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The Blood Behind The Dam

by We The Heathens

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1.
Lung of Lies 04:18
Is there anger in your heart? And an itching in your brain? We want! Cough out the lung of lies, gasp the deaths decay. Distracted mass, like siblings affray. You dead! Snort up the whole headline leading you astray Outside of your world, thrives their reality. vicious ! Entrails of the innocent infant wiped clear from the slate In the deep sea they will drown, in the rubble they will burn. Order Ignore the blood rising behind the dam to burst. So long distracted by our petty differences, on whom will they wage the final war? On us! Your suited idol a double headed serpent. Under the forked tongue promise sleep. Wake to defeat unify shatter crowns All regimes coming down Fascist die World elite Suffocating Liberty We want you dead, dispatched, beheaded Fortify, tear it down All regimes coming down Rulers bleed Tyranny Suffocating Liberty no more.
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Stuck inside this prison cell Skull on every side Pathways racing through this hell Engulfed with the worst of lies Believe me now you can't suppress A leech upon your mind The worst of thoughts are killing me Either way I'll say I'm fine Coursing the badlands with no destination Are we sure we're ready to conjure the question Neurotic decay seems not far away And it comes without warning or sign I'm losing all focus, I'm losing all function I can't comprehend this enormous consumption Of why I have to get out of bed When it feels like a bullet in my head is the treatment Crawl Incapacitation, the sentence is 25 to life Fall In this competition in gaining control of your mind I can only hope that it will die out in time All I see is numb, the complexion is gone All I breathe is poison, full of its noise Take me back in time, to the wonder days Where color seemed so bright Now it's only black and white Someone killed the lights And the lines all blur I can only hope that it will die out in time I can only hope that it will die out before I lose my mind
3.
The Order 04:52
The will be no savior today, there is no one to come our aid, there was never a plan to save, there were few who foresaw the raids. For us there there was no side to choose, for us there is only the set right to lose. Silenced and beaten do dare to ask why the questions that certainly will end your life. Why!?!? (Overlapping verse) injustice reigns on high, starving for freedom. Forsaken, force fed their lies, starving for freedom. Sew your mouth shut and gouge out your eyes, forsake your own heart and mind. Their order has come, there's no hope for the age. Rewritten your freedom is caged Are we not our own? Are we nothing but slaves? Has the answer we seek now been slain? Our course has been set, led blind to today. Rewritten your freedom is caged. Renegade, worthy of death. Expose their schemes, muffle their cries. Open your eyes, follow me blind, follow me. Unearth the answer! Stir of the wicked. Bury the righteous Undermine the high one, forge the key of our kin, woke now the dead masses rise, OUR ROUGE WAVE COMETH! Undermine the high one, Forge the key of our kin, Unshackled are our tired minds, OUR ROUGE WAVE COMETH!!!
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Stutter 03:57
With every single word that spews through your crooked teeth Your honesty grows dissonant and sheathed Spitting out facades just to keep the peace in tact Your feeble tactics seem like futile acts Upturn the sense of bond is a queasy stomach's friend Contorting and rejecting all the futile things you mend Forlorn masquerades set you ablaze Killing the trust and raising every fence I won't find the words to say Will die another day Hope is all but hopeless so just drink yourself to death A wolf in the midst of madness suited up like sheep we've met This hurricane is gonna shake the walls that we clutch so dear You stutter but lie so clear Utopia is far but the truth is out of reach You'll suffer stretching farther than you ever thought you'd see Dormant storms stir warning winds of flee Til' the eye has come to swallow any plea Cut out the tongues of the false Or believe all the lies they conceive Board up the doors to the safest corridors in which they seek To poison you and me Cut out the tongues of the false Or believe all the lies they conceive Board up the corridors They seek to poison me
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Slavers Way 03:05
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Consumed, thriving the toxin surrounds you. Bow to the poison you desperately need, believe it. Crawl to the trough set before you. Make your mark, your illusion to choose tightens the blind fold. Choke, on the promises made to deceive you. Keep your eyes on the lines constructed, in your mind Imbedded. Hooded the head of the wolf, place your faith upon the false, your noose tied by their hands. Amongst your brothers follow the road that is given, step into the snare. Take your place among slaves. Forfeit thought and mind, question and reason. Humanity fades. Indoctrinated in the haze. The few who know are dead or followed. Knowledge banished from the age! Consumed, thriving the toxin surrounds you. Bow to this prison you desperately need, believe it. Crawl to the trough set before you. Make your mark, your illusion to choose tightens the blind fold.
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I've been drinking all day, hope that I can get drunker tonight, drunker tonight drunker tonight, when I hear that basement callin, load our backpacks ride out on our bikes, for us there is no other place that we'd rather go, no other place that we'd rather go. When I hear that music callin, pedal onward faster to the show If you've got nothing to drink just show up we'll catch u a buzz, don't fear sobriety because, It's ten more drinks before any us fall, there's beer in the carpet and blood on the walls, punks in the basement and sweat in the pit, this fucked drunk life we don't ever wanna quit. It's five more lines before any us sleep, we're pulling off the bottle to that dirty d-beat, we all love each other but we fuckin hate you, its killing us slowly but it's what we choose. It's been a sleazy ass day and we're all gettin wasted tonight, wasted tonight wasted tonight We've got the Warren rompin, party til you puke and lose your sight It all goes down in a place that is under the snow, under the snow under the snow Until the sun is callin, never let it end, hail Warren shows!
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Tearing down the forest of concrete and steel Bring you back to the world of turmoil instilled By the greed and the fucking politicians that you hate With shit in their mouths and masks on their face Blind, we're folding way to early in this game While their bluffs are much more obvious Than where they point the blame It's sick, yet we stay content in the dark While they feed it to our minds And control our very hearts Eating up the lies Ingesting every brainwashing disguise They're getting away with it We've already quit and it's right beneath our eyes I can't believe What you'll believe if its on your TV screen Leashed up, broke dog Obedient and Silent It's time to get violent It's time to break the silence Corruption falls like acid rain Their thought control and propaganda Tighten the leash around the vein Take the knife out of your back And slit the throat of crooked kings Their reign is going to end Some day they'll fall like flies (going to end) Some day they'll fall like flies So you gotta quibble with the thought of a new world order Totalitarian vomit on your shoulders The quill and ink are black as blood The white collar kings controlling every single drop Surveying every move And veiling all the news Parading every fascist ruse Lifeless they live in infamy WE ALL KNOW THE REAL ENEMY
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The brightest this black sky will get is grey, while I stare out the window as my innards rot away. My bones are aching awful from the cold, and the boring ways of my friends are getting old. Same buzz, same bar, same shit, same town. Same old fucking assholes I hate around. Bottle after bottle til my innards bleed, it's the only thing that kills my haunted sleep. We're getting old and time is short, if this is the mission lets abort. All our lives are like a hellish cell. I just want to be where no one goes, where the sun is shining when it snows and the pace it never slows. My mind dissolves when I am here, please give another beer, being stuck is my only fear. There's a plague upon this city and its sickness grows, every day it's shackles tighten to its host. The very air we breathe a synthetic fume, while factory workers slave in their own tombs. Sore bones, wet boots, broken machines, are the fuel drenched perks of the life I lead. Inhale the black, dream of escape, before the bottle shepherds me to my dying day. We're getting old and time is short, if this is the mission lets abort. All your lives are like a hellish cell. I just want to be where no one goes, where the sun is shining when it snows and the pace it never slows. My mind dissolves when I am here, please give another beer, being stuck is my only fear. I just want to be where no one goes, where the sun is shining when it snows and the pace it never slows, and when I'm there I will rejoice, I'll sing out loud til I have no voice! My own flag of freedom I will hoist!!!! I JUST WANT TO BE WHERE NO ONE GOES
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The iron and steel grow faster than fields As the leaves all hang dead on their limbs Loathsome they try to sway side to side But the towers are blocking their winds Oxygen will be choked out When every last forest lay dead on the ground What's the cost of higher class When millions of homes are cut down and smashed What is it worth? Dismantle your buzz saw and lower your ax There's families that dwell in these trunks, roots and cracks Let sky scrapers fall so the trees all stand tall Or you'll be the next ones to fall Faster than the last Renovations renewed, chalked up and chewed The plans are signed off and sealed The parks will come down, shopping malls will go up And you'll be content with a new brick view Forget all the oaks, the maples, the pines Forget all the birds and the beasts The rodents, the insects on brinks of extinction And all you care for is buying things What is it worth To break every branch What is it worth To burn all these plants What is it worth To break every branch What is worth TO BURN
11.
Fallohides 05:35
Sticks and stones of forests deep Our home away from home Runaway rivers, never-ending streams Bonfires and darkened tomes Hear our song, our haunting cries Dead leaves and scattered ash Forever under blackened skies Our home, our first and last Don't stand still, your gaze will turn a stone Nomadic panoramic view will show you where to go Don't stand still, your gaze will turn a stone Restless feet, incredulously create a brand new home Strip us of our feeble lives Domesticated slaves Dormant thoughts, unfathomed dreams All caged eternally Hear our song, our haunting cries Dead leaves and scattered ash Bending 'til we break the night Our home we'll find at last I embody all the flies Inherit all the sky Relinquish all the ties to the roots of my Filthy tattered feet My weakened bloody knees My deathly shadowed dreams that stay hidden in the trees Condemn my sullen life Dismember all the strife Escape this troubled mind that stays locked inside Scrambling for the keys Clutching any pleas Pick up these two feet and run for the trees
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Hidden we are, to the foe we face. Retrieve their scarred, and make away We must achieve this goal We must overthrow Approaching thunder, thlayli infiltrates. A mark by the teeth of their owsla he'll take White bird, soaring. The plan is relayed. At sunset we make for the iron, with haste. Fleeing the fascist state, freeing of all their does. Fleeing the fascist state. In a militant warren, a pale eyed general. Murderous usurper, scheming, obsessed, in militarian reign. Mutilated defect, sets the example. All hope defeated, ripped, torn, folly efforts to escape. Hyzenthlay I promise, soon freedom will welcome you and your mark The thunder breaks We run for the river, our kin await us at the banks From tyrannical blood thirst, RUN! RUN! All the way to the downs, they will hunt relentlessly. Seal up the Warren, a terrible weapon I will unleash. Their blood will paint this battleground Their hate will fail against the hound. And they will know!!!! We are free upon our down. Against all tyranny, rose a desperate few. The risk to start a new. All will know liberty. Before we are through. The risk to start a new. Against all tyranny, rose a desperate few. The risk to start a new. Strong the fists of few The risk to start a new Raise your fists.

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released May 23, 2016

All songs written by We The Heathens

Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by Smelliot

Artwork by Alex CF
www.artofalexcf.com

Guest vocals on Crooked Kings by Jesse and Veronica of Escape From The Zoo

Smelliot - Guitar, vox
Adam - Mandolin, Bouzouki, Vox
Robin - Violin, Vox
Amanda - Cello, Vox
Ski-dattlz - Bass

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dueling guitars, relentless crushing dbeat, epic strings and thunderous low end. executed in a heavy metal fashion, vomited forth with punk rock aggression.Hailing from the Northwoods of Wisconsin, We The Heathens are an unstoppable behemoth of sound and continue to push the boundaries of music. ... more

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