hands that kill, mold illusions of peace//their fucked up psuedo-security//destroy to give birth to technology//to quicken the killing of you and me and him an dher//blind. us humans think we are so smart//creating challenges//how. our sky bleeds in your hands//it's nothing//build and build and build some more//industry fucks nautre like some kind of whore//quest for invention intelligence gone too far//synthetic environment we're doomed from the start//and i guess we're all gonna die//(my home)//and take everything under teh sky//(it's nothing...to you)//skies they bleed infecting the land//oceans they vomit, onto the sand//wind so foul, a putrid reek//animals they scream in disbelief//and i guess we're all gonna die//(our lives)//and take everything undert he sky//(are nothing...just used)//humanicide//humanicide//black trees, dead seeds, dirt weed,//how much longer do we have??//humanicide//human beings should have never evolved at all//your heart..your heart as cold as teh concrete that you lay//your mind..clouded with the pollution that you make//hide..lies..from all of us, the ones you have chosen to die//smother the earth, blacken the skies//your quest for progress, convenient demise//man..kind..to whom are you kind?//the peace that you mold is a lie, a lie, all lies//our lives float rejected down the stream//they're nothing, not you or me


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    this song is pretty sweet

    SIEGEon April 28, 2007   Link
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    hands down the best Dystopia song

    groweron July 25, 2007   Link
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    deffinantly the best dystopia song. iiiiiiiii like them.

    Mr.stormyon January 16, 2008   Link
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    hell yes, anti-civilization at it's core.

    This is about civilized humans' destruction (both of self and of others). We're fucking everything up.

    Read Endgame.

    BashTheFashon March 07, 2008   Link
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    Holy shit. awesome.

    BuryYourOwnon October 18, 2008   Link
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    There’s not enough bands like dystopia that are able to radicalize Anticiv/misanthropic ideals even further… noothgrush, carcinogen, ecocide, grief are a few good ones though.

    This song just obviously talks about destroying the earth for the sake of more technology. They kill us and destroy everything but humans still think that they’re the smartest. Nature gets fucked every day and we start using synthetic environments and solutions for the problems we made. Animals suffer and the earth is wounded but “I guess we’re all gonna die” so what’s it matter? Mankind is kind to Noone.

    KellsBlasphemyon March 14, 2023   Link
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    Holy shit. awesome.

    BuryYourOwnon October 18, 2008   Link

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