1. |
Numbers ...
05:09
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This is the story of mankind
And its obscene obsession
With labour and commerce
Ever since the beginning of times
Creative spirits succeed
Relentlessness and efficiency
Drive us to evolve
We've come this far and will go even further
By ancient principles
You shall work hard, you need good will
And profit for us all
But Numbers will be ashes one day
And numbers once again
Yet we fail to see
There lies a luxury
In redundancy
Yet we fail to see
There lies a luxury
In redundancy
Total economy!
Listen to the rhythm
Of capitalism
Take more than you're giving
Until the end, until the end
Listen to the rhythm
Of capitalism
Take more than they're giving
Until the end of time
They told us it would trickle down
When wealth is gathered above
But mankind is a hopeless case
Solidarity beaten by greed
Numbers will be ashes one day
And numbers once again
Nothing seems worthless enough
Not to be sold
Listen to the rhythm
Of capitalism
Take more than you're giving
Until the end, until the end
Listen to the rhythm
Of capitalism
Take more than they're giving
Until the end of time
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2. |
Condemned To Grow
04:32
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Voices are whispering
"Let's create a need
Let's create a hungry mouth
that we are going to feed"
Voices are whispering
"The market is not yet mature
We are getting richer
while others are staying poor"
Condemned to grow
Condemned to grow
Higher and higher
Faster and faster
No taste as sweet
as shareholders' success
You have to see
stagnation is regress
The numbers are rising
Rising fast, rising yet to slow
In this best of all systems
Everyone is condemned to grow
Condemned to grow
Condemned to grow
Higher and higher
Faster and faster
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3. |
A Path To Choose
05:03
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They keep on telling
Fate lies in your own hand
The world's an amusement park
For those who understand
Your mindset is the answer
To the big question of life
If you want to get something
You'll get it if you strive
Success for everyone
But the lazy, doomed to fail
Don't you want to believe
This somber fairytale?
Don't you want to believe
This somber fairytale?
With every path to choose
Comes another chance to lose (or win)
You move the pawn
And sacrifice, and sacrifice a knight
May this offering
Make you see what is wrong and what is right
It is not god-given
Which part you play in this game
Will you feed the beast
Or will the beast be slain?
You're standing at the crossroads
The path is yours to choose
Choose wisely, no one else
will be left to accuse
For any lapse you do
For any small mistake
No matter where the road leads
No matter what's at stake
No matter where the road leads
No matter what's at stake
With every path to choose
Comes another chance to lose (or win)
You move the pawn
And sacrifice, and sacrifice a knight
May this offering
Make you see what is wrong and what is right
With every path to choose
Comes another chance to lose (or win)
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4. |
Bones In The Mill
04:50
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Dark sails
Ever turning
Dark chimneys
Ever burning
And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon factories' floor grey?
Didn't walls and wheels and steam
Serve to humans and obey?
In these mills of lifeless stones
We are but bones… we are but bones
Red rust
like rash
Red smoke
like blood
The brutality of productivity
Make human beings resource
And when their time has finally come
They're being grinded by its force
In these mills of lifeless stones
We are but bones… we are but bones
I have to cease from mental fight
Sunken in industrial mire
I built myself and face defeat
By the Chariot of fire
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5. |
Off The Assembly Line
04:47
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Wait for the weekend
when we're off the assembly line!
Everyday's hard work in the halls of monotony
Oh what a mess, what a distress
Hour by hour, week by week, year by year, our lobotomy
For their success we give our best
Trying to keep our heads up in solemn autonomy
We try our best … more or less
Everytime we make a penny
The boss makes a dime
Loathing to do what we do
Until it's quitting time
On the weekends
when we're off the assembly line
We deceive ourselves
to abolish all the grind
On the weekends
when we're off the assembly line
We believe to be
free in our minds
Monday comes too soon
Here we are, once again, gone is the infusion
backed by caffeine in our routine
At the line, at the desk, sanity extrusion
Will you be brave? A decent slave?
Here it comes, friday night, the promising illusion
Give me a rail! We will prevail!
Everytime we make a penny
The boss makes a dime
Monday I will take a shit
on the assembly line
On the weekends
when we're off the assembly line
We deceive ourselves
to abolish all the grind
On the weekends
when we're off the assembly line
We believe to be
free in our minds
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6. |
Too Big To Fail
04:25
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Finally
There will come a cleansing crash
Finally
Strong enough even to smash
This money monster
You see empires rise
You won't see us fall
Your concerns are gold
To decorate our hall
The smaller ones will perish
The bigger ones prevail
Weakling, lick our boots
We are too big to fail
In any coming crisis
You'll pay any price
Regulations bottom-up
Welcome sacrifice
The smaller ones will perish
The bigger ones prevail
Weakling, lick our boots
We are too big to fail
Shame on you
You who underpin this beast
Shame on you
You are Mammon's evil priest
…or better slave?
You see empires rise
You won't see us fall
Your concerns are gold
To decorate our hall
The smaller ones will perish
The bigger ones prevail
Weakling, lick our boots
We are too big to fail
There came another crisis
The price again was high
Yet again you paid
Too tight is our tie
The smaller ones did perish
The bigger ones prevailed
Weakling, lick our boots
We are too big to fail
The smaller ones did perish
The bigger ones prevailed
Weakling, lick our boots
We are too big to fail
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7. |
The Outcast
04:03
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I called in sick the other day
Hardly made it out of bed
Why should I have? No one would miss me anyway
Or even care if I was dead
That morning I made a decision
Overdue seemed the case
In this cruel world of everlasting competition
I will never find my place
I don't believe this story anymore
I don't believe this story anymore
Before I started my escape
I took a deep breath and I knew
Like me my options in a miserable shape
But I only had these two
I don't believe this story anymore
I don't believe this story anymore
I don't believe this story anymore
I retreat from this heat
If you like call it defeat
I don't believe this story anymore
And behind these gates
Full of hardship, full of pain
A new life awaits
Keeps me poor but keeps me sane
Keeps me poor but keeps me sane
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8. |
Swing Riot
03:47
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With austere eyes I watch
As the world is turning
Great fires burn that are keeping
The machinery alive
Boilers filled with a reeking swill
Bringing steam to the engine
There's a rising tension of material
and men in this mill
I
I need to destroy
Hephaestus' lie
This wicked machinery
A clash
To pieces I smash
Mechanical trash
This wicked machinery
Shouldn't technology be made by humans just
for humanity?
Yet insanity in these pieces on the ground
I'm the Machinoclast
I
I need to destroy
Hephaestus' lie
This wicked machinery
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9. |
... And Ashes
03:16
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Known Unmind Hamburg, Germany
Known Unmind is a Band- Project started in May 2020
Guitars, Synth, Piano and programming by Mirco
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