1. |
Prelude
06:04
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(Instrumental)
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2. |
Only The Weak
06:19
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Out of the ashes
Humanity born into kingdoms on Earth
choices are left to the strongest of all
Into tomorrow
Eternity lays heavy burden
What kind of course do we take to survive
How can we learn to forgive
If history’s not on our side
How can we gain from dismissing our past
A force now to keep us in line
Only by leaving the past can we truly arrive
Only by losing our way can we ever survive
Only unlearning the truth will we overcome lies
Only in death can we find out the meaning in life
Shock revelations
Renew all attempts to return to an innocent
Phase, Soon to decay down to ritual and rite
The recurrent cycle
Salvation that withers away
Damned, by our treachery, bought back to life…
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3. |
Denial
05:55
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Here in the Skies
We stare down your actions and thoughts you deny
Lengthened shadows prevail in your kingdoms of light
Hiding all but the truths that are easy to find
Making Promises end
Making Promises History
until all that is left
is a sense of denial
Here in the dust
We question and judge your indifference to us
Seperation disputes our connection to
all you’ve made
But if that’s what you meant By
leaving our worldly possessions behind
Then there’s no other choice but
Breaking our land and destroying our ways
Making Promises end
Making Promises History
until all that is left
is a sense of release
Here In The Dust
Where broken and shattered are fragments of our mighty
Reign, A fickle resemblance of prophecy
made by our kind
Our hope will remain
That we’ll build our empires to burn them again
Like the tide we forget our past and return
to dominions that one day are destined to fall
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4. |
Theme
01:57
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(Instrumental)
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5. |
Would You Do It Again
05:18
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Verse
I remember the times you fell short,
Of the morals you claimed to enforce,
Your mistakes that you fail to admit
that you punish yourselves in the dark of your minds
Well recorded are deeds like your own,
Well shown in-comprehensible evil
Would I do the same had I been there,
would the crimes that you bear be the same shackled burden on me
Chorus
Would you do it again? Make your profit in war
Would you do it again? Make a slave of free men
Would you do it again? Run blind into the breach
For your sanity’s sake would you really go through it
Would you do it again? Be your lands mortal god
Would you do it again? Sell your souls to fames claws
Would you do it again? Take our lives in your hands
Would you do it again if you had one more chance
Verse
When you look back through vaults of the past
Disbelief reigns on fear that was sown in the day
That one man in true power could choose to
Deploy death on wings to tyrannical minds
Chorus
Would you do it again? Sow your seeds of decay
Would you do it again? Death that lasts to this day
Would you do it again? Beauty ripped from the land
For your sanity’s sake would you really go through it
Would you do it again? Be your lands mortal god
Would you do it again? Sell your souls to fames claws
Would you do it again? Take our lives in your hands
Would you do it again if you had one more chance
Chorus
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7. |
1000 Days
05:08
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Verse
Time to say goodbye
To all we’ve ever known
Though ravaged is our land
I greive to see it go
The warnings were banished to skeptical cries
It seems none had listened to reason this time
Chorus
Take me away for 1000 days
To rebuild the land it it’s peril to stay
Keep me from harm ’till my time is done
And I’ll be back again
Verse
Our journey has begun
Escaping from the fire
We brought upon ourselves
So many left behind
The Ark hides the wealthy and strongest of minds
It’s haven entombing their bodies from light
Chorus
Bridge
Don’t you fear about saying goodbye
I’ll be here when you return
Think of me while you’re out in the stars
Three years while we helplessly watch the world burn
Chorus
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8. |
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Verse
I have lost my way
I’m navigating by the stars
My destination anywhere but
Here, We escaped from a dying world
But we’re drifting away from the home we destroyed
We’re never going back to what we used to know
We should return and rebuild our past
We’re never going back to see what the world’s be-come
Chorus
So rise from the earth, and
Leave it behind
To new destinations we
Cast doubt aside
We’ll travel so far
We’ll forget why we came
To find a new home in the stars
Into The Void!
Verse 2
Someone hear my cry
We’re lost in dark confinement and
Their promise to return was cast aside
We’re sailing without a cause
And I think we should turn back before all is
Lost
We should be going back to what we used to know
We won’t survive, you know we’ll never last
We should be going back to see our world again
Chorus
Final Chorus
We fly through the dark, To
Find a new home
For ever we search but
There’s nowhere to go
The only hope left
To return to the start
And find our old home in the stars
Into The Void!
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9. |
The Return (Prelude)
04:05
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(Instrumental)
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10. |
The Return
04:50
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Waiting for a sign
I’m made to watch the skies
For the return
Of my long lost love
Years passed since the day
That we were left behind
To survive
In this barren land
Since you went away
The earth has healed again
And we’re stronger than once before
If you come to my side
Unlikely as it seems
You will not rule us any more
If you return
To me
You’ll serve us for all of time
Then from the skies hellfire falls
Like a star in the night
The dust clears from the descent
Hopes and fears come to life
There on burning ground
The ark that holds my heart
It’s cargo safe and sound
But will they come in peace?
Fear not beloved one
I’ve come back to take my place
To reign supreme once again
I’ve returned
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11. |
Finale
07:38
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(Instrumental)
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Acid Empire Guildford, UK
'Listening to Acid Empire is almost like sitting on the lawn of the Philadelphia Art Museum and listening to the
Philadelphia Orchestra perform while fireworks explode in the sky above you.
Almost, because of one notable exception- no Acid Empire to complete the musical score! That is because Acid Empire has created symphonic metal in the purest of forms- with a symphonic orchestra' - Danteprog
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