Meshuggah

rebellious; disposed to or in a state of mutiny

A myriad pains begotten in their wake

The bastard spawn of a mutinous self

The regurgitation of my micro nemesis

rigorous; demanding strict attention to rules and procedures

The means for its ascent

Bloodletting, the stringent voice to beckon my soul

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having an open attitude; open to arguments, ideas, or change

Staples to pin it over my ears

Non-receptive of ungodly sounds

I disable the audio-generators of fear

lack of harmony; a conflict of people’s opinions or actions or characters

Those Joules define what we are

An energy born in dissonance

Long before first ever star

separation; separation into component parts

To purge myself of this condition

Complete this dissolution a necessity

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obsolete; make unfashionable, outdated, or obsolete

Obsolete instrument

An outmoded contraption

A malfunctioning device

possible; capable of being done with means at hand and circumstances as they are

Where the path is evened out, all obstructions removed

Great, viable citizen

Are you happy now?

gullibility; tendency to believe readily

That we ourselves conceived

With covetous verve and credulity

Something this intensely profound

drink; take in, also metaphorically

Guzzling down your dreams - the tears of unheard pleas I drink,

Imbibe with such delight the fear that floods your temporal shell

Raging red rivers and streams - the kingdom of my shadow

dependable; incapable of failure or error

Summoned by your fears. You need me, you feed me

I'm the imposing giant. Infallible dictator

My rules apply to all. You'll heed me, bleed for me

entrust; commit forever; commit irrevocably

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Consign to oblivion

This thing we cannot grasp

out of date; so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period

Artificial, divine

Great archaic obseletum

A prevarication, deceitfully contrived

cure all; (Greek mythology) the goddess of healing

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Useless panacea

Imaginary cure-all

early model; a standard or typical example

Synthesized, fictitious

Dreamed up by remote prototypes

Opiate for the yearning mass

creation; a deliberately false or improbable account

Jealous vengeful fabrication

Halo-crowned invention

pompous; ostentatiously lofty in style

New intelligence arise in emptied bodies

Turgid flesh tested through eternal spastic

Fits through not known codes mother

soothe; cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of

An eternity defeated

Programmed to appease you

We're symbols of perfection

revenge; action taken in return for an injury or offense

It's subharmonics the undoing of all

So enticing, the retaliation - chords of man

The all-deafening oscillation of the damned.

greed; reprehensible acquisitiveness

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Descendant of avarice

Indifferent war machine in all its violent glory

brutal; resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility

Blind, these mortal men of clay, divine and dying in their harnessed form

I, this furnace of limitless hate, bestial, pure

The pendulum swings semi-attached to the centre of all

truth; unwillingness to tell lies

The colors I now discern

Veracity as a boundless spectrum

A vast kaleidoscope

transmitting light; allowing light to pass through diffusely

I now see through you

Translucent entities

Gone is the veil of sanity

motionless; unable to move or resist motion

Confined no more my vision

Inert and bursting

Here impossibles co-exist

distinguish; detect with the senses

Gone is the veil of sanity

The colors I now discern

Veracity as a boundless spectrum

instinctive; spontaneously derived from or prompted by a natural tendency

Filtered blank of its substance

As our eyes won't adhere to intuitive lines

Everything examined, separated, one thing at a time

diminish; grow smaller

Do you believe that luck will somehow stand you by?

Do you really think our resolve will wane?

Do you really think that it will dissipate?

disappear slowly; to cause to separate and go in different directions

Do you really think our resolve will wane?

Do you really think that it will dissipate?

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wretched; of the most contemptible kind

This is not our war

Bury the abject shame in the same bile as our ideals

The potent lubricant to deceits grinding wheels

suggestion; passing reference or indirect mention

We will all belie

And allusion, any crime

Cower and hide

worship; religious zeal; the willingness to serve God

Autonomy sacrificed

The idolatry of tyrants compulsory

Welcome all to MonstroCity where norm is that of the insane

humorous imitation; a composition that imitates somebody’s style, usually in a humorous way

From our immorality

A parody, this mockery

To no avail you kneel

devotion; righteousness by virtue of being pious

Irradiant and treacherous

Neon prophecies hail the end, the capital of piety

Totalitarianopolis, city of dread

fill completely, soak; infuse or fill completely

Which unforgiving icon is real

Intolerance and prejudice saturates their zeal

This is where self is relinquished

give up; part with a possession or right

Despot in guise of savior

Any blame he will carelessly relinquish

Like shedding his skin

powerless; lacking power or ability

Impotent king beneath our feet

You can rule down where you belong

conflicting; not in agreement or harmony

Still we set the show on continue mode

And dance to a discordant system

We accept the nails we're fed

disgrace; state of disgrace resulting from public abuse

Division now groomed, nurtured and will maintained

Apathy, opprobrium

Virulence and animosity

infection; any disease easily transmitted by contact

Their calls' the only ones heeded

A worn out soldier touched by their contagion

A battered drone at their feet

hatred; a feeling of ill will arousing active hostility

Apathy, opprobrium

Virulence and animosity

This sums you up

wasting away; a decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse

Caught in this endless spiral, locked equilibrium

A stasis founded in this atrophy of thought

Your eyes unflinching, unaffected by the misery

avoid; prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening

The most admitting trait, your turning away

Avert your eyes and hush your struggling thoughts

Detachment assumed as life mutates into decay

greedy; showing extreme cupidity; painfully desirous of another’s advantages

That we ourselves conceived

With covetous verve and credulity

Something this intensely profound

secret; a flock of coots

Unsuspecting, willing, blind, controllable herd

Pawns in a covert game conducted by hands we trust

Dominated, compliant and deceptable

servanthood; state of subjection to an owner or master or forced labor imposed as punishment

Tearing at flesh to scar

Carving the mark in servitude of the dark

Realign the weaponry of your mind

madness; state of violent mental agitation

Yet disbelief grinds, the doubt it claws

In you sleepless delirium I devour your thoughts

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lacking energy; deficient in alertness or activity

The void clenches its determined jaws

A lethargic, careless motion to kill

Monstrous, prodigous, indifferent

blast; make a strident sound

Untroubled by the roar of unending screams

The droning blare of absolute doom

The downpitched moan of collapsing dreams

horror; the force by which bodies repel one another

I'm the concrete leper

Sickness repulsion embodied

Hear the sermon escaping my vermin mouth

flood; fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid

Everlasting ignorance realized

The scarlet flood inundates our powerless thoughts

Defenseless minds with lies overfed

perfection; an ideal instance; a perfect embodiment of a concept

Me - the paragon of fear

An immobile skein of tangled nerves exposed

shame; corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality

I will corrupt and impair

Vitiate, dispirit, debase, violate...

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inactive; in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation

Replicas of each other, clones

We're dormant accumulations of flesh

In a crimson filtered twilight

ridiculous; incongruous; inviting ridicule

The poison that seeps from your piteous souls

Armies of the preposterous, trapped in misguided thrall

You're a mere existence shames us all

compliant; willing to submit to orders or wishes of others

Into these obedient devices

- Puppets, finetuned submissive drones

Replicas of each other, clones

treacherous; tending to betray

A tremendous trepidation

Perfidious annihilation, all in vain

corruption; moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles

Blatant disregard for all, but self

Proudly flaunting the depravity of a race condemned, malign...

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slander; evil or harmful in nature or influence

Sharp munition spat from our minds

Malignancy rounds, automatic fire

Black, acidic bile

fear; a feeling of alarm or dread

The cemetery plans continue

A tremendous trepidation

Perfidious annihilation, all in vain

kind; pertaining to or concerned with the humanities

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Who is humane

Real alive no god

attentive; carefully observant or attentive; on the lookout for possible danger

Imposed observance. Sentries in the sky

Vigilant lenses. Objectives belied

In blackened heavens covertly they hide

use up; use up (resources or materials)

Hexagonal bolts to fill my mouth

Sharpened to deplete

The creator of all violence

standstill; subject to a stalemate

Surroundings reaching to touch your skin

Progress in stalemate, death is alive

Eyes and mind glint - Glints collide

disturbance; unstable flow of a liquid or gas

Chaos the obtainer of lucidity

Tranquility created by raging turbulence

Your solid note frequency out of phase

included; existing as an essential constituent or characteristic

Please forgive the evil in me - The darkness within

Ferocious, inherent demon. Adrenaline gland resident

Threatened subconscious snake. Repressed into

range; an ordered array of the components of an emission or wave

The colors I now discern

Veracity as a boundless spectrum

A vast kaleidoscope

endless; seemingly limitless in amount, number, degree, or especially extent

The colors I now discern

Veracity as a boundless spectrum

A vast kaleidoscope

exact matching of forms; (mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation

Nowhere indefinitely. Not dead, not alive

Existence-patterns ripped of symmetry. As will and

order; a series of ordered groupings of people or things within a system

Conceit will be your allied guide

Climb the hierarchy ladders invisibly

Veiled by the canvas of putrid dreams

hateful; having the nature of or resulting from malice

Never again shall we suffer the hissing

The subversive, malicious

Lies lining the fork of his tongue

party member; a fervent and even militant proponent of something

Your dark haven

Where you and your ophidian partisans abide

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fluency; powerful and effective language

Refit this vessel of confusion

To bring the eloquence of the mute

Incorporate this forfeit cause

standard; a standard or model or pattern regarded as typical

The idolatry of tyrants compulsory

Welcome all to MonstroCity where norm is that of the insane

All is illusion in MonstroCity

keep back; put down by force or intimidation

Tainted mind

Bury, cover up, repress

I betray the people I "possess"

adapt; be similar, be in line with

Their eyes fixed in the distance

Default to conform to the new

They animate me

mourning; state of sorrow over the death or departure of a loved one

Of all the wounds I expected

Heartbreak, bereavement and despair

I never saw these coming

expressionless; having or revealing little emotion or sensibility

I'm the shallow, the superficial, I'm the common man

Faithless, narrow-minded, indifferent, impassive

Sycophantic leech, tantamount to disintegrity

enthusiastic; joyously unrestrained

Mendacity, betrayal, this is not a phase

Ebullient with human filth, here I am, here I stay

Flourishing in our disgrace, blessed be the human way

renounce; cast off

Chaos!

I debar all order, repudiate all purity

Infatuated by contentment

suggest; express or state indirectly

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All will imply

It's an illusion, a fallacy

attacking; the action of attacking an enemy

Unanimous in your revolting declaration

Conjured by offensive, feeble beehive minds

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submissive; willing to be taught or led or supervised or directed

Still you claim the worshipers pose and you bow, you kneel

Control: once superior, now a docile pet at chaos's feet

Pulling the leash as it trails the scent to where all hurt recedes

contradict; be in contradiction with

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We will all belie

And allusion, any crime

shame; changing to a lower state (a less respected state)

Why mourn this travesty

Hide this slow degradation

Claw and compete mindlessly

uncaring; marked by a lack of interest

I'm the shallow, the superficial, I'm the common man

Faithless, narrow-minded, indifferent, impassive

Sycophantic leech, tantamount to disintegrity

worsen; grow worse

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I'm the pampered degenerate

I indulge my inclinations

sneaky; beguiling but harmful

Frayed pictures mass

Insidious deception feelings fade

Revenous mirrors I praise the blackened day