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Songs of the Machine

by Colonist

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1.
Metropolis 07:01
Our City of Stars drowned in the fire Metropolis won, now nothing remains We hoped for a while that we could forget Annihilation of the earth Into the dark we wander Under stars of sin In the silence the ghosts come haunting again Waves are drawing near And the city sleeps Impending sacrifice of hope And no one remembers us Hold on to the flame The cinder is dying Wait for the world to fall asleep And slowly fade away Worlds far apart Bleeding like an Open wound How could we start When half the world has Gone insane Out of the wastelands Came the word There’s death for me and you And from the ashes Of all that was A life of solitude Behold the miracle Your new home Atonement for your sins Step inside and Settle down Let the city swallow Stare down the streets of Metropolis And the dead will dance in the rain No one can help you get over this The city calls you again
2.
Listen to the songs they said lest the world should end Just bow your head and let the world run its course my friend What we built is what we have From a distance you could see your planet fall From the clock tower everything you touch is gold But on the factory floor it’s all the same The apathetic mass with no name There is no masterplan and no choice when the cracks appear on the screen When the cogs and hands become toys a threat to your machine Wherever you will go the sounds will find you and follow you back home Forget the Gods above Human shapes form against the sky Life on Earth what is it worth? No Can’t you hear Songs of the Machine A godlike melody Eating your dreams Leaving you down and drained Feed the machine and be the enslaved Stand in line and watch them build their lie You would sacrifice and close your eyes on all the pieces that die to live mechanic lives Watch it turn from side to side It only wavers for a while Watch it break from time to time We are not forever In circles we will turn so we don’t move at all To circles we return and never move at all We never move at all
3.
Seventh Wave 06:51
Lashed our chains wide across this wasteland the world we tamed Broke the knees of Atlas beneath us the Earth enslaved We are the light, knights of the new world Man-made gods With our hands we tied mother Gaia we stole her soul After dark we dance in the ruins Our laughter will die with the dawn In the Seventh Wave the dusk will come our way We join hands again to help destroy another world of man Drilled beneath the skin of Earth Mother siphoned veins Sing the mantra of the reactor we feed the flames We are the sin, kings of a dead world Blood red skies The promethean fire in our hands The ashes grow cold After dark we hide in the ruins Our kingdom will fade with the tide In the Seventh Wave the dusk will come our way We join hands again to help destroy another world of man As we wander through the wasteland and the rivers have all run dry Leaning at the edge of the world hand in hand we’ll die We are of the wicked We are of the sin The children of man
4.
I am the Sun Heart of your universe I am the Sun The idol of your world I am the Sun False preachers sing my name I am the Sun Watching your suicide play Cherish the flame, come darkness The cardinal sin, No empathy Bleed for the Sun Puppets are all I see Weep for the Sun Your world is black to me All embers die, come darkness In the remains, a Colony Sleep in the fire None of this was built to last Dream of a world that never dies Old and tired Trip the pendulum again Dream of a castle in the sky Welcome the wind, welcome the wave Come better days Welcome the wind, welcome the wave And breathe the change Imagine all the light in the universe Streams of life below the faceless Gods One by one they fall forming starless skies One will still be small two can still survive
5.
Oblivion 06:20
From cycles old To cycles new We chase the stars And dreams of truth Fallen gods And there's no way home Deep breath We learned to close our eyes And forget the storms so far from our lives Out of reason the flock parades on We sharpen our knives, misled and alone Beneath the sun A dream of oblivion We're fencing shadows as we run From cycles old To cycles new We chase the stars And dreams of truth Fallen gods And there's no way home Dream back Return to fantasy A piece of Eden in your memory Isolated the fiction lives on You're leading the blind, the new hand of God Washed on the shore Dreams of a world before All human motion needs a storm From cycles old To cycles new We chase the stars And dreams of truth Fallen gods And there's no way home Wash away the memory Let it wither and die
6.
Englassed 07:12
Dancing off the rooftops Untainted snow A hundred flakes surround a weary man Hour after hour Worlds pass him by Wishes to see to feel afraid he can’t Stares into the white Untarnished globe The cracks appear a draft sweeps through Closer to the light Warming his face Steps right into a dark and desolate place Tired of the bright blue screen the impeccable The sounds of the soothing dream begin to tick away In the wake of the dark a dull state of mind The reverie of taking time comes crashing down Chained by the thought of consequence The glass holds me Forced to the apex the body stays alive The soul breaks before too long driven past the line Remote existence a hollow part to play A retreat from this collapse a soul sealed in the glass A lullaby of innocence sleep without dreams until dawn A stain of blood across my face Reluctant to breathe at all How could I help you I can’t help you How could I help you When I cannot help myself
7.
Hazel eyes and bleeding knees fingers deep in the sand Reaches deeper, the young one’s hand grazes death and a friend Salty trails run down her chin still the anger subsides Numb and empty from all the lies and all the wars with no end Now come the echoes the warplanes sing the carpets dance in the sky The broken pictures of worlds gone by a life she shut deep within Born at the heart of calamity with roots that hail from the war An empty vessel that hits the shore without a life to begin In the darkest of aeons a world out of hand Collective decisions just lines in the sand Here come the waters and the bodies we have ignored The fortress did nothing and now the sea is flooding the halls You preach the fear Inconsequential The toxin fills their ears Now they are barking like hounds Water-mouthed creatures who feed upon the earth Now they have gathered around to listen to your words The dream is medieval Your walls are make-believe A play for the people loud enough to deceive Defending the border the soldiers of a fictional war Come to trigger a slaughter the blood inflames the horde Born out of isolation and the ghosts in your head Distorting the bigger picture and the heart of the dead Face down in shallow water where the kings have been drowned The chaos is our creation and we carry the crown Lands of the sun gods corrupted, battered and burned We are the barons the regents of the Earth
8.
What became of all the men wandered the barren lands Lost in deserts of before where the blood turns to sand Lethean needle of regret a human overdose Shake the silence of the past anything to ease the throes Fall the first frost of winter claws at the hearth of my mind Flame a weak ember against the pain sends ghosts dancing across my face Frail the threads seem so eager to break a web of memories die Mute are the dead and divine I can’t stop the tides of time Welcome to Blacklight Fragmented memories Back home in Blacklight we live eternally Sleep the river of souls will speak with the voice of the dead Walk alongside the shades of death we promise to never forget Dream away the starlight Dream away the night Come close and find us under black city lights We are forever We are not alone This is our domain You must learn to let go Dream away the daylight Dream away the glow You don’t belong here you must let us go For all unreason all the souls that died You can’t relive us You must walk through the fire Dark Red Cage Hurts Fear Flame Tear Burns Can’t face the dark black roots of my world Sleep in the fire, flames swallow my words Return to Blacklight A shattered memory Far home from Blacklight A sense of clarity Blind Bright Fire Burns Cold Chains Break Light I left the dark black roots that bound me Rose from the fire, ashes to set me free Return to Blacklight The gates are closed to me Far home from Blacklight No one lives endlessly

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released June 1, 2017

Emil Kaukonen - Vocals
Jasper Karhunen - Guitar & backing vocals
Emil Lindqvist - Guitar
Jonas Holmström - Bass
Viktor Finnäs - Drums and percussion

Mixed by Alexander Björkqvist
Mastered by Jamie King
Album art by Lukasz Wiktorzak
Logo design by Linnéa Nordblom
Special thanks to Svenska Kulturfonden


All music and lyrics by ℗© Jasper Karhunen/Colonist.

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