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The Movement

by Bastard Opera

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1.
Mercy 04:33
I'm sittin' here in a prison cell the smell of shit on the walls like a rotten veil and all I want is to bring you close and wrap my arms around your neck The only thing I remember about the last time we made love is that I fucked you good and that I fucked you right but now you fucked me worse cuz now I'm fucked for life My skull is breaking open take a look inside my hell you'll see a shell of my former self I'm broken My body's drenched in their disease My mind no longer belongs to me I got a scar on my head and a needle in my eye they're wrapping words around my head and taking me for a ride. cuz I'm a slave to the man they're makin' money off me in the slam Mercy, oh mercy My skull is breaking open take a look inside my hell you'll see a shell of my former self I'm broken Marching to the beat of snapping bones never thought I'd love the taste of blood in the back of my throat but you fed me a daily dose, force fed me insanity now I'm begging for the delicacy of a quick and painless Mercy, oh mercy My skull is breaking open take a look inside my hell you'll see a shell of my former self I'm broken Mercy, oh mercy
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Wishing Well 04:44
It came together right under her nose they wrapped a pretty veil around her eyes the world felt cool and strong under her toes Build yourself in your bones cuz the rest degrades they'll only love you till your intensity fades Come taste there's none better than theirs you'll love the frequent turns and stares our days are numbered by our shadows they'll love that pretty head and they'll drag that pretty head to the gallows Draped in a dress that stalks her skin she threw her beauty in a wishing well never to be seen again Now the world felt cold and heavy on her neck Build yourself in your bones cuz the rest degrades they'll only love you till your intensity fades Come taste there's none better than theirs you'll love the frequent turns and stares our days are numbered by our shadows they'll love that pretty head and they'll drag that pretty head to the gallows Everything is breaking down in spades my ties to you are razor thin these days a space to place our old regrets a way to repay last night's debts Come taste there's none better than theirs you'll love the frequent turns and stares our days are numbered by our shadows they'll love that pretty head and they'll drag that pretty head to the gallows
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Your skull is cracking concrete I can't fight the current of your downward spiral before you'll be reborn you'll live with your death, with your pain i know you're afraid the only constant is change i'll meet you on the other side and hope that you've not lost your mind Your skull is cracking concrete I can't fight the current of your downward spiral before you'll be reborn you'll live with your death, with your pain A circle has no end your heart will breath again I'll meet you at the edge of this world we'll make our own pretense I wont carry your dead weight we make our own fate Your skull is cracking concrete I can't fight the current of your downward spiral before you'll be reborn you'll live with your death, with your pain You always find new ways to break me out of sweet dreams you have chosen victimhood so live with your death, with your pain See the fool take the fools path knows no love nor wrath I wont carry your dead weight we make our own fate Your skull is cracking concrete I can't fight the current of your downward spiral
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The Movement 03:45
He poisons minds made slow with rust, in his name your crimes have been just, these snakes will rake me over till there's nothing left but bone Their fucking heads are rolling and our movement is swelling the gods are laughing well we've had a good run the death of free thought is of no consequence to their twisted sense of fun He poisons minds made old with rust, in his name your crimes have been just, these snakes will rake me over till there's nothing left but bone Our gods are tearing us apart the earth's at war, he lives at the heart Their fucking heads are rolling and our movement is swelling the gods are laughing well we've had a good run the death of free thought is of no consequence to their twisted sense of fun Our gods are tearing us apart the earth's at war, he lives at the heart Our gods are tearing us apart let's tear it all down and make a new start
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she came at night silhouetted by the starlight she seemed so unimpressed as my eyes bid her undressed she tore her clothes off with just a little disdain the mask she wore did not come off as easily she writhed in pain The man in the moon whispered terrible things through the curtain of gloom still the words did sting oh no she's here for something more The man in the moon whispered terrible things through the curtain of gloom still the words did sting oh no I've loved and lost a whore You don't plan the wrongs you do I guess you thought I'd like the view rapidly lying there rapidly dying there under the bus I walk this field of grey stuck in this game I loathe to play and as ever she's crawling so silently away The man in the moon whispered terrible things through the curtain of gloom still the words did sting oh no I've loved and lost a whore Step outside of yourself The man in the moon whispered terrible things through the curtain of gloom still the words did sting oh no I've loved and lost a whore We fudged the landing but I'm still standing I'll take a step outside my cell

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released December 17, 2011

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Bastard Opera Los Angeles, California

Formed in early 2011, Bastard Opera is a heavily harmony driven band, begun by Laurence Prophet of L.A. The four piece ensemble has dubbed its sound 'theatrical rock'.

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