Front Line Assembly - Civilization Album Lyrics

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Psychosomatic

Psychosomatic
You're so dramatic
You seem to hang on every word I say
Psychosomatical
You're so fanatical
You crowd my life
And you won't go away

You breathe my air
You take my space
You make me hate
The human race

Can't fight the feeling
My mind is reeling
Eternal hate
That won't go away
A bitter ending
To no avail
Cheap exploitation
Is here to stay

Psychosomatical
You're so fanatical
You crowd my life
And you won't go away

In a world where no one wins
A chemical playground
Of lust and sin
Swallow the pill
Believe the lie
Unknown pleasures
We live to die

Psychosomatic
Learn to survive

 

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Maniacal

We're gonna drop this song
Cause you don't belong
You don't fit the mold
So you've been told
You need to play our game
And just act the same
Cause we won't tolerate
Any other trait

Bang! I am maniacal
Bang! so defiable
Obliverate dominate
Self destruct and activate
Bang! I am political
Bang! so inequitable
The name of the game is to win all the way

Pinned down
To your chemical cross
Of hopeless faith
What a day what a loss
No one left
To tell this tale
Of all of us
Life for sale

The clouds start to rise
There is no surprise
We all start to burn
When will we learn
Who we are to be
Watch the enemy
In you sights you see
When will we be

Bang! I am maniacal
Bang! So defiable
Obliverate dominate selfdestruct and activate
Bang! I am political
Bang! So inequitable
The name of the game is to win all the way

Pinned down
To your chemical cross
Of hopeless faith
What a day what a loss
No one left
To tell this tale
Of all of us
Life for sale

No one left
To tell this tale
Of all of us
Life for sale

Bang! I am maniacal
Bang! So defiable
Obliverate dominate self destruct and activate
Bang! I am political
Bang! So inequitable
The name of the game is to win all the way

Pinned down
To your chemical cross
Of hopeless faith
What a day what a loss
No one left
To tell this tale
Of all of us
Life for sale

 

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Transmitter

A jaded generation
Dissolves the unknown
Neurotic deprivation
No one left to own
Sinking endlessly
Into infancy

Lets come together

Narcotic imbalance
The energy is strong
Resilient and defiant
This claustrophobic song
So cold is the water
Crouched into a ball
Like fragments of illusion
We all start to fall

Lets all come together
Lets all join hands
Lets all march together
Lets do the war dance

The universe
The stars
The planets
...
Civilization

Lets all come together
Lets all join hands
Lets all march together
Lets do the war dance

Let's come together

 

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Vanished

We cling to each other
Like a child and a mother
A desperation of separation
I feel I'm going under

To the left to the right to the middle
My head is spinning around
To the left to the right to the middle
I am going under ground

Untrue as true can be
We're seeking endlessly
No answers for tomorrow
We'll drown in our sorrow

Vanishing horizons
We leave each other cold
I am dying on the inside
No where left to go
The bruises on my skin
Means you held too tight
The evil that you spoke of
Doesn't make it right

I know what you're feeling
I know what you're thinking
I know what you're doing
I know what you're feeling

Vanishing horizons
We leave each other cold
I am dying on the inside
No where left to go
The bruises on my skin
Means you held too tight
The evil that you spoke of
Doesn't make it right

 

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Strategic

"It is the most miserable place in the world to live"

 

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Civilization

"Civilization...Empire...Said prayers and spoke of all things (fates?)...
Freedom...Restore calm...Voices...Comfortable majority...Ancient legends...(?)destiny...(?)...Fate(faith?)...You're listening to the world...Warning...(...all politics...)...Freedom...Civilization...Freedomlization...Freedom"

We fight we rule
The will to conquer
Symbols of oppression
Make borders obsolete

Eradicate exterminate
All species from the earth
In the name of progress
We call peace

These islands collapsing-
We burn, we rape, obliterate
Our conscience heavy
We take and take
These islands collapsing-
No turning back
The damage is done
You can't change life
Nowhere to run

... greed ... hate ... corruption ... bastards

These islands collapsing-
We burn, we rape, obliterate
Our conscience heavy
We take and take
These islands collapsing-
No turning back
The damage is done
You can't change life
Nowhere to run

"It's a transition, it's like having a passport to another life and for us to get into the afterlife"

 

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Fragmented

Pushed to the edge
We drive, we drive a wedge
Of hate and fear
Don't shed a tear

No one to trust
This life, this life's a bust
This hand of greed
We need to feed

Can't stop the bleeding
These wounds aren't healing
Who wants to live
For another day
Skies are greying
Who is praying

Paralysis of self injection
Mortal coil
No protection
Disagree
Spinless sea
Hypocrisy
Will set you free
In the end
We all bend
No more time
To change your mind
Two by two
We'll march through
End the end
You'll die too

Can't stop the bleeding
These wounds aren't healing
Who wants to live
For another day
Skies are greying
Who is praying

 

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Parasite

No matter what they say or do
The shit they write well it ain't true
Coloured eyes hypnotize
Go and sell some other lies
The losers and the hangers on
Want one thing and then they're gone
Smile at you
Shake your hand
Steal you money
Destroy your band

Work it out
Why don't you kill yourself
Work it out
Can't trust nobody else
Work it out
This evil never dies
Work it out
You're better than the rest

Trivialize the human condition
Loneliness is just a premonition
Visualize this weakened link
None of these losers ever think

Take them
Take them down hard
Show them no mercy
Oh yeah this life is hard

Work it out
Why don't you kill yourself
Work it out
Can't trust nobody else
Work it out
This evil never dies
Work it out
You're better than the rest

Work it out

Work it out
Why don't you kill yourself
Work it out
Can't trust nobody else
Work it out
This evil never dies
Work it out
You're better than the rest

 

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Dissident

"bloods and solids..."

New life
Poverty

"declarations..."

Cruelty
Hope

" the capital.."

Disdain
Reflection
Segregation

Lets drown the world
...?

" the capital.."

..?

"bloods and solids"

New life
Poverty
Cruelty

 

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Schickal

"The way he was and the way he is somehow said goodbye.."

Traust du mir wieder?
Wo ist dein Mann?
Ich möchte mit dir schlafen
Und so geht das an.

Sonnenstrahlen
In deinem Gesicht
Du wirst mich wieder lieben
In einem Augenblick

Es tut mir so leid
Es tut mir so leid
Es tut mir so leid
Du bist nicht sehr besonders.

Sonnenstrahlen
In deinem Gesicht
Du wirst mich wieder lieben
In einem Augenblick

Die Blumen sterben
Die Leichtigkeit ist tot
Ich muss dich wiedersehen
Auf einen feinen Tod

Traust du mir wieder?
Wo ist dein Mann ?
Ich möchte mit dir schlafen
Und so geht das an

Es tut mir so leid
Es tut mir so leid
Es tut mir so leid
Du bist nicht sehr besonders.

Das Schicksal
So geht das an
Es tut mir leid
Das Schicksal

Immer
Immer

Das Schicksal

Aua(?)

[English translation:]

Do you trust me again?
Where is your man?
I would like to sleep with you
That's how it begins

Sunrays
In your face
You will love me again
In one instant

I'm so sorry
I'm so sorry
I'm so sorry
You aren't very special

Sunrays
In your face
You will love me again
In one instant

The flowers die
The ease is dead
I must see you again
For a fine death

Do you trust me again?
Where is your man?
I would like to sleep with you
That's how it begins.

I'm so sorry
I'm so sorry
I'm so sorry
You aren't very special

Sunrays
In your face
You will love me again
In one instant

Always
Always

The fate

Always

Ouch [?]

 

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Anti

"In rebel control"
"Peacekeeping"
"Militants...counterattack"
"The intelligence and security...have been captured alive"
"Committed"
"National security adviser..."
"Release more than 500 prisoners"
"Anti-globalization campaigners...turned away by police "

"Rebel control"
"Peacekeeping"
"Militants...counterattack"
"The intelligence and security...have been captured alive"
"Committed"
"National security adviser..."
"Release more than 500 prisoners"
"Anti-globalization campaigners...turned away by police "

"Frontlines..."

"The governing elite..."
"Exiled opposition groups..."
"Weakened government.. symptom of..corruption..undermined democracy "
"Strategic importants "
"Disappeared..."

"Its horrible"
"Way down"
"Frontlines..."

"...?"
"Weakened government.. symptom of..corruption..undermined democracy "
"Immediate international action"

"Rebel control"
"Peacekeeping"
"Militants...counterattack"
"The intelligence and security...have been captured alive"
"Committed"
"National security adviser..."
"Release more than 500 prisoners"

"Frontlines..."
"Its horrible"
"Way down"
"Frontlines..."