Alexander Palitsin : Dystopic

Progressive Metal / Russia
(2014 - Self-Released)
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1. CONSUMER SOCIETY

Just one of millions - an insect.
No own opinion - the herd effect.
And every personality
Is dictated by society.

The river of zombified souls:
Each one is happy, knows it's role.
Consuming became the meaning of life,
The human got a new will to strive
To work to consume.

The easy scheme: own money and pay,
Repeat every day.
All pleasures are yours,
So go get your dose
Which relies on consumer society

The ocean of empty minds.
Tradition's dead, art is denied.
Consuming now is all your bond -
It's all you need, it's all you want.
So work to consume

The easy scheme: own money and pay,
Repeat every day.
So go buy your drugs -
It's your hope it's your luck.
In this brave new world
Your heart is empty and cold.
All pleasures are yours,
So go buy your new dose
Which relies on consumer society


2. TOLERANCE OVEREXPOSED

Sharing the world with all kinds of people,
A future in peace, a step towards ideal social life
With all sorts of minds,
Different views of life.
The will to strive.

The poles are getting reversed,
Absurdity grows,
Modern disease,
Minds decomposed.

Values transposed,
Nature foreclosed.
Tolerance overexposed.

Atrophy of common sense -
Maybe it's just the human essence.
Run to extremes,
Preposterousness,
Breaking mores.
What is it for?

Protecting the weak now is not what it means.
Total disgrace. Ashamed of the way society goes
Putrefactive path of life -
A slough to dive

The poles are reversed
And absurdity grows.
The world is sick,
Minds decomposed.

Values transposed,
Nature foreclosed.
Tolerance overexposed.

Atrophy of common sense -
Maybe it's just the human essence.
Run to extremes,
Preposterousness,
Breaking mores.
What is it for?

It's all for civilization's epitaph.
If carriers of this disease are aggressive enough
To fight for their rights to make the storm,
Mental disorder becomes a public norm.

Values transposed,
Nature foreclosed,
Tolerance overdosed.

Peace through war, respect through hypocrisy.
Total disgrace. Degeneracy in progress.

Atrophy of common sense -
Maybe it's just the human essence.
Run to extremes,
Preposterousness,
Breaking mores.
What is it for?

It's all for civilization's epitaph.
If carriers of this disease are aggressive enough
To fight for their rights to make the storm,
Then mental disorder becomes a public norm.

An ardent tradition keeper will be claimed
Unsocial, the primary target for your hate.
Past idols are replaced by current ones.
A defective era has begun.

Please, just look back
And now look straight:
Rotting processes
At a scaring rate.

Blindness is the future to which it tends


3. SPIRITUAL MARAUDER

Suspicious, distrust, doubt, paranoia,
Anger, fear, pain and feeling of fault.
It foils and poisons mind, makes superstitious.
To someone all these people are like a chest of gold.

They will pay if you will tell them something
What they want to hear.
They are trapped and they are ready to give everything
For answers from the deceiver.

A lie is like an implement,
They do not understand
They came to get tranquility.
Truth is not always the best choice,
They listen to your voice, -
Make them believe your words.

Spiritual Marauder
Living by the people's pain.
Spiritual Marauder
For them it's sorrow, for you it's gain.

Troubles, madness, disdain, desperation,
Spiritual exhaustion, desire for death.
What's the reason, what duration?
It doesn't matter to you,
Only matters how much they will pay.

They will pay if you can give them something
Which will fill in the lost.
Do a favor - help,
Then present the bill,
'Cause everything you do has it's own cost .

A lie is like an implement,
They do not understand
They came to get tranquility.
Truth is not always the best choice,
They listen to your voice, -
Make them believe your words.

Spiritual Marauder
Living by the people's pain.
Spiritual Marauder
For them it's sorrow, for you it's gain


4. A MYRIAD OF DOOMSDAYS

From the start 'till the end
We seek the date
Of doomsday. The time comes
Then we start searching again.

The prophet foretold
The end of the world,
And then some scientist
Calculated the date.

And many people
Believe and fear and pray.

The future's unknown,
But we can invent
How it can explode
And how we can fend.

But we all forgot,
We've lost the distinction
Between real world
And somebody's fiction.

The writer invents, others misrepresent
And stupid believes:
For him it's a shock, food for his mind.
The spread of the rumor begins.

The source is forgotten, the rumor seems true,
The fiction becomes a reality.
Naive people are scared, they look for a hole,
Intelligence in the minority.

And many people
Believe and fear and pray.

A myriad of doomsdays
Were predicted to be,
We all are waiting
What these days will bring.

Delusions and lies, exaggeration.
What exactly do we believe?
Illogical, false, unscientific things.
Decide: is it true or deceit.

Some people are blind or have to believe,
Theirs mind needs the food.
They would rather believe and fear and pray
Even if they have understood.

And some people
Believe again and again.

The future's unknown,
But we can invent
How it can explode
And how we can fend.

But we all forgot,
We've lost the distinction
Between real world
And somebody's fiction.

A myriad of doomsdays
Were predicted to be,
But we're still alive -
Maybe it's just a case.

And nothing has changed
While the future is unknown.
We all are waiting
For a myriad of doomsdays.

A myriad of doomsdays


5. 451

Oblivion,
Ignorance,
Carefree
Existence.

You don't know.

Unnecessary knowledge must burn
In a hungry fire of scorn.

No concern,
No dread,
All you need
Is a job and a flat.

Nothing else.

Unnecessary knowledge must burn
In a hungry fire of scorn.

The less you know, the less you need.
Turn off your mind, rejoice and breed.

Knowledge denied -
It's for your happiness.
Decrease intelligence
To weed uneasiness.

Your realized necessity
As small as it can be.

Just don't know. You don't know.

Equality,
No discontent,
Stability.
No dissent.

Unnecessary knowledge must burn
In a hungry fire of scorn.

The less you know, the less you need.
Turn off your mind, rejoice and breed.

Knowledge denied -
It's for your happiness.
Decrease intelligence
To weed uneasiness.

Your realized necessity
As small as it can be.

No dream,
No requests,
No need
To egress.

Don't know. Just don't know


6. RESPONSIBLE FOR STAYING ALIVE

They always told
It's all in your hands
Don't hit first and you'll be clean,
Nothing hurts
Until you're kind
And goodness always win.

These words are false,
This world is cruel -
Now you can understand.
Some time you'll have
To choose your fate -
What's better: your death
or blood on your hands?

They'll invent a new truth
To blame and destroy you,
And your small victory
Will be the biggest defeat of your life.

Who is the guilty one?
Who is innocent?
The first is who won,
Last is who paid.
Self-defense is a crime,
Justice is a lie,
And you're responsible for staying alive.

The system works, you must obey.
You've been attacked - fall down and pray.
Civilians are not to use force,
The only proud way is to be a corpse.

They'll humble you,
They'll break your mind,
They'll make you feel guilt.
So what is better:
To defeat
Or wait 'till you are killed.

They understand
That you were right,
But easier to blame.
You're a criminal,
Aggressor is clean -
No stain on his conscience.
And everything will be paid.

Who is the guilty one?
Who is innocent?
The first is who won,
Last is who paid.
Self-defense is a crime,
Justice is a lie,
And you're responsible for staying alive


7. DESTRUCTIVE ELEMENTS

[1.Fire]
It comes from fields born by the drought
And led by the wind -
The angry hungry crazy beast
Eats everything you've built.
Burning trees, destroying villages,
Lower and higher
The wildfire. Wildfire.

[2.Earth]
From the depths of Earth the greatest force
Awakes and starts to blast.
Few minutes and the human world
Is ruined in the dust.
This force awoke to break
This force awoke to make
The earthquake. Earthquake.

Using the fire,
Building your desire,
Enslaving nature,
But elements will rise.

Fire, ground,
Water, air.
Destructive, make danger.

Protect from this force,
But feel the despair
Remember all those
Who died or survived there.

[3.Water]
Endless rain in the region,
Water covers the streets
And rivers burst their banks
Destroying everything.
Survivals took place on rooves,
Lost everything and were cut
By flood. The flood.

[4.Air]
Invisible hand driving waves
And blowing off rooves.
It's breaking trees, it's crashing rocks
It's total humanproof.
Unstoppable force on it's way
Unguided annihilator
A tornado. Tornado.

Polluting the water
And poisoning the air
Enslaving nature,
But elements will rise.

Fire, ground.
Water, air.
Destructive, make danger.

Protect from this force,
But feel the despair
Remember all those
Who died or survived there

And nothing saves us
From chaos, from crashing down:
Hundreds are dying
And thousands are homeless now.

Fire, ground.
Water, air.
Destructive, make danger.

Protect from this force,
But feel the despair
Remember all those
Who died or survived there

Destructive. Danger.
Destruction. Danger.


8. MINISTRY OF TRUTH

Looking back through the centuries we see
What's in the books of history. Believe
In everything in every single word.
There is no doubt the stories they have told
Are true.

The bigger the lie,
The more it will be believed.
The new past is defined.
The truth is lost and facts are hidden,
Are buried with the ones which had been there,
Names erased and deeds forgotten.

The time has passed and government has changed.
The visions of the past are rearranged,
The seeds of doubt have been sown successfully.
It's time to change the truth of history.
Rewrite.

There won't be anything misleading:
The Ministry of Truth is seeding
The new past, it sprouts fast.
Your mind accepts and changes your vision,
Your memory erased collisions,
Now you are blind to imprecisions.

The bigger the lie,
The more it will be believed.
The new past is defined.
The truth is lost and facts are hidden,
Are buried with the ones which had been there,
Names erased and deeds forgotten


9. HOUND DOG

You ain't nothing but a hound dog
Crying all the time
You ain't nothing but a hound dog
Scratching all the time
You ain't never cought a rabbit
You ain't no friend of mine

They told me you was high class
That was just a lie
They told me you was high class
That was just a lie
You ain't never cought a rabbit
You ain't no friend of mine

You ain't nothing but a hound dog
Been snoopin' round my door
You ain't nothing but a hound dog
Been snoopin' round my door
You can wag your tail
But I ain't gonna feed you no more

They told me you was high class
I could see through that
They told me you was high class
I could see through that
And baby I know
You ain't no real cool cat

You ain't nothing but a hound dog
Been snoopin' round my door
You just an old hound dog
Been snoopin' round my door
You can wag your tail
But I ain't gonna feed you no more

They told me you was high class
That was just a lie
They told me you was high class
That was just a lie
You ain't never cought a rabbit
You ain't no friend of mine

You ain't nothing but a marsh frog
Croaking all the time
You ain't nothing but a marsh frog
Croaking all the time
You ain't never cought mosquito
You ain't no friend of mine

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