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The Outstretched Arms of Damnation

by Sworn Vengeance

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1.
7 Roads to Hell 05:24
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7 roads to Hell Pure and holy Drenched in blood I’m forced to suffer for your sins Severed wings Murdered and bleeding Angelic prose Never free and left to burn Drained of perseverance Entrapped by loneliness And yearning for my soul Looking down upon a chasm of regret I clutch for life Upon the frail hopes of what was lost Isolation breeds despair Drowning Caught in tides of suicide Gasping throat deep Darkness washes over me As I wonder Where were you when the gun was pointed at my head? Where were you when the razorblade was kissing my wrist? Where were you when the rope was wrapped around my neck? I was alone Drained of all endurance Entrapped by emptiness And yearning for a chance Staring down upon a chasm of neglect I clutch for hope upon the frail remains Of what is gone Left to walk these 7 roads to Hell Sacrificed You forced me to grow up alone Denied You rejected the notion of love Forsaken You gave up on me for yourself Betrayed By my own blood Isolation breeds despair Caught in tides of suicide Darkness washes over me As I wonder Where were you when I was standing on the ledge? Where were you when I was choking on these pills? Where were you when my flesh began to burn? I was alone Denied a savior As my life slips away
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The Outstretched Arms of Damnation 02:29
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Pressure weighs upon my soul Hold my breath and wait for the end Choked with the fear of existence In a black rooted world The only way out is annihilation I wonder how its possible To live in this infested wasteland Surrounded by rape, greed, death, misery The nature of our species takes control In a cataclysm of violence This cycle needs to stop So deeply embedded in our souls What we fear, we kill What we hate, we kill What we love, we kill We won’t be at peace until we’re dead Humanity must die Let our destructive nature reign Unleash a wave of terror And wipe this fucking race out Erase humanity And it’s afflicted legacy This disease known as man must be destroyed So this world can live again Drown 7 billion demons With their own blood Poison 7 billion demons With their own hate Bury 7 billion demons With their own bones Slaughter 7 billion demons With their own swords
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Omega 03:40
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There is nothing left to say Too long now I hurt inside So hollow Can you imagine a world That’s dead within your eyes? Emptiness chokes my life I’ve tried for years to cope To be open to the world To have the darkness washed away And with every broken promise And with every betrayal I felt a choking grip around my throat I have no answers and no one to confide in anymore Maybe I’m just insane Lost to an abject mind Haunted by rejection Tormented by a distraught life A disgusting span of Broken hearts and dreams That in the end leave us In pain and alone Faced to suffer the agony And no one will care when it’s all Said and done Left alive in a world of corpses A cemetery of humanity Come see what I see View the world through sewed shut eyes There is no such thing as tomorrow When each hour keeps killing me I see my friends I see my family and my loved ones And I know they will die one day And I will be left alone So I wait forever For death to take the pain away Pray for this soul now devoured Overwhelmed by the rot of existence The waiting embrace of death is just one step away
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Crimson Mask 03:21
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I gaze in absence At this hollow void reflection Nothing is recognized I’ve spent the better part of life Trapped in this coffin Built by my own obliquity Now my emotions are watered down I used to have aspirations But all my dreams just died I’m just a broken empty vessel Poised to fall The faceplate painted in blood Erosion of humanity Elimination of my being Failure was my greatest success No joy is hidden within For only death has a reason to smile Broken Shattered Hopeless Forsaken I stare in horror At the image gazing back Vaguely human anymore Confined to isolation Life has drained my spirit The Devil’s curse carved in my soul I’m left alone to suffer A prisoner to the embrace of despair This life once full of promise Now is nothing more than dust Confined to isolation Broken Shattered Hopeless Forsaken
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Virus de Christo 03:26
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Clutching at your crucifix You beg and plead and cry and pray Believing in a malignant disease That’s said to protect humanity Innocence ripped away The beginning of the pain The lies you believe do more damage Than the sins you fight to avoid But your faith has caused your suffering The loathing of your own soul Is more than you can handle Hope for a cleansing Upon deaf ears you plead your case You’ll never find the answer In a hollow empty idol As skin is stripped And muscles torn And bone is turned to ash This is a world without hope Wrought with pain and loss You’re damned to suffer As you fall to your knees and pray Scream for salvation With no soul to surrender Watch as you fall from grace Desolation Rejected since creation Face the world As Heaven crumbles away All the agony and disease The destruction and decay The demise of your faith Forsaken once again This curse is carved in my heart Now suffer Clinging to your crucifix on your knees Praying for redemption of your soul Torn apart Begging for forgiveness of your sins Preservation without cause Justified by a pious doctrine Your desire for upliftment Has bred your insanity As you’re engulfed by hopelessness Say goodbye to eternal joy For when you breathe your last breath You’ll find your Heaven burning
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Hammer 04:20
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I'd sell my soul for a chance To watch you die in agony Burn in a fire of guilt Their cries of justice will never rest Until the day your destruction is at hand In a flash you stole my hope Took them away from my life Your blood-stained hands Will not come clean It's time to face the terror within You thought that you might escape Get away with what you've done To you it might have been nothing But to me it was my world There will be no salvation No sanctuary for your soul Your actions will be your demise At my hands You'll feel my pain I'll make you suffer for what I've endured Nothing will stand in my way I used to burn when I thought of your face Now I'll smile when I spit on your grave Your death is the only solution To end this madness within A worthless life is my sacrifice To the dead screaming for your soul I wait for my chance at revenge Savor the moment of truth And with this hammer of vengeance I will deliver your last rites
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Conversations with the Shadow 04:09
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Watching as my life Slowly passes by Feeling prisoner to the void A black cold shadow Envelops my beating heart The discouraging winds of failure Pass through my bones As the night rips clean of its chamber My cold skin freezes my breath Feeling the effects of war and defeat I sink lower and lower still Escape would be a godsend But I lack the courage to set my soul free I would give anything to look up from coffin walls And see a tombstone above my skull The peaceful sleep of eternity To have a conversation With the shadow itself As my blood is drained of misery and strife Forgotten once the world of the damned This would be the perfect dream A happy ending for a broken man The blessed curse of a rotting virtue The awakening of truth An existence begging for the end Of all this torment The sum of my parts Will never amount to anything This loathing I can’t destroy My own self-destruction Occurred so long ago As the shadow rips clean of its prison My cold skin signals my death Feeling the effects of age and decay I sink lower and lower still Escape will never happen But I lack the courage to let my life go I would give anything To seal this tomb There’s nothing left to live for Watching as my life hangs by a thread Feeling emptiness in my soul A black cold shadow Envelops my dying heart The time has arrived To surrender to this world As death stands by
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Empty 03:22
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Don't hold on to anything Time will rip it away The bleeding hands begging for connection Dead skin and pain the only reminder The scars that harden my soul Have reinvented my stance When I look in the mirror The reflection I see is jagged and blurred Too long now I've been attached So take these pieces of my shattered dreams And rake them across my wrist As I watch my existence drain away I can taste my own blood Haunted by my regret Turned stoned by hope's demise I only live for my own death There are no cracks in my armor Yet I rot from the inside out Hating everything that I've become Too much bitterness lies within No peace until I die So alone I remain A victim of my callousness The murder of my very soul Forced by my own hand The disgust of regret The determination to obliterate it all Let the pain be my salvation And embrace the desire To cut And tear And rip And slash And stab And kill And fucking destroy Trapped in an unending hell My world belongs in a grave Take this pain and bury it six feet deep Nothing is left of me I can only hold on so long Cold and empty; sick inside I failed looking for my own release No escape from a tortured past Hopeless I realize Life is hostile
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Solace 03:58
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Waiting forever for redemption Praying for you to understand The rejection of grace Keeps me pinned to the ground My faith is always tested As my life drifts in and out Your eyes never gaze upon my life The pain the resides In my soul My whole existence has been built around acceptance I’ve been given no choice So why am I still ignored? I’ve never claimed to be the perfect one But pain has been pushed upon me countless times Yet I am still ignored Bonded to death as I walk in the dark Agony distorts my outlook The vicious cycle never changes Black soiled vision The dismal display of apathy As it festers inside Standing in your shadow I wish you could experience this suffering There’s no room for indifference Withdrawn I seek a future with no past The days of solace weigh upon my conscious There’s no room for indifference Withdrawn I seek a future with no past The days of solace weigh upon my conscious Why was I chosen to suffer? I need your sympathy You’ve contaminated my belief As you turn your back on me Bonded to death As I walk in the dark Why was I chosen to suffer? I need your sympathy You’ve contaminated my belief As you turn your back on me Waiting forever for redemption Praying for you to understand The rejection of grace Keeps me pinned to the ground My faith is always tested As my life drifts in and out Your eyes never gaze upon my life But pain has been pushed upon me Countless times I’ve been given no choice Why am I still ignored?
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Evangelic Lies 04:19
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I feel like the dead You will never understand This pain that hides inside My heart is never full A fraction of a man Stuck in this bitter life And sinking in the sand This is my prison cell Trapped in the alleys of my mind A shadow of the man I was I can’t even breathe I face the sun and wonder Why I am so cold And if I die tomorrow This world won’t shed a tear Walking indifference Rejected life A parasite that feeds off my soul I beg for mercy Blackest thoughts cloud my head As I forget what it’s like to be alive I feel nothing Facing walls of silence And left without a scream Forced to live this existence alone I feel like the dead My heart is never full This is my prison cell I can’t even breathe Beyond my shallow grave Lies a plane of deception I look at the ashes Of my self-inflicted ruination And sift through the charred remains I find my only companion Is the emptiness I feel within The ghosted image of a broken past Remains embedded Trapped bound and shackled In a chasm of regret Beyond my shallow grave Lies a plane of deception I find my only companion within
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The Process and the Failure 03:55
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Falling from the pedestal Has never burned like this before The searing sensation Of failure stings my pride Broken and shattered again It feels like I’m always in this condition Looking at myself I seem so ravaged through and through Beaten by emotion and Dragged through the mud Was it all my fault this fell apart? I can’t find direction in demise And so it happens again The loss of love and the failure of the heart The patchwork process begins again Each time a piece is lost As I pick up the rusted needle I struggle as I pierce the scars from time before The bruised remains of past mistakes Still tender to the touch I’ll never comprehend this pain The failure comes so fast And then the heart is dropped And as it lays in pieces I try again But failure comes so fast Once again the heart is dropped And as it lays in pieces It’s time to surrender forever Falling from the pedestal Has never burned like this before The searing sensation Of failure stings my pride Broken and shattered again It feels like I’m always in this condition Looking at myself I seem so ravaged through and through Broken and shattered again
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Eternal 04:10
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I've opened my eyes To see this dying world laid out before me The scarlet rush of pain Has dampened every soul I refuse to be another zombie in the fold Awaiting death The rotted poison of your vices No one to blame but yourself As you ingest your lie No one to blame but yourself As you inhale your lie No one to blame but yourself As you inject your lie No one to blame As you decay from what's inside Bonded by the strength within Focused by integrity Fueled by perseverance I'll never forget the meaning of straight edge Purity is my shield My salvation is my resolve Fighting for my last breath With my swords crossed in an X You're just a shadow of yourself That's fading slowly Face reality As poison's running through your veins I just can't take this life for granted A witness as the world declines Remove the blinders No reason to look back Nothing can tear me down You’ll never break me My spirit will never die I will always remain strong While society rots No room for moderation While innocents keep dying My fight will never end This promise carved in my heart I ignore this world’s deceptions Your too blind to see the truth Trapped in your self-made prison I reject this curse My fight will never end There is no compromise I won’t become infected I’ll always fight Until I breathe my dying breath For every life that’s taken For every year that’s stolen I will take revenge Now and forever Straight edge
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The Trooper 03:48
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You'll take my life But I'll take yours too You'll fire your musket But I'll run you through So when you're waiting For the next attack You'd better stand There's no turning back The bugle sounds The charge begins But on this battlefield No one wins The smell of acrid smoke And horses' breath As I plunge on Into certain death The horse he sweats with fear We break to run The mighty roar Of the Russian guns And as we race Towards the human wall The screams of pain As my comrades fall We hurdle bodies That lay on the ground And the Russians fire Another round We get so near Yet so far away We won't live To fight another day We get so close Near enough to fight When a Russian Gets me in his sights He pulls the trigger And I feel the blow A burst of rounds Take my horse below And as I lay there Gazing at the sky My body's numb And my throat is dry And as I lay Forgotten and alone Without a tear I draw my parting groan

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released March 1, 2003

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Hardcore/metal crossover from the San Francisco Bay Area, started in 1998.

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