Lower Empire chords by Silent Planet

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Intro 1

Verse 1

Bind the wrist, cut the tongue, call it Liberation. Invader, you dare make me a stranger. Invader, you brand me as a traitor. These borders were forged in loss - painted with a martyr's forgotten blood. Legions of stone infecting the land,

legions we carved into the palm of God's hand. Stig mata cities stitched together with walls intent on sanitizing the sedition of our dark traditions. We begin purest of intentions, then fabricate the cruelest invention s.

Interpret the

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Verse 2

subtext: S - O - S. Euthanized with euphemistic lies,

populace of blank binary minds. Appetite for endless apathy - breathing in... in... insecurity.

Until

Verse 3

you see your reflection through the scope of a weapon nothing will ever change.

A revolution stirs in the silence. The movement defies this negative space.

I hear

Verse 4

you through the noise: The truth that speaks in silence. Scale the divides we devise. We locked out the world,

but we're locked inside. I hear you through the noise: The hope sung from the margins. My heartbeat just a step behind, I didn't know your name but I knew we were out of time.

Nuclear families split apart like the

Verse 5

atom demagogues proliferate the calloused grip of the state.

The future asphyxiates under nativist suspicions. Insipid minds do mestic fission.

Bind

Verse 6

the wrist, cut the tongue,

call it Liberation.

Verse 7

Thirteen, cold as a stillborn - wounds still warm in his chest. Behold the crimson lens, peer through the gaps in the flesh.

Bullets raining from Babylon: The price of wealth. How can you resist this cycle if you can't resist yourself?

Verse 8

What a world we knew before we fearfully withdrew to our

si lent cells of solitude but still I hear you. I hear you.

I hear

Verse 9

you through the noise: The truth that speaks in silence. Scale the divides we devised. We locked out the world,

but we're locked in side. I hear you through the noise: The hope sung from the margins. My heartbeat just a step behind, I didn't know your name but I knew we were out of time.

Outro 1

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