THE RISK TAKEN LYRICS

1. Lay Waste To The Plague

Well beneath the high rise neon death of the future
We speak between the screams of sky scrapers and streetlights
The peace of page and statue
The plague of class gaps and "downsize."
WE ARE the only party of pawns to escape the queens killing spree.
So we'll communicate through communiques scrawled over self portraits
Quoting manifestos printed on pink slips from years past.
Cautious with out color today... We'll paint this world red tomorrow.
For we are... For we are to FORM FORCE
Our word the hammer ~ Our voice the sickle
Slipping through subservience in seppuku sequence.
Marionettes unite, cut your chords and kill your maker
Hang his head in your cabinet.
FIRE ANTS ~ TOPPLE THE OLD HILLS AND BUILD MOUNTAINS!
From picket fence to picket line,
millions are facing decay under the pressure of imperialism and profit,
Soon we'll smash the strike breakers and let no one else rule but ourselves.

2. My Last Midnight

[Lyrics written by Olga Benario - a German Revolutionist. These lines were taken from a letter she wrote to her husband and daughter while detained in a golding cell on the night prior to being put into a gas chamber at the hands of the very Nazis whom she waged war against with her progressive thought and passion to speak out for what was truly right - no matter what toll it would take.]

I WILL REMAIN.
After tonight, I want simply to live for whatever brief future I have left.
You are the one ~ YOU ARE THE ONE ~ who taught me, dearest one,
WHAT STRENGTH of will means, especially when it springs from sources like ours.
I have struggled for the just of the good, for the betterment of the world.
I promise you now as i say farewell ~ FAREWELL
That until the last instant I will give you no reason to be ashamed of me.
Please understand, preparing for death doesn't mean giving up
But knowing how to confront it when it arrives ~ so many things could still happen in the mean time.
I will remain firm and determined to live until the last moment ~ Until the LAST MOMENT.
I've already gone back to dreaming, as i do every night, forgetting that this is to say goodbye
For this reason I will not be able to think about the things that torment my heart
THINGS DEARER TO ME THAN MY OWN LIFE.

3. Carrion Awake

Burn the wicked tongues of men for they have failed us.
This shallow grave is a renaissance left in betrayal
with vanity its casket and pride the nails.
We once STOOD FOR something of worth and purpose ~
but it is man's true inherent nature to slit the throat of righteous thought.
WHAT HOLDS US BACK from true change? Tear down your idols and set fortune to flame ~
Burn.
Strike back at the rituals that anchor the weak.
Reroute the PATH OF DESCENT.
We dance in circles with the dead,
The same steps... the same faults... the same simple fate? No.
NO COMPROMISE ~ for WAR is all we can offer these demons.
We build altars to the plague of moral decay and lift up hollow hearts to the stage.
The weak forge temples from the weak and the cycles our generation promised to beak remain still.
True awakening is our last hope.

4. Absolve The Vale

Raining down from the fire sky a barrage of blood and blistered skin.
It's been like this for days. Melee up above ~ hell in the heavens.
We knew it would come to this ~ a killing sun, a polar ice cap flood,
A boiling ocean taking everyone.
It's high time for reconsidering our kind ~ a race of frauds fooling nature into keeping us alive.
Clouds become flame ~ air born ~ are burned
Rain river OCEAN ~ coagulate and petrify
EMBRACE the earth RECORN ~ Awakened are the neo gods
It's high time for the death of life. It's too late for anything but the end.
Watch as your whole world burns.
Raining down from the fire sky a barrage of blood and blistered skin.







THE RISK TAKEN LYRICS