Now the radio stutters. snaps to life.
Some sour song that sets it right.
And when London falls
He'd like to call
But the stars collide.
They're beautiful and much maligned.
In a universe where you see the worst,
And it's up to you to fix it.
Now you've worked it out
And you see it all
And you've worked it out
And you see it all
And you want to shout
How you see it all
It's easy to dismiss the "what's it all about" crowd.
There is no doubt. it's this, here, now.
And you close your eyes.
He's not coming back.
So you work it out, overfeed the cat.
And the plants are dry and they need to drink.
So you do your best. and you flood the sink.
Sit down in the kitchen and cry.
Now you've worked it out
And you see it all
And you've worked it out
And you see it all
And you want to shout
How you see it all
Now the universe left you for a runners lap.
It feels like home when it comes crashing back.
And it makes you laugh
And it makes you cry,
When London falls
And you're still alive.
The radio stutters,
It makes you laugh
And the aftermath,
Open up your eyes.
You're so alive.
Now you've worked it out
And you see it all
And you've worked it out
And you see it all
And you want to shout
How you see it all
How you've worked it out
And you see it all
How you've worked it out
[Verse 1:]
The skies lay low where You are
On the earth You rest Your feet
Yet the hands that cradle the stars
Are the hands that bled for me
[Chorus 1:]
In a moment of glorious surrender
You were broken for all the world to see
Lifted out of the ashes
I am found in the aftermath
[Verse 2:]
Freedom found in Your scars
In Your grace my life redeemed
For You chose to take the sinner's crown
As You placed Your crown on me
[Chorus 2:]
In that moment of glorious surrender
Was the moment You broke the chains in me
Lifted out of the ashes
I am found in the aftermath
And in that moment You opened up the heavens
To the broken the beggar and the thief
Lifted out of the wreckage
I find hope in the aftermath
[Bridge:]
And I know that You're with me
Yes I know that You're with me here
And I know Your love will light the way
[Chorus 3:]
Now all I have I count it all as loss
But to know You and to carry the cross
Knowing I'm found
When the winds of the gods will meet the land
It will destroy everything made by human hand
When the eye of the storm has
finally past
Mass confusion, only the strong will last
[Chorus 1:]
Bringing death and destruction
Releasing its wrath
Just introduction
[Chorus 2:]
Aftermath [2]
Ooh ooh ooh
Everything that was here, yesterday is gone
Everything that was right has now turned wrong
[Chorus 1]
[Chorus 2 (2)]
[Sample: Rocky]
You ain't gon believe this but, you used to fit right here
I'd hold you up and say to your mother
This kids gonna be the best kid in the World
This kids gonna be somebody better than anybody I ever knew
And you grew up good and wonderful, it was great
Just watching everyday was like a privilage
Than the time comes for you to be your own man, and take on the World
And you did, but somewhere along the lines, you changed, you stopped being you!
[Verse 1: Joe Budden]
Shout to all my fans, glad I can inspire y'all
Got a couple haters, still trying to acquire more
You're praying to a higher power hoping I should fall
But even my writers block ends in a fire wall
Everybody acts reckless judging by they past efforts
If they ran shit why it won't show up in they track records
How can the critics ever hear me and say I'm a suffer
How when they play with words and I make em' play with each other
Choppers over the booth, ready for prime time
Come one with his thoughts, intertwine with his mind
Go toe to toe, blow for blow or do it rhyme for rhyme
Be competitive coke heads and go line for line
Honestly that crap of yours you should raffle off
With me they getting Genius Bars without the Apple store
Under the microscope I rebut' the scrutiny
If I'm to be compared it's only to who I used to be
Take a closer look at rappers and you might discover
This faggots talking Boxing, avoid the Mike Buffers
Now you the type to cuff her, me I get tired of her
See you the type to get hype to hug her but won't try to fuck her
No pencil thin bitches, me that ain't the style he dates
Might sit on her face and leave the imprint of a smiley face
Introduce the newcomers to my habitat
The calms before the storm, this the debris from the aftermath
[Sample: Rocky]
Let me tell you something, here right now
The World ain't all sunshine and rainbows
It's a very mean and nasty place and I don't care how tough you are
It will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it
You, nore nobody is gonna hit as hard as life
But it ain't about how hard you hit
It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward
[Verse 2: Joe Budden]
Let me change pace, the alternate route is a long one
But you'll ultimately end up in the same place
So I tell aspiring artists "think beyond greater"
I know some niggas with platinum plaques and bronze paper
But better living should be earned, never fed or giving
So I traded my recognition instead for a vision
They always told me that I'd end up dead or in prison
Who ever thought that same dude getting head while he whipping
At the chick would hang up on, give em' the dial tone
Now buying wild homes, straight cash without loans
I always managed to do better when his doubts shown
I'll teach you how to turn them diamonds into milestones
Class is in session, and look who's come to tutor
They passing the fake off as real like Brian Pumpers jeweler
Where I'm from niggas with fear getting slumped by shooters
But my equal to dumping rugers is being done by computers
I'm getting bread, every verse like the lotto
Give them substance but they treat every word like it's a hollow
My niggas off parole I'm tryna give them something pure to follow
Cause he ain't have a pot to piss in, just a urine bottle
I come from where so many people where raised with neglect
Cops trying to meet they quote, thirsty to make an arrest
All my wrong doings did, was put my faith to a test
Which made me much stronger, guess my mistakes were correct
[Sample: Rocky]
Now if you know what you're worth, go out and get what you're worth
But you gotta be willing to take the hit
Not pointing fingers saying you're not where you wanna because of him or her or anybody
Cowards do that and that ain't you
The "LOA" house and the old voodoo burial ground
Are still standing in all their glory.
The Lafayetes left the hospital and Louisiana
And went to...I don't care.
Malone survived. He's a scared old man now.
By the way, my name is Salem.
You cannot say, that everybody's happy.
But you can say, that everybody is now
safe from each other.
At least I sought so, until a few days ago
When I heard of some mother
By the name of Sarah Lafayette
Who's newborn baby was speaking in the strangest tongue
Backwards.
A miracle?
Some expert had uttered the word:
Voodoo
For one more poor boy
There's someone for he, for she
For one more poor boy
There's someone for him, for me
Your eyes resemble mine
You see as no others can
Here inherit my kingdom
Speak of our people?s plan
I?ll be here for my baby
For my baby I?ll be near
So many things I need to tell you
Things you need to hear
So this is the aftermath
Your eyes resemble mine
You see as no others can
Here inherit my kingdom
Speak of our people's plan
I'll be here for my baby
For my baby, I'll be near
So many things I need to tell you
For one more poor boy
There's someone for he, for she
For one more poor boy
There's someone for him, for me
For one more poor boy
There's someone for him, for she
For one more poor boy
There's someone for him, for me
Your eyes resemble mine
You see as no others can
Here inherit my kingdom
Speak of our people?s plan
I?ll be here for my baby
For my baby, I?ll be near
So many things I need to tell you
Things you need to hear
How can I, how can I
How can I be sure?
In a world that's constantly changing
How can I be sure?
Just when I thought
I was winning
Just when I thought
I could not be stopped
Just when I thought
I was winning
Just when I thought
I could not be stopped
Oh My Darling
Oh My Pet
I Wont Let You
Let Your Forget
Youre My Castle
Youre My Sand
Just So That You Understand
Oh My Darling
Oh My Pet
I Wont Let You
Let Your Forget
Youre My Castle
Youre My Sand
Just So That You Understand
Never Forget(Repet)
Eyes on fire, burning flames, seas of blood.
Skies of soot, acid rain, toxic mud.
Tortured souls in body bags, scents of death.
Melted limbs, blood on ice, and blackened breath
Last taste of war. forever more.
All life is gone, bloodshed no more.
Lifeless we lie under the sun.
Now all's said and done
Wasted days, killing time, fall from grace
Take the stand, who's your god, what's your faith?
Trails gone cold, end's in sight, lose your mind.
Seal your fate, leave us all left behind.
Life under siege, none lives to greive
All left to die, nature's relieved.
No place to rest, frightened we run.
When all's said and done.
We have kept a lot onto the trouble
Treaded water in the sea of tears
Now I'm shooting else across your night sky
Trying to land in your atmosphere
If we can make it through the storm
Become who where we before
Promise me we will never look back
The worst is far behind us now
We make it out of here somehow
Meet me in the aftermath
Oh, meet me in the aftermath
There so much more to life than all of the hours
Moments that just slipped beneath our feet
In a times that we put in all our table
And help is too far beyond our reach
If we can make it through the storm
Become who where we before
Promise me we will never look back
The worst is far behind us now
We make it out of here somehow
Meet me in the aftermath
Oh, meet me in the aftermath
If we can make it through the storm
Become who where we before
Promise me we will never look back
The worst is far behind us now
We make it out of here somehow
Meet me in the aftermath
Oh, meet me in the aftermath
And thus was read the incantation
Voices echoed round and round
The woman smiled in weak elation
Mesmerized inside the sounds
And with these chants of higher lore
So mortal flesh began to fade
Soon child and mother were no more
Their earthly bodies now decayed
Cast me to the crimson flames
Thou shalt bar the doors of hell
Incant these words of sacred rule
Seal me in my crimson cell
And still inside the chamber stands
A single cell with crimson hue
Resealed by spoken word of Man
Imbued with power from spiritual Truth
Two souls imprisoned for eternity
Light and dark forever bound
Two souls that never can be freed
A pathway back will not be found
For trapped beyond some foolish reach
And far away from prying eyes
No channel now to lead or preach
No chance to influence or guide
The final sacrifice she took
Ensured the hope of the human race
And thus she holds the sacred book
A captive in her crimson space
Lest bitterness and chaos be the harvest they wouldst
reap
Windows in a silent room,
Sunlight burns the walls to black.
Angles and dimensions melt
While colors drip and pillows crack-
Reflections of my memories like pictures pasted on a sheet,
A ribbon film of seperate frames
Lying curled up at my feet.
The film is just a snake-design
And the photographs are fading fast...
These are not memories of mine-
I have no future...no past...
I have seen a thousand afternoons
Dissolve into the night.
Like sugar crystals on a spoon
They disappear from sight.
Grey days from the crispest morning
To the warmest afternoon...
In this room.
And I like to draw
The face I saw so long ago.
My image in the mirror tells the jagged lines
Which way to go.
A black-and-white description of
The sole survivor of the Holocaust..
All the rest were lost.
Do you see this paper face?
It has no color or no mood.
My eyes are ageless as am I!
I need no sleep, I need no food.
I am a king! But like a child,
The other children laugh at me...
Tongues of fire wagging wild,
They dance around me merrily.
I'll kill them all,
And if I fail,
I'll kill whoever I can find.
Then they'll beg me to be kind.
My eyes have seen far more
Than eyes can ever tell:
This planet plunged through mushroom fires
Of earthly hell.
I know that my sweet Jesus said He would return...
But Babylon has fallen,
And the cities...
Black inferno, chaos reigns supreme
a cancerous growth spreading out the dark
Leaving the wounded land in ashes
A civilization in ruins and decay
Whores and scavengers violating the dead
like a filthy flock of hungry wolves
Tortured shapes of steel against the sky
the eve of destruction, the final tragedy
Nothing left to admire
Nuclear war and the aftermath
Down in flames, a rain of fire
Desperate to take
lost in its wake
time slips away to soon
Pleasures of fear
drawing us near
where could we go from hear
waste what we want
we beg and we're bought
and nothing is wrong with us
life in these veins
godless and stained
glimpses of hope exist
Slanted advance
threatened by chance
time slips away to soon
waste what we want
we beg and we're bought
Desperate to take
lost in its wake
time slips away to soon
Pleasures of fear
drawing us near
where could we go from hear
waste what we want
we beg and we're bought
and nothing is wrong with us
life in these veins
godless and stained
glimpses of hope exist
Slanted advance
threatened by chance
time slips away to soon
waste what we want
we beg and we're bought
and nothing is wrong with us
Helpless it may seem
But only in my dreams
These sort of things appear as wished
Untouchable but seen
If only I could touch
To dream is not enough
To realize the evil I can sometimes follow up
Oh I expect a word you say
And then again it's just my way
Something that my heart and I dream
You're the one for me
Walking in the rain
Till the sun comes out again
Future past and present past
Sometime the misty lane
Like a garden grow
Today I'll never know
Joy assist hers poisoness
Goodbye I must go
Chorus (x2)
Have you lost your way?
Livin' in the shadow of the messes that you made
And so it goes
Everything inside your circle starts to overflow
Take a step before you leap
Into the colors that you seek
You give back what you give away
So don't look back on yesterday
Wanna scream out, no more hiding
Don't be afraid of what's inside
Gonna tell ya you'll be alright
In the aftermath
Anytime anybody pulls you down
Anytime anybody says you're not allowed
Just remember you are not alone
In the aftermath
You feel the weight
Of lies and contradictions that you live with every day
It's not too late
Think of what could be if you rewrite the role you play
Take a step before you leap
Into the colors that you seek
You give back what you give away
So don't look back on yesterday
Wanna scream out, no more hiding
Don't be afraid of what's inside
Gonna tell ya you'll be alright
In the aftermath
Anytime anybody pulls you down
Anytime anybody says you're not allowed
Just remember you are not alone
In the aftermath
In the aftermath
Before you break you have to change your own mind
Take a trip and fall into the pit
Tell a stranger that their view is full
So all you feel is love, love
All you feel is love, love
Wanna scream out, no more hiding
Don't be afraid of what's inside
Wanna tell you you'll be alright
In the aftermath
Wanna scream out
No more hiding
Don't be afraid of what's inside
Gonna tell ya you'll be alright
In the Aftermath
Anytime anybody pulls you down
Anytime anybody says you're not allowed
Just remember you are not alone
In the aftermath
In the aftermath
(Gonna tell ya you'll be alright)
In the aftermath
In the aftermath
Just remember you are not alone
So let it be felt
Aftermath
Shades of hell
I set them free
But struggle
Eternally
It's too late now
To turn the clock around
Frozen world outside
Made by foolish pride
Time to mend
Your life begins
Breathe for me
Make me feel
I'm not alone
Rowen
Final stunt
Will the blood shed
End at once
Rowen
Is no doubt
Life in limbo
Is our home now
Rowen
Final stunt
Will the blood shed
End at once
Rowen
Is no doubt
Life in limbo
Now we have found the short simple ones... tearing me down, pulling you up
IÂ've never expected such a thing would happen... nothing satisfies, nothing will...
CanÂ't say iÂ'm sorry... thatÂ's where I draw the line Taste and smell water from the well
Although IÂ'm not exempt of blame... my thoughts keep running on the past constantly
I wish that something would come along... to show me the right kind of flavour
CanÂ't say iÂ'm sorry... thatÂ's where I draw the line Taste and smell water from the well
IÂ'm so sorry... the dream that takes my all Taste and smell water from the well
IÂ've never expected such a thing would happen... nothing satisfies, nothing will...
Welcome to fake your denial!
Silence finally now is broken,
One thousand years and it seems so long.
Suspended animation's lonely,
I can't recognize a sky so black,
But it feels so wrong.
Ashes will rain,
So timeless they stain all the skies.
Where once there was bliss,
Now left with the wish,
That somebody'd left me to die.
Sky... is black and gray the world has changed another phase in history.
Waste... a mother holds her dying son,
Although she knows he was the guilty one.
Our last embrace,
I can still see your face in my mind.
Alive once again without any friends.
The planet's been scorched now and fried.
Flick of a switch,
How he shook and he twitched,
Bringing and end...
End to all of mankind.
Happened so suddenly, oh, how the apathy.
Murder the ultimate crime.
Grave situation,
Hold tight to your patience,
We sit and watch man destroy himself.
Hate is it? The worst form of emotion,
The aftermath lies beside yourself.
Ashes will rain timeless they'll stain all the skies!
Flip of a switch,
How he shook and he twitched,
Bringing and end...
Bring an end to mankind.
Happened so suddenly, witness the apathy now.
Murder the ultimate crime.
Be the end of mankind,
Murder the ultimate crime.
So let it be felt
Aftermath
Shades of hell
I set them free
But struggle
Eternally
Its too late now
To turn the clock around
Frozen world outside
Made by foolish pride
Time to mend
Your life begins
Breathe for me
Make me feel
Im not alone
Rowen
Final stunt
Will the blood shed
End at once
Rowen
Is no doubt
Life in limbo
Is our home now
Rowen
Final stunt
Will the blood shed
End at once
Rowen
Is no doubt
Life in limbo
When the last of the great big cities has fallen
And the last stone crumbles to dust
We rise form the ashes of compassion and trust
To bring new life to where there is none
It's a task to hard to achieve
We surrender to the powers that be
Where lives once were lost, new will come alive
The an new city is born
But the struggle will continue on and on
The innocent victims of the disaster
They are now laid to their rest
Buried but always remembered deep in our hearts
All alone in the dark we are here once again
In the aftermath
Through the fire and brimstone we forged our way
In the aftermath
We are the ones who did survive this hell
In the aftermath
We will fight all this evil to unlock this spell
In the aftermath
All alone in the dark we are here once again
In the aftermath
Through the fire and brimstone we forged our way
In the aftermath
We are the ones who did survive this hell
In the aftermath
We will fight all this evil to unlock this spell
Give us a reason for coming of war
Fighting for Jesus through prices of oil
See how your demons are forming a wall
Burning and beating and raping them all
Reaching for something
When nothing else matters
Buddha to Krishna through Jesus and Allah
See how your demons are forming a wall
Burning and beating and raping them all
Far from here... we'll light away
So unclear... we'll find the way
To war... we ride
Reaching deed within, find the inner me so torn,
How I yearn for more, strength to endure
My heart burst in grief, I can’t take no more,
Oh, it burns in me. the so called truth
Let me run and let me hide. cry and fly into the night
Try my wings and find my way, be free
Watching the aftermath, of our deeds,
With fear for the afterlife,
A scar inside my soul, my wings ripped apart and torn.
By the visions of the end of all.
Let me run and let me hide, cry and fly into the night
Try my wings and find my way, be free
Watching the aftermath, of our deeds,
With fear for the afterlife.
Deception rules this game,
we all need someone to blame,
to close this game.
Watching the aftermath, of our deeds.
With fear for the afterlife,
Watching the aftermath, of our deeds,
we must stand together in this time of need
we must show the world we're still the free
so we stand together in this time of need
we are the free
cause we all stand proud and strong
we all stand proud and strong
we all stand proud and free in nation 1
we all stand proud and strong
we can rebuild our monuments twice as high
we'll show the world the true meaning of an eye for an eye
cause it's our world
Somebody take me,
away from the darkness,
somebody take this from me.
If anyones out there?
If anyone hears me?
Somebody take this from me?
I was beginning to think
i had lost my mind.
Fell upon it hard
and fell upon my hardest times.
But the way she lit the room at night
cast shadows to their gloom.
And i still dream of your perfume. I would do anything to be with you.
Edelweiss,
angel why?
Comfort me, From so far away.
angel white dream of mine
Come for me, From so far away.
Angel eyes sweet love of mine.
Come back to me,
though so far away
Please don't cry
Theres still time
I wont change.
So far away
Please don't cry
Oh, the city was changing
The cigarette hit the spot
Oh, a simple distraction
From to have and have not
And the radio went silent
And all our heroes had died
Now you can buy revolution
In any color or size
Standing on a corner watching people walk on
Thinking about a photograph
How so many people choose a lesser evil?
Living in the aftermath
Oh, she never got famous
She was the star in my life
'Til we drifted like runoff
Or two ships in the night
Standing on a corner watching people walk on
Thinking about a photograph
How so many people choose a lesser evil?
Living in the aftermath
Down a long hard road
Such a long hard road
To hold on and move on
And I hope she's happy
And I hope she's free
Somehow we choose our own destiny
From the eve of destruction
To the valley of tears
Before it all went to voice mail
And we rang in the year
And the midnight martyrs
Well, they still hang on the cross
You can die in the gutter baby
Or learn to live with the loss
Well, I've standing on a corner watching people walk on
Thinking about a photograph
How so many people choose a lesser evil?
Living in the aftermath
Well, I keep standing on a corner, everybody's talking
Remember when we used to laugh?
How so many people choose a lesser evil?
Never giving peace a chance
Down a long hard road
Such a long hard road
To hold on and move on
Down a long hard road
Such a long hard road
To hold on and move on, boys
(Yeah!)
Oh, how you could make me smile and how you could make me laugh. I
felt so safe. I loved you more with each breath.
But how things have changed now, the way you pushed me out. It’s time
to come back around. It’s time to let you know that...
...I hope you hurt as much as me. I hope you hurt as much as me. I
hope you hurt as much, I hope you hurt as much as me.
I hope you hurt as much as me. I hope you hurt as much as me. I hope
you hurt as much, as much, as much as me me.
This love turns to hate. I watch you make the same mistakes. Now that
I’ve pulled through, I hope it all comes back to you.
When you’re cut right open, when you’re feeling broken, maybe then
you’ll see just how much you fucked with me.
I hope you hurt as much as me. I hope you hurt as much as me. I hope
you hurt as much, I hope you hurt as much as me.
I hope you hurt as much as me. I hope you hurt as much as me. I hope
you hurt as much, as much, as much as me (me me me-e-e-e-e-e-e-e).
(Yeah!)
(I hope you hurt as much as me. I hope you hurt as much as me. I hope
you hurt as much as me. I hope you hurt as much as me. I hope you
hurt as much as me.)
I hope you hurt as much as me. I hope you hurt as much as me. I hope
you hurt as much, I hope you hurt as much as me.
I hope you hurt as much as me. I hope you hurt as much as me. I hope
I first saw it when you were smiling
I could tell something was wrong
And the way you were laughing
It just lasted too long
As if you were trying hard
To pretend everything was fine
When I knew deep in my heart
That it was all just falling apart
Let's run away from the path
We used to take each day
And then we'll face the aftermath
Of our yesterdays
Is it me or are we really
Going out of our minds?
I'd never thought I would be
Somebody not so kind
I don't want to bring you down
But there's no one else around
It's like walking in a ghost town
Or living six feet under ground
Let's run away from the path
We used to take each day
And then we'll face the aftermath
Of our yesterdays
That's what I'd love to say
I know I'll find a way
Let's run away from the path
We used to take each day
And then we'll face the aftermath
Let's take this time to say good-bye to what is bringing me down. It's been so long and I can't go on so I am ending this now. I've been confused for way too long, I can't continue leading you on. Too much too soon to put me through this now I can't just pretend. Somewhere, somehow, something came out and told me this is the end. So this is what you want me to be, boring with no personality.
Light has dawned.
I've emerged to hide my face in disgust.
Reach for me in that day.
Ease the storm that's plagued me.
Although we live in darkness, will a torch ever burn and give us light as we close our eyes.
We've decided to walk alone, flirting with our arrogance.
The clouds roll in as our heads hang.
Lord, fill our mouths and our lives with your words.
I will life my voice and stand so we may live.
And fight the pride that holds me in place.
For I am not a slave to my fear.
Hide no more and leave your anchors at bay.
Surfaced the grave that's buried too deep.
Remove the dagger held by my lungs.
Hide no more.
Become a messenger.
Cry out a song of praise that is true.
Transform.
Become a flesh that's reborn.
Take the pride that darkens me.
Hear me.
For I won't be help down by fear.
No one will ever quench my thirst.
For I long for a better life.
The blood we drank lay still
The water burns and echoes your name
I don't wanna face the day
Or whisper hints of your name
Say goodbye to all we've lost
And all the sons we’d never been blessed
But you hold your times we’ve fought
A lesson learned by pain
This is not the way it's supposed to be!
To be!
(Chorus):
Hey! Looking back, you will find the answers
Hey! Looking back, you will see the aftermath
The traps are laid, all still
The thoughts will help devour your name
The sky spread red with guilt
A shadow draped with your name
This is not the way it's supposed to be!
To be!
(Chorus):
Hey! Looking back, you will find the answers
Hey! Looking back, you will see the aftermath
Guitar Solo/Bridge
(Chorus x2):
You will see the aftermath
Walk us through
All the remnants of the aftermath
The stakes where high I knew
But i could not stop
Two aimless arrows fell
And I motioned you
Said this was nothing that
Two friends wouldn't do
Captured in the afternoon
It's better not to give yourself away
Give yourself away, away too soon
So, sing us your praises
It is without regret
Some say there's too much love
The walls are moving closer now
Can you feel it, can you feel it?
You are not saved until you see the dawn
Set my Eden on fire now
You did it, you did it
Smoked out my soul once and for all
I'm coming home tonight
Can we make it right?
Or twist a dagger in my back
You lit the fires in me that I never thought I had
Now it's nothing but a memory...
Be patient, someday this pain will be useful, useful to you
Be patient, someday this pain will settle deep in you, deep in you
The helix is shattered now
You broke it, you broke it
The destruction of my entire existence
Drink the nectars of the shadow flower now
Contaminated
And sit back as it reaches for your heart
Be patient, someday this pain will be useful, useful to you
Be patient, someday this pain will settle deep in you, deep in you
In the excavation of my human heart I found something
Something that I never knew existed...
I'm coming home tonight
Can we make it right?
Or twist a dagger in my back
You lit the fires in me that I never thought I had
Now it's nothing but a memory...
Be patient, someday this pain will be useful, useful to you
Be patient, someday this pain will settle deep in you, deep in you
Be patient, someday this pain will be useful, useful to you
On the outskirts of the Rigelworlds, a torn warship falls through the void.
A lone survivor, trapped inside the hull, tumbling slowly through fields
of asteroids. "It's strange, the way things tend to go. One moment you prosper,
the next you find yourself... waning".
Immortal... immortal?
Bitter the taste of destiny,
what now? Seems like the dark is... calling.
" This morning I didn't foresee what I know now,
that this day would hold my final moment..."
The vision's fading, as all is lost into eternal frost.
So fleeting, the warmth of life.
"Yeah, I'm here, the road behind me now.
Bended, but not broken, and shed no tears
though the end is nigh..."
We are made of stardust, creed of celestial life -
that in our hearts, the breath of dying stars,
their embers are in our eyes.
For the final adventure
now that old, rigid corpse is left behind.
The spirit is unbroken - the lust for unseen lands,
Walk away from the aftermath
The residue of raw emotion that you always leave behind
Run away. Leave today. Spare the people in your path
Spare yourself the shame
When the blood that's on your hands becomes the blood that's in them
You're to blame. That's your prerogative.
It doesn't mean he is out to hurt the ones he knows
They're just the box that's built around him not expanding as he grows
He doesn't see that he's the one who is shattered by these broken dreams
Another dim day, pacing through the catacombs of the so called world.
The only thing that remains is the crows that hover the streets.
The world was once warned as the man spilled out the future, an image's principles that could have had prevention.
The existence of life is buried in soot.
Your soul is released into a stellar gaze nebula of nothing.
Racing through until God engulfs the world.
The holy one will sure come for you at the brink of revelation.
He'll evolve into a Giant of Fire and ignite everything
He will burn the world.
He will ignite everything.
He drowned the world.
It's just like the flood.
I've found the missing piece to the puzzle of life and man.
The key to the hidden doctrines; The Apocalypse revealed.
The Apocalypse Revealed Planet Earth: The Human Race stood oblivious to this all.
A secret has unfolded.
The old luminous white man will shine for years, and years; but eventually flicker out as light years pass him by.
Fade into a fallen star amongst other realms.
A replicate of the moon after his game of destruction.
The answer was engraved in the Holy scriptures, accustomed and symbolized to everyday life.
DIE!
He will burn the world.
Incineration upon all.
He will burn the world.
It's just like the flood.
NOW INTO THE FLOOD!
Nomadic space voyagers from the great beyond sent from higher grounds; foreign means.
To discover a long lost desolate Earth.
To discover a long lost desolate Earth.
To discover a long lost desolate Earth.
They walk around with iPods on,
Texting all of the time,
They've got no idea what's going on,
There's really nothing on their minds.
They drive their cars while on the phone,
Can't see you and can't see me,
They're in the juicy gossip zone,
So walk defensively.
New age zombies are everywhere,
They're on the street, they're in Times Square,
They're in the park and in the glade,
I saw one driving an Escalade.
They go online and chat with you,
Complain about all of their woes,
They laugh about the things that they do,
But they're just posers and hoes.
They try and date by internet,
Finesse that profile 'till it's late,
Too afraid to meet in person yet,
'Cause their photo's from 1988.
New age zombies are everywhere,
They're on the street, they're in Times Square,
They're in the park and in the glade,
I saw one driving an Escalade.
New age zombies are everywhere,
They're on the street, they're in Times Square,
They're in the park and in the glade,
I saw one driving an Escalade.
Why call in sick when there's email,
Why face your lover's angry look,
'Cause you're too delicate and frail,
Just change that status on Facebook.
They tat their skin with barbs and skulls,
Chinese symbols they can't read,
It makes them feel tough as bulls,
'Cause the needle made them bleed.
New age zombies are everywhere,
They're on the street, they're in Times Square,
They're in the park and in the glade,
I saw one driving an Escalade.
New age zombies are everywhere,
They're on the street, they're in Times Square,
They're in the park and in the glade,
I saw one driving an Escalade.
Protect your heartbecause it's ripping at the seams
This place is never enough,
each hollow moment repeats
The price of giving away your self
again and again and again
is just a hopeless end
The aftermath of these choices
the death toll
No apathy in belief,
no self control
Millions of innocent lives torn apart in a holocaust by
the selfishness of...
Abstain
raise the standard
cut the filth of the social lies
End the faith
in your answers
generations are lost to a choice
Protect your heart
it's ripping at the seams
all that remains
severed oh!
Save
your
self
their lust won't save you
and no love, regret.
I care for those in whom I chose to invest
So I can't stand by
this is not love, but love less
How much more can you give away
Self respect
is not an option in the eyes of disease
So reject
the fantasy of completion through less
because completion won't be found
through this Godlessness
Abstain
raise the standard
cut the filth of the social lies
End the faith
in your answers
generations are lost to a choice
God Have Mercy
Aftermath of life
Rips at the seams
Soldiers Lying
Souls are Dying
Don't know where to run,
The only thing they ever knew was the barrel of a gun
It's a holocost of disfunction,
Living lies of a disruption
It's all over now,
Too many things we won't allow
Don't think I can take it anymore,
Wish i would have just walked out the door
The only place I can go,
Is a place i'll never know
In our hands we hold the key,
Revealing the conspiracy
In our hearts we carry on,
As the day turns into dawn
A perfect day is layed to waste,
A coffin with our souls incased
Broken souls along our path,
Hunted and hated aall that I hold sacred they got to
them all one by oneShadows made black of the corners
and windows denying all light from the sun
Wide eyed with innocence the blod stains
Their clothing the rain slwoly turns me insane
Run through the doorway, the smoke covers my face and
everyone here looks the same
When all I can see is taken away I'm the vulture
You're my prey
When all I can see is burned infront of me
These are the last words I will say
Watching them dying,, I see through your crying
I came for them all one by one
Relentlyess determined to find them and hurt them, I
will not be done till its done
Remember the man at the back of the room
Remember the look on his face
The cold bars the four walls the spot light above
There is no more ahte in this life
When all I can see is taken away Im the vulture
You're my prey
When all I can see is burned infront of me
These are the last last words I will say
Turth and lies through broken eyes
Can somehow be criticized because its benefited our
selfish race
Too quick to judge to fast to act to strap me down and
fade to black
I hope this puts a smile upon your face
And they try to corrupt your mind
But you wont give up at all this time
Everybody wants you dead
But this time there's no tears to shed
I'm coming home
"Honest confession of nature whispered to our minds
Silent shivers became a part of darkest of our winters
Facing to aftermath"
Images, fantasies, coming out of our mind
Obsessions, confessions made us to cross line
Hopes and desire, just to do something new
Don´t ask who will be next, it will be you
Wake up then to fall asleep each passing day
It´s too easy stuff, it´s too simple way
Over dead bodies, just to build some more wealth
Bill has been signed, keep on lying yourself
Remains of desulussions, crawling to my head
What if it happened to me, what if I was dead?
Damnation or salvation are now empty words
Not for ordinary people, just chosen lords
Wind blows, sky falls
Doesn´t matter if you were guilty, it will take it all
Desperation grows in memories
Who messed it up, who screwed it up
are safe to go on again this way.
Cry of survivors fills up the air
Saying: "It could be me, I could be there"
Sadness and rage is taking the mace
Instead of help they´ll spit on your face
Jugded to hear screams jugded to hear cries
Welcome to Kingdom of Eternal Lies
Hopes and even our passion, buried in this land
Tears of pain are fallen, calmly to the sand
Unlucky next generation
Confrontation of spoiled nation
Thin, what has to be done
Calculate, how many has to die
Is this that world you´d live in?
Silence finally now is broken,
One thousand years and it seems so long.
Suspended animation's lonely,
I can't recognize a sky so black,
But it feels so wrong.
Ashes will rain,
So timeless they stain all the skies.
Where once there was bliss,
Now left with the wish,
That somebody'd left me to die.
Sky... is black and gray the world has changed another phase in history.
Waste... a mother holds her dying son,
Although she knows he was the guilty one.
Our last embrace,
I can still see your face in my mind.
Alive once again without any friends.
The planet's been scorched now and fried.
Flick of a switch,
How he shook and he twitched,
Bringing and end...
End to all of mankind.
Happened so suddenly, oh, how the apathy.
Murder the ultimate crime.
Grave situation,
Hold tight to your patience,
We sit and watch man destroy himself.
Hate is it? The worst form of emotion,
The aftermath lies beside yourself.
Ashes will rain timeless they'll stain all the skies!
Flip of a switch,
How he shook and he twitched,
Bringing and end...
Bring an end to mankind.
Happened so suddenly, witness the apathy now.
Murder the ultimate crime.
Be the end of mankind,
Murder the ultimate crime.
The Haze is clearing,
this is the aftermath.
Buildings fall, ruins weather away.
Don't be afraid, (Cuz you know that you wanted it too) Take my hand.
We will walk, side by side... (this is the aftermath)
We take the night, this is the aftermath.
Wake up Wake up
Its time to build bridges... and you know we will.
The past is for matches and gasoline.
What it takes, to understand the difference between,
our wants and needs.
Side by side.
We set the fires
We will be the change
We are the product
We are the result
Alright players, Alright Gs
Hustlers, pimps, macks, real niggaz and all that
The Time has come, and what a time to drop real gangster poetry on that ass
Ha ha, yeah, comin' at you from the under world, The Aftermath!
A group of underground launtics brought together on mission of destruction
So all you bitches and whores beware, for what lurks be on in the bucklers
Give too meanin' into the words is totally insane
187Um, my motherfuckin' murderous homicidal skills for you suckers
Stay down to get that ass clown
Km.G, the motherfuckin' undertaker, the bitch breaker
So whores if you didn't know, now you do
So that's just the first clue from a nigga on a mission
You see, Chronic is way of life, Gs
So spray a peace to mothers and get right the fuck out
Awww yeah, what dopeless comes to a man named Kokane
Influential in amount, believin' in a certain theory
That all players must come correct, other than it he gets no respect
You see, it's all about makin' yours in this life time
So if that said, I would like to duce one more player in this game
A nigga named Shank, A.K.A. the Kane
A nigga known for breakin' the suckers off
So y'all believin' in the Theory of Elevation
Reason bein, I got the fly... fly... shit for that ass
So here it is players, aww yeah, bitches too
The fly shit for you
So tune in 'til it get faded with The Aftermath, niggaz
Funk them up
Funk them up, Funk them up, from the Westcoast
Funk them up, Funk them up, Funk them up
Funk them up, Funk them up, from the Eastcoast
Funk them up, Funk them up, Funk them up
Awww, comin' through the motherfuckin' side door
Checkin' all the niggaz, and cluckin' all the whores
Before you jump up, and get rowdy like the Yawny
You better ask your bitch if she knows me "ooooohhhhh"
Cause I got two pounds of bakings on a two pounds of coke
I brought a bitch some Bamby, some papers, so I can smoke
So you can call them when you want to, baby
Yah, right, because I've just told you homie the same two nights ago
Or should I say four scores ago
So bow wow, wow, wow, yippi yay, yippi yo, whore
Because to play you is my only wish
Yo, so pass me the skin so I can rush it like Emmitt Smith
And then I have to come boil that ass, toil that ass
Bump that ass and straight funk that ass
I guess you motherfuckers get the clue "what up? "
Soda for the cut up, chuckies to hop to "yeah"
I maybe in your Coupé, or Jeep or your Wagon
I maybe makin' dollars but I'm not braggin'
I give my props to my niggaz in the Penthouse, see
For tryin' to come up gettin' caught up in the system G
It's like a game, never fit to win
So I'll see you when you get out if not when I get in "Well, alright"
Cause I'm not the Rodney King Part Two
So I'm a smoke one for me and smoke a gang for you, yeah
Then you're makin' a nigga, aww shit, the whore gigolo flow
Quick so... what's the word?
I've just set a to the whores with the Deuce on the corner
The green eyed hooker with the juice and the totters
The true black macadamian in Funk pole
Hit the whores, get quick to fade Al Capone
Let me take my hair off
And peep my MC Donalds, six Magazines freak
All the nymphos I'm a pussy fiend
Ooh, Mister Mister, twister twister is what they call me
Then they bone me
Whores on my Diznick, I'm livin' a revelation
I'm kickin' the real shit, fuck the nigga's reputation "fuck it"
Go out to through dome, what up?, I'll straight fuck you
Or told my nigga shit, .45 to buck you
Or I'm a trip and bring chaos at it
Or my nigga Mack fuckin' Re-up to Pimp Clinic
So, I'm a ask you a question "what up Loc'? "
Do you wanna die for me? "yeah"
Or do you wanna die for my Kokane at 17-5 a key?
Awww yeah, I said leanin' on my toners when I'm bailin'
Through the crooked streets deep in Cali' where I'm dwellin'
Sellin' mobile dopes cause I gotta make a dollar
Finna drop the top of my Rag-Top-Trey Impala
I'm jerkin' a local nigga out the do it and sharin' dirt
Got two whores on the corner and they finna put in work
Now the pimps, though I ships my pimp
And on the down low, too many whores'll get a nigga in some trouble
And so I'm... bumped the three wheel motion
Hit the corner quick, fiendin' like the Chronic stick
I got a beap on the sky pager, trick ass bitch
Put the trick on time so it's off to the next day
Yeah, picked up my mobile phone, to make a booty call
Creepin' down Crenshaw, watchin' out for the law "yeah, the motherfuckers"
Cause the police quick to put the nigga on the side of the curb
And take a choke of burb G
And lease a nigga like showy
But I ain't want them up, I got the dope from the street motherfuckers
Aww yeah, The Aftermath
Journey through this Aftermath
Kokane is here
Here goes 'Kane, check this out
Now I'm comin' around... comin' around.
Comin' around the fuckin' mountain
Wettin' niggaz up like a fuckin' fountain
So don't call me, don't get attached
Cause some of you niggas' ass more faker than Wrazzaler Match
Add the preservatives on official flavors
Bakin' video sope, said I say a fuckin' savior
Give your R&B;, house Music, I'll say hell no
Beatin' Donnie Simpson where I be funkin' on the show
Who gives the funk shit like that? you know it's We
Cause G shit came from the concrete
So take a seat in the back jack, known I gots to strap
No longer will be a white motherfuckin' dictatin' hard as real rap
You're a motherfuckin' hypocrites
Bring your ass as used to promote that every metal shit
To the K to the O to the K to the A, to that's N-E we flowwww
My name is Kokane, never askin' the reason I ball
So Bon Voyage I gots the stack
And I'm out swords, nigga, but I'll be back
