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Gears In The Machine
03:58
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:INTRO:
We are the gears in the machine
A constant in reality
As one, unified
Together, purified
Purified...
We stand as one, we are whole
We rise together and we fall
Yet some days I wonder as if i can ponder,
What life is like to be alone?
I'm struggling to see a whole other life for me
Because we are...
[:intro:]
Don't you see unity is the key
as we are one we can't be undone
Or we would fall apart...
Yet some days I wonder, if i should ponder,
Or I should tear these thoughts asunder
A whole other life for me, I'm struggling to see
Because we are...
[:intro: x2]
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2. |
Desire
03:19
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I think I have everything I can ask for
Yet something's amiss I'm disatisfied
I wanna grow, I yearn to learn of
Life outside these walls but i'm caged in
:CHORUS:
I desire, I want to go
And I desire, I need it so bad...
I Doubt the unity
Can't I have an identity?
I doubt this flawed way of thinking
But I don't know how to set myself free
[:chorus: x2]
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3. |
Emotionless
03:45
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Humanity constrained naturally
In actuality I'm a drone
:CHORUS:
Can't you see?
(I'm stonefaced, disconnected)
Don't you see?
(The empathy corrupt, infected)
Will you see?
(We are so lost and neglected)
You and me,
(We are to them all as defective)
It all so clear to see sadness has no effect on me
And in the end I'm just a gear in the machine
And in the end we live a lie inside a dream
But at the end all's not what it would seem
Wake up with an open eyes and heart.
Divisions like these will keep us apart
[:chorus: x2]
[repeat verse 1+2]
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4. |
Puppet
03:40
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This self reflection made me realise
The life i've been living is nothing but lies
Perpetuating false Pretenses
With your shallow incentives
:CHORUS:
Listen here, you - I'm not a puppet to be used
I trusted you and was abused
I am not some toy for play, and I refuse to stay
and behave if I stand on your side
(your side, to hide)
(your side, to hide)
This self reflection makes me clearly see
the corruption of this unity and hypocracy
What do I benefit from a system that gives no
Thought to me? Individually?
[:chorus: x2]
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5. |
Nothing But Gears
01:44
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(I'm just a gear in the machine)
One day I wonder... If I can ponder...
If I can tear these walls asunder.
A whole other life for me, I'm struggling to see...
Because we are...
Gears in the machine.
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6. |
Disconnect
04:21
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Disconnecting emotion, distressing discontent
My emotions were the price the collective went
Conditioned by our leaders, an in out mentality
Bending and shifting percieved reality
Removing these headphones, I won't listen to you
Nothing you can say to me - nothing you can do
Removing opaque glasses, see the world for what it is
You won't change my mind I disconnect from your lies
Relieve, reprieve
Believe, decieve
What happened to the compassion?
This unity, disquieting distraction
For hollow minds, I struggle too feel
Against shallow hearts a pain now so real
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7. |
Phantom
05:13
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Fading... Is all lost?
Breaking... What was the cost?
Of a lie? And a dream to die?
I must ask why... Why?
:CHORUS:
I am lost I need help
I am a phantom of my old self
I need direction its killing my health
Somebody help me save me from myself
Ghosts like us we fade into the darkness
Of despair... There is little there
Who Am I? I have died
[:chorus:]
Who Am I?
(have I become?)
I have died
(have to try)
[:chorus: x2]
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8. |
Glimmer Of Hope
03:17
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Today marks a turning point - I dont know why
Everything seems so different like I'm gonna survive through
Torment and pain, the guilt and the shame
I feel I'm gonna make it this time... I'm-
:CHORUS:
Feeling optimistic like everything is fine
The past, moving behind me in the progression of time
With renewed sense of vigor, and the doubt swept away
A glimmer of hope shines starting from today for me...
I'm seeing my life in a brand new light
A brand new sun rises and relieves the world of night
Letting go of past frustrations
Shed myself of pointless complications
[:chorus: x2]
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9. |
Owe This To Ourselves
05:09
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I am ascending, I stand tall
Once a sheep amongst the wolves
I won't falter at all
I am reborn - unshackled release to the call
From conciences awakening to fix what wasn't whole
:CHORUS:
Rise above to a sky of love
It's now clear - it's been long enough
I can see my destiny
Become a bird and set myself free
It's so clear now after removing your cast spells
No more puppeteering, now loyal to just ourselves
Phoenix ascending from down where the darkness dwells
Arise from the ash as dark as coal we've owed this to ourselves
I am ascending, I stand tall
Once a sheep amongst the wolves
I refuse to fall
I am reborn - I'm living my life in the now
Living individually and surviving somehow
[Chorus x3]
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10. |
More Than Machine
04:37
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Determination through persecution
Kept my dreams from exercution
I remember that child eyes full of wonder
If I should tear my dreams asunder
Once living that life of me
I'm finally free and...
:CHORUS:
I can only thank myself that i've survived.
A struggle, worth this feeling that i'm alive
I have proven to myself most of all...
I am more than machine after all
It's been a long dark road
And I've walked it all alone
But it's all in the past yet set in stone
'Cause I remember that child - Eyes of sorrow
Uncertain of a unclear tomorrow
Once living that life of me
I'm finally free and...
[:chorus: x2]
I am more, than before
who's to know what life now has in store...
Times have changed and so have I
You too can feel free you only need to try
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Hannah England, UK
The Etherial Queen. Find both my current project (The Great Fashion Project) and older legacy content (Glitch_ Relay) here, for a pay what you want price :P
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