Aphonic Threnody - Ruins Lyrics


Truth is so hard to swallow

We’ve been prisoners of your lies for so long

That reality is just a drop of water in a sea of salt

We’ve been praying your god (your god)

We’ve been kneeling in front of your saints (in front of your saints)

We paid our life for your gold (our life for your gold)

We misjudged your true self (your true self)

Centuries of pain inflicted by your blind rage (your blind rage)

Mind devoted to tons of tales

Where your light shines over the light of the day

Over the light of the day

Nations abandoned (nations abandoned), people dying (dying)

Children suffering (children suffering), mothers crying

Where’s your truth now? (Where’s your truth now?)

While your holy war is coming (while your holy war is coming)

Your crusade against all hope

Your annihilation of the world (annihilation of the world)

Behold the children

Look at those children still walking amongst the ruins

You have left ruins in their hearts

Wounds won’t heal for them (won’t heal for them)

Sucking life from infected breasts

You have left ruins in their hearts (ruins in their hearts)

Dead...

Feed your hate to those mindless men

They drink the blood like parasites on pale sick skin

They march from heaven bringing hell

They are the plague spreading in the land

All of those deaths and tears (tears)

Like snowflakes on dark black earth (black earth)

Preach your bitter lies, you “holy” men

It’s upon your god who must be condemned

Nourishing in filth (nourishing in filth), we lived of those lies (we lived of those lies)

While children were dying (while children were dying

Our eyes dry soar – we forgot how to cry (we forgot how to cry)

We forgot how to cry

Kill me now, I don’t wanna see them dying

I cannot stand such cruelty

I cannot stand them crying

I cannot watch them dying...

You can see them thru TV screens

You can hear them in your painful dreams

Children calling your names while you’ve turned your backs away

...A shiver, like a touch of fever...

...They are crying, helpless from clouds of dust...

All of those deaths and tears

You have left ruins in their hearts

Wounds won’t heal for them

Sucking life from infected breasts

You have left ruins in their hearts

...You have left ruins in their hearts...

All of those deaths and tears

Like snowflakes on dark black earth