Mistress - Godless Drunken Wreck lyrics

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In chains you toiled at the hands of men<br />

The kine knows not yet it's yoke<br />

And strives but as one of the flock<br />

But in savagery lies freedom<br />

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Pitiless in naked sacrificial rite<br />

Those prior masters crucified<br />

To such savage cross were nailed<br />

Flying headlong into the storm<br />

A ferocious beating coruscant<br />

Tempest's bliss from tethers torn<br />

Such headless corpse will dance<br />

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Waves of new freedom was us clean<br />

Of ghosts of oblivion's reveries<br />

But with all course lost directionless<br />

Whither will we go? Where the fuck should we go?<br />

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We sail on - ever, ever on<br />

Mired rotting leviathans<br />

Trouble us no more<br />

As the golden future shines<br />

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To see such glories yet unseen<br />

Quixotic fantasy<br />

Such unknown shores where mad beauty<br />

And cruel nightmares reign<br />

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But have we sailed too far?<br />

Where now the shining hope for freedoms future?<br />

When 'voyaging' becomes 'dead lost'<br />

Bright freedom turns iron cage<br />

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The light has fled even from our dreams<br />

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The age of creation and new joy has passed<br />

As we shudder and fear<br />

Then insoluble thunder of mariner's beasts<br />

Old horrors and glories lost<br />

Cleaving unto the shades of reveries long dead<br />

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The butterfly has lost it's wings<br />

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And we who sailed with you<br />

Who learned to say 'I'<br />

Our ship has gone down with all hands<br />

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So raise your voices and sing<br />

For this butterfly has lost it's wings<br />

Sing out your hearts<br />

Sing o'er your bowels filled with ashes<br />

All hands are lost<br />

All hands