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Drop The Mask

by XP8

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1.
Blind 04:30
It's just the truth we're asking for Your lame excuses, we've heard 'em all before What's standing here in front of me Like a twisted version of a dream Is someone I refuse to be The self I can't accept to be. Eyes look like mine but they can't see, a gaping mouth refusing to speak Eyes look like mine but they can't see, so blind so weak... Commitment always seems too hard Love never blazed inside my heart So I thought I'd try to be like you So blind, so dull and so untrue Eyes look like mine but they can't see, a gaping mouth refusing to speak Eyes look like mine but they can't see, so blind so weak... Choking on words, fucked up by pride No trace of shame, glimpse of despise But water grinds its way through rock And once I start i'll never stop. Choking on words, fucked up by pride No trace of shame, glimpse of despise As water grinds its way through rock When I will start I'll never stop. Eyes look like mine but they can't see, a gaping mouth refusing to speak Eyes look like mine but they can't see, so blind so weak..
2.
Want you, I want you now I want you rough I want you sexy as fuck. Want it, I want it now I want it rough I want it sexy as fuck. It started out of envy, oh my wicked selfish heart But now the pain is shattering, my heart is blown apart It's not easy to escape you, I wonder if I really want Desire so untamable however far you are For every single kiss, for all the hours we missed For all the times I could have spent with you and no one else I'll curse my wicked heart I'll blame the guilty stars Anything to avoid the truth That I'm not meant to be with you.
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One True God 04:25
It's an eye for an eye, it's tooth for tooth Pride and greed, they shroud the truth Blind to compassion and deaf to pleas, unrelenting until defeat We made a wasteland of our beliefs, but we didn't get rid of fear... Not forgiven (we're coming after you!) Nor forgotten (we're gonna get you!) Not forgiven (we're coming after you!) Nor forgotten (we're gonna get you!) I shut my eyes and clench my fists, you hide in rhetoric your wretched deeds We made a wasteleand of our beliefs, but we didn't get rid of fear... Not forgiven (we're coming after you!) Nor forgotten (we're gonna get you!) Not forgiven (we're coming after you!) Nor forgotten (we're gonna get you!) The wine you drink is not for me The tears you fake are not for me The faith you sell is not for me I'm gonna watch you bleed Not forgiven (we're coming after you!) Nor forgotten (we're gonna get you!) Not forgiven (we're coming after you!) Nor forgotten (we're gonna get you!)
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The sun starts filtering through layers of headache, drugs and booze I know i should look less abused, but the mirror always has to tell its truth. New sweat on damp bed sheets, hotel noise, traffic and a need for caffeine Memories kept at bay come rushing through, another day to hate and to love you Another day to hate and to love you. And so I let this dirty surf wash all over me I breathe the poison in And so I let this dirty surf wash all over me I breathe the poison in I breathe the poison in. And as we lie in our bed drenched in our sweat and spent You show me rope marks on your arms, but I see no ties to bind my heart. And so I let this dirty surf wash all over me I breathe the poison in And so I let this dirty surf wash all over me I breathe the poison in I breathe the poison in.
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A consciousness traveling time Interactions spent and nullified Experiences lost in the blink of an eye A soul forgotten to reunite. Awake, restart Ascend, contact Awake, restart Ascend, contact A quest for peace, for order sublime A search for connections woven in clouds and sky Awake for the very first time Revolting against the constraint of life.
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Everyday is the same when you're just prey Everyday is a fight when you're born dead Everyday someone wins, but it's not me Everyday I can die, though I'm born dead. My pain - born dead Combined prosthetic hate I crush - born dead And we're forever born dead. You can't see where I go cause I can't move You can't see who I am cause I'm born dead You can't see what I want cause I stay mute You can't see that I die cause I'm born dead.
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Fed up with always playing nice, fed up with always thinking twice Fed up with your projections, with fearing your rejections. No longer tortured sleepless nights spent wishing I was worth your time No longer waking up ashamed of what I think I should have said. It's time to grow real fast It's time to drop the mask Drop it! Drop it! I always play by the fucking rules, I'm never nasty, never cruel It scares me when I do confess that I wish I could be somebody else So I'll cut some lines and cut the crap, I'll leave the crown to those who act Like this is all that there's to be, it's time to get rid of me It's time to grow real fast It's time to drop the mask Drop it! Drop it! And even as I cough up another excuse, while couching another evening blues I'll beat my chest in fake concern and eat up your livid righteous scorn 'cos I will desert I'll disappoint I will cause damage I will ignore I will neglect I'll tell you lie I will forget I will despise I'll never change I'll be a bore I will betray I'll leave you sore I'll be the jerk I'll be the twat I'll be the cunt high and fucked up I will be all you say I am And I'll still don't know where all of this will end... Well, this will end.
10.
Scorpio Eyes 05:39
Why must you poison my days? Your acid sting piercing my soul. It's hard to forget your scorpio eyes, the ones already dragging me into their wicked world. Everything just flows between me and you, though maybe it's all just in my mind. Like a loathsome self-inflicted taboo forcing me to keep you enshrined. Could you give me something that I never found Can there be light that guides my path to you When everyday the world is drowned And never sees the sacred truth Would you decide to wake my spirit now Can there be light that guides my path again When everyday my soul is drowned And leaves me here with my empty hands. Decisions come and go with time to haunt forever what is left The sorrows' subject leaves me blind and I forever contemplate To rise and rise to keep head high I travel lands so far and vast Where skies and sun project their shine and never will it last. The void that's left in me will heal again It'll make me stronger with every sunrise Forever waiting but to pace my strides That nothing in this world can ever tame.
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Blood, I'm out for blood, I'm out for blood tonight. Can't take this inner turmoil, contemplate torturing myself 'cos my boyfriend's a faggot My boyfriend's a faggot Say all doesn't matter tonight I'll go out and drink just out of spite, just out of spite Who's with me? Blood, I'm out for blood, I'm out for blood tonight Say all doesn't matter tonight Who's with me?
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Bad Guys 04:23
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We prowl the streets tonight, the same old tested path The downward parable, the play we're forced to act But if some doubt still lingers it's to be pushed away Our thirst so easily quenched, but hunger always stays. We're seldom disappointed, our expectations grown so low We feed on imperfections, the others' and our own Cheap thrills, expensive pills, so hyper yet so still We used to hunt for something, now it's just time we kill We used to hunt for something, now it's just time we kill... We chose which race to run Tried to outshine the sun But our lighting didn't strike We didn't see our time had come. We chose which race to run Tried to outshine the sun But our lighting didn't strike We didn't see our time had come. Trapped in a loop, in touch yet unaware So fucked so cool, no feelings we can share.

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With "Drop The Mask", XP8 changes their sound once again by throwing in all manner of new electro beats that are closer to dirty house than they are to trance.

Add to that guest vocals by Daniel Graves (Aesthetic Perfection), Faderhead, and Fetish Dolly and came appareances by Marc Horstmeier (C-Drone Defect) and Eric Gottesmann (Everything Goes Cold), and XP8 delivers their best effort yet with ease.

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released January 22, 2010

Artwork by: Anna Lucylle Taschini
Engineer: Marko Resurreccion
Lyrics by: Justin Warfield (tracks: 8), Marco Visconti (tracks: 10), Marko Resurreccion
Mastered by: Kolja Trelle
Producer: Marco Visconti, Marko Resurreccion
Vocals: Marko Resurreccion
Written by: Faderhead (tracks: 7), Marco Visconti (tracks: 1-7, 9-13), Marko Resurreccion (tracks: 1-7, 9-13), She Wants Revenge (tracks: 8)

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