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Snapshots from Limbo

by Sonus Umbra

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1.
The betrayal's no surprise It was written in your eyes As you led the fool's parade The P.R.I.nosoaur brigade Every sentence you conceive Is a slogan to beLIEve In the quicksand where we grope We will find a shred of hope While you hold the reins with pride To our Genocide We're sinking fast Joining the cast Of ghosts from the past...
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Doppelganger 07:53
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Seven Masks 07:45
Frightened by a dream And a distant clap of thunder I awoke And sought my 7 masks to give me shelter Only to find them gone And all at once I shook with the tremors As the second water broke Naked, like a book without a letter A child by theft reborn With black hole eyes to eat the sun And feed upon this brave new dawn Gone is my pale mask of shame The meek face I so often wore While you crushed my dreams of youth in your name And nailed my broken wings to the floor Gone are the safe masks of reason Of sadness and joyous facade Lost is the smooth face of treason The deacon of my masquarade Gone is my dark mask of hatred Forged in the pits of hell I only wish I knew before we parted how to break its vicious spell Listen to the tale That this fallen king of liars wryly spoke You've been made to wear The chains and fetters Of slaves by fear torn With timid eyes, too weak for light That gaze upon the starless night
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Demons 03:51
Underneath the lipstick lies Locked within your dreamy eyes There lies a demon mocking me I can feel your fever rise As I rage to melt the ice And set it free But you try to pull the chain Turn the key and lock the pain So deep inside Can you hear the master call Ordering the masks to fall And pick one side? Will you choose the soft oblivion Of your guilty moral cage. Or join in the chorus Of your demons dancing in the flesh? Can you feel the madness growing? Can you hear the Maker's rolling dice? Can you feel your heartbeat slowing; Memories and tears synchronize Can you bear the icy gloom As you kiss the hand of doom Or cry, sharing all the loneliness Of those who lived to die Not knowing why Will you climb the spiral stairways Of the endless iron mesh, Or join in the frenzy Of the demons dancing in the flesh?
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Soul Dusk 04:31
I stand up to my knees In the wreckage of the past Seeking memories Before the night arrives at last To claim my broken husk With no hope for dawn after dusk Once upon a time I stood proud and tall Complacency my wine Arrogance my call But the ugly truth I see Weighs so much more than fantasy I am the architect of my pain And this gangrene kingdom is my reign The icy voice of fear Was the snake who long ago Slithered round my ear Making promises to show How to cure the poisoned tree But all along the poison stemmed from me In my tongue of hate Lies are opiates Made to ease the stride Crippled by my pride Love has fled today Colors fade away Darkness sets the play With only shades of gray
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Wasted Dreams Battered bones Behind my frozen stare Jagged screams From broken homes And no one seems to care Accuse! Pointing the finger to shift the blame Abuse! Facts will not linger to spoil your game Because you know No one can hope to defeat He who knows how to cheat Fate with each and every throw Mastermind of crime Lord of the slime Cancer your paradigm Promises made Face must be saved You hold the blade Sharpened and cold-iron wrought What can you say? "Feeling ok? It's sacrifice day!" Time to feed the beast you brought
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Erich Zahn 05:29
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I'm dragging the stone Arms open wide I'm laughing alone As the hunger begins to subside I will cover the stains With a fake sense of pride Drowning the pain With this bottle I keep by my side Spiraling down Superstitious Ignoring the facts Alcohol clown Getting vicious In all of my acts So take a good look At the cold winter waste of my soul Read my secret book With the red ink of hate - my birth caul Do you think I'm ok? Do you think all I need's a "good friend"? I don't care what you say Always knew how my story would end Wasting my life In a web where the spiders grow fat Swallow the knife And the pain it's as simple as that! 'Cause behind your polished smile I can smell a rat Things you said between each blow Like kittens wearing Velcro toes March around inside my head And make the fever grow Lonely youth Crass, uncouth Lashing out defensively At simple words that cut like swords The violence of truth An ugly bastard knave That nobody can save Waging war against humanity Looking for Eden I fell under her spell My rite of passage A season in hell The house where fallen angels dwell
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Watch A billion entities In perfect unity Joined in silent march No banners to unfurl No sense of self to be Mechanical and free To claim this insect world Destined from birth To dig through the earth No questions to ask They live for the task Work and feed Protect the breed To die for the hive Is why they're alive As you watch their silent march You ponder the math The chromosome path That led them to be So aloof, can't you see? The evident analogy Aren't they just like you and me Without the pain and misery Of our "humane" society Watch... Watch...
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The pieces of the puzzle fall in place Hidden in the haze So subtle, like the lines upon a face A way to end this burning skin-bred craze And exit from this maze Strip off this sick flesh I've borne This is the night to be reborn Cradled in your poisoned thorns I feel the rush of the hormones They boil in my veins They're eating away the old cast Leaving no trace of my dark past Skin breaks as old blood is forced out No room for fears or doubt Let it flow out... No more longing for my childhood days In the end, nostalgia never pays Acid tears frame my last goodbye Waving at a world that passed me by I will withdraw to my warm cocoon
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The meat sickness is bent upon him now It's time for me to breed And as he sleeps with vomit as a pillow His mouth recites the creed The smell of latrines and blood Vaseline Clings to his chin with the languor of sin Sodden with gin, he is rotting within Touch of gangrene, if you know what I mean? Natural host for my seed Broken man, Open wide! Join the clan Harbor my offspring with pride Losing hand And I hope you understand Life feeds upon life Listen to the sound of the ascension The choir beneath the skin Focus, if you will, your full attention Let the miracle begin All my eggs bursting deep Cradled in the dark heat Ripe homunculi weep As they tear through the meat Out into the night Ready for the flight Buzzing in a swarm To feel their might The sirens wail above the shrill staccato Of crack babies in plight Lured by their percussive ostinato I will make things right For I am legion Hidden , out of sight

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released July 2, 2000

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Sonus Umbra Chicago, Illinois

We are a progressive rock band: currently geographically dispersed between Chicago and Abu Dhabi, but established in Mexico City, back in the 20th century. If you want to hear shadows made of sound, we invite you to join us, take the great fall inwards and listen. ... more

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