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The Black Dahlia Murder - Statutory Ape - (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

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Statutory Ape


"This is a reckoning!
A clichéd cut of lying tongue!
Revenge never goes out of style!

Gorilla honing trigger-finger,
That makes gorilla man.

Ingrained, there's hate within us all!

Spiraling!
I've lost my footing once again.

I'm flailing in a tantrum of disgust!

When life holds nothing sacred!
When the loveless turn to loathe!

We'll witness this final threatened pose!

Oh!
Oh, Mother War!

Sleep in your arms tonight,
I'm burning!
I'm burning for your love!

This!
This juggernaut of bronze and alcohol.
Machines of vengeance now are born.

In vengeance we are born!

To our graves,
these grudges shall be sworn!
The ultimate death of emotion never mourned.

We'll die before we crawl!

Twisted, ministers of death!
Praying for a bullet hail!

Gorilla, suffocate!
Gorilla, maim!

An education in...
Howling!
Ministers of death!

We'll be praying,
Praying for that bullet hail!

Gorilla, suffocate!
Gorilla, maim!

An education in...
In complete misanthropy!

Oh!
Oh, Mother War!
Sleep in your arms tonight, I'm burning,
I'm burning for your love.

This!
This juggernaut, of bronze and alcohol.
Machines of vengeance now are born.
Oh, Mother War.

Sleep in your arms tonight, I'm burning...
I'm burning!

In vengeance we are born.
To our ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ graves.

The greatest tribe forever!

Forever!"