EXILE, by Demon Hunter (2024)

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Rival heartedSpirit guardedSocial tensionThe fury of dissension is myDefense mechanismFace to faceMy premonition is indifferentto the dirt in my eyesFound my place nowExiledFree of all the fleeting tiesSuffer through the silenceI overpower violenceTo channel disassociated wrathFade to thriveI’m growing tired of beingfed a steady ration of liesBuilt your wastelandNow runCower as the oceans riseSuffer through the silenceI overpower violenceTo channel disassociated wrathBorn in their divideAscend upon the tideSworn to a higher pathUnder the weight of our distanceI will define my truest aimRival heartedSpirit riseSocial tensionThe fury of dissension is myDefense mechanismDefense mechanism

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Why don’t you bleed like the rest of us?Drink from the well of the deadFollow the right or the left of usDon’t you get into your headYou need a lesson in loyaltyNo need to suffer aloneYou violate your humanityWhen you recoil away from the toneWhere is your shallow fidelity?Give us your vow to a throneYou formulate your apologyWe lie in wait to devour the bonesIf all you want is just a masterWe could be everything you needIf flesh and bone is what you’re afterThen let the foolish take the leadI paint a sacred blood around the doorBut all the vultures wanna feed on itThey tell me God is not enough for warTake a lesser man and bleed for himYou be the blind and devoted oneWe’ll be the vultures in waitCarry the sway of a loaded gunIsn’t it better with someone to hate?You will believe in the miseryYou will be fed to the dogsYou will become what you ought to beOnly way through is to follow the fogBleed for him

3.

I followed you down the abyssI never thought we could be so misguidedThere’s nothing so hollow as thisThere’s nothing so bitter as our divided soulsSounding your desperate toneAll of your meaningless criesHow will I sleep until all this dies?All of this diesYou rise and you follow the soundYou wonder how all of your dreams come falling downHow do I silence the world?How do I live through the noise?Pull me from out of the tideHow do I silence the world?Silence the worldWe gave you this voiceA freedom you don’t deserveResounding with all of the noiseDying to strike a nerveTomorrow is wantlessAnd now we’re all heartless

4.

We fell into the abyssEyes open wideTo chase a trivial fixAll the way to HellNow we awaken to thisHearts broken dieHow do we lay it to rest?Time will only tellI feel your burnLighting us to homeCalling to return Before we goHeaven don’t you cryWe will find the rest in timeAnother soul to the sandGod help us tryTo see the sorrow at handDesperation killsBefore we falter againWake to this nightHow do we make our amendsSacrifice our willHeaven don’t you cryWe will find the rest in timeHope will draw the lineTo a place beyond resign

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I’ve gone to where the worlds alignTo find they still resent the other kindI know my days are gone foreverAs divides are growing further and furtherBut I...I feel the light of another placeCasting outCalling me homeBehold the faithful other sideThey kill their own to help them feel aliveIf we’re not allowed to beBreathe outside the linesWe will find our placeJust beyond their eyesSomewhere of our ownSomewhere through the blackSet the old ablazeNever turning back

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From the other side We heard the sound of your decree Demanding we fall in line Now we will decide Are we content in this submission To be silent or die We never knew we had a battle to lose Now we're all caught in the blackout I feel the culling of a power to choose When every sign in my way says freedom is dead Whatever happened to indifference? Whatever happened to divided views? It reads a lot like intolerance When every word that you write says freedom is dead I surrender my mind To the greatest of easeNo thought, no crime No debt to please Freedom is... I had a dream we had a reason to fight We knew the soul and the context We never wanted to ascend the divide Then I awoke to a voice saying freedom is dead Dead

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And here I thought we all agreedTake this hand of hopeand leave the world to bleedFor a place too bright to seeCan we still behold?Forest for the treesBut here in the dark I feel nothing, I see no oneNo solace at allWe once heard the lasting callBut now we...Praise the voidFor this love, wasted lovePraise the voidWe found nothing is enoughYou tell me hope’s too bright to beTomorrow’s just a fabrication of our dreamsHere in the darkI feel nothing, I see no oneIs it the end you want to see?Here in the darkWe feel nothing, we see no oneIs it peace for only me?

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Time will save us allWatch as days resolveWe fought like never beforePulled our dreams ashoreAshoreIt’s cyclicalAnd ever-turning to beginAround againWe burn a thousand endsNegate your soulSurrender hope into the trendOf falling inAnd wage a war into the windIt’s just another revolutionIt’s just another ring around the sunTo chase a resolutionTo end where we’ve begunSpiral down the drainWake to be the sameWe’re lost inside of the endStill we all pretendPretend

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Are you descending in the chemicals?Time growing between usFalling behindWait for the door to openLies, ever the martyrLook in my eyesTell me it’s all for nothingFallout tore us apartLeft you alone to bleedSo long, still no resolveYou never saw the needAre you descending in the chemicals?It breaks my heart and soulJust a shell of who you were beforeYou could feel itWaiting to dissolveWhy do we suffer?Are we alive, here just to hurt?Inside pain is the authorSomething to hideNothing to gainI was distant, you resisted hopeAnd now Hell is at your doorAre you descending in the chemicals?Waiting to dissolveRise up from the ashesRun for your lifeRun to the light

10.

I see you running in circles againI know you’re trying to find a way outYou wanna go it alone in the endYou wanna follow the great dissentWe’re only devices and chemicalsDon’t lay your insides on a pedestalGodless is just the fate that you wantedI guess you like to bleed aloneRegress among the frail and hauntedGodless is just a hollow holeWe lead the self, submit to noneWe shut the doors and black the sunNo greater lord than I alone(We feel a pulling to walk on our own)We can’t afford to walk below(Under the weight of a dead man’s bones)We’re only enough until the bell it tollsThere’s always a line for the bitter soulsWe don’t have to fight to retain ourselvesWe follow the light to deny this Hell

11.

I can feel the fireraining down its weight upon my daysI feel its solace washing over me in wavesThis is a fightA wake to idle sightI found my way inside its ever-guiding lightSome will sayCompletion lives inside of meI avowI gave with all my heart is allowedDevotion frees the fewDevotion draws away the dead of nightDevotion waits for youHeals a hollow mindHail, hail, hailHail DevotionI will rise before my shadow here is cast upon its graveI will inherit every scar before I caveThis is my causeA plea to end the darkTo be a witness to redemption till we partNow I know my wayDon’t look backI will obeyGive me breathGive me a nameLet me leadThy will be doneHere on earthUntil it’s wonIn your just name

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I was born into the lightUnder wide and open skiesSomewhere far away from fateI found a call to make me wholeSet a fire into my soulAnd made my home beneath the weightBut I’m intent to go astrayThrough the night, into the veinPast the fight, above the frayWhere I forget my very nameI tried to find the will to stayFind a place beyond the painLive to see another dayBut I died along the wayI was tried along the wayFound a light to cut the graybut I lost you anywayThen I died along the wayI don’t know how to face the endIf I don’t hold you close againBut I would die to see it throughI know this light won’t last for longBut I will burn it through a songAnd leave it waiting here for youI can’t decide the dayI only know decayI died along the wayI lost you anyway

released October 28, 2022

Produced, Engineered & Mixed by Jeremiah Scott.
Mastered by Zeuss.

Recorded at The Southern Oracle in Tennessee.
Screaming vocals recorded at The Property in Washington.

Management (World): Ryan J. Downey for Superhero Artist Management
Booking (North America): Matt Andersen / Sound Talent Group
Booking (Europe/UK): Marco Walzel / Avocado Booking
Legal: Bryan K. Christner, Esq.

Cover Artwork: Dan Seagrave

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© 2022 Demon Hunter, under exclusive license to Weapons MFG.