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Target
02:48
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You attack because you’re bored and only out of spite
And try to drag me down ‘cause there’s nothing else to do;
Well, this is alien to me, I’ll never understand:
What happened to respect?
I’m the target now - so fucking easy!
But the sport is fun if the sport is good.
It’s so funny, oh, so funny!
It’s so funny to watch me bleed.
It’s so funny, oh, so funny!
Rip my heart out and watch me bleed...
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Drifter
03:36
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Compass in my head is broken - don’t know north from south,
Radar in my brain is totalled - can’t tell up from down.
Fingers they point everywhere but I
Only gaze back limp,
Voices they speak around me
But I, I, I, I ain’t switched on.
Dimly I see the future, yet I’m blind to clues
Furrowed skin is my current existence.
All the time in the world!
I cannot see it that way,
I want to drift in security,
I need to have
Information...available.
Open my eyes so I can walk...
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From The Ashes
04:02
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Wrecked you appear and wrecked you are,
So much pain in your soul -
Resignation grips your mind
Not too soon.
Suicidal silence – you emanate.
She sails away.
Shocked you appear and seared you feel,
Burning hurt in your eyes.
Grieve…Grieve…
Murderous silence – you emanate.
Her back is turned.
Still in one piece – calm
No forgiveness, then
And you won’t break.
Suicidal silence – you emanate.
She sails away.
Chaos has arisen so change must come
Dragon-breath ignites the Earth,
From the ashes you will rise
Clean and sound of mind.
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Need
03:47
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Why did you tell me
Why?!
I don’t fucking want to hear that!
I don’t fucking need to hear that!
I don’t fucking want to hear that!
There is no fucking need…
Why did you tell me? (The veil is torn)
Why did you tell me? (And cast aside)
Why did you tell me? (And I collapse in on myself)
Why?! Why?!
I don’t fucking want to hear that!
I don’t fucking need to hear that!
I don’t fucking want to hear that!
There is no fucking need…
Pain! Pain! Pain!
Pain is what you’ve given me
Pain is what you’ve given me (Pain!)
Pain is what you’ve given me (Pain!)
I laughed instead of crying.
Why did you tell me? (The wounds are raw)
Why did you tell me? (Attracting flies)
Why did you tell me? (The bleeding ruin)
Why did you tell me? (Of all the lies)
Why did you tell me? (Now darkness descends on me)
Why did you tell me? (Suffocating life)
Why did you tell me? (And I collapse in on myself)
Why?! Why?!
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Born Free
02:54
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Born free to roam, under this damp sunlight
Glen and strath,
We the common people.
Born free to roam, over the snow-white land
Frozen loch,
We the Scottish people.
Blood shed to be free (Blood shed to be free)
No memory dimmed (No memory dimmed),
You can’t take this away! (You can’t take this away!)
You can’t take this away! (Away! Away!)
Rise, my people, rise! (C’mon, c’mon!)
Walk your land once more.
Rise, my people, rise! (C’mon, c’mon!)
Walk your land once more.
Born free to roam, over haar-laid moor
This the right
Of us common people.
Rise, my people, rise! (C’mon, c’mon!)
Walk your land once more.
Rise, my people, rise! (C’mon, c’mon!)
Walk your land once more.
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Stranded
03:05
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Once again I’m drifting
This time no fingers point
And my surety lapses
This time no voices speak.
I’m standing on a stone disc
Suspended over nothingness,
This pit, this crucifix
Has never been so deep…
And the bait is mocking me
To reach, to eat and swallow
But can I leave this all behind?
(I don’t think so).
I’m standing on a stone disc
Suspended over nothingness,
This pit, this crucifix
Has never been so deep…deep!
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Controlling Freedom
03:45
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Apply controls to freedom:
Ban the press and breed the gun,
Accidents do happen - this is knee-jerk reaction.
Moral standpoint confused: privacy for those that we pay,
But in your interests refused safety for our children.
Where the fuck are you coming from?
Just two more dead
On a day of thousands.
Media’s a scapegoat to salve your fucking conscience,
What is going to happen to freedom of information?
Where the fuck are you coming from?
Just two more dead
On a day of thousands.
Control my freedom!
Control my freedom!
Control my freedom!
To information…
Apply controls to freedom:
Ban the press and breed the gun,
Accidents do happen - this is knee-jerk reaction.
Control…control my freedom!
Control…information.
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Balance
04:15
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Once you turned to the light, I am not sure why
And now you begin to embrace all that is black.
Do you despair of grey, warm neutrality?
Religion is kicking the pendulum,
Upsetting your internal balance:
Or so it seems to me,
Or so it seems to me.
Perhaps I am blind, but your anger seems so confused,
I don’t pretend to understand, when I cannot.
Do you see a world beyond this,
That you must strive so hard
And tangle with that
That is not necessary for life?
It seems to me,
Yes, it seems to me
It seems to me,
Yes, it seems to me…
Religion is kicking your teeth
And twisting you soul upon itself.
Doesn’t it hurt? Can’t I help you?
Whispering…the wind through the trees.
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Rotschreck Dundee, UK
Rotschreck were an extreme metal band well known in the UK's scene between 1996-2002.
Their distinctive sound married elements of death metal, thrash, hardcore and groove, keeping songs short, intense and catchy.
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