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Onward to Barbarism

by Compassion Fatigue

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1.
Wake up and scream, wake up and bleed, wake up and cry, wake up and bathe in pain Every new day is a new pain; every new day brings another layer of hate Soon there will be nothing to feel, a little more time will eradicate All of humanity’s weak thoughts, the only thought is kill, kill, kill The failure of yesterday Bleeds me closer to perfection There’s a cold white light Inside is the absolute purity of zero The genocide impulse is clear now Tomorrow I will finally be Born again hard, born again ready, born again dead
2.
Confused 02:02
When things are not investigated, then true knowledge is never achieved When true knowledge is never achieved, then the will never becomes sincere When the will never becomes sincere, then the heart is never set right When the heart is never set right, then the personal life is never cultivated When the personal life is never cultivated, then the family life is never regulated When the family life is never regulated, then the national life is never orderly And when the national life is never orderly, then there is chaos in the world
3.
Coastline crumbling in the mind’s eye, an unblinking lid witnessing the bloodlife again Cycle in and out like the tides, leaving the remnants of the scumfuks Seeing it all again for the first time, for the last time, the only time, and all time Drifting from city to city, the harvesting goes on Dark winter will come and stop the world, for a space then repeat, repeat, stop, repeat So many times has dulled the senses, all memory and thought is gone What life remains is in cruel hands, see what the corpse sees forever This deathworld is heaven and eternity
4.
Step into the circle friend, I’ll teach you a lesson In truth and savagery, we are the same in this place Leave your money and your titles, you are alone with your blood as your only possession What will save you now friend, power and prestige are the old ways True human nature is the new law, might makes right, care to disagree Defend your view with blood, or die and be proven wrong Mankind has undergone re-evolution, welcome to the new state of barbarism I think your arrogance will drain here The new currency is blood and I’m going to steal your fortune friend
5.
The Rosetta stone to my madness lies within the sickness I reflect Your apathy has destroyed my empathy; your idiocy escalates my insanity “I celebrate nature through water colors” The cry of the lost pagans, with no gods and no plans A false sense of being, you will know clarity of purpose When I celebrate the apocalypse through your entrails In a world wiped clean of fools, my name will stand forever
6.
Aceeforell 01:45
We have your eoliths and your monoliths and your neoliths We have your Babylons and your Pompeiis Your Caesars and your chromium-plated, vital ingredient impregnated artifacts We have your bloody hatchets and your Hiroshimas We march in spite of hell we do, antropy, entropy, and proteus vulgaris Telling bawdy jokes about a farm girl named Eve, and a traveling salesman named Lucifer We bury your dead and their reputations We bury you, we are the centuries Be born then, grasp wind, screech at the surgeons slap, seek manhood Taste a little of godhood, feel pain, give birth, struggle a little while Succumb dying, leave quietly by the rear exit please Generation re-generation again again as in ritual With blood stained vestments and nail torn hands Children of Merlin chasing a dream, children of Eve forever building Edens And kicking them apart in berserk fury, because somehow it isn’t the same Agh, Agh, Agh, an idiot screams his mindless anguish amid the rubble But quickly, let it be inundated by the choir, chanting alleluias at ninety decibels Hear then the last canticle of the brethren of the order of leibowitz As sung by the century that swallowed its name Lucifer is fallen Lucifer is fallen
7.
I will incline my ear to a parable, I will open my dark sayings upon the harp What should I fear in the day of evil, when my own faults encompass me Your riches will not buy back Your brother’s soul so precious as it ends forever, the wise and fool die hand in hand To think your name will live on in your money, you are dead like the beasts Laid like sheep in your plots, while the upright have dominion over you in the morning Find the path of soul redemption; mine is laid out before me For your glory will not descend with you, all your life, held upon high, in your glory Join the generations of your fathers and never see light The man who revels in human honor and never understands his true honor Is dead like the beasts, like the beasts.
8.
I’m in a new world, it’s the ultimate ego trip I’ve got the keys to life and death and I’m starting to sweat again I’ve checked the stars and cast your name in stones There’s no way you live, I am the first of a superior race My coming is the beginning of the final storm to end all life I must channel the hellhate, like the archangel before me I will be cast out and bring you a new light All this will come to pass with the eruption of a child’s mind Wake me little one so all can see my new world
9.
Everybody knows the words!

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released May 17, 2015

With the exception of "Don't Talk to Me" (written by G.G. Allin & the Jabbers), all songs were written and performed by COMPASSION FATIGUE over the span of two days. All lyrics by Ian Heran. Recorded May, 2003 on 8 tracks at Ace's Studio in Littleton, CO. Engineered by Joshua Stough.

Cover art by Tom Kemp. Logo and lettering by Pierre de Palmas.

Thanks to the following people for making this happen: Justin and Nic for dumping money into this project, Tom and Pierre for lending their talents, Christian Petersen and Paul Martin for use of their gear.

COMPASSION FATUGUE was:
Ian Heran - Drums + Vocals
Nic Collins - Guitar
Andy Koettel - Guitar, Bass (track #9)
Joshua Stough - Bass, Guitar (track #9)

Cassette version available from Ale Wülf Tapes (j_nutts@hotmail.com) and Getupandkill Music.

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