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Lux
05:43
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Barren!
This city is blind
It's people refuse to see
They act as if alive
Controlled by puppet strings their lives a waste
Can't believe a word they say
Can't believe they'll keep us safe
You tremble in your fear as numbers march near
Can't believe I walked away
The only thing I believed in I've given up on
Will she forgive me
Or will she forget?
I have failed so many times before you
I've failed you again
You think it's easy?
It's like you'd rather spend life underground in hiding
We can't all be cowards
I put my life on the line
Is this not enough?
But you were wrong
My city's gone
Perishing the life i loved
I swear this battle's a battle we can't win
We have come to justify
We overpower
We've come for you
The balance has shifted boy
Lay down your weapons
I am hesitant
You've given us reason
You've taken our freedom
You only take away
They plan to lock us up and throw away the key
So you turn your back on your family and everything you love
You say im one to talk but they killed mine off at the start
I'm not saying it's possible but something should be done
How can you keep your heart so still?
I've failed so many times before you
How can you expect me to do as they do?
Let's wish away this
She begged me to not run away just like i always do
Ill go as far as i need to I will
I swear I'll make this up to you
Just give me your trust back
I'll never forget
I'll never run away again
I swear
Follow the path to the underound
Four hundred steps to the east
Sixty north twenty-seven south
Never once should you take your eyes off of the ground
You will find your way under earth and stone
And deeper and deeper it goes
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Goblin Deepground
03:40
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Take a step back
Know that I'd do anything to bite the hand that feeds me
When all that I'm fed is poisonous
Lie after lie after lie I swear
In search of common ground I'm caught up in between
The answer seems much further now
It's not worth searching for
I'm not here to solve the problem
I'm only here for her for heaven's sake
Tired so tired
I've been awake for days searching for a safer place
If home is where the heart is
And home is what my heart has been seeking
Then where is my family?
Such vision such resolve
To think that a man once so outwardly focused only on himself
Would push for something more
I find it very hard to comprehend
Your probably the reason she's dead
But if she lives
I can only hope she's never found
She's better off without you now
Raise your head
The king is dead we bow to no one
Still your doubts
Hellfire rain down
They say "Raise your heads"
But if the king is dead then why provoke him?
In search of common ground I'm caught up in between
The answer seems much further now
It's not worth searching for
I'm not here to solve the problem
I'm only here for her for heaven's sake
By my hand I've lost everything
The gap between herself and me has grown
By my hand I fail
I'm giving the best of me
What's a burden to bear if i can't bear it's weight?
Or see the way out of this place?
I'm giving what's left of me
I'm putting everything on the line
I would die for her
She doesn't belong to death
She belongs to me
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Ava Emily Heartwood
05:16
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Let's take this back from the top
You are a vagabond traveling here from the surface
You are no more than a man
Yet you are seeking my help?
The savior incarnate
I am He
I'll be the king this city needs
Ce soir c'est le cou de grâce
We'll have them by morning
You are just as he is
A blood thirsty pompous self-righteous
Oppressor
Oppression
Take a notion from me
If I were you I'd set my sights underground
The surface is bound by the ones in disbelief
I will burn
I'll burn everything to the ground
Go through the motions
I'll mirror the tyrant himself
I will burn
Go through the motions
Where is my conscience?
How can the buried see what I see?
How can the sleeping offer me such amnesty?
She sent me away to noting but grey
To this cemetery
Yes I recall her name
She's buried here beneath our feet
What a shame
Though you seem to claim she's alive now
Feel free to dig up her bones if that's what you need
She died for me
She died for a cause
Something much bigger than herself
Could you do the same?
Fight for me maybe then she'll forgive you
Fight for me I swear none will forget
Liar
Seek no compassion from me
And if she's dead like you say she is
Then tell me what of my sins can be erased?
Bring her back to me
She died for nothing it's all because of me
Bring her back to me
Finding her was my only reason for breathing
There must be some kind of mistake
I need her here i need her here with me
I don't belong here
How can what's gone forgive me?
I am a monster
Who am I to persuade a life in directions so far from my own home?
"Be the light others seek to find" She said
Still who was I to neglect a love so hard to find
How could she have loved me?
I'm a liar a killer a thief
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"Was she important to you boy?"
"She was...Though I only wish I was more able to show her.
In the end, I doubt she even tolerated the thought of me."
"What she has taken from you can never be given back
But know that if you wish to amend for your sins
The Fuhrer King cannot go unpunished"
"Who are you? Why have you shown yourself to me?"
"I am here precisely because you need me to be. Nothing more."
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Our King Dethroned
07:52
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Breath easy
Keep calm
The logic is missing
I'd rather we find a way that wont cost me my life
If this is your plan I can only leave it up to faith
The only thing that stands a chance
Are you here with me Atlas?
He is not my King
He can never bring back what he took from me
I seek an audience
I've come with a cause
You planning to stop me?
I'd bring every soldier you've got
I'll tear them apart I wear I will
The tyrant king's heart must stop
I saw a great sign in form of illusionary piece of mind
A thought taken form
What's lost is returned our dead become reborn
I saw a many people give in to many lies
They sold themselves to kings and thieves
They've whored out their lives
One by one you let me down
I'll bury the bodies
I'll lay them to rest with the crown
I'm giving the best of me
I'll be the last one standing
The one face you'll never forget
I'm giving the best of me to be the one thing you regret
I'm giving the best of me
The suffering has hardly proved it's worth
still I stay
Paralyzed
Terrified
She said "Leave no one alive"
I saw a great sign in form of illusionary piece of mind
A thought taken form
What's lost is returned our dead become reborn
I saw a many people give in to many lies
They sold themselves to kings and thieves
They've whored out their lives
One by one you let me down
I'll bury the bodies
I'll lay them to rest with the crown
I have seen the cost
I have paid the price a man must pay
Now all I feel is hate
I'll go through this a thousand times
I'll kill for her
Commit her crimes
You take from me?
I'll take away your everything
Just bring her back home to me
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