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The Rage That Guides

by Kingdom

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1.
Hollow Bones 03:08
Welcome to the marrowless assembly Bang those hollow bones, trumpet in the mass insanity Play on, numb wills, serenade these bars with your complicity We warm these cells like moths to flame Consequence is all that remains And I too was staggering blind, then I kicked up some insight And I too was mesmerized by their tune and sang along like a fool We're all so excited, madness opens tonight Us marionettes are dressed proper for the planet's sacrifice Dance on, numb wills, lift your legs and stamp us all right out These wooden bones are drawn to flame Consquence is all that remains And I too was staggering blind then I kicked up some insight And I too agreed their truth was fact and signed my name on the suicide pact Now I smear my face with the ashes of the past Now I fill my empty bones with hate Now I'm going sane Bang those hollow bones There is no power on or above this earth that can govern us The empire's band betrays with the rhythm of consciousness Bang those hollow bones
2.
What if we're too late and our suicidal ways have permeated everything? Every cell is poisoned - every inch of earth Have we undergone a cataclysmic rebirth? Nothing has been spared - nothing can be saved Today's existence is a parody of yesterday What is life so far removed from life? Define, Deny... Gone We're on a sinking ship and the life boats are going down with it Breathing in carcinogens, I wonder what "natural" might have been Yeah, I'm part of this charade, but I'll have no part in breeding this shame No fucking way Sometimes things die (With a whimper, not a bang) And we don't hear their goodbyes (Like any other day) Sometimes there is no hope There is no hope You can't always fix your mistakes This time we're too late
3.
Real Crime 02:11
This insatiable city sways The living quiver and blocks quake As the souls sunk into the stones rise in rage The urban decayed - the murder a day In whose lost names came the loss of liberty So alive again to haunt these stricken streets, they scream We'll tell you just what did us in... We'll tell you what the real crime is... Real crime is half below the poverty line Real crime is abuse of authority sanctified This is a state of emergency alright In the destitute, desperation abounds We hit the bottom long before we hit the ground Lacking opportunity, forced into a drug economy Lost in a circle of criminality on the outskirts of society Trying to survive and failing Those who blame rather than alleviate dig the graves No one will rest in peace in a police state Real crime
4.
Anything 01:31
Joy, I know, will soon be under snow This is goodbye for now... (One eye) It's a half-sighted life for now Three flakes, then four, arrive... then many more Freezing in an embrace We wait, we wait We'll have our spring, anything Always, home is home so we hung our souls And hold each other close down these lonesome silent roads This is goodbye for now... (One eye) It's a half-sighted life for now Freezing embrace Did I blink off the ice too late? We'll have our spring, anything, just wait Here spins the most beautiful song ever written but the needle is lifted Here sings a rare and tragic record "Be good to me and I will love you forever" This is our melody - anything, anything Never forget me, we sing - anything, anything
5.
Broken Teeth 03:01
Seven from the left A chip marks the time I can't forget These scars we keep, reminders of the lives we have to lead We are the renegade abject Our pain becomes a catalyst to contradict Once speaking in addiction with perfect diction We now disregard past dialects For the language of unshakable self respect Grateful, and hateful, we walk in self-exile Out of the storm, out of the past To the doorway that will never collapse I laugh with broken teeth Lost was everything, regained gruelingly I laugh with broken teeth So beaten was I once, now hammers break on me And I do look back with sympathy sometimes So I dedicate this to the me I left behind Who is all whose lives are denied By the wounds accumulated over time And attempts to cauterize them with lies These scars we keep Tarnished steel redeems Cowardice with confidence We laugh with broken teeth So lost was everything So beaten where we once Now hammers break on us Now hammers break on us
6.
Bathory 02:21
I know that each day you tell yourself "This is how it's supposed to be" And each day you wonder how much longer you can believe You feel the wrong You lie to carry on I lost my faith staring into the eyes of one condemned to die. (A promise made to those we've betrayed) Lose your faith In this grand illusion of entitlement to life Our "need" is a mask for our greed and it's not right We are executioners who parade ourselves as kings As selifsh and deluded as the blood-bathed Bathory In a moment I was forever changed When I made an oath that no life would be taken in my name Our claims of natural reveal themselves as criminal So I commit to compassion Will you answer to this call for action? Lose your faith You feel the wrong Lose your faith You lie to carry on Lose your faith You feel the wrong Lose your faith How can you carry on?
7.
Black Friday 02:53
Work today Cash rules everything around me And everything around me is empty But how can we run escapeless seas? I put one foot in and sink I put one foot in and think We're all sunk by the misery of deceit Check out today Cash rules everyone around me And everyone around me is empty Disinherited of life Off the plank we dive To depths so low To depths so cold We choose to breathe below the sea We choose to sink Our spirit's poverty Turns to fury Turns to frenzy Believe us when we say that today's casualty was an act of love We sink We sink We sink
8.
Pythoness 02:14
Be deaf to the preachers of puritan punishment You know assholes are full of shit Coil 'round the neck of sexist institutions Slide away and never cum back Never cummin' back PYTHONESS Tonight's insertion is a cultural subversion As is abstaining in disdain of misogyny's intrusion Lose the myth of loss of dignity Freedom can happen on its knees You're not "having your way" when I agree The song of the pythonessssss pulses like a clitorissssss Patriarchy's governing anti-woman ideology Conspiring and contradictory, demanding self deprecating humility Power dynamics will shift with me - spread eagle for who I please Whose morals are these? We are fearless insurgents, loose ladies and vulgar virgins Laced in their corset of conformity - purity verse carnality We gasp for air in this dichotomy Cut loose of antiquated philosophy we breathe guiltlessly Whose morals are these? "Slut"? What?! Double standards are dismissed, along with fictional restrictions Self respect manifests in self awareness Loving or loveless, forever or a night If it's right for you, it's right Your body Your mind Your right
9.
33 / 45 01:48
They say we'll never get jobs lookin' this way We laugh A job ain't nothin but work and we're not for sale, anyway Letters scrawled on collar bones remind that while they're dead we're still alive While complacency commands them, we're driven by this rage that guides Measuring success in happiness They can keep their endless quest for emptiness We place more value in the wax that's been pressed They can judge, but the real judgment is left to the kids of dissidence Brought together by the spin of a record while the world spins out of control A tribe arises out of hollow high rises, screaming above the din of advertisments: It's not for us It's not for us It's not They say that we're the kids who will never fit in We laugh ... here's hoping! Measuring success in happiness They can keep their endless quest for emptiness We gain our values in the wax that's been pressed They can judge, but the real judgment is left to the kids of dissidence The kids who will never sell out and never buy in
10.
Fire Born 02:28
Fire Born Retribution I seek As I, ember, walk these charred streets Burning in injustice Unwilling I came to suffering- So now the inferno suffers me We see the truth in agony So light the threats like kindling But peace will come by any means Fire Born I shake from time to time As I, ember, see the other side I will rub together fear and terror to spark a memory Of collective suffering Warm, humanity Groping upwards backwards wildly When we don't have to reach to find decency and honesty Tricked to worship with a lack of conscience Illusions like money, god, and privilege In our saintly mediocrity we are party to atrocitcy Most are duped by smoke and mirrors I don't blame most - I just blame some So now we become the warriors In flames, the fireborn are home These eyes won't be put out Fire Born Those engulfed in flames And I, ember, a wordless song we sang Strive to liberate And if these be my final, I must say: I have none, but so much faith.

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Recorded in December 2008 with Drew Fulk in Greensboro, North Carolina. CD available from Eulogy Recordings.

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released March 31, 2009

Vocals - Davin Bernard
Guitar - David Hayter
Bass - Pierce Roberts
Drums - Benjamin Sap

Cover Art drawn by Benjamin Sap

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