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Marionette

by nolongerhuman

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1.
Get on your knees in supplication Try to pray your way to oblivion All you’re waiting for a blessing Forgiveness for the sins you won’t stop committing You look for anyone to call a savior They lead you down and you will follow Through this world slowly catching fire With your eyes sewn shut and your mouth wide open Try like hell to pay your way to heaven Falling blindly through the deception Fables you’ve been told since your conception Were all fever dreams of a madman We are the very last generation There is no one coming back for you So tell me one more nursery rhyme About that man that turned water into wine Your god is a cockroach Your god is a fiction Your god is an insect Your god is an infestation I believe In Insects not gods I believe In swarms not legions I believe In Insects not gods I believe In the end of society I believe In Insects not gods I believe The reign of man is over I believe In Insects not gods I believe We are all better off dead
2.
Shattered 04:15
There is a hole right through the middle of me A piece to a puzzle that can never be complete I want to see you suffer, want to see you empty I want bridges burning bright behind me Numb to everyone, like father like son My hands are bloody but my conscience is clean Do you love me now that I’m just like you Born with a wound where my heart should be Come on tell me everything you think is wrong with me One last insult on your way into obscurity Twist up your face and scream out all your rage It’s not that hard to hate something you created Never miss a chance to tell me I was your mistake I’ve lived my whole life listening to your distain Made in your image, you have only yourself to blame Aren’t you proud of the monster that I became Tear me open Break me all apart Shatter me, fracture me Take out all your hostility Tear me open Break me all apart Shatter me, Ruin me Make me feel your insecurity
3.
We built you altars of binary code Knelt for your projection on our screen We like and follow our way into your empire These are the last days of sanity Your only desire was for attention You show the world your counterfeit emotion The anguish around you means nothing to you Unless someone will stream your virtue You monetize every decision Your filters are so carefully chosen Emotion curated for your platform Of reptile faces feeding on attention Your personality is a forgery Your salary paid in tragedy Invented for you by the majority We’re drowning in your hypocrisy Show me Your pain tolerance All of your charity In service to your vanity Show me Your pain tolerance Your plastic empathy Synthetic humanity Show me Your pain tolerance You feel nothing When no one is watching Show me Your pain tolerance You hollow effigy I see right through you
4.
Dead Inside 05:54
Day by day - I became Everything that I had always hated Lost in a fantasy built on quicksand Discovering just how far I could fall Pour me another drink to end the anxiety Trying in vain to hide my growing shame Desperate for answers in the bottom of a bottle This addiction has become my reality My free will replaced by need One drink at a time I drown the agony Night after night I commit suicide Anything it takes to fade these memories Show me something worth living for Here I am with nothing left to offer you I’m back where I sworn I’d never be again A hollow man whispering junkie prayers Now I know how wrong I was Now I know all the pain I caused I know the smile i’ll never see again I used to know what it’s like to be alive Now I know how wrong I was Now I know all the pain I caused I know the eyes i’ll never wipe clean Now I know what it’s like to be dead inside I’m Dead inside I’m Dead Inside I’m Dead Inside Now I know what it’s like to be Dead Inside
5.
Instrumental
6.
You listen to the rage Coming from every channel Tune in daily For a dose of atrocity Weaponize your hate Weakness is the only sin Anesthetize yourself Line up here for novocaine Victim for the day Agony falls out of focus Compassion fades away Emotions are the illness A symptom of our age Cruelty is in fashion Take your medication Learn to love our aggression Harden Your Heart Allegiance to indifference Harden Your Heart Trade away your innocence Harden Your Heart Let your empathy fade Harden Your Heart Turn all your pain into hate
7.
Can you feel me Here where you left me Can you see me Here waiting for you Are you listening To another heartbeat Making those promises To someone else Can you hear me On the nights I wake Screaming your name Into an empty room Can you blame me For feeling this hatred All the years wasted I am left devastated Come and share my suffering Come and share my pain with me Come on and share these visions Let me show you my version of hell Come and share my suffering Come and share my pain with me Come on and share these visions Let me show you how this felt
8.
Therapy 04:37
We have prescriptions for every symptom For what it feels like to be a human being We will medicate every emotion Sign here to show constant devotion We have a long term treatment to maintain So you will never have to tolerate the pain We have a low monthly payment plan Trust us you’ll never feel anything again I don’t need your therapy I know exactly what’s wrong with me I gave up on humanity Just like they gave up on me
9.
Marionette 05:24
We have no where to call home My childish dreams are long gone Buried in the crumbling concrete Shadows cast on blackened steel Left here living in your waste Hungry mouths fill with ashes Bonfires burn private nightmares Every night and in every city All we see are ruined lives Reflecting images of our failures All we hear are whispered crimes Confessions made with blistered lips Agony becomes a symphony While we look on helplessly When misery is the only currency It will be our turn to be the wealthy I let the insects be my legacy Nightmares are my only dreams I’m all stitched together I’m tearing at the seams Pull my strings, tell me, how will you use me? I let the insects be my legacy Threadbare puppet Im twisting in agony My mouth wide open frozen in a silent scream Pull my strings, tell me, how will you use me?
10.
You want me to praise your society I’m choking on all the brutality Don’t ask me to believe in this fantasy I’m going numb to your inhumanity You are just one more commodity Don’t you tell me this is how it’s supposed to be All that you see is counterfeit personality Wearing the uniform people like you made for me I see your eyes full of fear Born in a world that will never care Your whole life was a tragedy You’ve built a tolerance to this nightmare Let the end come Let the fires burn until nothing remains Blacken the air, blot out the sun Lets welcome death with a broken smile Let the end come Let the flood waters drown us all Pay no attention to your extinction A world of shallow graves is what we deserve I’ll tell you anything you want to hear I’ll pull you close, I’ll whisper in your ear You’ve made all my hatred seem worthwhile Every minute, every day, every year So let the end come Let the fires burn until nothing remains Blacken the air and blot out the sun Lets welcome death with a broken smile Let the end come Let the flood waters drown us all Pay no attention to our extinction The world razed to the ground is all we deserve

about

Marionette, as an album concept, first came to mind almost a decade ago. I set out to make a collection of songs that try to define the things that quietly control us in the background. Songs about our addictions, our compulsions, and the needs and struggles of the human condition. All of the factors that pull our strings behind the scenes.

Over time as the world changed, the idea became more focused and the message more direct and urgent. We live in an era that too often moves too fast to reflect on our inner feelings, let alone allows us to stop and look in the mirror to see ourselves as we truly are. Not as statistics on some social feed, not as commodities, but as humans.

I’ve done my best to encapsulate those feelings with this album, and for the first time ever, I’ve been extremely privileged to work closely with Jan from X-Fusion/Noisuf-X on mixing and mastering. I truly feel like this is the best nolongerhuman work so far.

credits

released May 5, 2023

Music, Lyrics, Vocals: nolongerhuman
Mixing and Mastering: X-M-P Productions
Graphic Design: Vlad McNeally - Kallisti Design
Photography: New World Industries

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