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[kaus_australis]

Glory and Gore - Lorde
There's a humming in the restless summer air
And we're slipping off the course that we prepared
But in all chaos, there is calculation
Dropping glasses just to hear them break..
It's clear that someone's gotta go
We mean it, but I promise we're not mean

And the cry goes out
They lose their minds for us
And how it plays out
Now we're in the ring
And we're coming for blood

You could try and take us
But we're the gladiators
Everyone a rager
But secretly we're saviors
Glory and gore go hand in hand
That's why we're making headlines
You could try and take us
But victory's contagious

Delicate in every way but one (the swordplay)
God knows we like archaic kinds of fun (the old way)
Chance is the only game I play with, baby
We let our battles choose us...

No-one 'round here's good at keeping their eyes closed
The sun's starting to light up when we're walking home
Tired little laughs, gold lie promises, we'll always win at this
I don't ever think about death
It's alright if you do, it's fine
We gladiate but I guess we're really fighting ourselves
Roughing up our minds so we're ready when the kill time comes
Wide awake in bed, words in my brain, "Secretly you love this
Do you even wanna go free?"
Let me in the ring, I'll show you what that big word means



Africanus - Cruxshadows
Is this the way we let it in
Our legacy erased
Invaders cut a path within
Devouring everything

And they will if we let them
And they will if we run
What they take from us now
It can't be undone

I won't stand down — there's no surrender
Nowhere left we can retreat
I won't stand down — there's no surrender
No surrender, no surrender
You cannot advance if you don't fight back
And you won't fight back if you don't believe
Where peace is laid impossible
Prepare for war to Zama
Follow me

Strength is order and weakness prey
But I alone design my fate
I know too well with schemes transparent
Must resort to trickery
I'll take the battle back to Carthage
Where triumph fades into defeat
Revenge avenged, and so it carries
Scipio to victory...

This is my purpose, the strength to begin
I channel some courage, I summon it in
This is my gift, the act of my tears
This is my prayer, embracing my fear
This is my family, this is my home
A lifetime believing and all that I know
This is the place I choose to defend
And I'll defend it, to the end
This is my honor, this is my word
This is the voice you've already heard
This is my faith that rises above
This is my everything—I give it to love

And they will if we let them
And they will if we run
What they want from us now
We give to no one

I won't stand down—there's no surrender
Nowhere left we can retreat
I won't stand down—there's no surrender
No substitute for tenacity
You cannot advance if you don't fight back
And you won't fight back if you don't believe
Where peace is laid impossible
Prepare for war



Cardinal Directions - ThouShaltNot
I split the atom of one second
Choosing history's lathe
Each word summons now the next
A master to his slave
Countless links
Within some silent chain
And time becomes the sediment that drifts to algae
Divorced from comets' trains
In the East a reflection
Of the Western sunset
North, South, pole to pole
Turn back in regret
And to the East I might stumble
To the West I would crawl
And if North is the winter
Then South is the fall

And if I had my way
I'd make the clock rewind
I'd live again that moment
Though I know I'll never find
The future that I missed
A parallel line
Where the world would be so bright
That it could make us all go blind
And if I had my day
There's so much I'd reclaim
The sanctity of motion
The neverending rain
The cardinal directions
All pointing to the past
Where realities converge
And for a moment, we're the same
(As always)

And magnets spin the compass
In an embryonic flame
Somewhere is the promise
Of an uncharted trail
With seven hundred branching limbs
And seven hundred ways to fail
To the East a reflection
Of the new moon in the West
Her timeless watch is quiet
Over tides of her unrest
To the North is the current
Of a man breathing out
Giving birth to the breeze
To be inhaled in the South


Scars Flown Proud - Faith and the Muse
We are the inheritors: The evidence of Heaven
Descendants of a legacy
Gone but not forgotten
We are the inheritors
Of the grand persuasion
Descendents of its masquerade
Numb but not defeated

Welcome to the silent war
To the world we never hoped to gain
The great disguise
Wandering between two realms
One dead the other rarely dwells
Behind our eyes
Lest we be sorely recognized

What little good intentions seem
But obviate the bloom of self esteem
We'll save our prayers
Inured to wounds from bleeding minds
Where wisdom dares not mix with time
Never fear
They'll age, they'll change, they'll disappear

In every dance no steps are placed
And every path mistakes are made
If all paths lead but to the grave
Then let us dance along our way

Gliding from room to room all cast in celebrated gloom
With no where yet to rest our head
Waiting for a door to open from within and bring us home
Lest we possess our souls again



Chosen - Arena
We live amongst you
In the guise of the mortal men
You'll never see us in the crowd
We only look towards
What purpose we've been sent
And wait until the time is now

Imagine you can tell us all apart
From prophecy or old wives tales
Or from the warnings of a singular birthmark
But these are merely all false trails

Freedom of speech but we have no voice
Freedom of spirit but we have no choice
Given no help to meet these demands
Given no help it's out of our hands

Never turn around never look behind
Got to turn the water into wine


Trial By Fire - ThouShaltNot
Here and now it doesn't matter
The highway you have taken
For now as you awaken
You're underneath new skin

I'm setting you in motion
And opening your eyes
And underneath these skies
You'll forget all whom you've been

I dust away the plaster
From off your breathing body
You're touching your autonomy
You'll never be the same

And fingers grab at nothing
For the first time they are feeling
For the first time they are healing
As I whisper your new name

The passing of an hour
The splitting of a fraction
A chemical reaction
Is waiting to fluoresce

Your mind is still rewiring
The colors of the morning
The sound of hornets swarming
The glow of my caress

And have you seen the outside
The world that lies beyond us
Where streets are paved with jaundice
Where innocence forgot

And have you seen the future
So hard it tries to hold you
So hard it tries to mold you
To something you are not

Can you live on your own
I give you up, I turn to stone
Go now into the world
Trial by fire

Here, now, start to move
Uncertain with each step you take
What is gentleness
Beyond my eyes, beyond my bodyscape

Turn and look one more time
See me brimming with
Saltwater brine
Away you run, away I give

I sculpt your nature within
I am your Pygmalion
Go now into the world
Trial by fire



Let Us Burn - Within Temptation
Now darkness has come to the roses
The fire is reaching the end
The colors that I have created
Are suddenly flying away

I'm not fighting myself, will not follow
'Cause my choices are mine it's my fate
And I'll never bow down from the sorrow
I'll face all that is coming my way

Denying the devil of silence
Embracing the world on the edge

Let us burn
Let us burn and light up the skies here tonight
Let us burn
Let us burn in this fire that makes us yearn
We're fighting our fear of the silence
We're running through walls where they stand
Let us burn

I'm searching no more for tomorrow
I reach for the skies while I can
The unknown will always be waiting
My last day I'll jump in it's hands



Revelations - Zack Hemsey
When the sun fades out
And the blackness shrouds
And the wolves all howl
And the stones fall loud
When the fear is found
And nightmares hound
Will you drown in the plague that surrounds

Weight upon a point of pressure, watch as it implodes
Wind upon a way of life, see how it erodes
Seek inside a rose to find the wilting of a soul
Seize a path unknown and then you’ll walk the world alone
Now travel past the bones of prophets and warlords
Past the empty thrones and treasures of gold hoards
Past the vacant vaults of pharaohs that came before
Beyond the crowns of kings once mighty and so adored
And to the top of the ancient ziggurats
To the pyramids and plots and the holy lands forgot
And drop by a place where you can find a spot
That can spot a panorama of the messages in crops
Then stop, ponder if it serves to insight
Does it shed a light on the Armageddon that’s in sight
Can it aid or help excite the armies that march strong
The battle to find calm that rattles the rage on
Climb on in the race to belong
Hang on in the face of the harm
Move through with the pace of a charge
And resist the alarm to embrace all the wrong
Is it truth or just words in a song
Is it hope, is it fear of forgone
Am I knight, am I lowly the pawn
Let it known at the sound of the gong

This is Mayan times
Revelation
But I am not afraid
And I won’t die today
So pull me under
I fear no thunder

Who knows why their stronghold couldn’t hold me at bay
Why their strength couldn’t control me away
Why the drive will not decline or decay
Or why design will leave alive one today
One to prey hard in a graveyard lay
One to take charge in a Braveheart way
A mournful mist to assist and portray
The tears of grown men no pen will convey
Without a leader to address or sway
Our losses move under and cross the raw thunder
Without an angel to embrace or save
Our hope is fused into these stones that hold hundreds
And I choose to stand
Though I’m bruised and branded
I refuse the noose that I’m handed
My eulogy will read:
“To Hell he’s been and sipped their scorched gin with a sinful grin”
Oh strange am I
Strangely eyed to look calm as our worlds collide
Fools can find shade thinking fate is blind
Their safety buys stakes for their purpose dies
Though worthless lives are worth less lives
My words revive and cry loud for the certain sign
Till end of days sound and the earth is dry
Know this is a farewell but it’s not goodbye