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Empires Fall
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This is the first song written for The Living Fields. The verses thrash and the chorus owes a debt of gratitude to the My Dying Bride, but the bridge and climax at the end are just manic energy.
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A volatile hybrid of doom, thrash and epic metal with string quartet arrangements and socio-political lyrics.
The Living Fields play a hybrid of doom, thrash and epic metal with string quartet arrangements and socio-political lyrics.
Song Info
Genre
Metal • Death/Black Metal
Charts
Peak #369
Peak in subgenre #73
Author
music: Muxlow, lyrics: Higgs
Rights
2004
Uploaded
August 21, 2004
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MP3 5.6 MB • 128 kbps • 6:07
Story behind the song
All empires fall, eventually. Today, the world contains only one great empire, and like all empires, it has grown into something never envisioned by the people that created it. It is capable of both great achievement and horrific destruction. But good or bad, it will someday trip, fail and fade into history.
Lyrics
Your god given right to bear arms The dull glow of last dying sons National identity lost Once great and sinking fast Driven by possessive impulse Don't you know that you'll die alone The treasured gifts all now gone What they fought for, your freedom Empire's rise Invariably fall Collapse in greed Like Rome did long ago The forefathers you treat with such Reverence, are bitter in their graves This is a mockery Beyond mere treachery A fundamental blasphemy Against your god Against your country And humanity Proves your insecurity Empire's rise Invariably fall Collapse in greed Like Rome did long ago Drowned in molten failure A dumbing down and soul erasure What is your purpose How can you be part of this circus A fundamental blasphemy Against your god Against your country And humanity Proves your instability Driven by possessive impulse Don't you know that you'll die alone The treasured gifts all now gone What they fought for, your freedom
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