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Masquerade
06:06
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Ladies and gentlemen, maggots and slime
Welcome again in the circus of mind
I give you the blades, the masks and the wine
Please do stab your neighbour and do hear him whine
Chorus:
Put your masks on to begin the grotesque
Everything is free, there's no need to digest
Enter the chambers of infinite game
I'll help you forget your own names
Enter the chambers of infinite games
You'll forget your own names, your own names, your own names!
We dance and we crawl, we vomit and laugh
We feast and we torture and spill all we have
We fall into frenzy of utmost extremes
Still we're hungry for more, we are never at ease
Chorus
Seems that minutes have passed when it's actually days
Time consumed in a glimpse, lifetime flies, till it fades
When you stop to perceive your existence as naught
It's too late, you are lost, have you simply forgot?
Blindfolded hate no escape - out of constant masquerade
Pain, hate and greed, sacred three - trinity that's breeding thee
Blindfolded hate, out of lust - on your souls the Master's fed
Blindfolded hate, no escape - out of constant masquerade
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2. |
In Doubt
04:52
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I follow reflections in search for the answers
To questions that poison my shivering mind
The mirrors deceive as the images blur
They leave me to rot at the place I began
Chorus:
I'm blind - for no sense do I see
I drown - my faith is leaving me
I choke - I've nothing to believe
I die - in doubt if now I'm free
A Sisyphus' fate that I am to take
It tires me so, it crushes my will
Can't leave, nor can I accept what I'm given
See my worthless efforts resulting the same
Chorus
The march of humankind you are so eager to
Defend your worthless pride - it gives you shelter
Even though you're alive - that changes nothing
'Cause you still are to deny - gone, damned is your mind
I follow reflections in search for the answers
To questions that poison my shivering mind
The mirros deceive as the images blur
They leave me to rot at the place I began
A Sisyphus' fate that I am to take
It tires me so, it crushes my will
Can't leave nor can I accept what I'm given
See my worthless efforts resulting the same
Chorus
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3. |
Desolated Fields
04:41
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Tempting is your preach
The thoughtless dolls are all delighted
Never asking why
You summoned them for pointless lives
Desperate for a faith
The infinite minions crawl
Unaware and hoping
A whining anthem as they fall
Come follow me - fall into slumber
Come follow me - my mental slaves
Come follow me - follow my word
Come fall before me
Chorus:
Desolated fields
I breathe rapidly
Any shade of faith
Would cure misery
A choice is to be made
Whether to crawl unconscious
Or for all left time-lapse
To suffer the constant drift
I shall cleave your false and loving face
To see what lays behind
Come and punish me
Lord of countless lambs
Come follow me - fall into slumber
Come follow me - my mental slaves
Come follow me - follow my word
Come fall before me
Chorus
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4. |
Unconsciousness
06:56
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Children cry as the old men die
A perfect circle of life
There is no point as there is no end
Bound for existence in scorn
Locked in a cellar of personal self
A creature I be blind
Held by the shackles and impelled with nails
Awaiting once more to be born
Chorus:
The greed of joy
A lack of sense
Now lay and whine
Illusions fade
An immense void
Of nothingness
A perfect pure
Unconsciousness
Come, observe
The rot of thousand words
There is no use in reaching
for the gods
Unknown is the truth -
You're never to find out
You drift in a mist
There's no way to get out
Chorus
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5. |
Curse of Existance
05:54
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I spit at the face of the one that imprisoned
My soul in a cellar of personal self
And put me in stance of constant collision
With despair and absurd from irrational realm
Exceeding the borders of faith and despair
Not leaving a slightest place for a tear
A fusion of emptiness and desperate hate
Corroding the mind and leaving no faith
Chorus:
In frenzy of savage and miserable kin
I flee through the fields, from the terror within
But wherever I'd run, to my grief and despair
I am who I am, I am what I fear
And after I'm through with this life
Shall I be free or again have to suffer
Somebody help me to drive
My soul to a place I can rest for ever!
A curse of imprisonment a curse of existence
I'm born with a sign, I'm never to defeat this
Addicted to joy, addicted to pleasure
I'm in constant need for some miserable leisure
Exceeding the borders of faith and despair
Not leaving a slightest place for a tear
A fusion of emptiness and desperate hate
Corroding the mind and leaving no faith
Chorus
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6. |
Walk to Fall
05:15
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Chorus:
You're none - just meat to the cannons
You're none - in the feast of infernos
You're none - you're a puppet of fate
You're done - pile of dirt is your grave
Accept - all your previous life
Accept - had no meaning at all
Accept - all of value is lie
Submit - you walk only to fall
You wake as your room flashes with light
The sound of a blast rips the silence of night
Your bed sheets are red with blood of your own
You're trying to rise then you fall... then you fall with a groan
A war - it has come, it has knocked on your door
A terror you've felt never before
Run out of your home as they fall into flames
You think of your children, see them perish away!
Chorus
You run through the screams of crowds of live torches
Your leg's stuck, you sense how it burns, how it scorches
You try to get loose, you hear crack of your bone
You fall and just watch, you are left all alone
By then you recall all that you've left behind
The screams of your children, they torture your mind
How could you abandon those innocent souls?
You see your own home and the roof as it falls
A militant boot smacks your face into dirt
You choke on the gas that has gone, that has... gone to your throat
When you try to catch some sour air as you gasp
They pound you to death... and that's just for a laugh!
Chorus
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7. |
The Unknown
05:25
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Destiny we hold in hand
Afterlife - our promised land
Like so many times before
There's no savior at the door
Mankind's blind and trying to see
But, you know, this just can't be
We are living in a dream
But it's over - now I feel
Chorus:
Fear - I fear my heart and fear my soul
And all the things that are unknown
Faith - faithless is my darkest hour
It makes me bleed my only hope
Destiny we hold in hand
Afterlife - our promised land
Like so many times before
There's no savior at the door
God will give and God will take
No one really knows the pain
Life's a wheel, nothing more
My final ride is almost done
Chorus
Too many roads we've travelled on
And every journey must come to an end
Faith is the final key
As the answers lie in death
Destiny we hold in hand
Afterlife - our promised land
Like so many times before
There's no savior at the door
Mankind's blind and trying to see
But, you know, this just can't be
We are living in a dream
But it's over - now I feel
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8. |
Sand and Dust
05:43
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In lifeless plains a lonely road
A silent song of people old
Of those who're gone in misty time
For such is fate of yours and mine
Chorus:
Forgotten gravestones lay ahead
Marking their eternal beads
Inscriptions blank, the meanings lost
No remnants left but sand and dust
There's no choice for a path to take
No other shall be ever made
And you shall fade the same as they
Another stone no plains of grey
Chorus
A striking thought to cause chill
That none you are and stay you will
And you shall fade the same as they
Another stone on plains of grey
And all the efforts you make alive
They all shall fade, they all shall die
Chorus
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9. |
After (Instrumental)
03:24
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Mandragora Lithuania
Melodic Death Metal from Vilnius, Lithuania
Members:
Gražvydas (vocals)
Rimas (guitar)
Margo (bass)
Matas (guitar)
Mindaugas (drums)
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