ALLEGIANCE - 1992
"Studio Live" (Demo)
Track List:
1. Restrained
2. Downward Spiral
3. Dealt The Cruel Hand
4. Empty Shell
5. Into Oblivion
1. RESTRAINED
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Despondent in my way but what can I do?
A reason to be concerned when my rights are abused
Penchant for disorder, disorder for a cause
Helping hands make light work to smash down these walls,
To be taken advantage of
An opportunity for self gain
Fueled by selfish desire
To put right my ways
Pain fills my heart
Anger fuels my pain
A meaning for my reason
In a world that's so insane
Breathing down your neck time presses on
Can't change yesterday, It's already gone
I won't despair, I can't pretend
Take the bull by the horns and fight till the end
Enraged with good reason - is your cause for alarm
No subtlety in my reaction or my indignant charm
Fight for relief, choice of belief
What is to be taken away is the beginning of the end
To be taken advantage of
An opportunity for self gain
Fueled by selfish desire
To put right my ways
Pain fills my heart
Anger fuels my pain
A meaning for my reason
In a world that's so insane
Enraged with good reason - is your cause for alarm
No subtlety in my reaction or my indignant charm
Fight for relief, choice of belief
What is to be taken away is the beginning of the end
2. DOWNWARD SPIRAL
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Ambitious future
Lead to ruin
Inflicted suffering
To ease another
Force of habit - change your will
Fatal fascination - deadly addiction
Downward spiral - into the depths of despair
What is this life without any care?
Suffering hour
A craving desire
Endless path
Corrupting the weak
Force of habit - change your will
Fatal fascination - deadly addiction
Downward spiral - into the depths of despair
What is this life without any care?
Vice like grip
Cannot be freed
Rapid descent
Crush a future to be
Inward to need, forever a slave
Inward to greed, needle to the gave
How does it feel, to have no control
And live in a world that's not your own
Misguided child
What is your future?
Plunged into despair
Life of no care
Force of habit - change your will
Fatal fascination - deadly addiction
Downward spiral - into the depths of despair
What is this life without any care?
3. DEALT THE CRUEL HAND
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Real life testing of an unborn child
Except the side effects are anything but mild
The effects of a drug are not known until now
Except the human guinea pigs, will suffer anyhow
Dealt the cruel hand - born without a chance
Dealt the cruel hand - victim of circumstance
Dealt the cruel hand - one life to be
Dealt the cruel hand - you'll be left in misery
One hand ties, one eye blind
One step behind, a cover up disguise
One life to be, one's life deceived
Ones pain to me has been lost in pity
Dealt the cruel hand - born without a chance
Dealt the cruel hand - victim of circumstance
Dealt the cruel hand - one life can be
Dealt the cruel hand - you'll be left in misery
False start to a life, that's taken a wrong course
Unknowingly inflict the pain and left to take the blame
The damaged has been done, a record of effect
Experiment or our own, compassion to the test
Dealt the cruel hand - born without a chance
Dealt the cruel hand - victim of circumstance
Dealt the cruel hand - one life deceived
Dealt the cruel hand - you'll be left in misery
4. EMPTY SHELL
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Can pride be the essence of what drives a man?
Motivational force a will to succeed
World be captured an untamed need
What strange secrets do you hide?
Expressionless stare
Expressionless pride
What you can be, what we know now
Is just an empty shell - a life of hell
Sense of dignity
Sense of well being
One's inner strength
Split at the seams
What weight to be shared?
Is a weight to be bared?
To carry a load that can cursh our own
Sense of preservation
What strange secrets do you hide?
Expressionless stare
Expressionless pride
What you can be, what we know now
Is just an empty shell - a life of hell
What strange secrets do you hide?
Expressionless stare
Expressionless pride
What you can be, what we know now
Is just an empty shell - a life of hell
Sense of dignity
Sense of well being
One's inner strength
Split at the seams
Crushed by the force
Overloaded by thought
To distruction as one
Self destruction begun
5. INTO OBLIVION
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What wonders to unfold
We wonder what may be
Infinitely out of bounds
In a red tape lead lined society
Deciet
Concede
Confused
Abused
Not to think, not to hear
Descending destiny
Into oblivion
Not to see
Not to know
Blindfolded we are led,
Into oblivion
Pyramids natures beast
Whence does our knowledge come forth?
Wisdom absorbed but not withheld
We become our own worst enemy
Not to think, not to hear
Descending destiny
Into oblivion
Not to see
Not to know
Blindfolded we are led,
Into oblivion
Evidence to be tried
But it is not to be told
What secrets ar obscured,
From view, ever confused
Not to think, not to hear
Descending destiny
Into oblivion
Not to see
Not to know
Blindfolded we are led,
Into oblivion
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