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The Power That You Hold

by Vanguard

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1.
You betray Yourself Trapped in your hell Still falling Beating fades Can't feel the fire beneath your feet See you crawling You crawl, you crawl But you're getting nothing from me Force yourself upon my skin The Power That You Hold You crawl ​ Wait And I'm lying to myself Dreadfully, pointlessly Killing me, further believe in me Take it away from the child Stab it in the eye Saving me, closer to bleeding me Getting rid of all the ties Erase the father See me crawling You crawl, you crawl But you're getting nothing from me Force yourself upon my skin The Power That You Hold You crawl But you're getting nothing from me You crawl But you're getting nothing ​ Force yourself upon my skin The Power That You Hold Take your evil love away, it's killing me oh no Die You crawl But you're getting nothing from me You crawl But you're getting nothing No You crawl But you're getting nothing from me You crawl But you're getting nothing
2.
Mantis 04:34
Leave it, I have seen their face I've seen it, hide it with their mask Taste it, blood replaces tears And feel it, there's something wrong They're addicted to pain ​ Face it, you've seen what it does You've seen it, don't yet understand Grieving, let go of the tears and The feeling's gone, put me in you Now your body is mine Break you 'til you die Your reflection is awake at night Haunting you, keeps you awake Feel it pressing up against your face It don't want to go—no, no Feel the poison running through your veins Now it's going to your brain And the itch that always pierces skin Never seems to go away Gone to waste, gone to waste...
3.
LYRICS You feel it, too; don't you? It's hard to say farewell To the things you never had The things you never will The feeling subsides While you're wasting your time But you're falling asleep And you're failing to see it and Oh It's so hard to change It's so hard to be left alone Into Others' Hands (because) Cheater, liar Always to be together Wherever you fell I'm sure we can sort you out (out) Take it from the fools All they want to do is play to keep Never understand Never, never reject Never reject Dealing No one was there when you started They'll keep coming back to you Erase yourself It's so hard to give again Don't hold on to hate Yeah 'Cause in the end You're the one in pain Cheater, liar Always to be together Wherever you fell I'm sure we can sort you out (out) Take it from the fools All they want to do is play to keep But you never understand Never, never reject Never reject Never listen to the fools All they want to do is play with your body Never understand, never Never reject They're coming for you Ooh yeah
4.
Phantom 03:35
You honor hate And carve this fear in my head Make me embrace Embrace your truth as my way 'cause I am frail I am too weak, give your strength Shine your light on me Shine your light on me, I want it ​ You show me the path and I'll follow Follow you down to Hell This shadow you cast is your Phantom Phantom of your disease Hate Shadow in me, my rage misguided My relief in deception, lying A false purpose and strength I've found in This new hatred I've learned undying You show me the path and I'll follow Follow you down to Hell This shadow you cast is your Phantom Phantom of your disease Go
5.
Drowned in impurities This world seizes to amaze New era of empire Is bound to set ablaze Nowhere to run No, you wouldn't anyway You trust too much In things that die away Deteriorated minds Are ever seldom used That trigger finger of yours Is widely abused What choice have I As the the Universal Law? To make the fall of Earth The worst I can to all Your choice I've got time to kill Those scales won't tip in your favor Accept your punishment You will see (you will bleed) In the end, you all will be subject to the Law ​ Your state of mind: confused, without escape Stained with stupidity as a false feeling of ecstasy More to implore of those idiots you adore Those false messiahs haven't seen true pain at all State of belligerence as is with all your negligence Pledged your allegiance to a damned and sinful world The sentence chosen, found guilty of all charges Spend life in misery More years in Earth and you will see ​ Your choice I have time to kill Those scales won't tip in your favor Accept your punishment You will see (you will bleed) In the end, you all will be Gone
6.
Lack of understanding But you've made it to this point Ignorant and thriving 'til the pressure, it builds up Uncertainty's rising And it's got you to the point You get used to lying Blaming others for your faults Muddled ambition, desire to gain Wrapped 'round my neck and blinding my eyes Just now beginning, a prisonous shame grips me I'm consumed And stubborn, and fragile You're really made to disappoint This cycle of failing Get it done, just can't get it done Now taken over, by mindless despair Cycle continues, nothing's working By my decision, I'm locking my cage The same I create My only comfort My enemy, my failure Become my master You're cursing me, I'll fail again My only comfort My enemy, my failure Has stripped me of my— My fear, I'll fail again
7.
Badlands 06:58
Born in fire Illusions of faith corrupted Blood red eyes The reaper of pain of torture The human nightmare's free Creation by their greed And where do those go Lay down their bodies Accept the Demon's eye Like sheep, the herd will die And all the tears, yeah all their tears go ​ Into the ground (insanity) The hunger and the thirst led by the sound Bound to the soul Bound to the soul Demon reigns with an iron fist The Badlands he commands Demon creates air of pestilence And makes rain of acid and blood Demonic euphoria of pleasure in torture Corpses of hail and red rum of fog Demon calls Badlands his paradise He welcomes you Home to die Set fire to their feet Whip them all to death And use the meat to feast The plant's growing, bleed It flourishes in pain And the demon's giving strength And all he sees The pleasure in agony Fallen man Give him the blood The blood it craves Demon reigns with an iron fist The Badlands he commands Demon creates air of pestilence And makes rain of acid and blood Demonic euphoria of pleasure in torture Corpses of hail and red rum of fog Demon calls Badlands his paradise He welcomes you Home to die Grown in death And feeding on life, destroyer Hunger-blind Consumed by the spawn created Demon reigns with an iron fist The Badlands he commands Demon creates air of pestilence And makes rain of acid and blood Demonic euphoria of pleasure in torture Corpses of hail and red rum of fog Demon calls Badlands his paradise He welcomes you Home to die
8.
Android 09:25
Pulsing And it feels like the fall gives me Strength But I want to feel pain and I want to feel hunger Waste your time Getting no answers this life Your ideals Leaving you behind Fear that it's all been a lie Rewrite, delete But these hands they aren't real Rewrite, repeat But these hands controlling me Everything's wrong, nothing is real Break me Left aline in a dark and frozen Sleep Just a faraway memory in the mind of the maker Waste your time Getting no answers this life Your ideals Leaving you behind Fear that it's all been a lie ​ Rewrite, delete But these hands they aren't real Rewrite, repeat But these hands controlling me Everything's wrong, nothing is real Rewrite, delete But these hands they aren't real Rewrite, repeat But these hands controlling me Everything's wrong, nothing is real ​ In a perfect world where I can live You'd do the same Lie to me again But it feels so strange I'm already home Because your lies Are the only things I've ever known ​ Born into your life, Hell Pain is your life, Hell Pain is your life, Hell I will be here I'll be here when you fall

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released October 28, 2022

Liner notes:

Lead guitar, rhythm guitar, acoustic guitar, bass, & additional vocals by Christian Dominguez. Vocals, rhythm guitar, bass, & keys by Marcos Dominguez. Drums & additional vocals by Jesus Alberto Dominguez-Valdez.

Produced by Jesus Alberto Dominguez-Valdez with Christian Dominguez & Marcos Dominguez. Recorded by Jesus Alberto Dominguez-Valdez, Christian Dominguez, & Marcos Dominguez. Mixed & mastered by Declan White. Album artwork by Cutting Edge Metal. Album production coordination by Marco Antonio Dominguez-Figueroa.

Recorded April 2019 - February 2022 at Prometheus Sound in San Diego, California. Mixed & mastered February 2022 - June 2022 by Declan White in Melbourne, Australia. Released October 28, 2022.

Special thanks:

Willy, Myrian Valdez, Marco Antonio Dominguez-Figueroa, Andrew Soto, Daniel de la Cruz, Declan White, Cutting Edge Metal, & everyone that reached out during our radio mix testing period on the air.

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