Narcotics & Animal Instincts

by Voices In Vain

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1.	Victim of the Void 04:43	lyrics
Brought down by the burden Of hearing dead men whisper A lifeless form in the corner of the room Paralyzed, no one can hear the screams I feel as though I'm Choking on my useless tongue This world around me reeks of mold and rot This room is not the room I know This bed knows no comfort This world is not my own All I taste is the decay As life slowly fades With each panicked breath The claws are cutting deeper Peeling away lifeless flesh (Swallowing my consciousness Muffled shouts barely escape From Trembling lips I can not be awake Trapped in vivid slumber I am a slave to the emptiness I am a victim of the void Trapped in this purgatory I suffer Pray to God, to end this game To once again be in control I have found that God is dead Or is choosing to ignore my pleas Please hear my cries Time is running out! I have never begged to you, Until cold fingers were wrapped around my throat. Swallowing my consciousness I finally break free, Only once again to fall back into sleep The Emptiness knows me, The cycle never ends. So now I will greet the dark, As my oldest friend
2.	Anarchrist 02:16	lyrics
Burn the flags Abandon all borders When blood is spilled for oil The world will know disorder Yeah What did you expect when you put your guns to our head? Divide and conquer Amber waves painted red Media lies, they segregate Influential bias chock full of hate (Left to rot) Scorn the lowborn We've been forewarned of tyrannical tendencies Ever heavenly zealotry Kill the firstborn New life adorned Profits over humanity We are coming Nothing you can do to stop Our rise to the top
3.	By Any Means Necessary 03:35	lyrics
No more waiting idly by As the children of our earth suffer and die Load it up, cock it back Load it up Hit record and play it back Let em know when its time to attack Hit record and play it back Apathy has run its course Peaceful protest, met with force Amnesty, the darkest horse The last resort, Violence, I shall endorse Slaughtered souls, no remorse Civilization has become destroyed Replaced by corporate interests We're the slaves they've employed Break the foundation of this bastard nation We fear the powers While unnarmed are killed We drink from the water While their blood is spilled Break the damnation Of this place of hatred No discrimination This, our revelation Apathy has run its course Peaceful protest, met with force Amnesty, the darkest horse The last resort, Violence, I shall endorse Slaughtered souls, no remorse We fear the powers While unnarmed are killed We drink from the water While their blood is spilled Break the captivity Of living in a fallacy Death to passivity Freedom for you and me Load it up, cock it back Hit record and play it back Let em know it's time to attack Hit record and play it back
4.	Young Again 03:42	lyrics
I heard her scream as I slipped off the edge Another empty bottle What's one more crushed up pill? The doctors say that I am sick So my prescription he will fill The poison it kills me I find I have no will To live, to learn, to love, to breathe To be a strong man One who believes I'm not weak, I'm just a little bit ill Lack of love, full of hate, they made me this way No more lies, no more cries, no more shame In the garden a child will play Am I the one, who is irrepararable? In and out of this web of fog What's one more laugh to fake? One more for old times sake Trying to hide, yet I'm stuck in free fall I am a failure, who was forced to crawl I'm not weak, I'm just a little bit ill End it all, end it all, I hear them say No more lies, no more cries, no more shame Tonight, in the garden a child will play In the dirt my feet feel wet and cold There's a mist upon the air The sun is shining, beating down Rotting claws they breach the earth From hands so small, and skin so pale Crippling anxieties of old worlds Were stolen away Gone with the scent of decay
5.	The Raven & The Snake 04:42	lyrics
Betrayed by those I love Another mouse for the snakes to eat Squirming, slithering, conniving beasts You won't be laughing when your life has ceased This world is full of vile, venomous creeps The kind to rob you all alone in the streets Cowards parade around erroneously A sick smile hides sanctimoniously How could I've been so fucking blind I've been two timed, fueled by lies from the start Fake love, your crime, despised disguise, Defeated enemy, you will face your downfall of reverence. Betrayed benevolence I hope you'll feel the blade as it pierces your skin I'd die to hear your screams (Over and over again) You created this mess you're in (Over and over again) Now sit back, take your medicine Behold I am the Raven I am the one that devours snakes Worthless, withering, dying beast Your body breaks while I have my feast My hunger has grown insatiable Like a shipwreck left unsalvageable All alone and in an unforgiving world I will never look at myself the same, Too delicate, she breaks, Murdered without a trace, I am the beast you created Now you're lying with a caved in head A message hidden underneath my bed I load a handgun with an ounce of lead Put the barrel to my mouth All I wanted was your loyalty, This ends with the death of you and me
6.	Narcotics 03:17
7.	Animal Instincts 02:55	lyrics
I have grown so sick, so sick of it all A broken man has met his fall I smell blood, and I want to hunt Deceived by nature, inhibition failed Broken down Feast on rotten flesh Intellect can not save me When the body has already failed When my body has already failed Sing me a song Words flow from sweet lips With those lips you will feast On rotten flesh With me, come on let's go Take my hand, we are going home Hold me up, be my crutch I destroy everything I touch Rope around The neck of compliance Burn me at the stake of truth I drown in my sorrows I long endlessly for youth Feast on rotten flesh I have grown so sick, so sick of it all A broken man has met his fall I am the feral one I am brave enough, to know what I've become I am a man with no control, and the instincts of an animal
8.	The Charlatan's Faith 02:42	lyrics
Created destiny? Defined fate? This chosen life is in the shade Destroying God, abandon hate We choose our love We choose our faith Hypocrisy has tainted this world False idols preach lies Fallacies of prophecy Wolves dressed as Shepards Herding regimes of sheep Wasted words, wasted prayers Useless sermons, falling on deaf ears Now I lay me down to sleep I pray no Lord my soul to keep For if I die before I wake I fear my life would be in vain Now I lay me down to sleep I don't need prayers to count the sheep He who says he is in the light But hates his brother is still in the darkness Hypocrisy has tainted this world In the name of messiah No world knows perfection False idols claim salvation Repent, your God doesn't love you You are a pawn for the religious extreme Mindless fool(hopeless fake) Hypocritical sinner Your tainted soul isn't heaven sent
9.	Judgement Day 08:29	lyrics
I stepped on the stones, turned my site north Towards the peaks and the bright bluesky The seeming eternity Is calling, longingly for me One step forward One step toward A thousand miles of nothing Oblivion looms ahead In the darkness We see the most The ground crunches beneath me In the distance I hear thunder As the clouds roll in Like a sword, unsheathed The earth quakes and splits Breaks and slits the wrists Into canyons and caves Mountains into waves Horrifyingly they melt away Into geometric figures Eroding my last sense of sanity The man I was is falling apart Broken and scarred Yet we wash Yet we wash our intelligence to the sea Temptation is a demon Yearning to be free Addicted to the perilous pain I stepped on the stones, turned my site north Towards the peaks and the blackened sky The seeming eternity is calling longingly for me One step forward One step toward A thousand miles of nothing Oblivion looms ahead In the darkness We see the most Beg for your life As the clouds roll in Like a sword, unsheathed The earth quakes and splits Breaks and slits the wrists Into canyons and caves Mountains into waves Broken and scarred In fragments they shard The weak are all I see Empty bodies before me Trapped in a daily routine Awaiting their slaughter Dead is he who taints the world Dead is is he who forged the plans Dead is she with the stolen pearls Dead are they with tied up hands From the third world up to the first Tap our resources and steal our land When we asked for you to quench our thirst You brought our bodies out into the sand Bury me in the cold dark earth tonight Ensure that I am deep down in the dirt So deep I that could never escape Know your demise You heretics will beg for your lives Choking on the poisonous air You fucking cowards will face the tides As the acid rain melts away your skin Species extinct will come to life To take away your pathetic existence The verdict is in We are guilty

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released July 20, 2018

Produced and Engineered by Greg Thomas at Silver Bullet Studios
Mixed by Greg Thomas and Chris Teti
Mastered by Bill Henderson at Azimuth Mastering
Artwork by Anthony Grasso
All music written by Voices in Vain and Greg Thomas
All lyrics written by Jeremy Urtz

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