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When the Smoke Clears

from Absolution by AHNWM

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A mother holds her dying child
Tears streaming down her face
She's begging God to put her in her child's place
Lying in a field of bodies and shit
She lets her child go
She never asked for this
A man waits in terror
He wanted to escape
The mere thought of freedom provided him with faith
He's told that he's forbidden
He wears a mask of doom
He's innocent and desperate, yet sealed inside his tomb
Our uprising will be our downfall
War is king
War is god
Our uprising will be our downfall
War is king
War is god
We're so devoid of empathy for the victims of environmental theft
Caught in the gears of politics, the pores of nature are seeping
The wells run dry and pockets fill, black is the newest soul to sell
Wealth has trumped the caring sense
Mother earth is weeping
Desecration creates elation for the masters we obey
Desecration creates elation
Eradicating the vermin in their way
They aren't the only ones
No one is safe
We're all expendable
We're all human waste
They only look for numbers and pawns
Suffer then, suffer now
It will always go on
Our uprising will be our downfall
War is king
War is god
Our uprising will be our downfall
War is king
War is god
Unrivaled, unparalleled, we stand alone
Tyrants of humanity, we own the gilded throne
Suppression is the specialty, so conflict-prone
We will not rest until the world is ash and bone
Bullets fly, innocent civilians have to die
It's just the grand scheme of liberty
Lives are bought and sold
Freedom is conditional
The only guarantee in life is death and suffering
When the smoke clears, and there's nothing left but death and destruction
The living will envy the dead.

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from Absolution, released February 23, 2018

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