Fleshgod Apocalypse Veleno 1. Fury I see the void in the eyes of men A throng that sinks into the sludge of mediocrity The deafening buzzing of a swarm Passively sucked into the vortex of ignorance I've got no respect A progeny of philistines spreads I can't stand the deceit infecting the world Forever burn! Oh flame of wisdom, burn Come purify this wretched spawn from the bastard ones Suppress the murmur of the faith, restore a cosmic silence Let our goddess Reason rule again this miserable world Crowding the temple of delirium The consecrated mausoleum of Genius Idiotic herd soiling Masters' legacy Martyred themselves for the sake of Rationalism Hush Galileo, deny Cartesian doubt Stubbornly sink rotten roots in their dry flat earth Be gone! Shut up! You deplorable mass, antagonists of progress Shut up! Scientific method foes, hushed by deduction Silence! As drug is not the plague, bow down before the intellect Shut up! You superstitious rats, erased forever Burn! Inflame the passion of wise men Together as one Suffer the fury of the Reason ad libitum 2. Carnivorous Lamb I saw lilies made nettle by a wind gust White snow turned into coal Rivers go upstream the waterfalls Heaviest lumps of lead soar They arise as night falls Lambs growing fangs of the wolves Howling before the kill Arise as night falls Until the last heart bleeds You come and drain us like a leech Prophet of Judas kiss Refuse to practice what you preach Spawn of an impious breed Can’t hide yourself forever As you’re the sheep that mauls the savage wolf I’ve heard you crying out from hunger and thirst While being the banquet host Seen you pretending to shiver with winter’s cold And then idling in the warmth I’ve seen you stabbing in the back with a child’s innocence And let the flesh rot Forever victim, forever ogre Carnivorous lamb! (x2) They arise as night falls Lambs growing fangs of the wolves Howling before the kill Arise as night falls Until the last heart bleeds You come and drain us like a leech Prophet of Judas kiss Refuse to practice what you preach Spawn of an impious breed Can’t hide yourself forever As you’re the sheep that mauls the savage wolf 3. Sugar Push... This sugar will kill your pain... Push! Sate your frustration Quench your sick desire Sweeten your pain with fairy dust As desperation melts down this toxic powder On that spoon you set your life on fire Sense of shame to forget Far astray you’ll wander Isolated in regret Narcotize your existence It’s self-destruction It’s suicide These wicked voices bewitch you But you’re too young to die Speak to your torment honey And listen to your soul As we’re the temple of strength And we must soldier on Push! Push! Push! Push! I want to see you push The hunter has become the prey The master’s turned into a slave Push! Push! Push! Push! We all want to see you push Your mother’s cry, your father’s prayers They just mean nothing Push! And pump this venom through the veins Into your bleeding heart Push! And put an end to all this pain with this final act Push! Orgasmic rapture, down in a hole The needle bleeds the pleasure grows Internal fracture, denial of your soul Your blood freezes your body Push! Push! Push! Push! So let me see you push The hunter has become the prey The master’s turned into a slave Push! Push! Push! Push! We all want to see you push Your mother’s cry, your father’s prayers Make way for silence How can you do this to yourself, in your very prime? Life’s worth living no matter what is the sacrifice Fight! 4. The Praying Mantis’ Strategy 5. Monnalisa I was born to rule this world A mother nature's wonder Ready to shed my brothers' blood Yet still your doormat Spellbound before the slit That cracks the biggest mountain Waiting to be blessed by your spit Like if it's a fountain Your mesmerizing smile Just makes me lose my mind For you I die For you I sacrifice As you're my one and only love, Monnalisa! In line towards the womb The draining march of the spineless Drooling like stray dogs before the bone We kill at command Bright light of my life shine Yet make my reason blind For you we die For you we burn alive As we're those ones slaves to our own Monnalisa "Quare iam te cur amplius excrucies? Quin tu animo offirmas atque istinc te ipse reducis Et dis invitis desinis esse miser? Difficile est longum subito deponere amorem Una salus haec est, hoc est tibi pervincendum" I gave up my whole life Encaged my freedom Aged like a puppet wired to your middle finger Drown all my wishes in remorse Tormented my soul Stepped on my dignity in the name of your love Oh my Adam hark the snake Forsake your lord for me, your goddess For you I die Why don't you care? For you I sacrifice As you're my one and only love, Monnalisa! 6. Worship and Forget Witnessing a myriad of worms unleashing hell They swarm inside the carcass of a world That once was heaven Killing, starving, violating uncorrupted flesh They prosper protected by the blessing of a god of nothing Worship and forget your sins Worship and forget your sins again Tabula rasa Acquitted by self-fabricated verses they ravage Expand the boundaries of the land of chaos In the name of a fraudulent faith Erecting marble altars to consacrate the shame And kneel, not penitent at all, tasting redemption Worship and forget your sins Worship and forget to start again You motherfucker! As words can't wash your filthy soul Your dogma can’t hide evil Gore on the streets of Babylon Blest by an imaginary god Sermons, preachments, the word of the lord Echoes wide in the temples of the scorn Gathered in sancta sanctorum to adore Simulacrums of men who fool the world Ancient teachings deftly distorted Chipped away the stone where they were carved Ten commandments covered in blood As the natural law is the only one "Illud in his rebus vereor, ne forte rearis Impia te rationis inire elementa viamque Indugredi sceleris. Quod contra saepius illa Religio peperit scelerosa atque impia facta Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum" Before the eyes of jesus Beneath the blood of christ Forget! Below the fork of satan Above the paradise Forget! Creations of men 7. Absinthe [Sailor:] A sea to sail alone This glass of Fée Verte and nothing else My one way journey into the storm Surpassing the Pillars of Hercules [Sailor:] And I can't go back anymore [Absinthe:] I'm gonna hold you tight [Sailor:] I have no choice, I can't return [Absinthe:] So do I [Absinthe:] En route towards the dawn Forever, together Green is the pain, green is the drug We melt like sugar [Sailor:] Come whisper words of love Inebriate my soul again "Emerald nectar, let me be mad!" As Charon's taking my hand [Sailor:] The compass points to hell [Absinthe:] I will stand by your side [Sailor:] I spin in the spiral of distress [Absinthe:] Come drink the night [Sailor:] Can hear the sound of death-knell [Absinthe:] Gently harmonizes your cry [Sailor:] Life is a sip, I guzzled it all [Absinthe:] So time has come to die [Absinthe:] Doomed is your existence Superfluous living thing To dissolution you belong Hydrate your withered "I" with Artemisia's tears Wollow in self-pity all along Seek for excuses to justify the fault Distill the memories to mystify the truth [Absinthe:] Dearth of willpower Hiatus of inner strength Offense to the entire human race Pure blood abortion of a long line of undead Expression of mother nature shame The arms of Morpheus are cradling your soul Diluting torments in the night And Dionysus is singing loud your requiem A wordless threnody for the weak one [Absinthe:] I [Sailor:] We went to far astray [Absinthe:] Absinthe [Sailor:] To seek an inner grace [Absinthe:] Torment [Sailor:] But what we found was pain [Absinthe:] And delight [Sailor:] And sorrow [Absinthe:] I am the cleansing flame [Sailor:] Muse of the poets and painters [Absinthe:] What I create I can erase [Sailor:] For god's sake! [Absinthe:] Nightmare of parisian nights [Sailor:] Why did you do this to me? [Absinthe:] To kiss the moon this is the price [Sailor:] I should never let the sun in [Absinthe:] En route towards the dawn Forever, together Green is the pain, green is the drug As I'm your only god 8. Pissing on the Score Slumped in the hall of modern culture In silence I behold Frustrated psychos rant and rave Gone are those times when revolutions Led by intellectuals Subverted certainties for grace I need to stay alive To shape the archetype Define the undefined A demiurge at war Breaking laws and painting outside the frame I mark old grounds with my new trace Forever disobey Pissing on the score that cages my dare I forge the soundtrack of your decay A sweet melody of disgrace will blow you cunts away Fuck you! Dried is the pen as much as the inkwell Affected by a creative drought And blank remains the parchment Once florid land of beauty Deaf, take refuge in chromatic illusions To hide the emptiness Self-styled composers basely sell smoke while... Art is a serious thing You can't dishonour it And let your name live forever Come earn your fame through the highest sacrifice Come immolate your life! A sweet melody of disgrace will blow you bastards away 9. The Day We'll Be Gone Closed, the eyes of the dead Yet I can see you all black surrounding my old abode A cry breaking the silence Lament of a mourner washing pain away like rain Life, the day we'll be gone A step into the unknown Free from all fears Crave the peace of our earth Finally back to the place we belong Life, the greatest of all lies The time to blink our eyes and we're gone Before we die Crave our immortality As the memory resides in our name and fills the hearts Lone, my body rests May the earth lie lightly upon my defenseless spoils Void, epiphany of absence Fading all my senses into the eternal night Vacuum Time, the day we'll be gone The sleep of no return Where everything's clear Fame resounds in the words The true epitaph that will live forever Pain, afflicting the hearts Infecting the souls It's carved in the memories of our sons Face what we've become It shapes in the mirror a man we don't know Time, illusion of our mind The nemesis of the most foolish longing Eternity is... Fame, when back to dust again, is inert And all that remains, it can be love or... Pain we inflicted on other men Infernal torment lasts for the ones we leave behind Face, oh who we really are Laid bare before the highest judge...the memory Shine! Before returning to dust Accept the finite nature of flesh and carpe diem Live each day as if it's your last Unburdened of paralyzing dreads, move past As the master taught us Cold, the hand of fate Cruel, falls down relentless the curtain on passing flesh Death, the close of existence The mother of all fears and despair of mankind Is nothing but...life 10. Embrace the Oblivion We vomit on eden Unconcerned ignorants We are the plague upon the earth Pouring our venom Exhaling smokes in the air Ungrateful sons of mother nature We are the enemies We are the filthy breed We are the apocalypse We are the end With no regret We put this world to death We embrace the oblivion of ourselves Forever Deny the future Deny the past In anarchy we rot With no perspective Rapidly drain The soil that gave us birth As we got heaven We turned it into hell Decay with no remorse Cursing posterity Recklessly exhaust Every kind of resource To self-destruction blindly we march With no feeling but scorn And disillusion led us towards This point of no return Ah! Κυβέλη intervene! Cleanse this foolish race with fire For a new breed Purify the world from this tainted seed Oh let the Nature break free "E tu, lenta ginestra Che di selve odorate Queste campagne dispogliate adorni Anche tu presto alla crudel possanza Soccomberai del sotterraneo foco Che ritornando al loco Già noto, stenderà l'avaro lembo Su tue molli foreste. E piegherai Sotto il fascio mortal non renitente Il tuo capo innocente: Ma non piegato insino allora indarno Codardamente supplicando innanzi Al futuro oppressor" 11. Veleno