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a drill sergeant raging - a camo-clad sadist
drop, give me eighty - commandos in training, straining
scared, screaming cadence - the canto's contagious
blood, sweat, and stasis - cadets kept in cages, breaking

brak gasps, collapses, a faint buzzing, fuzziness
back in new kansas he's dancing, he's happy, laughing
scene fades to blackness - more orders, more madness
stand up you maggot! or i'll tear off your jaw and junk it

dirt, dust, nothing
we are nothing
pain, death, nothing
we are nothing

brak's first deployment - a moon miner uprising
android employment - a general strike, rebel robots
his transport in orbit - his veins burning, boiling
the guild's standing orders - no mercy, if it moves then torch it
he lands near a local, her face soft and tender
please, we're not soldiers, we're unarmed and we surrender
trembling shoulders, her eyes wet and furtive
brak aims and squeezes, unleashes his first inferno

dirt, dust, nothing
you are nothing
pain, death, nothing
you are nothing

unemployed, depressed, divorced, remorseful, pressed
the private's privilege - fresh slate, transgalactic escape
serve, protect, the mission back when brak enlisted
new orders - dust her, cook her, he knows he's just a butcher

shrieking at his feet - her skin burned black and bubbling
his training now complete - perverse and versed in murdering
a silent violent twitch - her corpse contorted crumbling
ashes in the wind - brak marches onward stumbling

the colonel's cruel commands - we are damned
genocidal plans - we are damned
a diabolic dance - we are damned
his blood-stained butcher's hands - we are damned

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from Children of Euler / Terracide Split LP, released September 8, 2011

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