RUN LEVEL ZERO
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Arctic Noise


01. Black Cinder
02. Deny Me
03. Hitting Ground
04. Stroke
05. Incision
06. With One Voice
07. Shine
08. Hand To Mouth
09. Hey Mister
10. Lies Told
11. Plaything
11. The End of the Whorl



Arctic Noise
Black Cinder
endless winter, endless cold
reality splinters as time unfolds
a precognition in a forgotten dream
I saw the pattern dissolve and I heard myself scream
consumed by fire / consumed by hate / consumed by envy
mankind's fate

and in the sky I saw black angels / and red fire filled the sky

and when we all move towards the end
let us live a lie, let us pretend
an artificial stasis where we play our games
a sinking playground for the deaf and lame

in the gulf of deep black space
we drift through desolation
this sad cinder of a world
lies degradation
hear the beating heart of the void
turn your face to the stars
dance to sounds of eons


Deny Me
we got along / oh so fine
sweet separation / sign on the dotted line
can't get you out / from my head
so obsessed / a living dead

you are the reason / that I stay alive
still
you are the reason / that I wanna die
I still grieve / I still cry
a moment in life to resist and deny

I'm too weak / to be strong
everything I knew / turned out to be wrong
to be wrong
since I'm too weak / to be strong
everything I knew / turned out to be wrong
to be wrong

in this moment I am lost / so heartbroken
that's the cost / the cost of my deeds
pay the fees / the cost of my deeds


Hitting Ground
normality / so near
a thin wall between me and my fear
regression / I'm spiraling down
aggression / I'm hitting ground

I fight because I've seen / what it all does to me
but when my soul wants to feed / I surrender to it's greed

I feel the changes inside me / inhaling lies to feel free
waiting at the corner for black meat / an awkward stranger in the blazing heat

I found myself out of my mind / and I left my caged life behind
now I wander aimlessly / this is not what I call to be free
lost the race / dirt in my face
blood and filth / a big disgrace
open the door / let me in
crash on your floor
I wear thin / I wear thin

						
Stroke
smash some keys randomly
normality, insanity
sum it up / humanity
empty landscapes deceive
scratch the soil and you'll see / a rotting past never meant to be

rise in a world of dust / in the wind you die
walls are crumbling / close your eyes

write a message on the wall / a memory left in stone
acidic tasting rain / wash it all away
suicidal genocide / geocide
suicide / green / flickering...
it's a green world

naked in the streets / shard of genetic debris
decaying / wash it all away
shard, genetic debris / wash it all away
naked


Incision
I feel so weak / long lasting fight
this mental disease / a parasite
can words heal my condition
suicide the wrong decision

there's something gaining strength from me
distorting my reality
there's something going on inside of me

there's a life I cannot choose / there's a place I cannot reach
close the doors, turn off the light / close your eyes and shut them tight

I feel so weak / long lasting fight
this mental disease / a parasite
close the door / turn off the light
close your eyes and shut them tight


With One Voice
we fill the world with arctic noise
a thousand men with one voice
the fading light, the steady beat
soon it's night and we'll live again
we hear the chime from a distant bell
a metallic sound, caught in its spell
all march to its call
we stand in front of it / we hail and follow it

side by side / we stand side by side
side by side / we die side by side

in this barren wasteland / a tower stands
it beacons us / guiding thus
the world revolves / around its structure
the changing pattern / a filigree of light and sound
a pulse of colour / a disc of light
filled with sorrow / mixed with delight
spiraling / listening / sensing

empty handed / so well defended
but we tore it down / we tore it down

black as night / cold as steel
merciless surface / more than real
not a single mark / not a single scratch
we raise our fists


Shine
the scorching heat / the devastation
blazing sun / annihilation
we reach out / blind with love
a man in its core / silicon based
great cities / coboloid race 
transformations / configurations

shine little star
twinkle twinkle
I know who you are

an entropy war at the end of time
a last convulsion, millennium chime
in the background we fade away
a slow waltz into radiation
time stops, inverted creations
spiralling down like burning leaves

shine little star
twinkle twinkle I know who you are
shine little star

they will do it again


Hand To Mouth
too much education / too much information
I wander aimlessly / the future hid itself
got no money / got no hope
there's no consolation / in music, sex or dope
sex and dope

I still dream / I still hope
visions of the future they give no hope
I still bleed / I still burn
visions of the future they give no hope

my fingers bleed / my eyes are sore
this wretched soul / rotten to the core
do I want it all / can I take it all
I need a break / it's too late

I rather live / from hand to mouth
than be a slave / there's no more doubt
frustration / determination
I will succeed / hunger feeds my need
choose art before greed


Hey Mister
I caught a glimpse of your skin
in the swimming pool you swam in
I caught a glimpse of your skin

hey mister, do you have a cigarette

you got to run / you got to hide
when I smile / you know you got to run

strung out / head inside out
I feel the world giving in / I felt a world within
I felt beside between outside, inside
I was inside a sin

I touch forbidden skin / I touch your forbidden skin
I feel a void within / when I touch your skin


Lies Told
I was tired of being perfect
to understand you have to scratch the surface
I know I'm not the best of men
I understand your pain and why you ran

lies told straight to my face
lies told straight to my face
lies told straight to my face
I don't believe a word what she says

I stopped using it when you came along
now I'm abusing it though I know it's wrong
turned into this clicheé, why do I have to burn
why can't I settle down, take it easy, but I never learn

I found myself on the bottom of a black pit
they say time will heal, they are full of shit
I can say that time hasn't healed a thing 'cause
if that was the case I would feel like a fucking king


Plaything
can I get even higher / can I put out the fire
can I extinguish it all / the fire in my soul
a plaything for the night / discarded, used all right
nothing more than that

a wind up toy will break / forced entry
its spring will break

you wind my key again / a notch from insane
my coiled spring inside / takes me for a ride
how long will it take / before I will break

I will break

you wind the key / you turned the knife
I'm just debris / a broken life
a sorry fuck / who took his chance
I pressed my luck
last spasmic dance
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