1.Shakedown At The Six
Never coming down from the trees
Never bending down on my knees
Your attempt to shackle my brain
Still afraid I'll put you to shame
I'm up here walking on air
It's like I'm not even there
Never coming down from the trees
Never bending down on my knees
With bad intent you stand and you stare
If I come down you'd better beware
You're down there fighting for air
From here you look pretty square
Never coming down from the trees
Never bending down on my knees
You attempts to shackle my brain
Only seem to add to my fame
I'm up here swinging in time
Survival's my only crime
Never coming down from the trees
Never bending down on my knees
2.White Cousin
We wanted to stay,
You cancelled the sun
We hide underground
And worship a gun
White cousin - When will it end?
The jungles we shared
Are all in the past
The all-seeing eye
Is closing at last
White cousin - When will it end?
They come with pink eyes
And lily-white skin
They hide underground
And burrow within
White cousins - Albino slaves
3.Ape Outro
As I turn water to wine
Shackle the unholy swine
You thought you'd captured my brain
Animal spirits remain
You found a cage for your prize
Simian anger defies
Atop your temple of sties
Prodigal Caesar will rise
As I turn water to wine
Turning the trees to my shrine
Tear down your temple of pain
Prodigal Caesar will reign
4.Nasty Hero
Here in my sanctuary
I will spin another kind of lie
About a species out of time
I ain't your plastic hero
I won't be the victim of your crime
You lost your hold upon the flame
With no direction and no name
And only ravaged by the slime
I'll be your nasty hero
And you're gonna pay for all my crimes
Some people say
You can only save yourself anyway
Can you say my name?
You'll only put your mind to shame
5.The Hunchback Of Notre Doom
Alone in the bell tower
Paying for my crime
Born into exile
Servant to its chime
Beware the gypsy's kiss
Sermon to us all
Cathedral's dark abyss
Summons her to fall
Born in the bell tower
Ringing only lies
Despotic sacrament
In the Vicar's eyes
I roam the halls back-bent
Silent, vacant room
A lonely malcontent
Ringing in his doom
6.Overborne
We came from the ocean
We saw though the sky
We went through the motions
Brave enough to spawn and die
With our waking
Born to die
No escaping
Born in caves that surface
Dry and hungry spells
Turning void of purpose
Future never tells
Promise making
Born to lie
No mistaking
7.Ape Uprising
You called us animals
We found the right and used it
Kingdom of cannibals
It's fight or flight
Our strife continues on
We shared your ancestors
You kept us caged like monsters
Simian manifold
It's fight or flight
Our strife continues on
You found the might in
Your opposing thumbs
But our battle's begun
Just a step on the rung
Thought you buried my brain
All your efforts in vain
But our battle's begun
Now you're biting your tongue
All the world is your stage
Until you rattled my cage
Now that your missing link was
Found in the shackled chain
Death to the noble savage
Life to the spoils of Kane
Prodigal Caesar rising
Rolling in leaves of rage
Swinging on vines you'll find him
Locked in his human cage
Dragging this out through centuries
Paleolithic maze
Caught in an endless circle
Chased in a fossilled craze
Corpus of ill-intention
Oedipus bound in chains
Bored of his new inventions
Bankrupt for all his pains
8.Simian Manifesto
Never coming down from the trees
Never bending down on my knees
Your attempt to shackle my brain
Still afraid I'll put you to shame
I'm up here walking on air
It's like I'm not even there
Never coming down from the trees
Never bending down on my knees
With bad intent you stand and you stare
If I come down you'd better beware
You're down there fighting for air
From here you look pretty square
Never coming down from the trees
Never bending down on my knees
You attempts to shackle my brain
Only seem to add to my fame
I'm up here swinging in time
Survival's my only crime
Never coming down from the trees
Never bending down on my knees
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