The Empire Strikes First
Album - 2 giugno 2004 - Debaser id 115458

No lyrics! It's an instrumental!

Innocents burned alive at the stake, tortured and dumped in nameless graves
Centuries waned, authority died, scattering seeds of ancient lies
Sinister rouge coming back for more - to even the score
Sinister rouge coming back for more - to even the score
Child Molesters and Jesuits holding secret conference
underneath the Pontiff's nose
and only God will ever know
Sinister rouge coming back for more
to even the score
Sinister rouge coming back for more
to even the score
Give us this day our daily bread
Your legacy - we'll not forget
Lick the wounds, cleanse the land
The modern world rejects your hand
Sinister rouge coming back for more
to even the score
Sinister rouge coming back for more
to even the score
The nightmare comes in sinister rouge

Right Now! Well it's finally time to face my fears
Gonna get the hell out of here and create
a fresher atmosphere
But the consequence is clear
There's a furnace set on high and a
yearning undefined
But it's time to turn the tide
It's social suicide
Like You! Perseverence is a useless tool
Just a patron on a ship of fools feigning
interest in the cast and crew
While you've broken every single rule
There's a furnace set on high
and a yearning undefined
Now it's time to turn the tide
It's social suicide
Shadows entertain the unwashed masses
Scholars explain their numb reactions
I don't even know if I can ever find the Truth
But I'm sure it won't come from following you
There's a furnace set on high and
a yearning undefined
But it's time to turn the tide - It's social suicide

Maybe it's too late for intellectual debate
But a residue of confusion remains

Oh, changing with the times and amphetamine tortured minds
Are the average citizen�s sources of pain

Yeah, (Tell me what we're fighting for)
I don't remember anymore
Only temporary reprieve

And the world might cease
If we fail to tame the beast
From the faith that you release
Comes an atheist peace

Atheist peace

Political forces ran
Critical winds of discontent
And the modern age emerged triumphantly
But now it seems we've stalled
And it's time to de-evolve
And relive the dark chapters of history

Yeah, (Tell me what we're fighting for)
No progress ever came from war
Only a false sense of increase

And the world won't wait
For the truth upon a plate
But we're ready now to feast on an atheist peace
Oh, yeah

Oh, an atheist peace

Not long ago, and yet the image is so vague
I hesitate to label it a memory
There was a show of local color and I felt astray
'Cuz I had nothing to offer but insufficiency

And you know that it's a bitch
When you learn to scratch that itch
A blatant fallibility
Sooner to some, but eventually

All gets pointed in the same direction
While the human masses and their vague conceptions
Obliterate each other with impunity
And you wonder "what's in this for me?"

To another abyss - to no avail
The search is bound to fail
To another abyss - to no avail
So long ago I set sail
And it chills me to the bone
That I'm so far away from home
To another abyss

So what should I do now?
What should I celebrate
Given finite means and a penchant to depreciate?
How can I still avow and depend upon a state
That cares nothing for my happiness, welfare or fate?

And I know I can't explain
The commotion in my brain
Like a terrifying reality
Deconstructed but inadequately

All gets pointed in the same direction
While the human masses and their vain conceptions
Obliterate each other with impunity
And release the weight of history

To another abyss - to no avail
The search is bound to fail
To another abyss - to no avail
So long ago I set sail
And it chills me to the bone
That I'm so far away from home
To another abyss

(So long ago, I set sail
And I'm struggling on the way
And I'm waiting for the day (to another abyss)
And I'm looking for the way back home (to another abyss)
So far away (to another abyss)
So far away (to another abyss)
(to another abyss) So far away
(to another abyss)

The quickening is an ephemeral thing
That only happens in the dark
Like catching lightning in a jar
And the pain that it brings
Is just the promise of spring
It’s madness on the way
Oh, what does it mean…

To come alive
To come alive
To come alive
(To come alive) To come alive
To come alive
To come alive

The entering is soulful conjecturing
Oh, lost and by the wind-grieved ghost
Please come back to me again
Because the way that she bleeds
Is in the law that he reads
Confusing words and deeds
So what does it mean…

[chorus]

To pierce the fame of the sacred and profane
For science, in service of the faith
But who will bear the mark of Cain?

[chorus]

Drop dead, it doesn't matter, she said
It only hurts when I laugh, she said
Sometimes it's never a crime
To spend the day in bed
She made certain that the curtains were red
To drape better by the light they would shed
She leaned back, tilted her head
And this is what she said

You can't win; think it over again
I can't win; look at the trouble I'm in
We can't win and we're stuck here together
Yeah, I hope it will last forever.

Don't ever dare to hope, he said
So I'm never let down too bad
I know there's nowhere to go
So I'll just stay here, instead
He knew better than to pull at a thread
They unravel like the thoughts in his head
He looked out; it filled him with dread
And this is what he said

[Chorus]

With good books and looks on their side
And hearts bursting with national pride
They sang songs that went along for the ride
And the other side complied
They said, �Hey, man, where do you reside?
�And could it be mother�s superior lied?
�And is it possible too many have died?�
It's only natural to reply

[Chorus]