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From Sacrifice to Survival

by Skinless

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1.
Now my friend We stand at the end We've failed to find The way out The falling of messiahs and raising of funds Is a procession of liars Thieves and wrongs The new order of the land is to live in fear Now decide Where you stand Look to the edges of earth It's barren land The falling of messiahs And raising of funds Is a procession of liars Thieves and wrongs The new order of the land is to live in fear Now decide An altered form is coming from the crux of the human soul The front line of sanity is changing for the worst We can't return, we can't advance We're stuck in perpetual doom A parade of horribles has come into town Grabs you from below and pulls you straight down Come down, inside leave it to a fool to try and hide The front line of sanity is changing for the worst An altered form is coming from the crux of the human soul The front line of sanity is changing for the worst It's all too real when you can't feel we're in pain The new order of the land is to live in fear Now my friend We stand at the end We've failed to find the way out This is not a passing movement, our cultures soon to fall Seeing, being, bleeding is believing We have had to end our lives The time has come to stand What is and will forever be nothing The front line of sanity is changing for the worst Grabs you from below, it pulls you down
2.
Undo the psalms to fulfill your minds craving to bleed Fail to serve them Serpents of time wait to stifle the lives you breed We'll dissolve them, solve the problem for them Revival of the wicket I exist between awareness and sleep Where your life falls means nothing to me I've come to cut your life down at the knees And you'll fall in a heap Wondering what has brought you here I crossed the line I've come to cut your life down With just a couple of swings the rest of us will go on I've come to solve your problem Undo the psalms to fulfill your minds craving to bleed Fail to serve them Serpents of time wait to stifle the lives you breed We'll dissolve them, solve the problem for them Accidents happen every day, this one will leave you completely unmade Do you believe that all is lost? Do you believe that you will be saved? And you will feel everything, you're eyes roll back Demons take you by the hand Accidents happen every day this, one will leave you completely unmade Bring this quarrel to a new level, a place we shouldn't be but can't avoid You'll be unmade, you should have never come It's about corrective action for mother nature's mistake I've heard the calling I've seen the dead I've listened to every evil voice in my head I won't stop until you're dead
3.
Deathwork 03:33
Find a better way to die, fashion in the end in the likeness of the start If it could only present itself in a way we could understand The code cannot break, we will only hate What we can't attain is an exercise in never ending pain If we can hate, we must feel? Deathwork begins as we sow the seeds We'll only know one way, one fate to live out everyday Experience is just a game for us to hate and hate again The need for what who and when? Nothing, nothing and nothing again Triumph. Deathwork. No Resolve. The way it must be, now and forever The code cannot break, we will only hate What we can't attain becomes an exercise in never ending pain
4.
[Instrumental]
5.
Beyond control, we are falling, out of control, there's nothing left From sacrifice, to survival The harvest is over, yet we are not saved All have failed, its not what we've lost it's what we've made Seasons change as do our perceptions This cannot be our reflection Diplomacy has been tried, it failed Peace is nothing but a fairy tale Bloodshed and war The natural state of humanity Peace is a dream that cannot be achieved, a lie, false sense of security Grab your rifle and put down the signs Hide your family and head for the front line From sacrifice, to survival It's the unfortunate but ever persistent state of affairs The government and media market murder for a living The worse things get the more profitable it becomes Every drop of blood spills equals a significant financial gain Discover and admit defeat to realize you are nothing but a change in ways Life beyond needs, from sacrifice The only thing we can hope for is survival The only thing we can hope for, from sacrifice to survival
6.
Massive insurrection, idealistic mutilation A battle like we've never seen Far beyond chemical warfare The battle is fought within our minds A passion for conquest and plague Psychological war, fought on uncharted lands Zealots have taken control, they want to murder everyone of us Battle perpetual will, far greater then any holy war Through dimensions that can't be won A battle like we've never seen Disparity between our souls Zealots have taken control, destroying our way of life Calling upon unseen forces Obeying calls from unheard voices Dimensions are conquered one at a time Predetermined to take control Zealots have taken control, they want to murder everyone of us Are you willing to die for your cause? The decision is made for you Battle of perpetual will, far greater then any holy war Calling upon, unseen forces Obeying calls from unheard voices Disparity between our souls Zealots have taken control, destroying our way of life Calling upon unseen forces Obeying calls from unheard voices Battle of perpetual will
7.
Miscreant 04:56
Vertigo is the leading force of will, as many paths as its forced to fulfill Billions of combinations to make them be, a billion more to set them free Take misfortune it stayed the same today, another way to make the day fade away Cast down abnormality, instead of seeing what makes them be Sectioned lies end, truth be told as lines bend A pretension fails to meet an end, Miscreant, what you know ends What's been mistaken as an erratic being becomes a means for salvation Prayer for a new day, a loss that sends us all away A misconception that continues tragically A fading hope that they will finally see A kind of vision that will always be, far exceeding their false security
8.
To be named, we've come to the flames, to seek a judgment, to tell a fortune It's hard to change, you cannot get away, the further you run the quicker it finds you Seeds in seeds to be, the past is now and the future's gone, still trying to figure out what went wrong A ritual to be burned by flames, a plea for peace and a prophecy to fulfill We build our live upon a legacy of lies, the past is now and the future's gone Creation myth, we should all be dead, I always dreamed I would see this day Relax and watch the world fade away Guilt is a plague and it must be destroyed, suffer because we cannot change Cower and hide, from things in your mind? Pick yourself out of that corner and fight We struggle on, fighting against instinct, we've fought for so long Instinct is not truth, steps away from taking it back With few words, or none at all unravel the threads, prepare for the fall A circle is made with no points on all sides, deciding the truth and directions we'll find Guilt is a plague and it must be destroyed, suffer because we can not change Cower and hide, from things in your mind? Pick yourself out of that corner and fight Seeds in seeds to be, we build our lives upon a legacy of lies Destiny is completely ethereal, far away but close to the flames I walk the earth, but my conscience is dead
9.
You can't dodge the subject, are you infected now? Mathematics and theology don't belong in the same sentence I'll do fucking cannonballs into repulsion while you live your life Trying to put your feet down in the middle of the ocean Give up, there's no control Today is the last day you should push the wheel Which grinds your mind to oblivion until it fits the mold Don't risk infection, save yourself now, gather all you've learned and forget it all Now I'll go and capture dead souls, extinguish their flames and fuel the plague Will away those boundaries, acceptance of what's told, I'll go and capture dead souls Will away those boundaries, doing what you're told, I'll go and capture dead souls Don't risk infection, save yourself now, gather all you've learned, and forget it all You can't dodge the subject, are you infected now? Mathematics and theology don't belong in the same sentence I'll do fucking cannonballs into repulsion while you live your life Trying to put your feet down in the middle of the ocean Give up, there's no control Will away those boundaries, acceptance of what's told, I'll go and capture dead souls Will away those boundaries, doing what you're told, I'll go and capture dead souls

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The Skinless death machine embodies and amplifies the hardest-hitting hallmarks of US death metal. Powerful vocals punch through churning guitar crunch in what is the band's finest work to-date. Featuring the stellar production work of Neil Kernon (Cannibal Corpse, Judas Priest, Nevermore) and powerhouse drumming of John Longstreth (Origin, Angel Corpse), FSTS has escalated Skinless' musical mania to an untouchable new apex.

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released June 3, 2003

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SKINLESS alternates between high-speed salvos and pile-driving grooves that embody and amplify the hardest-hitting hallmarks of U.S. metal. Powerful vocals punch through churning guitar crunch to an untouchable new apex. SKINLESS pile-drives the standard death metal formula and rallies fans with the forward-charge of wreckage-provoking vocals, demolishing beats, and ravaging riffs. ... more

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