The Serpent's Kiss-Theocracy

[ti:The Serpent's Kiss] [ar:Theocracy] [al:Theocracy] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Serpent's Kiss - Theocracy [00:01.57]Born into the darkness [00:04.77] [00:05.64]Thrown into the viper's den [00:09.88]The serpent in the cradle [00:12.59] [00:13.10]Takes the child into its nest of sin [00:18.31] [00:19.16]Slowly suffocating [00:22.72] [00:23.53]The souls of victims it has found [00:27.87]Into the vicious cycle [00:31.71]On the path that only leads us down [00:49.55] [01:02.34]Rate-race-fuled machinery [01:04.11] [01:04.94]This system of curruption [01:07.95]Have we become so cold and numb [01:10.89]We're blind to its destruction [01:13.94]We're forging in the fires of greed [01:16.84]Our idols made of gold [01:19.25] [01:19.84]Then bowing down before them [01:22.55]With corrupt adulterous souls [01:26.25]Opened eyes [01:28.47] [01:29.12]Realize [01:31.28]What we have done [01:34.00]What we have seen [01:37.03]What has become of our lives [01:40.30] [01:40.90]Corrupted our dreams [01:43.22]What we have lost [01:45.99]And what remains [01:48.78] [01:49.55]Paralyzed by the venom that runs through our veins [01:55.36] [01:55.95]There's got to be much more to life than this [02:00.86] [02:01.91]The world's caress is just the serpent's kiss [02:07.67]The world's caress is just the serpent's kiss [02:13.43] [02:37.95]The demons veiled as angels [02:40.73]The darkness as the light [02:43.87]The poison seems so harmless as we drink of it tonight [02:49.81]We reap the harvest we have sown [02:52.88]Empowering our enemies [02:55.80]We dress the wolves as sheep [02:57.98]And then forget their true identities [03:02.07]Forgive me [03:03.90] [03:05.15]Now I see [03:07.38]What we have done [03:09.48] [03:09.99]What we have seen [03:13.00]What has become of our lives [03:16.75]Corrupted our dreams [03:19.07]What we have lost [03:22.02]And what remains [03:24.90] [03:25.57]Paralyzed by the venom that runs through our veins [03:31.59]There's got to be much more to life than this [03:37.60]The world's caress is just the serpent's kiss [03:43.46]The world's caress is just the serpent's kiss [03:49.64] [09:38.00]Father bring us back to you [09:40.23]We're lost sheep afraid confused [09:42.63]Tangled in the snares that grow [09:45.13]Along this road of pain we choose [09:47.81]And though we've wandered far away [09:50.55]Turned around and lost our way [09:53.05]Though we are the prodigal [09:54.86]With open arms for us you still await [10:00.42] [10:19.04]All we are is laid to waste [10:21.44]Alll we've seen crumbles in haste [10:23.96]Everything under the sun is vanity put in its place [10:29.35]You have seen this all before [10:31.32] [10:32.00]We are nothing nothing more [10:34.43]We're the ones who betray you [10:36.73]Yet we're the ones whom you adore [10:39.44]I stand before you as a child [10:42.09]By this world I've been defiled [10:44.71]Stained and poisoned burned and beaten [10:47.40]Bruised and wounded sick and vile [10:49.87]With hands reaching out to you I run [10:52.57]Realizing what I've done [10:55.08]You take me in your arms a reunited father and son [11:05.98]And all illusion ceases to exist [11:08.78] [11:11.01]The world's caress is just the serpent's kiss [11:16.36] [11:16.96]The world's caress is just the serpent's kiss