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Cold Blooded

by Seven Cities Dead

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1.
Courage Under Fire 04:32
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Can't believe what I've done, who have I become Naked and afraid of my irrational reasoning I need to break it all down, strip away the veneer Shall I stay in this pit of vipers or find the will to break my pride Or die inside What am I hiding, where is the source of the burning negativity I push away the ones I love without even realizing When and where am I applying the pressure Backed into a corner on my own accord Digging in my heels, ready to lash out Shoulders tense, shallow breath Feeling all my lies ready to break down Burning eye, riving lips My courage is under fire The earth tremors right beneath my feet My foundations are breaking I can't shake it, I won't fake it Adversity shows whats underneath The fire burns everything in its way Destruction has its own sense of beauty As we learn from death’s view of equality It's up to us to make it bloom into tranquility In this power struggle, find no defeat The cost of ascension finds your shoulders frail and weak The earth tremors right beneath my feet My foundations are breaking I can't shake it, I won't fake it Adversity shows what's underneath My past sins rain down on everything I hold dear Flesh dies with age, what we stand for lives in our memory For better or worse I’m here to stay There is no turning back, too far in the abyss For there is no courage, without a worthy nemesis Too far in the abyss, no courage without a nemesis The earth tremors right beneath my feet My foundations are breaking Cause I can take it, I won’t fake it Adversity won’t change me
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Mistakes of Creation 03:44
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The tide comes forth, then reverts back Oh the ebb and flow The elements are natural, and beyond compare The price you'll pay As you circle the drain There’s gotta be a better way To break the fate Of living with your mistakes Let's destroy what we create You want to know how I got these scars? Here I lay through the void The gateway awaits Now closer to the brink See the past come forth And the future regress Time frozen and fluid All observed from within and without, mistakes of creation Where’s your crown This vortex, the complex of time Seeing the imagination rage past insanity The beauty beyond compare No obvious direction, difficult for observation Just as it begins to suffocate, it relents The price you'll pay As you circle the drain There’s gotta be a better way To break the fate Of living with your mistakes Let's destroy what we create The pulsing currents ravage the skin Also everything within Feel each particle surround The space that is occupied The expanse begins to shrink Choking on your life The price you'll pay As you circle the drain There’s gotta be a better way To break the fate Of living with your mistakes Let's destroy what we create Destroy what we create Destroy what we create Destroy
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Fractured Dreams 04:25
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From what we’ve contracted Our flesh peels away Down to the bone Pulling out the marrow Crazed with desire The wicked lick their lips Salivation first in line Gluttony first to mind Now you wait for the feast to begin We have nothing to say Hearing all the misery Your dreams won’t become your reality If you don't believe Don’t let the world slip through your hands Don’t deny what’s in your veins Piece together your fractured dreams Build upon the granite Carry on you can withstand it Time will pass Your impact will last Feel it flow through you Now you wait for the feast to begin We have nothing to say Hearing all the misery Your dreams won’t become your reality If you don't believe Don’t let the world slip through your hands Don’t deny what’s in your veins Piece together your fractured dreams Build upon the granite Carry on you can withstand it Time will pass Your impact will last Feel it flow through you Apostles teach, deceivers leech Gather your might and rise from beneath Inform the masses, return the fractured Resist the gravity of infliction Your dreams won’t become your reality If you don't believe Don’t let the world slip through your hands Don’t deny what’s in your veins Piece together your fractured dreams Can’t comprehend the agony I must not hide Walk through the fire Live life ablaze Liberation is guaranteed You’ll stay a clone if you don't exile the pathogen Just let it go Time, oh time The absent of mind All the razor questions With empty vacant answers Are you planning my end Do you want me to die, you justify Fighting fire with fire Execute what remains Your dreams won’t become your reality If you don't believe Don’t let the world slip through your hands Don’t deny what’s in your veins Piece together your fractured dreams Don't bow down
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Hope 04:35
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Rake the earth and make it yield Sons of men to turn the fields Soaked with blood the envy red All for that which one man said Build your walls Protect what’s helpless Dig your trenches Guide all the faithless You must maintain your bridges What you say is infectious Contradict your way of life Malleable interior Inferior to believe what’s outside Another echo chamber Separate your reasoning The veil has already begun to thin In this world of sin I won’t lose hope, I won’t lose I spent days wasting Nights of discontent Every deed malnourished Don’t pull out the roots We grow from the pain It’s not what makes you fade It’s how you maintain I’m fractured and bleeding Rupturing all my skin I’m broken, need feeding Sacrifice all I’ve been Am I my brother’s keeper A servant or a creature The savior or the reaper Condemn the believer The veil has already begun to thin In this world of sin Hell has swarmed in Prepare for the deluge I won’t lose hope, I won’t lose I spent days wasting Nights of discontent Every deed malnourished Don’t pull out the roots We grow from the pain It’s not what makes you fade It’s how you maintain Skin healing from the torture Yesterday paid in full Forgery of idols, is tomorrow worth fighting for Torn apart from the friction Yesterday is wasted Today is a gift to make tomorrow worth fighting for I won't lose hope In the darkest of days I spent days wasting Nights of discontent Every deed malnourished Don’t pull out the roots We grow from the pain It’s not what makes you fade It’s how you maintain I won’t lose hope
5.
Refuse 04:08
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Burn the witch With every generation there is a moment for us to do what is right Through our thoughts of dismay Will we refuse to burn the witch? Hopefully we don’t end up in a ditch that we dug ourselves Through our thoughts of dismay Will we refuse to burn the witch? There are those Who wish to breed out humanity? There are those That control our perception of reality We feed the system to watch it shatter We use bones to build this structure Try to eat my soul inside, but I refuse to hide Open up your eyes, it’s about both sides Nothing good can come from this forced design I rake my brain with such distaste, helpless and passive We wander through the pretense Why should we sit in this filth? Won't stand for A foundation of hate Won't stand for All forged in the shadows Trained to jump before the cracking whip Chained to the cables, wishing we were dead Try to eat my soul inside, but I refuse to hide Stop all the lies, it's how we deny You’re like a cancer, replicating decay You void the answers, buried with the remains You suffocate me, as you tighten the noose You leave me no choice, to rip out the fuse Take back my life I will blame you You have come to See the mad man I will push Fear from you We’ve become the pariah Stop the addiction, this sickness, rotting out your insides Cauterize the wounds or begin the death march Left, right, left A step at a time, not much farther to climb Give up your will and swallow the pill You’re like a cancer, replicating decay You void the answers, buried with the remains You suffocate me, as you tighten the noose You leave me no choice, to rip out the fuse Take back my life
6.
To Be Alive 05:36
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How do you expect me to feel? Not understanding what is real Can’t get up from the floor Wonder why we have no control You collapse from the stress Fear is all you have left I try to take away the fucking pain This has been all in vain Our ambition has dissolved by This disease we’ve been given Devouring all our strength to fight away our dismay We can’t erase, oh not this time We can’t escape this life we’re living We can't debase, oh not this time We can't defeat if fear runs rampant How do you expect me to feel, not understanding what is real? Can’t get up from the floor You collapse from the stress; fear is all you have left I try to take away the pain I use your fear to push and pull your thoughts and actions otherwise untamed Controlling your right from wrong, little whispers magnetic face, with envy eyes We advance through, trampling over all these broken souls Easy to please those with empty minds, like wretched holes We can’t erase, oh not this time We can’t escape this life we’re living We can't debase, oh not this time We can't defeat if fear runs rampant Our future is waiting in the footsteps in which we stand Ah a bitter fate is never late, time will bend to fit your need Replacing the foundation Strung up from the rafters Back broken, cut open, and bleeding out Hello to the stigma that will beautify Fault belongs to no one The mortar is stripped away Brick by brick we crumble and betray Every solitary chance for tempered choses Throw away only the falsified The war inside The flame burns out through the night Can you manage to reignite? If your deaf or blind One lost sense does not define What it means to be alive To be alive

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released January 28, 2021

Written by Joshua Kurtz, Guy Smith III, Thomas Hogue, Joshua Swart, Lucas Peters

Produced by Andy Karpovck

Artwork by Pavel Kurbanov

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Seven Cities Dead Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Featuring dual guitar leads, heavy breakdowns, powerful vocals and empowering lyrics, Seven Cities Dead embodies the best attributes of classic and modern metalcore. Based out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, they aim to make their mark on the metal world next to some of their closest influences: In Flames, Killswitch Engage, As I Lay Dying, Slipknot, and Trivium ... more

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