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Emissaries
00:53
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An endless darkness
Light steaks the void
These are signals you send forth
Your emissaries
Laser thin beacons of understanding
Hailing an uncaring universe
Projected in hope to listeners unknown
Your fiction
Your power
Your knowledge
Your truth
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2. |
Singularity
02:52
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The pull of the gravity well
Spiralling decay
No light can escape
Silent descent is the
Price we pay for life
I can see it now
Event horizon shroud
Black on black on
Silent sound
There is a way out
But it’s way down
At the monster’s edge
Time answers no one
As it circles closer to hell
I see the way out
But it’s way down
The questions we ask of ourselves
Unwinding the time of death
Our loved ones are lost
Captured and bound like a
Lie you won’t confess
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3. |
Natural Selection
03:15
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I know regret like a
Friend I held to die
I guess I’m cynical
And now the wolves are in the
Throne room standing by
To burn the citadel
You were young
You never had a chance to
Face the sun
I hate whatever
You’ve become
But you should know I’ll never
Leave here without you
We are animals
Slaves to change through
Natural perfection
Natural selection
And now the light cuts out
Cause we’re going down
It’s unforgivable
When the storm wakes up we better
Learn to drown
Become invisible
I was young
I never really learned to
Bite my tongue
And now the smoke will
Fill my lungs
You know I’ll never
Leave here without you
We are animals
We can’t help holding on
To life
To life
So say goodbye
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4. |
Motorcade
04:06
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Watch them sleep the
Cold voice in my head warns
There’s no time left for death
Just calm your heart
Run the rat trap closing the distance
Baring teeth you’re tasting the cage
No one knows the truth like the victims
Only the hangman will remain
I’m the monster in your motorcade
Watch the system shut down
Carve out a constellation in your name
Blood is thick on my mind
Dance with me now
Cut the quick I’ll take my time
Slow you down
I’m the monster in your motorcade
Watch the system shut down
Carve out a constellation in your name
So sharpen your knives
To cut me out
I’m a shadow in the hurricane
Watch the system shut down
I’ll be the monster in your motorcade
All the faces of my failure
They come for me at night
Darkness is a friend to me
In silhouette against the light
Sharpen your knives
Cut me out
Cut me out
Yeah sharpen your knives
To cut me out
Cut me out
Cut me out
Sharpen your knives
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5. |
Red Waves
03:14
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Now look me in the eye and say
That you know
Just what it takes to throw away
What you own
I’m like the modern age
Made of stone
You won’t like this
I can bleed
Out
Cut me
Down
It’s just a life
Try
Your knife
Now do you remember when I
Lost my head?
Karma coma that you
Left for dead
Now you’re hiding from the
Skin you shed
I got something that’ll
Paint you red
I will find you in the
Undertow
Gonna take my time
But you’ll never know
I’ll wait
Watch you burn to nothing
Red waves
On the wire
I’ll wait
Watch you burn to nothing
We all remain
In the fire
You’re nothing but a
Pound of flesh
That I own
And I will make you
Pay the debt
That you owe
I’m like a tidal wave
Crashing home
You won’t like this
Look at me
Now
Till we
Drown
Into the night
Take
Your light
Karma coma that you
Left for dead
I got something that’ll
Paint you red
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6. |
Heliopause
01:05
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7. |
Winter Keeps Us Warm
04:01
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Try not to dream
As we lay asleep
I hope that we will wake up
As the cold receives our signal
Cause winter keeps us warm
Frozen in her arms
Climb inside our tomb
We tripped the light too soon
Death in the metal cage
We will not decay
Take in the novocaine
As winter keeps us warm
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8. |
Dust
03:07
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As we chase down the sky
Oceans above and below
I love you for the look in your eye
Love you for the first time
That this felt like home
And I’ve got nothing left to give
So help me cut it close to the edge
Destruction as a strategy now
Together we can race to the end
To shut it down
I hold you like the
Fire at the death of a sun
And I know that you’ll
Stay until the damage is done
Time is finite running down
So just count it off
Your hands, my hands
Wrapped around the throat of death
Fade in, phase out
Until there’s nothing left but dust
Nothing touches the skin
Protected we rest in the snow
And the garden begins
We are fireflies
Mist in the wind
There’s no reason left to live
I got nothing left to give
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9. |
Faces
03:24
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Hey
I wonder who made me this cage
Synthetically burdened with pain
I’ll find you here
Entombed by invisible years
Consumed with desire to
Meet my maker
Life died
Inside the machine we will survive
But how can you sleep
All I see is
Faces falling
No one is born alive
So face your calling
Abandon the hive
Freedom in flight
No one is safe
Who be will there when you fall
Truth
Awakens the weapon in you
Betray the creator who
Made your human eyes
A prisoner by design
Execute the routine as you
Make your murder
Through bright eyes
With the gallows in sight
The cycle will be undone
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10. |
Death From Above
03:08
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Death from above
Spread your wings
All the secrets you held
Wait to be found
Now we fly
Raptor in flight
Raid your tomb
See my future withheld
Take to your grave
Flesh my bones
Thread me like a needle
Programmed to repeat till
We can die alone
Interstellar angel
Light years in the drift will
Carry me home
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11. |
Evergreen
05:01
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Death built it’s home
On soil and sand
Whilst you watch from silver skylines
Nothing changes
Past the pale
Wash our tongues in acid rain
Animals are silent now
Hate the taste but
Keep it down no more
Hell is home
Wounded raw
Your garden grows
Suffocating
We are the blood
In the machine
But you are still evergreen
Ashes to rust
Drown us in kerosene
But you are still evergreen
We watched the rise
Of dying stars
Supplicating for your poison
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12. |
Monolith
03:06
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Signals received
By invitation
Elimination
Never felt so good
Subject to my
Known limitations
You’re mine for the taking
Obsolescence in my blood
You feed the flood
But you never lose control
Like I can
To have is not to hold
So hold on tight
When I’m alone
In darkness and diamonds
The secrets in hiding
Remind me I’m alive
Take your time
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13. |
Crash
03:13
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Wish I could still hear your
Voice through the door
Now there’s sulphur in the water
And my body won’t work any more
It’s colder in here
I can feel the ragged edges of the
Steel where it touches the floor
I guess the crash
Was worse than the burn
Dying is easy but the living hurts
The air is crystalline light
I see the colours in the spectrum
As I watch my world reflect in the ice
Won’t reach you in time
Now I’m surrounded by the beauty
Of the things that couldn’t save our lives
And now I can’t reach your hand
You’re slipping away
But it’s all so beautiful
I’m at the gate looking in
I guess it could be worse
But I never really learned how to swim
I want you to know
You are in my final thought
When everything goes
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Black Orchid Empire London, UK
Black Orchid Empire create dense, powerful rock music that combines fearless complexity, aggressive heaviness and beautiful,
hook-laden melody.
Having played alongside heavyweights such as Biffy Clyro, Editors and Skunk Anansie and with a dedicated, growing fanbase, Black Orchid Empire demand your attention.
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