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Monsters by Gaslight

from The Machine and the Beast by Alwaid

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The city gates are closed, safe walls and buildings of smoke
As the bell’s doom tolls, day dies, shadows grow
You feeling safe now? Whilst under, fires bellow
The river glistens. What shady secrets lie below?
Eye for eye, don’t you know you reap what you sow?
Scratch the surface of this ideal community
Men wearing masks of respectability
Away from mad crowds, the doctor ceases to hide
A razor glares bright, a demon in disguise
Life for life, it takes but one to unravel all our laws

Bloodstains in the night
Black by gaslight

White pavement screeching, each night a deadly countdown
As vice has leaked in, hear the music of the night
Beasts with no names, faces drowned in ruby red
Exhale whispers of fear, and awe, and hate
Grime and crime, perpetual dark beneath the fog-clogged sky

Fancy machine, a righteous dream
In an ocean of chaos we aim for islands of order

Fortune in our future,
Glorious peak of progress
Rise and fall, new Babylon
Pride crumbling down till even ruins turn to sand

Stony-hearted mother, fiends round every corner
Decadence plagues the air
Street after street, drinking tears
And vaporous sighs of despair

Fancy machine, a fallacious dream,
We barred windows, locked every door,
Building a sanctuary that turned out to be fertile grounds for hidden sins

Scratch the surface of this ideal community
Men wearing masks of respectability
Beasts with no name, faces drowned in ruby red
Exhale whispers of fear, and awe, and hate
Eye for eye, don’t you know you reap what you sow?

Desperate preys in the night Reason’s gone wild
Predators in the night So close behind
Broken men in the night Die by gaslight

Roam the pits, Flee the streets
Where the beasts, Men or freaks,
Are killing by gaslight / Are dying by gaslight

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from The Machine and the Beast, released May 13, 2017

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Alwaid Lille, France

Alwaid is a melodic metal band from Lille, France. Founded in 2010 as a band both melodic and with a touch of heavy metal, it was named after a star that evokes a nocturnal and oneiric world. A demo was released in the course of the summer 2012. After a number of shows in 2013, the band's first album "Lacus Somniorum" was released in March 2014. ... more

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