The Lion & The Serpent [live at Behemoth Grove]

from Scapegoat's Doctrine [EP] by Heart Of The Bereaved

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Music & lyrics by Xavier "Abysmal"
Recorded and engineered June 2-December 13, 2015

lyrics

-Live at Behemoth Grove-

[Part I: For The 'Greater Good']
"Always trampling each other to achieve
Your illusory completions
You will never see what is right before you
If you never stop to look..."
[Part II: Not Merely A Lie, A Mistruth]
Stop the whalers as you celebrate
The abortion of your young
And much like everyone else, you speak
With a double-edged sword as your tongue
One side resembling a lie
And the other the truth
We are aging into
The petty squabble of our youth
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We eat each other alive like cannibals
No conscience, just arrogance and selfishness
Forged into our hearts
Were we doomed from the very start?
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Preach the words of Jesus Christ
As you invade the middle east
Fight for your right to own a gun
Whilst you illegalize homosexuality
Elitism: in the pursuit of amelioration
Live to "cleanse" the black from the white
With all your avid fixation on dominating others
How can you honestly say that you are "pro-life"?
[Part III: The Shadows Of The Valley]
So allow me to demonstrate
This fortune of fortunes
You will proceed your evils
But with good intentions
With your maker as your scapegoat
You breed hatred in Her name
All in vain...
Is this really what we have become?
Are we all but adumbrations - cast by the sun?
"Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death
I will fear no evil..."
But must we fear ourselves
For have we become
What we've walked through
In this valley
That we should both allow
And demonstrate it
Whether in broad daylight
Or in dark alleys
It is unfortunate
That we have become
...What we believed we were running from:
The shadows of the valley...
[Part IV: Descent]

credits

from Scapegoat's Doctrine [EP], released December 31, 2015
Frost - guitar
Abysmal - lead voices, backing guitar, bass, sound manipulation
T.M.E. - backing voices
Mendians - drums and percussion

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