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Self​-​Inflicted​/​Purgation From Within

from Seeming Salvation by Epitaph

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SELF-INFLICTED

Rage of the unborn
Glowing in the morn
Devourment is complete
Suffering the last defeat
Hatred now evoked
By blood just soaked
Generations' work in vain
Ruined by the masters' gain

Tormented souls in a black abyss
Facing the naked truth
Regarding the honesty that forever will miss
It's raping the years of youth
Fragments of a world in excess used
Darkness surrounding us all
Gaze at the doom of life that we choose
We laugh as we fall

Epitaph engraved
In the bare flesh
Sickness is saved
For the posterity

Material vanity
Above other values
Forsaken humanity
With ruptured sinews

I see you crawl in dirt
On your once beloved earth
My fascination of your work
Is honest and deriding
I'm watching you bleed
For your lust and your greed
i behold your desperation
Self-inflicted devastation

Tormented souls in a black abyss
Facing the naked truth
Regarding the honesty that forever will miss
It's raping the years of youth
Fragments of a world in excess used
Darkness surrounding us all
Gaze at the doom of life that we choose
We laugh as we fall

Who are you to seal our fate
And undo the years to come
Nothing remains but a glowing hate
On the planet that once was our home

Who are you to shatter the hope
For our coming generations
What we see is the end of the rope
As we start the search for salvation

Worship is a lie
To win you must defy
Your spine is stained with evil
The goodness of your heart is feeble

When death comes from behind
Hysteria takes your mind
I behold your desperation
Self-inflicted devastation


PURGATION FROM WITHIN

Fading through the dark skies
Depression overloads me
Listening to the pure lies
Desultory facing thee

The mind that yields in agony
Will entomb its fear inside
A passage for the lonely
Abomination burning wide
Embraced by cold despair
The scorn that will destinate
Forsaken by thy care
Is forever to be my fate

Shattered by a scream
Defeated in my dream
Failed by severance
Distinctive ignorance
A task that is complete
Infected by deceit
Diminished all my spite
And so my will to fight

Obsessed by conceptions of pain
Our nexus has been my fall
The feeling has been slain
I hear thy mighty call
Obscenity wants to grip my throat
And chain me with demise
I know i will take my oath
I'm burning for this price

Enchanted deathly way
Rise up and you will pay
Mistrust is my resource
Reflected by its course
Departing from the truth
I never will get loose
Prowling in the night
Obscurity is in my sight

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from Seeming Salvation, released November 11, 1992
Music: Manne Svensson
Lyrics: Niklas Hagen/Manne Svensson

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Epitaph Stockholm, Sweden

EPITAPH is an Old School Swedish Death Metal band formed in 1990

Emerged on the Stockholm death scene after changing name from Dark Abbey in December 1990. Did a bunch of shows in Sweden 1991–1992 (with Therion, Excruciate, Dismember, Grave, Desultory, Edge of Sanity, Lobotomy, Internal Decay etc.) Released the debut Seeming Salvation on Thrash Rec. 1992. Disbanded the same year. Reunited 2015. ... more

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