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Swarm
04:40
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There's a problem in this house
They nested in the roof, and now they're in the walls
We watched them fly in on crooked wings of money, guile and sin
Now we're overrun
Some orange-skinned, others with an empty oafish grin
Differing appearance - same deadly sting
Oh, somebody fetch the fucking RAID
You know we've all been played
Check the contract
Somebody check the lease
I'm sure we weren't supposed to have creatures quite like these
No sign of empathy
And where's the spine?
Just crawling round the coins as death tolls climb and climb
Under the carapace, nothing but avarice
Haven't you heard? We're the herd - they're the swarm
Forget your common sense, reject the evidence
They'll see you buried but they'll work you while you're warm
My blessings to the insect gods of Plutus and Apollo
Make the sacrifice and the dividends will follow
If it's to be murder, kill your fill and fly away
We're all in danger if you stay in power
Hour by hour and day by day
Get the fuck away
Segmented bulbous eyes and thorax lined in chitin
Killing's their business but everything else they're shit in
Can't blame the hornets if they went and dropped the ball
The swarm can only focus on the money after all
They've stung the hospitals, their venom's spread too far
I warn you it's all hornets piling grandmas into graveyards
"Fuck the scientists, they've only got two legs!"
The swarm have none to stand on but they're fucking with your head
And if you want murder, kill your fill and fly away
We're all in danger if you stay in power
Hour by hour and day by day
Get the fuck away
And once the dead are buried and the nation's torn asunder
They'll sit back and congratulate themselves on years of plunder
Fuck
There's nothing human in these drones
Best check your back
(They're laying eggs in education!)
(Forming chrysalides in papers!)
(Making nests inside of people!)
Eating the walls
It won't be long until they fall...
So if you want murder, kill your fill and fly away
We're all in danger if you stay in power
Hour by hour and day by day
Get the fuck away
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Glory Pigs
03:12
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Fuck your glory!
I'm sick of the outcry
The rank squealing of a past that won't die
Your adulation belies the rot clustered and growing inside
Fuck you all
Fuck you and the wars you rode in on
I wanna feed you through a mangler dick first
Claiming pride in a broken nation
Burning the weak and breeding the worst
Fuck your slavish devotion to the slavers who wrote their initials in fire on the stomachs of children
They raped and they maimed and they herded and killed them
But they funded a school once so I guess they're alright?
Everyone step to the right!
Splashed tall in headline ink
It's "Three cheers to the Glory Pigs!
Think of the violence, somebody think of the kids
Glory Pigs!"
Out for a fight
No time for human rights!
They'll leave you alone as long as you stay out of sight!
Everyone step to the right!
I'm fucking sick of working the message to avoid the offense
Gammon screaming division whilst they're reinforcing the fence
Watch the papers spew shit from the pulpit then ponder the cause of it all
You'll all fall from your pedestals, razed by the "radical thought" that equality's something that needs to be sought
But let's be honest - you should have been ripped down and cast to the sea long ago
Grab a shovel and dig
"Hip hip for the Glory Pigs!
Buried in bodies but valiantly popping their lids!
Glory Pigs!
Don't be late - feel the squeal, accept your fate
The cards are down and everything's coming up hate
Everyone step to the right!"
"A toast to hypocrisy!"
("Good show!")
"Praise be to the Glory Pigs!
Tacit support for a system perpetually rigged!
Glory Pigs!
Farming the undertow of filth and greed to grow and grow
So eager to reap the seeds that they sow!
Glory Pigs!"
Get me a fucking butcher.
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Vulture Island
04:03
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Run for cover!
The wings are getting louder
Vultures circle as their masters man the drums
A sickened shepherd, his mind gone out to pasture
Commands his flock to rise and come embrace the gun
Now all lie bleeding
This is their end
His plot succeeding
The shepherd turns to carrion birds and welcomes them in
A twisted design
Artistic decline
Instructed to redefine - that your soul and purpose are a waste of time
And by your grasping hand
Vultures will come to roost
In the bones and abandoned homes of the living, the dead, and the truth.
"Shame the artists!
Consume but don't create!
Rip out the entrails and leave them to their fate
For they may benefit the coffers, but they tend to rebel!
So crush the thoughts and then report that everything is well!"
Force dreams out to die
Corruption and lies
No light shining in their eyes
Just salivating at your demise
They want us to fall
They will make vessels of us all
Empty us of all humanity
Grind the hope off the shell
And stuff us full of their insanity
And by your grasping hand
Vultures will come to roost
In the bones and abandoned homes of the living, the dead, and the truth
AND SO I ASK YOU NOW, WILL YOU STAND WITH ME?
UNDER THEIR RULE, THIS ISLAND CAN NO LONGER BREATHE
THEY'RE DAMNING US, WE'RE COMING APART AT THE SEAMS
SO I ASK YOU ONCE MORE, STAND AND FIGHT WITH ME
And by their grasping hands
Their hubris will be their end
Raze their buildings and salt the earth and the healing can at last begin
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Boomer Doomer
05:44
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Silence the sirens that are pounding out the end!
We're ready to hold on to anything! Anything!
Far past the point where this was possible to mend!
Was any of it for anything? Anything?
We're bionic
The last light in an animatronic
Brought up on screens and the broken dreams of a world going over the edge
Fed on snake oil
They bled us of our trust
As we sat back and watched promises of our future turn to dust
Don't tell me I should feel grateful for this fucking mess you've made
We can only start to fix this when they're rotting in their graves
And they won't shut up!
"Fix the planet? Well, we know we should!
But there's money in the oil and the money is good
It brings happiness and glee to the one percent
And gets leeched from the rest in rent!"
(SHUT THE FUCK UP)
"Listen, son, you've got to get this right
Don't you know that "All Lives Matter" just so long as they're white?
And who cares if the economy is tanked by the banks?
We know we have the Left to thank!"
(SHUT THE FUCK UP)
"I've got to say I don't like your tone
You're lucky that we ever thought to throw you a bone
Yes, I hoard funds in tax-haven tanks
But I always donate to the food bank!"
(JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP)
"Look, sport, I was once like you
Wanting "Blacks" and "Gays" and women to be equal too
But once you grow cold and your empathy dies
You'll start to see through my eyes!"
(SHUT UP)
DON'T PLAY THEIR GAME - THEY CAN'T WIN ANY MORE
FIGHT FIRE WITH FLAME, 'CAUSE THIS IS FUCKING WAR
And we're winning!
We're slowly taking ground
We're burying them deeper as the final clock ticks down
But this time sensitive situation won't wait for their disintegration
It's now or never for the population as the sirens start to sound
Don't tell me I should feel grateful for this fucking mess you've made
We can only start to fix this when they're rotting in their graves
And we must speak up!
Whatever happened to the centre ground?
In 80 years I thought we'd manage to make something profound
That we'd smack down the Fascists and the demagogues fast to create some kind of future that lasts
I'm past believing these hyenas are leading us
Leaving us reeling from the shit that they're feeding us
Only succeeding in creating the feeling that the water's receding and we're left with a brand new apocalypse on the horizon
Any laws you want, you can buy them
Any groups you hate, stigmatize 'em
Any wars you need just streamline the end-times
We're on the verge of collapse and the pacts that were made in the shade are slowly being exposed to the sun
These colours may not run but they bleed
Money and greed
Death and inequality
DON'T PLAY THEIR GAME - THEY CAN'T WIN ANY MORE
FIGHT FIRE WITH FLAME, 'CAUSE THIS IS FUCKING WAR
DON'T PLAY THEIR GAME - THEY CAN'T WIN ANY MORE
FIGHT FIRE WITH FLAME
We've let this go for too long
How long 'til the ash is choking our lungs?
And we end in silence?
Silence the sirens that are pounding out the end! (As death descends)
We're ready to hold on to anything! Anything!
Far past the point where this was possible to mend!
Was any of it for anything? Anything?
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Bite my tongue, bide my time
Wearing a warning sign
Wait 'til the world is mine
Visions I vandalize
Cold in my kingdom size
Fell for these ocean eyes
You should see me in a crown
I'm gonna run this nothing town
Watch me make 'em bow
One by one by one
One by one by
You should see me in a crown
Your silence is my favorite sound
Watch me make 'em bow
One by one by one
One by one by one
Count my cards, watch them fall
Blood on a marble wall
I like the way they all
Scream
Tell me which one is worse
Living or dying first
Sleeping inside a hearse
I don't dream
You say
Come over baby
I think you're pretty
I'm okay
I'm not your baby
If you think I'm pretty
You should see me in a crown
I'm gonna run this nothing town
Watch me make 'em bow
One by one by one
One by one by
You should see me in a crown
Your silence is my favorite sound
Watch me make 'em bow
One by one by one
One by one by one
Crown
I'm gonna run this nothing town
Watch me make 'em bow
One by one by one
One by one by
You should see me in a crown (you should see me, see me)
Your silence is my favorite sound (you should see me, see me)
Watch me make 'em bow
One by one by one
One by one by one
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Walker Leeds, UK
WALKER is a progressive metal project started by Leeds-based musician Rick Walker in 2016, rooted in metal but taking influence from a multitude of other genres to craft a textured and varied sound.
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