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Kill or Be Killed

from }​=​<​)​) [Feind] by Shyft

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Hate is the passion of the killing
And the killing keeps them away
Death is a blessing coming to them
But you must keep death at bay

Pain signals some thing to be doing
Pain signals their weakness
Aggression shows the power surging in you
It shows you they're not fearless

Crush them between hammer and stone
Why not? The fools struck first
Slice the flesh and snap apart bone
Show them you're blade's the worst

Crush them between hammer and stone
Why not? The quickest change
Slice the flesh and snap apart bone
Show them the strength of rage

To take a life in self-defense
But when do you begin?
When every act is an offense
How else can you live?

Kill them or you will be killed
Take no chances strike now
Read those eyes see their intent
They expect you to bow

All their kind they are the same
Take no chances strike now
Tall and small, they are the same
Kill before they learn how

When you're down, they beat you down
No helping hand
Only reach to choke you
Ain't no helping hand

When you're up, they use you
All in the plan
Feed to poison you
Ain't no helping hand

They write their songs with your tears
And sell them back to you
They drain your passions bone dry
Then sell them back, They give-

Only what it takes to meet their own success
None will give you power unless it will give them more
Charity, dependency, they're laughing at you
Betrayal is business for the many and the few

Power's relative to the powerless
Oppress or be oppressed
Weak eat propaganda from the powerful
Oppress and be oppressed

Fight their mundane void just long enough
To burn it all away
Do all you can to be strong enough
To dig the grandest grave

Crush them between hammer and stone
Why not? They forged your chains
Slice the flesh and snap apart bone
Show them the darkest day

Crush them between hammer and stone
Why not? The only way
Slice the flesh and snap apart bone
Show them you're unafraid

To take a life in self-defense
But when do you begin?
When every act is an offense
How else can you live?

Kill them or you will be killed
Take no chances strike now
Read those eyes see their intent
They expect you to bow

All their kind they are the same
Take no chances strike now
Tall and small, they are the same
Kill before they learn how

When you're down, they beat you down
No helping hand
Only reach to choke you
Ain't no helping hand

When you're up, they use you
All in the plan
Feed to poison you
Ain't no helping hand

They sing of glory
We'll sing of death
They sing of sorrow
We'll sing of death

We have unlocked our destiny
None may, nay can, resist
They've burned long, hard, now it's time to burn out
Close Universe in a fist

And then you die alone

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from }​=​<​)​) [Feind], released December 23, 2020

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Shyft Denver, Colorado

This is Shyft’s gabber/hardcore/breakcore/drill’n’bass project. Distorted heavy bass kicks, thick synths, and powerful melodies are the aim here- unless it’s chopped up progressive percussion. Influences come from many places, and not just the gabber or brain dance scene. It ranges from techno, trance and house genre classes to organic genre classes such as folk and metal. ... more

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