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The Impurity (​.​.​.​Of Gods, Monsters, Heroes, and Villains)

by The Shape

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1.
How beautiful you look all dolled up in your dreams. It's such a shame I have to tear you apart, Piece by fucking piece, So sweetly. I'm the grand architect of your fate. Your death: Merely moments away. Blood red: I'll color our dreamscape. The time has come and I came to play. So close your eyes and fall asleep. Vengeance is mine, your soul I'll keep... The sins of your fathers allowed me to become ...more than human. You're all my children now. You're all my children now... Terrorizing, never-ending stalking of your sleep. For the life you've taken from me, your soul I will keep. Pray to your God. Beg for Mercy. You have ONE thing that I need: Killing you will fill me with the energy I need To stalk forever endlessly though boundless worlds of dreams. Horrifying, my visage: you'll find will never leave. Smashing, cutting, blades are thrusting -- as you bleed internally. My will is forever, for I've made my masters pleased. You can't wake up now... Isolation, Separation: The games we'll play... Violation, Mutilation: You won't get away... (Solo: Almeida) Sweetly, and Completely: You belong to me. And for all time, You will be my: Playtime dreamgirl, ...NIGHTMARE VICTIM! I'm the grand architect of your fate. Your death: Merely moments away. Blood red: I'll color our dreamscape. The time has come and I came to play. So close your eyes and fall asleep. Vengeance is mine, your soul I'll keep... The sins of your fathers allowed me to become ...more than human. How beautiful you look, all dolled up in my dreams. It's such a shame I have to tear you apart, Piece by fucking piece, So sweetly. Almost had you in my grasp, I should have known it wouldn't last. Immortal soul you may not be, But that's just fine for soon you'll see... Everlasting chase the key: To disarming loneliness in thee. One day your blood will flow like wine, 'Till then I'll haunt your dreams divine... YOU ARE MINE! YOU ARE MINE! YOU ARE MINE! (Solo: S. Oliver)
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See the danger in her eyes shining like bloody diamonds. Ruby red: the fever's rise, All it was was a little taste of flesh that lingered in her mind. Savory and now she's fiending. One more fix to shield the life, from those CANNIBAL EYES! Death inherits the night, It feeds, kills, and drains all the life, We're walking a razor thin line, Between survival and waiting to die. But what is she waiting for? In the dead of night: Beware those CANNIBAL EYES! Temptress hides a bitter smile behind a veil pretending. On her throne of lust and lies, she sits and plots betrayal. When her web is spun, it's done: Clean the flesh from off the bone. One more fix to end the night, For those CANNIBAL EYES! Death inherits the night, It feeds, kills, and drains all the life, We're walking a razor thin line, Between survival and waiting to die. But what is she waiting for? In the dead of night: Beware those CANNIBAL EYES! Terror invades my thoughts and dreams, I begin to lose all track of what's real to me. Is this for real? Is this a dream? I can't tell... It's just a matter of time before she spells my end! (Solo: J.K. Parsons) In the dead of night: Beware those CANNIBAL EYES! See the danger in her eyes... Ruby red: The fever's rise. Flesh now lingers in her mind. One more fix to kill the light. By those CANNIBAL EYES. Death inherits the night, It feeds, kills, and drains all the life, We're walking a razor thin line, Between survival and waiting to die. BEWARE THOSE CANNIBAL EYES!
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We're the ones with the guns. We're the meat-cleaving clowns that have so much fun. We're the pigs with the badge that proves that we are above every man. We ignite the flames of pious prejudice down on your life. We violate your civil rights and take what's yours. We eradicate the cold and poor all to hail the fight of a spineless leader. Your head's on a pike if you're anything but ivory white. A shameless reich: set for failure! We're the ones with the guns. We're the meat-cleaving clowns that have so much fun. We're the pigs with the badge that proves that we are above every man! (2x) WHAT A JOKE! A fading picture show as smoke and mirrors go. You abuse the dog and pony, but you don't forget the blow. Militarize the future and train to hate the youth. Divide and conquer culture: spread sickness at the root. You try to change a nation to fit a nightmare view, Enslave all non-believers and banish all hope and truth. (Solo: J. K. Parsons) HATE! HO-O-OPE! HATE! NO! We ignite the flames of pious prejudice down on your life. We violate your civil rights and take what's yours. We eradicate the cold and poor all to hail the fight of a spineless leader. Your head's on a pike if you're anything but ivory white. A shameless reich: set for failure! WHAT A JOKE! We're the ones with the guns. We're the meat-cleaving clowns that have so much fun. We're the pigs with the badge that proves that we are above every man! (2x) (Solo: J. K. Parsons) We all now live in a police state: Paranoid.
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The fire, I seek: Creation, and it's power replete. A titan: I was born. My reflection? Well, it looks like God to me... The power consuming. The wisdom of ages not found within pages of books or tomes but with me. I am now your God-like equal. For time is not linear... Your crippling fear reveals a twisted riddle, That I won't allow to be solved. Rise up and meet the fire face to face as you desire. But careful what you wish for, Your story won't end well... Chained here doomed to repeat every day lost in agony. Was it worth the fight? For limitless sight? Did you find your answers? Fire of the gods: In their hands creation. Fire of the gods: In our hands a weapon. Fire of the gods: In their hands creation. Fire of the gods: We are the seeds to destroy... (Solo: S. Oliver) Rise up and meet the fire face to face as you desire. But careful what you wish for, Your story won't end well... Chained here doomed to repeat every day lost in agony. Was it worth the fight? For limitless sight? Did you find your answers? The fire, I sought. The fire, hath wrought a titan, chained. A titan: with infinite knowledge. That shall never die...
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Martyrs 05:15
(Lead: B. Almeida) Staring at the world with disaffected eyes. Conscience black, devoid, In the wake of life. There is no exit here to a mind entrenched in fear. Devastate what remains of the soul. I've been sucked away in a black hole. Cold: the sweat that pours - sends shivers down my spine. I share no sympathy, so return no kind. There is no exit here to a mind entrenched in fear. Devastate what remains of the soul. I've been sucked away in a black hole. You are not a martyr, You are not a saint. You're a measly little portrait of the embodiment of waste. You are not the one. You are not the son. You serve no higher purpose than to be the happiest warm gun. We are nothing. We are no one. We are nothing. We are nothing and no one. (2x) You are not love. You are not hate. You are not above, and you decide no one's fate. You are not a martyr, You are not a saint. You're a measly little portrait of the embodiment of waste. (Solo: S. Oliver) (Solo & Harmony Solo: B. Almeida) We are nothing. We are no one. We are nothing. We are nothing and no one. You are not a martyr, You are not a saint. You're a measly little portrait of the embodiment of waste. There is no exit here to a mind entrenched in fear. Devastate what remains of the soul. I've been sucked away in a black hole. Staring at the world through disaffected eyes. I finally understand what it means to die ...Inside. (Lead: B. Almeida)
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Welcome to the Show! (4x) Bring it up to break it down in spite of your makers. Break unfamiliar ground for nothing that matters. Spreading deadly disease with the blow of a powder. No, nothing on a screen can compare to the horrors of life unbound... Welcome to the show... (4x) Welcome to... THE HORROR! Virulent are the weak peddling their wares on the streets. Through crack roads and bad intentions, bullet holes and schizoid tensions. A violent measure craves a violent reaction... When the only game you play is "Eye for an Eye" in the land of the blind man... Trying to seek out the truth in the lie is just about as useful as bringing a knife to a fucking gunfight. (Solo Battle: B. Almeida & C. Carlino) Create a smile that will stay for a while, For the blood on your hands will not wash away with denial... Welcome to the catastrophic crushing death blow. Welcome to the horrors of this waking eye sore. Welcome to the end of human fragile existence. Welcome to the... WELCOME TO THE... Welcome to the end of us all, True life horror.
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Open wide like the camera eye. Extricate the will to defy. Welcome to the new directive. Life moves forth. Progress without insight all your own. Swallow the pill. Become the lie. NEVER relent the right to speak! Free will of thought the essence of humanity. All inside, this echoes bright. Fueling every fire, Stoked by the power and the flames of desire. To reignite our hearts and minds. Only fools rush to conclusions in the aftermath of carelessness and knee jerk reactions. So what the fuck are you? The insect or the glue? So who the fuck are you? The ant or the shoe? Deeper down... Deeper down, we go... (2x) NEVER relent the right to speak! Free will of thought the essence of humanity. Conditioned from our births to deny and disengage the functions of the riotous mind. Controlled and guided toward predetermined ideals: Natural selection's failing... Amongst a crowded sea of deceit lies the heart of pure evil and a conscious deplete of all ties to a world where one voice holds the power: It's a part of human nature. Terror's route of social disease is the impetus of change facing final defeat in the hands of plastic, synthetic drones, that live to distort and cause pain to their own. (Solo: B. Almeida) We built a cage to wall us in. We built a cage to keep them out. The voices rage in vein, invade. Blinding rage will destroy thy cage. Like arsenic and tattered lace, Or the setting sun: You can't evade. It's the death of all truths: Self evidence's guiding rays... I didn't build my cage to keep me in. I built my cage to keep them out. I built a cage ah... I built a cage, Oh no I've built a cage. Inside my cage, I wear a masque. Inside my cage, I am the act. Inside you will find: There is no you. ...there is no I. NEVER relent the right to speak! Free will of thought the essence of humanity. (Solo: S. Oliver) Welcome to the new direction: Embrace the path to self destruction... (Solo: S. Oliver) OPEN WIDE... EAT THE LIE!
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Where we come from and where we'll go... The night's so young, but I'm growing old. A second now, for a lifetime later? The Hourglass of Fate has concealed the dangers... Seeking: the ultimate rush. Living on the edge in a flux. Reaping the rewards of a lust permanently twisted. Find the time for wielding the power of the power of the "I" inside. Can I turn back the clock or deny? DENY? Facing the fear of the life, the lie: You're only as young as you die... DIE, wrapped in metaphoric LYE. LYE. Drowning yourself in your pride. Your pride: Turn back the clock or deny, DENY... AND TURN BACK THE CLOCK TO OPEN UP ALL WORMHOLES! Drifting throughout the world. In this space, the world's not enough... Astral planes: Divided amongst we who have cool and travel! Find the time for wielding the power of the power of the "I" inside. Can I turn back the clock or deny? DENY? Facing the fear of the life, the lie: You're only as young as you die... DIE, wrapped in metaphoric LYE. LYE. Drowning yourself in your pride. Your pride: Turn back the clock or deny, DENY... ENTERING THE WORMHOLES NOW, ALL PREPARE TO LAUNCH! AROUND! AROUND! AROUND! AROUND WE GO! (Leads & Harmonies section: B. Almeida) Pick your destination, Choose it oh so well... From here there's no returning, A set home is truly Hell... (Solo: B. Almeida) Arrived at destination. On your head your choice has fell. Go bury the keys, Accept your fate: A road traveled ne'er-do-well... But I've lived my life not in black or white. The colors may have changed... But, I've stayed the same.
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The Ghost 03:00
A tragic end. An otherworldly entity caught in-between, A secondary shattered plane of lost existence. Far forgotten, images of past remembrance distort all the space between my perception and what you see... (WE ARE LOST...) Harrowed deep: Burned into my memory so convoluted... What is real to a faded soul stuck in limbo? Like the dead forever lost among the living, We are all just ghosts caught in the big machine... (WE ARE THE DEAD FOREVER LOST AMONG THE LIVING...) The Ghost engulfs the wandering. The throes of loss: the beginning. The lines we walk: depression's entry. The Ghost is our friendly enemy. (Solo: S. Oliver) Heed these words. Let your mind devour Kingly scenes of an Earthly fire. The world owes you not a grave when retired. Until the shell dissolves, we are just ghosts caught in the mire... (Solo: B. Almeida) The Ghost may haunt connections. The Ghost will want its independence. The Ghost inside seeks redemption. The Ghost is I: The Machine unrepentant. Heed these words. Let your mind devour Kingly scenes of an Earthly fire. The world owes you not a grave when retired. Until the shell dissolves, we are just ghosts caught in the mire... (WE ARE ALL GHOSTS LOST IN THE BIG MACHINE. FOREVER LOST AMONG THE LIVING. IN A WASTELAND OF A...) Secondary, shattered plane of lost existence.
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Tear down my soul, For buried beneath the debris. Are the ashes of a million extinguished flames like you and me. Your heart as cold as ice, With a touch dead set to freeze: Can only hope to feel the strain of true love's misery. Don't take my hand for nothing's secure. And nothing will ever last within this life of two hearts. The damned they may walk. Twisted saboteurs. But I will not let their vengeful hearts conquer my world. BREAK! CRUSH MY WORLD IN TWO! Tear down my soul, For buried beneath the debris. Are the ashes of a million extinguished flames like you and me. Your heart as cold as ice, With a touch dead set to freeze: Can only hope to feel the strain of true love's misery. Don't take my hand for nothing's secure. And nothing will ever last within this life of two hearts. The damned they may walk. Twisted saboteurs. But I will not let their vengeful hearts conquer my world. You've blown me away...
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Dead Star 06:47
FUCK THIS SHIP! It's so far away from home. GET ME OFF THIS SHIP! Don't you see you're home? FUCK THIS SHIP! It's so far away from home! GET ME OFF THIS SHIP! Don't you see? The faster and further and deeper we go, We're stopping at nothing but total control. We'll blackout the stars in the blink of an eye, It all ends tonight! For we're planetary adversaries taking aim! FUCK THIS SHIP! So far away from home... GET ME OFF THIS SHIP! Don't you see you're home! Psychosis setting in... The delirium takes AIM... GET ME OFF THIS SHIP! Don't you see? The faster and further and deeper we go, We're stopping at nothing but total control. We'll blackout the stars in the blink of an eye, It all ends tonight! For we're planetary adversaries taking aim! And we'll burn out bright... Across the skies tonight... (Solos: S. Oliver) WHOA OH OH! WHOA OH OH! WHOA OH OH OH OH OH OH! YEEEEEEAAAAAAAAH!!! (Solo: B. Almeida) And we'll burn out bright... Across the skies tonight... (2x) The faster and further and deeper we go, We're stopping at nothing but total control. We'll blackout the stars in the blink of an eye, It all ends tonight! For we're planetary adversaries taking aim! WHOA OH OH! WHOA OH OH! WHOA OH OH OH OH OH OH! (Solo: S. Oliver) And we will all burn out so bright...
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WE WILL TEAR YOUR SOUL APART! Someone's following me. In the shadows they hide. They're just biding their time. To feast upon my flesh. WE HAVE SUCH SIGHTS TO SHOW YOU... Hell's not what you make of it, All locked doors, no secrets kept. Demons whisper unto me "Oh what sights, we'll have you see!" Their hooks and chains begin to dig. Searing flesh, my tendons rip. Toymaker's puzzle, the last I see, As I now endure sweet suffering. Tear my soul apart. Fill me with your blood... (YOUR BLOOD!) It tastes so sweet: Liquid Heaven. Pleasures of the flesh so unbecoming... Make me whole again... CONFIGURE MY LAMENT! On hell's wings the fiery angels fly through the fire into the dead of night. A paradox of souls encumbered with knowledge of the darkest visions. Curating blood and licking sweet: the restless souls to proud to sleep. One twist, one turn, you've made your call... YOU'VE SUMMONED HELL AND WE'VE ANSWERED! (Solo: S. Oliver) Here we stand at the gates. We are all reborn. With a demonic mind. And I'm here to take your souls... Hell's not what you make of it, All locked doors, no secrets kept. Demons whisper unto me "Oh what sights, we'll have you see!" Their hooks and chains begin to dig. Searing flesh, my tendons rip. Toymaker's puzzle, the last I see, As I now endure sweet suffering. Tear my soul apart. Fill me with your blood... (YOUR BLOOD!) It tastes so sweet: Liquid Heaven. Pleasures of the flesh so unbecoming... Make me whole again... CONFIGURE MY LAMENT!
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(Lead/Solo: B. Almeida) The East wind will blow its tired song as another life dwindles long... Past the point of no return. Still dusk returns to dawn. Leave no regret and please don't forget: The spirit carries on. I've seen you fading too far without a line... If only I could just go back to the start. Every word would emit truth straight from the heart. Have you ever wondered just how we came to be? Did the world change us or did we create deceit? Hate is not the answer, and blame's a pointless game. Yet I know I've failed you, And my head is full of shame. I've seen you fading too far without a line... If only I could just go back to the start. Every word would emit truth straight from the heart. Now we're moving on: time cannot be stopped. Not for everyone. In another time, In another life, We'll meet again. With nothing left to lose. Acceptance, I choose. Save me in my darkest hour. See me through this darkened hour. No it won't get better than this. (2x) There's no light, no light. No matter how you try to fix it, for it's death's conditions - best wishes. No matter what you say or do. There's no amount you can pay not to lose. No leap of faith, No hand to trust. In the end, We amount to... Nothing more than dust. You've already met your maker who you've known for all this time. Suddenly, it all feels so small, Resistance is futile such is life... Now you can get on your knees and pray to an imaginary figure up there near space. Or you can spend your time on what really matters. Go give a big fuck you to the everafter... Now we're moving on: time cannot be stopped. Not for everyone. In another time, In another life, We'll meet again. With nothing left to lose. Acceptance, I choose. (Solo: B. Almeida) We were almost, almost, almost there... (By past the satellites, Your star it shined so bright...) (Both 3x) I was almost, almost, almost there... (Solo: S. Oliver)
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Forevermore 05:56
Sleep now. Rest within the arms of the Earth, Forevermore. Feel how you're safe beside her heart. Forevermore. From sea to shore. The tides will rise and fall in constant motion. Forevermore. We spend our lifetime trying to climb a wall to see behind an open door. Go spend your lifetime living in a moment's core, For each one's worth so much more. (Solo: S. Oliver) We spend our lifetime trying to climb a wall to see behind an open door. Go spend your lifetime living in a moment's core, For each one's worth THAT much more. (Solo: S. Oliver) Like roots, we grow. Strong and sure. Forever. Forevermore. (2x)

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released December 25, 2019

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The Shape Milford, Connecticut

Destructive. Beautiful. Dark. Devastating. The Shape is a musical force that forces you to question yourself and your surroundings, perception and reality. An eclectic mixture of different metallic and progressive styles combined with classic American hard rock n' roll, The Shape explores the darkness, to find a beautiful truth. Join us in madness... ... more

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