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Perpetuation

by Derelict

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1.
Perpetuation (free) 03:05
Snuffed upon inception Denial of emergence Scientific revolution quelled by benign institutions Round and round the carousel Repeat the cycle, repeat the past The state of competition Engine of devolution Struggling for accumulation Cyclical over-consumption Finite space filled up with waste Perpetuation of scarcity Reach for the dollar at the bottom of the barrel Tell lies to sell your wares, to wear your crown, proud Maniacal delusions corrupting root intentions Custom-made interpretations Firebrand hate incantations Summoning the Gods of wrath Hell rained down in fiscal swaths Raised to believe in a foolproof system Taught how to lead as the ruling class Tainted by notions of objective absolutism Blind so see that there was never a backup plan
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This is a haunted land And the ghouls walk among men Their affliction transcends We are beyond redemption Beyond sympathy Behold the fruits of our labor The ill-begotten spoils of war De-education is the sharpest blade With which to amputate Pride, confidence, wisdom and honor Genetically picked out and slaughtered A heavy conscience hangs Only on those who dare to see through the dream We justify the sins of our fathers We build upon a foundation of bones We take to heart the lies of our mothers We lock our souls in an armor of stone History is written in chalk By those who hold the steel Our dreams of vengeance must one day overcome our apathy
3.
Expiry 02:55
Blacken your lungs with the air of the twenty-first century Drink in the plastic debris Profit from the murder of the engine of all living growth Reap in the benefits of slavery Can you feel it falling apart? Approaching expiry The end result The final cash out Don’t be afraid, admit intent It was all part of the plan To sanctify our economic system Dissent in the face of irrefutable scientific evidence Treason committed in the name of faith Blindness promoted through the comforts of deep class divisions Silenced are the voices of periphery And so it was decreed This age shall bathe in the acid rain We are the bringers of the end result The profiteers of the final cash out Don’t be afraid, admit intent It was all part of the plan To sanctify our economic system Clear out the forest for cattle and real estate Disparage indigenous peoples and creatures Rejoice in the filth of the Hell you’ve created As all green and life around you shall wither, blacken, and die
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A digital birthright grown to replace identity Un-culture professing connection Insulation from humanity Gross promotion of your lust for your self-image Grasp at the straws of the reap of your sought pity Whole kingdoms made of follower clone-bots Same ideas, paste on, repeat Celebrations of illiterate fumbling Drunk off attention, want, and need Spawned of a void of effect And prescribed culture Lost in a swarm of detached and unreal egos Create nothing new Become nothingness Repeat gibberish Searching for a savior in half-baked lists of random musings Intermittent progress, a telltale sign of muted weakness Infatuation with irrelevant facts, the mind kept ever dull Circulating public introspection Infantilizing the intellectual Bled from the mind of the weak and the hollow-hearted Words walk like sheep in a line of the same colors So shall we discuss the end of days? Or roll on the floor laughing at each other's inanities?
5.
A structured, siphoning exploitation All-encompassing Designed for wealth consolidation All exclusive In an ocean of fiscal corruption, all implication is morally bankrupt Entitlement justifies starvation For the well fed Police the rest in concentration Made invisible Pulling at heartstrings to hold back the tide Using archaisms to validate massive subjugation Correct for deviance with bonuses and erase the conscience Cash your economic right to gorge and be obese Stake your claim and feed Crush any objection Girth has weight in policy Pay to remain free Swell, grow No mistake in design, calculate No escape from this hold, retrograde Devalue human life for own sake Profit from starvation, death and rape Intricate decay, elaborate rot Pieced together The numbers are growing too big to hide As it all adds up
6.
Olympic 03:26
International social collateral damage Casualties of our lust for entertainment This is a prelude to all our futures This is a tribute to all our failures Bleeding oracles glow bright on the screen Just far enough for us all to ignore This is a prelude to all our futures This is a tribute to all our failures We stand as witnesses to our abuses We fall united in knowing silence Federal funding of forced relocation Globalized movement to disperse the poor An event mass-marketed as worldwide unity Proves that bankers still rule with impunity Foreign labor human rights abuses Invisible on the front page A class subverted to build coliseums Disposable serfs as foundations of kingdoms
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Ergogenic 03:32
Countless individuals ground into dust Free market labor Perspective numbed, beautified Euphoria negating spirit and will The grind becomes still, patterned Dissipating hatred and longing for choice Feed more poison Fuel for the middle class Ergogenic motivation Their equitable claims assign blame Clean slavery ingrained in culture Ignoring the biology, for progress We worship the technocracy Feed more poison directly into the veins The inevitable crash Dehydration, nausea The cravings return in force Unable to summon the power to move Feed more poison directly into the veins
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Recreated 03:06
Thrown to the ground The graven image of a savior Tallying betrayals To count them all down Frailty revealed The covenants are quickly tested But nothing here is healed Shackles shed have left deep wounds Seeing ones self in the light Recreated Redefined And will we purify? Savor the triumph of a thousand lies revealed? Ascend? Or will we end each other, end our own? Lost to the sands of time in chaos and despair Solace, intangible Seeking concrete definitions Revelation dealt its blows Hidden strings and hardened skins Behind, an empty cell Still limiting imagination Housing our despair And doubt in the self-wrought
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The years are etched into your skin And so you weep… for dreams forgotten Crawling through life You beg the master for his table scraps I’d rather be the master and eat until I’m full Bowing to none, I am delivered Karma, fortune, destiny Foolish notions for the weak Your fate is yours to surpass Your foes are yours to destroy And so you rise… All this could be yours if you throw off your chains Free But you’ve made your choice and you cannot change Add up all the reasons why slavery is safer Do your master’s bidding, answer to his call Be the faithful servant As you are destined to regret Your fate is yours to surpass Your foes are yours to destroy Rise
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Caught in between an overwhelming sense of duty And the instinct to survive Forced into an twisted chain of daily tortures A perilous compromise Coiled into machine-like tension Told to ignore grueling symptoms Birthed to slave To toil in redundancy Taught to behave To appreciate hypocrisy Welcoming the sweet release of stupefied intoxication Finally numbing the aches of daily blood work Kneeling down before the kings of stable economics Kissing the ring on the hand of the chief executive god Your desire for free will is unproductive Your frustration with your life is irrelevant Work yourself down to the bone to produce nothing Give yourself unto the system till you die Unless you take it back... Why do we bear subjugation And never dare to react? Allow our lives to be purchased With riches made off our backs “Work hard, and save our nation” Lies told keep us controlled Meanwhile we grow our knowledge The truest power we hold
11.
Evolution births our conscious thought and seeks to fix in time The twisting currents of the cosmos in the human mind Blueprints of death Designs of demise Left here to attest A layer of iridium Fossilized message To be heard or ignored Condition of frailty Destined to recur The forces that support life on this fragile rock Are in constant motion Forfeit, all life See the fire in the sky? Man made? God sent? The consequences are the same Denial of hard facts Delays preparation Feasting with fools In drunk futility Experimenting, childlike, high on our creations Wearing the crosshairs we await retaliation Divine? A gift received, squandered Deafened ears go numb Shirking paths, we wander Upon iridium Embracing savageness we conquer Seeking sacrifice Praying to ancient Gods, alone We watch the sky
12.
Emergence 04:32
When all signs point towards the catastrophic The time for timid acquiescence has passed Ascended logic and the proven truths of science Must challenge all folly, distortion, and lies Raised to buy into systemic corruption Withheld education, enslavement en masse The indicators of this failure in vision Are clearly unfolding in front of our eyes From economic perspectives and interests, we must be firm and selective But one may call to attention the fact of the root monetary social construction Wide-eyed Solemn To carry on in total denial Would be emblematic and typically “us” A fundamental devolution of perceptions Could crumble the balance to ashes and dust Find the strength to overcome this abyss To conquer greed, hate, and pettiness To transcend animalistic existence Scoff the words of the brash and intolerant Cast off the chains of dependence Become the change you’ve always envisioned Stake a claim, for this is your planet This is our home

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2012. Mixed and Mastered by Chris Donaldson.
Produced by Chris Donaldson, Eric Burnet and Derelict.

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released April 20, 2012

All music and lyrics are the property of Derelict,
Copyright 2011.
All arrangements by Derelict.
All lyrics by Eric Burnet.

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Derelict Montréal, Québec

Hailing from Montreal, Derelict mixes the brutal and technical elements of the Quebec metal scene with listenable structures and melody, resulting in an unforgiving yet accessible package. The band’s trademark sound has led to comparisons with the likes of Death, Strapping Young Lad, and The Black Dahlia Murder. ... more

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