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Craven Blood
02:34
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Sixty days of shelling
Earth churned into mud
The quick scramble into foxholes, the slow are now guts and blood
Stukas scream and swoop
Blasting embankments to bits
The groans of panzer treads poisons my mind with dread
Shattered spirit sapped of strength
Determination dissolved in despair
Break from line, flee towards fear
Sweet smell of fresh hay
Free of fell cries and carnage
The shock of battle fades, recharging my resolve to resist
Return with rapidity to abandoned line
Stale with fleshrot and gunsmoke
White rictuses piled high on earth unstained by my craven blood
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Open Grave
05:02
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A vast putrid pit festers sweltering under a bleeding sun
Innumerable husks twisted in angular pain: silent testament of man
Weary battalions trudge towards Nanjing, burning and looting at will
Asphyxiation of a defiant city in a fog of death and despair
Passed down on high from the sun prince: orders to kill all captives
Grinding cogs in a violent engine set about their gruesome work
Forced at gun and swordpoint, defiling the inner flesh
Mothers, daughters, young and old, in an everflowing stream of violence
Prisoners herded like cattle through cannon and bayonet and fire
Mechanized cacophonous abbatoir
Fetid waste befouls the long river
Lying in a filthy open hole, piled among violated carcasses in an open grave
扔在萬人坑中
滿地都是屍體
Forgotten in an open grave
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Wandering damned soul, died far from home
Denied taoist rites, abandoned in the loam
Monsoons winds thunder down, the earth begin to stir
Infused by lightning, the corpse returns
Sealing the corpse
It cannot hear your pleas
Sealing the corpse
Before it steals your qi
Green limbs stiff unbending, nails grown long in death
Red eyes glow in darkness, seeking living breath
Bound by rigor mortis, the corpse can only hop
Until it's slaked its fleshthirst, the corpse never stops
Sealing the corpse
It cannot hear your pleas
Sealing the corpse
Before it steals your qi
The ancient zombie trails shriveled bodies in its wake
Exhale not as it passes near, it only smells breath of fear
猙獰怒視
全身僵硬
利爪撕裂
血盆大口
Armed with peachwood and taoist charms
Bind with thread of blood and ink
The motionless corpse can cause no harm
Until the next victim lifts the charm
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撿骨 (Bone Ritual)
05:25
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山路
濃霧
發燒的剎車
山崖
我
大海!
身穿黑衣,群集壇前
齊唱金剛誦
梵唄穿過死亡之霧
洗淨塵世罪孽
覆著黃綾,人群肅靜
一位弔唁者跪下,哀傷的眼淚,靜靜流下
鋼棺中,肉體焚化
剩下白骨,化為灰燼
走上黃泉路
會看舊皮囊
撿骨筷把我放入甕中
腳先入,頭最後
金孫在腰上綁甕
一股不祥之感升起
帶走的不是我
無聲吶喊,衝不過陰陽界
錯的神主牌
裊裊青煙
我無緣享用
一個饑餓的孤魂
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Nanjing has fallen, the Imperial army marches
Breathing a black pall in violent discharge
Piles of the dismembered trail the invaders wake
Rush along the yellow river; with steel Jinan will break
Desperate situation; Okamura's forces look towards Wuhan
The capital must be preserved
Breach the river dikes, deny their advance
Alter the river course, but millions must die
Famine is sure to follow, families displaced from their homes
To halt the eastern menace, China must sacrifice her sons
They were given no warning
Swept away in the night
Swollen by summer rains, the Yellow River devastates Henan
Once abundant fields now lie barren and wasted
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Red Annihilation
04:50
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Violent revolt dismantles decrepit institutions
Instilling fear in corrupt Western nations
A red plague infects Europe
A gang of godless amoral heathens
Red annihilation
A China divided amongst encroaching imperialists
Red annihilation
Fascists forcibly expel foreigners to unify a fragmented land
Rejection of tradition, negation of failed culture
Fetishistic embrace of Western revolutionary ideals
Workers and students gathered for indiscriminate execution
With hands bound and eyes blinkered
Gore soaked blade separates the body from the head
The streets of Shanghai run slick with blood
In red annihilation
Meddling in Southeast Asia
Nuke hungry capitalists oppress the poor, feed the corrupt
Moral hypocrites
Napalm strike in villages, a flood of Agent Orange,
Murdering China's stooges for a glorious American future
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God Worshipping Society
04:26
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Tear my abdomen open; a purifying sacred ritual
Cast off the inner soiled mass, restore my viscera with blinding light
Heavenly father!
上帝老爺, 耶穌大哥
I am the brother of Christ;
Taiping unifies the world of light!
仇客分省; A clarion call to massacre and divide
Uniting the despised, unholy crusade
Imperial awakening, only God is real
Baptismal faith distorts Taiping heaven kingdom
A paradise shaded in hypocrisy
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罌粟花 (Black Seeds)
05:08
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Languidly imbibing black fumes
Dreamlessly, it flowers through your veins
Expansion....
Visions wandering nakedly
Planar transmigration, journey beyond the waking mind reversal
Future bleeding to past, a compulsory enslavement to the seed
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