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Manipulator V1
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I choose a face to confuse and isolate you
Twisting lines to kill you from inside
Retching rhymes to prey on all emotion
Distorted syllables soaked in cyanide
It’s such a shame you were meant for so
much more.
You sold your life, free thought, free will
and then you gave me your soul.
So I’ll tear you down and rebuild you to
espouse my truth.
Can’t switch me off or turn me down.
Just look in my eyes.
Dripping with lies.
I strategize to confuse and isolate you.
Breeding drones best fit to victimize.
You play along convinced I’m here to
save you.
My faithful viewers, oppressed and
terrorized.
Your whole life is a joke that you’ll never get.
But keep laughing along because you look
so dumb.
I change the rules and then decide who to
kill and dehumanize.
It’s freind and foe - there’s no divide.
I’m raping your soul.
Consuming you whole.
Manipulator - I’m bleeding you dry.
Instigator - It keeps me alive
Manipulator - Look in my eyes.
Believe all my lies.
It’s how I survive.
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Leaving here again
Letting go, my friend
This time we will our fate
This time we play a game
Now we've found a way
To get our of this place
Here and now
We've come so far
We let it go
We float away
We leave no hope
No souvenir
For what we love and what we fear
The path we lead is long and slow
It full of hate
It's monochrome
and now it's time for letting go.
In passing moments...
we are unkind
Cruel and unwise...
in every mistake
But in earth's sweet harmonies...
lies an ocean of truth
That joy is nothing...
but crumbs until death
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I choose a face to confuse and isolate you
Twisting lines to kill you from inside
Retching rhymes to prey on all emotion
Distorted syllables soaked in cyanide
It’s such a shame you were meant for so
much more.
You sold your life, free thought, free will
and then you gave me your soul.
So I’ll tear you down and rebuild you to
espouse my truth.
Can’t switch me off or turn me down.
Just look in my eyes.
Dripping with lies.
I strategize to confuse and isolate you.
Breeding drones best fit to victimize.
You play along convinced I’m here to
save you.
My faithful viewers, oppressed and
terrorized.
Your whole life is a joke that you’ll never get.
But keep laughing along because you look
so dumb.
I change the rules and then decide who to
kill and dehumanize.
It’s freind and foe - there’s no divide.
I’m raping your soul.
Consuming you whole.
Manipulator - I’m bleeding you dry.
Instigator - It keeps me alive
Manipulator - Look in my eyes.
Believe all my lies.
It’s how I survive.
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I choose a face to confuse and isolate you
Twisting lines to kill you from inside
Retching rhymes to prey on all emotion
Distorted syllables soaked in cyanide
It’s such a shame you were meant for so
much more.
You sold your life, free thought, free will
and then you gave me your soul.
So I’ll tear you down and rebuild you to
espouse my truth.
Can’t switch me off or turn me down.
Just look in my eyes.
Dripping with lies.
I strategize to confuse and isolate you.
Breeding drones best fit to victimize.
You play along convinced I’m here to
save you.
My faithful viewers, oppressed and
terrorized.
Your whole life is a joke that you’ll never get.
But keep laughing along because you look
so dumb.
I change the rules and then decide who to
kill and dehumanize.
It’s freind and foe - there’s no divide.
I’m raping your soul.
Consuming you whole.
Manipulator - I’m bleeding you dry.
Instigator - It keeps me alive
Manipulator - Look in my eyes.
Believe all my lies.
It’s how I survive.
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I choose a face to confuse and isolate you
Twisting lines to kill you from inside
Retching rhymes to prey on all emotion
Distorted syllables soaked in cyanide
It’s such a shame you were meant for so
much more.
You sold your life, free thought, free will
and then you gave me your soul.
So I’ll tear you down and rebuild you to
espouse my truth.
Can’t switch me off or turn me down.
Just look in my eyes.
Dripping with lies.
I strategize to confuse and isolate you.
Breeding drones best fit to victimize.
You play along convinced I’m here to
save you.
My faithful viewers, oppressed and
terrorized.
Your whole life is a joke that you’ll never get.
But keep laughing along because you look
so dumb.
I change the rules and then decide who to
kill and dehumanize.
It’s freind and foe - there’s no divide.
I’m raping your soul.
Consuming you whole.
Manipulator - I’m bleeding you dry.
Instigator - It keeps me alive
Manipulator - Look in my eyes.
Believe all my lies.
It’s how I survive.
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I choose a face to confuse and isolate you
Twisting lines to kill you from inside
Retching rhymes to prey on all emotion
Distorted syllables soaked in cyanide
It’s such a shame you were meant for so
much more.
You sold your life, free thought, free will
and then you gave me your soul.
So I’ll tear you down and rebuild you to
espouse my truth.
Can’t switch me off or turn me down.
Just look in my eyes.
Dripping with lies.
I strategize to confuse and isolate you.
Breeding drones best fit to victimize.
You play along convinced I’m here to
save you.
My faithful viewers, oppressed and
terrorized.
Your whole life is a joke that you’ll never get.
But keep laughing along because you look
so dumb.
I change the rules and then decide who to
kill and dehumanize.
It’s freind and foe - there’s no divide.
I’m raping your soul.
Consuming you whole.
Manipulator - I’m bleeding you dry.
Instigator - It keeps me alive
Manipulator - Look in my eyes.
Believe all my lies.
It’s how I survive.
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Waking Up (Ellipsism)
08:11
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Open your eyes. Wake up and start to breath. Unload your morning lies.
How long must this go on? So long. So sick of hearing all your sighs.
Another day goes by. What have you done to realize it’s all the same?
Another name gets shoved up on the shelf. Two chances between closed eyes.
Old lines take turns in time to coincide. And in the end how could you die?
There was a time when I was just like you.
Too blind to see right through the veil before my eyes.
The treachery in you and all your goddamn lies.
In time they coincide and open up your eyes.
If you could be me you might understand what it takes to get through
those glances between closed eyes. What it takes to get through to you.
The war before me. The enemy is you.
Open your eyes. Wake up and start to breath. Unload your morning lies.
How long must this go on? So long. So sick of hearing all your sighs.
Another day goes by. What have you done to realize it’s all the same?
Another name gets shoved up on the shelf. Two chances between closed eyes.
Old lines take turns in time to coincide.
And in the end how could you die?
2 chances caught between closed eyes. Old lines take turn to go inside. And in the end how
could you die? You’ll find out soon and so will I. I left you passed out in the night. I never knew
she was so slight. There was no sign of us in sight. And some might say that I was right. I was right.
2 chances caught between old eyes. Those eyes take time to look inside. And in the end how could
you lie? You’ll find out soon and so will I. I left you passed out in the night. I never knew she was so
slight. There was no sign of me in sight. And you should know that I was right. I was right.
2 chances caught between closed eyes. Those lines take turns to go inside. And in the end how could
you die? You found out now and so have I. I left you passed out in the night. I always knew she was so
slight. There was no sign of you in sight. And now I know that you were right.
You never let things get you down.
You’re lost forever in this town.
I’ll see you maybe once a year but in the end I’m waking up.
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Axis Tulsa, Oklahoma
Axis is Steven Blackwell, Trent Tomlinson, James Huff, and John Beauchamp.
Expect more releases this year!
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by John Beauchamp
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C/Fe Menagerie Vol. 1
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