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Open me, with your kiss of steel
End my pain - set me free

For we are enslaved, forever enslaved

Open me, with your kiss of steel
End my pain - set me free
Live only to die some more
Need - killing yourself to live

For we are enslaved, forever enslaved

Lay your fears to rest, let your dreams awake

For we are enslaved, forever enslaved

Lay your hate to rest - open me...

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jt On Apr 18, 2001

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2001-04-18 00:33:09

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by arandomthought

5y ago

The overall theme of the album is technology as original sin and how it poisons society and destroys the individual's soul.

The song itself follows up on Nausea and contrasts the increased dependence on medical practice and surgical technology as civilization develops and the individuals ages and how the soul of the individual and the morals of society are destroyed over that period.

It's a fairly common Swedish Death Metal theme.

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