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In a forgotten space where the talk keeps it on the dumb-dumb
Sucking an air recycled, and repellant to all but utmost blockheads
Gnashing
Writhing
In your ordure
A third-rate bolthole banished to the outskirts
Oh, such grandeur of the divine supremacy you espouse
A-bleating
A-bleating
Beneath the undergrowth
Camouflaged by shadow
Following depraved directives
Of The Idiot Parade
Fall in line with useless ruination
Stand up, salute, and join the Idiot Parade
A pale mob of senseless desperation
Stand up, salute, and join the idiot
The idiot
The Idiot Parade
Here they come again
Bearing teeth and cheap flags in a rabid procession
Overgrown hobbledehoys playing cowboys and hatred
The stench of it all
A pathogen, a plague from glass towers to the backland
A pawn's reenactment of wars he'll never understand
Repeating
Repeating
A sadistic dissent
A parroting of propaganda
Marching on to oblivion
With The Idiot Parade
Fall in line with useless ruination
Stand up, salute, and join the Idiot Parade
A pale mob of senseless desperation
Stand up, salute, and join The Idiot Parade
Stand up, salute, and join the idiot
The idiot
Fuck this fascist charade
In your fear of reason
Fear of the other
And perversion of truth
You'll heed the droning of the simpleton strongman
A hollow religion of games, battles, and lives
Brought to rust
The Idiot Parade
The Idiot Parade
The Idiot Parade
© 2021 Vicar. All rights reserved.
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Losing (Desolate)
05:37
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And at a crux
a spark that caught fire
A chance ignition
to quell the divide
I watched the embers fade
without hope of resurrection
A child lost
in unrelenting rain
As with the brightest hours
tempered by every nightfall
A wreckage appears on the path
I could have gone with it
dismantled, and dejected
But I knew your undying love
I'm reaching out
but you're drifting away
With my tears streaming
I'd beg for your hand
but would it break you down?
Can't believe what I'm losing
This is, this is all that I'm losing
This is, this is all that I'm losing
Losing
No sense in heading back
or conjuring the coming times
What's to cherish
is here in the now
But there is so much
that I just ache to undo
I hold it all
behind a trembling mask
I'm reaching out
but you're drifting away
With my tears streaming
I'd beg for your hand
but would it break you down?
Can't believe what I'm losing
I'm not alone on this,
the grim road of actuality
But these are nights
of mirrors shattering
shattering
shattering
shattering
And I’m reaching out
And I’m reaching out
And I’m reaching out
And I’m reaching out
(You’re drifting away)
And I’m reaching out
(You’re drifting away)
(You’re drifting away)
Can't believe what I'm losing
I'm reaching out
but you're drifting away
Can't believe what I'm losing
Believe what I’m losing
Believe what I’m losing
This is, this is all that I'm losing
Don’t slip away
Believe what I’m losing
Don’t slip away
Believe what I’m losing
Don’t slip away
Can’t believe what I’m losing
No, don’t go
© 2020 Vicar. All rights reserved.
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3. |
Chosen Ruler (Shameless)
07:36
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You've been shut down
waiting for an answer
dying light and wound up machines
a static life, this gift bestowed upon you
such gratitude for the riches you paid
O can you hear, hear the solution?
a facile call, not to be questioned
clutch onto proud, proud wilful ignorance
make like a lamb in a puerile brigade
a servant, self-relegated
A black X scrawled
a new state of scripted control
a black X
A black X scrawled
and payback for your misery?
you'll say, say yes
A black X scrawled
for a new state of scripted control
and payback for your misery?
you'll say, say yes
A black X scrawled
and to their questions, a wall of silence
make believe that you can't be sold
you'll grovel under chosen ruler
In counterfeit fatigues they came collecting
disgorging lines of a shameless decree
a pledge of violence unveiled your true cowardice
acting out in the cocoon of the gang
Another vote cast, cast for domination
you've had to struggle, so no one gets off easy?
no inoculation from regimes of punishment
get back in your place, in the comfort of pain
a masochistic view to run all societies
A bit part in a baron's crusade
such craven voices in a chorus of hate
the scapegoat changes, but the mission's the same
A black X
A black X
A black X scrawled
for a new state of scripted control
and payback for your misery?
you'll say, say yes
A black X scrawled
and to their questions, a wall of silence
make believe that you can't be sold
you'll grovel under chosen ruler
© 2020 Vicar. All rights reserved.
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4. |
Chosen Ruler (Mix V2)
05:48
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You've been shut down
waiting for an answer
dying light and wound up machines
a static life, this gift bestowed upon you
such gratitude for the riches you paid
O can you hear, hear the solution?
a facile call, not to be questioned
clutch onto proud, proud wilful ignorance
make like a lamb in a puerile brigade
a servant, self-relegated
A black X scrawled
a new state of scripted control
a black X
A black X scrawled
and payback for your misery?
you'll say, say yes
A black X scrawled
for a new state of scripted control
and payback for your misery?
you'll say, say yes
A black X scrawled
and to their questions, a wall of silence
make believe that you can't be sold
you'll grovel under chosen ruler
In counterfeit fatigues they came collecting
disgorging lines of a shameless decree
a pledge of violence unveiled your true cowardice
acting out in the cocoon of the gang
Another vote cast, cast for domination
you've had to struggle, so no one gets off easy?
no inoculation from regimes of punishment
get back in your place, in the comfort of pain
a masochistic view to run all societies
A bit part in a baron's crusade
such craven voices in a chorus of hate
the scapegoat changes, but the mission's the same
A black X
A black X
A black X scrawled
for a new state of scripted control
and payback for your misery?
you'll say, say yes
A black X scrawled
and to their questions, a wall of silence
make believe that you can't be sold
you'll grovel under chosen ruler
© 2020 Vicar. All rights reserved.
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5. |
Losing (Mix V2)
05:20
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And at a crux
a spark that caught fire
A chance ignition
to quell the divide
I watched the embers fade
without hope of resurrection
A child lost
in unrelenting rain
As with the brightest hours
tempered by every nightfall
A wreckage appears on the path
I could have gone with it
dismantled, and dejected
But I knew your undying love
I'm reaching out
but you're drifting away
With my tears streaming
I'd beg for your hand
but would it break you down?
Can't believe what I'm losing
This is, this is all that I'm losing
This is, this is all that I'm losing
Losing
No sense in heading back
or conjuring the coming times
What's to cherish
is here in the now
But there is so much
that I just ache to undo
I hold it all
behind a trembling mask
I'm reaching out
but you're drifting away
With my tears streaming
I'd beg for your hand
but would it break you down?
Can't believe what I'm losing
I'm not alone on this,
the grim road of actuality
But these are nights
of mirrors shattering
shattering
shattering
shattering
And I’m reaching out
And I’m reaching out
And I’m reaching out
And I’m reaching out
(You’re drifting away)
And I’m reaching out
(You’re drifting away)
(You’re drifting away)
Can't believe what I'm losing
I'm reaching out
but you're drifting away
Can't believe what I'm losing
Believe what I’m losing
Believe what I’m losing
This is, this is all that I'm losing
Don’t slip away
Believe what I’m losing
Don’t slip away
Believe what I’m losing
Don’t slip away
Can’t believe what I’m losing
No, don’t go
© 2020 Vicar. All rights reserved.
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In a forgotten space where the talk keeps it on the dumb-dumb
Sucking an air recycled, and repellant to all but utmost blockheads
Gnashing
Writhing
In your ordure
A third-rate bolthole banished to the outskirts
Oh, such grandeur of the divine supremacy you espouse
A-bleating
A-bleating
Beneath the undergrowth
Camouflaged by shadow
Following depraved directives
Of The Idiot Parade
Fall in line with useless ruination
Stand up, salute, and join the Idiot Parade
A pale mob of senseless desperation
Stand up, salute, and join the idiot
The idiot
The Idiot Parade
Here they come again
Bearing teeth and cheap flags in a rabid procession
Overgrown hobbledehoys playing cowboys and hatred
The stench of it all
A pathogen, a plague from glass towers to the backland
A pawn's reenactment of wars he'll never understand
Repeating
Repeating
A sadistic dissent
A parroting of propaganda
Marching on to oblivion
With The Idiot Parade
Fall in line with useless ruination
Stand up, salute, and join the Idiot Parade
A pale mob of senseless desperation
Stand up, salute, and join The Idiot Parade
Stand up, salute, and join the idiot
The idiot
Fuck this fascist charade
In your fear of reason
Fear of the other
And perversion of truth
You'll heed the droning of the simpleton strongman
A hollow religion of games, battles, and lives
Brought to rust
The Idiot Parade
The Idiot Parade
The Idiot Parade
© 2021 Vicar. All rights reserved.
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DHI (death and horror inc) formed in
Toronto in 1987. The band shared the stage with The Young Gods, Front Line Assembly and Alien Sex Fiend, and during the 1990s their CDs were distributed around the world.
In 2020, frontman Vicar delivered Chosen Ruler — DHI's first single in 22 years.
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