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Most Vicious Animal

by Hive

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1.
Waste Of Man 03:07
Every effort vomited forth Heavily sanctioned without remorse Trophies made of the bad seeds reduced to timber Like entering a room and all voices drop to a whisper The fingers are pointing and you try to stand arm in arm My skin burns to the touch of your self inflicted cruciform Vile love Waste of Nothing left to be proud of and nothing left to defend Raise a beacon of victimhood while you piss in the wind When you could have battled with words you had to use your fists You had to choke your way tot he top when it wasn't enough to exist Who are you trying to convince Traitorous gendered masochist Vile love Waste of man Clock is ticking for the alpha Clock is ticking in suspense Clock is ticking for the alpha Clock is ticking in suspense For the righteous waste of man
2.
Corrupting serpent's scapegoat The scorn of man reduced to beasts Life giving mother to worship at her feet When complacency is resignation Removed like a caesarean dream The sacrifice gets scrubbed clean Rebirth of anger from my barren womb If it's a songbird that you need then my nails on a chalkboard are for you No complacent surrogacy Spit in poison handshakes and insincere apologies Their estrogenic fear in what I see and hear In what I have done and what I have failed to do Black brick to the face What is necessary is what it takes When less violent lands you in prison, camps and graves
3.
Threaten 03:50
Cull the herd To stop the infection of young minds An imbalance between consequence and time Born backwards These wilting vultures buried with their gold Their wringing hands are claws outstretched to hold Fossilized life's blood The kin of swine as a protected class Ivory soaked handshakes Draw lines between the have-nots and the wolves who have Curse ye all who threaten The parasite's protection Tear the family tree limb from limb Caught in the crosshairs The bastard child gets shot on sight While the first born heir to the throne Gets calmly read his rights when the election coincides Curse ye all who threaten The parasite's protection When the rancid apple falls to the ground Curse ye all who threaten The parasite's protection Tear the family tree limb from limb
4.
These deceiving days wearing thin on me Flesh cutting to the sound of rampage One ear and out the rest Main objective is to depress the mind A new school of thought as the last breath gasps My eyes turned to white In these colder ways Lie awake like a ghost at night Death is lurking A parasite, I'll be Deceiving days, too close to me Sun burning out, kills all of humanity And I seek you, not for disparaging Bur for new punishment for the fires that burn the earth Scorched in pain My eyes turned to white In these colder days Lie awake like a ghost at night I hate, I hate A parasite I'll be These deceiving days wearing thin on me Flesh cutting to the sound of rampage I'm dead in my wake
5.
Staring blankly at the sun For the last time Leave my body out to rot With nowhere With nowhere, nowhere to fucking hide So what's changed and what stays the same The subject of my own cruelty Delicate balance of losses and gains Revolting process of becoming machine Subject Turing Test I must convince them as I have myself Subject Turing Test Trapped in purgatory but it feels like hell Biological clocks stop but time goes on I can't differentiate Day from night or darkness or light Shackled to the dead weight of faith Delicate balance of losses and gains Commonality existing in analog states Digitize as man interrogates Orders assembled at the experiment's behest Inconclusive results from a turing test
6.
Human Jaw 02:10
Human jaw snaps under pressure Backbones corroded by fear Sunken eyes go white and roll back When there's no resistance here When they hear a tremble in your voice You put the blade to the throat by free will and not by choice Death to fair weather scum This beast in a condition of heat And you chose to run So where's the separation From you and them When you need their struggle more than before Only a bark on command Familiar imprint of the back of a hand When they hear a tremble in your voice You put the blade to the throat by free will and not by choice Shat upon the earth More cause and effect than luck So decompose the same Freed from conscience and crux
7.
A reenactment of what we all know Jaw dislocates to swallow whole While a gold plated inquisition Baits the public on blue blood fiction to burn Predatory blood lust You give the rabid animals your trust The decision is final Survival Survival Survival Survival of the fittest not the prosper of the most vicious Swill honey coated venom Submit as collateral damage While the hungry dogs lap up the poison they're fed We are Not their Feather to pluck One by one Predatory blood lust You give the rabid animals your trust The decision is final Survival Survival Survival Survival of the fittest not the prosper of the most vicious
8.
Blind to see in the eyes of beholders Desperations twisted roots befall this world of soldiers Snorting faster, chasing new extremes Deep inside the hands of God slow the breathing Engulfed in dusk Whip the chains of apathy Tortured fucking past Death is a must Fractured skulls of government Build this house of trust Treacherous signs of fires to come Inside out for all to see Emptiness becomes All I've seen and all I've come to be Lacking instincts of survival, dead is empathy Engulfed in dusk Whip the chains of apathy Tortured fucking past Death is a must Fractured skulls of government Build this house of trust
9.
Passenger 01:56
Give me the keys to a broken lock while the handle's spinning A young mine's promised land with a death's head grinning By rote, mindlessly cut the throat with habitual purpose And send the message clear, there's no fucking safe house here And there's something you should see Their demise is not guaranteed And there's something you should know The pigs will not always reap, what they fucking sow What passes for certainty To keep the fragile minds at ease When the just desserts are a fallacy They make the laws And so it shall fucking be And there's something you should see Their demise is not guaranteed And there's something you should know The pigs will not always reap, what they fucking sow
10.
With nobility's horrors in tract They ritualize the crime to trim the fat Predators hide in plain view Moral rot in a leg hold trap Gaining trust comparing whip marks on their backs Weaponized guilt Weaponized trust Hide in plain view Hell is all people Like a tyrant's promise Hell is all people Like the cardinal's fraud Hell is all people Like the vaccine's purpose Hell is all people Like the cold grip of god The hands that caress Are the fists that cripple The lips that smile Are the mouth that lies
11.
Immunity 01:43
Beyond comparison You are the weakest of men Yet somehow are granted the absence of sins In silence you call the end for us all With the smoke building blacker Domination of souls Immunity rising Society crying You take us for granted Our rivers run dry With no smiling children Were sentenced to lies A life of disdain Your existence my bane I'm living in pain In hopes that you die Beyond comparison You are the weakest of men Yet somehow are granted the absence of sins In silence you call the end for us all With the smoke building blacker Domination of souls
12.
Closing night for the rising sun So let the imperial surgeon's will be done Tomorrow will be worse In 1945 fear strikes first Now these assembled Manchurian primates Get to decide the enemies of the state Eat the leg of the lamb of god Decide which bodies are prisoners and which rot Prompt and utter destruction Diplomatic show of force A hand casts a shadow across the earth Plant the seeds of pathetic distraction Fan the flames to weather the storm Selling excuses for crimes of war From deep within heaven fell a morning star Crushing pebble and tombstone alike From above comes a vision of hell So when convention failed The bloody means to blood ends Another land is conquered Justified into an early grave While undeserving lives are squandered Closing night for the rising sun So let the imperial surgeon's will be done Tomorrow will be worse In 1945 fear strikes first Now these assembled manchurian primates Get to decide the enemies of the state Eat the leg of the lamb of god Decide which bodies are prisoners and which rot Cease to exist – bloody means to bloody ends Cease to exist – justified into an early grave Cease to exist – from deep within heaven fell a morning star Cease to exist – hung like an albatross, led to the abattoir Cease to exist What have we done

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released August 2, 2019

Recorded and mixed January 2019 by Dan Jensen at The Hideaway, Minneapolis Minnesota. Mastered by Jack Control at Enormous Door, Austin Texas.

Vinyl and cassette versions released by Crown And Throne Ltd.

CD version released by Seeing Red Records.

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