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Black Tar

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Black Tar

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Not even a distant land

We're stuck on a whole different planet

No peace lookin' at the sky

Trouble's always all around so we stay quick with

The guns and cannons

Standing as long as we can until we get all dolls up

Then call all bets off

We'll blow through your tar

Dealing with lives messed up

On a sea of dark matter

Every minute matters

Living while other lives shatter

Seeing ghosts scatter

As they pour out

We can handle them

It's the tar taking over that came unexpected

Hard tô accept it

Getting marked for death

Seeing friends snatched and darkly possessed

The tar inside stealing the body and breath

Till only a shell is left

Witness tô Hell in the flesh

A fight tô the death

Screaming where's the relief?

Maybe no more sleep

All swallowed in grief

Images start tô stalk like a beast

I hear voices but no one talking tô me

It's like I'm washing away

All my peaceful days

Anyway anyhow

Nothing left of that scene

If you are losing your way

You need some protection

Black tar, it gets you

Where ever you go

They could find you quickly, it's sticky

However you try tô tough it out

You just can't beat them

They said seek tô find the field so we can sharpen skills

But now we can only feel

All the pain of the danger being real

And we may have tô kill

Just tô stay alive

'Cause they've taken away close mates

And we don't know our own fates

We've been tasked tô protect and take on ghosts

But now this black tar is new

And the damage is quick

It moves really fast

Plus it covers everything

This wasn't in the profile

So now we've got tô find a way tô win or we die out

Living life on the run

With a hand on a gun

Where's the exits

We can't go back where we came from

We can't go back where we came from

Get armed, don't look back

Shoot them with your guns

Yes, get up, don't give up

Shoot them

All the power you got

Hello? Is this thing on? Am I all alone?

Is anyone there?

I need a bigger gun Help if you can

Please wake me up

Not tô sound cliche

But this world sucks!

So close it's a voice I'm hearing

Overwhelms me, can't stop bleeding

Show me in the fog

How many times you gotta kill your friends?

How do you feel you gotta shoot their head?

Just like the endless war

War

How do I know?

This goddamn stuff is all around

How can I get out?

This nightmare I've got tô escape

Just screaming

You hear them over and over

You will get running

So we can find the way tô get out

We're stuck on a different planet

A lot more than we can manage

But we gotta keep on standing

We're stuck on a different planet

A lot more than we can manage

But we gotta keep on standing

Just want live in peace yet

Black tar's gonna keep us restless

Running just tô own our own breaths

Just want live in peace yet

Black tar's gonna keep us restless

Running just tô keep our own breaths

People are dripping black tar

It's taken a ship down so far

Don't wanna lose hope

But here we are

Wishing tô see the sunrise

But the Sun doesn't rise in this sky

Black tar covers most eyes

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