DENIAL MACHINE LYRICS

1. Whom The Gods Would Destroy

Descending into madness
Derived from self hatred
Lost in the clarity
The memories have faded

The needle pricks the skin
Invasive therapy begins
Push and pull
There's no way out

Failure, you're praising failure
Over and over again

[Chorus:]
Am I the only one
To see the writing on the wall?
May the hammer of God
Be brought down
Now you're set up for the fall

The vile
The rapist
Heroes to be honored
Just how far have you fallen?

The guilty bring home all the praise
A new idol to adore your pray
What was right is now wrong in this age

Failure, you're praising failure
Over and over again

[Chorus:]
Am I the only one
To see the writing on the wall?
May the hammer of God
Be brought down
Now you're set up for the fall

Slowly you're swept away
Slowly you're swept away
With the tides of this persecution
Defiance brings wrath through self righteous indignation
Amoral pragmatisk
Does the end justify the means?

Whom the gods would destroy
First they make mad
Whom the gods would destroy

[Chorus:]
Am I the only one
To see the writing on the wall?
Am I the only one
To see the writing on the wall?
May the hammer of God
Be brought down
Now you're set up for the fall

You're set up for the fall

2. The Denial Machine

Denial, a doubter
I'm part of that machine
Alarmist, a realist
You preach failed ideology

Just another way
To control our lives
Tell us what to say
And what to do

[Chorus:]
You want the world made in your own image
I will not listen!
The never ending stream of contradictions
Contradictions!

The theories, unproven
They're still placed as policy
Restrained, silenced
To try and render us defeat

Just another way
To control our lives
Tell us what to say
And what to do

[Chorus:]
You want the world made in your own image
I will not listen!
The never ending stream of contradictions
Contradictions!

Design of threat and punishment
Their statement of faith
Become the mass delusion
May God protect us from those
Those who want to save the world!

[Solo - Anderson/Cichra]

Refuse
Become
Insurrection
Refuse
Become
Revolution

Refuse
Become
Insurrection
Refuse
Become
Revolution

[Chorus:]
You want the world made in your own image
I will not listen!
The never ending stream of contradictions
Contradictions!

3. A Symbol Of Obsession

Forget not these scars
For they're all too real
Will time still heal?

Still aging
And fading
Vanity!

Take a look in the mirror
Don't be afraid
It's only shame

You idolize your image
When the mirror breaks
Your image will fade

[Chorus:]
You pray
You pray for redemption
And salvation
To save you from yourself
You pray for salvation
To save you from yourself
From yourself

Now you'll give your confession
The guilt of perfection
Overwhelming pride
There's nothing real left in you
Alone you stand a symbol of obsession

[Chorus:]
You pray
You pray for redemption
And salvation
To save you from yourself
You pray for salvation
To save you from yourself
From yourself

Make your last confession
Of a plastic Existence
Your God is your possessions
Alone you stand a symbol of obsession

Take a look in the mirror
Do you recognize the eyes that stare back at you?
Embrace the cold
The cold reflection

Pray for your redemption
Pray for your salvation
Save you from yourself

Alone you stand
A symbol of obsession

4. Idée Fixe

We will be
We will be reborn

Yaoh!
I am the one with the weight of the world
On my shoulders
Burying me

When will you learn
I can't walk away
It's too late for me
To turn the page

Why does pain inspire
Life to be reborn

Now I watch the world burn
The fault lies with our humanity

Why don't we learn?
Destined to repeat the mistakes
In our soul it's engraved

Why does pain inspire
Life to be reborn

We will be
We will be reborn

From dust we came
To ashes we return

[Solo - Anderson]

Are we forgotten?
Condemned to silence
In solitude comes revelation

We're nothing
We're everything
We're nothing
Forgotten in silence!

Why does pain inspire
Life to be reborn

I can't let myself
Be the one who falls away
(I will be reborn)
(I will be reborn)

5. This Burden (Tortured)

All have forsaken me
Delivered me
To the martyrs of tyranny
Bless the sin
Praise the death

[Solo - Anderson]

Nail in; my final breath
Who I am
All I am
Tortured

Crucify all hope
Wash your hands in blood
How easy can you clear your conscience?

[Chorus:]
Defend the wrong
(The wrong)
Deny the weak
(The weak)
How easy you will stab at the righteous

This burden carries on
Hold me up when all seems lost
This burden carries on...
And on 'til forever comes!

Who I am
All I am
Tortured

Fear, embrace the emptiness
Endure the suffering
Erase the emotion
Becoming...

[Solo - Cichra]

Divinity!

[Chorus:]
Defend the wrong
(The wrong)
Deny the weak
(The weak)
How easy you will stab at the righteous

This burden carries on
Hold me up when all seems lost
This burden carries on...
And on 'til forever
'Til forever comes!

Tortured
Tortured
Tortured
Tortured

6. Simulacrum Of Hope

I'm waiting
I hate it
The end I have created
I fear it
Revere it
I feel it drawing near

I am the enemy
The adversary
I am now aware we can't avoid this
I wait to be destroyed

Apocalypse
Your ruin
Rise
The strong survive

This truth is terrifying
May it never come to light

[Chorus:]
Please give me tomorrow
I will find a way
I'll die for one more day
(One more day)
Please give me tomorrow
Give me a chance
To find a way to hold back time

Apocalypse
Your ruin
Rise
The strong survive

This fear is paralyzing
If I have spend my life [?]

[Chorus:]
Please give me tomorrow
I will find a way
I'll die for one more day
(One more day)
Please give me tomorrow
Give me a chance
To find a way to hold back time

[Solo - Anderson]

This will not be
Who I will become

[Chorus:]
Please give me tomorrow
I will find a way
I'll die for one more day
(One more day)
Please give me tomorrow
Give me a chance
To find a way to hold back time

I will not be
Who you have become

7. Another Savior

I've walked this line
One too many times
With no promise of fortune
So much wasted time
Yet you already made up your mind
Undertaking progress

[Chorus:]
Cry out "I believe"
Embrace the end

My efforts have expired
Common tradition
Suffering addiction to conflict

[Chorus:]
Cry out "I believe"
Accelerate the immanence
Cry out "I believe"
Embrace the end

[Solo - Anderson/Cichra]

You won't make me
A part of this
You won't make me
A part of this

Pledge yourself to another savior
You won't make me
A part of this
My dying words will still resist
Pledge yourself to another savior

See the collapse
Which you bring to us all
Now your curses are true

The line is crossed
Hasten the end
Live with the path of destruction
You walk through this world

[Chorus:]
Cry out "I believe"
Accelerate the immanence
Cry out "I believe"
Embrace the end

8. The God Particle

Loss for dreams
Can't wake me now
Silence circles all around me
I can't remember
Do you recall
The whispers to me
The rising call

"We keep what we have...
... Only with vigilance..."

[Chorus:]
Eternal sleep
Your life fades away
Your message of hope
Eternal sleep
Your life fades away
Your promise of freedom

No remorse for cold succession
Short sighted fate
Will never lead me

No affection
No advocate
Point the blame to last inoculation...

[Chorus:]
Eternal sleep
Your life fades away
Your message of hope
Eternal sleep
Your life fades away
Your promise of freedom

Static pain
Greets me when I'm sober
Have I become
Womething mother would be proud of?

[Solo - Anderson/Cichra]

One more trip to slow me down

"We keep what we have...
... Only with vigilance..."

[Chorus:]
Eternal sleep
Your life fades away
Your message of hope
Eternal sleep
Your life fades away
Your promise of freedom

9. Execute: Vengeance

Assault the earth
Let cities burn
Destroy the population
May mothers kill their children
Sparing them the degradation

[Chorus:]
Tear... it... down
Your world falls apart
Tear... it... down
Before it kills you
First you and now the rest of us
(Rest of us...)

My anger saves
My anges saves
My power
It guides my wisdom
My will commands
That I will bring to all
A new direction

[Chorus:]
Tear... it... down
Your world falls apart
Tear... it... down
Before it kills you
First you and now the rest of us
(Rest of us...)

Your hatred becomes your sight
An angry truth does not teach
Your principles die with you

This world will pass away
This world will pass away

Many are the sorrows of the wicked
Many are the sorrows of the wicked

[Spoken:]
O Daughter of Babylon
Doomed to destruction
Happy is he who repays
You for what you have done to us
He who seizes your infants
And dashes them into the rocks

[Chorus - Altered:]
(Tear... it... down)
Your world falls apart
(Tear... it... down)
Before it kills you first
Before you kill us all
(Kill us all...)

10. Delivering Failure

You're right
Growing, evolving
The change
For a better life

You're wrong
Broken by promise
You lied
A waste of my time

[Chorus:]
Challenge me
Delivering failure
Challenge me
Ignore the truth

Tell me why must you call on me?
I'm not the one to serve you
Tell me why must you call on me?
"You're not my fucking God"
I'm not the one to serve you

A stranger
Tempting, leading, my home
I see through you
I see through this
Direction: press down
Till shaken
What has begun
No longer lives

[Chorus:]
Challenge me
Delivering failure
Challenge me
Ignore the truth

Tell me why must you call on me?
I'm not the one to serve you
Tell me why must you call on me?
"You're not my fucking God"
I'm not the one to serve you

Liar, play the prophet
Be my guide
To your heresy

I can see no other way
But desire loneliness
Once again
Never more
Crawling back to me

[Solo - Anderson/Cichra]

11. The Judas Goat

I am he
The archetype of betrayal
Allow me to tempt you
I walk among you
A lying divination

[Chorus:]
Forgive me?
For I know what I will do
Follow me
Sorrow is my only truth

I am he
The adversary
And I accuse
No absolution
I am within you
Leading you astray
BURN WITH ME!

[Chorus:]
Forgive me?
For I know what I will do
Follow me
Sorrow is my only truth

[Spoken Spanish words]

"Repent not of your murder
Or thy iniquity
Eternal ashes rain down
Your soul won't rest in peace
I betray thee

I betray thee"

[Chorus:]
Forgive me?
For I know what I will do
Follow me
Sorrow is my only truth

12. Worms Of The Earth

Built on blood
Behind the guile of peace
Subjugate!
The worms of the earth
Spread their disease
Do you believe?
Condemn you with one hand
The other subverts
The guilt placed upon you
"Will you serve?"

[Chorus:]
This is the only way
To heal the division
This is the only way
To break my convictions

Break down the will
Deny the right to exist
To dominate!
All in the name
Of the progressive mind
Self interest denied
Focus their anger to give punishment
You support the derision
You now serve!

[Chorus:]
This is the only way
To heal the division
This is the only way
To break my convictions

Is this the only way?
Is this the only way?
Is this the only way?

[Solo - Anderson/Cichra]

The life
Blood is the price for everything
In the end...

Bring down
Turn away
The dissenting voice
Violent words defy
Leaving no choice

To bring them down
To silence all...
To bring them down
To silence all...

[Chorus:]
This is the only way
To heal the division
This is the only way
To break my convictions

Silence dissension
To further progression
Dogmatic delusions rise!







DENIAL MACHINE LYRICS