Ancient Disease, by Diffractions

Ancient Disease

by Diffractions

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1.	Spiritual Atrophy 05:06	lyrics	buy track
Become Become what you’re meant to be Walking on pins and needles Discard this apathy Reborn What you strive to be But first must rid yourself of spiritual atrophy You’re slipping Back into a realm of little hope Your misery Powers the flame they stoke Consciousness Bound by the structure of time Material A truth you could never find It turns out you were simply looking in the wrong places Asking the wrong questions Trusting the wrong faces Synapse misfiring Contorts reality Structure absorbs your integrity This structure, no longer valid anymore This torture, only here so that some fiend can settle his score Undeserving, displace the bets with no regrets While preserving freedom in your heart Synapse misfiring Contorts reality Structure absorbs your integrity Take a look at the world around you And tell me What really surrounds you, compounds you And takes it’s toll Synapse misfiring Contorts reality Structure absorbs your integrity
2.	Wrought 04:25	lyrics	buy track
Oooh This is the shit that’s in my head Clouding thoughts Fueling the dread Optimism at an all-time low Drag my soul below I’ll be reborn Inside the fire Consumed with hate I’ll crawl from the mire Feeding the flame Of the dark empire Drag my soul below Negativity Breeding my proclivity Neurochemicals inside my brain Poisoning thoughts They fester and rot Providing food for my clever little masters Multiplication Mind asphyxiation Most will never know what horrors have been wrought My soul has been consumed By the darkened ones I am entombed In the darkest corners of my mind I cannot revive My soul has been consumed And whatever that may mean to you There’s a battle raging in my head Time and time again Paranoia, jealousy Recipe for insatiable greed Take that greed Add a dash of demon seed Watch as it all turns to ash My soul has been consumed By the darkened ones I am entombed In the darkest corners of my mind I cannot revive My soul has been consumed And whatever that may mean to you There’s a battle raging in my head Time and time again They’ll take the best of you And move you around Do whatever they please with you ‘Cause your conscience is nowhere to be found The ancient disease For ten thousand years Man has succumbed to its power Through denial of truth and suppression of youth The clock has struck the hour All our souls have been consumed By the darkened ones We are entombed In the darkest corners of our minds We cannot revive All our souls have been consumed And whatever that may mean to you There’s a battle raging in our heads Time and time again This is the shit that’s in my head
3.	Shape 04:26	lyrics	buy track
You’ve eaten all the lies that they’ve fed you I’m in over my head You’re too far-gone to see a shred of truth inside The construct, devalued Humanity, desensitized It doesn’t matter what you believe You will always be brought down by gravity And all this time, you thought you could cheat And get around the truths that shape reality You never listen to reason The tables turn like the seasons You preach your lies with flawed cognition The lifesource, devalued Humanity gave itself to the fray Breaking our backs for unpayable taxes Piling debt to crucify the masses Preaching neglect of society’s shame There are no winners in this game It doesn’t matter what you believe You will always be brought down by gravity And all this time, you thought you could cheat And get around the truths that shape reality
4.	Ancient Disease 08:43	lyrics	buy track
Oh life And what we’ve made of it We try To keep the light off it But the light will reveal The light will reveal Pain Light will reveal All the agony that’s been felt in this place Monoliths of steel The last standing monuments of human disgrace So we shield our eyes We shield from Death and knowing Misunderstanding Life rearranging We never knew what we were put here to do So we break everything down into billions of pieces Pieces of our soul Gracefully we will follow To see the ending of our times Like the sea, it will swallow And take away all our lives Will there be redemption? Will we make an honest plea? Take your dreams Chew them up Spit them out Making room for suffering They come in the night to suppress your will Cleverly disguised they’ll get their kill They came to throw away all that we had created A perfect balance, and ecosystem devastated And all because of their jealous pride They forced us to hide This could be the end of it all Draw in your last dying breath Little did you know, we answered your call Dying breathes within the eyes of the ancient disease The ancient disease Will come and go as it damn well does please In the blood of man For centuries and centuries The blood on their hands That will cannot be washed clean Shall be purified No fate their own they can decide No fate their own they can decide Limited by foolish pride Little did they know Little did they know The parasite inside their minds Stole the light behind their eyes Little did they know Little did they know Impending doom Lurches ever closer Before you know it It’s at your door It’s here, death is here To redeem all that had once been broken It’s here, death is here To put the last nail in the coffin
5.	Suffocating Reality 05:09	lyrics	buy track
Suffocating reality Empire of conformity Manipulating you to obey Shrouding truth to keep us at bay No more Stand against the tide that has pulled you Stand against the men that have fooled you Media control tries to mold you Distraction is a tool to unfold you Bury the paradigm, their system of control Bury the paradigm, bury the system Society of gluttony Consumerist drones and worker bees Oblivious to the agenda they feed Machine men corrupted with greed Abandon consumerist mentality The victims of a throw-away society This evil we claim to be necessity Is all around us, not just on our TV screens Bury the paradigm, their system of control Bury the paradigm, bury the system Silencing you is what they strive to do Billions of dollars speak louder than billions of voices Separate the congregation We’ve been divided for far too long Over petty differences that distract us from All the corporations that have done us wrong Bribing politicians to keep us blind To what’s really going on Bombshells dropping Billionaires hoarding Millions starving Factories polluting Thousands of species dying Icecaps melting Water levels rising, rising to meet the occasion Global asphyxiation, human desolation Bury the paradigm, their system of control Bury the paradigm, bury the system
6.	Pain and Mercy 05:16	lyrics	buy track
Reclaim the promise that was stolen from you You just have to take it back Somewhere beyond the realm of pain and mercy There lies an understanding The freedom that you seek is in your heart Realize your life beyond the boundaries of this body Relieve yourself from faith in things that only Stole your energy Removed from the binds, no longer will be silenced The leaves of apathy have fallen Down to the ground Now, become the thing they always feared you would be An entity Become intertwined with the power that’s inside it Belief in purpose now colliding With the truth of the divine Now, do the thing they always feared you would do And find the truth Become the thing they never wanted you to be A force against their tyranny Bow down to no man No crown or doctrine Reclaim the freedom that was stolen from you You only have to steal it back Realize your life beyond the boundaries of this body Relieve yourself from faith in things that only Stole your energy
7.	Soul Destroyers 06:25	lyrics	buy track
That little voice inside That’s coming out in ways too strange to describe It overtakes you You don’t know what to do You don’t know where to go But you will make it through… Forging paths Through infinite space They found your soul Deep inside your home Carefully So not to upset They place these snares Bind you with regret Stifling cries and Deviant thoughts Parading around Tying you in knots Their intention Confuse and distract Those gullible Will never react Use your knowledge like a blade And cut yourself from the subservience You know that you cannot go on Living this way for too long You will find that there is so much more To this experience Than what you have been told Liberate Liberate Liberate Liberate your mind The circumstances in your life That kept you held down The mind controlling parasites That left you spellbound They must be defied They must be denied Soul destroyers forge a path That leaves you hell-bound Leave deception in the past Turn yourself around
8.	Manifested Mind of Misery 05:24	lyrics	buy track
Broken Wake up the broken souls We’ve come to save you We’ve come to save you From yourselves We’ve come to take your pain Relieve and rearrange This spirit, so denied Has withered by and by Corrupted by my hand To give a second chance At life At will At choice Fulfilled Never surrender power in your heart To the sorrow that keeps on tearing you apart If you never can see, then you’ll never be free From the manifested mind of misery So leave this behind Your spirit yearns to be free So let it be free Your spirit knows what it needs So let it be free Free to face to challenge Free to break the mold Free to undergo What has been foretold We’ve come to break you From your shell To rinse the veil away Before your soul decays This world of illusion Is now over and done Corrupted by their hands Developed secret plans For wealth For death… They will keep control Unless we take the power back We’ve come to save you From yourselves To rinse the veil away Before your soul decays This world of illusion Is now over and done Blood spilled on ancient sands You played right into their hands
9.	Burn My Eyes 04:55	lyrics	buy track
Return to the surface The call of immortal souls We beg for deliverance The fault line has taken it’s toll Bleed me dry To satisfy Burn my eyes To capitalize Capitalize Shhh… burn me alive Torn from insurgents The call is becoming clear We beg no indifference To tackle this oncoming fear Bleed me dry To satisfy Burn my eyes To capitalize Capitalize Shhh… burn my eyes In these coming days We don’t know where to go from here We've come this far We must be the change In these coming days We don’t know where to go from here We must be the change Before it’s too late Before it’s too late Bleed me dry To satisfy Burn my eyes To capitalize Capitalize Shhh… burn my eyes
10.	Pry Open Your Third Eye 04:42	lyrics	buy track
Dip your toes in Keep the calloused mind at bay You’re the chosen Freedom just a breath away Now, letting go of everything you fear Allow cosmic waves to penetrate your ears Power, driven, give your mind up to the cause Hours pass as you extinguish all your flaws (Free yourself from the curse of the blinded ones) Your fear and pain inside Is where your hate resides We’re here to realign And pry open your third eye Break through the barriers inside your mind Shed the conditioning that left you blind Your fear and pain inside Is where your hate resides We’re here to realign And pry open your third eye Should you choose this path Know you can never go back Should you choose this path No, you can never go back So take the red pill See how deep the rabbit hole goes What was frozen Hidden underground for centuries Now can take us To a world that’s spared of our disease Your fear and pain inside Is where your hate resides We’re here to realign And pry open your third eye
11.	Games 04:04	lyrics	buy track
Speak up you witnesses Of eternal binding grace Resounding compounded Forgers of inner space Don’t be their sacrifice Energy put to waste They’ll lead you, and feed you To the beast of endless hate Suicidal Irrational thinking Perpetual Thoughts of sinking To burial Six feet underground If you scream when no one's around does it make a sound? They’ll cut you up in little pieces And feed you to their fucking wolves They crave your self-depreciation Your own self-loathing is their fuel Don’t run away Or you’ll only stoke their flame Live for today Don’t feed into their games Realization Take back what’s stolen Brain partition Compartmentalization No one listens Compounded trauma Take back your mind From the hands of the darkened ones They’ll cut you up and serve you pieces Pieces of your own fucking brain They’ll make you believe that you need them Then stab you in the back again Don’t run away Or you’ll only stoke their flame Live for today Don’t feed into their games
12.	Dreams 04:40	lyrics	buy track
I can hear your voice Calling in the wind I’ve seen you in my dreams Our love, innocent Born against the will Against the will of tyrants But I will see you again When death has become us We’ll be together again I’ll see you again I’ll see you again And all the anger that kept us apart Was like a dagger That ripped and shredded Straight through my heart Stronger now, I’ve picked up the pieces Of a love that left me stranded And still I have the will to thrive Still I have the will to survive Still I have the will to survive The pain of loss no longer alive No longer alive No longer alive I’ll see you again I’ll see you again When my time has come I’ll be with you again

about

Previously released in 2017, this is actually the first Diffractions album. The original mix/master and vocal performances were simply not up to standards, so I took the album down. I finally remixed the instrumentals in 2019, and since then have been re-recording the vocal performances, now finally completed in 2024. Some of the instrumentals for these songs were recorded before 2014, but the majority were completed a decade ago.