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Oceania

by Surveillance

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I WAS THERE I was there when it all began When roots took hold in fertile soil A rumbling tension slowly built And I never said a thing I was there when the truncheons swung The choking burn of pepper spray The television said I’m safe So I never did a thing (CH) I was there when the bullets flew Golden wasps that seared the air Bodies fell in graceless arcs And I turned my gaze away I was there when cells slammed shut Gathered up and caged like beasts But freedom isn’t lucrative There’s money to be made (CH) I was there when the fuse was lit A thunderclap of Heaven’s wrath A million voices crying out But I never heard a thing. I was there for the awful end The bodies strewn in ashen piles They told us this would keep us safe And we never learned a thing.
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Thoughtcrime 05:01
THOUGHTCRIME Disobedience The architect A coup d’etat Of intellect Violence Implied or real Annihilate The new ideals (CH) (Thought Crime) Submission is the only solution (Thought crime) Preemptive means to avoid revolution (Thought crime) Crushing you in a wave of suppression (Thought crime) Distorting truth in the name of deception Friend or foe The eyes betray The hostility That they display Inner thoughts An open book We picked the lock And had a look (CH) A crime of thought Through and through A punishment For what you might do Corrective means To steer you straight An enemy Of a virtual state (CH)
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Voyeur 03:58
VOYEUR Voyeur, I feel you watching Collecting data With lifeless eyes Voyeur, I hear you breathing I know you’re listening A silent spy Reach out your teleprescence Like bony fingers Around a neck Choking upon your concern Another number You can’t protect CH I can feel you all around me though you’re far away I was just another entry in your dossier Voyeur, I hear your heartbeat A steady pulsing Accelerates Voyeur, your senses flooded A sound and vision They can’t relate Volumes of information A vast collection Digital lives Recorded and collected For the raw thrill That you derive CH I can feel you all around me though you’re far away I was just another entry in your dossier Voyeur, there’s no fulfillment Your dark addiction Can bring to you Empty, a broken vessel A fruitless endgame You must pursue Dependence, a sick fixation That brought you crashing Forever down A victim to your obsession A gasping swimmer About to drown CH I can feel you all around me though you’re far away I was just another entry in your dossier
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Rise 05:33
RISE UP [Stand up] A sleeping giant stirring Provoked to wake The winter sky is burning Pupils dilate [Stand up] We are forgotten children Orphans of dreams Enslaved by gilded lies And torn between extremes Pulses pound like drums What have we become? Blood spills from our veins Cast off these binding chains CH And if we fail, at least we tried We can still hold our heads high We are the strong, we are the just Here’s hoping Time remembers us [Rise up] Fury like raging waters The fuse alight Discord and gasoline Illuminate the night [Rise up] Beyond the point of breaking The fear dissolves A situation Only violence can resolve Pulses pound like drums What have we become? Blood spills from our veins Cast off these binding chains CH And if we fail, at least we tried We can still hold our heads high We are the strong, we are the just Here’s hoping Time remembers us [Stand down] A mighty giant’s fallen Closing its eyes Sewing the seeds For revolution to arise [Stand down] We may concede the battle But not the war We still remember what it is We’re fighting for Pulses pound like drums What have we become? Blood spills from our veins Cast off these binding chains (CH)
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HUSK Each day like the one before it A dreary life in monotone Just a faceless drone We walk these halls in silence Keep our heads down, and tow the line We bide our time. CH But as I walk, you pass me by And for a moment, we lock eyes A look of love, a look of trust Reminds me I’m not some mere husk Our daydreams long forgotten Our hopes and dreams left to decay In disarray Still there remains a glimmer A hint of flame behind your eyes And all that it implies (CH) They tried their best to break us And they succeeded to a degree Indentured devotees These precious, fleeting moments Sustain us through the meaningless Like Mercy’s sweet caress (CH)
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Panic 04:00
PANIC A daily inundation of anger and of hate Rampant disconnection birthed from bloody soil A language of division permeates the air Outrage manufactured, tearing at the seams CH Panic in the empire Panic in the streets Panic where the fear and oblivion meets Violence of suspicion Violence of the mind Violence of advantage guided by the blind Sounding the alarm, fanning all the flames A creed of paranoia, philosophy of spite Ratchet up the tension, tighten all the screws Let them hang themselves from gallows of their own CH Panic in the empire Panic in the streets Panic where the fear and oblivion meets Violence of suspicion Violence of the mind Violence of advantage guided by the blind Hysteria prevails where reason dare not tread Crushed beneath the pressure, shattered into sand Among the smoking wreckage, the ruins of an age Remnants of a riot no one can recall CH Panic in the empire Panic in the streets Panic where the fear and oblivion meets Violence of suspicion Violence of the mind Violence of advantage guided by the blind
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Eye to Eye 05:45
EYE TO EYE A life examined can be unkind The light of conscience far too harsh When truth stares back in the reflection We wish again to have the dark CH Face to face and eye to eye We kill the truth and live the lie Reality, a spiteful beast Integrity long since deceased A catalog of Man’s misdeeds A map of every cruelty Obscured by time’s soft, gauzy curtains An exercise in futility CH Face to face and eye to eye We kill the truth and live the lie Reality, a spiteful beast Integrity long since deceased The looking glass reveals our flaws Unflinchingly and without doubt Eviscerate the rhapsody To let the facts coming spilling out CH Face to face and eye to eye We kill the truth and live the lie Reality, a spiteful beast Integrity long since deceased
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Belief 04:20
BELIEF Your belief is a commodity A product to be bought and sold Your faith, a liability To make you easier to control Your convictions manipulated Your intuitions are not your own You’re just a number inside a boardroom A statistic, a faceless clone CH We let you think you’re in control We own you right down to your soul Your opinions are ours to shape Like a sculptor molding clay Your Information is ours to take Your confidence, ours to betray Your consent, utterly meaningless A concept from distant days Your privacy, completely trivial A fairy tale whose value has decayed CH We let you think you’re in control We own you right down to your soul Your belief is nothing purposeful Your very essence is pre-ordained Your behavior, fully predictable An algorithm, a link in the chain Your fear is like our gasoline Your information, our nourishment Uncontained and uncontrollable An assassin of your dissent CH We let you think you’re in control We own you right down to your soul
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Corridor 05:45
CORRIDOR A geometric precision Elegant lines converge to one Tracing the bounds of your confinement Living like prey and on the run A prison built of perfection Aesthetic servitude dictates Step into line or face the fallout Do as you’re told without debate CH Corridor Corridor With every facet in proportion With every surface polished white With every part moving in tandem Machines that work into the night Integrate to your surroundings Don’t draw attention or make a sound The ticking clock like a reminder of The narrow path to which you’re bound CH Corridor Corridor A sterile future predetermined Homogenous and uniform You’re only here to serve your function A set of duties to perform Identical in every facet A photocopied attribute Just an acceptable composite Of traits that someone else will choose. CH Corridor Corridor
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"Oceania" is the first release from the Assemblage 23 side-project Surveillance.

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released February 17, 2014

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Surveillance is the more EBM-centric side project of Assemblage 23's Tom Shear.

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