Otep Album

O'great fanged mother
i call upon thee

arise .. with vengeance
& a voice of blasphemy

[bring out your dead]
touch, taste, feel ...
NO, DON'T DO IT. STOP.

[i'm sorry, no, i can't, please, can u hear me? help me.]
that's impossible. THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE. STOP LISTENING!

"as long as you're under my roof, you will respect me"
[HELP ME, STOP THEM ... BEFORE I DO]

"AS LONG AS YOU'RE UNDER MY ROOF, YOU WILL RESPECT ME!"

the only truth is suffering.
The Only Truth Is Suffering.

"& it's ok to hate yourself, just lay still, don't cry for help"

.... every time he comes, you disappear.
NO. NO. NO.
RUN. ANYWHERE YOU CAN.
IT'S COMING. The Suffering Is HERE.

"I'M SICK BUT I NEED MY DISEASE"
[no one is safe, no where is safe]

"I'M SORRY. It was a mistake. Someone let me out of here."
Please, let me out of here. GO AWAY, GO AWAY, GO AWAY.

[ghost child sings]

[intro]

why??!
the king of lies is alive,
look around, look inside ... infidel.

infidel!!!

[verse]
it begins here
it ends now
the prince must pay
his head or the crown

rob the poor
slaughter the weak
distort the law
perfect deceit

[chorus]
do i need a gas mask?
[should i get inoculated?]
will this war last?
[will we be incinerated?]

false gods, death squads
.....blind!

[verse]

this is a catastrophe!
- weapon systems activated
puritans have invaded

this is a catastrophe!
to protect against the threat ....

order must be kept.
order must be kept.
order must be kept.

[chorus]

do i need a gas mask?
[should i get inoculated?]
will this war last?
[will we be incinerated?]

false gods, death squads
.....blind!

[bridge]

the elephants march to war!

concede!
conform!!

concede!
conform!!

deny the big lie!
my tribe!

...join me...

an alliance of defiance
in the warhead

all are welcome here!

give me your tired,
give me your sick,
give me indulgence & decadence.

give me your tired,
give me your sick,
give me indulgence & decadence.

he lied! they died!
keep the peasants terrified!

he lied! they died!
keep the peasants terrified!

this is a catastrophe!
you must lead if they get me!!

on my command!

break freeeeeee.
break freeeeeee.
break freeeeeee.

I speak in verses prophecies and curses
I speak in verses prophecies and curses

I hate my life

The miracle is coming it’s just a hole
Nothing’s wrong with you, just maintain control
Everyone’s asking questions, your place is safe
I’ll forfeit resurrection to escape the pain

I hate my life
I hate my life
I HATE MY LIFE
(I hate my life)
I HATE MY LIFE
(I hate my life)
I HATE MY LIFE
(I hate my life)

I speak in verses prophecies and curses
The storm of thorns is growing
There is no end in sight
Chaos claws my jaw
Thank Metal riot
I’m in the mouth of madness with this tongue of poetry
I ate the spine of atlas, now the world is crushing me

I hate my life
I hate my life
I HATE MY LIFE
(I hate my life)
I HATE MY LIFE
(I hate my life)
I HATE MY LIFE
(I hate my life)

Buried behind enemy lines
Surrogate child for the sins of all mankind
Buried alive behind enemy lines (Buried Alive Buried Alive)
Buried alive behind enemy lines (Buried Alive Buried Alive)
Buried alive behind enemy lines (Buried Alive Buried Alive)

SHA NAGBA IMURRU!!
ALL NAMES, ALL FORMS!

obsessed about
money & power

obsessed about
sexual encounters

obsessed about
passion & pain

possessed like martyr
getting high off the flames

I HAVE A BULIMIC MIND!
I HAVE A SOUL THAT'S ONE OF A KIND!

I HAVE A BULIMIC MIND!
LOOK AT ME ENEMY OPEN YOUR EYES!

accept your fate
for the hate you create

i'm sick of pretending
that you're world is not ending!

[i've seen the mysteries]
ALL NAMES, ALL FORMS!

SHA NAGBA IMURRU!

I SAW THE MYSTERY!
I KNOW THE SECRET!

obsessed about
dominion & death

obsessed about
infecting the nest

obsessed about
seeking revenge

for being trapped
in this body of wounds & regret

I KNOW THE MYSTERY
I KNOW THE SECRET

I SAW THE MYSTERY
I KNOW THE SECRET

OPEN YOUR EYES
OPEN YOUR EYES
OPEN YOUR EYES
OPEN YOUR EYES!

said the serpent to the snake ...

YOU WERE SHIT WHEN I FOUND YOU!
PINPRICKS & EMPTINESS! DECEIVER!!!

YOU DOUBT ME? EAT MY WRATH!

I WILL PULL DOWN THE GATES OF ABADDON!
I WILL LET THE DEAD ROAM FREE! THEY WILL EAT THE LIVING!

AGONY! AGONY!!

OBSESSED
OPPRESSED
OBSESSED
OPPRESSED
SESPIS.

sepsisepsisepsisepsisepsissssepsissepsisepsisepsisepsisepsissssepsissepsisepsisepsisepsisepsissss

[Intro]

oh no. no. let me go.
[hah hehe]
no. god no!

shut up!

[song]

shhhhhh. it's okay, it's okay.
this is our, dirty, little, secret.

we're all alone in the city
my hands are stoned with pity
i could get by or get high with fifty [yeah]
and i don't feel pretty ... today.

and there's a lady in a stable
her daddy reads her fables
about the moon & his bride
he's in her room every night
& feeds upon a table

of silken robes
an altar of stone
but the child is unable
to run, run, run
& flee his tower of babel

so blood, blood, blood
slithers down her ankles ...

we're all alone in the city
my hands are stoned with pity
i could get by or get high with fifty [yeah]
and i don't feel pretty ... today.

come one
come all
witness the fall!

cry to the sky!
today we break away!

uprising!
uprising!

uprising!
in the house of secrets!

what happens here, stays here
say nothing, disappear!

uprising!
uprising!

locked away
in the chamber of the hysterics
here, in the house ... of secrets.

we're all alone
& i will tell you of loneliness.

you fucking parasite!!
i'll beat you til you die!!!

it hides inside me,
it hides inside me!

sic semper tyrannus!

everyday you decay
in chains, dismayed
broken soul, splintered bones
ghost-children

in their graves, sold as slaves
unstable, greedy flames

life is a sacrifice
a 7 inch slice
the still-born waste
of a suicide christ

i'm learning to like the pain ....

i hope you die
we, broken people

i hope you die
we, broken people

it hides inside me,
it hides inside me!

everything is dead
every day is black

word becomes flesh
bloodied, burned, & scratched

everything is dead
every day is black

the face i wore was yours
as i launched this self-attack

hypocrite!
heretic!
blasphemer!

[bridge]

in pain.
insane.

a bullet in the head
a knife wound in the .....
i cried, as my innocence died.

i cried,
as my innocence died.

death will have mercy,
i won't.

here in the serial-killer holy land.
[i will sit, i will wait, i will make no mistake,
i will sit, i will wait, for as long as it takes]

it's not over,
we've only just begun.

like a fetus on the floor,
like an addict wanting more,
like a sex slave ... crying & sore ...

i want to smell the violence,
i need to see you bleed,
take me inside your soul & make it weep for me,
.... i need to believe.

[outro]

i will sit!
i will wait!
i will make!
no mistake!

i will sit!
i will wait!
i will make!
no mistake!

from slave to master!
i've become the hyrda!
more heads & venom!

it hides!
inside!!
me!!!

hooks & splinters!
hooks & splinters!

I once dreamed of a world
Without consequences
Without reminders
Of this brutal gutter I am collapsed in
Once I dreamed
But then

I
Woke

Open wide look inside
Open wide look inside
Your mind ought to see

I feel like a woman
I feel like I care
I feel like I shouldn't
I feel like a child of despair
I feel like it's over
I feel like it's coming after me
I feel like it's closer
I feel like this is all I'll ever be
I feel like a failure
I feel like a hungry parasite
I feel like a razor
I feel like a prayer lost in flight
I feel like I'm hopeless

I'm afraid I'm a slave I'm weak and average
I'm afraid I'm a slave I'm weak and average

I feel like a hammer
I feel like a nail
I feel like I'm guilty
I feel like the wrist that is impaled
I feel like a butcher
I feel like I'm bein' deceived
I feel like a beautiful loser
I feel like all you sheep are laughing at ME!!

OPEN WIDE LOOK INSIDE
YOUR MIND OUGHT TO SEE
(look inside look inside)
YOUR MIND OUGHT TO SEE!!

I feel like a complete waste of time
I feel like I'm transparent

Spent my whole life in love with despair
Kept my lungs full with the breath of their air
Mute, atmosphere, I became what I hate,
And thus shall I remain,
To give birth to a mighty assassin armed with a weapon of words,
To defy the lies, to never compromise, No
Today my name is pain

I stood, beyond the world
Whispering secret syllables in the eyeless dark
Dancing wildly round and round on the rotting ground
Surrounded by the dead dusts of hell
This is how I delete myself and this is how I corrupt everyone else
Obey obey, betray betray
You are not unique you do not need to think

Take it, take it, I will I will I will

You succumb so nicely
Like an insect starring back, like a dying dove
My love, my love

So here we are again
Sheets are stained and bloodied
Animals scratch at my skin
Here we are again,
Faces scrapped and bloodied
Nothing left to give

I wasn't there I'm not involved, I'm innocent. It's not my fault
I wasn't there I'm not involved, I'm innocent. It's not my fault
I wasn't there I'm not involved, I'm innocent. It's not my fault

Here in The suicide trees
Here in The suicide trees

Bloody bloody bloody bloody MURDER!

So here we are again, in secret ceremonies
Changing shaping men
Here we are again
Pretending not to notice
The end is sneaking in

I wasn't there I'm not involved, I'm innocent. It's not my fault
I wasn't there I'm not involved, I'm innocent. It's not my fault
I wasn't there I'm not involved, I'm innocent. It's not my fault

Here in The suicide trees
Here in The suicide trees

Enjoy the flavour, Hate's your neighbour, faith in favour, obey
Enjoy the flavour, Hate's your neighbour, faith in favour, obey

OBEY
OBEY HERE IN THE SUICIDE TREES
OBEY HERE IN THE SUICIDE TREES
OBEY HERE IN THE SUICIDE TRESS
OBEY HERE IN THE SUICIDE TREES
OBEY

HATE'S YOUR NEIGHBOUR
HATE'S YOUR NEIGHBOUR

The animals scratch at my skin
It's not happening
It's not happening
It's not happening

My pain, my pride
these scars are mine

my pain, my pride
these scars are mine

i will tell you a story,
that's never been told

i will tell you a secret,
5 lifetimes old ...

my life has been a prison,
a labyrinth built beneath the mountain of tragedy.

i'm a stain on the cloth.
i'm just an after-thought.

but i
would die
for this ....

but through the veins of decay
i'll remain to betray

to live like caesar.
to die like jesus.

to build my own religion,
no gods, no laws

to celebrate pain
forsaken & ashamed

to watch them all,
crawl beneath us ...

on this bed of nails & regret
dying of fevers, betrayal, & sweat

i cry ...

[chorus]

my organs are rotting,
my enemies are plotting ...

i am made of pages
paragraphs & inspirations
paper girl, burn the world,
i pass the flame to you!!

murder
mayhem
hurt her
hate him

murder
mayhem
hurt her
hate him

murder mayhem
hurt her hate him

murder
mayhem
fuck her
slay them!!

[verse]

my pain, my pride
these scars are mine

my pain .....

my misery has been formulated
into an equation of nein

my sanity wrote
a suicide note
but one of us is illiterate
and the other ... is blind

my 1st act of treason
was picking up a pen

my 1st act of love
was finding myself again

the hardest thing to do
was standing up to you

now i'm off my knees
now you're begging me "please"

i'm the wound & the weapon
the fracture & the fist

[chorus]

my organs are rotting,
my enemies are plotting ...

i am made of pages
paragraphs & inspirations
paper girl, burn the world,
i pass the flame to you!!

murder
mayhem
hurt her
hate him

murder
mayhem
hurt her
hate him

murder mayhem
hurt her hate him

murder
mayhem
fuck her
slay them!!

[outro]

that stabbing in your heart,
that black hole in your soul,
slowly ripping you apart .... that's me!!!

that's me!!!

so let it be written,
so let it be done!

the brighter they shine,
the darker we become!!

vae victus!

[Intro]

..no..

find the defect
the reason,
the source of all this misery
-- and extract it ... forever.

what heals me - kills me!

[verse]

i'm a natural assassin
a massacre in action

i've never known remorse
or felt any compassion

this is my drug of choice
the reason demons rejoice

my rage remains
a beast untamed

... i bet you'll remember me now.
glutton!

i am heartbreak & depression
regret without redemption

a wounded animal
afraid of my reflection

i am an epidemic
this is a crime of passion

the willing weak deserve defeat
the penance will be savage!

... i bet you'll remember me now.
... i bet you'll remember me now.

[bridge]

bi-polar
self-abortion
mind fuck
can't escape
these chains
of shame
i'm stuck!!

swollen in the mud
barely standing still
hungry for the hunt
& the thrill of the kill!!

c o m e o n ! !

i've always been a shadow
content with my disease
- you'll never see it coming
cuz you never notice me
... unload!!

words are the remedy
words are the remedy

what heals me, kills me.
what heals me, kills me.

heal me, kill me
heal me, kill me

the plague rages on.

[outro]

i've built myself out of ash & agony, i am ready ....
i ... am ... i

i am my
own creation

i am
self-made

i am my
own creation

i am
self-made

destroyers!
i am i!

a bone heals,
a bruise fades,

And this is how the world died
and this is how the world died

...i can hear you judging me.

[i'll hear your confession]
i found the best piece of me

[kneel down]
alone, shivering in the dark

[place your face between my thighs]
3 centimeters tall

[& talk to god...]
eating it's heart
.. but you will not feast on me today.

this is how the world died.

who will slay this thing?
[i forgive you]

who will play the butcher & end my suffering?
[i forgive you]

... i fucked the minds of the masses with the fingers of liberty.
this is not a threat. [this is not a threat]

i'm not perfect, i'm not a beauty queen, i'm just me.
[no one escapes this life alive]

we are all,
prisoners here.

[all shapes & sizes]

... i scream for all the women i've never been but i hoped i would
be.
[i'm proud of who i am]

forever, chasing the sun.
[i'm proud of me]

... she bites her trembling mind.

it began as all tragedies do,
[forgive me, she's the one, forgive me]

with pain & deception.

... if you'll be the paper, i'll be the pen.
and this is it .. [i've tasted hell, & it tastes just like you]
my final plea.

no one is coming to save me.
no one is going to change things.

the answers will not drop from the sky.
i will not oneday wake with a different disguise.

the only solution ... is revolution.

[art is war ... fight, fight]
[[pain makes me safe]]

.. the odds were always against me.
[lose weight/clearly think]

i exist.
i am broken.

i exist.
i am broken.

.. if god is my father then i am an orphan.
i am broken.

i'm not a mistake
[my ancestry is a ghost story]

i'm a prophecy
[my love life is a crime scene]

i'm an omen
[my self-esteem is a string of unsolved murders]

the radio is brainwashing me,
filling my head with these self-conspiracies.

.. i am an emotional nightmare ..

i can't hide the pain inside
[builder of my own mythology]