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Artist: August Burns Red
Canonical path: /august-burns-red/the-wake
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The Wake
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The Wake
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Destroy everything cleance.
Wipe away the filth
Set the fire to your waste.
Burn everything
Back into dirt
Burn everything
Flood, drown the eath
It's what we deserve
Rehash the poisons
You breathe in the air
Tear down what you say
Your father created
Constructing buildings over buildings
Conceal history like a shameful scar
This world has lived for a milion years
With more to come
It's only a matter of time until
You choke on your indiference
Struggling to breathe as the water
Fills your lungs trying hard to scream
As it rises into your trhoat
The reckless the careless
Will the reign until the oceans rise
Flood, drown the eath
It's what we deserve
This world has lived for a milion years
With more to come
It's only a matter of time until
You choke on your indiference
Struggling to breathe as the water
Fills your lungs trying hard to scream
As it rises into your trhoat
Wake up
And save yourself
The sea will reclaim what it worked to create
Wake up save yourself
Pick up the pieces ask for forgiveness
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August Burns Red performs "The Wake", and this lyric page sits inside the August Burns Red catalog on LyroVerse.
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