1. |
End Scene
01:46
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The limelight will age you
But it will never let you die
We are all acting in the scene of a movie
And the script is torn between truth and lie
You will play the part that kills you
Until your blood runs dry
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2. |
Playing Dead
02:16
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Hurting me, you are hurting me
Fists and curses, violent words
Face in gravel and carrion birds
They screech like they are hungry
And I am Playing Dead
Beyond the gate of the schoolyard
A woman with glassy eyes glances
Sees you all, she fights your advances
She curses the way you are
And as the weeks go by, one at a time
Your bodies fill boxes carried by hearses
Your deaths bewildering doctors and nurses
Your bodies placed in the ground covered in lyme
But you are not Playing Dead
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3. |
We are the Vampires
02:37
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There is no reason
To pretend that death
Is the worst thing
Awaiting us
Men wage wars
Mutilate their minds
Call what they know intelligence
Hide the truth of their maleficence
We are the Vampires
We dropped our bombs to soften their defenses
Only managed to wake up the dead
Shadows traipsing along the hill of bones
Where the dead are prepared to meet us
We are the Vampires
In war, everything is possible
Blood pressure drops, a gun to your head
Which is louder
Machine gun fire or the screams of the dead
Blood pressure drops, a gun to your head
Machine gun fire or the screams of the dead
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4. |
Divine Advice of Kings
02:38
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Where are you going
And why are you going there
There are so many options
And you insist on dying there
Divine Right of Kings
Divine right of things
To be recast even if unsaid
And divinely Undead
Have you ever considered acting
Ever considered dressing in someone else’s skin
All I have is advice
Nothing thicker, nothing thinner
But have you ever considered
Wearing someone else’s skin?
You shouldn't take advice from a king
Though you might take heed
Of what ideas charge your mind
Later after the wine settles
Wearing someone else’s skin
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5. |
Ten Years
02:36
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Overnight sensation
Ten years in the making
It’s yours for the taking
Never mind all the fakers
Ten years in the flash of an eye
Ten years in a bloodbath
Sensation overnight
Wrought of something timeless
Age is a construct of the young
The older you get, the closer you come
To being young enough
To define your beginnings
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6. |
Monster Mask
02:26
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I have learned to speak
Using only my mask
Made of the skin of the dead
I have found my place
I am the monster
I am the villain
I am the restless urge
To dump your body in the lake
You will learn to love me
I will earn my own delirium
What’s most obvious will prevail
Like every hammer to each nail
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7. |
Sun and Soil
02:13
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Henriette we will not be wed
Your father will deny me my rest
Unless the King of Sweden himself
Should say my aim is true
And what is more is really true
That you deserve more than me
Than I deserve you
And so an actor’s life I shall lead
But not an actor’s wife shall you be
Not a leading man, always the foil
You are the sun and I am the soil
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8. |
Phantom of the Future
02:09
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Standing before you
At the top of the stairs
I am the phantom of the future
I am the sex and the pain
I am blood like rain upon a coffin
Nothing will be the same again
Full color horror
Close the door and kiss her goodbye
You can drive a stake through my thrall
And yet never understand me at all
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9. |
Prince of Darkness
03:03
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I need not speak
I have looks that kill
If you will bleed for me
I will absolve your will
Prince of Darkness
Prince of Death
Meet me in the charnel house
I will entomb your living breath
I am the Prince of Darkness
I am the Prince of Death
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10. |
Disillusionment
01:58
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If I slip through the night’s sky
Know it wasn’t for lack of footing
My star is not tied to my horror
Oh, what a horror is my star
The lady told me there would be days like this
Days you couldn’t even die
I lie in wonder of my decisions
And cast a spell upon my doom
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11. |
Orthanc
02:17
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Let us return to the war
Between the light and the dark
It is the type of war that we like to read about
No more of the grays and the nuance
And while you are encouraged by heroism
And the valor of heroic ideals
I shall be stabbing you thrice through your lungs
Just so I can remember how that feels
Film me atop my tower
Let my eyes pierce you through the screen
The rushes are done, but the war isn’t won
No less, I shall show you exactly what I mean
I will travel across green hills
I will set fire to your love
I will rearrange the details
I will fall from above
I will make you fall once again for evil
And then dispatch you before you can say
That you were deceived, my friend we all were deceived
In the end you learn that was always the only way
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12. |
Swordplay
02:43
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Fencing and dancing and speaking in languages
Meant to convince you that the flame does not burn
Give me your time and I’ll give you a shiver
I am the villain your merit has earned
Don’t call me creative, my vocation is not pure
I am only here to destroy
Not until I am bloody and satisfied
Will I give an inch
Strike up a cool conversation
Over brandy and cigars and swordplay
Meet me at the club dressed ready for the match
And prepare to be met by my saber
The woman who followed me home
When I was just a child
Had teeth like daggers
And she set me on my course
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13. |
Undead
01:52
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If I gave my heart
If I gave my crown
If I gave my life
To be undead
To be remembered
To be remembered
To be remembered
Beyond the book of time
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Vinterdracul Baltimore, Maryland
Representing the ongoing vampiric explorations of the multi-instrumentalist duo of Weirding Batweilder and Jean Farraige, this is a project that creates an unnatural monstrosity of blackened gothic sound replete with noise, pummeling beats, and a hoarse whiplash vocal delivery served up pre-dawn in the shadow of a hill of gravestones following the last showing of a midnight horror classic. ... more
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