Silent Planet

Afterdusk
First the auspices, they came dripping from the sky Set their course to the coast, black sand blazing in their eyes We woke and bore witness To a tarnished veil of gold Tiny corpses line the strand, obsolescence unfolds Intravenously, hypodermic pipelines seep toxins to the sea adorning our shores with negligence Suffocate, immolate - cauterize the surface Poison dances in the sky Walk with me Walk with me and see our colonies breeding dystrophy Can you feel, feel the disconnect resonate Burn inside your chest? Palpitating, palpitating pulse - failing heart, cardiac convulse The violence we love, it's cyclical We rise and we fall, it's inevitable Is it fatal? Is the fallout inevitable? It was all for nothing - spiralling out of control Misdirected decathect Both indirect and circumspect Oh architect of disconnect, in retrospect I now suspect Trace the hills with your hungry eyes SongtexteWitness how, like an orphan's spine Cities protrude on the horizon line Greed will rise and carve out the sky, blinding us to the... Repercussion Pull the blood from the earth Leave a grave for your sons Oil is the ink, fueling missiles like pens - writing oblivion Walk with me Walk with me and see our colonies breeding dystrophy Can you feel, feel the disconnect resonate Burn inside your chest? Palpitating, palpitating pulse - failing heart, cardiac convulse The violence we love, it's cyclical We rise and we fall, it's inevitable Is it fatal? Is the fallout inevitable? It was all for nothing - spiralling out of control Is it fatal? Is the fallout inevitable? It was all for nothing - spiralling out of control This violence we love, it's cyclical We rise and we fall, it's inevitable The violence we love, it's cyclical We rose just to fall I followed the harm to the site of infection The exit wounds where we made our home We were gorged with the earth and drunk off the seas And now we die with the taste of decay on our tongues Aus Songtexte Mania