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Rats In A Maze

by Total Waste

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1.
Midday dying The sunlight fades away Watching as the night Overtakes the day Worrying about the Quickly waning light And how I'm gonna spend the endless fucking night What have I done To stem the never ending fear? What have I done To let the world know I was here? What have I done To face the fire and the flames? What have I done To think that you would know my name? What can I do to keep the Flames of hope alive? To keep the path from shadows To keep the spark alight? To keep the tracks uncovered From deep eternal snow And leave this world with just a Just anything to show Cuz I take solace knowing That when I’m all but dust That maybe someone out there will just remember I was...here Dying a little On the inside Dying a little Everyday Dying a little Because the clock is ticking and I can't stop it And I don't know what lies ahead
2.
Wake up again, each day like the last It all bleeds together, no future, no past The outlook is grim, just more of the same You’re just pawn in this bullshit game Press and fold your suit, be part of the lie That you’re working towards some bigger meaning in life You’re a well-dressed slave, dying a little inside But yet you insist on still clinging to your desperat life Walk to the train, slave to the grind The boss is bitching cuz you’re never on time Every day you die inside But you’re still clinging to your desperat life The house, and the car, and the kids The lawn and the job and the phone and the bills Slam one down and weep inside cuz Your desperat life is killing you They say who you are They say what you do They’re stealing your life From underneath you And you blindly agree To be part of the team So that every day It’s fucking… Bus then train then work then bed then Bus then train then work then dead then Bus then train then work then bed then Put that bullet in your head And it’s for your desperat life: The house and the car and the kids The lawn, the job, the phone, the bills Slam another one down and weep Cuz this is why you keep on clinging to your Deperat life Punch in, clock out Lean in, check out Punch in, clock out Sit back, lights out Punch in, clock out Lean in, check out Punch in, clock out Cock back, lights out Cuz it's fucking...
3.
There is not a single difference Beast and man, all the same We are the scum of the earth We are the only ones to blame Wash it all, all away now Turn the clocks all back to null Cure the world of its blight Because the world is fucking ill If you look into the mirror And you really truly see Then you'll understand that this is The way it has to be We sell our own self interest To the ones with the highest check Destroy the world around us And leave it all a wreck Pollute the air we breathe in And live like fucking pigs Drowned in the shit we discard While fighting for the dregs Draw lines between our neighbor As an excuse to slaughter Meanwhile we covet his wife And lust after his daughter I wanna see you crying I wanna see your churches burn I wanna see your people die It's what you deserve I wanna see you crying I wanna see our churches burn I wanna see our people die It's what we deserve This is what we get for Believing in some way out That someone was out there to save us Save us from ourselves Burn it away with nuclear fire Reset. Erase. Obliterate. There's no tomorrow. Sanitize and purify this Sad excuse of an existence Terminate the human race and Realize this world's infected
4.
Every day burning down Bridges that got me here Ashes fall to waste I let them fall to waste Trapped inside these walls I struggle Screams don’t make a sound Feces in my eyes and mouth As blood falls to the ground Rats in a maze Clawing at the walls with bloody Nails, there’s so much pain Trying to escape But there’s no escape Shadowed figures watch us as we are Fighting for our lives Rejoicing in our agony and Laughing at our cries Clawing, writhing, ripping, biting Seething, scratching, rats in a maze Clawing, writhing, ripping, biting Scratching, searching for any way out Clawing, writhing, ripping, biting Scratching, rats in a maze Clawing, writhing, ripping, biting Seething, but there’s no way out There’s no salvation There’s no escaping this We’re all just vermin scum Drowning in our piss This is your life: you live, You struggle, then you die No light can pierce the haze We’re all just fucking rats in a maze
5.
Red lines draw the boundaries A streak of blood in the sand There's no forgiveness for Obfuscating my fatherland Corporations the new alpha Green suit trumps red white and blue Judges stolen, children kidnapped Pestilence to name a few Duped by conmen and flashy signs By catchy slogans and fragrant lies Blame it on the others because they They can't fight back But it's not just his fault, it's because of you When all of the dust has fallen I hope you are hanged by guilt All the families you've destroyed And all the senseless blood you've spilt When this shit's all done and over I hope you are hanged by guilt Ruined country, ruined earth Ruined everything we've built And meanwhile, we've forgotten how to get angry Cuz that's how this shit will be won Cuz we've got marches and rallies But they're the ones with the guns
6.
She paints in a world of color Scarlet, leaf, red and blue But her masters tell she must Paint in duller hues Daylight slowly dying Like the light behind your eyes Ambition bought and sold As inner hopes are free to die And the person you wanted to be Is still whimpering in your heart But her screams are getting fainter Cuz she’s bound and chained by golden shackles So she draws in mauve and taupe but the masters hate it still So she draws in black and white and they open up the till And the person you wanted to be Is turning into dust Ground into an ashen waste Because she's chained and bound by golden shackles Crash your ship into the rocks Lured by sirens of green and gold Dance beneath the money tree It only costs your fucking soul Forty years later and her will has been broken Black and white and shades of gray No joy, no family, no self worth And the masters no longer pay When she looks back at the youth that Was wasted for just a dime She wishes she could’ve done more but Now she’s run out of time Our own abandoned dreams Are the deaths we never mourn We just let them fade away Passing clouds in a starless night sky But I refuse to let this die I refuse to let them go I’m fighting with every last breath Because I’m not fucking dead yet
7.
They work for you They say they need your vote But they're all bought and paid for It's just a fucking joke They say to keep the faith And trust in god But where's that god gonna be When they choose not to spare the rod You work for them They pay by check Then they crack the whip and tie a Fucking noose 'round your neck Profiting off your sweat They ride you to the bank And then expect you to be the One who’ s giving thanks They want you to blame the poor Or the Jews or the gays All the white they sit back and they Capitalize on the hate And then day after day They shove our face in the dirt And we just take it Is this what we deserve? Every day they beat you down How much can you take? Dying like a slave How much can you take? They're here to serve and protect Unless you're poor or you're black Then they just tell you to run And shoot you in the back Every day a part of you dies Drowning in a sea of lies Every day the machine marches on Grinding up the worthless pawns He says he can save you From all your sins All he needs is money And silence from your kids. Every day they beat you down How much can you take? Dying like a slave How much can you take? This is no way to live How much can you take? Ask yourself How much can you take?
8.
I feel so empty Running down the same old paths But the ends are not the same Because youth and freedom never last What begins as a thing familiar Ends the night, false and hollow Fields I once reaped for pleasure Are now barren, dead, and fallow Many years later and I can still count them But through the haze of time they seem Like broken dreams half remembered Fantasies from another me Lost. Life. I still wish to lay upon sands of foreign shores Lost. Life. To sip from a cup that I've not even handled But those days are gone, and the light of my youth has gone with them Lost. Life. The choices I've made have plotted the course Lost. Life. I've made these choices And the plot cannot be rewritten Many years later and still I can count them But through the haze of time they seem Like broken dreams half remembered Fantasies of another fucking me I cannot change what has been done What never was and never will be from this day on and I can No longer be the man who was Because he is dead to time and his virulence and his strength Have all died with him
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10.
Judgement 04:19
I see white sand all around me But it’s not all that it seams It hides its truer meaning Beneath the sparkling gleam Fade away into oblivion The fate of each it seams The lives of all our fathers And all their dead-end dreams And all those fucking houses That they had fought to build Will all erode nothing Eroded all to silt And those precious shrines will Become eternal ash The blackness takes all memories Ghosts of an unlit past Come judgment day Come what judgement may The life you led, and the one you wish you had Becoming one, becoming none It’s all just black In the end Blinded by an empty promise Advertised with holy words Too dumb to realize that It's so fucking absurd As it was in the beginning Will it be in the end It says so in the book but We chose to play pretend You are a puppet Made of bone Pulled by strings of sinew Controlled by a brain A puppet master Who thinks that he is the puppet You are a puppet Made of bone Pulled by strings of sinew Controlled by a brain A puppet master Who thinks that she is the fucking puppet
11.
I’m at a diverging path deep Inside these fucking woods And this one doesn't look like The way I thought it would Shattered mirrors hang from an aging Pair of lipolytic limbs A pale gaunt specter stands stooped Over where I should have been Everyday I ask the question Everyday Do I want this life In the shrubs lie jackals They smile, but hide their teeth They lurk in deathly shadows And want the worst of me Do I choose to sate the jackals And let them bite my hand? Do I let a piece of me die For the sake of making friends? I tread the same old paths But the ends don’t provide The joy of life inside me Has already long since died I’m looking for a way out Don’t want to feel so hollow I look for light in darkness But see just more to follow I feel so empty I feel so dead inside The joy of life inside me Has gone and long since died I had always thought that things would turn out different But I'm picking up the pieces And making the best of it. The hopelessness and failure The struggle and the pain The realization that you will amount to nothing I'm doing my best I'm trying to cope I'm trying to do better and accept That I will amount to nothing And I might fail, but I'm Fucking Trying

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released September 9, 2022

A.N. - Vocals, Bass, Programming
M.N. - Guitars

Recorded in A Coffin at the Bottom of the Sea
Mixed by Total Waste
Mastered by Peter In De Betou

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Total Waste is a D-beat project in the style of Disfear, Wolfbrigade, Avskum, etc, with a hint of grind and death.

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