1. |
From Cradle to Urn
04:08
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Like the Phoenix, I shall rise (climb)
Verse 1
I was sold a lie, hoodwinked with a smile
Sold out, written off, and thrown in the pile
Thirty years of blood sweat and sacrifice
To water the gardens of your paradise
I faltered once and thrice I was spurned
I awoke to find you had all my bridges burned
To build and rebuild I leave no stone unturned
From dusk ‘til dawn From Cradle to Urn
Chorus 1
So I’ll bide my time and keep these demons tied
To the truth behind your lies
Scars are hardened, doubt subsides
And when you left I died
Fifty lifetimes in a night
Through the fallout, I survive
Like the Phoenix, I shall rise (climb)
Verse 2
Black sky horizons when it rains it pours
But the fire still burns and I’ve weathered the storm
As you stand behind giants and sully my name
Remember slander and jealousy are one in the same
I walk tall among the whispers and stares
You still hate me and I still don’t care
So cast your aspersions while cast off the chains
Brace for impact, here comes the pain
Chorus 2
So I’ll bide my time and keep these demons tied
To the truth behind your lies
Heart is hardened, doubt subsides
And when you left I died
Fifty lifetimes in a night
Through the fallout I survive
Like the Phoenix, I shall rise
Bridge
You tried to hold me and kick me when I was down
But I'm back on the mic, can you hear me now?
We are the Botolph Dissidents
With the syncopated rhythm
and the old school riffs
Metal, rap, funk, thrash, mixed to taste
We’re raising the bar and dropping the bass
Bided our time now it’s time to flow
Better call the cops, because we're stealin' the show
We’re clearing gangways to the top of the bill
You said you won’t listen but I know you will
So put up or shut up or hit the bricks
For those who are with us, we’ve got your six
Chorus 3
So I’ll bide my time and keep these demons tied
To the truth behind the lies
And when you left I died
Fifty lifetimes in a night
Through the darkness, I survive
Like the Phoenix, I shall rise
I shall climb (rise)
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2. |
The Back of the Beyond
05:44
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Verse 1
To your delight, the night cuts like a knife
My thoughts pierce my soul as I look back on my life
It all began when I was only four
Abducted, inducted the slam of the van door
Bred for profit a living dividend
Traded, paraded in this carnal playpen
Youth diminished I’ve served my last master
Harnessed for harvest tomorrow’s cadaver
Pre-Chorus 1
The silence is deafening
In the echo chamber of lies
When apathy turns eyes blind
Pale horse stables please abide me
Chorus 1
Confiscated passport pages
Beds and backseats Blood and wages
Curated, sedated, post modern cages
The Back of the Beyond
Bygone fathers impregnation
Third trimester terminations
Innocence shattered hither and yon.
The Back of the Beyond
Post-Chorus 1
The silence is deafening
In the echo chamber of lies
When apathy turns eyes blind
Pale horse stables please abide me
Verse 2
Beyond the lights, the brands and runways
Is another sixteen hour indentured workday
Up on the right and down at the dockside
Pregnant migrants’ cardboard bedsides
Shanty collapses sixteen die
Nobody cared, nobody cried
Another honor killing in the countryside
The accusers came forth, the crowd stepped aside
Pre-Chorus 2
The silence is deafening
In the echo chamber of lies
When apathy turns eyes blind
Where mercy dares not tread, you’ll find me
Chorus 2
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Confiscated passport pages
Beds and backseats Blood and wages
Curated, sedated, post modern cages
The Back of the Beyond
Bygone fathers impregnation
Third trimester terminations
Innocence shattered hither and yon.
The Back of the Beyond
Post-Chorus 2
The silence is deafening
In the echo chamber of lies
When apathy turns eyes blind
Pale horse stables please abide me
Guitar Solo
Pre-chorus 3
The silence is deafening
I’m hidden in plain sight
The darkness is closing (darkness closes in)
Senses failing, come find me
Chorus 3
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Confiscated passport pages
Beds and backseats Blood and wages
Curated, sedated, post modern cages
The Back of the Beyond
Bygone fathers impregnations
Innocence shattered hither and yon.
The Back of the Beyond
Post-Chorus 2
The silence is deafening
When you’re hidden in plain sight
When apathy turns eyes blind
Senses failing, someone please come find me
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3. |
Sciolists
04:37
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Intro Chorus
Now tell me, you could you walk a mile in my shoes
How many steps would it take before you refuse?
How many steps would it take for you?
To admit that all along you knew
Verse 1
I tell you why, that evil prospers and good men die
By the hands of sciolists that fortify
Conformist mandates that all endure
Lest you be cast out and forthwith immured
Pre-Chorus 1
Imitation is innovation in revisionist history
The repackaged repainted walls of the archaic society
Seniority’s authority breeds elder immaturity
Tyrannical piety, perpetual dubiety for all
Chorus 1
Now tell me, you could you walk a mile in my shoes
How many steps would it take before you refuse?
How many steps would it take for you?
To admit that all along you knew
How many mere paces could you endure
Before the pain forces you to implore
Mercy from those to whom you cast this lot
The Sensibilities that you besought
Verse 2
The Armchair experts who decide
Who gets passage, and who’s denied
To stand for one is to fall for all
Collective relegation to devolve
Pre-Chorus 2
Stand tall, alone if you must
remain a pillar through settled dust
How soon we let them forget
And compound interest on our debts
When they equate equality with personal depravity
There’s decreased opportunity, pecuniary tragedy for all
Chorus 2
Now tell me, you could you walk a mile in my shoes
How many steps would it take before you refuse?
How many steps would it take for you?
To admit that all along you knew
How many mere paces could you endure
Before the pain forces you to Implore
Mercy from those to whom you cast this lot
The sensibilities that you besought
Bridge
The courage to open the door
To let the world into to explore
To live the words upon the page
Pride makes a fool of the wisest sage
Solo
Chorus 3
Now tell me, you could you walk a mile in my shoes
How many steps would it take before you refuse?
How many steps would it take for you?
To admit that all along you knew
How many mere paces could you endure
Before the pain forces you to implore
Mercy from those to whom you cast this lot
The sensibilities that you besought
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4. |
The Creeds of Cowards
06:08
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5. |
Unshriven
06:12
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UNSHRIVEN
A song about climate change, political and corporate environmental crimes
Intro Chorus
Unshriven scape goats ignorant pawns
So the rich kids can dabble to try and play God
Olympus has fallen and deserted the gates
Ten minutes too early, one hundred years late
Verse 1
Death escapes you, blind and alone
Pit latrine caverns, a place to call home
Buzzards pick the bones of livestock and man
Hell descends back from whence it began
Pre-Chorus 1A
Dormant - pathogens emancipated
Airborne - thawed viral judgement cellular destruction
Bloodborne - cellular destruction
Melt from within and piss out your organs
Dormant - pathogens emancipated
Airborne - thawed viral judgement cellular destruction
Bloodborne - cellular destruction
Melt from within and piss out your organs
Pre-Chorus 1B
Natural selection elected to desert us
To flip the switch, to wipe the slate, to wash away
To bring to pass the sins that deserve us to resurface
Chorus 1
Unshriven scape goats ignorant pawns
So the rich kids can dabble to try and play God Olympus has fallen and deserted the gates
ten minutes too early and one hundred years late
Post-Chorus - 1
The science we cursed cannot save us now
The bait had been switched, but no one knew how Parched riverbeds with seas sown as the causalities To harvest the fruits their greed fueled atrocities
Verse 2
No mourners..... no funeral no last rites
Forgotten no tombstones no gravesites
Abandoned for celestial frontiers Neo-Cro-Magnon tribal warfare
Pre-Chorus 2A
Dormant - pathogens emancipated
Airborne - thawed viral judgement cellular destruction
Bloodborne - cellular destruction
Melt from within and piss out your organs
Dormant - pathogens emancipated
Airborne - thawed viral judgement cellular destruction
Bloodborne - cellular destruction
Melt from within and piss out your organs
Pre-Chorus 2B
Natural selection has elected to desert us
To flip the switch, to wipe the slate, to wash away
To bring to pass the sins that deserve us to resurface
Chorus 2
Unshriven scape goats ignorant pawns
So the rich kids can dabble to try and play God
Olympus has fallen and deserted the gates
Ten minutes too early and one hundred years late
Post-Chorus - 2
They cut off the lights to the city on the hill
Put it on the tab and stiffed us with the bill
So we pay for the sins of other men’s bygone fathers
Millions of conscripted pacifist martyrs
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6. |
The Wolf Who Cried Boy
03:54
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The Wolf Who Cried Boy
V1
Fear not the fist, fear not the pain
Fear not the trench fear not the blade
For we have borne the weight of chains
Feared not the fist, feared not the pain
Feared not the trench feared not the blade
Inscribe at dawn upon my grave
If I shall fall before I wade,
In freedom’s rivers, don’t forsake
Chorus 1
We begged, we stole we borrowed
And sewed the seeds of sorrow for
Greener pastures of someday
(The crimson saturated ancestral plains)
And it was all for naught for they had soon forgot
And the orchards have been stripped away
Of which we’ll be six feet under anyway
Verse 2
Gather around for the public castration
Of another who couldn’t remember to forget the truth
Assume the position, kowtaw to the nation
As the state puppeteer readies the lube
The money tree has turned to wormwood
Seeps to the roots of society
Poisons the redwoods that always withstood
Now the tail wags the dog so get back on your leash
Chorus 2
We begged, we stole we borrowed
And sewed the seeds of sorrow for
Greener pastures of someday
But it was all for naught so don’t give a second thought to
What you think they thought you’d say
We’ll be six feet under anyway
Verse 3
Man bites dogma, dogma bites man
Wolf cries boy and all is planned
Flames of division have been fanned
Boy Is banished from the land
Freedom for safety we shan’t trade
The battles beckoned, we obeyed
In ancestor's emblems, we stand arrayed
Victory’s arias cascade
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Chorus 3
We begged, we stole we borrowed
And sewed the seeds of sorrow for
Greener pastures of someday
(The crimson saturated ancestral plains)
And it was all for naught for they had soon forgot
And the orchards had been stripped away
Of which we’ll be six feet under anyway
We begged, we stole we borrowed
And sewed the seeds of sorrow for
Greener pastures of someday
And it was all for naught…
Of which we’ll be six feet under anyway
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Botolph Dissidents 横浜市, Japan
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Botolph dissidents is an international Metal trio from Tokyo, Japan, via the US and Australia.
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