their own They've got an iron vision And they only make room For those self-sufficients who never choose Upright They all grind on My own internals scream that I won't fit their mold But they're so self-sufficient They're bred so well That I just wanna smash through and pretend I'm them and now Uptight They've all just stalled Their eyes all upon me Waiting to swarm Now I'm a self-sufficient I've built myself well But they will never swarm, Oh they will never swarm But I have no complaints, no I made a promise I could never undertake This corner always served me well But I... I can't beat the swarm Get ahead Get a life Get a face Get anything Just stay the fuck away from me
4.
Had A Life 05:48
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Walked straight for the longest time Never looked at that exit to the other life Kept it airtight Lost all sight Although all I ever had to do was stay blind As well as stay down The eyes are open now and I'm screaming towards the ground Slammed back onstage now where I will mime Through a broken jaw But I forgot again Just my imagination Out of touch with reality again Where the outer surface never rises From the nukes That implode and pass That implode and pass Even though eventually they'll throw off the mask Reveal the insides and every past To an empty night when all the flesh had crawled back into the stale light They've spent their lifelines On making sure I reach their landmines If I had a life I probably wouldn't notice If I had a mind I wouldn't let it choose for me Well the sun's nailed up now The swarms all loose now Preparing in full force to climb their ladders up While their engines drill the skies down As long as it takes to build that armored skyline Under which I've dried up While waiting for the ocean's rise To sweep it all away somehow To the carefree glow of the grey sand Where the blueproof tide unwinds its grasp To the paper shores' sway of an ion sky But now the stillframe skips over and back And all folds away into these cartboard blinds And then I hear the voices whisper: "Give it up" I said Give it up This isn't what you wanted Now just give it up this isn't what you wanted Give it up This isn't want we had in mind You had your life to live Now tell me what to do I've got no life I won't even choose
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Cornered 06:39
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Cornered Teeth scraped along the walls Jaw frantic in protest Scarred hands jerk like last breath on a string Along the floor, Spilled eyes all fixed on a frozen heaven Staring down black eighty feet through a ripped 'scraper top Waiting for a hell to rain down from the longest iron wings Because all the faith in this world has crawled up Just between these swollen ribs Sprouting nails and wings and worms and lies for those who take The lights below You know they'll bleed forever Get back as the cores blow Let me fall
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Exit 06:37
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Faced the crowd In a blind mirror Skull smashed headfirst Against this wall of inner need I knew this fall Would send it all down towards the lights And they will question once more From their unscathed towers I'll answer Go on and force Your one-bit truth until the end I'll swallow every bullet That rips through the hull A sheltered life crawls forward, vomits And folds around twin blades I pull it back like last time Yet it never cuts through all the way I always have to take it hostage Whenever I feel I find no way to begin It always bled from within They fed the dreams so it could rip I've grown content in this dream I'll let those others take and give Whenever I feel There is no way to begin I've grown content in this dream I'll let those others take and give And if I had Leaned forward and let their downpours mask Preburned fields growing supports for a future set in past Every reflection would lie and every breath would climb blind Toward their shallow corpse of a self-lit sky And just its weight would be enough To send it all off the edge towards that same undecided mind Towards that self-absorbed conscience that only screams So predictably "Someone burn me an exit" Stormed their black-rise tower looming past Drove them all out into a corner Of the memory gridmap Airlocked and silenced, I kept holding back Finally burned them all alive Before cutting off my own blood supply I knew they had it bypassed to a bloodthirsty human mass That infested with a false promise of a chance And held a freedom already dried up and past
7.
A Shallow Light 05:44
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You're running out now You've led them through your tired edge again They know you're mourning now Your every selfish loss was an excuse to up your gain Bring down the walls On yourself On yourself Rise up and question now I'm just suprised your vision is so set in doubt And I know... I am so over now Too used to being buried in a shallow light Gone blind But the damage is done And I've left their sky Too overwhelmed in this light And I've just realized they're right I just can't handle this life Just leave me inside and let me say (to myself) "In your light hangs a suicide And I wish you cared" But you brought down the walls On yourself On yourself
8.
The Last Excuse 06:04
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If there is a hell It filters through its neverending shades of green And when it turns on those rains it mutes it all to grey If there is a hell Its only life support is an idle screen But to unplug is to spill a restless world at unset knees If there is a hell It always stares back through the same new cracks And its every face seems worn and stale and overplayed If there is a hell It rings through wires and into my head It asks me where and how and why I just don't try But how can I explain When all I've been is blinded These words do talk These heads do turn But yet it's probably worthless I'm not the one I didn't want this And whether it's chemical, emotional, physical It doesn't mean shit If there is a hell There must be a heaven And if just once It shined right through Perhaps I'd try But it's only there So the mind can fake it And it seems that All its innocence Has all but drowned And sometimes it calls Through the submerged distance And as its glimmers Fade to black The depths seem undone But the only way to dive Is through their engines And while they always take the plunge I've learned to stand aside And leave them to collide Since I'm not the one I didn't want this And there is a hell I had it all made
9.
Essence 06:37
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I glanced away And the tides swept past me Wherever you've run And whatever you've built Stop Open your eyes And realize That life had run past you
10.
From The Coma-Swept Ruins 06:47
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I've got an army of one behind the last wall Fuels the engine in the last room to the right Meanwhile the hallway is in another past I had it nailed down to the last future pointed up My faith's crawling through the vents again The last time it came down It felt something like a last rain And the drains are all clogged again The smashed mirrors are leaking from the pipes within I've got the world in a metal shelf Above a window grinning Perfect ocean blue And every life I take is my own Don't have the fuel to burn it my way Mind is wide open to the eyes pointed left They've taken all they could again The rest hangs black in the storm ahead I can't pass it with these roads I've cut through And I'm impressed with all you do With just four limbs and a head And if I were anyone else I'd be the mirror staring back at a face so deaf I'm in the open now yet all enclosed The hollow winds of engines shuffling fog again Ahead the distance smears all that's left I used to walk it now the wheels just blur through And at the end they've all turned to air And left their shadows behind for me to follow And what they say is that I have got to change So I think I'll go and do that right now

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I was listening to 2 Pac - No More Pain when I designed this skull logo. This album was me trying to be not like my first album. Also, trying to have emotions because of my failure in college but unable to express them properly due to lack of social development.

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released February 3, 2004

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