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Artist: Otep
Canonical path: /otep/germ
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Germ
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Germ
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The enemy of the world our greatest defeat
slave warfare
Our wings are almost dry and free
absorbing violence [pain]
Punishing pain
Poetry is the perfume of the soul [no fear, no god, alternate stasis takes me places, the world, enemy]
Nightmare babies, fire gods
Speaking of dream time serpants
and walking with the elder dead
Fear me mortal [FEAR ME]
Fear me
Feed my disease
Feed my disease [the taste of fear in the seventh phase of the disease]
and in tiny little houses
On tiny little streets [everythings normal, everythings not ok, it's normal]
Voices raise and [as long as you're under my roof you will respect me]
fear is alive [as long as you're under my roof you will respect ME]
and laughter
He's knows tolerance [don't forget me]
She only knows lonliness [NOT YOU, NOT YOU, NOT YOU]
and in my blackness of sleep
Savages dance and scream
but only truth is suffering
Bleeding like embryos [but only truth is suffering]
Starving with dreams [LIFE, BLOOD]
U, single cell are commerse
Woah, what happened to you last night?
you've given up without a fight
and learned the words thay say receit
U killed the flower that blossoms in the night
Smothered and crushed
Rage gives way to a little giggle and sudden blush
and in my molecules, the vast eternity of invention [can u smell my fever mama? can u smell my poor veins?]
Infected with the good disease
Intellect, rebellion
Finding the need in every single one
...of you
What's a matter U don't like it when eye touch you? [Come here, don't run, don't run]
Hand me babies and nightmare gods
Eye will shed my skin [BUT EYE CAN'T GET HIS SCENT OFF OF ME]
He prefers pain to pretty
Death to daughter, to the shivering creature that lay beneath him
Eye will not be want u want me to be
Eye will not be want u want me to be [nothings changed, GO AWAY, GO AWAY]
People are evil and girls hate each other
OH GREAT DEVOUR OF THE DEAD
Eye will know my demons names
Eye will conquer them
Eye will rise [RISE]
Eye will...fight
Why?
Coming...
Salvation...
This is my holy war
We come to u like desert warriors
Fresh from the cool dew of night, in a sea of odor, in a tapestry of pain
Absorbing violence
Feasting on hopelessness
Expand your mind
Expand your mind
This is our time to shine [our time to shine, our time for justice]
and out of the ashes only the holy will rise
Sweet paper messiah [die]
Sweet paper messiah
How eye sacrifice u, Eye sacrifice you [SAVE ME, SAVE ME]
Dear, sweet paper messiah [SAVE ME, SAVE ME, SAVE ME, SAVE ME]
My offering
My suffering [Eye speak to u on behalf of all of mankind]
Whatever u need
What...ever u need
Whatever u...
Whatever u need
Unite
Messiah
ME
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