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Lack of Silence

by PHASE SHIFT

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1.
Welcome to a story of falsehood Its inventory War, terror, havoc, death Once there was a dream but from the sky Fell their hate setting all awry Emptiness and blind rage destruction Form the sole wage Of arbitrariness But we're too dull or to afraid To admit the world's that way They're already dead, no need to feel afraid Dead people are quiet, don't fear to die, just fade out of sight While we're passing by avoid to look an stall Ignoring the carrion call, amongst ruins freedom is kept in thrall Grave manipulation by media Mass calibration but all seems meaningless Words lose their sense cannot erase All the bodies now defaced They're already dead… War is no mere effect, it pervades infects our will Death becomes a cycle Perpetuated - KILL KILL KILL War annuls all speech, thought and meaning It creates a world shut off Everything that once was believed in Is thrown up in a bloody cough Conspirative silence, aversion No end to violence Requiem 2.0 No future left uncertainty they are trapped in this fallacy They're already dead…
2.
A voice breaks through my dreamlike stasis Eyes open wide - I'm coming to Next I feel drawn, a drift, a longing For other skies, bright and blue I feel the air ringing with vastness Where I'll end up remains unclear But I'm yearning for other horizons Other grounds, new frontiers And I want The mountain breeze To clear my mind There's no return till I'm done To feel free To taste the sea My journey starts towards the sun Ready for takeoff! When I'm waiting on the platform Before work or homeward bound The restless trains echo promises I am challenged by their sounds Since my first scream I live My first steps were tiresome They set me on my course Still an untiring world’s moving on My nose turns to the wind There's no turning once you've begun My feet are striding on My journey towards the sun And I want… Ready for take-off
3.
Oxyakoia 04:34
Insomnia The sound of the world Keeping me awake Aghast The shrieking pierce Of violence in the street Insomnia The sound of the world Late into the night Torpid The low-pitched drone Of poverty prevails And the whispered words of the dying Lie in scattered syllables On the surface of the earth And I am recalling silence In a baleful vast Insomnia The sound of the world Indwelling my fear Politics A turbulence of wind Convulsing my mind Insomnia The sound of the world Frenzied I proceed Mendacity Observing I draw back Haunted, spitting blood Noise distortion, lack of silence... Noise distortion, lack of silence... Insomnia The sound of the world Desease of our kind Because we are told To close our eyes At what we dislike And the whispered…
4.
I still remember the time Full moon, no clouds in the sky You’re smiling face, a warm embrace Danced to our song, all night long But with proceeding night I lose you by my side I want to stay in my dream Bearing the blame That I can't follow you Be patient until You unhand my wings Suffering Until my deliverance I still remember each night Wave away the clouds, that you see my light Give you a warm embrace To take the sorrow far away But with the first ray of dawn I fade away, I have to be gone You cannot stay in your dream Bearing the blame That I have gone Be patient until I unhand your wings Suffering Until my deliverance Forgive me, that I can't follow you... Forgive me, that I can't follow you... Forgive me, that I have gone I'll be waiting here so long I decide to achieve my aim I decide to leave my dream Never forgot that promise I made I'll wait until my last day Scars of life cover my skin Waiting for silence, but screaming within Fear of not paying for the blame Fear of losing you again Silence and mourning around Bowed heads and eyes on the ground Seeing a smile on my face And I feel a calming embrace
5.
T.A.K.I.T.W. 05:00
Birth - demanding education Lured me, deceived me Trust in you, listened to you But I get nothing back Wasted love, while you hate me Creates a tremor of disgust Trial of strength, hurting me I burn to dust With your lies With your chains With your intolerance With your lies With your chains With your oppression I will bring down your reign I will break your chain I will bring down your reign Your crown is made of wood I will be your fire Your throne is made of sand I will be your rain My anger breaks your chain School - deviation disallowed Deficient, erroneous Believed your science, followed you But it was never true Wasted tears, while you laughed at me A sleeping tremor of disgust Tensile test, hurting me I burn to dust Employment - function properly Avaricious, hypocrisy Ambition, self-neglect But no gratitude Wasted strength, for your credit Arousing tremors of disgust Endurance test, hurting me I burn to dust Your crown is… Will I defy this wasted life? Will you succeed in breaking me? Is it useless anyhow to crest the pyramids peak? With your lies With your chains With your intolerance With your oppression You create the angriest kid in the world Death - ominous silence Kindling, sparking, spreading, blazing Aflame in scornfulness And I consume myself Wasted life in your shadow Raging tremors of disgust Every time you hurt me I burn to dust To rise again From the ashes of anger Rise again, rise again We will bring down your reign We will break your chain I will bring down your reign Your crown is made of wood We will be your fire Your throne is made of sand We will be your rain My anger breaks your chain The angriest kids in the world
6.
Castles 05:18
Childhood dreams are like castles of sand, All adventures seem so big Thinking back they are infantile memories, But one still remembers Made of clouds you build your castles in the sky Youthful love and adolescence There comes a time when life throws you back But who are we to question?! Seeing life as it passes by Retreat beyond that certain line Of no return Makes me hurt Being stunned by its fugacity You're just watching as it leaves you repeatedly You're a spectator Nothing more When age has come you'll build castles out of stone For you, and you turn to life's true questions But with growing melancholia you realize That the story of your life draws to its end Seeing life as it passes by Retreat beyond that certain line Of no return Makes me hurt While you're wondering what's right to choose Keep your focus, so you don't confuse What's your highest prime Or you'll be wasting time
7.
Maelstrom 05:44
A daze - a haze - a dream - lost in between No edge - no means - a shift - adrift No sense of self Faint effigies The undertow Lured by what's undersea Sketches flicker moving out of sight Distant whispers, muffled afterlives No cohesion at this distant reach Pushing forward, rapture of the deep 'Cause you're: In trance, departed Engulfed & spellbound Lost in the mælstrøm Disengaged from time On vagrant currents Afloat in suspense Let go embrace the storm An altered self The senses stray Each vantage point Becomes a passage way Stumbling blindly - you are drawn The transition - you are more than gone No direction at this distant reach Ever onward rapture of the deep 'Cause you're: In trance, departed…
8.
Our days present a world at war Reasons range far as the sky Where culture, belief, fame and money lie Fighting’s thought to take you far Obsolete doctrines infest our minds We face recurrent discourse Fear and power remain driving force Equality's still much-maligned Lest we turn to blind rage That nourishes fires Lest also we lapse into empty cant Our voice shall stand against their childish blabber! Our minds shall think and not daunt! Cause who, who cares about temporal limelight flares that dissolve in empty smoke? So we must rise Strive to challenge their selfish lies To discontinue this cruel joke When freedom is measured by extent of cages Number of guardians or length of the chain It’s time for rebellion, mental revolution Stand and shout! Air your doubt! Enough people still deny the why Thence the lack of will to change Naming problems and their reason range Is still thought to justify But every injustice And obverse distortion Impairs them and wrests us free Our voice shall maul their opportunist facing! We're here to voice what we see! Cause who, who cares...

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Recorded in 2012 and 2013 live at HighCat Studios Cologne
Produced by Dominik Schenke and Jari Töppich
Photos and Artwork by Nadja Mayer - www.nm-photographie.de

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released February 22, 2014

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PHASE SHIFT Cologne, Germany

Phase Shift was a four, later three piece metal combo from Cologne, Germany.
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