THRESHOLD – Dividing Lines (2022)

Release date: November 18, 2022

Label: Nuclear Blast

Country: UK

Rating: 4.5/5

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Lyrics: “Dividing Lines” (2022)

Haunted

Lost faith in the human race
Lost hope in the ever after
You got burned everywhere you turned
You touched fire like a salamander

Can’t get up, can’t get over it
Won’t let up, won’t let go of it
No time for another try
So leave now or you’re going to have a breakdown

Abandon your instinct, it only tries to insulate
No passion, no limit, you’ll only hyperventilate
You’re lethal, your forfeit harmonically distorted
Till you’ve forsaken all you wanted
What doesn’t kill you leaves you haunted
And you’re slipping away

Hold tight while the bomb strikes
Countdown to the new disaster
Don’t say you don’t want to fight
Are you going to be the next cadaver

Can’t get up, can’t get over it
Won’t let up, won’t let go of it
Can’t choose when you’re going to lose
So leave town or you’re heading for a showdown

The shadow lingers
I will remember
The hounds of winter
I will remember
Every promise, every cry
Every silence, every lie
I will remember
Every spell you ever cast
Every spectre from the past
I will remember

Hall Of Echoes

Hear the voice say the word
Thoughts and theories are never heard
No distrust, no recall
One illusion to cover them all
So burn all the books, destroy all the bridges
Sell them the desert as mountains and ridges
Wrong time and place but it’s a matter of pride
Shooting down the other side
‘Cause the gulf is way too wide

You’re all shored up in your bunkers and silos
Don’t know the way but I’m sure it’s the high road

Shout the words till they come back louder
Destroy the foil and feel the power
Light the fuse and ignite the powder
And maybe this could be your hour
So build your fortress, raise your drawbridge
Climb the tower as it grows
Follow the feeling wherever it goes
With narrow thoughts in narrow walls
For narrow minds until they close
The future is yours in a hall of echoes

This is your DNA
‘Do not alter’ it’s your constraint
Sights are set, guns are primed
By your halter forever defined
So when you expose emotion that scares you
Push it away now, don’t let it impair you
Wrong time and place but it’s a matter of fact
Walking down a one-way track
Not a chance you’re coming back

You’re all shored up in your bunkers and silos
Your finger’s poised and you’re ready to fire now

And there’s no guarantee
We’ve found reality

Thoughts are forced and minds are stormed
Memories lost and new ones formed
Shoot the messenger and close the doors
The future is now, the future is yours
It’s yours (It’s yours)

And there’s no guarantee
We’ve found reality

Let It Burn

Heaven’s burning, look up the sky is on fire
Have you seen enough just what have we done here
Did we fail to plan or plan to expire
Day by day we count the hours till it comes

Could we rebuild the world without modern machines
Burning a hole in the sun
This satellite’s dying but what does it mean
Escape plan with nowhere to run

Exploitation by civilisation
Has come to haunt us
Mother earth pleads as she falls to her knees
Dust to dust

We don’t belong to this world
This world belongs to no one
We got it wrong
Let it burn, let it burn, let it burn, let it burn
We could belong to this world
We have a chance to make it right
All that we’ve wronged
Or we could just let it burn

If we could start again where would we begin
With city walls dividing lines and prayers few understand
We once had it all but oceans rise and empires fall
If we could start again where would we begin

Pushing the limits of what’s meant to be
Has left us a future undone
Amend the escape plan, there’s no air to breathe
It’s too late, the end has begun

How the hell did we get this far just to get lost again
Did no one listen
Circumstances bring no second chances
Let’s just hold on

Silenced

Silenced a million spoken voices
Their choices stolen without violence
Stopped by unrelenting forces
Who never saw their worth
Who never saw their souls as they were

Silenced a concept thought of freely
In fury a statement of defiance
Blocked no judges and no jury
From many to a few to everyone we knew

We reel at the scale of the wall they created
Lost at the cost of the world they deleted
The shouting of a dream
Was nothing but a scream inside
As everyone was

Silenced the past is just a memory
Nostalgia is all that it’s cracked up to be
Stored like some forgotten history
Left to gather dust they were
Loved and they were lost and they were

Silenced they knew that it was coming
They told us we’d reach the end of summer
We stand in line with arrows
To beat the new machine
We’re slaughtered by the bullets
In the form of T’s and C’s

We reel at the scale of the wall they created
Lost at the cost of the world they deleted
The shouting of a dream
Was nothing but a scream inside
As everyone was silenced
As everyone was silenced

Silenced silenced
Silenced silenced

We reel at the scale of the wall they created
Lost at the cost of the world they deleted
The shouting of a dream
Was nothing but a scream inside
And after their show of compassion is ended
We’ll hear the coda of what they intended
The shouting of a dream
Was nothing but a scream inside
As everyone was silenced
As everyone was silenced

Silenced a million spoken voices
Their choices stolen without violence
Stopped by unrelenting forces
Who never saw their worth
Who never saw their souls as they were

The Domino Effect

Be careful what you’re looking for
You’ll always find an open door
One mistake just leads to more
And you won’t get to choose again

An unintended consequence
You become the target while you’re busy taking aim
Destroying all your evidence
Knocking down the pieces in your never ending game

Here in the afterglow
We’ll never let it go
All we can do is know
Nowhere to talk about it
Old fires will always fade
The only constant left is change
As the warhorse rides away
Forced out but we will not forget
The domino effect

Your memory’s like oxygen
It’s helping you to breathe again
Staving off this pathogen
Painting all your blues away

You override your self-defence
Undermining reason in your race to hold the flame
With alibis and eloquence
Knocking down the pieces in your never ending game

We started out
The victim of a flawed machine
Not sure of much
But sure that we were culpable
And through it all
We thought that we could rule the world
So hard to touch
But nothing is unstoppable

Did things get better now
Did you find forever now

Is it time to put us back in our box
Till all of the fighting stops
‘Cause I don’t think we’re ever going to get back out again
All the liars and all the fools
Can light up the latest rules
To burn away our promises and hopes like oxygen
And watch us fall

So put us back in our box
Till all of the fighting stops
‘Cause I don’t think we’re ever going to get back out again

And through it all
We thought that we could rule the world
The last to know
That we were all just dominoes

Complex

We’ve still got a system we want you to use
So cover your faces we’re lighting the fuse
We’ve got all the data we’ve stolen the facts
You’re losing control so we’re taking it back
Forget all the things that you’ve known all along
Our latest advisors can prove that they’re wrong
And just when you think that you’re getting ahead
We’ll change our research to confuse you again

From all this information
We’re meant to determine
Our final destination
When nothing is certain

So it’s hard to trust our eyes
When the truth gets laced with lies
And it’s hard to trust our hearts
When they’re tainted by the past
You can’t believe in everything
One sounds as good as the next
You know that something’s going on
But it’s so complex

We’ll cover it all you just need to relax
And marvel at our undeniable facts
We’ll publish exhaustive reports as we go
Except for the parts that you’re not meant to know
We’ll mean what we say and we’ll say what you do
With slogans to help you believe that it’s true
And if you complain that it’s not what we meant
We’ll give them the opposite meaning again

From all this information
We’re meant to establish
Our final destination
And suffer the damage

And we’ll redefine our context
From deep inside our complex
‘Cos something’s going on
From all this information
We’re meant to determine
Our final destination
When nothing is certain

We’ve still got a system we want you to use
So cover your faces we’re lighting the fuse
We’ve got all the data we’ve stolen the facts
You’re losing control so we’re taking it back
We’re going to decide how the world goes around
Patrolling the skies and controlling the ground
So here’s to the power and the glory we found
So why do you think that it’s so complex

King Of Nothing

All my dreams are undone
I’m losing my faith
The battle was lost
So why should I stay
Now all that I’ve done
Can’t hold me forever

You deceived me with lies
Deceived me with innocence
Sentiment influence
Plotting my own unconscious demise
I followed you endlessly faithfully
Watched as you sold me a whole new world
Said we could be home soon… home soon…

I… I won’t give in this time
I will not follow
What my eyes can’t see my heart can’t feel
Take me back to the other side
Where I’m king of nothing but a smile

This whole thing became part of me
Told you I could win
But the truth is so bitter to taste
Poisoned apathy
Watch the colours burn and fade away

I… I won’t give in this time
I will not follow
What my eyes can’t see my heart can’t feel
Take me back to the other side
Where I’m king of nothing but a smile

‘Cos I… I won’t give in this time
I will not follow
What my eyes can’t see my heart can’t feel
Take me back to the other side
Where I’m king of nothing…

Lost Along The Way

You stare at the embers
You walk to the door
You still don’t remember
What you’re leaving it for

Just know you’ve got to get away, far away
Surrender the war, surrender the war

You’re kicking, you’re screaming
You’re peaceful inside
Converging contradictions
With nowhere to hide

Except your overflowing heart flowing dark
As every pulse tears you apart

Look who suffers now
Look who suffers now

Could you ever leave this life
Do you think you’ll always stay
Are you found in all this light
Are you lost along the way

And you’re just so over
Being under attack
You’re taken for granted
So you’re taking it back

Is there a part of this you’ll miss when it’s gone
Or does it conflict with who you’ve become

You’ve cut yourself off now
You’re outside the wall
You’re independent unrepentant
Far from it all

But was this all you ever hoped ever dreamed
Don’t lose control, don’t lose control

Look who suffers now
Look who suffers now

Could you ever leave this life
Do you think you’ll always stay
Are you found in all this light
Are you lost along the way
Look who suffers now

Look who suffers now
Look who suffers now

Could you ever leave this life
Do you think you’ll always stay
Are you found in all this light
Are you lost along the way

(Lost along the way)

Run

Untie me now, please show no mercy
As you bring my body to the ground
You’ll see just who I am
Leave my wounds they have earned no pity
Because I am not a savior
I wear no crown

Why did you run
Was the truth a lie, the tear shed for another
How could you walk away and sacrifice me
Father, you know I tried
But I couldn’t find the answers
Even after all that I gave

In my room no one cares
Lost inside, so unaware
Growing cold, no will to live
Thoughts divide
I’m such a mess from this

Why did you run
Was the truth a lie, the tear shed for another
How could you walk away and sacrifice me
Mother, you know I tried
But I couldn’t find the answers
Even after all that we had

Why did you run
Was the truth a lie, the tear shed for another
How could you walk away and sacrifice me
Lover, you know I tried
But I couldn’t find the answers
Even after all that we shared

Defence Condition

I don’t fall for theories
Designed to change your views
Created to fool you
By people that rule you
If only to hide the truth
I don’t fall for speeches
Produced behind the lines
By someone who’s woven
Some banners and slogans
To conquer your hearts and minds

One life, one try
It’s enough to keep on breathing
One fight, one side
But tell me who to trust
Tell me who to trust

Lost in a world where nothing’s real
Learning to trust in what I feel
Getting worn down by this war of attrition
This is my defence condition
Want to be heard but I’ve got no voice
Watched and observed but I’ve got no choice
Twenty four seven ‘cos I gave my permission
This is my defence condition

I don’t fall for penance
I don’t think God’s to blame
And if he is there then
I don’t think he’d care for
Us doing it in his name
And it can’t be random
It’s all too neatly done
You don’t make a heart grow
Until there’s a blood flow
So where was it flowing from

One truth, one proof
Just enough to keep believing
One voice, one choice
But tell me who to trust
Tell me who to trust

I don’t fall for theories
I don’t fall for theories

Power corrupts and meaning dies
Bend the truth with little white lies
No one wants to be exposed
So words are purged and cases closed
Power corrupts and lines are crossed
Wars are won but nothing is lost
Every virtue bites the dust
So how do you know who to trust

Sometimes life is a battle
There is no turning back
And justice can be slow to dispatch so
Lock all your windows and batten your hatches
Sometimes lies are effective
No one sees them attack
But propaganda shows their offence so
Cover your eyes now and raise your defences

DEFCON 2 and the threat is true
DEFCON 1 and the damage is done
DEFCON 2 and the threat is true
DEFCON 1 and the damage is done

These hollow days
My thoughts remain unseen
The world cannot be altered
By a billboard or a meme
No one proclaims
Their imaginary views
Unless they’re all the same
As the imaginary news

One life, one try
It’s enough to keep on breathing
One fight, one side
But tell me who to trust
Tell me who to trust

DEFCON 2 and the threat is true
This is my defence condition
DEFCON 1 and the damage is done
This is my defence condition
DEFCON 2 and the threat is true
This is my defence condition
DEFCON 1 and the damage is done
This is my defence condition

What you going to do when the meaning goes
You’re lying like thieves and you’re not going to change me
What you going to do when the feeling grows
We’re falling like leaves but you’re not going to change me
What you going to do when the demon knows
You’re lying like thieves and you’re not going to change me
What you going to do when the healing flows
We’re falling like leaves but you’re not going to change me
You’re not God and you’re never going to save me

Published on: December 1, 2022December 1, 2022Author: adminComment: 0