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Holding Cell
03:10
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I’ve been living in a nightmare world
Trapped inside my holding cell
Gotta smile so the world can’t tell
Is this real?
Tired of living like I’m second rate
tired of looking for the hand of fate
The years just take and then they slip away
Tired of wondering if I’m good enough
Or being told I need to toughen up
Swimming even though the water’s rough
I don’t need compliments or lies to bring me up.
Chorus: Sacrifice every part of me
To the gods I cannot see
Like I’m living in a memory
Is this just a dream—
I’ve been living in a nightmare world
Trapped inside my holding cell
Gotta smile so the world can’t tell
Is this real because it feels like hell
Time for me to put the past behind
This old sadness doesn’t age like wine
The years go by and we run out of time
Not gonna make apologies
Or give a self-indulgent speech
I know that I did right by me
Just be real with me and leave me be
(Chorus)
If you love me unconditionally,
You won’t spend your time judging me.
I said, I know I did right by me
And life’s too brief to make apologies.
(Chorus)
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Synthesis
03:35
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Stare into a blank face, my mind erased
Thoughts replaced with synthesis
Addicted to the rush of it
Walls are closing in
I fall away into this hole again
I - I love the way they die
Worshiping the lie
Drag me beneath my faith, a vision
Of hypocrisy in the binary
Tie me down to the beating heart
Of these machines
This company is killing me
I - I love the way they die
Worshiping the lie
I love the way they hide
From the toxic truth inside
I love the way they die.
I - I love the way they die
Worshiping the lie
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Freakshow
02:47
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Chorus:
(Welcome) This is the freak show
(Welcome) We’ve taken hold
(Welcome) This is your new home
(Welcome) Embrace the fold.
Little lamb, I see your eyes,
You’re scared to be what they despise.
I’m here to tell you there’s nothing to fear
So let your guard down ‘cause we don’t judge here
(Chorus)
Half-burned truths of love and death
You can’t always know the hand you’ll get.
This is a temple! We’ve made our sacrifice
It’s time to bury the madness and the lies
(Chorus)
We’re not wrong, we’re misunderstood,
We fight to live, to prove we’re good.
We stand together, we’re more than what they say
We may be different but we are here to stay.
(Chorus)
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The Sandman
02:57
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Sleep, my love
Hold tight to dreams that come
Let them take you
Through the night to the land of the moon.
Sand in your eyes
Taking shape to mesmerize
These forms we hide beneath
the thought’s disguise
Chorus: Dream away into the endless sea
I will stay till we reach eternity
Sleep, my love
Until the sandman comes
Let him take you
To his world where dreaming reigns
Sand in your mind
Leave this mortal coil behind
To sail on seas of stars
Till the ending of time
(Chorus)
Dream away, won’t you stay?
Dream away, won’t you stay?
(Chorus)
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Circle of Love
02:49
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I waited for your call to bring me
Back to the aching light
Wandering with wool pulled over my eyes
Still searching for a sign
Break the peace for amnesty
Drawn into what’s hunting me
Chorus: Bring me back to the circle of love
Your candle shining in my heart
Shadows are closing in around me
Come set me free!
I walked for miles through the forest
Just looking for the end
My senses dulled by all around me
Lost in the dark again
Break my soul for self control
Cyclical, I’m never whole
(chorus)
Through the night, we are burning
Feel your light, bring me to your love
(chorus)
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Worthy
03:32
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I broke through to the other side
A part of myself too scared to hide
The light which shone and made us blind
A star collapsing from inside
Pain is only part of the change
As our souls begin to rearrange
Chorus: See yourself like I do
Beautiful scars are part of you
See your flaws and embrace them
‘Cause you are perfect how you are
And you are worthy of love
Look in the mirror, see the good inside
We have faced mountains, yet still we climb
When despair beckons, we say “no, not this time”
We’re more than shadows, we’re alive
(Chorus)
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Vampire Disco
02:51
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Step a little closer to me
Mm, it’s getting harder to breathe
Pulse digging deep in my mind
If I held your heart, what would I find
Chorus: The night belongs to me
Conduct this symphony
Your fear and ecstasy
Fill up my blackened heart
With your sweet melody
Do you find your eyes to deceive
Confusing lights with sanctuary
But the monsters you should most fear
Often are the ones you hold most dear
(Chorus)
Do you find me beautiful
Do you find me whimsical
As the world turns upside down
Do you see what lurks in the crowd
(Chorus)
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Ritual
02:44
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You have a burning coal
That’s tearing through your broken heart
The pages smoke and curl
What binds you crumbles, and falls apart
Chorus: Stay, this will all soon pass away
Like an ember fades to gray
You will don the shroud of faith
Leave all your memories
Rise and accept your fate
You are my effigy
My haunted hollow, my heresy
Casting these bones on stone
I read the signs of destiny
(Chorus)
(Instrumental)
(Chorus)
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Golden Crown
03:15
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Why do you build me up
Only to tear me down?
Was I not good enough
To wear your golden crown?
High, too high, atop your tower of stone.
High, too high, so now I feel alone.
Chorus: Why do you hate me?
Why can’t you let me go?
I’m chasing every dream
Where you cannot follow.
Why do your lips sing praise
While your throat screams neglect?
Am I your goddess or
Am I degenerate?
Drowning, I’m drowning in your ocean eyes.
Drowning, I’m drowning, trapped beneath your lies.
Chorus 2: ...hate me.
Why can’t you let me go?
I’m chasing every dream
Where you cannot follow.
Why won’t you leave me
Where I can wield sorrow?
I want to face the unknown,
To face it on my own.
Drowning, I’m drowning.
Drowning, I’m drowning.
Drowning, I’m drowning.
(Chorus 2)
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The Red Queen
03:35
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Don’t lose your head as the sun goes down
Their halos fade when the demons come out
Bled by design until our veins run dry
Writhing in pain yet refusing to die
Chorus: Fallen, I’m unhinged and I have awoken
Calling through the waste of vows you have broken
Promise of angels as the days burn to ash
Knives stain the sand in the aftermath
Wash over me like a nightmare I can’t erase
While I’m hopelessly envisioning my last escape
(Chorus)
(Chorus)
Fear me, I am everything that you made me
Monster, I am bound eternally
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Heaven ablaze in our eyes
We're standing still in time
The blood on our hands is the wine
We offer as sacrifice
Chorus: Come on and show them your love
Rip out the wings of a butterfly
For your soul, my love
Rip out the wings of a butterfly
For your soul
This endless mercy mile
We're crawling side by side
With hell freezing over in our eyes
Gods kneel before our crime
(Chorus)
(Rip out the wings of a butterfly)
For your soul
(Rip out the wings of a butterfly)
For your soul
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Anaria Boston, Massachusetts
Anaria is a modern metal band hailing from New England who experiments with symphonic elements, modern rock, cinematic scoring, and pop arrangements.
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