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The Gilded Age

by Velaraas

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1.
So sure of their station Men they were brave But the pride of the general Led them to their grave In that final hour Lives, they were lost Few knew how the west was won And fewer know the cost They paid with blood As all men should Their mournful cry Under western skies Along the horizon Their shadows spilling forth Bleeding over the wounded plain The trap is set The ambush awaits Their fate is sealed Counting coup or taking your life Nocking my bow or unsheathing my knife Cold and forsaken lies The twisted heart within this shell With every scalp I take I send a devil back to hell I fight with the power of the gods at my side Their fate is sealed I will live, you will die Ascend with your spirit to the sky My medicine is strong Now I sing a grand war song Seething malice, full of hate Painted horses seal your fate
2.
I came to this land With naught but the clothes on my back and the gun in my hand I went into the hills Despite all the talk of the natives and men that they killed Doomed to wallow in the filth of man I'll never see my home again There is a price for power Beneath the blackened hills Battling the earth with fire and steel Deeper and deeper till its golden daughters are revealed Shattering the core, maniacally obsessed With every breath I take, I black the lungs within my chest Blacker than the darkest night The daylight fading from my sight There is a price for power Beneath the blackened hills No man can ever stop me For its favor I will kill Though my heart must break With every claim I stake for gold Everything I do It's all for you I lose my soul There is a price for power Beneath the blackened hills No man can ever stop me For its favor I will kill Though my heart must break With every claim I stake for gold Everything I've done This loaded gun It waits for you
3.
The Gem 03:54
They stumble through my cedar doors With money in their hands They drink and fuck it all away Exactly as I planned Seat of my power A den of sin As he leaves I say to Dan, "Don't forget to murder Tim." A whiskey shot A piece of ass It's a service I provide I'm drinking, smoking, Fucking proof That the American dream's alive This money ain't enough to cover The cost of all these thrills So get off your ass and back To those forsaken hills I'll tell you where you stand, my friend You're standing in the Gem It's where you spend your gold Where the Wild West begins A whiskey shot A piece of ass It's a service I provide I'm drinking, smoking, Fucking proof That the American dream's alive You just walked into The Gem You best keep your cards close to your chest If you hope to walk out again You just walked into The Gem You best hope your money's good If you hope to walk out again
4.
My life's an endless struggle Fighting just to survive A nail into my coffin With every driven spike Crushed by the weight Of the world Buried beneath the rails Here I lie Entombed Stack the bodies I spent my whole life slaving For the captains of industry But no one dares to notice Or even look at me Captains of industry They do a lot of talking But they got nothing to say A lifetime's worth of hardship Just one week's worth of pay Crushed by the weight Of the world Buried beneath the rails Here I lie Entombed Stack the bodies I spent my whole life slaving For the captains of industry But no one dares to notice Or even look at me Captains of industry No one will stop me Captains of industry Buried beneath the rails
5.
Soldiers shouted, "Get down on your knees! Your family name's a disease." I cried out but no one heard my call They were the first against the wall Fleeing from my home I am broken Journey to a land of lead And gold Pouring the contents of my soul Through my fingers into these keys Floating right over the heads of those That I would kill myself to appease I am but a simple entertainer I'd walk through hell just to play you a song Every note, every phrase, every coda Reminders of ways in which my life went wrong Where there stood a boy stands a man Play these ivory keys with my hands "So my son, all your life strive to be somebody, and I know in my heart that you'll be." Pouring the contents of my soul Through my fingers into these keys Floating right over the heads of those That I would kill myself to appease I am but a simple entertainer I'd walk through hell just to play you a song Every note, every phrase, every coda Reminders of ways in which my life went wrong Never look back again I'll never look back again
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7.
For me, there are no claims to stake No harden crusts of earth to break My tools are of a different trade And what I want, I take One by one they fall before me Their cries for mercy unheard God's law will never bind me They sputter out their final words Forsaken by society For all that I have done Walking the broken trails Speaking only with my gun And every day is harder Than the last A history of violence In my past Do it quickly and bury me deep I didn't come here to make a speech I came here to die Step by step nearing the gallows The hangman's noose awaits No final words to speak of Just everlasting hate Seems that the light It burns away I see my life Stretching behind me And every day was harder Than the last A history of violence In my past Righteous men condemn me For my life of sin My hand has shed the blood of man By man shall my blood be shed Let 'er rip
8.
I have been alone For so long that I can't Remember what it feels like To be in your arms I can't describe The silence inside me When I look out into the night sky At the stars I held your hand As the life drained from you I still recall the affliction Consuming the light behind your eyes My heart is an old dried well Barren as the plains Since the blight in your veins Led to your gastly demise I can hear you crying out Your voice echoes on the breeze From a whisper to a shout Till you're screaming through the trees This prairie I will roam I will never see my home One thing that comforts me Is to walk with you in dreams Each night I wait for dawn Alone with my grief A weight on my chest Crushing the life from me When in the end Sleep takes me I close my eyes And your face is the first thing I see Each day is a nightmare And I can't wake up I feel your presence beside me I look but you're nowhere to be found Joanna the passing of years Has not been kind My existence defined By a sorrow so profound I can see you in the sun Feel the warmth of your embrace But no matter where I run It is you I can't replace This prairie I will roam I will never see my home One thing that comforts me Is to walk with you in dreams In my dreams you're still the same Golden hair and emerald eyes Planting flowers in the spring See them buried in the snow I wake calling out your name As the memory of you dies I can hear you whispering, "You can't take me with you, let me go."
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Peacemaker 03:18
I always felt her there In the light By my side Beautiful and deadly Many men fought for her love But she chose me Her voice rang out like thunder And I fell She pulled me under She was my only friend But she betrayed me In the end
10.
Came to these hills In thirty-three We were seven Now they're all dead but me Beyond the hill they rest Scalps cut from bone I carve into this rock So that their names are known I own the soul Midas sold I've had dreams and I've had nightmares Plans for a life without worry or woe Got all the gold that I could carry Greed has become my greatest foe The last testament Of Ezra Kind This weathered stone Is all that you'll find The sky is black The sun has set This is as close to Home as I'll get I own the soul Midas sold All my dreams become nightmares Plans for a life that can no longer be Hid all the gold that I could bury Lost my gun and they're coming for me
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released March 7, 2015

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