Lower Empire by Silent Planet


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Lower Empire
by Silent Planet

Album: When The End Began


Intro: Garrett Russell
Bind the wrist, cut the tongue, call it Liberation
Bind the wrist, cut the tongue, call it Liberation 1
Invader, you dare make me a stranger
Invader, you brand me as a traitor 2

Verse 1: Garrett Russell
These borders were forged in loss
Painted with a martyr's forgotten blood 3
Legions of stone infecting the land
Legions we carved into the palm of God's hand 4
Stigmata cities stitched together with walls intent
On sanitizing the sedition of our dark traditions
We begin with the purest of intentions
Then fabricate the cruelest inventions

Interlude: Garrett Russell
Interpret the subtext: "S - O - S"
Euthanized with euphemistic lies, populace of blank binary minds 5
Appetite for endless apathy, breathing in, in, insecurity 6

Verse 2: Garrett Russell
Until you see your reflection through the scope of a weapon
Nothing will ever change
A revolution stirs in the silence
The movement defies this negative space 7

Chorus: Garrett Russell & Thomas Freckleton
I hear you through the noise
The truth that speaks in silence 8, scale the divides we devise
We locked out the world, but we're locked inside
I hear you through the noise
The hope 9 sung from the margins 10, my heartbeat just a step behind
I didn't know your name, but I knew we were out of time

Verse 3: Garrett Russell
Nuclear families split apart like the atom 11
Demagogues 12 proliferate the calloused grip of the state
The future asphyxiates under nativist suspicions
Insipid minds domestic fission

Interlude: Garrett Russell
Bind the wrist, cut the tongue, call it Liberation
Bind the wrist, cut the tongue, call it Liberation

Verse 4: Garrett Russell
Thirteen, cold as a stillborn - wounds still warm in his chest 13 Behold the crimson lens, peer through the gaps in the flesh
Bullets raining from Babylon: 14 the price of wealth
How can you resist this cycle if you can't resist yourself? 15

Bridge: Garrett Russell
What a world we knew
Before we fearfully withdrew
To our silent cells of solitude
But still, I hear you, I hear you

Chorus: Garrett Russell & Thomas Freckleton
I hear you through the noise
The truth that speaks in silence, scale the divides we devise
We locked out the world, but we're locked inside
I hear you through the noise
The hope sung from the margins, my heartbeat just a step behind
I didn't know your name but I knew we were out of time


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